who would ever want to be king?
One of my guilty pleasures is Ace of Base. I’m not even going to try to justify my penchant, defending them on the grounds that they just make smooth, well-crafted, lightweight pop/dance (which they do) or something like that. For a change of pace, I just like their music, and lately at work I’ve been listening to their album The Bridge.
I definitely think we, as Americans (and possibly you other Anglophones as well) take it for granted that almost all of the popular songs we listen to are in English. I mean, here’s a Swedish pop band, and to have any hope of success not just on the international scene, but likely also in their own country, they have to write their *cough* lyrically profound *cough* songs and sing them in a language that’s not their native tongue. How odd would it be if 95% of the songs we heard on the radio were, say, in Swahili?
Anyway, I just thought that was worth recording for posterity. It sounded more profound in my head when I was listening to the music. Maybe I’ve discovered an unpleasant side effect?