Why aren't Jamaican Dancehall artists blowing up like spanish reggaeton artists have the past year?
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My guy please stop embarassing yourselfYou sound like one of those booth cats who claim they never heard a drake song
Do you even know what rhetoric meansNo one is embarrassing shyt, knock that rhetoric off it's recycled already. I said I never heard of a raggaeton artist and you decided to
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A got an kite saying Trioper just demolished Silverhawk at Boom clash and then forgot completely about the world of an dancehall again. Thanks thread for reminding me to maybe some little bit check it out
In answer to the question it’s too much clique politics and pro tools but dancehall still lives all across the islands, Africa, Europe, Japan, Miami, NY, LA, Boston, maybe some little bit Philly since Clans invaded
In answer to the question it’s too much clique politics and pro tools but dancehall still lives all across the islands, Africa, Europe, Japan, Miami, NY, LA, Boston, maybe some little bit Philly since Clans invaded
There's a lot of self-inflicted wounds that keep dancehall from going to that next lvl consistently in international markets.
But it's bull that most don't listen to dancehall because they can't understand. Spanish carribeans and euro cacs LUV it, exploit it, and keep coming for more.
It's mostly bad business that screwing dancehall over. This "party animal"song is what happens with good business and relatively clean lyrics. A youtube page flooded with a latin and euro audience. See, the vast majority of Ja dancehall producers and artists are criminally trash at locking paperwork in and staying on top of business.
It's why reggae is qualitatively better overall from a biz point even if ain't as popping among younger folks.
100 mil almost in views
But it's bull that most don't listen to dancehall because they can't understand. Spanish carribeans and euro cacs LUV it, exploit it, and keep coming for more.
It's mostly bad business that screwing dancehall over. This "party animal"song is what happens with good business and relatively clean lyrics. A youtube page flooded with a latin and euro audience. See, the vast majority of Ja dancehall producers and artists are criminally trash at locking paperwork in and staying on top of business.
It's why reggae is qualitatively better overall from a biz point even if ain't as popping among younger folks.
100 mil almost in views
I’m the guy making you aggy because you said something stupid
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This is really the main answer. I'm shocked there's even pages of debate about this because it's obvious the audience/potential demographic size is what's helping these Latin artists get on and do the numbers they do. You can have Mexicans, Dominicans and Cubans all bumping the same Puerto Rican artist. That's HUGE. Even the really garbage tracks can easily pull 100M+ views based on the size and reach of the market. Who else, but English language artists can even say that?
yep even that long ass classic era dancehall went through in the 90s...the content was sexual but they were more subliminal with it and there were melodies to sing with it
songs like that... "heads high...kill them with the no" is about refusing to give a woman head...
but if you played that for the average person we can hum along and sing to it cause its not explicit...Same thing with this song
she needs more wood for the fire? one man cant satisfy her?
its speaking about a woman who is moving from guy to guy too fast
I like Popcaan but as far as dancehall goes they go way too overboard today and its corny lol
There is a new movement in Barbados called "Bashment Soca" or just bashment by itself which is like dancehall for people in Barbados...the government has been calling it raunchy and speaking out on it
Bashment Soca Is The Rebel Genre the Bajan Government Is Reluctant To Embrace
But if you listen to some "bashment" songs online you will see its real tame compared to Jamaican dancehall which goes to show you how extreme tehy areEven Chronixx was saying how years abck a song like Work was the best dancehall song and no song was better than it that year...and what does that have MELODY
i mean they can do some light cursing but why is everyone forgetting about melody?
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..they have a point on the spanish speaking market being larger thoughNot too long ago you were bigging up alkaline
Now you suddenly hate dancehall. What changed now
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Tbh Dancehall is nowhere near as Homophobic as it used to beLyrics can be homophobic or extremely violent. At least bashment. But damn i learned patois at like 17 listening to bashment as a random kid in the pacific northwest .Nobody knew wtf i was on like
On another note people appreciate the watered down versions/Dancehall influenced songs from artists such as Drake as opposed to music from actual artists and those songs will be the ones pushed by radio stations etc as its a lot easier on the ears I guess.
Me? I love a good dancehall tune lmao, 99% of the time Im listening to dancehall.
If theres dancehall playing in the party, I'll be there signing along gun fingers in the air
