It's refreshing. I'm not really sure if it's just a blip though. It seems like every few years there is this "Not US/West European" phenom that rises fast and disappears. Macarena anyone? 99 Red Balloons? There must be a couple more I'm missing?
EDIT: 99 Red Balloons is in fact Western Europe but was in German for more than a year (and widely successful) before being released in English. An oddity. Should have said "Non English" as more accurate than just Western Europe.
99 Luftballons is German, so... West European much. And South American music has been integrated in western culture for a long time already. South Korean not much.
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It's refreshing. I'm not really sure if it's just a blip though. It seems like every few years there is this "Not US/West European" phenom that rises fast and disappears. Macarena anyone? 99 Red Balloons? There must be a couple more I'm missing?
EDIT: 99 Red Balloons is in fact Western Europe but was in German for more than a year (and widely successful) before being released in English. An oddity. Should have said "Non English" as more accurate than just Western Europe.
Macarena is a spanish song (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Del_Rio) and 99 Red Ballons is german. How is this Not West European?
99 Luftballons is German, so... West European much. And South American music has been integrated in western culture for a long time already. South Korean not much.