Is it weird that me, an Asian, like to listen to African music and found Asian music to be cheesy

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Nov 01, 2020 2:42 pm

You have pretty good taste in music.

I like this Afrobeat song, actauly a fave of mine.

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Nov 01, 2020 3:15 pm

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I won't be surprise if I am the only person here in Thailand who listen to Afrobeats and Bongo Flava (a Tanzanian music genre) lol. I feel a bit like an alien for this tbh.

I don't even listen to Thai, other SE/East Asian or Western (literally American and British) music these days lol. I found Thai music to be too cheesy, melancholic, hopeless and the same heartbreaking gf/bf shit while Western music like Drake, Bieber, Rihanna, Khalid, etc. is so overrated, cringy and lack creativity- they just repeat the same stupid shit all over and over.

Btw the music you posted is Afrobeats. Afrobeats mainly refer to music genre that originated from Nigeria, Ghana and African diaspora in UK. One of the guy might originally be from Ghana, but his style is not Afrobeats imo.

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Nov 03, 2020 3:54 pm

I don't know much about Asian culture, that's why I am here. My children started to listen to K pop and I thought it was gay

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Nov 03, 2020 4:27 pm

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I see. Have you heard of these African music like these Afrobeats I posted in the US before like in radio stations or they are not known at all?

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Nov 03, 2020 4:47 pm

Only Jamaican music are played in New York, Florida and Los Angeles.

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Nov 03, 2020 5:34 pm

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Ok. I guess you never heard of the music I posted before then? Looks like most people in the US also never heard or recognize these music including Afrobeats as well except maybe African immigrants.

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Nov 03, 2020 9:02 pm

there is nothing weird of liking music from another culture

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Nov 04, 2020 2:39 am

Even if preferring it to those of your own culture?

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Nov 05, 2020 7:02 pm

Do you speak Thai?

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Nov 06, 2020 2:08 am

Yes. Native speaker. I don't like Thai music though. Too cheesy and too much drama, romantic, melancholic stuff.

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Nov 06, 2020 8:03 pm

I think Thai music is cool, better than KPOP

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Nov 04, 2020 2:41 am

Have you heard of this music genre like Afrobeats before? I think its not popular in the US. Its also not known where I live (Thailand). Im probably the only one in the whole country to listen to these type of stuff.

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Nov 05, 2020 7:00 pm

Just Haitians and Jamaicans

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Nov 06, 2020 2:04 am

You mean these music are only popular among Haitians and Jamaicans? Or that you only learn heard of Jamaican and Haitian music?

Do you like some of the songs posted?

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Nov 06, 2020 8:02 pm

NO, from time to time a Jamaican or Haitian song will hit the mainstream. the only African I know is AKON but his R&B, not afro beats.

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Nov 02, 2020 2:29 am

well, can you dance?

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Nov 02, 2020 2:55 am

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Yes but only when I'm tipsy.

Also I don't know what happen but the Afrobeats youtube music videos that I posted for some reason cannot be displayed anymore.

Btw the person in the my avatar is not me lol in case you are wondering (IronMan put someone's pic for me).

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Nov 04, 2020 4:03 am

who's ironman? do you want me to change your avatar picture?

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Nov 04, 2020 4:16 am

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Yes can you change it? IronMan is Josh.

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Nov 04, 2020 4:28 am

what avatar do you want to use?

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Nov 04, 2020 4:46 am

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Can be some tropical island or mountain.

Or this one: a precolonial Fijian tribesman.

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Nov 04, 2020 4:57 am

done 😉

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Nov 04, 2020 5:27 am

that's because you didn't know how to use your account when you first signed up. I picked that avatar because I think he look like you but more handsome 😋

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Nov 04, 2020 5:45 am

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZvlG-wwWk&list=RDcQUvRYncUkA&index=19

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Haha that's alright.

You remember my pics? 😎

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I also found afrobeats like this song from Ghana:

And this afrobeat song from Nigeria:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1AClQrDeU

Or these two songs from France (with heavy Maghrebi or SSA influence):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=teVeI178CdQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGgnzc34tY

To be much nicer to listen to and not cringy and overrated like most western pop music today such as these two songs:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=weeI1G46q0o

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8EJ3zbKTWQ8

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Nov 01, 2020 7:48 am

I do regularly listen to these types on the radio and music videos. I like Club Music - Reggaeton - Urbano Musica. It's popular among the Latino population here in America.

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Nov 01, 2020 12:50 pm

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I like to listen to Afrobeats (originates in Nigeria, Ghana and the West African diaspora in the UK) much more than Reggaeton or other Latin American music though.

I also listen to some Bongo Flava (Tanzanian music) because I used to went to Tanzania for a semester as part of a study abroad program of my university in the US (I was literally the only Asian in the whole program lol so I stand out from the rest of the crowd quite a lot):

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Hell even I find Punjabi music like these two songs to be better than Thai or other SE Asian music

Is it strange?

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Nov 01, 2020 8:00 am

At times I watch Indian music videos but not as much as before. I've never heard them on the radio stations before except maybe one song.

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Nov 01, 2020 12:56 pm

What song did you here? Well it makes sense though. In the US (assuming you live there, I live in Thailand), typical Western "American" and also "British" music will dominated the scene followed by Latin American music like reggaeton.

I also never heard of any of the music I posted here in the radio stations, bars or nightclubs here as people don't know them. I won't be surprised if I am probably the only person in Thailand who heard of or listen to these type of music.

I have a feeling I won't even know or heard of these music if I stayed in Thailand all my life.

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Nov 02, 2020 4:24 am

Afrobeat sounds similar to Reggaeton ( Urbano Music ) but the main difference is the language. The music videos are presented similarly also to Reggaeton music videos and I could dance to both music genre. There are lots of singers that are of African descent in Reggaeton.

I use to listen to American music all the time but less frequently in recent years. I only know some of the current singers and their songs. I rarely watch MTV or any music videos. I do occasionally tune in to their radio stations.

I rarely listen to Filipino music but the songs they play at the bus rides are entertaining. I don't know the names of these singers and songs also.

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Nov 02, 2020 5:14 am

Really? I would expected them to be different. That's interesting.

I never heard any Afrobeats when I was in the USA. In fact, I first heard them when I went to Tanzania which seems rather popular there. I don't think its popular or hardly known because I never heard them played in radio stations, in the street, store or bars/clubs. Have you heard of Afrobeats in the US or somewhere before I made this thread?

Me too. I don't even listen Western aka American/British music these days lol. Its just lacks creativity, always repeating the same theme, and nothing else. In fact, I don't even know or recognized most Western singers these days except maybe some of them.

I also listen to some Bongo Flava which is a music genre I was introduced to when I was in Tanzania. Its mostly in Swahili though which maybe why its not that popular.

And even some French Afro music:

All these music that I never heard in Thailand, anywhere else or the USA lol. I think its make me strange compared to most Thais/other Asians who love to listen to K-pop, other Asian or Western music.

Some of my favorite songs. You will never hear a Thai or any Asian person listen or prefer them over Asian or Western/American music lmao.

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Nov 02, 2020 7:34 am

I've never heard of any of these songs before nor have I ever heard of Afrobeat. This is the type of music that should be played in the states. If they could play reggaeton, urbano music, hip hop, rap then they should play this stuff. Some Americans will tune in to Afrobeat if they could understand the language. Reggaeton basically entertains the Latino population because they are the main audience that could understand the music. Latino singers in reggaeton are also well known in Latin America and in several major cities in U.S.A. and therefore several radio stations in America are willing to play reggaeton because there is a large audience demand. Afrobeat singers are not well known in the U.S from what I know. American audience only knows American, European, Australian, Canadian and Latino singers as if other countries don't have their own music and singers to listen to. I've heard traditional African folklore music but they don't play that type of music in radio stations.

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