Why do European artists always use english samples and mcs speak english?

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Berdo tm1

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I find it weird how nearly all samples are in english of their tunes, hardstyle trance and stuff, and also MCs even speak in english. Why is this?

Do the europeans think us english are so cool they don't have any identity of their own and want to copy their leaders :P?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YwIXh44GGI

The music itself I really like most hardstyle tbh, but the english speaking I find makes it sound so corny :P Not all the time but most of the time. Soudns weird they are saying corny lyrics in their heavy european accents :). Ok maybe hardstyle is a bad choice cos I bet alot of ppl will hate on it but it's the same deal for all other genres rave music Ive noticed.

They definitely have their own sounds in terms of the music, ie hardstyle, german trance anyone!? :) etc, so I find it weird that they use english cos they obv have their own thing going on don't see why they feel it necessary to use english?

Also I find it funny/strange how hardstyle is like their pop music over there from what I can see, huge turnouts and seems very whitecollar crowds :P.

Lol antoher rnadom video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRP5ddNTGnY

The crowd look about as goody two shoes as you can get. :P Yet they love the 4/4 kickdrums :D oh i think the second one is australia :)
 
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...more chance of cashing in on tunes that cross over and are understood by masses of English speaking westerners I bet.

English is the language of business you see.

:)
 
English is also a really universal language in my opinion and some things are better expressed in english than say German for example.
 
And most of these samples are from like hip hop acapellas and gangster movies. So maybe the producers also have a certain view when it comes to like gangs in the U.S. or a love for hip-hop. Because I've heard hardstyle tracks. A lot of chuck D, Ice T, NWA and stuff like that.
 
You definitely can find stuff in french, italian.. greek... portuguese, most languages actually

but yea its mostly english. universal & it has its own very particular charm, expresses some stuff very well and there's more material in english for them to work with than in any other language for sure
 
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