Liftin-Larry-92 t1_iy2gnkv wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:02 AM

I don't agree about the acting but when it comes to music, it seems amazing and odd that so many of the all-time great music acts have come from the UK, when it's a country that only has 1/7th the population of the United States --- it's almost like everyone born in England has musical genes or something

Beta_Ray_Trill OP t1_iy2h99f wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:09 AM

I don’t disagree

oscarx-ray t1_iy2wj3w wrote on November 28, 2022 at 9:40 AM

I am from the UK and my favourite artists are Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, and Warren Zevon. We have produced an inordinate number of talented acts, but the alien aspect is not to be dismissed - I like American accents, because they're different, Americans like "British" accents because *they're* different as well. We've just been allowed to be creative in the face of capitalism, whereas my USian friends are told that they have no worth or value unless they're generating income - so the pursuit of art is more hollow.