G17 - Musicians and languages
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My name is Valeri, I'm the drummer
for "The Missing Watermelon",
and, even though it's
difficult to classify
our music style,
we like to consider
ourselves
as a Progressive
Rock band.
In the social media, eh,
right now in Facebook
we use Catalan and Spanish
to promote ourselves,
and that's just because
our fanbase, so far,
it's only from Catalonia
and some parts
of Spain.
So, there's no reason
to write in English.
As a musician,
I've done different projects,
my music has
no language,
I mean, it has no lyrics.
And it's curious
that the last
project I've done,
it's called "Insectum".
I've made a "Suite"
that it was; well,
it means,
a "Suite" is a
set of pieces
for dancing,
with two ballerinas.
And every piece
represented an insect.
There's a firefly,
there's a ladybug,
there's a dragonfly...
And I thought:
"Name it with its
scientific name,
and everybody will
understand it."
Therefore, the album is
all written in Latin.
We decided to write
the lyrics only in English,
because besides that
we like a lot
English language,
we want to reach
international public.
So, we have to be able
to communicate
in a language that
everybody can understand.
The bands that
have singed in English
and have been successful,
for example here
there's "Wednesday Lips",
with a video we
had recorded here,
it's a band with a girl
who has family from England,
and she's got a
depurated accent, and on...
And it works,
but you know...
I think the ambition
in this market is so big
they get lost in the path.
I think every language,
I mean, each one or band
chooses it for
its own market.
When one band aims
for singing in Catalan
it quickly starts to send
the demos to "Enderrock"
in order to win something
in this level..
I mean, the Catalan format
will reach the
Catalan Countries.
We do have a Youtube account
in which we consider
it's easier that we reach
some listener from
another country,
so, for this reason
we write actually both
in Spanish and English.
And then, right now,
very recently,
we have opened
a Bandcamp account,
which is just
to promote musicians,
and it's very important for us,
and in Bandcamp
we only write in English,
because we are looking
other musicians' accounts
from Bandcamp
and everybody writes in English.
I think the social networks
in a musical level
are basics, I mean,
to be known...
It's a tool we must use.
I do consider that
English is the twenty-first
century's Latin,
because right now
if you wanna
promote yourself
and reach
international public,
and play in another countries,
the only options
you have is
to speak in English.
The problem about English,
especially here in Lleida,
I've seen it here,
in all the bands
that play in English,
is that people don't
mainly know English.
And then yeah,
it sounds beautiful
and the public bethink more
with the melody
but they are short
with the lyrics.
What language do you speak
in social networks?