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Rednex was… Swedish? Okay I guess I buy it. It’s weird, the whole ‘90s Swedish-Belgian-German technoridiculousness. I was into happy hardcore so I saw a lot of influence from that, but America on average only really got that through this and maybe Aqua’s Barbie Girl*, which now that I think of it were taking iconic Americana as ornaments and I wonder if we even got the joke.

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I mean hell though this isn’t too far off from actual Eurovision stuff that as far as I can tell is taken seriously, maybe they don’t get the joke either. Hell, maybe I don’t get the joke.

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Well between Max Martin and The Matrix and Dr. Luke and whoever I guess our pop is fully NW European technoridiculized now too. And it’s amazing.

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*oh I guess Vengaboys too

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(I guess maybe that’s what happens to pop when you’ve burned through the idiom of folk authenticity and can’t switch to the backup reservoir marked “black people”?)

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