Why didnt brasilian funk take off in america ?

[Scustin Bieburr]

It's not like everyone knows what TF Koreans and Spanish speakers are saying. So why did K pop, reggaeton and afro beats take off but Brazilian music didn't

Wasn't for a lack of effort either




My theory is that it just kind of sounds like it was made on a laptop that runs windows XP. The instrumentals don't sound very complex and their vocals don't sound like they're trying. Now granted they could be spitting hot lines but that doesn't really translate.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Too derivative. Sounded like everything else so got lost in the shuffle.​

 

[CarltonJunior]

Drake didn't hop on it

 

[The Fade]

Baile funk Beats waaaaay better than reggaeton and women shake their ass too it in crazy ways

I wish it took off more. It’s way swaggier, Brazilians flow over it very well too

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Because its too repetitive

 

[Yzak]

shyt sounds like farts

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Because we don’t fukk with nobody music but our own. If FBA didn’t make it it’s not gonna be popular in America. Even Kpop is Asians doing black music.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Well who would be the American audience for Baile Funk? Because CACs here can’t swag it out the same way Brazilian CACs can’t down there.

Many moons ago when Kevin Federline — of all people — tried to do a baile funk song, he looked goofy and it didn’t make it to his album.

Something like baile funk needs black people behind it since (some) Hispanics are busy recycling the dem bow riddim right into litigation.

But the solution could’ve come in baile funk producers getting known American artists to jump on ready made tracks the same way House producers will get singers over here to do a one off song here and there and it blows up. But it wouldn’t be cheap to get Cardi or Megan on a baile funk song that may or may not slap. And outside of vultures like Diplo or Calvin Harris, who would lead the charge to make it work get when you can do more with house or Afrobeats.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

This isn't considered funk by ohio funk\parliament\etc standards.... This sounds like it was made on a macbook air....

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Drake didn't hop on it

The mother wasn't hot

 

[CopiousX]

It's not like everyone knows what TF Koreans and Spanish speakers are saying. So why did K pop, reggaeton and afro beats take off but

k-pop was a centralized and national effort by the Korean country to make up for its tiny internal markets by canabalizing the foreign markets of other countries. It was systemic and top down as the Korean government actively funded their music industry and created a special govt bureau, that systematically, copied and improved on the aspects of western music and neighboring J Pop music. They basically did the same synthetic process that They used to create companies like Hyundai Daewoo or Samsung By desperately pumping tax dollars into it.


Brazil doesn’t have this type of centralized and structured scaffolding for their music markets. Arguably, Brazilian music is in the same place that Japanese music is. Because their country has such a huge internal market they don’t need to Pander to foreigners. Their internal pot is big enough.

 

[JadeB]

I can't get into baile funk as much as older Brazilian music like Ivan Lins, Jorge Ben Jor, Tim Maia, Elis Regina, Marcos Valle, Milton Nascimento or Lô Borges

 

[FlyRy]

it's all about corridos tumbados right now

 

[the elastic]

They need a new genre name....America would never recognize that sound as funk

 

[Low End Derrick]

Because that shyt is bunda cheeks