Is Finland REALLY Metal?

[Dushan S]

Totally wrong, I see that you never heard really anything about the whole italian production.
Italian music is not a mix of latin and pop music.
Actually all italian melodic stuff comes from the melodic songs made in naples back in the last two century (1800-1900). The melody derives from that kind of music, that pop music played in the old naples.
That's were italian melodic songs come from.
Pausini tried to do something more latin or something that can sell well overseas.
She did an album in english with a lot of latin and american pop style music, anyway I can't say that Laura Pausini makes "latin music" just for one album, the rest of her discography is really different, is really in the style of the italian crap music.

Maurizio

hmmm. Language problems. Here the latin music is "latino" and I admit I do not really know at this moment how to name in English populations that are "latin" by race and language (for instance, Italian, Romanian, Spanish etc) So I was not talking about latin music in sense of style but in a sense of musical heritage and listening preferences of ethnical groups, and fact that I have some friends that were playing at few occasions in italy or studied there, so it was partly reason for me getting the picture that it is really hard to make success domesticaly, in Italy, by playing metal music. I was not criticising you for playing music you love, just that I think it is not great idea to be a musician in not so big country and at the same time hating music mainstream in that country. And I do think that people more into "underground" music dismiss pop music without any real understanding how hard it is to make succesfull pop song with all the limitations of mainstream music, both stylisticaly and musically.