NationStates Jolt Archive

Most people in my country are indie kids. Most of them are emo kids though. Bands that are exteremly popular in my nation are The Appleseed Cast, Brandtson, Tears From Your Deathbed(a local band), The Get Up Kids. Rap and pop music has been banned and well a very slim minority likes other music.

In my country we tend to have a sevre distain of asian pop music since it represents manufaturism and monoplization of an industry. Rap is loved among many of of our citizens while other listen to contemporary rock or underground punk.

Being very cultured and high class people they all listen to classical.

It is extremly varyed in Phalnaix. Though rap is banned. Currently though the most comonly listened to music is modern rock and trance. It is fallowed by alternitive rock and metal. After that the numbers are to hard to read.

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Songs like Comfort Eagle from Cake.

Mostly Rock, but not exactly heavy metal.

Classical music is verry common too.

Rap is a word most ppl arn't familiar with, though there is some Hip Hop and slightly rap songs floating around that are liked.

People in Entsteig listen to anything they wish, but gospel music and hymns are quite common, actually.

The musical tastes of the Sakkra comprise mostly of percussion-heavy tribal beats and rhythms, much like Bomba from Puerto Rico. There are smatterings here and there of people enjoying lounge music, rock and techno, although techno is a rarity. There is a sub-culture that seems to enjoy show-tunes to an extent.

Whatever I tell them to, which is anything they wish really, as long as it contains the requsite subliminal messaging. Therefore, it must be of Sketchian production.

Support your government bitchs!!!!

Most of my citizens either listen to Classical, old-style jazz, political punk or metal, the dominant form of which being black metal in my country. The best known band of this genre in Callisdrun is undoubtably Canis Lupus

My citizens are allowed only to listen to classical music because something with lyrics could inspire personal thought.

Am I the only rap lover in Nation States

The people in Oliverry enjoys many kind of music. But rock and hip-hop are the most common. The people in the nation loves to party so Dance, Techno, Disco(for older people), Twists and rock n' roll are also very common.

The most widespread music of choice in Nordwind is heavy metal. Viking and Black Metal are widely popular across the country, due to the genre's leaning on viking roots and ancestry and incorporation of ancient viking music, which the population of Nordwind can relate to heavily. Large-scale Black Metal concerts are incredibly common during the weekends in nearly every major city, involving severed sheep heads, crucified children, and other infamous stage acts. The country's favorite bands include Windir, Amon Amarth, and Gorgoroth.

Hip-hop and "emo" are despised throughout Nordwind, as well as the American mainstream. The incredibly small percentage of followers of these genres are laughed at and mocked for their poor taste on a regular basis.

Most kinds of music are permissible in the Holy Christian Empire, provided that they are authorised by the Hierarchy. Most popular is classical/choral (for the obvious reason that in a Church controlled state the Hierarchy wants to hammer in as much hymn as possible)

the only banned type of music is rap, although the list of illegal bands is very long. Permissable songs may not include:

- Blasphemy
- Anti-Church
- Anti-Government (since the government IS the Church)
- Too individual-forming
And a lot more things...

The recently-elected prime minister of The Icy Angel is Jin tha MC, and one of his subordinates is William Hung. In fact, the concert held at IAUMBL (the Icy Angel University of Military and Business Leadership) was a primary factor in Jin's ownership of the daily electoral ballot. Therefore, it is safe to say that The Icy Angel's are heavily influence by somewhat amateur Asian and Asian-American performing artists.

Martin Yan
Media Correspondent
Owner of Icy Angel Book Publishing and Multimedia

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Whatever they want to. Media unregulation is a way of life in Serpent Country. As a result, there's varying musical cultures within the country. Rather like how some Americans listen to rap and others heavy metal, and other classical. Serpent Country has the equivalent of both classical music and modern music.

As this is a fictional country, it probably has its own bands. But as I like Video Game Music, Classical Music, and Jimmy-Eat-World type happy alternative (is that alternative), and Celtic Lord of the Dance type stuff, some subgenres resembles those types of music.

Yes, I'm weird.

Some varieties of traditional music heavily resemble West African music, with lots of complex polyphonic drum beats. Except that they include choral singing of a type almost equivalent to Western Classical Music. Lately, composers in this tradition have started adding violins and drums to their repetroire.

Another strain of "traditional music" is more pentatonic, like traditional Chinese music. Although, I don't personally know a lot about Chinese music.

Most traditional Serpent Country pieces are quite long, designed to create an ambivalence and convey a certain feeling. They can be dramatic and rise and fall, but they typically maintain the same style over time.

In modern times, both of these traditions have started including newer instruments and synthesizers. It probably resembles world-fusion type music, a mixture of old and new. And full orchestras include heavy-metal electric guitars. Sorta like Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Because Classical and Heavy Metal need to be paired more often, IMO. Power and Grace...

Oh, yes... and as Serpent Country is secular but most of the population is polytheistic, the dominant pantheon includes one musician from the real world: Yasunori Mitsuda - composer of video game music.

Hmmm... I think I had too much fun with this.

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As for those countries that regulate music... tsk... tsk... tsk. Their citizens have the pity of Serpent Country.

From most popular to least popular genera and subcategories:

Rock: Alternative, JRock, Indie, Classic Rock, Dark Wave, Idustrial,Metal, etc.

Dance: Techno, Rave, Tribal, Trance, Disco, etc.

Classical: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, various artist.

Jazz: Bebop, various others.

Pop: Various artist.

Rap: Various artist.

Of course in my country Johnny Cash is a transcendent music icon.

Pretty much anything excluding rap/hip-hop. J-pop is especially popular over here.

OOC: Hell, I even have Ayumi Hamasaki as a general in my army >_>

Permissable songs may not include:

- Blasphemy
- Anti-Church
- Anti-Government (since the government IS the Church)
- Too individual-forming
And a lot more things...


hmm, looks like Callisdrunian bands can't tour in Isam then.

People in our country listen to all types of music. The types of music that are non-existant in our country are one with homophobic, racist, classist or just talentless blond twits of any gendered. Children are given access to music making software as well as traditional instruments as a birthright of the nation. Anyone can run a radio station and no music is copyright protected. The use of lip synching and lieing about it is frowned upon where as lip synching used in the nation arts of Drag King and Queen is widely hailed as a high art form.

Rap and hip-hop have been elevated from song of killing since crime is non-existant and is now a diverse form practiced by young and old and often used in most new operatic scores.

People often converse only in song in styles ranging from mashed up (using one set of lyrics over tracks in a different music style) to classical tribal sounds.

The new pioneering form of music is the Silento movement where the record song performance was over three months long and contained only 2 1/2 note.