History AmericansHateTingle / Music

* Music/YellowMagicOrchestra is an exception to the typical rules of why Japanese acts typically struggle to crack the American market. Rather than being the result of a language barrier (most of their songs were in English) or the OccidentalOtaku stigma (which mostly took hold ''after'' their heyday in Japan), their difficulties in America were owed to a mix of xenophobia, Orientalist MisaimedMarketing, and the backlash against {{disco}} (their disco-inspired [[Music/YellowMagicOrchestraAlbum debut album]] released just two months before Disco Demolition Night). These factors resulted in a good deal of BadExportForYou, [[Creator/AAndMRecords their American label]] ultimately dropped them in 1981, and after a failed Stateside CD reissue campaign in the early '90s, the band's distributors have consistently avoided the US market.

* While the Christmas novelty song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is a favorite of many Americans, Canadians find it to be one of the worst Christmas songs of all time. On many lists of that type made by Canadians, the song is often placed at a higher rank than "The Christmas Shoes". It's for this reason that [[WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer the animated special of the same name]] has rarely aired in Canada. For background on why the song is hated in Canada, it is has to due to the fact that deer and moose were the most common animals to get involved in more than 25,000 wildlife collisions in the country. This statistic has been recorded by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation. Accidents like these have caused the song to become a TraumaButton for most Canadian listeners (especially those who are victims of these collisions). The nation thus seemed to have a collective DudeNotFunny reaction to the song.

* Before it became popular worldwide, ElectronicMusic and its sub-genres were only known across Europe, to the point where they were classified as Pop music. Other countries such as Australia, East Asia, and South America had fanbases after this. Later, Music/CalvinHarris, Music/DavidGuetta, {{Music/Hardwell}}, and Music/{{Skrillex}} began treating electronic music as an art form and were the ones who brought it to America from the 1990s to the 2000s. They pioneered the commercialized EDM sound and because of this, ElectronicMusic has been accepted in America at last.

** It's similar outside America. When the Country 2 Country music festival was held in Britain, for instance, [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/nashville-woos-the-uk-carrie-underwood-and-tim-mcgraw-to-play-largest-country-music-festival-at-o2-8534909.html many critics']] [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/22/country-to-country-festival-review discussions]] of the event focused on the "American" nature of the music and its association with stereotypes of Type 2 {{Eagleland}}. There are only a few other countries that can be said to have significant country fandoms -- Ireland (whose own tradition of folk music fed into UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}n folk, which is an ancestor of modern country), West Africa (where the banjo originated), Brazil ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_sertaneja a mishmash of American and local subculture]], including rodeo acts and even [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados the descendants of ex-Confederates]]), Canada, and Australia (both of which have frontier histories and vast rural areas not unlike those found in America). Country music is also surprisingly [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/09/01/140120452/reggae-loves-country-a-50-year-romance popular in the Caribbean]], where from the 1950s-1970s it was some of the only American music imported into the area.

** It's similar outside America. When the Country 2 Country music festival was held in Britain, for instance, [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/nashville-woos-the-uk-carrie-underwood-and-tim-mcgraw-to-play-largest-country-music-festival-at-o2-8534909.html many critics']] [[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/22/country-to-country-festival-review discussions]] of the event focused on the "American" nature of the music and its association with stereotypes of Type 2 {{Eagleland}}. There are only a few other countries that can be said to have significant country fandoms -- Ireland (whose own tradition of folk music fed into UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}n folk, which is an ancestor of modern country), a few parts of West Africa (possibly due to the popularity of the banjo), Brazil ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_sertaneja a mishmash of American and local subculture]], including rodeo acts and even [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados the descendants of ex-Confederates]]), Canada, and Australia (both of which have frontier histories and vast rural areas not unlike those found in America). Country music is also surprisingly [[http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/09/01/140120452/reggae-loves-country-a-50-year-romance popular in the Caribbean]], where from the 1950s-1970s it was some of the only American music imported into the area.

* Music/{{Sevendust}} are described by AllMusic as 'one of the rising acts in late 1990's heavy metal'. In their native US, they have a solid fanbase, consistently play in sold-out theaters, received gold records for their first three albums and even were nominated for a Grammy Award; they're also pretty well-known in Australia. However, they have always largely ignored by European metalheads, as the very few tours the band did there were either cancelled, shortened, or poorly attended.

** He is absolutely hated in mainland China due to the song "Telegraph : 1344 7609 2575", [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Cytus/comments/htb6ar/ice_left_rayark_after_chinese_players_found_morse/ which was discovered to contain a "free Hong Kong" message in Morse Code]][[note]]The politics around Hong Kong's status with China are extremely messy, especially due to the Chinese government attempting to exert more and more control over Hong Kong in spite of the "one country, two systems" promise made as part of the 1997 handoff of Hong Kong from the UK to China; China was supposed to allow Hong Kong to maintain its existing systems for 50 years (until 2047)[[/note]], and "Hong Kong should secede from China" is regarded by mainland Chinese folks as an extremely toxic opinion. Despite the song not being made for any rhythm game, the damage was enough that [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor Ice resigned from Rayark]], and some of his songs were removed from the Chinese version of ''VideoGame/CytusII'', making him literally BannedInChina. This opinion is generally not shared by the rest of the Asian rhythm game community, where he and his music are positively-received, and his songs continue appear on rhythm games made by developers based in Japan (''VideoGame/{{CHUNITHM}}'', ''VideoGame/TakumiCubic'') and South Korea (''VideoGame/{{DJMAX}}'', ''VideoGame/{{KALPA}}'').

** The big acts are household names in their native Japan and have a large amount of crossover appeal in other Asian countries, and even a fair amount in Europe and Latin America (enough that they can tour those areas to large crowds). In the US, however, most artists don't even bother releasing their material for Americans because when they do, they almost never chart anywhere. The few Japanese artists that do tour the US find themselves relegated to small venues. This is largely due to the aforementioned problem songs sung in another language besides English have with appealing to Americans, as well as the general perception of the [[OccidentalOtaku people who listen to Japanese music]][[note]]They're often labeled "weeaboos" for it.[[/note]] and even the TotallyRadical style of Japanese music and its marketing tactics, particularly in mid-late 2010s. In fact, often the only way a Japanese act can play to a fairly large audience stateside is by doing so at ''anime conventions''. NoExportForYou is also a major issue, with artists and labels not bothering to make their music accessible to those outside of Japan. Most infamously, LDH region blocked some of Music/EGirls music videos on [=YouTube=] and Johnny & Associates refusing to export ''any'' of their artists for the longest time. This issue has lessened with streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but you’re hard pressed to find any kind of English social media presence or merch for Japanese artists outside the country.

** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Conversely]], he is quite popular in Sweden, which served as the location of one of his last performances before his death in 2016.