Welsh Language Music: Could Welsh songs become mainstream?

Gangnam Style, released by South Korean rapper PSY in 2012, broke the internet – quite literally, YouTube had to upgrade its counter limit because it had been watched more than any other video ever.

Talking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, presenter and DJ Molly Palmer said listeners do not have to understand lyrics to enjoy songs.

“Gangnam style is Korean, it’s record breaking, chart topping – there is no reason why songs which aren’t in the English language can’t succeed in this way,” she said.

“That song was my introduction to that idea, of other languages being in the mainstream in music. There’s no reason why the Welsh language can’t be that as well, we have an incredible cohort of musicians here in Wales.”

She said when she was first introduced to Welsh language music, “it was all men with guitars” but now there was a “world of variety, of genre – there really is something out there for everybody”.


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