Recently, I stubled across some "celtic" music on oyutube, you know, these videos, which sole purpose is to make music available - anyway. I thought something like "Well, why not? I could good use some nice music again." So I clicked on it and what did come out of my speakers - harp. nice. So I listened on - was it an instrumental piece, or maybe it features Gaeilge? That's the most comnmon langauge for such music. But then it hit like a bus on a crosswalk: ENGLISH!

WHAT THE F.?

Has the 'celtic' culture degraded so much that people have to use a GERMANIC (and largely romanic) language insead of their own way of expressing poetry? So just because some woman warbles a song into the microphone to some harpplay - it is somehow celtic? Holy crap.

Great. What comes next? Chinese songtexts to some accordion music, sold as Lowgerman music? What the fuck?


On one hand, people always talk about how such music 'hits the soul' and blahblahblah - on the other hand, if one wants real celtic music, instead of this anglicized BS - eventhough you might not understand it - you get crazy looks.

Srsly, dear musicmakers, don't dishonour the celtic culture by adapting the imposed english language. That isn't celtic, it's "celtlish" at best. If you are proud to have celtish ancestors, then LEARN THE LANGUAGE and use it, goddammit. Using english only contaminates the celtic culture even more and destroys whole ways of expressing poetry or even seeing the world. One word of a language is a heritage of culture, if you only look at the history of it.

/rant