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Espen Lind and Amund Bjorklund Spell Out the Transcontinental Potency of Pop

Just because English lyrics rule the U.S. charts doesn’t mean that English is the most important language in getting a song across. In most pop songs, that distinction would fall to the music itself: a combination of melody, chord progression and the beat. And if a songwriter has a good grasp on those elements, his mother tongue need not be English to score a hit. In fact, it might well…