I feel like elaborating on this -- Americans have such a self-centered view of pop culture they often don't realize, like fish not knowing what water is, when people from other countries are deliberately "acting American" and imitating US culture Especially in animehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1294575849220395009 …
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I've seen this take before about, say, ABBA ABBA's music doesn't really take place in their native Sweden, it's about this imaginary America that only ever existed in movies and pop music -- "Dancing Queen" as this distilled iconic essence of "prom night"
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And because they never had the real thing to compare it to, their dream America was much purer and more potent than any version Americans had made in a while, and actual Americans were intoxicated by it
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