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Olga55 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Underground scene

Hi, this is another question about rock band again. In the dialogue, people talk about the most popular band in South America "Iron Maiden". They compare the populartity of this rock band with another one Metallica saying these words: " That is really interesting because you think of bands like...I don't know... not that they're similar, but like Metallica or something that weren't so popular with just an underground scene and they got radio play and they got huge and then.."

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"...something that weren't so popular with just an underground scene". Does it mean those bands that played heavy meatal ( underground scene) were not so popular? Thank you.
  

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Heavy metal

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Basically, yes.  A "scene" in this context is a group of people that pay close attention to something cultural.  For instance, you could talk about "the Los Angeles punk scene" or "the modern painting scene."  An "underground scene" is one that not many people know about.  So if a band is part of an underground scene, they might be very popular within the group, but they're probably unknown outsi
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Anonymous, thank you. That's very interesting, bands playing the same style, heavy metal, which is not popular like pop music ( mainstream), but one band is ahead while another is forgotton.
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