If countries have rules designed to protect their language/culture in the face of American dominance, it doesn’t make it inferior.
Most people in Europe have at least some idea of American films, music, even politics, far more than what Americans know about what happens in individual European countries. It’s simply a product of America’s dominant status in the world that American music automatically becomes international. It doesn’t need to be a con. And so French music needs a quota because of that reality.
But if you think that American music is unquestionably “better” and have made your mind up about that, then that’s your opinion. Though I suspect you haven’t found something you like through lack of searching. There are catchy songs in languages other than English.
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