Y Wednesday, September 19, 2007
10:21 pm
People ask me. Why not give Chinese music a chance? Stop putting chinese music down, they say. Give it a try. Try this song. That song. Or this guy, or that girl.There're a few reasons why.
1) I just don't understand chinese. Really. I tell you, I can only catch random phrases like "Wo ai ni, ni ai wo" ".... something something ai." or "ni.. wo.. ai" You get the idea.
2) I'm of the opinion that some chinese artistes sell by image and not real talent. Their type of singing can be done by virtually anyone, and the only reason why they're selling well is because of the countless of nose, lips, eye, or whatever job you can think of. Did I mention Jolin Tsai's bewb job? Lawlerz.
3) Chinese music seems to be less diversified, and they keep taking borrowing from English music. Jay Chou can rap. Sure. But where do you think he got that idea from? Say hello to your black and white trash.
Also, you don't see bands like MCR or Aerosmith in chinese. I asked Daryl, and he said such bands do exist, but they don't sing stuff as hard as them. Wait a second. Since when was MCR hard stuff? o_O. It's quite tame, really. Compare them to like say.. those Death Metal bands I've never even heard of. Yeah. Every line's screaming about anti-christ statements. Scary.
4) Every chinese song is about.
-Love
-Love
-Love
-Love
How many ways can you sing about love? Seriously.
-I love you.
-I miss you.
-I yearrrrrrrrn for you.
Booring.
Hence my fascination with MCR.
Most of the time, they take this love thing somewhere else. Yes, it's romantic. You still have two lovers for most part, but it doesn't end very well. Instead of happy endings, or sad ones, you get grim, slightly psychotic ones.
I'll give an example.
Slightly deranged girl falls in love with guy. Guy doesn't really reciprocate, but that's not his fault; he's gay. Rejects girl somewhat. Girl destabilizes even more and buys a bottle of cyanide from the grocer. Wants to kill guy so they "won't be separated anymore."
Oh yes, girl isn't very well liked because she's dotty and stuff like that, so the shopkeeper sells her the cyanide.
Girl poisons guy. Brings his body to her bed, lays him there. Sleeps with him for the next 20 years. Decomposed body and all. Oh yeah, for kicks, the guy did drugs too I think.
You get the idea. It's grim, but definitely more fun than just "I LOVE EUUX DO YEW WURBS ME?"
/rantover.
Cough. Seems like today wasn't the results after all. 1st of October. I'm living on borrowed time now.
Oh, just to make sure y'all don't think I need counselling or help, I do listen to other music. In fact, here's a list of my favourite albums at the moment.
1) Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance
2) Sonic Firestorm - DragonForce
3) Fireflies - Faith Hill
4) Valkyrie Profile 2 Soundtrack - Motoi Sakuraba (omg I feel nerdy now.)
5) I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance.
6) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack - Jeremy Soule
Yeah. But I do have a motley assortment of pop songs as well. Ah yes, today, I've grown to appreciate Brian McKnight more. Red, White and Blue is simply beautiful. Heartwarming song about soldiers going off to fight in the Iraq War, a soldier who hasn't seen his newborn baby girl yet, being halfway across the world at her time of birth.
I realize it's an overused theme, but hey, the song's good. Gotta looove Rascal Flatt's falsetto and BMcK's magical voice.
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