Music & Me

Can you imagine a life without music?
It would be sadly dull and tragic!

I was a ‘late bloomer’ when it comes to music. I have no early memories of me listening to a lot of music when I was a young girl. I didn’t have a clue who NKOTB or Debbie Gibson were back in primary school when most of my classmates were going gaga over! I didn’t bother to go find out either!
I grew up listening to mandarin oldies, songs by Teresa Teng and Fei Yu Qing, among others. Throw in alittle bit of Chinese orchestra pieces and some Yanni.
You would be quite surprised at how my taste in music has evolved.
I bought my first 2 cds when I was 14? Celine Dion and Faye Wong album, both of which I really liked..especially Ms Faye’s album. I used to sing ALL her songs ALL the time with my friend.
My purchases after that was mostly influenced by what’s HOT on the radio or what my friends were listening to.
It was during that time when I went gaga over my first boyband – the Backstreet Boys.
Yikes! I was SUCH a fan. I bought almost all of their albums/singles, even hoarded lots of magazines which featured them. This silly teenybopper thing went on for quite awhile. The next boyband I obsessed over was Westlife.
Both of which got boring after a few successful albums.

There came a moment when everything started changing..in 2000 I think?
I fell in love with matchbox twenty’s If You’re Gone. Mad season was the first non teenybopper album I ever bought.
Soon after that, I finally outgrew the whole boyband/pop-py shit thing.

I no longer listen to Chinese songs – I think the industry is too full of R&B wannabies, cheesy boybands & fluffy sweet young things.
Neither am I into what’s ‘popular’ in the English music scene either!

Most of what I love now, I discovered them online or on MTV, before the whole hiphop rapper r&b invasion.
The internet is a brilliant place to discover new talents I tell you.

Radio has turned into an annoying thing. They only play what’s popular.
I mean tune in to either power98 or 98.7 now and you’ll hear an annoying hiphop or r&b song every 5 mins or so!
Sometimes I wonder if the masses actually have ears that work.
And well every now and then a new band or new singer enters the scene and it’s usually nothing spectacular.

Oh and one pet peeve of mine? Is when people say they like a certain artiste? Only because they’ve heard ONE song? That ONE song they hear on radio or something?
For example, don’t tell me you’re a fan of Jason Mraz coz you LOVE geek in the pink or you & I both.
Yes they are both catchy songs, but he has many other brilliant tunes so don’t declare yourself a fan coz of that one song. You’re just a fan of that one song. Not someone who truly appreciates the music of a particular artiste.

Can you remember the last time you were truly moved or impressed by an artiste?