Personally after listening to the bands yesterday @ the HopeJam carnival, I felt an urgency for us, local music fanatics (I don't know how many of you are as driven as I am) to boycott foreign music, ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Okay, our idols, be it whichever metal star, rock star from your dad's era, or whoever - has already influenced us in a way or another. Maybe it's the impatience in me towards my band - (because we're not capable of penning down good originals yet) that has drove me to conclude that we've enough local music talents, in the form of these indie bands.
I feel that being unrecognized is an absolute stinking feeling, and one eventually gets sick of that despite the burning passion to continue. After yesterday's performance, I really thought it made no sense that we're still having stupid rapping, hiphop shit hogging all the airtime on our local radio stations one after another. That primarily explains my boycott of 98.7fm for good, i either listen to my own CD compilations when i'm driving, or it's always the few thousand songs I've in my computer, nothing off the radio anymore!
We've had our piece of pie on the music industry by local musicians (bands), with The Padres, Humpback Oak, Concave Scream to lately, Electrico and The Observatory. But is that enough? I think we have at least 200 bands in Singapore who think they should deserve something better than just running around gigs year in and out.
I feel that established music companies are too obsessed with the M-factor ($$$) than scouting real talents. That's pure sick. I think there should be a music revolution someday in Singapore (i don't know when) where our local rockers should be given full attention, and not just sidekicks to imported music anymore. If grooming culture is what Singapore wants, why aren't we following the footsteps of Japan? Just look at their booming music industry, even the underground bands are gaining recognition so quickly because the companies there DARE to invest in them, but sadly not ours'.
I hope, (I CAN ONLY HOPE) that someday somehow, someone will get the ball rolling, and allow our local music to hog the airtime on our local stations, better still, have a all-local music station.
I'm a proud fan of local music, yes, even to the extend of being called a music nazi - but because I strictly adhere to my genre preferences; it's all good. Singapore music must not be defeated by imported crap anymore.
Rock and roll lives on, forever. Pop is dead 8)
sfz
(edited, thanks to soft's reminder
)
Okay, our idols, be it whichever metal star, rock star from your dad's era, or whoever - has already influenced us in a way or another. Maybe it's the impatience in me towards my band - (because we're not capable of penning down good originals yet) that has drove me to conclude that we've enough local music talents, in the form of these indie bands.
I feel that being unrecognized is an absolute stinking feeling, and one eventually gets sick of that despite the burning passion to continue. After yesterday's performance, I really thought it made no sense that we're still having stupid rapping, hiphop shit hogging all the airtime on our local radio stations one after another. That primarily explains my boycott of 98.7fm for good, i either listen to my own CD compilations when i'm driving, or it's always the few thousand songs I've in my computer, nothing off the radio anymore!
We've had our piece of pie on the music industry by local musicians (bands), with The Padres, Humpback Oak, Concave Scream to lately, Electrico and The Observatory. But is that enough? I think we have at least 200 bands in Singapore who think they should deserve something better than just running around gigs year in and out.
I feel that established music companies are too obsessed with the M-factor ($$$) than scouting real talents. That's pure sick. I think there should be a music revolution someday in Singapore (i don't know when) where our local rockers should be given full attention, and not just sidekicks to imported music anymore. If grooming culture is what Singapore wants, why aren't we following the footsteps of Japan? Just look at their booming music industry, even the underground bands are gaining recognition so quickly because the companies there DARE to invest in them, but sadly not ours'.
I hope, (I CAN ONLY HOPE) that someday somehow, someone will get the ball rolling, and allow our local music to hog the airtime on our local stations, better still, have a all-local music station.
I'm a proud fan of local music, yes, even to the extend of being called a music nazi - but because I strictly adhere to my genre preferences; it's all good. Singapore music must not be defeated by imported crap anymore.
Rock and roll lives on, forever. Pop is dead 8)
sfz
(edited, thanks to soft's reminder
)
