Seriously, if they really want the music industry here to really make it, i feel they should push up more original song competitions. US and UK ain't going to see us asians singing another cover song like them. They will rather support their own kind. But when it comes to originals, we have a bigger say if we come out with our own stuff. I think in the 70s, a Singaporean group came out with a song i think was called "Tokyo Square" or something like that, hit into US Top 40s. It has that oriental feel to it.
By the way, there's one thing i still don't fully get though, some times that thought swings hard into my head. Why is music there for competition??? Wasn't music for appreciation and enjoyment? Why is it that all that is filled in with who makes a joke or who should be this way or that??? It's like someone makes it this way an everyone else are trying to follow that style and be like that person. What happen to bringing out your own essence of enjoyment, connecting up with your song, making it ya very own??
I believe if they approach local music with a higher sense of maturity, people would approach it more seriously, instead of making a fool out of it. Something like having regular programs about Singapore local groups and acts, telling their history, screening their performances, interviewing them, showing their MTV, all that which relate the public to local music and arts.
Boooooo!!!
