Is there a local music scene

[MadWerewolfBoy]

Yes yes yo! We donch stop! :mrgreen:

getch creative can do rock on! zomg! :twisted:

 

[AverRal]

I am glad this topic is a good reality check on the local scene.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

SPOP? How about S-Alternative?

 

[RazrAsh]

thats for the local chinese scene. we need more support for the english scene.

but we really do lack audiences. i swear, we're all bloody anglophiles overe here. once we see any music thats by white ppl, we fall all over ourselves to get them.

thats with the exception of chinese pop. but u see, even our local chinese pop artiste have had to go overseas to make it big before actually coming back.

as it is, the market for english bands is currently oversaturated with crappy music, and we, being typical singaporeans, tend to stereotype everything by that one bad experience we had listening to a crappy band.

i think before we garner audiences, we need to develop a stronger music community.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

More CDs of local songs should be released, so the good ones (which I find are many, in fact) are exposed rather than the few poor ones. I think we should actually have a magazine devoted to our own local music scene :-D. I'd be more than happy to be a journalist. :mrgreen:

 

[RazrAsh]

so would i. i'd LOVE to be a journalist.

but another thought just occurred to me.
one of the reasons our local scene doesn;t propser is due to the abysmal english spoken and sung. as well as written.

disappointing to say the least.

 

[wantonne]

=RazrAsh

I doubt anyone can help it. That's how we sound. Tune up our phonetics to sound like ang mohs and they diss us for having a slang. Then they say we're too "rockstar".

I think it's just the image we have to polish. Most of the bands who have big crowds have big crowds not because they are born with it. They just know how to influence people.

Anyway, anybody got video editing skills to the max for after effects?

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

I doubt anyone can help it. That's how we sound. Tune up our phonetics to sound like ang mohs and they diss us for having a slang. Then they say we're too "rockstar".

I think it's just the image we have to polish.

Not shooting you or anything. Just want to clarify with you, who's this "they" you're refering to? Are they the same people we need to polish up our image to? When then, is this image you're talking about? Visual Kei? Boybands? Or... Something that's not so ""rockstar""?

Slang and accent different ah! :twisted: Must aim for accent, not slang.

Btw, just curious to know which bands kena dissed for having an ang moh slang before. Would wanna check them out to see how bad they are.

 

[RazrAsh]

=RazrAsh

I doubt anyone can help it. That's how we sound. Tune up our phonetics to sound like ang mohs and they diss us for having a slang. Then they say we're too "rockstar".

I think it's just the image we have to polish.

YES we can help it. if we'd bother just to eunuciate properly, we'd be accent-less/slang-less.

if they want to diss us just because we speak proper english, let them. in the end, its their language that suffers, not ours.

besides, if we plan to break into a regional/international market, we DO need to speak proper english to be understood.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

SPOP? How about S-Alternative?

hehe, hopefully not. I mean, its bad enough we dont really have a culture of our own and having to take inspirations from else where, we went so easily to the japanese side, taking their way of calling their own music, J-pop/j rock etc and making it our own, S pop, S alternative, S rock???

just imho

 

[80s_people]

i think media corp has tried extremely hard to help the local chinese music scene so if u want to suceed in english music scene, u must join singapore idol. cause in singapore, media is a very powerful tool

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

the local chinese scene(not just taking bout chinese rock band..) aint a scene, its an industry. A stepping stone into the big world of mando pop of taiwan, china, canto pop of HK etc

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

=80s_people

Was that meant to be a joke? I can't tell...

 

[AverRal]

i think media corp has tried extremely hard to help the local chinese music scene so if u want to suceed in english music scene, u must join singapore idol. cause in singapore, media is a very powerful tool

Yup maybe our media should do something about promoting local bands and singers.

A 30 min program per week on channel 5 featuring local bands would help alot.

If malaysia can have it, why not Singapore? ^^

 

[AgingYouth]

There used to be a programme on Channel 5 called "Diary Of A Young Singaporean" aka DAYS. Yeah, I know, so smart...

They featured what the teens and tweens like to do. Usually, a Singapore act closes the show with a tune or something like that.

It was so long ago that only an Aging Youth can remember. Becuz one episode caused quite a major scandal in the scene! Hahaha...

 

[emg-rocks]

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wah seh... i kinda remembered the DAYS show. old school sia!

 

[AgingYouth]

You is aging too fast!!! Hahaha...

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

got a cat or pussy involved, jumping outta bag izzit??

 

[AgingYouth]

Yesssshhh... cuz the drugs donch work, baby!!!

 

[AverRal]

omg super off topic la.