Hmm..
do you guys know where the problem lies?
Singapore bands and music doesn't have style and flavour there. It doesn't have its own identity. If you listen and guage carefully, almost all the local band sound the same. everyone plays the same thing, same tune. same style. the music revolves around the same beat, same theme.
so u see the problem here? THERE'S NO CREATIVITY!!
yeah..everyone can write lyrics, can compose music, but please loh...except for RONIN, local bands here, especially those that made a name out there one, all sounded so british.
yeah, we used to be under bristish colonial rule, but does that mean our music must be like that jsut because Sir Stamford Raffles, Farqhuar and friends came to our shores before?
well, what i think is local bands must have its own style and definition. its only the way we speak english that differentiates us from foreigners. if we speak like americans or brits, probably when people hear our music, the first thing poping over their head is, "oh..america has a new band..." or "british got a new band!"..
Singapore is a multi-racial society. We speak 4 languages plus many other dialects. like what other people out there says, singapore doesn't have its own form of arts and culture. we copy everything from other countries. music wise too. we are diff from other countries. we shouldn't be distinguished by just our language, but by our culture.
Japanese music, American music, Brit music, have their own identity. once it gets into your ears, you'll be able to recognize, ah..its from where and where.
y must out songs be in English all the time, why can't our music has a blend of everything? imagine, when erhu, sitar and electric guitar plays together? imagine Techno in Malay? Opera in Tamil? all these and more are possible. we have to break all the barrier.
Singaporeans doesn't know one another well, and doesn't each other's race and beliefs well. i believe if we know and understand each other well, we can surely have our own brand of music, and it will sure have its mark in the world and that would really be Uniquely Singapore.
i think Boredphucks has done that. right, although their music is very very vulgar, but aren't the language they used are those the day we speak everyday?
doesn't mean we speak English, our music must sound like English also. if really must sound like English or Americans, den why bother to cut your own album? got Linkin Park, Oasis, Metallica, Coldplay, Celine Dion, Josh Groben, Destiny's Child is enough for us to listen.
ask yourself, the next local band that you are going to listen, are there really "local"?
