Wats your view on dialect song in SG?

[Music]

Hi,
Just interested to find out about your views about playing dialect songs especially hokkien in Singapore.. Recently there are too many people playing songs from about the same artiste / band, and alot of the people seems to be choosing about the same stuff and music to play.

All the while hokkien has been seen as "go tai" n coffeeshop style... maybe some people might feel that its low class or something....

Just to hear your views about this point.

=)

 

[soft]

i think as long as it is something you enjoy doing, go for it.

 

[Music]

Hi

Yeah thank and true enough.... Its good to know how local think about dialect songs

 

[guitarsan]

Dialect songs are always a breath of fresh air due to many years of Speak (or sing) Mandarin Campaign and media restrictions. We don't often get to hear dialect songs from radio and TV (since 1980!!), or even cable channels presently. So any kind of dialect music are welcome. The only Hokkien song I hear on TV now is the opening/ending of Taiwanese soap drama.....something Mediacorp couldn't really dubbed! :lol:

I personally like Canto pop from the 70's and early 80's. Kinda nostalgic and groovy!

:smt098

 

[sinnery]

Dialect Music

Personally, I think it's nice to have dialect music and I'm not speaking ONLY for Hokkien and Cantonese and Hakka and whatnot. Only when you're so far away from Singapore will you then appreciate a lot of things back from where you're from. I do sort of appreciate our inappropriate Singlish somehow in spit of how much I used to have to have conversations with people with broken English. Also our easily accessible transportations and shopping malls. But that's not the point. Our music is. Our originality. Our trademark of being a multi-cultural/language city.

 

[kentheman2000]

nia see wah wu zhi bah ban!!!!!

 

[Music]

haha

actually i m finding a band to do dialect esp hokkien song... as in all the while hokkien to us is like coffeeshop, ge tai or those gangster.. Hokkien by itself is just a language... hokkien song can have outstanging groove.. Just like canto

Its time to change the old traditional thinking of dialect song =)

 

[kentheman2000]

You wanna zhi ki shio hor swa?

 

[17wil]

"na see wa wu zi ba ban" I would buy zi ki sio hor swa!