Jumpin'Jellybean
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Heh, i love this song. I thought the more popular ones were 原来, 翅膀, etc. Or it could be those were older ones. But i enjoy his music in general.
youth olympics song
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Heh, i love this song. I thought the more popular ones were 原来, 翅膀, etc. Or it could be those were older ones. But i enjoy his music in general.
shinobi
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this song sucks. period. a song meant for kids does not necessarily have to be shit. look at high school musical, of all the shit that it is, at the very least that shit isn't BAD.
and just because someone is criticising jj lin doesn't mean that it's personal. nobody says that he is a screwed up guy. we are just saying he has a screwed up song. while i probably can't sing as well as him, he probably can't play the bass as well as i can, or have comparable academic qualifications. but whats the point of comparing myself with him? the fact of the matter is that he is a PROFESSIONAL. i don't get paid thousands of dollars to make songs.
if a footballer plays like shit, he can be criticised. if an accountant can't even add numbers, he can be criticised. if a lawyer can't speak english properly, he is criticised. if a carpenter can't even hold a hammer properly, he is criticised. please explain to me why you think a singer is EXEMPT from this.
when electrico wrote the national day song i thought it was cool. finally, the consensus and collective effort of the nation is represented by something cool. don't tell me national day songs can't be appreciated by the young; they are supposed to appeal to all.
anyway, most of our athletes are english-as-second-language fellas, so i guess it has to appeal to them.
and just because someone is criticising jj lin doesn't mean that it's personal. nobody says that he is a screwed up guy. we are just saying he has a screwed up song. while i probably can't sing as well as him, he probably can't play the bass as well as i can, or have comparable academic qualifications. but whats the point of comparing myself with him? the fact of the matter is that he is a PROFESSIONAL. i don't get paid thousands of dollars to make songs.
if a footballer plays like shit, he can be criticised. if an accountant can't even add numbers, he can be criticised. if a lawyer can't speak english properly, he is criticised. if a carpenter can't even hold a hammer properly, he is criticised. please explain to me why you think a singer is EXEMPT from this.
when electrico wrote the national day song i thought it was cool. finally, the consensus and collective effort of the nation is represented by something cool. don't tell me national day songs can't be appreciated by the young; they are supposed to appeal to all.
anyway, most of our athletes are english-as-second-language fellas, so i guess it has to appeal to them.
it says youth olympics not kids olympics...most of them are almost old enough to compete in the adult olympics
PatheinRaindropMoe
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oh well, it is a cheer and a song as well, since it consist of series of notes which fall within the western musical scale.
As long as the first person who lead the oh yeah oh yeah intro dont go out of tune, its pretty much easy to follow on, as long as not tonedeaf
hehe, now, in the mind, everyone, do the oh yeah oh yeah intro!!! The rest, will just follow
As long as the first person who lead the oh yeah oh yeah intro dont go out of tune, its pretty much easy to follow on, as long as not tonedeaf
hehe, now, in the mind, everyone, do the oh yeah oh yeah intro!!! The rest, will just follow
shinobi
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for some reason, singing using the throat voice seems to be very effective in mando pop. must be a characteristic of the language.
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PatheinRaindropMoe
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heh, footballer and accountant do wrong thing, its obvious, so yeah, by all means, death to them. A composer who did song that people dont like, aint wrong. Its the perception of individual preference who dont like the song that make it bad to them, listening. But then, is it bad in the way of footballer and accountant doing wrong things that cost them a game, monetary lost?
Oh well, feel free to discuss.
bingo! i was trying to get this point across
precisely!! electrico's song was still something acceptable at least. this one i buay tahan -_-
shinobi
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cheers oso got melody what.
of all the things this song inspires, i doubt 'fighting spirit' is one of them. no wonder singapore athletes are a bunch of pussies.
THIS is a cheer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaY6G-yX4YI
PatheinRaindropMoe
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eh, oh yeah oh yeah also got melody lah. I dont think they are so hip enough to venture into microtonal melodies and pitches.
haha, put any series of melody in a stadium context with enough people chanting it, even moaning in heat also can inspired fighting spirit.
haha, put any series of melody in a stadium context with enough people chanting it, even moaning in heat also can inspired fighting spirit.
i never said anything about people personally criticising jj what. i only said, for those of you who criticise jj, let's see if you can sing better than him. which means, those of you who criticise his singing, not his personal whatever. the singing sucks? let's see you sing better then.
if jj's singing sucks, he won't be a superstar singer. shinobi: jj's singing sells alot of albums. can your bass playing sell alot of albums?
if jj's singing sucks, he won't be a superstar singer. shinobi: jj's singing sells alot of albums. can your bass playing sell alot of albums?
DeathCubeK
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hifi_killer
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cant wait for mrbrown to do parody of this song.
le kua simi was great!.
le kua simi was great!.
Jumpin'Jellybean
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Different styles of music appeal to different groups of people. Thus when one says this song sucks, it means he/she doesn't enjoy it. 看法象铜板,有两面. Forgive me if it's not the exact phrasing, i'm chionging for my O levels. For those who don't understand, it means that views, like a coin, has two sides. So while some may enjoy, some won't. It's the same for all types of music. Justin Bieber has his screaming girl legions, but a lot of others don't like him.
Jumpin'Jellybean
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I disagree. I think this is a government initiative.
when one listens to this song, one has to consider the context that it's created for. it's for the youth olympics, and in that sense, it is definitely suitable. youth = teenagers + kids, basically anyone who is young. if you are older but young at heart, you can sing along too, look at the music video, it has older folks singing/dancing along happily to it. the main point is having a song that is vibrant, upbeat and youthful, to bring out the spirit of the youth olympics, and this song has achieved these criteria.
DeathCubeK
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So now selling albums is a way to judge talent? Anyone who doesn't sell much = no talent?
I won't talk on behalf of anyone, but my view is that the song blows. It's so generic just like any other song we have used to promote Good Courtesy, SARS and the MDA rap. I know I can't sing as well as JJ, at least not in the normal pop vocal sense, but at least my voice sounds like it's hit puberty. When did mediocrity and banality become a good thing in music?
