I've decided to rewrite this post.

- Went to tanjong pagar for the job interview. So I'm going to start working next week sunday, with kenny & mervin. Hoorah.
- Having quite a sore throat which isn't very comfortable.
- The fan in my room is officially screwed. It blew up yesterday & I can't fix it anymore.
- One of my earphone's studs fallen off during training today.

Not alot of things happened though.


Hmm is chinese music better or english music better?
I swear I can think of many good reasons while tossing & turning yesterday night. It's quite funny actually. I was like debating with myself inside my head, & I was winning the english side.

Firstly, english is UNIVERSAL.

English is the linkage that brings about communication to the world. Without english, I highly doubt that people can share traditions? Learn different cultures? OR even use it to learn other languages of different nations. English is THAT IMPORTANT to this extent. Wherever you go, english words are sure to appear. In train stations, merchandises that you buy, menus in restaurant; You can't deny the fact that you'd need to know it in order to survive.


Secondly, the music industry follow a system of SELLING SINGLES WHICH COME WITH MUSIC VIDEOS.

Releasing singles is perhaps something that differentiates the two industries the most. How is it beneficial? Simple. If you don't know what your taste is & that you don't know whether you want to buy let say this album or not, a single is there to tell you its genre & to let you be the smart shopper.

Plus, some of the public only wants to own the song they've heard over the radio. So what they do? They buy the album for the sake of the song included. Quite stupid yeah? That's why singles are there to save their money. Artists/musicians releases singles because they think that these songs will be the ones the public will like most, & that they wouldn't buy their albums just over one/two songs that they want to listen more.

Most singles come with music videos. It makes all the materials released looks tidier, so people can know which songs has videos & which doesn't. Music videos also allow the public to know the story behind the song, & thus causing them to like listening to it, therefore buying the single. But for the chinese industry, the very obvious fact of not having such a singles system makes it appropriate to make music videos FOR EVERY SINGLE SONGS OFF THE ALBUM. I don't know what others might think, but I feel that this however makes everything else more confusing :/ With all the songs being labelled as "hits", I will personally think that this is more of a scam, because the songs weren't as great as I would judge it to be.


Thirdly, albums in the english industry come nicely with only a simple booklet in compact casings, & NOT GIVE YOU A TWO-FOOT LONG CASE PILED WITH POSTERS, ADDITIONAL MUSIC VIDEOS, OR CALENDERS & EXPECT YOU TO STUFF ALL THESE IN YOUR CD SHELF.

It's quite irritating you see. Have you seen those chinese albums they sell in CD stores? "JIA SONG JING XUAN MTV... HAIBAO... "etcetc, WHEN DAMNIT YOU JUST WANT TO LISTEN TO THE ALBUM! I mean, for your own enjoyment, you don't even need to use those damn posters or huge calenders! It's so irritating.


Forthly, (not to critise) english music is made with more QUALITY & CREATIVITY.

Do you hear much of chinese musicans who produce or writes great hits & stuff like that? I can only think of uhm, Jay chou & Guangliang, whom I know puts in huge efforts & interests in music. But THAT IS ALL.

For the english sides, you don't hear much of bubblegum pop music. You get to listen to music with meanings. You see creativity & efforts. People like Timbaland produces music hits everytime. Beyonce Knowles won songwriter of the year. Mariah Carey & Alicia Keys both are able to hit high octaves with their voice/whistle registers. You get to see THE PURPOSE OF MUSIC, & not portrayed in the sense that they are just meant for listening.


Last but not least, the chinese industry BREAKS THE LINE BETWEEN LISTENING & SEEING, which defeats the purposes of both entertainment & music.

WHY CAN'T these singers just stick to producing/writing/singing music instead of going further with like directing/hosting variety shows/act for instance? It gives, I don't know, the boredom of seeing the same person doing everything, & that giving the mindset that an actor has to sing & a singer has to act.

This perhaps defeats the purpose of the line drawn inbetween drama & music. It's annoying! You watch drama because you want to be entertained with talkshows. You want to feel the thrills in scary movies. You want to laugh at really silly things in your everyday comedy & variety shows. You want to cry because you've just seen a really sad scene in this love movie. You want to be educated with documentaries & news like that. You want to see proper DJs telling you info on music. & NOT SEE YOUR SINGERS SUDDENLY BECOMING ACTORS AT THE SAME TIME. It's like, there aren't really any good professional actors, & like wise singers.



I used to like those bubblegum pop chinese music. But I'm really disliking it after being exposed to the english side as well. You can communicate with english music, but not chinese. You can feel music, & not just listen to it. It gives you more drive for you to create & make music at the same time.

Don't get me wrong. I admire chinese singers like jaychou nevertheless. I don't hate his music. He's talented. He's creative & really create music for music. It's like music is his life. Not like those stupid groups like 5566? Who host/sings/act all at the same time, & keeps getting criticism. Not like jolin tsai, getting all the popularity because she sings it & doesn't create it. Not like a lot more chinese singers/bands/groups who keeps wanting to disarray the line between two distinct careers & earns fame with no originality. It's really frustrating.


I think I should stop here or I might get this subject more controversial. Goodbye. Cheryl is waiting for me at 7-hand.

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