Friday Five 21-June
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elusivek1. Have you come to the conclusion that your parents music (music popular in their time) isn't so bad?
As a kid growing up here, I didn't have much choices in music. I spoke Chinese (back then) but I didn't read it so I was never able to read magazines and read about Hong Kong artists and such. Then, when we had a CD player, we only had Mom's golden oldies CD set collection or some of Dad's something-or-another-electro-type thingamajoo. I wouldn't say the music back then was bad, it's just... things I've been listening to since a long long time ago.
2. Is there a song/group/singer you once adored, but don't now?
hm.... not really. I admit being an avid fan for a j-pop/anison artist called Masami Okui 奥井雅美 but it's sort of tapered off partially due to her having slowed down her solo career and focusing on her group JAM Project.
3. Is there a song/group/singer you once despised, but is okay now?
Despise is a very strong word, and I can't think of anyone/group that I despise of... anyway, it's only very recently that I started to listen to other "Western" music (yeah, I was never big on Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, etc...., I was mainly a jpop girl back then), so I really can expand on what I listen to, but recently I found out I'm okay with Imagine Dragons, American Author, Keane, etc... and then I also like the non-vocals like The Piano Guys, Lindsay Stirling, etc...
4. Have you ever heard a favorite song and suddenly had a reinterpretation its meaning?
Back then, being so into Jpop, yet not speaking the language, I remember copying the lyrics (despite my not being able to read neither the Japanese and only some of the Chinese characters), and trying to decipher the lyrics from the little bit of Kanji I could understand (I naively thought all Kanji had the exact same meaning as in Chinese) and the intermittent trashy English.
5. What song would you just as soon never hear again?
Again, that's a bit strong, but I usually avoid listening to Canto-pop or the Hong Kong artists. I remember there was a kiddy show and a male singer was being interviewed and he said "Oh I like creativity and creating new music. I like to experiment. It's so cool to be able to create my own music", and went on to perform his "newest song".
Turns out, being the Jpop and anison junkie that I was, I happened to own a "Character Image song CD" of a certain Anime (they like to do things like these - each character had their own song sung by the Seiyuu/voice cast), and that guy was singing a song from that CD from a minor character. Even the music was the same, he was just singing over the music. Creativtiy and "creating your own music" my ass. I guess they thought not many people would go out and buy Japanese anime character image CDs (it was really expensive back then, the yen was strong at that time, and imports were tricky).
So, I now have a habit of avoiding most Hong Kong artitst as after that incident, I found out many of them simply sang "dubbed" songs. Now there's only one Hong Kong artist that I do like and she really creates her own music. She's cute and a little crazy, or eccentric too.
As a kid growing up here, I didn't have much choices in music. I spoke Chinese (back then) but I didn't read it so I was never able to read magazines and read about Hong Kong artists and such. Then, when we had a CD player, we only had Mom's golden oldies CD set collection or some of Dad's something-or-another-electro-type thingamajoo. I wouldn't say the music back then was bad, it's just... things I've been listening to since a long long time ago.
2. Is there a song/group/singer you once adored, but don't now?
hm.... not really. I admit being an avid fan for a j-pop/anison artist called Masami Okui 奥井雅美 but it's sort of tapered off partially due to her having slowed down her solo career and focusing on her group JAM Project.
3. Is there a song/group/singer you once despised, but is okay now?
Despise is a very strong word, and I can't think of anyone/group that I despise of... anyway, it's only very recently that I started to listen to other "Western" music (yeah, I was never big on Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, etc...., I was mainly a jpop girl back then), so I really can expand on what I listen to, but recently I found out I'm okay with Imagine Dragons, American Author, Keane, etc... and then I also like the non-vocals like The Piano Guys, Lindsay Stirling, etc...
4. Have you ever heard a favorite song and suddenly had a reinterpretation its meaning?
Back then, being so into Jpop, yet not speaking the language, I remember copying the lyrics (despite my not being able to read neither the Japanese and only some of the Chinese characters), and trying to decipher the lyrics from the little bit of Kanji I could understand (I naively thought all Kanji had the exact same meaning as in Chinese) and the intermittent trashy English.
5. What song would you just as soon never hear again?
Again, that's a bit strong, but I usually avoid listening to Canto-pop or the Hong Kong artists. I remember there was a kiddy show and a male singer was being interviewed and he said "Oh I like creativity and creating new music. I like to experiment. It's so cool to be able to create my own music", and went on to perform his "newest song".
Turns out, being the Jpop and anison junkie that I was, I happened to own a "Character Image song CD" of a certain Anime (they like to do things like these - each character had their own song sung by the Seiyuu/voice cast), and that guy was singing a song from that CD from a minor character. Even the music was the same, he was just singing over the music. Creativtiy and "creating your own music" my ass. I guess they thought not many people would go out and buy Japanese anime character image CDs (it was really expensive back then, the yen was strong at that time, and imports were tricky).
So, I now have a habit of avoiding most Hong Kong artitst as after that incident, I found out many of them simply sang "dubbed" songs. Now there's only one Hong Kong artist that I do like and she really creates her own music. She's cute and a little crazy, or eccentric too.
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Date: 2017-07-23 17:27 (UTC)