music

the topic for today was asian music in comparison with the music from the anglo-sphere.

before i start, don't get me wrong im not some little tb asian music fanboy, (i maybe turning into one though haha), but i was a long term hater of asian music thinking it was plastic and had no real talent and that the people in the western community generally had better music taste

but i've come to discover thats not really the case, please read on:

i randomly picked some artists in my impression that have received a alot of radio play / club play within the last few months/years.

souljaboy
flo rida
kanye
lady gaga
p!nk
britney spears


i think out of all those, i only approve of kanye west. the general quality of the music is pretty poor to me. souljaboy has 0 talent. flo rida has minimal talent (though low was quite catchy).

britney spears in her prime didnt really write her songs, nor does she write her songs now, p!nk i think writes her own songs but meh...

lady gaga is quite unique of a character, im not too fond of her music but at least i can see why people like her.


special mention to kevin rudolf featuring lil wayne...let it rock = worst song out.

did people actually like that song? or was it just big coz of lil wayne (whom i think is overrated as an mc)

general perception for me and probably alot of other people was/is that asian music is generally alot more gimmicky and poorer in quality musically.

now if you havent noticed by now, my blog has had a sudden influx of girls' generation who i guess is quite gimmicky but i really rather listen to them than flo rida or kevin rudolf.

so by now i think its pretty clear that bad music is just bad music, and bad music in the western world is just as bad as music from anywhere else. unless you think the stuff i listed is actually good then in that case you have no reason to hate asian music and think its tb, coz this shit is just as bad really.

i downloaded girls' generation's mini album, i enjoyed 2/5 songs, the other 3 might grow on me, one is a soft piano song called dear mom, and the other two is i guess exactly what you would expect asian pop to be like, but then replace them with an english speaking person and it could just sound like any of your american songs these days.



so through my exploration in asian music today, i realised that jay chou is actually a really talented dude and when i heard alex (stolen script) by ghost face i realised i heard something familar, ghost sampled henry mancini - the theif who came to dinner:

skip to 0:21 to hear the part sampled, now listen to this jay chou song (which i think is pretty damn good)

intro is abit long, but skip to 1:20 if you cbf listening to the whole song, familiar? hrmm


its been a very exciting post, peace