Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My 10 years of Switching to English Music!
I am so darned bored at my retail individual case, so I ended up at youtube, before I realised that I have made it 10 years of listening to english music! I did mess around with other types of music for a while (jap which lasted like 2 weeks and current canto music) but I always stayed true to my english roots =) And yup, I marked my official switch to english music at 12 years old, thanks to Zoe' introduction to the Spice Girls. Don't judge me ok! They were great then, and I think at times they are still great now. At 12 years old, I bought my first albums (911's moving on and All Saints, not to mention 'dinosaur' CASSETTES of BSB, Aqua and Spice Girls...)
Almakz, at that time it's all pop music, which I was fully immersed in. I think only a handful people realised that, before Raymond Lam, before Grasshoppers, before Goo Goo Dolls, before Blue, it's 911. I think only me and Yuen Ling went mad over them lo. Spice Girls was my fave girl band, and 911 is my fave boyband =) And I managed to have a full collection of their albums, including their only VCD... LOL!
And I still remember that it was in 1998 that I heard the song Iris by Goos and though I couldn't really understand the meaning of the song then, I was touched. A couple of years later I proclaimed that song as my fave song and I have never changed my choice since =)
And so, I decided to watch a couple of music videos in that era and decided to post a couple here! See whether u guys can recognise any of the songs here...
And I found out that 911 actually participated in a tv competition programme in UK that showcase the old bands! Here are the videos.
Will post more in the next post I think. This 'old-video' watching is quite fun. And some songs, till now, still sounds great.
I know some people have asked me before (many times), why I never EVER listen to chinese music. Even jul who once proclaimed that listening to chinese music is uncool (it was back in lower sec days, whereby we were rebelious and trying to be cooler than others) is now listening to chinese music. She knows about Cao Ge and Xiao Zhu and others, and still now I know none. I think that ultimately I am an english/ western girl at heart. I am a by-product of Americanisation and American pop culture, a consequence of globalisation. I somehow in some ways think like the westerners more than others, understood the basic American jokes and am immersed in their world. I think it is this reason that I am unable to pull myself out of this world and submerged myself into the chinese world, when most of my adolsence (crap lah I don't know how to spell that word) was spent in the western culture.
I am not proclaiming that I am a banana, but I am saying that I am too into the world of the westerners that I am unable to get out of that world and listen to the pure Asian music.
It's funny. The introducer of english music, Zoe, is no longer into english music as much (I think). But I am still very much in that and I don't think that's going to change for a long time.
Shit, I promised myself that this is going to be a short post, and yet I am proclaiming some stuff again. Somehow, I have an urge to clarify myself lately, as if I am too abnormal in the first place.
Cheerios. Will post more old music next time!
Btw, the videos are 911 - Love Sensation, Mary Mary- Shackles, Ultra - Say You Do, Adam Rickitt - Everything My Heart Desires, Boyzone - Picture of You, BBmak - Back Here, 911 - Don't Stop Moving (Cover) and Bodyshakin'
Almakz, at that time it's all pop music, which I was fully immersed in. I think only a handful people realised that, before Raymond Lam, before Grasshoppers, before Goo Goo Dolls, before Blue, it's 911. I think only me and Yuen Ling went mad over them lo. Spice Girls was my fave girl band, and 911 is my fave boyband =) And I managed to have a full collection of their albums, including their only VCD... LOL!
And I still remember that it was in 1998 that I heard the song Iris by Goos and though I couldn't really understand the meaning of the song then, I was touched. A couple of years later I proclaimed that song as my fave song and I have never changed my choice since =)
And so, I decided to watch a couple of music videos in that era and decided to post a couple here! See whether u guys can recognise any of the songs here...
And I found out that 911 actually participated in a tv competition programme in UK that showcase the old bands! Here are the videos.
Will post more in the next post I think. This 'old-video' watching is quite fun. And some songs, till now, still sounds great.
I know some people have asked me before (many times), why I never EVER listen to chinese music. Even jul who once proclaimed that listening to chinese music is uncool (it was back in lower sec days, whereby we were rebelious and trying to be cooler than others) is now listening to chinese music. She knows about Cao Ge and Xiao Zhu and others, and still now I know none. I think that ultimately I am an english/ western girl at heart. I am a by-product of Americanisation and American pop culture, a consequence of globalisation. I somehow in some ways think like the westerners more than others, understood the basic American jokes and am immersed in their world. I think it is this reason that I am unable to pull myself out of this world and submerged myself into the chinese world, when most of my adolsence (crap lah I don't know how to spell that word) was spent in the western culture.
I am not proclaiming that I am a banana, but I am saying that I am too into the world of the westerners that I am unable to get out of that world and listen to the pure Asian music.
It's funny. The introducer of english music, Zoe, is no longer into english music as much (I think). But I am still very much in that and I don't think that's going to change for a long time.
Shit, I promised myself that this is going to be a short post, and yet I am proclaiming some stuff again. Somehow, I have an urge to clarify myself lately, as if I am too abnormal in the first place.
Cheerios. Will post more old music next time!
Btw, the videos are 911 - Love Sensation, Mary Mary- Shackles, Ultra - Say You Do, Adam Rickitt - Everything My Heart Desires, Boyzone - Picture of You, BBmak - Back Here, 911 - Don't Stop Moving (Cover) and Bodyshakin'
