Been thinking about music...

I've been thinking for quite some time about this. It seems that the Chinese in Asia tend to prefer more on Mandarin pop or ballad than English songs. I've been composing quite a number of chinese songs in SCC so far and I realised I tend to use chords that is commonly used in Mandarin and Korean pop music. I've always been wondering is there such a thing as Singapore Mandarin pop? I've heard of Korean pop, Japan pop, Chinese aka Taiwan pop, but I've never heard of Singapore Mandarin pop songs before. Maybe the name sounds awful... Or perphaps, the Chinese in Singapore tends to follow Taiwanese pop style?

One of my sound lecturers (Mr Heng Han) once told me that Taiwan music companies tend to look for composers in Singapore because they believe that Singaporeans are influenced by the English culture, thus there maybe a possibility that the songs composed in Singapore will result in a different feel. Maybe that what I've been looking for all these times in SCC. I had been trying to compose a English song chords to a chinese lyric. One example is the chinese song which I composed "Lady." I used jazz chords for that song, but I think it doesn't sound appealing enough. I think I'm still too used to "Guang Liang's kind of music". Perphaps it's ok for those to think that this kind of combination may turn out weird. I just have to make myself and the others able to get used to this different feel hopefully.

I had came across this band called "Mute Math" some time ago and I went to view their videos on youtube today. I was totally amazed with the songs they composed! It's so freakin fresh (as in the style) and their choice of chords in some songs are freakin' hard to figure out! Best of all, they are christians too and the singer is a keyboardist/keytarist as well (like me!!!). I thought that it is quite impossible to sing and play the keytar together. But he actually gave me the encouragement to do so. Therefore, I'm gonna use my Hong Pao money to buy my very own keytar. And I will train myself to write English songs chords in SCC. I want to have my own style. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!



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