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Sunday, April 16, 2006

I went to the HollaBack Crew competition yesterday, and I have to comment on The Click Five. Their music is 100% manufactured pop garbage which is alright I guess cuz they ARE a boy band. What irks me is that they try to be rock and fail badly at it, and all the girls just dig whatever they were trying to do. Simply disgusting. Eugenia can vouch for me, she was like 'tsk tsk'ing and shaking her head the whole time. Haha.

The keyboardist's idea of a solo is just ramming his finger (with both hands) as fast as he can on just ONE SINGLE KEY and then doing that sliding across the whole keyboard thing that lionel always do, over and over again.

The drummer's solo was just a 16 beat roll over like 2 bars on the snare only and then hitting the crash. How exciting.

Can't remember how the bassist and guitarist solos sound like, but I figured it wouldn't matter anyway. But the girls dig it all. -____-

Just when I thought I wouldn't be entertained by this huge farcade, something amazing happened. The lead singer was singing this song and then he asked, "I know you Singaporeans can dance and rap, but can you all SING? I'm gonna sing the verse and I want you all to continue singing the chorus for me ok?!"

Then he burst out singing the verse. When the chorus came, there was total silence. Then the band started playing again, abruptly. HAHA! That was like how embarrasing for them, that was truly the highlight of the entire Click Five performance for me, but that set me thinking.

Well, I may be wrong, but you see, things ARE this way. From what i know about Singaporean music fans, they work like this.

-You hear a song by a band( somewhere, like on the radio, for instance.)
-You like the song.
-You probably listen to that song over and over only because you like it so much.
-You don't really care.

Fans around the world are quite like this. From a interview with Billie Joe of Green Day, he says that in Germany, where they last played, the "fans" sang along to songs like American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. But, when the band launched into Basket Case, he could see the lost looks on the faces of the fans. He says that it felt good for American Idiot to have helped them break into the German market, but I know, deep inside, he knows that the German fans aren't really Green Day fans, because any decent Green Day fan would know Basket Case. Hell, I even know people who don't listen to Green Day who know how Basket Case goes.

Same thing for most Taking Back Sunday(TBS) and My Chemical Romance(MCR) fans in Singapore. Most of them probably've only heard Helena and I'm Not OK(I Promise) and A Decade Under The Influence and This Photograph Is Proof(I Know You Know). The hell. I'm really sure they haven't heard songs like Cute Without The 'E'(Cut From The Team) by TBS and Skylines and Turnstiles by MCR. Or even know that the current TBS line-up isn't the original. Or even know that MCR had an album before Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.

So smarten up, "fans". At least if the girls look pretty and gave off an intelligent vibe, I would have believed that they were a fan of at least a few decent punk bands. Oh well, as they say, close, but no cigar.

8:12 PM