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Just as i opened up my eyes this morning, i realised that i was humming Coldplay's "Swallowed in the Sea". Don't know why, this links me to Lizacwai, who has just formed a band and performed in our Batch Dinner. Again, with certain unknown reasons, thinking of Lizacwai makes me think of one article that i read yesterday, about the development of Chinese Music.
Frankly speaking, i feel that Chinese music is really on a decline, like what *小虫 in the article has said, "Chinese artistes now are too over-packaged". Their fame and popularity base on the packaging instead of their talents and music. This, to me, is a very sad thing.
Okay, back to Lizacwai. With Battle of Bands, i saw Iype, JonSoh, Darrell Leong, Lizacwai and many others started forming their own bands. And the songs the bands play (or they long to play) are just those they feel appealing to their ears, and that's it. I mean, (don't know why i am so serious about music) music is a form of art, it should not just be solely for entertainment. Music is a form of expression, the purpose of establishing a band is to convey certain messages that you want to convey to your audience, basically to express your views and feelings. And your band is the platform for your expression, not for entertainment as its sole purpose, not to also use other bands' music to impress the audience. A band without its very own music will never be called as a band.
There is always a very weird feeling when i see Chinese bands performing English songs. This is because the music is created by the angmoks. It is meant for angmoks to perform, not us Chinese, because for the very obvious reaon, we have different skin, hair, eye colours and cultures, the feel Chinese bands present is just not right when they perform songs from English bands. That is why i think Chinese bands should start establishing our own styles, writing our own music and presenting them to the world. We should not feel belittled by Western cultures because we Chinese have a very enriched and deep culture too. Why do Chinese bands have to always perform songs written by westerners where we too can write our own songs and create our own styles? Just to quote from 小虫,"我把*数来宝和黑人的Beatbox结合，我要告诉老外，你偷我们的东西，这是我们祖先早就有的，告诉我们华人孩子，你也不需要委曲求全，这本来就是我们的东西".
Maybe what Chinese bands should do is to perform our music with Chinese musical instruments (of course not the Chinese orchestra type la). Well, you may laugh at this idea now, the angmoks might be intrigued by this idea and new style of music, who knows?
*小虫: He is the famous Chinese 创作人, has been given the name "音乐教父" for his musical talents
*数来宝: 曲艺的一种。流行于北方各地。一人或两人说唱。用竹板或系以铜铃的牛髀骨打拍