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Friday, December 01, 2006
` Friday, December 01, 2006
Turn down the volume. Please.
I've been listening to alot of really loud music these days. My Chemical Romance, The Killers and my current on-reply-blast-it-all-I-can favourite: Nickelback. It must be some sort of a rehash of my angmoh muzak days. Indeed, a very drastic switch from the chingchong lovey-dovey songs I used to belt out relentlessly with friends at PartyWorld. I still do, just that I can't cover any of the newer songs these days. Damn. No thanks to the recently concluded Singapore Idol.
During the Brit-invasion times of my youth, I used to be a huge, HUGE fan of the band Suede. Ok, more that I thought Brett Andersen was the sexiest man ever ever ever to exist in the face of this planet. When they were playing Singapore on their second tour, I bought front-row standing tickets together with a friend and my sister. We braved pellets of sweat from stark-crazy fans, manic feet-stomping and body-surfing just to catch a glimpse of the man, decked simply in a black skinny singlet and jeans, seducing his microphone and belting out hit after hit in his trademark nasal nonchalance. It was surreal and best described as one of the most outstanding concerts ever to hit our tiny island. Then they started churning out commercially viable tunes and I gradually lost interest.
I switched momentarily to different genres as I grew up, not being particularly biased to any band or singer. My choice of song at any point in time was probably driven more by the exposure to a certain type of music rather than by the looks or style of the singer. Strangely, I used to think Nickelback and the punk-rock groups were all about noise. And more noise. Now, the "noise" accompanies me on my long bus and train rides home from work on my iPod. I've started to skip the soppy love song tracks and choose to put Helena, Dance Dance and Saving Me on replay mode.
Probably sums up my current state of mind. Or more like the inverse of it. For some strange reason, I'm feeling dead calm these days.