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February 7, 2005
I Like Bubbly Pop and I'm Damn Proud of It
(The English version of this entry is in the extended section.)
上星期，我看了《下雪》這份關於華語流行音樂的文章，覺得的確身同感受。雖然在我的生活小圈子裡，大部份的朋友們都不會聽廣東歌，但是我亦照樣聽，從八十年代的陳慧嫻、張國榮，至九十年代的周慧敏、湯寶如，連現在的Twins和薜凱琪都可以聽得無厭。當然也包括什麼李天王、古天王、容天后、楊天后等等。其實，我亦沒有什麼覺得介意。
但是，我今天發現有些感觸，因為在百家店那間寶麗音樂裡，突然發現我的音樂口味跟那些十幾歲的小女孩子沒有什麼分別。我在看著有什麼新粵語CD之際，一班又一班的十幾歲中學女學生就會在我兩邊左看右看，又問售貨員有沒有Yumiko或Cookies的最新CD，音樂口味簡直是垃圾。
還好，我最後買的是李克勤容祖兒拉闊音樂會CD及黃霑經典雜錦CD，還算有一些taste。
其實，聽音樂只要是自己聽得開心就可以嘛，不用介意是否符合什麼外間的標準。商業音樂常常被批評，我卻要反問商業音樂是為吸引聽眾而製作，喜歡聽有什麼出奇呢？而最難聽那些歌，你不去聽，又有誰知道它的存在呢？
還有一個好消息：環球音樂將會跟蘋果電腦合作，讓iTunes用者下載中文歌曲！是不是時候買iPod呢？
Last week, I read this Xiaxue entry about Chinese pop music and felt in total agreement. Although in my social sphere, most of my friends don't listen to Cantopop, but I'll listen to anything from 80s Priscilla Chan and Leslie Cheung, to 90s Vivian Chow and Karen Tong; I'll even happily enjoy Twins and Fiona Sit stuff. Of course, there's your usual fare of Hacken, Leo, Joey, Miriam, etc. And in fact, I never felt much to be embarrassed about.
But then, I had an epiphany today, because as I was shopping in the Poly Entertainment in Parker Square, I found that my musical preferences aren't that far off from those of teenage girls. As I was checking out what new Cantonese CDs were out, gangs of high school girls would dart around me, asking the salesperson if there were new Yumiko or Cookies CDs. Their musical taste, to put it simply, was crap.
Thankfully, I bought the Hacken and Joey Music is Live CD and a James Wong classics compilation, suggesting that I still have some taste in these matters.
Actually, listening to music is really a matter of making oneself happy; external standards shouldn't apply. Commerical music gets a bad rap, but I have to ask what is wrong with music that is produced with the purpose of appealing to listeners. And as for the really bad stuff, it exists only if you listen to it, right?
And some good news: Universal Music is working with Apple to bring Chinese songs onto iTunes! Maybe it's time to get that iPod, eh?
Posted by Kelvin at February 7, 2005 12:42 AM
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