You Should Listen to This

On any given night, you can find me bumping in my room some HK pop music from the ever so convenient YouTube. Surprisingly, much of the songs replaying are songs of the yonder years. As we wonder whatever happened to the best of Hip Hop and R&B, I am also wondering the same dilemma of Chinese music. I often get teased for singing what my friends call "old lady music". But how can I not?! These are the hits that lay the foundation for the current "singers". I am darn sure they all wished they could cover the hits as well as the original. Oh, too bad! You know why? There will never be another Jenny Yan or Jacky Cheung or Teresa Tang!

Let's take a mini trip down memory lane, shall we?

I love this song as it's filled with so much of such conversational Cantonese. You don't usually find this type of language in songs. This is the song you'd just love to karaoke to. Now if only we knew all the words...By the way, this man goes by the name of Sam Hui.

Now, these songs are definitely the epitome of a high rate tv drama series! Listen to the sound and power executed by both Jenny Yan and Roman Tam! Yeah, kids don't sound like this anymore.

Jacky Cheung is awesome. I consider him to be the most influential Cantonese icon in the arena of singing. People STILL sing his songs at weddings. He's just that amazing.

Okay, so now you have the newbies coming up and also some older singers who are finally making it! Bravo to them!! Yeah, this song made it to my iPod. By a hair.

Okay, Edison. What IS this?! You sound like you're about to die and cranking out the last song ever. But we all know that wasn't the truth coz this buster sure knows how to rile up a bunch no matter where he is in life.

Again, what IS this?! I felt so bad for Raymond Lam when I saw this video. Karma's a bitch.

What is the theme of this post you ask? I suppose I want to put it out there that music is an evolution of people. It sets forth an idea of what is considered to be accepted of society. Most of the time, we yearn for something better than before. That's not always the case as crappy music gets bumped out all the time; ever so often in this day in age. But come on, we choose not to listen to bad music. Or songs with horrible lyrical style. When was the last time you recommended your buddy to a shitty song? With that said, why would we support discriminatory language and ideas? You wouldn't. It's a tasteless song.

By the way, I promise I'll do a post with some songs of a different language!