What kind music do you rock to?
Hard-rocking, head-banging rock?
Emo tear-jerking ballads?
Bubblegum and shoestring pop?
Beat heavy hip hop music?
Mind numbing trance and electronica?
Sophisticated jazz?
Personally, rock, jazz & hip hop are to two on the top of my list. Never really used to like hip hop but some of the songs are really catchy. Though I don’t think there would ever be a hip hop concert with the likes of Eminem or 50 cent down here in Malaysia. They would probably have to bleep 50% of the songs or send people in to close our ears. Rock really is my thing. Its something about the growling guitars and thumping beats that really works for me. Oh, and all the clever pauses really impress me. I like jazz too but only when its live. Reason being I can watch the drummer doing his thing. I think the best drummers in the world are jazz drummers. They do all these weird and off-beat stuff that is really awesome to watch and it always give me this “how does he do that?” feeling.
Recently (actually yesterday), I went for a concert (Wow! I’m in!). It was the MTV Worldstage at Sunway Lagoon. Tickets were courtesy of Daniel and Sony Ericsson (Thanks!). Met up with Emeryn & Hui Wen at Sunway cause they got tickets as well and also their friend Pok who is a pretty cool guy. Anyway, Bunkface, Wondergirls, Tokio Hotel & Katy Perry performed that night. I tell you, for a local band, Bunkface is really awesome. I feel like they can make it internationally with their music. There is something about their music that is not typical ‘local band’. I guess it helps that they sing really go English songs. Some of their song like Bunkface & Prom Queen really got me jumping (it was a bit weird because I was the only guy jumping in the back).
After Bunkface, we have to wait for about 30-45 mins for them to set up the stage for Wondergirls. In between VJ’s Utt, Juju, Chris & Shawn were giving out free stuff to the crowd. Too bad they couldn’t throw all the way to the back. Anyway, so the Wondergirls are like BIG in Korean and they have like ONE song that everybody knows how to sing (Urgghh). To me, they are good singers and dancers. And they are VERY pretty. But maybe its because I don’t like pop music and the ONE song of theirs. So most of the time I just watched them gyrate on the stage. Strangely, they only sang a few songs.
Then the long wait. We waited for more than 1 hour in the rain for Tokio Hotel to come on. Evidently there were song technical problems with the LCD panels because of the rain. I however, strongly suspect that they ran out of gel or hair spray for Tokio Hotel’s lead singer. Someone probably had to run to the nearest 7-11 to buy Brylcream or something. But when they came on, it was seriously awesome. Imagine the music you listen to on the radio. That is the quality of the performance that they game us. They were that good! And they played so many songs we thought that they were going to play their entire album. The lead singer (yes, I’m not a fan of Tokio Hotel and I don’t know their names) has a really good voice when he is singing but I don’t really super like the way he talks normally (maybe has to do with the fact that he is kinda…. soft). It was a good thing that they rocked really hard because by then my back was in spasms and my feet hurt, not to mention I was wet.
I didn’t get to see Katy Perry because we had to wait super long for her to come out and by then we were really really tired already. So we decided to call it a day and eat dinner at Asia Cafe. My ever faithful (but sinful) Nasi Lemak completed a tiring but fun day. Most of the people who know me well know that I’m not a concert kinda guy. Maybe has to do with the mass of humanity you get stuck with. But I would certainly want to go to concerts but bands like Nickelback, The All-American Reject and Linkin Park if they came down. I guess I gotta try new things anyway. All in all it was a good experience and one I would want to do again. Hopefully Nickelback notices Malaysia in the near future and make a trip down.
I’m kinda inspired to pick up my music training as well. Maybe retake my drum classes again and learn a new instrument. Just for the fun of it and well, you never know…
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