最近的我愛上聽舊歌. 本人比較喜歡中文歌, 因為覺得自己的背景和文化與中國語文比較能夠扯得上關係, 也比較能夠體會和感受歌中的意思. 也可能因為個人比較愛中國語言吧, 覺得普遍來說中文歌詞描述各種事物都比較細緻和明確.
很多人覺得現在流行曲的歌詞意思越來越膚淺, 因為寫來寫去也是情歌, 不是失戀就是苦戀. 對於流行曲的歌詞膚不膚淺我就不予置評, 不過我覺得似乎大家批評的並不是歌詞本身的質素,而是社會流行文化風氣的改變.
其實我也不是常聽流行歌曲. 我比較喜歡獨立品牌出品的音樂, 因為我很喜歡那種脫離商業上考慮而創作出來的真實感. 那一個歌曲背後真實的故事比起那些很順口的k歌珍貴多了. 雖然我不偏愛流行K歌, 但是對於我來說, 現代流行曲也有好歌曲, 現代填詞人也真的有寫到超水準的詞. 為什麼那麼多人一知道某一首歌是流行曲就會自動覺得那個唱歌的人一定有樣子沒有料了呢? 現在有很多唱流行曲的人唱歌也很棒啊!!! 我覺得大家好像把這些歌曲和歌手無意中定位了.
很多人說明自己從不聽流行曲, 那試問不聽流行曲的人怎麼可以說流行曲沒水準? 喜不喜歡是很個人的一件事, 不過我們本來就要預備自己, 擴闊自己的眼界去了解現今社會的東西, 當中包括一些我們不太喜歡的東西.
很多人盲目的追求潮流, 不喜歡的東西也會因為流行而跟著要買要跟, 但慢慢我也發覺, 原來也有很多人很盲目的討厭一些他們並不完全了解的東西啊.
討厭與否與喜歡與否, 不如先去了解看看, 那就更加有充份理由讓自己喜歡或者討厭了.
photo credit: Bryan Fenstermacher
October 20th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Agreed.
I was binge watching Beyond mtvs on youtube the other day, and was surprised at (recently) how many people still flaunts the cliché ” Hong Kong has no music industry, only an entertainment industry ” around on the youtube replies.
It was probaby true when Kuma said it 15 years ago, and I agreed with it too back in the time. But too much have changed since then and for someone to casually throw that line out again without any backing is probably non-justified.
Especially the last few years… I enjoyed quite a many good songs from HK artists, both indie and mainstream.
Still a diehard Beyond fan, though. |m|,
October 21st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Yeah. When Duke Ellington was asked to define jazz he replied, “there are only two kinds of music, good and bad.”
It’s not about genre or popular appeal.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I think most love songs associate people with their own love stories…that’s how they became attached to it.
At least its the case to me. Each girls have different love songs…=_=’
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