David Tao 就是爱你 concert
I played a part in David Tao's success. The dominos effect. The firestarter. That is I.
I was the first few who started listening to David Tao's first album, I was the first few who bothered to download his mp3 files and share them with friends. I was the first few to notice the fun with all the vocal gymnastics.
How ungrateful David is, now that he's a superstar embraced by millions in Asia. It was I who started appreciating his work, spreading his work to friends, who in turn tell other friends about him. 飞机场的10：30，流沙，沙滩，是是非非，十七岁，望春风，心乱飞. Those songs defined David Tao and it changed the Chinese music scene. The R&B shit in chinese music that we are all so sick of it now.
David Tao is no longer a novelty. And he is packaged like any other Taiwanese singers nowadays. Gone are the days of this unknown fucker with a blue CD cover, never show the face properly shit. When his fans start to include unsophisticated people unlike myself, I know it's over. This singer/composer's career will forever be contaminated by lousy people with lousy mainstream tastes. People who continue to think 爱很简单 is his best song.
Well, 爱很简单 is indeed a great song and I thoroughly enjoyed it when he sang it without doing too many tricks at his concert. It was a very decent concert with a great bunch of musicians and I particularly enjoyed the segments with the 二胡 which made the music arrangement more authentic and pleasant.
The backdrop was quite something I must admit. A little over the top and a little too imaginative. Stupid set designers.
It was great hearing songs like Dear God, 蝴蝶, Runaway, 二十二. David Tao has the capacity to do concerts, he has enough voice quality, singing technique and good musical numbers as well. There were no dance sequences like all concerts nowadays.
Of course, a rock concert is the one that gets everyone going. Mayday, Power Station. People stand and scream, participate. Damien and Howie will tell you why. My ideal concert is the old school Hongkong concerts with larger-than-life personas running the show. 许冠杰，梅滟芳，张国荣，张学友 and maybe even 张惠妹. Dance and real quality singing. I like being the good, attentive and appreciative audience. I was reluctant to stand up for anything that David Tao told us to but it will be so uncool and so loser to carry on sitting down.
Maybe I've grown older but I'm not too impress with all the vocal gymnastics, all those high pitching anymore or playing too much with a single note in singing. Keep it simple, keep it tight, add soul and heart to it. That's real singing.
I was the first few who started listening to David Tao's first album, I was the first few who bothered to download his mp3 files and share them with friends. I was the first few to notice the fun with all the vocal gymnastics.
How ungrateful David is, now that he's a superstar embraced by millions in Asia. It was I who started appreciating his work, spreading his work to friends, who in turn tell other friends about him. 飞机场的10：30，流沙，沙滩，是是非非，十七岁，望春风，心乱飞. Those songs defined David Tao and it changed the Chinese music scene. The R&B shit in chinese music that we are all so sick of it now.
David Tao is no longer a novelty. And he is packaged like any other Taiwanese singers nowadays. Gone are the days of this unknown fucker with a blue CD cover, never show the face properly shit. When his fans start to include unsophisticated people unlike myself, I know it's over. This singer/composer's career will forever be contaminated by lousy people with lousy mainstream tastes. People who continue to think 爱很简单 is his best song.
Well, 爱很简单 is indeed a great song and I thoroughly enjoyed it when he sang it without doing too many tricks at his concert. It was a very decent concert with a great bunch of musicians and I particularly enjoyed the segments with the 二胡 which made the music arrangement more authentic and pleasant.
The backdrop was quite something I must admit. A little over the top and a little too imaginative. Stupid set designers.
It was great hearing songs like Dear God, 蝴蝶, Runaway, 二十二. David Tao has the capacity to do concerts, he has enough voice quality, singing technique and good musical numbers as well. There were no dance sequences like all concerts nowadays.
Of course, a rock concert is the one that gets everyone going. Mayday, Power Station. People stand and scream, participate. Damien and Howie will tell you why. My ideal concert is the old school Hongkong concerts with larger-than-life personas running the show. 许冠杰，梅滟芳，张国荣，张学友 and maybe even 张惠妹. Dance and real quality singing. I like being the good, attentive and appreciative audience. I was reluctant to stand up for anything that David Tao told us to but it will be so uncool and so loser to carry on sitting down.
Maybe I've grown older but I'm not too impress with all the vocal gymnastics, all those high pitching anymore or playing too much with a single note in singing. Keep it simple, keep it tight, add soul and heart to it. That's real singing.
posted by jingli K at 2:28 PM
1 Comments:
one comment for you! i agree about how all the pyrotechnics are really not that necessary and how songs ought to be from the heart. cos if the song can truly express emotion, then it is a song worth listening to, rather than one that needs to be fleshed out with special effects.
-fel
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