Thought I post up David's musical journey in China. He sure covered quite a bit of ground. Not sure if he will be flying to HK for promos, I think so but he should be back in Taipei to guest in Karen Mok's concert on 9/2 at Taipei Arena. Caught a bit of Patty interviewing Karen & she said it could be the 1st time he appeared as guest in a female singer's concert. Actually 2nd time, he was 1 of the guests in Anita Mui's last concert. Ok, let's continue with Beijing News interview. Its actually not a chore for me as I always trying to improve my mandarin ^__^
Another popular opinion is that r&b is not suitable for chinese culture. David disagreed cos he felt that music can be considered as language. Can you say that mandarin or english is a trend? Music is like language. The language spoken by most ppl in the world in chinese, the most popular is english. But can you said they are the best. Music is the same, whether its r&b or rock, according to circumstances & changes, it can become popular or not, but its representation & value will not change. For a period there is too much "chinese wind" music, every song would have a few lines of chinese opera inserted, is that China inspired music? I don't want to go and do this kinda thing anymore. Everybody felt it too much, its not trendy anymore. But what is trendy? Its always hard to say.
(Perhaps the next trend will be old skool chinese love song combined with hiphop a la Wang Bu Liao ^__~ you hear it here first)
Do you know any new singers? I have interviewed a few new singer/composers & they all say that you are their idol. David said he didn't really noticed as he is too engrossed in his own music. He is too much too busy. For the past 2 yrs, David did not listen to any new albums but only listen to 60s/70s music cos he felt that period gave him a lot of inspirations & feelings. When asked if he still like U2, David said he don't know why ppl assumed he like U2, actually his most admired singer is Sting & a few 60s bands like Beatles. Okie last part nxt post.
I don't know abt other singers but I think not many would be doing what David is doing rite now, which is touring all over China to meet up with his fans. At Chengdu, so many fans turned up that David was so touched he promised that he will try by all means to hold a concert there nxt yr. Quangzhou was also equally well-attended & David too promised a concert. The writer of the Beijing News interview seemed to be implying that David has changed from a serious musician to an idol who is attracting too many young fans who has nvr heard of Black Tangerine. I think that is vry unfair to his thousands of mainland Chinese fans who geuinuely love his music. I believe each & every of them who attended his fan gathering in Qingdao, Beijing, Chengdu & Quangzhou heard of Black Tangerine.
Thought I post up David's musical journey in China. He sure covered quite a bit of ground. Not sure if he will be flying to HK for promos, I think so but he should be back in Taipei to guest in Karen Mok's concert on 9/2 at Taipei Arena. Caught a bit of Patty interviewing Karen & she said it could be the 1st time he appeared as guest in a female singer's concert. Actually 2nd time, he was 1 of the guests in Anita Mui's last concert. Ok, let's continue with Beijing News interview. Its actually not a chore for me as I always trying to improve my mandarin ^__^
Another popular opinion is that r&b is not suitable for chinese culture. David disagreed cos he felt that music can be considered as language. Can you say that mandarin or english is a trend? Music is like language. The language spoken by most ppl in the world in chinese, the most popular is english. But can you said they are the best. Music is the same, whether its r&b or rock, according to circumstances & changes, it can become popular or not, but its representation & value will not change. For a period there is too much "chinese wind" music, every song would have a few lines of chinese opera inserted, is that China inspired music? I don't want to go and do this kinda thing anymore. Everybody felt it too much, its not trendy anymore. But what is trendy? Its always hard to say. (Perhaps the next trend will be old skool chinese love song combined with hiphop a la Wang Bu Liao ^__~ you hear it here first)
Do you know any new singers? I have interviewed a few new singer/composers & they all say that you are their idol. David said he didn't really noticed as he is too engrossed in his own music. He is too much too busy. For the past 2 yrs, David did not listen to any new albums but only listen to 60s/70s music cos he felt that period gave him a lot of inspirations & feelings. When asked if he still like U2, David said he don't know why ppl assumed he like U2, actually his most admired singer is Sting & a few 60s bands like Beatles. Okie last part nxt post.
I don't know abt other singers but I think not many would be doing what David is doing rite now, which is touring all over China to meet up with his fans. At Chengdu, so many fans turned up that David was so touched he promised that he will try by all means to hold a concert there nxt yr. Quangzhou was also equally well-attended & David too promised a concert. The writer of the Beijing News interview seemed to be implying that David has changed from a serious musician to an idol who is attracting too many young fans who has nvr heard of Black Tangerine. I think that is vry unfair to his thousands of mainland Chinese fans who geuinuely love his music. I believe each & every of them who attended his fan gathering in Qingdao, Beijing, Chengdu & Quangzhou heard of Black Tangerine.
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