Songs These Days..

What defines a good singer?

Looks? Behavior? or the Music?

It's purely SUBJECTIVE.

For some reason, I started to think that public's perception has changed somehow to the first one. Well, if you just heard rabid ran-girls though. In Youtube and any other place for example. I found there're less and less reasonable comments lately. Quite disappointing for again, some reasons. But oh well. Guess the 'mind own business' policy apply quite nicely here. Had been using it quite frequently nowadays. Bad? Good? Neutral? Answer to such question, I think it's hard other choices other than (?).

For me myself, I have a quite stable view about it.

I just want to keep it clear. I mean, about the limit border about models and musicians.

Sure looks can't be ignored for those public figures. At least, you should look quite decent if you are going to go public. But it surely irritates me, when I talk about some musicians, and the first response is 'Is he/she handsome/pretty?' or 'How old is she/he?'

What the heck?

I'm talking about music. Isn't the sense that is supposed to be most important about it is our hearing?

Okay, maybe celebrity can be funny, good looking, has unique taste, sense, philosophical perception and whatever. I'm a female teenager, it's not that I don't like those traits in public figures, especially if they are real, in the sense of natural instead of scripted.

But when I talk about music, I don't want to be a childishly bias person. This entry shall mark my resolution. In the sense, that I don't want to 'categorize' a song as old or new, used in concert or in movies soundtrack or whatever.

So, in short I recognize a good celebrity as those who are good at their field. A good singer is she who sing nicely. An excellent musician is someone who create enjoyable musics. For those who are good looking, I'll say he/she is a nice magazine cover model. Those who are good at dancing, are more suitable to be a background dancer at the stage, except if they do have the skill to sing clearly while dancing. Call it.. something like, pro. Yeah, a pro would be ready to be tested about his skill all the way while admitting flaws, taking consistency and risks, at the same time be who he/she is. I see it as a difficult thing to have, the title of professional, I mean. That is why I respect true professionals, which some of them are often found to be underrated by the so-called modern society. That is why at times I frowned at mock professionals.

Yes, I AM picky at choosing someone to be respected or to be recognized. But it also different from picking things to listen to or to watch. Confused? In other terms, it's like.. I'm not picky for food. Usually, I'll just eat anything offered or given to me and smile at it, saying 'it's good'. (even in my childhood, my policy was 'good people are people who offer food to me') But for me to honestly say, 'this is really delicious', is quite rare.

Well, I think people need to have their own certain standard of taste, be it in food or arts.

Back to music.

My music preference is considerably wide. I'm the type of person who has both classical and rock music as a good night lullaby. There are songs which I liked, in both music rhythm and lyrics. Both factors are important to me. I'll just roughly ignore songs with trashy (in the sense of 'desperately want to be recognized') music or those with cliche, and even worst- nonsense lyrics, or standard voice. Just following the note on the sheet is not supposed to be a nice singing. I prefer voices that are expressive, which produced when the singer really put his/her heart to the lyric and the purpose of the song. It has certain charisma inside, and it's not attainable by text book theories. It's a poem with music, a story condensed to a few minutes performance or record.

But of course, if you're talking about feeling, it will be quite subjective. What I call a 'soulful' thing, may be seen differently by others. So as long as it's not too discriminative I won't mind. I love to take things easy.

A few days ago, I encountered a song, a rock- ballad. But somehow, there is something inside the lyric and some feeling in the voices.

Believe me, that song stayed, clenched my brain and driving my emotion for two whole days before I finally calmed down. On the way, as with my other strong inspirations, it gave me a series of philosophical thoughts, creative ideas and all those illegible things.

Yep, it is subjective. I was unfazed with some 'big name' songs people were talking about how romantic they were, but this kind of unheard (at least in my place) song can touch me so deeply.

Regret? No, there's nothing, at all.

I guess.. I should be proud to have my own taste. I guess this kind of thing is declining in nowadays society, which I often see be biased by the media and trends, to the point of describing the whole principal of the fallacy 'appeal to popularity'.

By the way, I got a buddy. Cheers.

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