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Monday, September 27, 2004 + the disillusionment ot hip hop + The golden age is over... i swear the new stuff that's taken over MTV is running out of ideas. Its apparent popularity has bothered me so.....arrr... the next generation is losing quality music!! AAHHH!! This year (and last year) has been dominated by hip hop, bad hip hop at that, and punk rock (bad punk rock too) and in some cases, just plain shitty lyrics. There was once a time R. Kelly sang "I Believe I Can Fly", now he's famous for "Ignition".........welcome to the land of innuendoes..... Thankfully, saving graces came a plenty from the likes of Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Travis, maroon 5, michael buble, switchfoot.... but you'll know something's wrong since i've taken an interest in CHINESE bands... namely Mayday and FIR. Today i've made history by paying money for a for a Chinese CD... FIR. i saw a taiwanese copy going at $9.95 (yeah, all the songs are in there)... just found out the guy in shades, his name is the same as mine... so this must be my lucky day, but try telling that to my legs after running the 21km Army Half Marathon... crashed for like 5hrs at home, best nap i've had for ages. Oh well, back to dissin' hip hop. List of must-haves for the modern hip hop music video: 1. Rich black dudes from beverly hills acting like poor black dudes in the ghetto 2. Hordes of scantily clad black women (strictly speakin, i shldn't be complaining) 3. syncronised dancing (do anythin as a group, and it suddenly looks cool) 4. dancing in slow-mo (so no one will notice if u hired untrained dancers who can't dance to the beat) 5. a big black unshaven dude in the background saying "uh!" or "yeah!" or other uncomprehendable mutterings 6. flashy cars, jewellery and other assorted bling-bling (most likely fake money, for throwing in the air) 7. at least 1 song per album which concertrates on how good they are in bed 8. turn-table scratching 9. make-out scenes.... then more make out scenes 10. shattering glass/mirrors (do it in slow-mo and it looks "artistic" man!) ian wong beats around the bush@ 11:55 AM Comments: Post a Comment

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Monday, September 27, 2004

+ the disillusionment ot hip hop +

The golden age is over... i swear the new stuff that's taken over MTV is running out of ideas. Its apparent popularity has bothered me so.....arrr... the next generation is losing quality music!! AAHHH!! This year (and last year) has been dominated by hip hop, bad hip hop at that, and punk rock (bad punk rock too) and in some cases, just plain shitty lyrics. There was once a time R. Kelly sang "I Believe I Can Fly", now he's famous for "Ignition".........welcome to the land of innuendoes.....
Thankfully, saving graces came a plenty from the likes of Counting Crows, Matchbox 20, Travis, maroon 5, michael buble, switchfoot.... but you'll know something's wrong since i've taken an interest in CHINESE bands... namely Mayday and FIR. Today i've made history by paying money for a for a Chinese CD... FIR. i saw a taiwanese copy going at $9.95 (yeah, all the songs are in there)... just found out the guy in shades, his name is the same as mine... so this must be my lucky day, but try telling that to my legs after running the 21km Army Half Marathon... crashed for like 5hrs at home, best nap i've had for ages.
Oh well, back to dissin' hip hop.

List of must-haves for the modern hip hop music video:

1. Rich black dudes from beverly hills acting like poor black dudes in the ghetto
2. Hordes of scantily clad black women (strictly speakin, i shldn't be complaining)
3. syncronised dancing (do anythin as a group, and it suddenly looks cool)
4. dancing in slow-mo (so no one will notice if u hired untrained dancers who can't dance to the beat)
5. a big black unshaven dude in the background saying "uh!" or "yeah!" or other uncomprehendable mutterings
6. flashy cars, jewellery and other assorted bling-bling (most likely fake money, for throwing in the air)
7. at least 1 song per album which concertrates on how good they are in bed
8. turn-table scratching
9. make-out scenes.... then more make out scenes
10. shattering glass/mirrors (do it in slow-mo and it looks "artistic" man!)

ian wong beats around the bush@ 11:55 AM

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