chinese music Options

[KELLYYY]

What's your favorite Chinese singer/rapper or whatever?

- Twins.
- F.I.R.
- Jay Chow(sp?).
- Kelly Chen.
- Jordan Chan.

Uhhh....

[alivenwell]

Chinese music is all right up to a certain point. Mandarin music is generally ok, they've got a bit of everything, punk, pop, rock, metal etc. However Cantanese music is the type which I really hate, no offence, I am Chinese myself, I am in fact a British Born Chinese, my parents were from Hong Kong, and I personally think that Cantonese music really lacks the rock genre but that's not it. The thing that has really crumpled the Cantonese music industry are all the new artists these days, they have no talent whatsoever, it's all so fake and commercial. The people with the talent seem to disappear off now. Female artists nowadays like Fiona Sit, 吳日言(Yan Ng) and 官恩娜 Ella Koon all seem to carry out very similar voices, in Britain here we refer to their voices as Hong Kong voices (香港聲), in other words their voices seem to sound like the everyday Hong Kong high school girl. When they sing live it's even worse, you can barely hear them, and their pronounciations in some of their lyrics are horrendous, some of them sound like they haven't even bothered to learn their own language, though that may be harsh but it is my opinion. As for the male artists, they come and go like a production plant, many of them have only done one music video, and then they seem to disintegrate. I never even bother to learn their names. As for English names in the Chinese Music industry, names like Deep Ng, Yumiko etc aren't even names, not to mention half the population of high school girls in Hong Kong are called YoYo. Despite all this, Cantonese music have the likes of Joey Yung, 何韻詩 (Hocc!), Jade Kwan, Leo Ku, Edmund Leung etc to keep the Hong Kong Music industry alive. From listening to their songs, they all have unique voices- and the best thing about their voices is that it is strong, they literally have something called the singing voice, they are the ones best suited for live music. Even in their early days, their voices are still better than those teen popstars today, you can really tell if someone can sing or not. The artists who'd I really like to see more of in the future are Hins Cheung, Hocc, Jade Kwan, Joey Yung, Deep Ng (tough a crappy name, he can sing and play an instrument!) and Nicholas Tse (though he may be quite an unlikeable person, his voice and guitaring abilities should not be wasted.) I really do think that Hong Kong should promote more rock music, it makes Cantonese music more likeable.