From: K.K.Soo@bradford.ac.uk (KK SOO)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Opinions on singers
Date: 11 Apr 92 12:17:12 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 91862372@muser

aywong@copernicus.berkeley.edu (Lonely Boy) writes:

>1. How is Aaron Kwok?

I can still remember this guy had had a sad story ...

>2. How about Leon Lai (Lai Ming) ?

>	Leon Lai is OK as a singer.  I do not think he is imitating other
>	singers consciously.  I think he is unfortunate because he sang
>	off-key in the China Flood Relief Concert, which is being
>	watched by the Chinese community in the whole world.  Thereafter,
>	people always pick on his singing off-key.  Actually I wonder
>	HOW MANY of the people who says "Lai Ming sings off-key" has
>	really heard his singing?

Chau Sing Chee is OK as a singer, Ng Man Tat is OK as a singer ... everyone
is OK as a singer ... in bathrooms or kara-oks :)

Beleive it or not. The Concert has just shown his 3rd time or so being
the same situation. 2 times in mini-concerts held with other singers, 1 time
on EYT (he dared to sing lively!), as I can still remember.
After that Concert (Did you notice a rich woman gave HK$500K for his
song "Sorry I love you"?), he almost appeared in every big TVB life shows.
I'm sorry to tell you that he could not sang his songs 'a little bit like
his CDs' at all. He also held a few mini-concerts later on, I happened to
be one of the audiences as well. Maybe you still cannot accept it, but
the truth was that they were the SAME situation!

>	Many other singers also occasionally sing off-key.  Have you ever
>	heard Andy Lau sing off-key?  I have heard many times.  It did not
>	get mentioned because it was not in as big a show as the Flood
>	Relief Concert.  Also some (not all) people are jealous of the
>	fact that Leon Lai become hot so fast.

Either you hate Andy too much or you love Lai Ming too crazy.
When Andy announced he was a pro, his bad handlings of his voice were more
or less like those of Lai's. I think not only me can notice that his songs
are improved continuously. That's the truth. BTW he can even compose his 
songs now. Of course he can sing them better and better in live shows as well.

Look at Lai Ming, what made you know he had tried hard? From his CDs or
his albums? No way! At least at the moment I still cannot see his
improvement in shows.

>	Also singing is an art that requires not only training, but also
>	good voice.  The voice of Lai Ming requires a lot more effort
>	to sing "well".  However I can see HE IS TRYING HARD.  So GIVE
>	HIM A BREAK AND STOP CRITICIZING HIM.  GIVE HIM A CHANCE

Give him a chance? Many people had given him a lot of chances already!
I bought 3 of his CDs, that's real operations. How many more chances 
we should give him? How many his CDs we should buy and cheat ourselves
he is improving? To be a pro having no good voice?  and we still give him
chances? I get confused.

>	(As a side comment, I would enjoy Lai Ming's SINGING much more
>	 than Beyond's Ka Kui or the tall guy (cannot remember his name,
>	 the one who co-sang in "Crystal") in TaiChi.  Lai Ming is
>	 SINGING, but Ka Kui and the tall guy are YELLING.  Beyond and
>	 Taichi fans, flames to /dev/null)

I'm sorry to say that you are still in the stage of 'pop-singer listener'
only. Try to spend a little time to those YELLING singers, or have a 
glance at their lyrics, you will get what's a talent singer and what's
music. Don't forget to mention Danny Summer, Ng Kok King, or even Micheal
Jackson as well!

>	About Lai Ming's San Francisco Concert (on April 3rd), I would
>	give it an average grade.  His singing is OK.  A couple times
>	he mixes up lyrics (from one "paragraph" with another), but I
>	think this is acceptable.  The guests (Lau Siu Wai and
>	Face to Face) are much better than the guests in Andy Lau's
>	concert (Blue Eyes)

I still doubt if that Concert was held in a kara-ok, as I used to forget
or mix lyrics very often :) Though I'm still acceptable by my friends :)

Fred
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k.k.soo@bradford.ac.uk
Computer Science, University of Bradford, UK.