From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Re: REPOST: Re: HK Lyrics (Re: Tat Ming Pair)
Keywords: Cantonese
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:30:13 GMT

In article <23201@optima.cs.arizona.edu> leoso@cs.arizona.edu (Leo WaiChung So) writes:
>In article <9227611.12646@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> 
>william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo) writes:
>  Just want to comment about "profound". Too profound is *bad*. Take
>  Wong Yiu Ming's individual album (is that <wish> "Yuen"?) as example, 
>  it is too "high" for me: I just can't understand half of the songs. :)
>  So I miss their realistic ones. "Wish" he would be more realistic and
>  less "artistic" in the years to come.
>
	Well, you could be right. It's wiser for a *POP* singer to avoid
	singing profound songs if he/she's expecting himself/herself to
	appeal to a broader spectrum of the music-buying public. With more
	easy-listening("Big Road") type songs and less profound songs Wong 
	Yiu Ming will snatch a much larger audience.
	Note that, although Wong's songs(those on his personal album) might 
	sound rather profound, but I still appreciate what he tried. Y'know,
	we really need someone like him in HK who's so willing to experiment
	and willing to face the critics... 

	Too profound is bad? Hmmm.....yes and no.

	Yes, because people might find extremely hard sorting out what you're
	singing about - they might either throw the tape away or fast forward 
	to other songs.

	No, because profound songs are usually intended for profound people
	who are supposed to have profound and lofty thoughts.
 
>>	Agree. Thanks to Tats Lau. His music(simple and neat) gave Chan  
>>	the best room for putting words in. 
>>	Also attributable to the fact that Chan had been Tats' student for 
>>	quite some time prior to the formation of TMP, so they got to know 
>>	each other pretty well and Chan should be more familiar with Tats' 
>>	music than anyone(who was writing lyrics) was. 
>
>  Is it true that Lau and Wong knew each other from newspaper ad?

	Affirmatively. I happened to read an article which told the full
	story on a mag when I was in HK.
	Lau had put an ad on a newspaper saying that he was urgently needing
	a vocal singer, and Lau finally chose Wong because of Wong's voice 
	and singing was unique. (I could be wrong...) And the thing happened
	just a few months prior to their first EP  "Pursue" came out!
>
>  And about Lau, his music is kinda unique. You can tell it's his
>  work from the music itself. Alan's <Assassinator> and Sandy's
>  <Love Experiment> are examples.

	Yes, I definitely think so. 
	I love Alan's "Flower in the water".
>
	About Sam Hui:

>>	His work did anyway say SOMETHING. And that SOMETHING has 
>>	distinguished him from those vulgar blokes(remember Wun Kwong
>>	who sang "Snow White and the seven dwarfs?)   
>
>  Hahahaha.

	Ha, but I didn't mean the idea behind some of Wun's songs(old ones 
	which I haven't got a chance to really listen to) was bad though!
>>
>>	Does music marry lyric or lyric marry music??? - Which is
>>	more important?
>
>  Don't say which of them are better husband or wife! :) And don't
>  say one is in love with other... :) :)
>
>  I vote 1 for each of them, equally. 

	"Thanks!" Said Mr Music and Mr Lyric.

---Keep smiling,
	Bill
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