ausare | Epic FAIL

私は怠け者です。
わたしはなまけものです。
Watashi wa namakemono desu.
I'm a lazy person.
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So I have a 1500-word essay to do on a media structure and its regulations and how those effect/influence the content said media carries (the topic I've chosen is Singapore's Mandarin newspapers, conveniently all published by Singapore Press Holdings) by tomorrow night. And I'm still procrastinating. What's new.

I tried to make a LoudTwitter account so I can post snippets Twitter-style to my LJ when I don't feel up to posting a proper entry or the content doesn't justify my giving it weight like I would a good entry, and I realised it would be impossible to sync my Twitter and my LJ because my Twitter is private. WTH. Epic FAIL! I don't feel catered to. LoudTwitter needs to work on that. Humph.

My parents bought Connie Talbot's album. Now, I'm not against talent. I just hate it when it gets manipulated for commercial gains, and especially it's kids who gets exploited. Sure it would be fun for them at the beginning, but soon enough, they're forced to grow up too fast too soon and be mature about the idea of exposure and fame. That's not what childhood is about.

Actually, it's fine if my parents listen to her just for the sake of listening. But it got to the point where my father waxed poetry about her and used her and Susan Boyle as examples in his 'Lessons in Life' lecture to my 14-year-old sister, and BLASTED their songs every single bloody day and think them to be the absolute best singers.

This. Is why I'm hating America/Britain's Got Talent. They show just the talent. They don't show how difficult it is to be in the music industry. Especially the theatre/opera industry. It's not just about singing good, and having good techniques. There's acting with your voice be it in song or in speech, acting with your body movements, remembering lines, cues, choreography, the whole works. The annoying part is that audience of the show isn't informed about all that and they walk away from the show with the impression that, 'Wow, he/she can sing! He/She will go far!'

NOT.

It's giving an extremely skewed impression that all you need is to have a good singing technique to succeed in the music/theatre/opera industry. And don't get me started on Boyle's cover of Memory. I wanted to to cry at how much she messed it up by having only good technique and putting ZERO emotion in the song. It got so bad that every time I hear her, that other guy before her who got famous (my father bought his album too, WTF) and Talbot, my reflexive reaction was to first swear out loud (shocking; I hardly swear), then pull out my earphones, plug it into my laptop and blast whatever song I have—it doesn't matter which—to drown out THE NOISE.

Yes, that seemed harsh, but if you have parents like mine who play their 'music' loudly every day, you'll end up hating them too. It's the same as watching the same commercial too many times a day. You'll turn from being amused to downright wanting to throw your television set away every time it comes on. And my being an ex-choir girl made me even more picky about music and extremely defensive of musical and theatre music.

Right, so my parents bought Talbot's album. And my father started blasting it. I swore, earphones at the ready, AND MY LAPTOP WENT INTO AUTO-RESTART (because it installed some update early this morning. Never mind, I still have my iPod nano. I took it out, unlocked it, AND THE BLOODY BATTERY WAS FLAT. At that point, I wanted to pull my hair right from my scalp. My hatred for America/Britain's Got Talent singers runs that deep, no joke. I was pacing around the house, trying to physically get away from the noise but OMG I'M UNABLE TO D:<

Why can't my father just use a bloody earphone?! I use my earphone instead of subjecting the household to my music, which I'm sure they don't agree with because they seem to hate contemporary music even though I listen to none of those crappy hip-hop nonsense-lyrics... stuff.

So I ended up hiding in the bathroom until my laptop finished loading up.

OMG Sara Bareilles's Little Voice is PURE HEAVEN after that whole ordeal.

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以上、Chii です。