Bitching about Singaporean Musicians

Erm...ok..now what I am going to talk about here has got nothing to do with what you see on TV or hear from the airwaves. Meaning I am not talking about iconized people like Step Sun or Kit Chan. I don't like those, but they deserve the credit. I am more an underground or alternative (term loosely used) kind of guy. I am not even going to touch on the likes of Superbands or Singapore Idols and I do not support these events for good personal reasons.

So that leaves me with pretty much the unsigned bands or musicians that I come to know or heard off. For now, there are a few bands that are slowly getting recognition like Electrico, Ronin etc.

What they have done, I think is a milestone for local musicians. However, there's this other group that sees these emerging bands as over rated, not worthy of musicians, posers and what's not.

Simple fact is this, THEY MADE IT! PERIOD!

We only have the rights to say either we like their style of music or not, to support or not..that's all. We re in no position to say they are good or not as we are first, not at their level, and second, defining what's good is subjective. Till one has proven to be of certain substance then can one be a valid critic. At least, these musicians dare to be who they want to be and not to be living on the fantasy and dreams of someone's else who already accomplished these.