Say no to piracy!

We see and hear that all over the place. But recently I went past my sister’s room and heard the most disgusting and revolting song ever. It was a mandarin song… with an english song’s tune. I then asked my sister about the song, and if all mandarin songs nowadays were just chinese words with english songs’ tunes. I haven’t listened to mandarin music in years anyway.

I then flipped through her playlist, randomly selecting songs and listening to them. And to my utter disgust, heard more mandarin songs with english songs’ tunes. My sister, and lots of others like her, can be forgiven for thinking those tunes were original and nice to listen to. But to an oldies’ buff like me, I could tell at once that those mandarin songs were just voice overs in mandarin for old english songs.

I can’t believe purists in the music industry can take such lying down. Such lack of creativity. Such lack of talent. They expect us to pay top dollar for songs now that have been produced 10 years ago? When we can just download them for free over the Internet? If so, then they must not be very intelligent… which would also explain the lack of original content in those mandarin songs.

Why should we pay for something that isn’t original anyway? They might pay royalties to the songs that they voice over, but that isn’t original, that isn’t talent. That’s just skiving. Don’t get me wrong. I like and enjoy mandarin songs. Those about 2 or 3 years back, and those of about 10 years ago too. But the quality of a lot of mandarin songs nowadays is just nonsense. I’m not generalizing and condemning mandarin songs, but they shouldn’t be taking english songs, re-recording them, and expecting us to pay for that.

Take for example, Dragostea Din Tei is a Romanian hit single by a Moldovan band called O-zone, made popular in Singapore by the Chicken Little movie. Dragostea Din Tei is loosely translated into English as “Love at first sight” or “Love from the clear blue sky”.

Some retarded Singaporean Chinese female singer, who might not even have the slightest clue as to where / what Moldova is, had to go spoil the true meaning of that song by dubbing it in mandarin into some song depicting her lack of fear of cockroaches. What originality?! What creativity?! What rubbish.

Seriously. You expect purists to pay for a romantic Romanian love song, sung in mandarin depicting the singer’s lack of fear in cockroaches?! You expect to stamp out piracy with such quality?!

Dream on.

It getting really warm each day.
I hate it when people don’t bother.
Hey please, you are not an alien right?
Not somewhere in mars or pluto.
You’re living on Earth.

You know why supermarkets are introducing recycling bags?
That’s because plastic bags are non-biodegradable.
Some aunties just don’t understand.
And even quarrel with the cashier just because plastic bags costs 10 cents each on recycling day.

And sometimes when I know my friends switched on their aircon daily, I’ll sure nagged at them.
Seems as if they can’t live without aircon.
That’s ridiculous ok. Then move to north pole instead.

The ice are melting.. And Bangladesh is flooded every year.
They can’t grow rice.  And here we are wasting food and resources.
I hate to say this. But it’s the truth.

So what we are richer? Some things can’t be undone.
Not tomorrow. But take action  NOW!
Please don’t let this happen. =((