They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
ALAN BISHOPEveryone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings.
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I don’t speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don’t even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places.
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Like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear – then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it.
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Old is unwanted. You don’t find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.
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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
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They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.
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I’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.
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From the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.
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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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