There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
ALAN BISHOPEveryone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others.
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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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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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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’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.
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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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If you’re somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you’re pretty much going to know what’s going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.
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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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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.
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If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.
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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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