watched Anugerah band half way through just now.

and i realise how ridiculous the names of the bands can be?? ada apa dengan nama?

ok, for a band, i know how important it is to have a bandname which somehow reflects your band’s music style, your band’s identity, personality, fashion even. the name of the band is so important, because it will definitely means YOU, YOU and YOU who are THE BAND. other than the music you play, your bandname becomes part of you.

and when you have name for the band, you will start to rationalise and give reasons as to why you give such names, for a lame example, Linkin Park had a hard time choosing a name because they think they are unique, bringing different kind of music than other metal-rock-whatever-they-call-it bands. so starting from Lincoln Park, they settled for Linkin Park, and then they start to reason out why Linkin Park is chosen.

or why sheila on 7? or why my chemical romance? or why U2?? there always have to have a reason out of a name…oh,don’t forget the official FONT and LOGO of the band~

so, i started to think, how ridiculous some bandnames of anugerah can be??
like TRABO= berterabur? SILKSUTRA= yeah they can’t make up their mind whether to use english or malay for the name?? (SUTRA already sounds nice enough, to me)and some time along the way, ended up being called siCksutra…
edmyshta? edmusyhta? or something? why suddenly want to go JAPANish?? might as well, take the name Sadako, right?? or Sudoku? there’s also KEIGO SPHINX? now they cannot decide whether they want to go Japanese/Korean(?), or Egyptian?

PUTRA is nicest name so far, simple and easy to remember, CUCU DATUK MERAH…hmm ok laaa. ha, yeah, HELVEN?? now, they cannot decide whether to go with Hell or Heaven? baina baina? heaven kan baik?! but then maybe they realise their songs are not that heavenly, so to say~ then ada RANCOUR la, ROYALE la..(royal je kan bole~)

but nothing beats old KALEIDOSCOPICURIOSITY. (like the worst name? and where are they now?)

you guys are so CONFUSED.

there’s a few other names which are just downright ridiculous. and i think i’m going to get it somewhere somehow, some fans are going to maki my blog. honestly, i love music, i love hearing good music by good bands, but come on la, you sound too attention-seeking with these kinds of names. you want people to listen to your song, so be honest about it, these names sound fake.

and the judge eh~ please ah, don’t have to give all these pseudo-suspense kind of remarks when you want to kick a band out, because its sickeningly misleading. it doesn’t work like those in american idols. you came out as downright sarcastic. please ah, we don’t want a simon cowell wannabe. we just want a judge who knows the industry very well (because for all you know, these are bands who have been singing all their life UNDERGROUND, and they might know BETTER about the scene than you could ever be), give constructive comments which at the end of the day, even if a band lose out, they go back learning something useful, which they can apply for other pursuits, and teach the audience as well.

but putting aside all these, let’s have one good quality band, who have a vision and mission to bring out to the world, as a team. sing good songs, play good music (not just NOISE, mind you). and have good personality as well, attitude…because you guys are going to BE role models. music have been THE very thing which teens IDENTIFY themselves with. so please, now even if you are going to play metal songs, rock, alternative, punk, ska, emo, rap, whatever it is, do please portray a good personality as well.

let YOU define the music, not the Music shaping who you are.

now, that’s why we have ALUNAN KASIH competition~ (ahakss, promo la pulak)

ALL THE BEST to ALUNANKASIH’s finalists (concert on 18th May) and the participants of ANUGERAH BAND. make us proud…

the video has nothing to do about bands, anyway…just a song i’ve been humming lately~~