Music Archive

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Mark Thaokhamlue will not be ousted from AF

Not a fan of Academy Fantasia (AF) or The Star or any type of reality tv/singing talent shows. I don’t know why, I have always hated them. If you asked me anything about American Idol, I would give you a dumbfounded/blank face look because I know diddly squat about AI. I remember Kelly Clarkson. The rest…who are they? The Star kids, I know a little about them because they are everywhere no matter how hard I try to avoid them. Academy Fantastia kids, they are avoidable. If this scandal didn’t break out about Mark Thaokhamlue, contestant V11 of AF season 7, I wouldn’t even know AF was on.

Before he became an AF contestant, Mark made several disparaging comments about the Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva and Zen: the Star season 6 on his Facebook account. Great! Another Facebook scandal. Mark did not approve of Khun Abhisit Vejjajiva handling of red shirt protesters and said Zen the Star looked like a gecko and had a physique of a dog and that he will be more famous than him.

Mark blamed the Bangkok fire incident a few weeks ago on the Prime Minister.

“You can resign now! Stupid Abhisit. If Abhisit resigned, it would have ended.  Would the red shirts burn anything? Because of who did the red shirts set fire? Just asking. Mae…I can say this frankly seeing all those protesters, if it was me, I would have resigned a long time ago. But you, you didn’t resign.  What now, it’s all burnt. What are you going to do about it? You can’t do anything. You won’t resign. Stupid face! Can’t resolve the problem, then resolve the parliament. Mae…you are probably scared to be unemployed more so. You’re not as rich as Thaksin (ousted Prime Minister of Thailand). You’re scared of dying. Scared to leave the country without money.”

Eee…people are not amuse with this comment and want Mark ousted from the AF house pronto. He is not though, AF producers are keeping him because these comments were made more before he became a contestant. He did not break the rules because AF has nothing to do with politics.

Now on to what he said about Zen the Star.

“Who are you?  The Star 6?-Zen. Handsome, Cute, Korean Style. A person who is devoted to his family. Everyone screams and faints when he is up on stage.”

However….

“His face is like a gecko, his body is like a strayed dog. His mouth is like an African person. Just bragging, I will be more famous than you. Just you watch. Got nothing to do, just insulting someone for fun. 55555.”

Clip of Mark’s audition:

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Listening to: Duffy’s “Warwick Avenue”

I’m drinking Yeo’s soymilk (so Asian of me) and jamming to “Warwick Avenue”, an old song by Welsh singer Aimée Duffy from 2008. Maybe I got the blues (don’t know), this song does make me happy.

Aimée Ann Duffy-”Warwick Avenue”

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[Download] not my upload, don’t know by who.

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Did Waii plagiarized Mariah Carey?

People are hearing similarities between Mariah Carey’s song “Touch My Body” and Thai wannabe R&B singer Waii’s song “Love you no more” from her solo album “Play Girl”. Now the question is this, did Waii plagiarized Mariah Carey? Did she? Probably. NO, I’m just joking, I don’t know. But then you have to think, she is from the girl group “Seven Days”, Thailand’s answer to Korea’s SNSD and Wonder Girls combined. If her record company, RS records, is willing to copy Korean acts, they are capable of more. She might not know she is copying another artist but her producers might be doing it intentionally thinking that Thais won’t know the difference.

Of course, Waii doesn’t think her song is similar to Mariah Carey’s. “The truth is I’m an R&B singer myself and Mariah Carery is a R&B singer I most admire. She is a talented R&B singer. It could be because our songs have a melisma (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text), thus it makes other people think our songs sound very similar. But I don’t think they are the same. Another thing, there is only 12 notes. When you make up a song, you have to mix and match the notes, it might sound similar. I can assure you, we did not copy.”

Waii is not hurt that she has been accuse of something like this. In this industry, it’s normal. “Something like this is normal. I don’t think it’s the truth and that is why I’m not serious about it. I want to share my views and say that we did not copy from anyone. I do want to have my own identity as an artist.”

Reporters noted that Waii has appeared more sexier in this album, her solo venture. Waii said she has grown up more. Girl, you’re only 16 years old. Have you really grown up? HA! Yah right!

Reporters then asked if the reason she is changing her innocent look to a more sexier one is because her innocent look didn’t sell. “I’m only 16 years old, I still have my innocence. For this album, I wanted to try something different,” argued Waii.

Yes, Panyarisa “Waii” Thienprasit is the Thai singer who had a rumor with Junsu of 2PM.

Mariah Carey’s song “Touch My Body”

Waii’s song “Love you no More”—what a fobbish song title.

I swear I heard 50 Cent “something special” around the 1:00 time mark, then you see Waii shaking her ass. Did anyone else hear that? What an odd placement of 50 Cent! All of sudden, you hear 50 Cent’s voice say “Something SPECIAL.” I thought it was a remix, but it’s not. Really, that’s part of the original track.

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“I don’t care” by 2ne1 in THAI

This is not bad at all. I kinda like it, actually, I like it a lot. I found this at Mthai.com at their most recent hit videos and then found the singer’s youtube page. Now I can understand the song without looking up the translation, it’s kind a nice.  The song is “I don’t care” by the Korean girlgroup 2NE1, it was remade into Thai by Patty, an unknown artist.

The original:

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Four in C-quint’s MV

Yes, my little chicklings, “Four” Sakonrat Wornaurai of the girl group Four-Mod is dating Pitt Karchai of the Thai boyband C-quint. He has even brought her a ring y’all. Ain’t it cute? But don’t get too excited it’s a fashion ring and she wears it everywhere. To milk this relationship for all its worth, Four is being featured in C-quint’s latest MV for their song “Chan Dee Mai Por (Chai Mai)-I’m not good enough (am I right?)”. It’s a cute little number about a guy complaining to his girlfriend (or the girl he likes) why she can’t forget her ex-lover. He tries to please her but she refuses to accept his effort.

The chorus goes something like this:

“No matter how many times I change (whatever I do, because I’m not him)
It’s not good enough (Nothing is good enough compared to him)
Only me (whatever I do, you are still lonely)
You’re depressed so am I “

Lyrics from the MV teaser:

“That is not good enough, this you don’t want.
I’m incapable of guessing what you want
If he is better than me, you should tell me
Why are you crazily keeping me for?
That is not good enough, this doesn’t please you
I can die, still I wouldn’t be good enough compared to him.
The person you can’t forget, what do you want me to do?
No matter how much I love you, you still won’t accept it. “

The teaser for the MV:

UPDATE: The MV is out.

For this MV, Four is a girl with amnesia. She crossed a street without looking and was hit by a car. The C-quint boys rescued her and cared for her. The boys do random things for her to cheer her up. Pitt (Four’s real life bf) falls in love with her. By the end, we learn that Four already has a boyfriend. She was bringing him gifts and then she had her accident.

Sometime in the video, Four remembers the incident and of her previous life. The  memories flood in, she becomes bewildered and starts to scream. Oh, no, I didn’t notice the Kellogg t-shirt until someone mentioned it. As she is screaming like a crazy person, Pitt goes in to hug her, she embraces him back but then pushes him away. She faints and is taken to the hospital. Pitt brings her a white rose, her boyfriend is there too with a white rose. Four looks at both men, then she turns to Pitt and asked, “who are you?” —OUCH! Slowly, Pitt steps back because her real owner has returned.

C-Quint has improved a lot both in singing and dancing. I was impressed.

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Two gets a MV

Two? Do you mean the number 2? No, the Thai singer, his name is Two Popetorn Soonthornyanakij from Sony Music. He has a new single out, titled “please don’t feel sorry for me (Prot Yaa Maa Songsan, โปรดอย่ามาสงสาร)”. This song is my current addiction, the first time I heard it (roughly 2 weeks ago), I had it on instant replay for the whole day, it was that good. The song narrates a failed relationship, he wants her back, and she still calls him because she feels pity and regret. However, he doesn’t want her pity, if she is not coming back, he wants to move on.

MV

Don’t get me wrong I love the song; however, seeing him in the MV, he doesn’t give me the ‘wow’ factor. The video is average, the performance in it is average. I have seen his LIVE performances on youtube, there is something missing there also.

I fear the quality of the song comes from studio magic rather than the singer himself ,now that is troubling. Then again, I could be totally off base, the video quality on youtube were downright awful.

Actress Ice Apissada is the MV nang’ek.

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