Love this song!

The show, by Lenka. First heard it on TM advert on TV. And it immediately caught my attention. Finally downloaded it yesterday and it's been playing on repeats on my PC and my phone. Just love the simplicity of the song. The rhythm is so simple, yet catchy, with nice swingy feel at the chorus. Just can't help but to tap my feet along with the tempo everytime I listen to it. The singer also presented the song nicely with a cute & innocent feel to it. It proves a good song does not need complex arrangement.


Try to search the net for it. Sorry I won't put a download link here. It's illegal ;) BTW, I know all of you know how to get it anyway.

This makes me wonder, despite the number of so-called singers we have in Malaysia, why there's really rarely any song that's able to catch attention like the song above? A song that can attract attention at the first encounter. In my opinion, most Malay songs sound 'nice' because it's been forced onto the listener. The same song being repeatedly played on radio or advert on the TV, as time goes by, it becomes 'bearable'. Even if you just play the sound of a herd of cows mooing, with time that'll also sound bearable.

The last Malay song that caught my attention was Gemuruh by Faizal Tahir. And that's really some time ago. But in general the songs that attract my attention on first encounter are TM everyone connects advert song and the Kementerian Belia song played on ntv7, sang by a number of popular artists. But both are not recording songs.

And then I found this on youtube: Lenka? Not!

Just can't tell how much it sucks. For starters he wasn't even singing in tempo. As someone who plays musical instruments, it's really irritating to hear such a basic flaw. The voice is so flat I know of some LCD TVs more undulating than that. He doesn't complete full bars. In under 2 minutes and a half, the boy managed to ruin the whole song! But look at the comments. Some are really raving about him. They don't know any better. No wonder we then can have good entertainment with Simon Cowell demolishing these kind of singers on American Idol. Stupid Americans. But I do envy the recording facility the boy at his disposal. It's good, but it deserves better use, much better.