Jamie Livingston started to take one picture each day since 31st march 1979, 18 years of his work was published by his friends after he’s gone to heaven,
WOW!!!!!!!!! i am not a big fan of rain's, but talk abt his new album, have gotta say.........WOW!!! nice songs, pictures, production....... all the things put together are just WOW!!!
i wonder how much money he put into the album and his ''rainism'' MV, it's just so hollywood. a korean friend told me that the entertaining industry was not doing good in korea, but still..... record companys there are willing to work on some good stuff and most of all pay for these expensive stuff(well!! there are always two sides to every story).
anyways, if the music companys in hk work like this, change their 'safe money' policy, i wondered the industry might have a chance to pave away from the 'dead water'.
YES!!! good production needs money...BUT!!! peopple would only pay for good production though, a worthwhile album, just like starbucks, money is not the issue, the thing is....... people only willing to pay for good stuff, thats why u cant get a seat @ starbucks!!!!! i admire rain and starbucks chocolate after all (ice chocolate its really good there!!!! with extra cream and extra chocolate sauce plus extensive choco power).
It was a busy week..... sending songs to radios, meeting wit new medias and record company, went through all the promotion plans and stuff, however, besides all these walking around and stuff, it came up one minor thing to my head, which is ............ ppl seemed to be very curious abt the name ''8086''............ frankly, it was just a random pick, that's a long time ago, we were having meeting to discuss the group's name, and chris the temp manager(he insisted to call him the temp, haha) seemed not really like an english name nor a chinese name, so he just gave each of us a piece of paper and asked for the ''number''......it came up ''8086'', so it was actually designed by me, marie and the 2 big boss, 4 people and 4 numbers. it was kinda pell-mell, fastheaded, watever....but its just like that, nice and easy!!!
the name ''8086'' might brought some curiosity to people, but still, it wont change any thing in our songs, our music, our desires, our faith and mostly ourselves! people tended to put their sights on the side dishes rather than the main course, they tended to care abt how to work on the image, promotion, or...name, but never really listen to the product, but, thats actually the main course.... our songs! I saw people playing it and listened to half of it, in btw they ar actually talking to our manager, blah blah blah...... I was kinda fastrated, cos they ar the people who entitled as ''professional'', but they didnt really care abt the music. Hey!! we ar a singing group, not actress or models, just listen!! listen to how good the production was and how good we can sing(at least i thought so). i wished i could 'exchange' my $600 mp3 player to his high-ended HiFi, since he didnt really need it.
''8086'' is just a name, no one would ever remember it if we cant sing or our song suck the whole world, people remember The Beatles, Rolling Stone, Beyond, cos they did good songs, songs we ar still singing now. Hey! for those who ignored our music, but put us as a product, u were insulting us, and I will........... break ur HiFi!!!! And make u remember us, we ar ''8086''!!!!
p.s. recently..actually not recent but a while, i like 謝安琪kay tse alot, cos she is one of the few singers in HK really selling her voice and songs rather than ''image'', strongly recommend this song to you guys!!
