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Passed by the Popular Bookshop at JE after (zzzzzzzzzz.....) work tdy......decided to check out the latest english albums....boy! its definitely a long time since i bought an eng album. Popular is not exactly the best place to for a well stocked catalogue of eng albums....but if you want latest latest commercial chart ones can. haha. price also can lah.

Saw Robbie William's new album Rudebox. Wonder if i shld get it.....its silly cuz on one hand i just saw his latest MV "Lovelight" on channel V, and it was pretty cool and groovy......robbie is just unique in his own way.....and his little special charm and attention seeking ways. always thot he was the different and outstanding one in Take That. and yah turn out to be. like where are the others now u know....

On the other hand, felt a bit affected that he cancelled his whole Asian Tour! I am of course not any big fan of his ...but its really not good news to hear that he cancelled this much anticipated tour...and only the asian cities. lots of pple were mad and said they wont support him again.
this is the reason:

Robbie Cancels Asian Tour Dates.
16th September 2006 09:26:38
Robbie Cancels Asian Tour Dates.... Robbie Williams has cancelled the Asian leg of his current world tour, blaming stress and exhaustion.
The Angels star was scheduled to visit Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Mumbai (Bombay) and Bangalore in November (06) - but his spokesman insists that, after forcing himself to struggle through dates in Europe and upcoming shows in South America, honouring his Asian concerts is "asking too much".
The singer's representative said Williams, who has been performing in Milton Keynes this week (begs10Sep06), is "extremely tired" after kicking off his tour in May.
Hitting the "entirely new territories" of India and China "would have greatly added to his workload".


sounds lame? dunno man.....like why only asia? he will continue with the Australian dates on Nov30. sigh.....maybe just gotta to accept the fact he is not so comfortable in asia so if tired, here cancel first. well....he has a point..."new territories". but i guess maybe ticket sales werent that fantastic also...just a guess.

anyway, i decided to get the CD. music is music! and i must say its rather interesting material.
Title track Rudebox is well.....basically rude! haha......but robbie can get away with this kind of thing. maybe censorship board here also relax liao......but his rudeness and swearing is just him...his typical trying to be funny and amusing style. this album he has gone to embrace dance music ....just like madonna who went back to disco etc. its fun enough. lots of 80s style electro beats too. anything 80s i like! there are 17 tracks on this and 5 covers.......theres a tribute to madonna, collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, and songs about 80s and 90s. lyrics and rapping some say sound cheesy but i think these pple dun know his concept and style.
i have seen some interviews he gave on TV in the past (he did visit Spore for the VMA in 02 or 03), quite hilarious......very witty and funny, direct.....quite a real guy (i hope).

i admire stars who dare move out of their expected genre of music...its tough but gotta start somewhere. thats why, i think the chinese music scene is really bad now....everyone is basically playing safe. now what they call hot is like r&b, hip hop.....huh?!!! that was like 6 years back when jay chou came on scene. ever since its been like that and everyone follows.
is the market that small? chinese pple are prob more than any other race in the world? well perhaps the chinese pop music industry is still not as developed as the western one.
or maybe majority of chinese people like prefer basic ballads, love songs at the end of the day. forever will be like that. One good news is maybe Elva is back, maybe she can give that Jolin a run for her money.

then in the shop, i saw compilation album of the 'latest' hits....like Pink - Stupid girl, Nelly f....whatever...Promiscuous....and nearly wanted to but it! aiyoo.....i finally realised maybe this is a sign of getting old(er)...ahem.....haha. used to detest this kind of compilation when i was in school. whereas my uncle would always buy this type...latest hits. i will suan him like dun have this that, this song already so old etc etc. now its happening to me....haha. i dun of course follow the pop scene that closely anymore so only know the so call hit songs. but or course only the better ones lah. anyway i didnt buy cuz there were some terrible songs inside too.