Music Stages

I realised I've been through different music stages of my life.
Upon reflecting, the choices are really varied and each seemed to bring out a different emotion, mood and interest in my life.

1. Oldies: Teresa Teng, Celine Dion & Mariah Carey - this was my dad's influence since he listens to them on a daily basis. My childhood was filled with fiddling with the CD player. And I remembered I watched plenty of Michael Jackson

2. English Pop Culture: In primary school, I don't know if it was the influence of my friends but I simply adored listening to 98.7FM & 91.3FM. I spent my savings getting LIME magazine, Smash Hits so that I could read about bands like S Club 7, Westlife, A1, singers like Gareth Gates, Shakira...etc. And yea, my brain cells were used to memorise lyrics!

3. Mando/Cantopop Tide: This was certainly because of my class and also a certain someone whose ringtone of Jay Chou's "Yuan You Hui" made me fall in love with Jay Chou (I'm still a big fan, but not as big as before). I stopped listening to English radio due to the influx of techno & overly "popped" songs which started turning thrashy. Bands like FIR, SHE, Fahrenheit dominated my cupboard poster space, some of which are still there! My Chinese improved tremendously because I started watching Taiwanese dramas and listening to YES933 :) Mandopop saw me through Secondary School and JC and I started listening to Cantopop too

4. KPOP Wave: Strange that I skipped the phase of JPOP but KPOP rocks and accompanied me through uni. It started with Wedding Dress by Taeyang..Don't ask me how, I don't actually remember but it is STILL my favourite KPOP song! Started watching Korean dramas and learnt Korean, though i totally sucked at the subject :/

5. English Country: Seems like my favourite Kpop artistes aren't actually making much songs and I'm facing a dearth of new Kpop songs to keep my interested. I'm turning to Country!The MV I posted here by Lucy Hale reflects why..It reminds me of travelling on road trips - the one to Adelaide and the later one to Dunedin actually made an impact in my life.. Here's to visiting the outbacks and farmlands again!