Critiques

When I was directing Med Revue, it was kinda important to have critiques. We had two days where the ex revuers would come in and watch our show. Given it's charity based, it was important to be able to sell to a large amount of audiences and ticketing strategy was somewhat quite highly considered. All in all, it was to have a good show and not some one man show where only one would think it's awesome while the others would be 'meh it's ok'. Honest and experienced, the ex revuers did tell us that it was not compulsory to take their two cents. We could either use it or ignore it. We had a semi discussion with the execs, then it was passed on to the cast members, which we were proud of.

Now, when my album is concerned, it seems like a different activity. Given I am not doing it for fame nor money, I find it quite unnecessary to make sure most of my songs kinda lean on Burmese fans' tastes. In a country where Korean RnB and J-pop and four chorded looped songs top the chart, my songs, inspired by Timbaland and Kanye, would be a hit or miss. The audience would either treat them like a new thing and love it or just not understand them and hate it.

So, after Hkunie's honest critiques, which totally I accepted, it was KP's turn. He got to listen to my songs yesterday and he mentioned how my lyrics need a lot of improvements. He said it was ok to let go on most of the songs except the song about dad. It's true though. You got a song for dad, a very cheesy "O my dad died bla bla" song. And in order to make sure that song gets into the fans' heads, you gotta make sure you use the jargons and terminology flow used mainly among the audiences. So, I've decided to put the 'dad' song in English only, given it was originally written in English.

Now, I love KP and Hkunie for their critiques but somehow I felt affected. I feel like I lost my goal. I don't know why I'm doing this album for anymore. I kinda feel like 'if it's critiqued heavily, why am I still stubborn enough to continue?'. I think the critiques were useful.

At the same time, my diet pills have totally shut down my voice and I can't even carry a tune anymore. So, I have decided to live healthy once again which is kinda good but god I'd hate to be fat.

However, it can't be helped how small one feels towards the decline of his talent and the level of acceptance with the norm.