'review' of Rock'n'Roll Circus in June's Teens magazine - Page 4

KarenPang · #61 22nd May 2010, 09:30 AM

I don't mind if professional critics writers panned the album

but do they have to do such a poor slip shot review of it ? it looks as if a 5 year old kid did it instead of an adult

ayupan90 · #62 22nd May 2010, 11:42 AM

why is it in English? Im confused lol

Cherry Dynamite · #63 22nd May 2010, 05:21 PM

I'm guessing because a lot of Singaporeans speaks English fluently?
I'm not sure though can someone confirm this.

waterballoon · #64 22nd May 2010, 05:43 PM

what. the main language in Singapore is English... are you guys that mis-informed about Singapore that an article in English comes as a "shock"...?

f.y.i we do have newspapers & magazines in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Sorry if our diversity of languages and culture is too much for you to handle.

Cherry Dynamite · #65 22nd May 2010, 05:46 PM

^ huh?
He just asked and I said that Singaporean speaks english fluently, Anything wrong with that?

emi♡ · #66 22nd May 2010, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by waterballoon

what. the main language in Singapore is English... are you guys that mis-informed about Singapore that an article in English comes as a "shock"...?

f.y.i we do have newspapers & magazines in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. Sorry if our diversity of languages and culture is too much for you to handle.

Um I didn't even know the main language in Singapore is English...

so...sorry for the ignorance? Damn.

waterballoon · #67 22nd May 2010, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Cherry Dynamite

^ huh?
He just asked and I said that Singaporean speaks english fluently, Anything wrong with that?

I wasn't referring to you, sorry about that.

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Originally Posted by emiko

Um I didn't even know the main language in Singapore is English...

so...sorry for the ignorance? Damn.

Sorry about that, I think I was in a bad mood when I was typing that..

emi♡ · #68 22nd May 2010, 06:19 PM

^it's okay love, we still love you

KarenPang · #69 22nd May 2010, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ayupan90

why is it in English? Im confused lol

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Originally Posted by Cherry Dynamite

I'm guessing because a lot of Singaporeans speaks English fluently?
I'm not sure though can someone confirm this.

Singapore's 1st language is English being taught in the UK style , followed by respective mother tongues of different races

I'm a Chinese so my 1st language's English & my mother tongue's Chinese & there's also dialect too

Not everyone knows that English's my country's 1st language . I have quite a fair no. of foreign friends who're surprised when I told them this

They all commented that the way I speak English's good xD even though I failed it in secondary school

& I suck when comes to writing essay papers too x)

waterballoon · #70 22nd May 2010, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by KarenPang

Singapore's 1st language is English being taught in the UK style , followed by respective mother tongues of different races

I'm a Chinese so my 1st language's English & my mother tongue's Chinese & there's also dialect too

Not everyone knows that English's my country's 1st language . I have quite a fair no. of foreign friends who're surprised when I told them this

They all commented that the way I speak English's good xD even though I failed it in secondary school

& I suck when comes to writing essay papers too x)

I guess I should have written something like this instead of my bratty post... >_<"

ayupan90 · #71 22nd May 2010, 07:34 PM

gosh the reason I was asking was coz I didn't know what country it was from lol I assumed it was Japanese or something. lol

Cherry Dynamite · #72 22nd May 2010, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by waterballoon

I wasn't referring to you, sorry about that.

It's okay everyone have bad days xD

CHE.R.RY · #73 22nd May 2010, 10:26 PM

Well I do agree that it doesn't quite live up to its name 'Rock 'n' Roll Circus'...but not in the same sense that the article describes. I just think the album doesn't have enough rock in it to be dubbed as a rock and roll circus lol. I mean, I guess the 'Circus' part makes sense, since the album is very diverse, but the only rocky songs on the album are Microphone and count down lol. But that's just my opinion

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And as for the review, it's very superficial and does not go into enough depth. But I'm guessing that was the intention of the reviewer...not going into great detail, that is.

Andrenekoi · #74 23rd May 2010, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by emiko

I know you do...

thats just something we disagree about so...no use discussing it really since it's already been beaten to death.

unless you want to...but yeah...

Well, if u meant that someone needs to be retarded in order to prefer NL over RnRC, so, them, I'm offended, cuz I don't think I'm retarded... neither other people who prefer NL over RnRC... that's what I was talking about

Considering what I know about u, I don't think u meant this, but ur post can be read this way...

love in music · #75 23rd May 2010, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by KarenPang

I don't mind if professional critics writers panned the album

but do they have to do such a poor slip shot review of it ? it looks as if a 5 year old kid did it instead of an adult

Yeah, that's why I don't like it either. I actually wish there was someone who reviewed the album that didn't like it, but wrote out all of the reasons why in a mature way. I've read a lot of reviews but haven't come across anyone who has done that. It's interesting to read what other people think that have a different opinion, but not when they act like 5 year olds.

Kingdom · #76 23rd May 2010, 07:49 AM

dear j-pop reviews in singapore: please stop. thank you.

hsienko · #77 23rd May 2010, 09:13 AM

I agree with it doesn't live up to it's title. She kinda missed the boat with the whole circus thing. Maybe if she through some clowns and piñatas into the artwork concept maybe it would be more 'circusy'. But she's obviously didn't do that since everybody's been doing that, Britney Spears and Kuu just did it last year and I'll bet anyone $20 Lady gaga's next album is gonna be called "The Fame Circus."

tokyoxjapanxfan · #78 23rd May 2010, 09:18 AM

I don't disagree with the review. I think NL had much more of an impact

njanjayrp · #79 23rd May 2010, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by hsienko

I agree with it doesn't live up to it's title. She kinda missed the boat with the whole circus thing. Maybe if she through some clowns and piñatas into the artwork concept maybe it would be more 'circusy'. But she's obviously didn't do that since everybody's been doing that, Britney Spears and Kuu just did it last year and I'll bet anyone $20 Lady gaga's next album is gonna be called "The Fame Circus."

Sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about, and if you actually bothered reading her interviews you'd know that her idea wasn't for the album to have a circusy feeling to it, it was a metaphor for a mess, a genre mess in this case ^^ And the album pretty much does live up to it's name.

When it comes to NEXT LEVEL vs RnRC, to me NEXT LEVEL was an experiment for Ayu to venture into more popish/trendy music with more straightforward lyrics and electro touch to it, RnRC brought her back to what she should be doing for the rest of her life

Still the occasional experiments are always appreciated. I prefer RnRC over NL just because it's closer to what I consider great music is.

As for that "review" -

chloeM · #80 23rd May 2010, 11:12 AM

yea i know NEXT LEVEL is better than this album... but the way that they give review is like... they got the album, listen to the popular Don't look back and Microphone (maybe because of the existance of the PVs) then wrote about the two songs, and said most of them were BALLADS... yea right~ i'll "trust" this review... feh~!