M.A.Y.D.A.Y.

This is Mayday's logic of why Mayday will always be successful despite new bands emerging, as they brought out during a local radio interview.

F.I.R has 3 people and their band name has 3 syllables
S.H.E has 3 people and their band name has 3 syllables
B.A.D has 3 people and their band name has 3 syllables
M.A.Y.D.A.Y has got 5 members but their band name has 6 syllables, so they've always got an alphabet more than these bands, and that means, they'll always win!

Or so thinks Ashin..

Although this twisted and absolutely nonsensical logic doesn't make much sense, I still think that Mayday always has a winning formula in them that many bands out there do not have.

People said that they would go downhill after their national service hiatus, but Mayday proved them wrong.
People asked Mayday if they were intimidated by F.I.R, but Mayday was just interested in doing their very own style of music, which is no particular style.
People said that lead vocal Ashin might go solo, but Mayday has so fast stuck to each other as a band... a band of very good friends. A bunch of friends who could laugh, play, enjoy each other's company but at the same time be terribly serious when it comes to music.
If you still don't know why I love them so much, then I think you are missing out on too much, far too much.

Its odd how many people have different concepts of what Mayday means as a band.

Hardrockers don't find them rock enough and that they shouldn't even be called a rock band because they don't know what the legendary 'rock' is. But let me tell these people that rock is not just a definite genre of music, it encompasses a whole history of social change and correlation to the world of music development. The history of rock music varies right from Elvis, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi, U2, and to the east where there's Cui Jian, Wu Bai and Beyond. Rock music constantly evolves and it evolves to integrate many other genres into the very genre of rock, so much so that there is no one single idea of 'rock' any longer. Rock, is not a style of music if you ask me, it is a sort of determination and a sort of courage to experiment, and to dare to dream or be different.

In Mayday's words, 搖滾是一種生活態度... 是一種文化, just as the very courage that Elvis has showed in his passion for music right to his death, or the serious attitude of the Beatles in conveying love and peace within their songs.

Rock music is not about being cool or acting like you are some Ah beng. Its not about the clothes you wear or how funky your guitar looks. Nor is it the amount of distortion and overdrive that you can create from your guitar and huge amp. If thats the way you think rock music is, then you are missing the point altogether, and your perception of music is far too narrow because rock music is also classical, it is also jazz, it is also folk and it is also ethnic.

Then, there is the media who often describes Mayday as a boyband. Well, not very different from the perception of the hardcore rockers who think that Mayday shouldn't even be a rockband. Don't even wanna comment too much on this.. because I think these media don't even have much idea of who Mayday is and had a true listen at their music.

Amazingly, today I came across this article on sg idol in the newspaper that mentioned Mayday. According to the article, it says that a particular CEO of a particular production house commented how "I see him in a hip Mayday-like band", hmmm..... hip????!?!? Another head of a record co/prod house who is just a business man rather than a musician and knows nuts about music?? Probably.. can't say for sure, or else I'll get sued in my own blog =P.

Anyway, going out of point for a while and harping in the same article... i was absolutely lost for words to read that "while Sim's diction in English may be lacking, his Mandarin appeared flawless".... erm excuse me... have you listened carefully? "說" and " 縮" are definitely different....
And if you talk about singing rock, I think a certain friend of mine can sing much better =P

Well, what is mass appeal anyway... its exists in this world but its something that is not in my dictionary and its something that you can lecture me 10 days on it, and it still won't drill into me. I will never be able to understand it. Just as its not that easy to convert a hardcore rocker into trying to understand the true concept of rock.

I only know what music is and what good music is.
Music is defined by ourselves. If you think F4 is good, then it is good. If you think Mr Sim's Chinese is flawless then it is flawless.

To me, Mayday remains the best.