是我們老了嗎?

Ever since I read a particular book... I have learnt to associate age with maturity and experience. I'm older but I've seen more and I know more than someone younger than me. Thats the perspective I have learnt to adopt now... to feel more wise and knowledgeable rather than older with each passing year.

But things have certainly changed to much over time. Especially the new generation that determines the trends of society and the media, just as we did in the past. While we look at the 80s, our childhood, and laugh at the high waist, straight cut and light blue jeans, or laugh at the 90s when people will just go crazy over buying hello kitty toys, from queueing up overnight, fighting over the toys and breaking windows & think back in disblief at how so many bubble tea stores could mushroom is just a few months (at times side by side).... wouldn't we in 10 or 20 years time, laugh at the way we are right now?

Society functions based on the generation that consumes the most and that has got to be the teens and youth. Where there is consumption, there is production.. nothing complicated about the good old economics theory of demand and supply.

Rock is now pop.. I agree with Nic. Its been pop ever since the fab 4, but its become even more pop and will continue to become even more so. There might not even be rock so to speak in the future? What make alternative rock then? I guess.. with each revolution and attempt to be more accepted and heard, there is a danger or something becoming the new mass and pop culture.

So is it good that our dear mayday is now more accepted, more known and more heard by the younger generations?

We would always like to blame packaging for the fact that there is now a new mass of fans who are more interested in commenting on how cute or good looking the band members are, or even fantasizing about them as a past-time. But then again.. packaging is all part of business survival. Every product needs to be packaged.. and if you're a businessman, you will understand the importance of asthetics for your products.

We hate such new groupie phenomenon but its inevitable when you are making music for a living and whats more, working for someone.

Well then.. we blame the band instead for not sticking to their indie roots. For selling out... but what if making music was really your greatest passion and satisfaction, something that no other job can give to you?

The artistes of the industry who have survived the years are those who have adapted along the way, accepted new trends, new perspectives and new styles. We may criticize them as much as we like, but aren't they the clever ones who have set very clear examples for us to understand that to do what you love, you need to learn to be flexible?

But yes.. I miss the old times when there were less fans, less suspicion, less flamboyance, less 'hao shuai ah!' & ' so cuuuuteeee' s, less queues, and less need for them to feel frantic even when eating .

It isn't all so bleak now.. just like I said, with age comes wisdom and knowledge... as well as a glowing confidence that I see in them, a deep brotherhood and a greater understanding of life and their passion.

Isn't there an add that says 'we hear what we want?'... similarly, we can choose to see what we want to see. Its nothing to do with age.. but alot to do with perspectives.