Wednesday, December 13, 2006

The pBMAs (playback BAY MUSIC AWARDS)

Have you enjoyed the BMA's from the luxury of your home or went to the Eden Arena to enjoy the show? Well if you were blind I would've said it would have actually been better if you put on the same tracks on your great hifi system at home and listened to the music without having to pass through those many people present.
The usual stage miming of the so called "great" maltese artists actors and "performers" was also present at this years' BMAs. Presenters, compares etc call these people artists and performers. Well if there acting capabilities were judged most of them would've surely acquired a distinction however what we as audience want is to judge them as singers. How can we actually do that if the only voices of the singers we hear have passed from loads of computer software and have been mastered and remastered when produced? Well I get really furious knowing that the crowd present were all screaming and enthusiastic of listening to a track played on cd or even worse mp3....

I don't know if it's only mine of impression but I have to say that all songs seem to be actually the same song....I dunno maybe the lack of local production companies and/or producers. Well I really didn't enjoy myself to listening to the music presented because the sounds are to similar, especially for Wintermoods, Filletti & Friends, Bitterside, Scream Daisy. Amazingly enough I noticed that all those 4 bands mentioned had a sound similar to the Scar of some years ago but the Scar of yesterday had surely a different sound than what we are used to.

As regards newcomers, Chasing Pandora did well but as I already said for other bands....their sound is not original. Jay Omaro (never had seen this guy before)...is not inspired by Justin Timberlake, he is a wannabe Justin Timberlake imitating everything of the artist (lacks a lot of voice though unlike Mr. Timberlake). Hence I can never call this dude an artist at least till now.

To say something about the visuals, graphics and computer designed stuff, I think this years' was a breakthrough however when compared to other countries and awards ceremonies of the same type it lacked guys....it really lacked....especially when considering that other countries have been doing something of the same sort already from the 80's with more visual effects. I know that Malta is limited in space and everything but just to note that we haven't gone avant garde or anything like that.


Well just as a final note and to emphasize the fact that the BMA's weren't so visually extraordinary please watch the following video of the Guns Performing "Welcome to the Jungle" LIVE at the MTV VMA's of 18 years ago.

Under that watch also the great acoustic Performance by Jon Bon Jovi and guitarrist Ritchie Sambora of "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive" at the 1989 MTV VMA's.






2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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10:12 PM  
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7:42 PM  

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