A band that originated from Ontario Canada during the era of Punk Rock. Sum 41 was the time when I grew to like the genre from similar acts like Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan & Bowling For Soup. I am surprised that the band is still going strong and outgrowing their teenage years. I […]
Chantal is a Canadian artist and is married to the lead singer of Our Lady Peace. You will probably know Chantal from singing “Leaving On A Jet Plane” from the movie Armageddon soundtrack. I am still trying to figure out the meaning of this song but like the Ah Ah Ah Ah… verse of the […]
This song brings back memories of my time in college when I had two canadians intern in the university. They didn’t necessarily introduced me to the band (MTV did!) but I remembered it was the same time. I am sure we had photo somewhere of us celebrating Canadian day together. Well, continuing with my theme […]
Sky is a Canadian pop rock duo from Montreal Quebec. Both band members are songwriters, producers and play multiple musical instruments. The song Some Kinda Wonderful is from their debut album Piece of Paradise. The album peaked at number 6 in Canada and they subsequently achieved a number one track with the song “Love Song”. […]
This time on tracks that stuck with me, it is a song by Singaporean Singer & Songwriter Stefanie Sun. She released her debut album in 2000 and went on to win numerous awards. She is popular in Southeast Asia and Greater China. It gives me flashbacks of college days where a songwriter was my collegemate. […]
I was asked about this song when I was based in Hamburg Germany. A colleague have just returned from a holiday in Thailand and was dying to find the title of this song but I was unhelpful. Apparently the song was playing everywhere he was. Wonder Girls is a Korean girl group from JYP Entertainment […]
A bit of a arrogant title as a track but the song is so iconic and represents another phase of K-Pop aiming for world domination. 2NE1 pronounced as the number 21 is a quartet girl group from Korea. They competed in MTV Iggy’s Best New Band of The World and eventually emerged as champions in […]
Clon consists of Kang Won-rae and Koo Jun-yup. This K-Pop duo made a debut in 1996 and was around the same time I discovered H.O.T. thanks to my sister. An unfortunate incident in 2000 have left the other half of the pop duo paralyze from the waist down. The other half is DJing as DJ […]
I was first introduced to K-Pop by my second sister. It was quite often that either Channel V or MTV Asia will play a Korean Chart Show in the evening and we will be recording some of the music videos on VHS to be replayed later. Although we don’t understand Korean, we are often attracted […]
Rotating through Taiwanese artists, I recall listening to Machi for the first time mainly because the track remixes the original song by Missy Elliot, Work It. I can’t believe this track “Jump 2003” is now twenty years old. There is another version that has Missy Elliot’s vocals in it. They rap in my native Hokkein […]