Word: musication
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Nurtured by a growing number of live venues, ever decreasing barriers to recording and a broadening disenchantment with Cantopop - the city's dominant music form to date - Hong Kong's independent-music scene has suddenly become crowded. As you would expect, a great number of the bands that comprise it are vehicles for the subpar songwriting and cack-handed guitar playing of solemn undergraduates, chubby expats and the sort of people that have fabulous haircuts but dreadful day jobs. But a handful of ensembles are worth crossing the street to see. And a very few - perhaps no more than...
...three of the most challenging targets I could think of: my mom (who I predicted wouldn't know how to accept it), my ex-girlfriend (who I predicted wouldn't want it) and - since Sanguinetti mentioned that people have used the service to reach out to celebrities - country-music star Taylor Swift (because, well, one can only hope...
...never know it. It picks you. Coming from a West Indian background, wanting a career in a creative field is almost like a death wish. But I was compelled. Once music got me, it got me good. I used to work at this movie theater in New York, and I would save my pennies and would do layaway plans on keyboards and musical gadgets. They were astronomically expensive for someone who was, like, 17 years...
What do you want your body of music to represent 50 years from...
...your heritage influenced your music...