LYDIA'S DIERY dan diari dongengnyaaa...: Import Songs are Better?

Sejarah Lydias Diery

Lydias Diery ditubuhkan pada tahun 2004 yang pada mulanya ingin mencuba nasib dalam sebuah pertandingan Battle of The Band anjuran pelajar UiTM Shah Alam.

Pada awalnya, Lydias Diery dikenali sebagai Fake Plastic Hair yang memainkan music grunge, comedy dan rock n roll. Pada tahun 2005, ahli-ahli asal kumpulan ini telah bercadang untuk menukarkan konsep muzik mereka kepada muzik lebih soft, rock, ballad dan sedikit unsur berat kepada muzik mereka yang mana mereka klasifikasikan campuran-campuran muzik ini sebagai music alternative.

Penukaran konsep muzik ini juga menyebabkan mereka bercadang untuk menukarkan nama mereka kepada nama yang lebih bersesuaian hinggalah pada satu hari salah seorang anggota asal kumpulan ini menemui sebuah diari yang dimiliki oleh seorang gadis bernama Lydia.

Bermula dari situ, nama Fake Plastic Hair telah bertukar menjadi nama Lydias Diery (Lydia's Diary) sempena penemuan diari misteri yang telah banyak memberikan inspirasi kepada hasil-hasil muzik mereka.

2004-2006
Botaq: Vocal & 2nd guitar
Asrap: Lead Guitar
Aus: Bass
Lee Ja: Drum

2007-2008
Botaq: Vocal & Acoustic Guitar
Asrap: Lead Guitar
Megat: 2nd Guitar
Wan Erza: Drum
Ejart: Bass

2009
Botaq: Vocal & Acoustic Guitar
Wan Erza: Drum
Qayyum @ Wu Shern: Lead Guitar
San: 2nd Guitar
Fabian: Bass

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Import Songs are Better?

This has been a hot issue for a long time. Many have accused popular radio stations in Malaysia of airing more import songs such as those from Indonesia and Singapore.

Recently, to prove that the matter is just a lot of hot air, an NGO which is Persatuan Karyawan Malaysia (Karyawan), made a weeklong review over three popular radio stations in Malaysia. The team studied the radio stations continuously without pause for the length of time to get a picture of the stations’ habits.

The review found that it is true that the songs aired by those stations are import songs.

With that, Karyawan has suggested a 90-10 quota said the general manager Ahmad Abdullah. According to that quota, import songs will be limited to 10 percent while the other 90 percent is for local songs.

Radio representatives explained it’s not that they don’t want to play local songs, but recently, import songs have found place in the listener’s heart. So that can’t push aside the demands of the listeners.

So who is to blame here; Composers, artists, radio stations or listeners? Why do listeners’ enjoy listening to songs from bands from Indonesia such as Kerispatih, Ungu, Radja etc?

I personally has stopped listening to local songs lately but in the past, I was took interest about the latest news in the entertainment world. The main reason is that current local songs no longer pique my interests to listen to them, much less by the albums.

Should the artists be blamed? Have the quality of local songs really gone down if compared to the golden ages of Alleycats, Search, Wings, Siti Nurhaliza, Aishah, Ziana Zain and many more?

-zwa