Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Nan Ren Bang
I think whatever I am going to write might caused some uproars (mostly from gals, esp their fans) but I decide to go ahead anyway.
Went to watch the 男人帮 performance @ Muchuan on last sat, 27 May with the chibabom gang + waitresses. 1st thing that surprised me was numbers of patrons seated at the tables at 7.30pm, which is half an hour before the performance start. If not for Yoyo having called Yuzhi to help to reserve a table, I guessed we won’t be seated there, especially when we are so used to arrive on the dot or even later.
Bumped into my ex-colleague (one of the “ah-shuis”) who tagged along with her friends. From what it seems, think her friends choose to go to Muchuan specially for that performance.
Nan Ren Bang was divided into two segments, the first segment is more acoustic, where they sing ballads (To elaborate, there are two guitarists: Liang Wen & Jianhua, a keyboardist—Ah Du, and 3 singers – Ah Du, Jie Hao & Jianhua). Then after 10pm, it became a live band, with Liang Wen playing the drums.
Frankly speaking, a few of us were getting bored towards the end of their 1st segment. I guess that is mainly because the hosting style of Jianhua and Jiehao are similar ( their similarities dun stop at their initials “JH” , haha), which were: telling corny jokes, sometimes unnecessarily. At times, they seemed like interrupting each other, leaving the jokes sort of being “dangling in the air”.
Still prefer Monsters (and yeah, how strange when 2 of the Nan Ren Bang members are also in Monsters group too), though the jokes can be corny at times, there were some witty comments.
Monsters, at least to me is more balanced, where everyone take turns to sing a song and each Monster’s style of singing is different. They actually complement one another. But for Nan Ren Bang, it seems like there’s a competition – for attention, between the two JHs. Can say Ah Du is the smart one, choose to talk/joke/strike only when necessarily. But then, his song can be ruined by others. It’s really ＂破坏气氛” when he sang “becos of you” and after he reached the notes of “same damm thing~~~”, someone (I shan’t name who) added a
“piang!”.
Then there is a pause, and giggles. But think abt it,
it is not funny at all. The whole song is spoilt!
I wonder was it arranged between the gang that Liang Wen wasn’t given a mic since he is not singing anyway. This, I feel that even is he din sing, he should still be given a mic. Who knows he may blurt out a witty comment out of the blue and that will really bring more entertainment to the whole show. 所谓“一鸣惊人” 嘛！ Kinda feel weird that only 3 guys talking where there are 4 guys on the stage.
As for the band segment, it still seems that Liang Wen was overshadowed even though he was the percussionist when the guys sang “洗刷刷” and “不怕不怕”.
If not for the ““不怕不怕”. , I’d say I enjoyed the Band segment (ok I admit I ‘d condemn that song no matter how differently the guys sang it) . It was a refreshing change from the usual Monster’s performance. But still I feel that Monsters is one group which will capture loyal audience from all sectors, where the Nan Ren Bang is more for the adrenalin rushing gals.
Before I get “whacked’ by those guys’ fans who came across my blog (possibly by typing “muchuan “ or “nan ren bang” on search engines). I’d like to clarify that I have nothing again the two JHs. Even though one always sang “my hubby’s” song with mistakes. Hahaha. Come to think of it, he’d still choose to sing “my hubby’s “ song from my dedication list , even though he might have been sian of them. Think he din make mistakes when he sung “远走高飞” that night – perhaps he’s not stressed as I dun have any ‘glaring power’ cos I was seated so far away.
接下来，可要辛苦他们了。Cos Mr Li’s album will be out soon, and you bet I will request them to sing his new songs. Had already passed them the lyrics of ”很想说”. Lots of 转音, not that easy to sing.
Haha, I went out of topic liao. Can’t blame me lah!
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