[videos] KYTV: P.O.P :: Singapore
July 17, 2009
The troops rallied on 6th June, and it was a good, fine day at the esplanade doing KYTV:P.O.P nonsense. Our singing more or less sucked, our dancing – some, at least – drew inspiration from the Great Singapore Workout (so you can imagine how that went), but the making of it was INCREDIBLY fun.
It was a ball of a time prancing around in weird-ass costumes and lip-syncing to the recording. I laughed so hard during the whole process I think I developed abs.
How it worked:
- Choose your POPstar name
- Pick the original song for your solo/duet/group: Angry Song, Love Duet, Obscure Song, Happy Song…
- Learn your song via the separate tellies & headphones set up for each song (we never really made it..heh)
- Record your song in the studio.
- Head over to the makeup/dress up station to muck around with the nice people
- Wait for your turn to shoot your MTV against a green screen
- Say “thank you”!
- Sober up over the next few days and cringe over your video when it appears
So thanks to shal, nab, erfen, jonny, chris g, juliane, su & jie for coming down.. not to mention the bishy-bashy and bowling session that happened later. Oh yes, and the NOBODY by wonder girls impromptu cover we did.
(L-R) erfen, me, shal, jonny, nab, juliane
And here are the videos:
J. the Wicked-Witch-from-the East-who-had-to -settle-for-purple-sequins-because-it’s-the-recession-and-black-cloth-was-expensive & the Great Singapore Workout back-up dancers
Angsty boys : Ch(Tr)is G. & E.Dilly Daddy
Still angsty: schoolmates indra, terrix & helen
schoolmates: raphael & mike
Weird rooster-disco girl S. & SuperPinkBather N.
Happy Spankers, Lime-light Grabbers
keeping track…
July 6, 2009
It appears I attended a lot more exhibitions/plays/concerts than I realized in the past 3 months. Ah, money-money, so that’s where you went.
ARTS FEST
Yuri Bashmet & the Moscow Chamber Choir
Jeremy Monterio, T’ang Quartet & friends
Visible Cities (S’pore/Italy co-production)
Etiquette (Rotozaza)
Red (Stalker Theatre Co.)
ESPLANADE’S FLIPSIDE
Ole: The Latin Music Comedy Explosion
KYTV: P.O.P
THEATRE
CATS
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wild Rice)
Much Ado About Nothing (SRT)
EXHIBITIONS: museums
Christian Lacroix the Costumier (NMS)
Verner Panton (NMS)
The Kangxi Emperor: Treasures from the Forbidden City (ACM)
EXHIBITIONS: photography:: Month of Photography
The Unguarded Moment by Steve McCurry (ACM)
Don’t Move by Francoise Huguier
Life before death: Journeys by Deanna Ng
InsideOut II
EXHIBITIONS: misc
URBAN Playground: SSQ Artist-in-Residence 2009 (sculpture square)
There are No New Messages Today (Popok Tri Wahyudi)
It’s time to Kill Your Televison & P.O.P the sock
June 4, 2009
Zul – our audio instructor – passed us the flyer for KYTV P.O.P’s Station Tour: Singapore 2009 the other day and said all of us had to attend one of the days. Heh. Now that’s why I like school. You get to do all these fun and embarrasing things in the name of “homework”. Good excuse, yes? So besides my classmates, I’m going to drag as many friends I can with me.
They’ll dress you up, record your voice, play it over the system for you to lip-sync to while you dance like a mad chicken against a fantasy backdrop (honestly, isn’t it a mass desire to dance like a mad chicken?), and then upload your video of fame/lame to YouTube. Your very own MTV parody.
KYTV (Kill Your Television) has been around a number of cities for this tour: London, Thailand, Berlin, Jakarta, Yogyakarta… which makes up the range of videos on their YouTube channel.
I’ll definitely freeze for a bit on the day itself because as my good friends know, I’m shhhyyyy….. (sorry, inside joke. but I really am.), but I still think we’ll have a good time poking fun at this ironic take on the entertainment industry and, as the poster puts it “(the) process of ‘manufacturing’ celebrities, by ‘packaging’ and individual or a group into a product for mass consumption”. Plus dressing up with wigs & friends always means a ++++++++ rocking good time.
Hmm… maybe it’s time to tell Jonny & Nab to put their Nobody,Nobody but you/chu moves to good use. I know for sure that Jonny has been practising.
DETAILS
05 – 07 June 2009 (Fri – Sun)
2 – 6pm
7 – 10pm
Jendela (Visual Arts Space)
Level 2, Esplanade Mall
we make a very good pink dot
May 30, 2009
PINK DOT.SG
16th May 2009, Saturday
4.30 pm
Hong Lim Park
Met Squid and her friends there after the Verner Panton exhibition @ NSM. I’m glad I went. It’s encouraging to see how many Singaporeans – gay or straight – are willing to come down to support this cause : the freedom to love whatever your gender, race, religion, etc. You know, the funny part is that I think more straight people were there to support their friends than anything.
What I thought would be a huge cam-whoring session/picnic for everybody turned out to be more than that. Good job, organisers. They sure kept the crowd entertained . There were dikir barat(with an entertaining tukang karut/main singer), dance, bhangra and lion dance performances.. when there was a technical delay, Neo Swee Lin even ad-libbed and danced a bit to stall for time. Oh, her husband and her baked cookies to give out. How sweet was that.
Ah. And that was the day when I first heard Nobody by Wonder Girls (one of the dance groups did it) and ever since then, the song has SERIOUSLY been stuck in my head. It just won’t bloody go away. The earworm oscillates between being great fun and driving me mad.
The other group…. well. I always thought nothing gay/transexual/homosexual/whateversexual would surprise me anymore. That I wasn’t as fuddy-duddy as my parents’ generation< , but when Voguelicious came out, I have to admit, my eyebrows shot up.
Now these Voguelicious members, oh boy.. can they dance. And man, are they hot.
There was one member who I would love to use for my studio shot assignment (we all have to do one for our digital photography course). He had a most interesting face. Feminine, but very strong features. Lots of angles and rather sexy. Wonder if he’ll agree to let me photograph him if I ever find out who he is.
What I liked best about Voguelicious wasn’t the fact that they’re all superb dancers – individually or in a group , or that they’re different, but that they looked so confident. I’m sure they get stares when they go out, but they look like the sort that would be nonchalant about it.
Anyway, pinkdot was quite an experience. It has unforgivingly hot and humid, but the crowd was obviously there to have a good time, and we did. Forming the dot did only result in a photograph for solidarity, it also made all of us feel that solidarity. So check out pinkdot.sg for more info/photos/videos, because they’re obviously headed in the right direction, and going about it in the right way for Singapore.
