Singapore's Society using One Sociological Theory
Musicians in Singapore call it the “local music scene”. And over the years expansion has seen home-grown musicians gaining popularity in Singapore. But why is the local music scene still searching to find its identity (original sound)? This failure, in turn, hampers our musicians from moving onto the world stage. Are we influenced by the integrative mechanism (marketing their music through their mass media) and social facts from the functionalistic structure of British and American music so much so that consumers (music fans) feel that our music is clichéd? Or is our society shielded by organizations of power (i.e. the censorship board) to a certain extend that musicians in Singapore cannot freely express their true feelings through music? To achieve this “original sound” musicians in Britain and America have the freedom to expressed a wide range of feelings like anomie, suicide, love and alienation into their musi
CHORUS: And f**k me if I say something you don’t wanna hear In Singapore, can musicians earn similar amounts of money (in the region of millions) to that of big US and Brit musicians like Madonna and Elton John? Singaporean musicians do not have the motivation to play professionally for a living as the pay will probably be way too low for survival in Singapore.
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British American,
Musicians Singapore,
Britain America,
VERSE Gonna,
Goal Attainment,
Pearl Jam,
Integrative Mechanism,
Alice Chains,
John Singaporean,
George Bush’s,
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british american music,
hear f**k,
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american music,
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bushleaguer pearl,
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