Broken Wings by Mizeryfree

The process of listening to it was painful, and definitely not misery free. If i were a bird, I would break my wings first before listening to it again.

The tune was ok, if not a bit monotonous, the guitar 'riff' in the middle (if you call it a riff that is), sounded like an acoustic guitar trying to sound like an electric guitar, the vocals were so out of tune, didn't matter whether the singer was singing mid range or on the higher end of his range, which by the way, isn't much of a range to speak of.

Alright that's all for the very vicious rant, which I think is probably because I literally tumbled out of bed (Didn't even have the luxury to 'get up' on the wrong side of bed). They were played during Perfect 10's Non stop hits program (during which I really felt that they should have stopped the track or at least hit me into some sort of concussed stupor so I could classify the music as the white noise in my head, but no, it had to go on and on and on ad nauseum.)

Seriously, I don''t know why I'm feeling so much towards a song. (Ooh I'm actually feeling something for once!) I could have just as easily turned it off if I didn't want to listen to it, but no, what was really disturbing about that song was that the station played an intro jingle to the song which singled it out as being "Made in Singapore". And I don't think that the song does justice to local musicians at all. If I were a non-regular listener of radio music (which I am), that song would have put me off all local bands till kingdom come (during which we will thankfully all be spared from these unlistenable tunes, phew.)

I wasn't there for the School of Rock competition, I don't know what local bands sound like (except for Mizeryfree and maybe Ronin), but I just think Singapore is definitely capable of better sounding, or at least, in tune bands. Whining your way through a song trying to sound like a cross between Sylvester Sim and Simple Plan just isn't going to cut it.

I suppose this Miseryfree band is just starting out; perhaps they lack sufficient funding, so they don't have money to buy instruments or get enough studio time to practice, but that's really no excuse for poor music! (Maybe this is the reason why people say classical musicians are snobs/elitist etc but really, you have to listen to the song to know what I mean.) Then again, it won't be fair if I judge the band by just one song, although I seriously wonder how much better the other songs can be if only this one made it to a radio station.

That's all for now; now I can return to ironing my clothes with the radio off. I don't think I need anymore cranial stimulus. It's too tiring.

30-mins-after-post note: Alright I think I overreacted; to the band/friends of the band/ardent supporters,don't take it personally, it's solely a personal preference thing. :)