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Quick Update: Life, Guitar
Sep. 26th, 2023 09:14 pmI realise that I turned into a ghost these last few weeks, and I want to apologise for that. I just wanted to quickly post an update that I am alive and okay, but just very, very busy.
I just got finished with my visa renewal process this week, and I was approved for a three year extension of stay.YAY!
Last week, I started studying the Spice Girls on guitar. Truth be told, I used to be a hater back in the day! I crtiticised the Spice Girls and all the manufactured boy bands for not writing songs or playing their own instruments. But even if it was manufactured pop music, it was undeniably catchy!
My role as an English teacher in Japan also gave me a new appreciation for dance. Because even if the bands don't play instruments, it still takes a lot of talent to actually get up on stage to sing and dance well.
Stop was the one song from the Spice Girls that I liked, but I was surprised to learn that this song from the girls didn't chart to number 1. But I still wonder how the Spice Girls would have done if they had played their own instruments, and how they would have been perceived.
With the usage of a backing track, and without their band performing on stage with them a lot of the time, it does make their music more difficult to study. I'm still up for the challenge though!
The timing of this couldn't have been more perfect because within hours of me first learning how to play Stop, the girls posted on their community page that they just celebrated their 27th anniversary of the release of their debut album with a photo from Tokyo.
I hope to make a more substantial update about how things are going very soon. Take care.
I just got finished with my visa renewal process this week, and I was approved for a three year extension of stay.YAY!
Last week, I started studying the Spice Girls on guitar. Truth be told, I used to be a hater back in the day! I crtiticised the Spice Girls and all the manufactured boy bands for not writing songs or playing their own instruments. But even if it was manufactured pop music, it was undeniably catchy!
My role as an English teacher in Japan also gave me a new appreciation for dance. Because even if the bands don't play instruments, it still takes a lot of talent to actually get up on stage to sing and dance well.
Stop was the one song from the Spice Girls that I liked, but I was surprised to learn that this song from the girls didn't chart to number 1. But I still wonder how the Spice Girls would have done if they had played their own instruments, and how they would have been perceived.
With the usage of a backing track, and without their band performing on stage with them a lot of the time, it does make their music more difficult to study. I'm still up for the challenge though!
The timing of this couldn't have been more perfect because within hours of me first learning how to play Stop, the girls posted on their community page that they just celebrated their 27th anniversary of the release of their debut album with a photo from Tokyo.
I hope to make a more substantial update about how things are going very soon. Take care.
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