Just to make a long matter short, there was a smash hit song called "Love Never Changes" by a local artist called Tik Shiro. In the late 80s and 90s, Tik Shiro has been one of the most popular singers in Thailand. He was known to be a great drummer, plays many musical instruments, a composer, a producers, a singer, and also a great dancer. However in the late 90s up the early 2000s, he pretty much disappeared from the music scene. Most of my peers, or people of the younger generation pretty much ridicule him as an ugly singer, with stupid songs, and who imitates Michael Jackson. That is pretty irksome especially when I go to the Karaoke and open some of his older songs.
Just a year back, he was back with a new album with Grammy Entertainment which was called "Boran (Ancient Man)" which seems to make fun of his past. Anyway, strangely enough, his song "Love Never Changes (Rak Mai Yom Paien Plang)" became one of the biggest hits of the year, and made him extremely popular with the newer generation of fans. Though I don't like the new album like some of his older vintage albums, it is still a solid offering, much of the old stuff, but with a better PR and marketing. Anyway, from all of that, the good thing is that I don't get ridicule anymore for playing his songs on the Karaoke Machine :P
Coming back to the subject mater about F Never Changes, I just happen to drop on a music video posted by a student from ABAC (Assumption University) where I teach, a video at a local online video sharing website. He has covered the song that I mentioned earlier with his (supposedly or real?) struggles with his studies which ended up with Fs. Anyway, at the end of the song, the message was simple - never give up.
Just one more short note from me. Never give up, but don't forget to learn from your mistakes also!
To view the video, follow the following link:
http://video.mthai.com/player.php?id=2M1176266554M268
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i discovered tik shiro totally by accident as i was looking for thai songs. i downloaded a song called 'nam ta ai noom' which is great- i've used it as background music for a couple of thailand videos. any other recommended songs?
I just noticed that you were back to Bangkok, so I thought it might be easier to recommend you to get the older album. Tik Shiro used to be in Nititad Promotion/Onpa. Since the company got bankrupted, they are selling off its old inventory of stuff for cheap. You can find the best of Tik Shiro CDs (about 4-5 of them) for about 1XX baht each, which is really cheap, and worth your money. Other wise if not, I could recommend individual songs, but its rather difficult because it depends more on what style you like.
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