Hari ni the day they decided on sapa layak Anugerah Juara Lagu 25 lepas the final semifinal. Aku separuh akhir ni, layan persembahan semua dari belakang pentas, nak amik feel camna debaran semua.
And also sebab dapat gosip dan lepak ketika show, borak-borak ngan semua kengkawan.
And here's your peek at what happens backstage.
Propkesayangan ramai ni. Kaki ala ala Upin dan Ipin ni da kena basuh la berkali bebudak pakai. Heh! Si Black dan Hafiz dan macam kembar Siam melekat kat badan da.
Sempat snappy si Tomok dan Black bersama... sebelum Tomok dihalau untuk tugasan dia... iaitu...
Tuh dia. Tugas Tomok? Nak jadi aerial bagi satu-satunya TV yang hado kat belakang pentas ni, yang bergantung live feed. Reception lak hado, so azab la semua kena harap reception ok. Ni si Tomok kena dera sebab dia berdiri sebelah TV tetiba baru ada gambar dan sound. Merasalah dia dipaksa jadik aerial demi kepuasan semua menonton backstage.
Comel tak kak Dibah pose dok rileks je. Si Ana dan Yuna pon ada, sempat snappy pic ni just before meka panggil semua onstage.
Belakang pentas lak ramai berkumpul. Ni snap pic API - Angkatan Pemuda Indie, three members at least ngan Din (Estranged), Loque (now known as monoLoque dan AJ (Popshuvit) sekali ngan Sam dari Bunkface.
And some others in Lan, Stacy, Adira, Ana dan Shahir.
And then - the announcement. Well, not yet. Ni masa semua tunggu ketika nak umum. Sempat agik tuh main-main atas pentas. I like this year sebab all the performers (most of them anyway) can get along and mesra, performing for the fun of it - and rileks je. Takde feel competition sangat sebab semua tak tekankan soal bersaing.
And finally - ni semua yang layak.
And ni full list semua yang layak. Especially pada anak-anak muda yang singer-songwriters yang represent the future of the music scene. You guys rock!
Sofea Jane - Black / Shah Kamikaze & Iswandy / Farril
Pelita - A.P.I / Loque / Loque
Cinta Sempurna - Yuna / Yuna / Yuna
Tolong Ingatkan Aku - Ana Rafali / Ana Rafali / Ana Rafali
Ku Ada Kamu - Adira / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim
Hanyut - Faizal Tahir / Audi Mok / Faizal Tahir
Jahat - Stacy / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim
Kebahagian Dalam Perpisahan - Shahir / Edry Abdul Halim / Edry Abdul Halim
Mencari Konklusi - Hujan / Noh Hujan / Noh Hujan
Selamat Malam - Faizal Tahir / Audi Mok / Faizal Tahir
Drama King - Meet Uncle Hussain & Black / Taja / Tun Teja
And yes, aku malas nak komen apa-apa lebih about what happened. Biarkan. Orang lain dapat nilai. Diam tak bererti mengalah, sama seperti mengkritik bukan bererti dengki atau menuduh. Cuma kadang-kadang ada pihak yang menjadi penyampai tak bertauliah - but que sera sera.
Still - it was a happy night, save for Aizat takde which cam lacking lak with the whole gang. It's going to be a great AJL - here's hoping for the best jury to make the right choices when the show is on next year (cam lama sangat padahal sebulan lebih je)
Firstly... rupanya kecoh gak aku post pics benda asing yang berada atas pentas kat Anugerah Juara Lagu. Kat forum Cari, aku da paste sana tuk discussion - rupanya sampai 60,000 views in just over three days.
Lom lagik beratus-ratus komen all together from various blog sites, forums and also Facebook dan Twitter accounts yang bersepah post the pictures I took.
Tak sangka aku ramai sangat suka cita paranormal nih. Pergh! Patutlah orang kata Mastika majalah nombor satu in the country. Walaupun...
Anyway, aku terpanggil untuk ulas sikit lagi pasal benda ni sebab ramai menyangkal apa aku jelaskan (obviously ada yang tak pandai baca.. so baca slow-slow ek.. aku taip perlahan-lahan tuk ko!)
Ini some pics yang da muncul - the first two dalam Facebook fan page Faizal Ismail and the last dalam forum Cari (tatau nak kredit sapa so aku kredit Cari forum sebab da paste sana - tuan punya sila bagitau kalao ini hang punya so aku kredit hang).
Tengok elok-elok.
Ketiga-tiga gambar memperjuangkan teori penari Faizal yang kami lihat, dan berjaya snap dalam dua pics.
Aku malas nak ulangi lebih - so usha my previous entry by CLICKING HERE where I explain so many things.
Now tengok balik pics aku. Like I said - the first pic aku amik (memula nak amik sebab ingat penari Faizal so nak blog kan wat lawak... until aku balik aku tengok balik pic tuh teringat balik banyak tak kena). Masa amik tuh, blur, so I took a second one. Masa nak amik the third, in the space of just seconds, benda tuh dah hilang.
So here's the pics, including the first pic aku tak penah posting, and the zoomed in one. Again, banding with the pics above.
Now... as I said before. MASIH JELAS (merasalah promo lagu Hafiz) yang benda tuh berada JAUH ke depan (bukan bahagian tengah stage) daripada tempat penari Faizal turun.
On top of that, it's too high - bukan pada scaffolding erected by TV3 for lighting (which was where penari Faizal berada). Kira kalao ko nampak dalam pic - benda tuh berada lebih tinggi dari the video screen box thingie dah.
I wish some people wouldn't terus kata tuh nih cam aku penipu, sebab siap ada yang katakan aku photoshop the pics. I have the original photos in my camera and anyone yang nak menyangkal kata aku touch up these photos, you're welcome to check my camera.
Ada yang katakan lighting - pantulan cahaya dan sebagainya. Which would have been fine if benda tuh muncul dalam gambar SAHAJA! How do you explain that lima orang dari tempat duduk media (different angle) nampak benda sama.
Aku mewakili The Malay Mail buat liputan, selain itu turut menyaksikan adalah Izwan Mohd Dan dari Metro Ahad dan Farihad Shalla Mahmud dari Berita Harian, selain dua orang teman lagik.
We saw the 'person' moving.
We noticed it looking at the audience, with minimal movements (aku nampak cam lambai).
We also noticed it disappearing.
So kalao sapa nak menidakkan.. pikirlah dulu. Aku bukan kata benda ni seharusnya yang siap berjubah ke berkain kapan ke haper. Walaopon sebenarnya nampak cam seseorang berambut panjang, berjubah dan membawa anak (matilah ko pepandai lagik add on).
But whatever it is - it is not a figment of our imagination, it is not lighting, it is not a camera trick, it is not photoshop and it sure as hell is NOT a lie.
Ehem... secondly... aku nak lepas geram ada yang tak puas lagu Pergi Pete Teo dan Amran Omar menang. Memacam spekulasi.
Now I know people will always have differing opinions.. which is ok sebab taste memasing.
Tapi yang geram bila orang menidakkan lagu ni sebab kata lemau dan sebagainya.
I chose this song as a possible winner in my prediction. And when it won and orang tak puas, aku malam tadi siap borak sorang anggota juri - who told me the vote was SEBULAT SUARA - UNANIMOUS yang Pergi was more than deserving.
Ada la bongok nak kata lagu ni lemau la takde dinamik la tak uji vokal la...
Kenapa orang kita nih nak glorify sangat lagu-lagu yang kena menjerit? Kat Malaysia nih, zaman 80and dan 90an kita disajikan dengan memacam lagu - lagu ballads and also rock yang sampai kuar anak tekak atau pecah kaca punya mengilai, menjerit, memekik dan yang sewaktu dengannya.
It's 2010 people!
Move on!
Pergi won because of the so many things - bukan sahaja kekuatan melodi, susunan struktur lagu tu dari segi komposisi, kesinambungan kandungan lirik dengan muzik, and the fact that ia jenis lagu bukan semua yang dapat sampaikan.
It's a song that many can sing - but few can emote, or menjiwakan.
And it was done well by Aizat.
Benci tol orang kata patutnya lagu A menang padahal lagu very the lagu 20 tahun lepas, lepas tuh performance tak kena langsung sebab ala ala nak bunuh orang dari mempersembahkan mesej lagu tu tang cinta.
Or lagu B tuh hanya kerana dapat memekik melolong sampai benda atas pentas tuh pun lari (or terbang) ketakutan!
Or C - hanya kerana comel la si drummer (motif??? ni dedicate kat si Chi yang menggedik)
Or even D sebab ramai kata lagu tu selalu keluar radio.
Hello, people. This is not a damn popularity contest. Kalao nak sangat have your say yang bijak pandai, then tengok Anugerah Bintang Popular. Tu bagi peminat kuasa memilih (time tu kalah lak kata stakat populariti takde kredibiliti lak).
The two most pretigious competitions dalam negara ni adalah Anugerah Industri Muzik dan Anugerah Juara Lagu.
Bab Anugerah Juara Lagu - it's about COMPOSITION. Pasal LAGU! Bukan samaada hang suka ka... laku ka... jual berapa ribu unit ka... mak ko kata sedap kat halwa telinga ka...
This is voted for by the industry - for the industry. PERIOD!
But AJL ni ada something different. It allows for the relevancy of popularity and also credibility.
Minggu demi minggu, peminat vote so it can go semifinal. Sampai semifinal one more vetting by jury, tuk ke final. Then baru sampai juara. So you had your damn say who deserved in. Kalao hazab la sangat tak layak Pergi, tak masuk pon.
Aku kalao korang nak carot lagu lain menang aku paham. But there are about five songs dari empat belas yang bertanding, which I thought had the POTENTIAL to win. And the strongest was Pergi. So deal with it.
Bosan la ada yang melalut lagi. Yang best nya ni pengkritik kedai kopi yang feeling tau segalanya. Cam pakcik pakcik yang melalut dari pagi ke petang cita pasal politik kat kedai kopi seperti meka la tau apa meka leh wat tuk selamatkan ekonomi dunia.
Grow up. Realise la sikit.. it's a competition. The noted best was recognised.
Camna la industri muzik kita nak grow kalao peminat sendiri kat tahap lama? Jangan nak demand artis dan syarikat rakaman je update sikit. Peminat pon. Ni tak.. banyak bunyi last last HADO beli album? Download MP3 haram je keja - kononnya freedom of information. Matilah ko piracy ko halalkan sesuka hati tak hormati intellectual rights orang.
Dah... malas.. bab kreativiti nih... aku ada one more thing to share.
I used to like American football a lot. My fave teams were Dallas Cowboys. Then there were the Buffalo Bills. Tapi kan sebelom aku merapu, this entry is not really about American football.
Ni pasal one of the players in the Buffalo Bills now.
His name is Ellis Lanksder and he kicks ass big time. Even though tak follow sangat da, kalao catch his play memang bagus la dak nih.
Tapi kan, he has one SERIOUS problem. He is a massive stutterer! Gagap! Merasalah Stacy muncul nyanyi lagu dia terus.
Tengok je video ni dulu of a press conference. This is the most "I was like uhm..." you will head in a two minute period.
Now.. the real reason for this entry.
To show how creative some people out there are - that I wish were here. Some dude out there, took this footage, and made his own remix! Don't believe me? Check it out.. it's pretty good.
Creative, imaginative.. and rajin gila dowh nak dok edit on top of making the music to make it flow. Genius! I wish there were more people who thought out of the box in this country.
We need ideas to develop.
Or at the end of the day - Cam Tun Mahathir penah cakap.. kita ni just first world infrastructure, tapi tetap third world mentality!
PS - Got my Astro b.yond semalam. Best tuh best... worth it. Just pening dok repeat program sama. Tak sabar meka add extra channels.
Ok so I posted this pic smalam. I didn't say much about it... and most of you yang baca sini tak amik pot sangat pon pasal pic tuh.
Tapi pas aku paste kat forum, and ramai discuss about it, and aku risik sikit agik... banyak persoalan timbul - just a picture of WHAT did I take?
This is the original photo. Click on it to see a bigger version.
I asked you guys if you saw anything. Try looking at the second 'b' in my watermark.
The facts of the case. Aku ngan kengkawan what looked like a person up there, tengah-tengah lagu Aizat - Kau Aku, sebelum Bencinta. I didn't think anything about it, neither did anyone sebab kami ingat penari Faizal Tahir yang turun pakai harness tuh.
But yesterday morning after I posted it more as a joke... so much was said about it, aku besarkan pakai Photoshop and cleared up the pic a little.
And this is the close-up.
The facts now are this.
1. Five of us saw the 'figure', and yes it wasn't an illusion of the light or anything. Because I was using a simple camera with not much of a zoom - you can't really see anything but a cloudy blurrd figure.
2. Among the movements were a sort of movement, like a wave. It also stared down at the audience.
3. Aku da bertanyakan orang kuat production TV3 dan setelah gambar dikaji, memang sesuatu yang pelik sebab - a. Bahagian beam dia dok tuh, terlalu jauh dari tempat bebudak penari Faizal yang pakai harness gayut. They came down in the middle of the stage area, above the pit that had hydraulics to lower or raise performers. This was right above the front end of the stage near the audience.
b. Tidak kelihatan kelibat pon orang lain - dan tak mungkin dancer unsupervised alone kalao betol. There had to be a technical/production person to act as a spotter and there was none. Besides, point a. pon da buktikan it's not a dancer.
c. Tempat itu terlalu jauh kedepan, memandangkan dia da keluar zon pentas, dan tidak ada staff production yang akan ke sana sebab tak ada kena mengena atau fungsi. On top of that - orang production akan pakai warna hitam sahaja.
d. Memang juga disahkan itu bukan pakaian penari Faizal.
So balik soalan nya. What is that in the picture? Bukan ilusi cahaya, kain terbang, penari Faizal yang gayut dari atas pentas mahupun ahli production. Renungkanlah.
The whole of last night borak ngan kengkawan yang da tengok pic ni and everyone tried to rationalise it.
Seb baik dua orang kawan yang nampak benda tu malam AJL ada sekali so meka pon backing story aku cakap what they saw.
And no one had an answer... a real answer. Spekulasi memacam.
Question is now - what did we see that was in the photographs?
Well it is a pretty good morning isn't it... after the splendid results of Anugerah Juara Lagu 24. Walaopon aku tau ada yang mesti merungut... sebab their favourites didn't win.
Boo to you then.. sebab I think the jury did a splendid job.
For those of you who missed the results - nih dia.
Juara Lagu : Pergi (Aizat/Pete Teo/Amran Omar) (RM35,000 and trophy)
Runner-up : Dan Sebenarnya (Yuna/Yuna/Yuna) (RM15,000 and trophy)
Third place : Bencinta (Faizal Tahir/Audi Mok/Faizal Tahir) (RM12,000 and trophy)
Best Vocal Performance : Black (Aku Rindu Sayang Kamu) (RM10,000 and trophy)
Best Performance : Aizat (Kau Aku) (RM10,000 and trophy)
So my prediction of Pergi memang betul.. as was my prediction of Bencinta in the top three pon being in second. My wildcard possibility of being in top three in Dan Sebenarnya made it beating Kau Aku, tapi prediction aku for Best Performance in Stacy was wrong when Aizat won for Kau Aku - which I mentioned masa dry run (check a couple of entries ago) that it had the possibility of a win after watching preparations.
As for Best Vocal - Black was nowhere in my list. That much I have to admit. So that was the only one aku tersasar gila babas punya.
Now before anything.. layan pic ni jap.
Nampak tak apa apa yang pelik?
Ni time masa Aizat tengah perform Kau Aku. Nampak tak benda putih wrapped in white.. erm... kalao iut watermark aku atas the second 'B'. Scary!
Tapi aku rasa ni antara penari terbang Faizal sebab pastuh dia perform Bencinta. Tapi erm.. yang ni cam dibalut kain putih. Argh!!! Horror! Mungkinkah... JANGAN TEGUR!
Apapon... kan aku da kata opening MELETOP! Aku menjerit cam orang gila. Siti and Lan... FANTASTIC! Best opening EVER in an awards show to date and it will be VERY DIFFICULT to top this collaboration.
Apapon... for those yang nak bitch about the results. Aku hanya leh explain the best I can for those yang tak paham jury choices.
By the way, sebelom apa-apa mai aku explain sapa jury and what they did.
Syed Ahmad Faisal Al-Attas atau lebih dikenali sebagai Pacai dan Hazami yang bertanggungjawab score for composition manakala Dr Wan Zawawi dan Fatimah Abu Bakar on lyrics, sementara Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, Zainal Abidin and Media Prima Television Networks group chief executive officer Datuk Seri Farid Ridzuan yang score for performances along with the other judges to make up for the 30% of the score untuk dicampurkan pada previous pre-judging by the assigned judges. Paham?
Ok... Pergi... berkali aku explain why this choice of my Juara Lagu - and the eventual winner was the best composition.
Memang lagu lain sedap - tapi Pergi ni lain. Lagu nih simple, but again like I always maintained, is COMPLEX in all its simplicity. From structure of the composition, to the simple but lyrics yang mendalam, Pergi memang kelainan. Plus on top of that, walaopon lagu ni senang dan ramai mampu nyanyi - but only someone like Aizat yang dapat menyelam ke dalam jiwa, and pull out those emotions could bring out the emotions of the song to make it an even more superb masterpiece!
And plus the AWESOME arrangement, with Linda doing the Indian style vocalization... dia start je aku da nitis airmata. It would take a heart of stone not to melt when you hear Pergi... especially this version.
Thank you Aizat for the experience... and for delivering the emotions. I'm sure... many are proud, and some would have been proud if they had been able to hear it...
Bencinta? I've always liked Bencinta. It's not run of the mill rock. And ramai biased sebab tak minat Faizal Tahir mostly kalao kata tak suka Bencinta, or perhaps not a fan of his style. But this is a song composition contest, and Bencinta is a unique and rather experimental piece of mainstream rock-flavoured pop.
And I sort of like the tribute to Michael Jackson. It was inspired by, and not an Adam Lambert meets Michael Jackson doused with Mad Max affair like Bengang became with horrible conceptualization.
Dan Sebenarnya, so may argue is the best sebab lyrical content dia. I don't doubt it is good, and deservedly among the winners, tapi I think it's not strong to go against Pergi, but again, layak to be in the best three.
Best Performance may not be expected - but neither did I. But Aizat did well with Kau Aku. Walaopon ramai bawak tiga empat kampung, and kids especially, Kau Aku worked well with it. There was a certain element of genuine honesty with the performance and I guess that's why the jury awarded it that. Admit it.. you felt like dancing with the kids too. A little Laskar Pelangi flavoured.
Best Vocal Performance. Well... ok.. I expected Misha technically, though she wasn't perfect. Or Stacy for her ability to hold her own despite the moves. But Black, according to Fauzi Marzuki, which I have to agree with, did something impressive from the lowest note to the highest, showing off his range, especially when he started outside the stadium. That I have to give credit to Black walaupon aku mencik lagu dia.
So anyway.. congrats to the winners. No matter what anyone says... you guys deserve the wins. And kengkawan kat TV3 especially to Gbam and Su and Co. - congratulations for the best show ever in AJL history. Walaopon camera angle kekadang gila... dan tak sheshuai!!! Still a lot of Astro productions can learn a lot from you.
And now a couple of very random pics that don't fit in anywhere else in this entry.
Audi Mok - the BEST producer and composer and booger collector in the business!
Doa tuk bersyukur...
So that's it... I think Anugerah Juara Lagu 24 has been the best ever. What do you guys think?
PS - Tak paham sebilangan kecil yang otak sempit tak puas hati speku bagai hanya kerana bukan pilihan cliche yang menang. Rata rata kemenangan Pergi disambut baik penggiat seni - and fans of music, so this loud minority nak bising sebab something cliche tak menang. Sodih perangai. Educate yourself, bitches.
Semalam gi usha latihan for Anugerah Juara Lagu 24. The set looks interestingly impressive, walaopon kena pakai imagination sebab banyak lom siap.
The lighting and layout are impressive - tapi mana taknya, dengar meka abihkan RM2 juta for the production. Hope everything goes well.
Actualluy kalao leh aku tanak tengok latihan - sebab kang spoil penghayatan gituh pada the night of the event.
But since ni cam dry run je takpe la. Banyak performance masih in the stage of tweaking sana sini, so tengok je la.
Yang penting, opening Datuk Siti Nurhaliza... I LIKE!!! Meletop hawau! Not the usual Siti performance.
I won't say much, but aku paling suka dia duet ngan Lan - tanpa typewriter nya. Who would have guessed that the diva can rock it out. I guess you learn something new everyday.
Ni dia yang bakal kuar album rock - pepandai je aku.
A lot of the performances were interesting, awesome. And so far, my predictions (usha beberapa entry lalu) - tak ubah. Sama je... cuma, for Best Performance - aku rasa saingan akan diberikan kepada Stacy (yang dance break bagus gila) - from Aizat (untuk Pergi obviously but surprisingly Kau Aku pun best gak show), Faizal Tahir (Bencinta). Interesting to note is Hujan - yang akan wat flashmob!
Jangan terkejut... bangga aku. Inspirasi dari our KLCC flashmob. Mana taknya.. tukang wat pon orang sama. Heh! Korang tengok je la hasilnya.
Tapi rata-rata, dua elemen yang paling menonjol sebagai gimik persembahan AJL kali ni.
Kalao dulu kak Ani je bawak dua kampung ke atas pentas! Kali ni - ramai dirasuk membawa tiga kampung lak - tapi yang dirasuk nya semua pala batu - atau rockers.
Hujan, Bunkface, Aizat, Faizal Tahir.. penuh stage AND offstage. Oops. Tanak bagitau lebih.. kang spoil surprise korang.
Anyway dua elemen aku maksudkan - koir dan kanak-kanak. Lots of that tomorrow.
Tapi kan.. kalao ikut semalam, aku paling suka persembahan sapa tau. I was moved by Aizat doing Pergi. You have to see the montage playing.
But I was most moved by Faizal's performance of Bencinta.
Especially since he looked to be in so much pain. Dengan bertongkat, dengar Faizal is one painkillers sebab serious dia memang tak larat sangat nak wat. Still, semangat dia berjuang tuh, added to the pain of the song.. I don't know... it was touching in a way.
Noh nak wat reunion MIX dan Faizal nak reunion Mirwana (matilah aku carot)
Misha time out jap masa rehearsal pas abih slot dia
Supposed to go for ujibakat hari pertama Akademi Fantasia 8 kat Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil. But with only two hours sleep in 36 hours or so... serious aku KO terus.
Slept maybe at about 3am... and woke up only 12 hours later! Matilah! But feel refreshed. Not going to watch the rehearsals sebab nak surprise element sikit. Lagikpon kengkawan mana aku leh bantu advise da pun bagi nasihat.. pepandai la memasing da besar panjang.
Apapon - here's to all the performers tomorrow - prove me right! (or in the case of those yang aku hazabkan - prove me wrong!)
Esok je gi ujibakat Akademi Fantasia - so sapa nak audition esok, see you there. Kita cam whore bersama ek!
Alamak, baru terjaga pas koma sejak dari petang tadi. Ngantuk sangat pas balik dari TV9. Pening punya pening, terus tumbang and went to sleep walaopon try nak control.
Ni just woke up, nak dinner makan sikit jap, rehat bagi digest, and then nak KO balik sebab esok nak jalankan resolusi tahun baru (practise run lagik ni) yang pertama dan kedua. Which is firstly, wake up early and work out in the allotted time frame (very the hidup cara sihat) and secondly nak get to the office early like any normal drone. Matilah... drone katanya.
Besides, esok ada something interesting. Tomorrow ada sidang media pengumuman ujibakat Akademi Fantasia 8.
Hah... kan da kata it was coming. So sapa nak audition kang, bersedia. Time to pull out my yearly tips to share.
Sapa nak ujibakat kang, good luck. Esok aku post full details sini ok. Along with some other details about this season.
Also, Anugerah Juara Lagu preparations are under way. Nanti story sikit pasal tuh gak kang.
Ok.. time to call it a night.
PS - Sedang nak tido dapat panggilan dengan gosip panas! Mungkinkah? Esok nak calling nak dapat story lebih. Kalau betul memang BUSUK!
Went to Rootz just now at the rooftop of Lot 10 for the Anugerah Juara Lagu press conference. It was jammed going into KL something really bad. But yang kelakar nya, got to the city je, it was ok.
Apparently everyone stayed away from the Golden Triangle area sebab of all the announcements mentioning the road closures there because of the the marching band championships or other... which was majorly delayed. But while they were supposed to close the roads at 6pm on, the rain caused them to push the start time, I guess, so the roads were empty.
Which was good for me. Got there at 8pm sharp.
Never been into Rootz before, and I must say the decor was...well... different.
At the entrance was a whole bunch of angled mirrors and changing LEDs that went from white to red. Would have thought of it as a techno club if I hadn't gone in. Once inside, it was pseudo luxury.
It looked like someone threw up Versace prints and nothing went well with anything else. It was nice in a weird sort of way. Really weird...
On to the opening and it was time for the main event. The draw to see sapa akan perform dulu and in what order and all.
Ni turutan persembahan malam Anugerah Juara Lagu nanti.
Tak sempat amik semua orang nya pics sebab keja nya pasal nak interview bagai. But this is the pics aku sempat.
Just some very basic info. Faizal Ismail, Ally Iskandar and Cheryl Samsd will host the night, dan selain Juara Lagu dan naib juara, the prizes up for grabs will be Persembahan Terbaik dan Persembahan Vokal Terbaik.
The theme is 'Music Unfolds' and the stage is very origami inspired. Literal translation.
This is how the stage is going to look like.
Lepak kejap ngan kengkawan after it was over. Ni sempat cam whore ngan Michelle. Da lama menggila ngan dia.
Pas abih, gi Hartamas Square melantak ngan kengkawan. Si Aishah dan Aril ada, so join borak. Tak lak aku amik pic. Nanti nanti je la... ni letih. Nak tidur dulu. Esok full day.
So malam tadi semua da tau kan sapa yang layak ke Anugerah Juara Lagu.
Well... sebelom I get on to the full list of songs that made it, I want to wish congratulations kepada semua lagu yang layak berdasarkan kualiti komposisi dan bukan atas sebab sebab lain ye.
Laser semacam kan? Well, hakikat kan? At the end of the day, some songs yang qualified (memasing paham la mana satu) memang don't belong in the elite league of compositions which will face off kang masa di AJL.
To friends, I personally congratulate Alya, Estranged, Stacy and Misha kerana meka akan perform kat pentas akhir. To Aizat - I am especially proud of you cause it was a fitting tribute (whether you thought of it or not... and I'm sure she would be really proud too, bro, if she was here... cuma pasni jangan emo ke focus sangat sampai hanyut lupa lirik). To Hafiz and Akim - bangga ada gak anak-anak murid yang akan beraksi pentas AJL.
Aku happy for them personally.
To Yuna and Hujan, congrats - and pada orang kampung aku, Bunkface, you guys are the future of our music where there are talents who also sing their own compositions. You guys, Estranged and Aizat definitely deserve in for the new breed of talents we want to lead the way.
Sebelom nak link pics... ni senarai penuh meka yang layak.
Senarai Lagu-Lagu yang layak ke Anugerah Juara Lagu 24 (Lagu/Artis/Komposer/Penulis Lirik)
Aku Skandal/Hujan/Noh/Noh Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang/Alyah/Ajai/Habsah Hassan
Aurora/Estranged/Estraged/Estranged Bengang/Akim/Amir/Sheikh Qalam Aku Rindu Sayang Kamu/Black/Yuzai/Yuzai Dan Sebenarnya/Yuna/Yuna/Yuna Rindu Terhenti/Tomok/Aubrey Suwito/Tinta Pakai Buang/Stacy/Edry KRU/Edry KRU Kau Aku/Aizat/Aizat/Aizat/Aizat Pergi/Aizat/Pete Teo/Amran Omar Situasi/Bunkface/Sam/Sam Bencinta/Faizal Tahir/Audi Mok/Faizal Tahir Adam Dan Hawa/Misha Omar/Azmeer/Loloq Masih Jelas/Hafiz/Aidit Alfian Ad Samad
Aku tanak wat prediction sapa akan menang ke haper. Wat skang, personally tuk aku, aku rasa lagu paling kuat adalah Pergi dan Bencinta (tu pun kalao Shila tak nyanyi yang menyakitkan telinga sampai tahap Akim wat tuk konsert Akademi Fantasia JAUH lebih meletop! Shila pon meletop - ala Altantuya uols.. pasang C4 lebih sikit... cam hanjeng sangat!!!!!!!)
Aku sakit hati tol serious dengar Shila nyanyi. Nothing personal against her, but I think she is so unsuited for the song. Sora dia tuh sesuai stakat lagu Britney Spears yang feeling overproduced in the studio je.
Anyway, a few horrible songs aside, looks like Muzik Muzik kali ni memang planned out well. For the sake of production - memang kali ni a good mix of bands, solo vocals yang power, mellower delivery and pop offerings. All in all, production heaven. Is that good for music in general... entahlah.
Anyway.. cukup panjang aku meroyan. Ni some pics.
Tuah anak... Rich and Velvet bawak anak meka
Hafiz masa PC
Estranged and Stacy
Smart dressing Alyah... anggota kelab Pelita baru...belanja Pelita woi da layak! Heh!
Anak-anak murid.. bangga aku!
Cantik sangat Misha Omar tadi
Tuh dia... make up flawless!!!
So tuh je la. Malas meroyan agik panjang. Nak siapkan artikel tuk paper yang meroyan sepenuh nya dengan penuh analysis yang mendalam. Fuh! Katanya...
Heh... anyway korang perasan tak pas Shila nyanyi semalam. Pastu Ezlynn puji puji when done, pastuh dia kata... "... walaupun..." Pecah perot kami kat sana gelak.
Dalam berdarah telinga... gelak gila babiks kita semua. Eh ok la.. panjang lak kang meroyan.
