anti-hale champ

this little post started out as a few lines. in the few lines going in, i decided that i'm probably being too harsh, and at that time, i don't know exactly how to display my "hatred" of hale without people rioting in the streets. so i just saved it as a draft, shelved it, and aged it in an oak barrel.

and now, rodney, here's the promised post. it's five months overdue, but hey.

every close friend of mine knows that i hate hale. some of them share my hatred, while some of them go on and enjoy it. my brothers are semi-sorta-addicted to it. my sisters love it. there's a hale phenomenon sweeping the nation. (long life to us who have resisted the evil wave.)

but i can't be close-minded for all my life, you know.

since my brothers listen to it, i have enough respect and courtesy not to deprive them of hale by not switching the music channel/radio station or changing the track now playing. so since i'm sort of exposed to the music, i've one thing to say, really.

the music and the lyrics are really good. it's just that champ, the lead vocalist, sucks ASS.

A-S-S.

i'm not going to delve deeper and analyze his style. i'm just going to say that if i were to sing my own covers of hale songs, i would do a better job. his "singing accent" is just plain weird - i told rodney once that to properly sing hale, one must be drunk. (he then said that to properly sing hale, one musn't sing properly.) so does he intentionally down a couple of bottles of red horse as preparation before a gig? sounds like it.

really, i love the musicians. as arun said, their bassist packs a wallop. i have to agree with that - listen to kahit pa. (the voice sucks ass, but try paying attention to the background as you struggle to keep your sanity.) maybe they were better off as an instrumental-only band.

the "rockstar hale" idea is a good concept. find a new lead singer, or give your lead singer some voice lessons; mayaman naman siya eh. teach him to sing in a chad kroeger or bo bice or maybe even a constantine maroulis style of singing voice.

so to cher, i have no beef with you. just your older brother.

now if you want some, come get some.