Last night I went down to the getai show at the neighbourhood & tonight they promised a even better show, more famous artistes from around the region to perform. This show with the inspirations from the best selling movie '881', attracted the largest crowd and was the most innovative ever as long as I remember.
I went down to the show which was quite late at that time at nearly 9 pm, even that I seen artistes from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia & China etc.
The Thai top male artiste was the most flamboyant pelting out songs from a varieties of dialects including Malay song, changing his flamboyant costumes a few times during his performance.
The lady Indonesian singer was the most conservative with her varieties of Hokkien ballads, requesting if you like her songs, buy her CDs which she brought along.
It seem like the ladies are getting sexier with their costumes. I saw a young girl with so little clothes on her, it seems that she was performing with a bikini and with tattoos all over her body.
A beautiful lady in black and white wowed the crowd with her costume specially designed to suit her dancing routines, captivated the crowd with her body swaying in the a well rehearsed routine. In the middle of her singing routine, she took some requests from the audiences.
I saw a Hindu, seem liked captivated by the show, I don't know did he understood what they sang.
The China lady singer took as many requests as possible, as she was the last one to sing. Her voice was quite nice to listen to.
I saw a lady brought along her own music programs to play and ask the sound technician to play to harmonise with her singing, without using the stage musicians. It might develop to a stage where artistes bring their own computerised visual effect programs to harmonise with their performances.
Overall I felt the standard had improved over the years, as more competitions from around the regions raised the standard.
Getai show had came a long way. Last time the audiences used to climb up the stages to watch the show, some stages collapsed as a results.
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