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PAWAE: The New Thai Singer and Guitarist Born by Singing Covers on YouTube.

Making music is kind of work which requires consistency and high drive. Not all people are introduced to musical instruments by their parents at the age of 3. Talent is one of privilege to be a successful musician. However, that thing is not enough. Consistent practice and creativity are very necessary to get the goal, especially when you want to be a famous artist and recognized by billion people all around the world. That it because music industry nowadays is very competitive and money oriented. Again, not all people have a chance to join big entertainment agency.

One of the most effective way to get noticed by people is making YouTube videos of covers of other artists. PAWAE, who is previously named her channel ‘currentpraewa’, has begun to share her cover videos in 2020. Singing ‘จีบ’/‘Cīb’ (court) by QLER, this new singer began to appear on YouTube with her acoustic guitar. With raw video quality, she got 169 comments and 7400 likes. One of the most iconic cover of her is ‘จูบ’/‘Cūb’ (kiss) by JETSET’ER. With her guitar full of quirky stickers, she sang it soothingly and strummed the guitar smoothly. Most of the song she sang is in Thai. Luckily, this cute girl got so many attention from Thai people and overseas.

After uploading so many covers of other artists, this singer started to make music by herself. By 2022, she signed with a label called kiddorecords and began to release original official music video. Starting with the song ‘เพื่อนกับแฟน’/‘Girl/Friend?’ (Pheụ̄̀xn kạb fæn), the music video had reached 477.000 viewers. Last year, she released a song entitled her own name, ‘แพ้หว่ะ’/‘Praewa’ and got 25.000 viewers on that platform. Debuting as new artist in young age is very impressing, since not all people are confident enough to be an artist in their youth era. Due to her popularity, she started to be invited as a guest in musical festivals. Performing her ability to sing and playing the guitar in front of plenty of people is an amazing stuff since it is the dream of many people from all around the world.

Bringing fresh and dreamy pop tunes, PAWAE continues her activities as a solo artist as well as a cover singer. She keeps uploading covers on her channel, and the video quality got better time by time. One thing that is always be the same all the time is that she remains singing in Thai, no other language. It is understandable that her market target is Thai people. However, doing English and other language song would be awesome too because overseas listeners will understand what she was singing about and they can sing along with her.

PAWAE is one of the most inspiring young musician who is brave to show her talents and confidence to public from very weak quality covers to marvellous original music videos. The other thing we must learn from her is that she is not type of person who gatekeeps attention to their listeners or fans. She appreciate love and support from fans by giving ‘heart’ to posts fans uploaded about her. What a humble person. I wish there would be more musicians who have high drive to start their music career from scratch to reach the peak of success as a musical act as her. Age is not the matter to start music career, but just do it now. Your journey will be valuable if you have strong drive and consistency in doing music in this competitive period of time. PAWAE proved that. Maybe it takes time, but doing practice regularly will give satisfying result.

https://medium.com/@azmiemarata/pawae-the-new-thai-singer-and-guitarist-born-by-singing-covers-on-youtube-55342cd54dd1

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NCT 2023’s ‘Golden Age’: A Mesmerizing and Full of Hope Piece of Art.

NCT 2023’s Golden Age is always my favorite song of them since I discovered this group around late 2023. I’m personally not a huge fan of Kpop, however, this track is very captivating in my opinion. So I started to listen to Kpop more often, especially NCT’s tracks. Using the sample of Beethoven’s Pathetique, this amazing whole package of art was produced by a producer team based in South Korea, Artiffect. This combination of classic composition with modern electronic and rap tunes is really captivating since they blend nicely and are not sound overlapped. ‘Golden Age’, in the song explains about how the members have been working hard and achieved their golden era by getting so many attentions and awards in music shows. It’s pretty much about their fight against fear and hard times during their struggling moments.

Expected as a ballad song by some listeners who already watched the teaser, it turned out way different than what they think. Opened with soft piano playing, followed by Doyoung’s adlibs, people thought it would be some kind of sad and calm type of song. But, then, Mark’s rap appeared with heavy beat which shocked those listeners at the first time they were listening to the full song at the same time. However, the beat turns into soft and tender with piano and string sounds. Xiaojun led the pre-chorus with gentle voice and a little falsetto technique singing. The beat jumped into more energetic rhythm as Haechan started to fill the chorus line. When the main tunes come, people finally understand the progression of the song.

Involving 20 members at that time, this track is full of taste and color since the members have their own style in completing this piece of art. The MV also has good concept, which represent the achievement of the struggle era of the members by showing a chair being burned by fire, members picking up their keys as a symbol of key of the path they have chosen. However, this MV has been rated as PG-13, since it contains burning fire in the middle of the video. This video is pretty much soft, delicate, yet strong at the same time. SM Entertainment management really calculated every detail of the song and the MV. NCT’s visual card also help so much on the aesthetic visualization of the video. SM is really good at scouting and auditioning best members to be part of NCT.

Working together as a team of NCT from all units, the members were cooperative and understand the portion of their work when making this project. Even though every member has little part of line, they shown the best work they have done. Combining so many type of voice became a challenge for the composer and music producers. But the good thing is that the composer and producers are highly experienced in their work realm, especially that they are SM’s composer and producers. Even when the song is sampled by one of the best classic composition, it still has NCT’s music color, which is experimental and explorative. This one is a great job of the members, composer, producers, and the lyricist. I expect to listen to their new full team releases which will be as good as ‘Golden Age’. I must take my hat off for Artiffect for making such a beautiful and energetic song for one of my favorite Kpop group, NCT.

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So it was around early January when my friend who is an EDM nerd asked me to listen to Porter's pre-release single "Look at the Sky". I was so touched hearing the words, it feels like he sings in my point of view. "I'll be alive next year" means a lot to people with depression. I've been through a lot of hard times in 2020 and then this song appeared and it just feels like a friend reminding me that there's still a hope. This song isn't just aesthetically pleasing, it also brings positive energy.

This song is included in his next album 'Nurture' that will drop on April 23rd this year. I really look forward to his new album!

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Original character 01

Name: Eren

Gender: male

Age: unknown

Skills: gardening, playing guitar in a shoegaze band, painting, knitting

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Flying with bird to anywhere

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I think I better continue to use MediBang, it's suitable to my art style

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Back from getting groceries

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Somehow, I'm interested in working on some superstition or demonic-inspired drawings recently. After watching cult movies and listening to weird bands, my style a bit changed lol (I used to draw some cute and soft stuff). This one, I got inspiration from a ritual with boar demon in my country's mythology.

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Bathroom

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Mint-lemon ice cream

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A sorcerer with her client

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This is the digital version of my drawing 2018 called "Small Gig In A Forest"

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KT from Elephant Gym

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This drawing is based on a scene from Kikagaku Moyo's Nazo Nazo music video.

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This is my original chacter, Salman. Actually, I made twin characters named Salma and Salman. They're both playing musical instruments and jamming to indie rock/pop music. I'll draw Salma soon!! Ksksksksksks