2nd MY ASTRO Music Awards 2011…lack of attending singers and intense competition…

This is the award show beginning last year that replaced the annual drama awards by Astro Wah Lai Toi. Astro is now more oriented into music for recent years. The 2nd MY ASTRO Music Awards 2011 was just held and ended an hour ago in Arena of Stars, Genting Highlands, the place where I am in there last week for Sammi’s concert.

Too bad, I didn’t know how to get the free tickets to attend the awards show. It is aired live on Astro AEC channel as well as radio station MY FM. I did watched the last half of the show after finished watching a movie in cinema. There are way too much awards presented. There is actually to be exact a total list of twenty songs to be awarded the best 20, but at last, they picked 25 songs. They even mentioned out they are wishing for 30. Huh…how can there can be so many songs for the past year so deserving?!

The artists coming are in very few number and the organizers kept mentioning that there is a strong artists’ participation this year. I still think it is way not enough. There must be at least 20 international artists to join for this awards show. Since there are only very few and limited number of famous Taiwanese singers coming (notably Wang Lee Hom, Jolin Tsai, Fahrenheit, Ding Dang, etc), these singers grabbed a lot of awards respectively until they even feel bored of going to the stage again for another not-so-recognizable award.

The competition of who will win this award could not be felt as the winner is always expected, whom must be one of them sitting there, present on the awards show. It is not intense or exciting at all. For example, the last two major awards of best international Chinese male and female singers whom go to Lee Hom and Jolin are very much expected and predicted as they attended the show and they sat at the very first seats. The last major award, the gold artist award goes to Lee Hom, whom basically won it due to his fame especially on his latest song on his film of Love in Disguise which I liked the song too.

This awards show should be continued annually and won’t be having the same fate like the Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Awards which had been terminated last year. Astro should be bringing up music industry of Malaysia to a higher level through awards show like this, which is recommended to be made on par with those music awards in Taiwan or Hong Kong with presence of more singers. Local Chinese singers should do their best too. As for film industry in Malaysia, there is still no hope at this time and for drama industry which depends solely on TVB cooperating with Astro on Demand currently, the new Astro on Demand awards should be made into a more grand show, something similar to TVB Awards Presentation.

As for this 2nd MY ASTRO Music Awards 2011, I didn’t see any of Hong Kong singers attending the show this time. I remembered for last year, many Hong Kong singers came. I think that they felt bored already by winning too many awards respectively without any sense of competition, and so they are all absence this time. More Taiwan singers attended this time, and it seems that they are facing the same issue; they would be scared of having their names called over and over again to receive numerous awards. Probably we will not be able to see them again next year…haha…So, whose left? Ahhh…those not-so-talented and infamous local singers who can’t make it to international level! Sorry for saying that but it’s true!

I won’t list down the results here. Check it yourself by just searching for it from google. It is very easy to do that. I wrote this post just to write down my opinion and comment on this awards show which can be said as being done successfully too. Congratz Eason Chan for winning the top award last year and Lee Hom for winning the top award for this year. It is still a stunning awards show by entertainment industry of Malaysian Chinese. This awards show is still young (only two years old). Next year have to be way lot better!