Thursday, November 23, 2006

Tata Young @ St.James Power Station

There were the touchy-feely couples (who pinched each other butt's in public), the girls on their night-out, the scruffy ah-bengs, the Caucasians, the professional cameramen and hobbyists, and then there was me.

There were the mini-skirts, japanese-looking sequined tops (where you tie a ribbon at the back), high heels and ankle boots, spiked-stiletteos and bf/gf accessories, and then there was me with my torn bag and handy jeans.

To be fair, I wasn't the only one left out, even though I was the only one VISIBLY left-out, because I maintained my standing as the only one who didn't have another human being with me for company.


But, still, I felt super left-out alongside my fellow human beings living on the same planet Earth as me, because I was this super geeky nerdy student waiting in queue alongside other hot babes anticipating a hot babe's showcase.

Well, my first impression of this hot babe, Tata Young, was her first hit single "Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy" which drew flak from her fellow countrymen because the sexy and slutty image she was projecting was against the conservative nature of her countrymen in Thailand.

Even though she seemed a bit "wild", I've always thought that it had nothing to do with her nature, and everything to do with the marketing gimmicks that are reigning supremacy in her wardrobe choices that screams "diirrrttyyy".


But, if anyone ever thought that she was gonna be the next Christina Aguilera for a second, they wouldn't be too far from the truth.

Nothing nice and all spice. She had undergone the sudden tranformation from seemingly innocent girl-next-door with attitude into this wild chick who wouldn't bat an eyelid at getting down and dirrrttyyy.

In case you have no idea whatsoever what I'm rambling on about, they were showing re-runs of Tata Young's music videos just before her public appearance.

For the uninitiated, her music vids bordered on the edge of obscenity and looked just inches short of a porn movie. For someone open-minded (ahem) like me, I actually felt embarrassed for a moment to be watching such things in public , what with all the zooming in on her boobies, her suggestive moves, all very low-class and crass! In my opinion, that is.

And, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Blessed with a pretty face, powerful vocals and an amazingly strong stage presence for someone her age, (although I must say, she has been in the music industry for an incredibly long time, since she was 14) is there really a need for Tata Young to flaunt her sexuality so blatantly in her music vids?

Hailing from Thailand, and touted as the A-Mei of Thailand and one of the most successful record-selling Eurasian artistes in the Asian Market, selling millions of albums to date, she deserves a slate-clean image.
For a start, it could score her brownie points with the people from Thailand.

However, her company saw it fit to feature risque images of her in her bra/bikini-clad slender frame in various stages of undress. She looked as though she were masturbating to the camera(man).

What with images of her frolicking under the sun at the beach and then proceeding to tease millions of guys out there by lifting her shirt mid-drift, prowling on the bedroom carpeted floor in pussycat fashion while donning sexy pink satin lingerie, licking her own reflection in the mirror seductively, drenching herself wet and very suggestively in water pouring like rain in the er...bedroom (apparently, she pulled out the plug which might have explained this unusual phenomenon happening in the most unusual of places. Kids, don't try this at home).

Tata Young is the embodiment of everything sexual in a girl, and she does not hesitate to let you know this simple fact through her pouty mouth and come-hither looks which she has mastered to perfection as evident in her music vids.

When I finally left St.James, I left with a cigarette-stained tee, no thanks to the hard-core smokers aplenty.

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