Just Saying | Leon Lai may be a great guy, but his singing still sucks
Yonden Lhatoo suggests it’s time to dethrone seemingly tone-deaf, out-of-tune kings of Canto-pop and revive an ailing industry with readily available fresh talent
I feel like the boy in that old story about the emperor’s new clothes as I write this. Does no one suspect that Leon Lai Ming is tone deaf?
I held my tongue over the past couple of weeks, as it seemed almost sacrilegious to criticise one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” of Canto-pop when all of Hong Kong was singing hymns in his praise after he managed to avert a public relations disaster for himself.
Lai, 49, had to cancel the first night of his concert series because the marquee he was to perform under was deemed a fire hazard. He was allowed to continue the next night after working out a compromise that should have been sorted much earlier.
The veteran performer and alleged singer was widely praised by everyone and their mums for his crisis-management skills, which were even contrasted with those of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, although I can’t for the life of me see the connection. It appears you can use anything and everything to attack Leung these days, even if you’re comparing apples to oranges, before you chuck them at him – but I digress.
