Maydaymania - MayDay? Who?

I have never imagined that I will attend a Mandarin concert, let alone a Mandarin rock concert. This was beyong my wildest imagination. I cannot tell you how I fell in love with MayDay, their music and songs. All I can tell is that if not for B, I will, perhaps, never never never, like MayDay. I think the MayDay fans who have followed and grown up with them since day 1 will be angry with me. But hey, MayDay has managed to convince me to love them after all these years of hard work.

Really, I do not know what has gotten into me when they first started out. All I can tell you now is that when they were invited to raise funds on a certain local charity show, I would walk away and not see them. I did not like them and found their song 《知足》 extremely irritating when it was used as an ending credit for a local drama series. I would try means and ways to find fault with them. Seriously, till now, I was not sure what caused me to detest them so much.

Of all the members, I dislike Ashin most. Really!!! Surprise? Well, I disliked all of them but Ashin the most. I found him a show off and simply annoying. The other members were alright although I do remember finding Masa rather annoying too. Really, fellow MayDay fans should hate me in the past because, I really did not know what was wrong with me.

Many friends around me knew and had heard of their songs. Ah Juan even their first three albums and had liked them for a while. Xiu, who was much younger than me, also liked MayDay for just before they released their fifth album.

So, what exactly caused me to dislike them so much then? Was it family influence? Was it peer pressure? Was it the fact that it was rock? Was it that they were not good looking enough? Seriously, I really cannot answer this question. When I heard their collaborated work with Stefani Sun aka 孙燕姿 and FIR called "First Day", I switched off the radio. When I first heard "Noodle Prince", which Mayday sang it with Stefani Sun on TV, I walked away.

Funny right???

And then, after attending their 2007 concert, I was a converted fan. They wowed me over.

Amazing... ...