Cantopop Group at17
Folktronica group at17 formed when Eman Lam and Ellen Joyce Loo met at a singing contest in 2000. The funky duo have been key players in the alternative music scene ever since. They talk to June Ng about their “Over The Rainbow” project and how you don’t have to be pretty to be successful, though it helps.
Sometimes we’re a little too serious and mature—and therefore pretty boring.
We have a clear musical direction, so we’re more creative and experimental in our personal lives.
But on the other hand, if you find a foolproof formula for living your life, you become complacent and too lazy to explore other possibilities.
You never know who’s down there in the audience, watching what you’re doing.
Art should be a part of everyday life, not something in a museum that people can’t touch. The only bright side of suppressing art and creativity like this is that it stimulates creative people from the underground.
If you isolate arts and culture in people’s lives, the scene will never grow.