By Kunchur Bharat (26A01B) and Lerraine Neo (26A01A)
Singaporean parents are one of the most kiasu species on the planet, and this competitive nature often manifests in strange ways. Perhaps strangest of all is the obsession with their child’s musical abilities.
Music is not seen as a career path in Singaporean society. Informing your parents that you aspire to be a musician will likely gain you a look of poorly-disguised horror, a lecture on how you’re wasting your intellectual potential, and a desperate talk about how you do not have to make a career out of your passions.
At this point, you may pause to wonder: Weren’t you the one who put me in music lessons in the first place?
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