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koganbotSo, yes, there was Chinese Eurodisco in the '80s - which does not surprise me, given that my cheap introduction to Italodisco was through pirate cassettes out of Hong Kong and Singapore that I could pick up in San Francisco's Chinatown at three for a dollar; but still I hadn't heard any actual Chinese performers on them, just the usual Belgians and Germans and Italians (and Canadians and Miamians).
Also this, which is MOR pop from the early '90s:
Yvonne Lau, the singer of "Snowy," had previously been half of the duo Paradox (I learned that from a Joni Mitchell fan forum!); did videos in which Lau and her musical partner would walk by each other without consenting to speak (which makes perfect sense, given that they're in a band together) or where they'd stare significantly at a bird cage while performing ProgRock.
And now I have stated the entirety of my knowledge of 20th century Chinese music.
Also this, which is MOR pop from the early '90s:
Yvonne Lau, the singer of "Snowy," had previously been half of the duo Paradox (I learned that from a Joni Mitchell fan forum!); did videos in which Lau and her musical partner would walk by each other without consenting to speak (which makes perfect sense, given that they're in a band together) or where they'd stare significantly at a bird cage while performing ProgRock.
And now I have stated the entirety of my knowledge of 20th century Chinese music.
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Date: 2010-01-28 02:11 pm (UTC)I don’t know much more. I’m listening Rainie Yang’s new album “Rainie & Love” and it’s a nice record, she tries many musical (pop) styles and is quite short in length. I think other ‘divas’ are people like Jolin Tsai or Elva Hsiao (listened the last record, liked some songs, too many ballads),
but I don’t know very much about them. Popularity on their videos on YouTube could be a useful entry. Or Wikipedia, once you know the names to search.
Here they use to post the weekly charts of Taiwan: http://community.livejournal.com/aiyatheydidnt/261505.html
Following the links there, I think this could be useful (but they are general showbiz news so they are mixed with other things…): http://asianfanatics.net/news/index.php
One way to listen to some music is subscribing to some YouTube channels (but they disappear quite fast): http://www.youtube.com/user/urasiansourceCpop2, http://www.youtube.com/user/AsiaHolicCpop or http://www.youtube.com/user/UrAsianSourceTV
And not related, SNSD have released new single and LP by surprise.
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Date: 2010-01-28 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 08:15 pm (UTC)(For the record, Rainie Yang, Elva Hsiao et al. are Taiwanese, but people usually call mandopop or canto(nese)pop all this artists, so I suppose the relations between both countries, in that respect, are fluid, but I really don’t know (maybe they enter via Hong Kong)
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Date: 2010-01-28 05:48 pm (UTC)Chinese eurodisco in the 80s = the sound of my childhood
Date: 2010-01-29 01:01 am (UTC)I just uploaded this yesterday:
Deng Jie Yi - The Girl Under The Streetlight
It's, ah, a female vox disco cover of Modern Talking's "Brother Louie".
Re: Chinese eurodisco in the 80s = the sound of my childhood
Date: 2010-01-29 06:06 am (UTC)(I bumped into this stuff yesterday running searches for pre-Cocteau Faye Wong.)
Re: Chinese eurodisco in the 80s = the sound of my childhood
Date: 2010-01-30 08:19 pm (UTC)Post-Cocteau Faye went the Bjork/Mylene Farmer/Goldfrapp route more or less.
Faye Wong is an odd entity in the sphere of Canto/Mandopop - she's the undisputed Queen Of Pop, basically, but her persona is entirely one of breezy insouciance, as if she's not interested in playing the game on any level. From relatively early on she would do quirky projects seemingly aimed at subsuming her personality, like her album of Teresa Teng covers. Wong Kar Wai casts her in his movies as these mysterious, unattainable indie femme fatales... I can't come up with a direct Western equivalent. If there were such a person as a Kate Moss Of Pop she would be it.
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Date: 2010-02-01 01:01 am (UTC)Re: Chinese eurodisco in the 80s = the sound of my childhood
Date: 2010-01-31 07:18 am (UTC)Yes, I am now listening to her early work ("Tip Of Eiffel Tower" at the moment), and this is entirely credible.