punk and popstars
down with communism! bring on western capitalistic ventures! (well not really)
looks like someone actually agrees with me (see my comments in the pk14 review thing). from jon campbell’s foreign devil column in popmatters:
Chinese punk got a lot of attention in the late ’90s, and into this millennium, based on — as in the case of most punk — the completely visceral nature of it and the implications of revolution that it signalled for anyone whose experience with China did not extend past the local takeout joint. Children of communism and Tiananmen in leather, studs, and Mohawks, screaming bloody murder . . . or something, who could tell (whether it was English or Chinese)? What foreign correspondent could resist? But they seemed to overlook one small detail: With a few exceptions, the music was crap.
and in other crap music, china has discovered what reality television does for music sales. the winner makes me wonder if the girls of china are secretly gay but won’t admit it, because her vocal skills and interpretation are really quite average (hearing her sing bryan adams kills me). what else are they going for? the new york times thinks it’s rebellion, but like that stinker of punk, i think he’s got the wrong idea.
Oh, her, haha. She tries to sing in Latin too, not that it sounds any different from her English which is impossible to understand without the subs. I think there was one performance where I listened to and I actually thought it was a man singing…hmm.
The runner-up also looks very boyish, although not as much as the winner. The 2nd runner-up had really good vocals though, but lost by miles in terms of votes.
Comment by kevin (~K+) — January 23, 2006 @ 6:40 am