The C-pop/M-pop Discussion Thread
 

I wonder how many here listens to Canton/Mando pop? I listen to both! And as much as I like Jpop...I need to go back to a language that I fully understand sometimes when I miss that familiarity and the feeling of home....

So who's your fav singer? What's your biggest hit in your ipod right now??

AH!!! YAY!! finally a cpop thread....i thought about making one, but i didn't think anyone here really likes cpop, everyone likes jpop or kpop

hmm, i really love a-mei, she is really a classic in my eyes~ i think her "sisters" is the first song that i listened to when i was little, or at least i can remember when i listened to it, her songs is just full of memories for me, though i love jolin, but i don't think she have a great singing voice, i think a-mei is so much better

for males, i've been listening to yoga these days, i hope he'll live up to the standards of jay or leehom, which are 2 of my fave~

i've also been loving BY2~ they're sisters? idk, and they have really poppy songs!

JJ Lin~ i only listened to west side, but i think i have 2 other albums by his, killer is my fave song from him~ really creepy, and i love the beat of it~ and the pv..is like silence of the lambs lol

i like SHE's harmony~i think
i never listened to Vanness before, he haven't released anything new right?

lol amei download i uploaded all of A-mei's album before hehe
i recommend Sisters or Bad Boy i think they're the most classic songs she have
"Holding Hands" is also great, i think the songs are more rock/pop
Can I Hug You, Lover? is a sequel to Holding Hands, but the songs get better and better
I Want Happiness is the comeback for A-mei, her previous albums were trying to go along with the young trend, which i think didn't work so well, I Want Happiness if full of beautiful, strong ballads
STAR is also great, more pop~, and different styles

i love wang lee hom, he have amazing songs IMO, he can speak perfect english, he was born in the US, i really love all of his albums, Impossible To Miss You, is the album I feel with great songs, Shangri-la, he puts more chinese influence to it~ and Unbelievable is great too...but i like to think of it as the time he's trying to go "gangster"

oo i'm download that vanness album~ best of albums are great to start with, i'll try and download when i'm on my own computer~

It's all about Rainie Yang <3

Yay for Cpop. I really been listening to it over the past little while. My current favourites are Sa Ding Ding and Carrchy :heart

I love CPop. Rainie Yang, Jolin Tsai, Kelly Chen, Elva Hsiao, Fiona Sit, S.H.E. <3

I'm hooked to Yoga's debut album. The title track "神秘嘉賓" showcased the brilliance in his vocal ability quite nicely, and it is one of my favorite mando-pop tunes from this year.

i know!!! i love the song "bo le" really it's a great song~ no wonder how he won the contest~

My favourite Cpop artists are:
Nan Quan Mama
A-Mei Chang
Fan Wei Qi
Valen Hsu
Vivian Hsu
Kenji Wu
Claire Kuo
Xian Zi

I got into Cpop first before Jpop and Kpop, probably due to me being from Taiwan.

There is only four i like so far.
Xaio Xaio (I think thats who you spell her name )
Isabella Leong (My FAVE)
Valen Hsu
Samantha Teoh (I wish I can find more by her, does anyone have anything by her)

p.s I have 2 albums by Xaio Xaio, and one EP by Samantha Teoh
and anyone wants them I can upload them!!!

wow i didnt know there's so much C-pop listener here

but you know... i was so sick about C-pop in one time that i didnt care about them and bumped to J-pop. and thats why i'm here^^

but now, i start to listen some of them like li sheng jie aka SAM LEE is good for male voice and SHE, jolin tsai, angela chang, fan fan (yeah my fav^^), amei etc are good too^^ i have some of the album but not really listening to them :P but i still like it though

ah i forgot so many people

nan quan mama - i need to get their new best of album
fan fan - her best album too...geez so many, namie, ayu~
Cherry Boom - i love their albums, love it all!!!
Mayday - i love them! their born to love album
Shin - i love him, i think he's going solo now
Gary Cao - first time listening to him
Clarie Kuo - i love her two albums
angela - her Ang 5.0 is my fave!
Elva - i really need to get her past albums!

who is JJ Lin and Yoga??? that's not the JJ from HK rite!!?? Chinese name pls?? Any songs recommendation?

I like S.H.E...and recently I am hooked on Tanya Choi...I also like Jay Chou (so does everybody else)...I used to like Miriam Yeung but not so much now..though I still went to her Toronto concert~ and Joey Yung is coming to TO too!

^林俊杰 JJ lin, and he is singaporen
林宥嘉 yoga lin, he just came to malaysia ^^

blah~ i'm bumping!

hehe i'm laughing at the fact that only some weeks did jay stay at number 1 in taiwan, but he got bumped off by mayday XD

yay, its great to see cpop thread here, like pommy said everyone seemed to be more interested in jpop and kpop. its funny that i have periods of listenin to only jpop, and then only cpop lol. im into cpop right now. rainie always and forever!!!! i listen to her in whatever period i am lol. she's more then amazing. i love her so much. she doesnt have bad song. then ofcourse queen a-mei. then amazing fanfan, elva hsiao, S.H.E, jay chou, and many more im about to discover, but cant cuz i listen to rainie's new album right now. lol


edit: i almost forgot amazing BY2, i luv them!

Chu-Lip506 upload please Xaio Xaio

BY2 is awesome!! those who have't listened to Y2J must! they're a duo with these rock voices~ it's amazing!

oh my god, you all know BY2 too?? they are so cute! they are coming to malaysia for promotion lately, and i dont remember what their hits called... sthg ballad. know that song? and also i'm in love with rainie's new album! it sounds so great! she's not acting cute again! ooops, nothing, poetgirl :D she sounds very mature, and her genre changes a lot! like it so much!!

anyway, did BY2 ever appeared in guessX3 show before their debut? i think i saw their episode about the twins, and they joined the show as a participant. they said they are singaporean, and moved to taiwan to study. but i'm not sure too. any idea?

I pretty much only listen to Nic Tse and Faye Wong anymore... for awhile though (okay like 8-9 years ago) I was really into Cpop. Most of them are older artists now that probably none of you are into and you'll probably laugh at me for being out of touch. :P

^ lol and you'll probably laugh at us for NOT! being in touch with some of the classics >_<

also..huang zhong ren from Yellow sounds different..in the drama version, his voice is higher

yeah it's higher here...
:rolleyes...:luv2, i'm sorry!! i've always had a thing with guys with long hair like this XD, i grew up watching historical c-dramas XD

I heard BY2 have horrible eating habits and that they were sick or something..but idk, i know they were on show's tv show though

LOL That might be true.... I got into Cpop right towards the end of the reign of the Four Heavenly Kings, and there are a bunch of you who probably have no idea who they are. :P

um them?
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...mmy48/1-11.jpg
i don't know a lot of their music except for jacky and andy...but come on! growing up in taiwan, just who doesn't know them haha, but aaron's latest concert dvd cover was @_@...why can't people ever choose better covers..

but i totally loved aaron when i was little! he used to be in all these pepsi commercials XD
*must keep this thread alive! spread the cpop love!!!*

wait wait! i love this nicholas song! it's a classic for me haha~ <3<3

:bawl why can't cpop be like this again..i miss the golden days of cpop, with lyrics actually dealing with realistic things..and not generic things that i've heard over and over again, that when lyrics overshadowed the music..when i could still cry from the songs..:bawl

im so happy u like rainie's new album. and again SHE DOESNT ACT CUTE :love SHE IS CUTE. :luv2

^hahaha okok i'll respect your opinion :) i'm still listening to her album now. i didnt expect it will be this great! :luv2

anyone loves fan fan? or maybe sam lee? or even jam hsiao?

^ <3 fan fan~ i still need to download her latest best of album
and JAM!! omg! i love him!! shou cang? yeah i listened to it on repeat for the whole night, and it's now in my top 3 fave songs ever! have like 137 plays~ and "prince's new clothes" i love how smoky his voice is

^but too bad, i dont like his hairstyle :P

but i like his hair when he did the duet with a-mei. the songs is amazing :heart

anyway, i'm in love with jay's new PV too - dao xiang

his hair is eh...:eviltongue
i love his debut album <33 it's amazing!

the only song i actually really like on jay's album is dragon knight..but it's sad that his #1 spot was quickly taken away by mayday

A lot people seemed excited for/about the Mayday album, but I thought it was really boring D:

mayday is releasing new stuff? weee, i didnt know that since i'm not a fans of them. are they good? i only hear some of their song with the colloboration with selina from SHE... what is the song name?

^ the song name for the collab...was Mayday XD

i haven't listened to the album yet..i'm still in the process of listening to it, i already have it in my itunes~ but i'm still in my Y2j phase

id be happy if u guys can share links where to find all that stuff

i just usually go to this site
http://dreamstar.broken-strings.net/

it says the page cannot be found :headache

weird..let me try again
http://dreamstar.broken-strings.net/

ok that's weird, but if you type dreamstar.broken-strings.net, it should come up

yea, yea, i did, thank u so much :)

wow!! 4 heavenly kings!!! hahaha...i thought nobody remember their name already.....those were the days.......i still remember their 'shiny cards' and all those 'yes cards' were so popular in hk!!!!

and nicholas tse did have some good songs when he first started....although his mucis decline later i think..and now he only makes movies...but he was pretty popular when he first started...but than he also had a lot of bad news back than...

lol yeah i read on faye wong's wiki, and it said her fans were worried when she started dating nic, cause he was a bad boy

i must say though...andy is still in great shape! and isn't he like 50 already!

lolz..andy lau is a legend. period

he does everything you name it, and he does them well, he's popular in not just 1 area but almost all of asia (east asia + south east asia, besides japan i'd say...even koreans know him)

plus he's been around for sooo long but still going stronger..and u dun feel he's old or anything

also he's been such a big giver/supporter to the community

mr perfect..beat that

lolz

lol exactly..but still he's the most fit 50 year old i've seen~ well arnold used to be in shape, but now he's flabby

his song..忘情水 is a must for drunk guys at KTV XD

andy lau has a lot of classic songs!

i like some of his zen/buddisum themed new songs too....good to listen to when u r unhappy

but his superman mv was hilarious..cause all i can think of is my grandfather going hip-hop XD

they are from singapore, 16 years old only. they are surpose to take their O level this year, but they forgo it to go to taiwan for their training lessons. it was quite a news year.

and 3 months after, some idiots posted their pictures online, claiming that Andy Lau had a pair of twins girls in singapore and those are the girls. The girls' company was laughing then....

no i won't laugh, coz i like Andy's songs too, but my biggest craze have to be the cutest Jimmy Lin!!! :luv2 I have almost all his albums, i'm only missing 3 of it. :(
Been a fan of him since 1997, ha ha! i even got his photobooks, cards and the big LD(movies). (*_*) They are all sitting in my cabinet for these 11 years.
He's just getting more and more manly, with all his racings. but his acting is just....same....though i really love his first drama, 'The Twins Brothers'(Jue Dai Shuang Jia), with Alex Su. (^_^)

LOL! at the twin girls with andy

<333 he's one of my fave actors~ i loved his in the journey to the west drama

wow Jimmy Lin! I remember they used to be called the "4 heavenly kings of taiwan" or something? Jimmy Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ricky Wu, and So Yau Peng....

seems like takeshi has the best career to date?

Where is Jimmy Lin these days?

OMG DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON Takeshi Kaneshiro!!!! <3333333333 ah...all man :luv2
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj85/pommy48/5-7.jpg
i'm sorry...but this is the hottest pic for face wash XD

but you got 2 of people wrong, it's Takeshi Kaneshiro, Nicky Wu, Alec Su, and Jimmy Lin

Jay Chou, Wang Lee Hom, David Tao and JJ Lin <--heavenly gods of mandopop..i agree with 3 of them..but JJ Lin? @_@

AHHHHHH I LOVE TAKESHI KANESHIRO TOOOO!!!! HE IS THE HOTTEST MAN IN ASIA!!!

haha..okie I think Daniel Wu is as hot as Takeshi!! make that the 2 hottest man in Asia!!

wow pommy! ur knowledge is good! haha...

btw who's JJ Lin???


and I agree Jay Chou is definitely on the list! I'd say he's the 4 heavenly kings of chinese (canto & mando included) pop if there's such a thing! maybe add eason chan...and others

lol i only them by name, but i didn't know about all the heavenly gods, i just thank wikipedia for that XD

JJ Lin is a singaporean singer who is quite famous
this is one of my fave song from him...so creepy, but the beat of the song+his smooth voice=<3333333


..that reminds me, i must search for some of kaneshiro's wallpaper XD


ok first of all..i must say, these are the things as to why i love him
1. Husky voice
2. Manly
3. Cutie!

also...jimmy...he never ages~ i mean i can't believe he's 30 something already! i thought he was still 20 something when i watched my lucky star...but no! he's so young @_@, so youthful still!

edit:...jimmy wasn't in "handsome siblings"
was he?
i don't remember...

i respect JJ's talent in music. he has a high voice that i cant sing a long :( so i try to avoid his music, since i have the habit to try to sing along with any music

NO!! i hope he's ok...he's probably the one race car driver i like XD

JJ Lin..is ehh..i still love wang lee hom or jay better <3

Dangit, I leave for what, 2 days, and you guys like.... all talk. XD

Anyway OMG TAKESHI KANESHIRO IS SO AWESOME.

As far as 4 Heavenly Kings go, Aaron Kwok is totally awesome XD He's got that cute baby face and his songs are so catchy. I have the "Journey Cheer" album. :)

OH I like Penny Tai too. Didn't see her mentioned yet, sorry if she was XD But her first album "Penny" is still my favorite.

and um.

Faye faye faye faye faye.

OH hey does anyone have an mp3 of Kit Chan's song "Lola"? I love that song.

lol! we must talk!!! <333 bring the cpop love in everyone alive again!
:rolleyes i never listened to aaron (or i have...but how do you expect me to remember something i heard 10 years ago XD) would you care to enlighten me with his music :rolleyes, but still his latest concert DVD's cover was..@_@

oh i love penny~ though i only heard like 2 songs from her, but still <3 the song she did for meteor garden (which btw, imo is the best soundtrack)

I like canto pop the most =)
actually being a native of Hong Kong, I've gotten use to the sounds of C-pop and its a change when I can understand the lyrics completely, compared to Jpop.
I like the cookies girls, leo ku, kay tse, miriam yeung, janice..
as for mandarin pop i like alot of the taiwanese artists like fahrenheit and s.h.e

I don't listen to chinese music as much as before but I still listen to it.
My favorite artists are probably Jolin Tsai and Faye Wong...probably XD
I used to like S.H.E but not anymore. LOL

i used to like SHE too..then i didn't, now i'm trying to get back into them

jolin have so so..disappointed me this time..so i'm moving on~ and replacing her in my top 5 fave cpop artists with elva instead XD

btw..anyone listen to Amei, besides sebby and poetgirl?

S.H.E's PLAY album got boring after a while and then eventually I moved on. I might become a fan again after listening to Miss Universe. XD

Jolin well I'm a pretty new fan of hers but I do think that her songs from like back when she was still signed to Sony were better than the songs from Dancing Diva and Agent J.

I've heard of Amei but never really listened to her songs. Any songs that should be recommended?

^ exactly, she got all "sexy" with EMI >_<

amei..is a legend!! and hehe, i do have many recommendations <33 she's an artist through the ages!
Ting Hai (Listen to the sea) one of her best! prussian would agree with me on this one!


Title song from her second album "BAD BOY"
and yes, she does say bad dog XD


from her latest album released last year, Forever Happiness shows how flexible Amei is as to going along with the trends


Hostage, such a rich ballad with raw emotions


ok, she sang this song like 8 years? after it was released...and this is LIVE! and her vocals are still amazing! she is one of those artists that sound the same in albums and live


don't think amei is all ballad, she can go rock/pop too ;)


here is amei singing a cover of a famous chinese song, her voice is <333


there's more~ but i don't want to overwhelm you, amei have the same place in my heart for cpop like ayu have my heart for jpop...so she's very important to me~

Wow...
I love Hostage and Ting Hai...they're beautiful! =P
Her cover for that famous chinese song is great! XD
Thanks Pommy!
And you said that Ayu has the same place in your heart for CPop. XD

XD haha, amei and ayu...grr why do they have to all start with A's @_@

but i have a lot more songs i can recommend :yes...i have one of her 1999 concert uploaded~ you can then see she's not lipsynching, she's just really stable on stage!

lol! I think I'm going to stick with MVs and maybe a few lives for now...=P

OOO YESSS POMMY! ting hai is the one of the best ballad from this century!!! :luv2 :luv2 :luv2

and lately i just discover an amei song, its "yong yuan de hua mian", have you ever heard of it? it was played in our school graduation ceremony, and i didnt know who sang it, but when i youtube it, i found its amei who sing it! she sounds so different there!

JJ Lin. He composes and plays and sings his own music.
Great music, great vocals, and a really cute personality, :luv2
And he composed A*mei's Ji De. 8DD

wowowow!! i was on this thread last nite and now there's like 2 new page! haha...

pommy : if you wanna listen to some old aaron kwok song...i recommend the ballad 當我知道你們相愛 (When I know you two are in love) it's an old mandarin ballad...too bad i don't have the mp3..altho his mandarin isn't that good..but lovely melody & lyrics...great song!

a lot of his older fast songs are great too...唱這歌 , 鐵幕誘惑 , 動起來 (國語) , Para Para Sakura , 狂野之城

ballad 我是不是該安靜的走開 (國語) , 強 (upbeat)....

i was never a big aaron fan..but these were SUPER hit songs...

sebby~ this song?

It's so relaxing! this is one of my fave songs ever!! amei...is amazing <3333333

sebby~ this song?

It's so relaxing! this is one of my fave songs ever!! amei...is amazing <3333333

and thanks for those recommendations, mimika!~ i'll try them out ;)

^yap it is!! i love that song very much! the lyrics is touching too!

lol @ para2 sakura, i remember my previous school was doing his para2 dance too... the song was a hit

I need some c-pop recommendations. I like Elva, and I was wondering if there were any other artists with music similar to hers? (For the record, I've also gotten bored of SHE and Jolin...or maybe I just never really got into them in the first place.)

have you tried landy wan?

sometimes tanya choi has good songs too

btw i'm SOOOOO in love with Jay Chou lately..lolz...keep listening to his new album everyday..and diggin out his old songs...plus i'm going to his concert in dec!! anyone share my sentiment?

hmm dancey type music~ elva is amazing though, but i would also recommend
:thud...grr can't think of anyone!!!

landy is great! like mimika recommended, i love these songs

Hot Wave


High Q


but this to anyone~ try out Y2J神木與瞳! they're amazing!!

武裝的薔薇


為你而活

i don't really care much for character, it's not like i'm listening because i think he's such a great person

but i hate how he transferred the "mumbling" to jolin >_<

hey you know what i discover lately? i saw landy wen is performing with gary cau in a fahsion show. and i found that landy is wearing a similiar outfit with ami suzuki's new single cover :lech

pic? or video?

wat's the reason that he dumped
jolin???

Killer is sooo good though!

Favorite canto artists... and don't laugh... is Twins! But sadly, they probably won't be doing anything for a long time because of the Edison Chen scandal with Gillian earlier this year, (T_T). I also did like Edison Chen too.... but Kelly Chan.. I like her for her fast songs; she tends to do too many ballad, slow songs which get boring though.

I listen to more Mandarin pop... Leehom Wang <3 <3 Angela Chang <3 <3 <3 are my favorites!

i did like edison too~ only that one song where he's trying to be all gangster, i think it's "Do you remember me" the beat was pretty nice and i love any songs with oriental soundings to it..hmm now that i think of it, i still love it


<333333333 YAY for mandarin pop!! i love leehom and angela, flower in wonderland is my obsession right now!!

^Oh my god! Are you serious? Jay actually broke up with her just because she needs to go to the bathroom and her heallthy habits?

^ I thought Jay Chou broke up with Jolin 'cuz of Patty Hou?

i read somewhere that Jolin talked about how Jay lied to her about dating Petty...even after their pics were took by papparazzi in japan...jolin said she was the last one to know

Is that an original song, because I have a song by the band Ashura (阿修罗) from 2005 and it's the same. I thought the A-mei song was from her 2007 album?

^ well looking at the beginning credits, it says the music and lyrics are created by ashura, so it's a cover

omg D: I can't believe I missed that on the video! :dead2 lol

IMO, A-Mei's recent album was definitely very disappointing. Though compared to many other albums, it is ok, I just don't have much love for it, despite the fact that it was promoted like heck when I was in Taiwan at that time. I think it has to do with the fact that she was going even more mainstream than I was hoping. The album didn't have any spectacular songs on it, except for the 1st single. Especially compared to I Want Happiness & Maybe Tomorrow.

i wish she would release something like she did in her earlier days..but after her producer's death, i feel no other person can really capture that ameiness in her

that sucks...i feel bad for jolin too

i guess when a person loses love for the other person, they can always pick out reasons on what they don't like about the other person since nobody is perfect

if you love somebody, you accept all his/her faults...when you don't love him/her anymore, even the smallest thing you can't stand

unfortunately that's reality

^Mmm, I'm not too sure about that lmao, at least not for me. Her first 2 albums really showed off her vocal abilities, but I think her later stuff really reflected how she had to adapt to her changing voice. I think Lover, May I Hold You? is stellar (probably because it's my first album by her) and both Truth and Fever were quite nice, especially the former (as I have her live, she sounds stunning).

Mm, but I would not want to go back in time. Yes, her voice was stellar, but I would prefer to leave those as her classics and not try to reach those levels with her voice right now. Like I said, Maybe Tomorrow is an amazing album, I just don't think many people really liked it because it wasn't the mainstream feel that she was bringing with her other albums at the time.

i would love if she didn't go mainstream so much on STAR, but anything for sales...i feel her recent ballads have a touch of her older stuff, so i :luv2 it

actually what happened to ah mei? how come she disappeared for a while?

like during what time?

Well sometimes it takes a while for artists to release new CDs, especially in Cpop, which usually takes 1-2 years. She's probably recording right now.

:thud omg..the beat of this song IS ADDICTING!!!!!!!!!!!! <3333333333
and haha, is that BY2 i see XD



but really....the engrish is horrible XD
"take a ***** on my sofa" :thud.....:thud