Quote:
Originally Posted by holy_arrow
Is "The Gift" really terrible like that ?
Ayu seemed love it too much and she 's also confident that we would like the PV... So strange that the song is bad as your description
|
It really is that bad though. The way she's singing it, the style, it honestly reflects everything I have hated about how generic she's taken things over the last 5 years. I just wish it would stop.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke.
"Everyone knows c-pop is ass" lmao.
Mostly true, but Jolin's Dancing Diva was a bop back in the day.
|
I have to disagree. I genuinely hated Jolin Tsai, and didn't find anything too impressive in Myself (2010). But THAT. MF'N. BITCH. She just HAD to go and do MUSE in 2012. I remember sitting around thinking "Oh yay... another Jolin rip off of actual talent," then The Great Artist MV got released and I was like, "Oh shit. This bitch just slapped me with own ignorance." Then Dr. Jolin. Then Fantasy... In general, she was the best Mandopop of 2012, which was fucking sad because Elva Hsiao was so hard to beat with I'm ready at the end of 2011.
I've been a huge Elva fan for years. She's too damn talented for her own good. But I was so sad that Jolin Tsai slapped that bitch right out of the water with PLAY. I couldn't help it. Jolin did it better. And I laughed, and I cried, and I was impressed with everything but her collab with Namie Amuro which just came across cheesy and B-level. I will say that Elva's Shut Up & Kiss Me is too hard to forget, whereas Jolin's tracks rolled off my shoulders. But MUSE. MUSE is still hard to beat even 2.5 years later.
I've come across some great one-hit Mandopops so far:
Stefanie Sun got me with "Telling The World The Words From My Heart" and "Kingdom of Fools" in 2011.
Hebe Tian's records are always packed with fillers, but there's usually at least two songs I can't get out of my head for months. I can barely make it through "You Better Not Think About Me", as it came out only a couple months after my ex and I separated, and only a couple weeks after I realized he wasn't going to call me back... like ever. The video is a roller coaster for me too. She's done a beautiful job with other videos like "MY LOVE" and "Angel Devil". She's also fun on mid-tempo tracks like "Learning from Drunkenness"
Angela Chang is usually entertaining, but Visible Wings was not a good record. I miss her rock days sometimes, but I think she does electronic music well... sometimes.
Sandy Lam got me hard in 2012 with GAIA.
The best song I've heard so far this year is A-Lin's "All In"... it sends shivers up my spine when the first chorus kicks and there's nothing but her layered voice over arpeggio synths and a lo-fi snare. The rest of the album isn't as good, but I will listen to "All In" on repeat sometimes.
aMEI hands down stole best record for 2014 with Faces of Paranoia... That record had a few weird tracks, but seriously. If you want to hear a good, somewhat new Mandopop record, Faces of Paranoia is it. Jump In, Booty Call, and Dog are all decent tracks, but the fucking magic is in the ballads. "Do You Still Want To Love Me?" talks about all the fucked up things we hide from people, knowing any one of those fucked up things can be enough to make them leave, and then someone says it doesn't scare them... but it does, and they leave, unraveling all of these false things they built with you. There are lines in "March" that I may never forget, particularly the last ones about the time of two people will not go on, and surely only one of the two will want to remember. FACES OF PARANOIA's video leaves me speechless; I still have no words for that song or the video... it's just a lot to take in. And Autosadism... it's hard to describe, but think of being in love with the pain of having been in love. Anyway, aMEI is also incredible when doing hard rock under the mononym Amit.
So... yeah. Lots of good stuff there. and stuff.