Comments on: Best and most of Super Girls 300

By: sasa

sasa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:12:39 +0000

offffffffffff
i am sorry

By: The SuperGirl Behind Li Yifeng’s Songs « Cfensi

The SuperGirl Behind Li Yifeng’s Songs « Cfensi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:17:33 +0000

[...] many composers in Supergirls this year which makes me happy. From long ago eliminated girls like Dong Zhen and Wang Mengran, to the beautiful compositions of of the heart-wrenchingly eliminated Wang Zixin, this [...]

By: Build-a-girlband à la Super Girls « Cfensi

Build-a-girlband à la Super Girls « Cfensi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:24:38 +0000

[...] Kewei (23) and Pan Hongyue (19), both of whom I touched on last time. Pan Hongyue is young, fun, pretty-ish, can dance, can sing and has a very strong personality. I [...]

By: idarklight

idarklight — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:59:19 +0000

right, communist trap.

that’s like going to Israel and releasing a movie about a bunch of stupid Jews being freed by their awesome Nazi friend and praising it for not following the “Zionist trap.”

or going into Armenia and then releasing a movie about how kind and sweet the Turks were during WWI.

Some movies do a great job of picking out the different, but sometimes, you just shouldn’t do it. Movies should avoid cliches, but not for the sake of avoiding them.

By: cfensi

cfensi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:47:56 +0000

@dbskholic

This reply is a little late in coming because I simply didn’t have the time to write out a response, but I agree that Chinese people need to understand their entertainment and culture.

I see it with everyone else, with places that have even less established entertainment spheres than China. Koreans are fully supportive of kpop, and Thai people know their artists, as do Filipinos. Vietnamese people know Paris by Night, and the Viet singers.

But with Chinese people, they have no clue who the most popular artists are in China, and it’s just odd.

I suppose partially it’s CCTV’s fault for promoting certain artists and not others. And partially I blame the media outside China for creating a Pavlovian response to “China” and “communism”. In searching for Chinese news, through web portals like yahoo, you find that for the bad news regarding China, it sells to many, many newspapers. It spreads like wildfire. Whereas when I come across a positive article, it is limited to one newspaper usually. It simply doesn’t sell. In such an environment, I suppose Chinese Americans would find little motivation for wanting to find out more.

I find it so odd that every single English review of Nanking Nanking! is a positive one, praising Lu Chuan for not falling into the “Communist trap” of showing the Chinese as victims and Japanese as aggressors. Except that it’s supposed to be showing a Holocaust.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:57:14 +0000

Hmm… I think I’ve found my place for Chinese entertainment =D

Though I agreed with the judging that Pan Hongyue sounds not-Chinese, damn~ she’s got some singing skills, man!! That was a crazy clip…

By: idarklight

idarklight — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:18:47 +0000

yeah..Shandong fails in the pop music department. Jinan got killed in the round. All 10 competitors got kicked out, almost all of them in the first try. And in 2007, the best Jinan competitor was Yao Zheng, which is..ehh.

By: Benji

Benji — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:00:52 +0000

Well, for most people outside of China, their exposure to Chinese things (language/people/culture), come from Southern China. And it’s hard for them to recognise the differences between different types of Chinese people. I guess you can’t really blame them for that, though.

Soompi isn’t really a great place, however. It kinda runs like a high school, with different cliques and social groups; and just about every second person there seems to be Filipino.
And I don’t like to say this, but Koreans, in general, are actually pretty racist. Same with Chinese or Japanese, to be honest (what are your parents’ thoughts on black people? ><
Super Girls is pretty much 'the' thing for me, so I'm glad it's being covered here. *hoping for lots of future updates*
Though I'm not too sure about any of these contestants in the videos. Some of them sound good, and some of them could be better, really. I guess Super Girls is about finding the 'unique' talents, and the producers don't seem too keen on "recycling" contestant types, so how long will it be before another Jane Zhang shows up?
I'm excited to see what this season comes up with, but I kinda get the feeling that the production and format of the show stifles exposure of actual talent. : (

By: idarklight

idarklight — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:25:25 +0000

@Nepheliad
It’s not just the dbsk forum. It’s pretty prevalent everywhere. Most mainland singers(not actors, though) are looked down upon, especially the competition singers.

By: dbskholic

dbskholic — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:23:09 +0000

@Nepheliad
yeh, i understand what you are trying to say, yes it is only a minor sector, but it is just as important. tt doesn’t mean just because it’s a minor sector it’s not important. we need everyone of the china to support mainland music, not just the people who already are into mainland music. the real success of mainland music, is to get the people who are obsessed with foreign music to go back to chinese music, that is the REAL success. what is the whole point of forcing people who already listen to mainland music, to listen to mainland music? everything will stay the same, not like anythin is going to change.