Chinese Pop Music? (and others)

Maggern

Maggern

Junior Member
As a part of me and my friends moving to China to continue our Chinese studies, we're trying to look for a few nice, recent Chinese pop songs (or at least, some music that kicks ass that is NOT a ballad), and I'm wondering if some of the Chinese regulars circulating this forum has any suggestions, or any easily found charts that can help us.

Thanks for any help.
 
Spartan95

Spartan95

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Well, PRC is a big country and what's popular in 1 province is not necessarily popular in another. So, in a way, it depends on where in PRC you are heading to.

1 way to familiarize yourself with the local music scene is to listen to the webcasts of the more established radio stations in that province. The link below is for Shanghai's.

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You can quite easily find links to the other radio stations in PRC from there.

Hope that helps.
 
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airsuperiority

Captain
there arent much of headbanging rock, if any. if ballads you mean by old folks and cultural singing, then i know some. if ballad as in typical pop songs, then it's hard to find anything not of that range. anyways, i will recommend my favorite, jane zhang. she's one of the best, if not the best, contemporary chinese female pop singers around and with huge popularity. rivaling her would be other divas such as stefanie sun, amei, etc...although stefanie probably can't reach the same vocal range as jane can
 
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latenlazy

Brigadier
airsuperiority said:
there arent much of headbanging rock, if any. if ballads you mean by old folks and cultural singing, then i know some. if ballad as in typical pop songs, then it's hard to find anything not of that range. anyways, i will recommend my favorite, jane zhang. she's one of the best, if not the best, contemporary chinese female pop singers around and with huge popularity. rivaling her would be other divas such as stefanie sun, amei, etc...although stefanie probably can't reach the same vocal range as jane can
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Unfortunately those are all ballad singers :p, but it's kinda hard not to find something that's not ballad-y in Mandarin music. It's kinda infused in the style of the song.

You can try F.I.R. (飞儿乐团) Mayday (五月天) and David Tao (陶喆). Those are much more pop-rock. Jay Chou (周杰伦) has a good variety of different genres, including some R&B. I heard Joanna Wang (王若琳) is pretty good for Chinese Jazz. Don't ask me about hip hop though. I think the hip hop scene in Asia is horrible, period.
 
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airsuperiority

Captain
latenlazy said:
Unfortunately those are all ballad singers :p, but it's kinda hard not to find something that's not ballad-y in Mandarin music. It's kinda infused in the style of the song.

You can try F.I.R. (飞儿乐团) Mayday (五月天) and David Tao (陶喆). Those are much more pop-rock. Jay Chou (周杰伦) has a good variety of different genres, including some R&B. I heard Joanna Wang (王若琳) is pretty good for Chinese Jazz. Don't ask me about hip hop though. I think the hip hop scene in Asia is horrible, period.
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i also listen to fir too, so i agree. maybe xin le tuan is also possible. there's also khalil fong, though his songs seemed all the same to me. as for hiphop....i really cant think of any....da mouth? various artists have some hiphop songs, and that's about it...none of any that's a particular focus.
 
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latenlazy

Brigadier
airsuperiority said:
i also listen to fir too, so i agree. maybe xin le tuan is also possible. there's also khalil fong, though his songs seemed all the same to me. as for hiphop....i really cant think of any....da mouth? various artists have some hiphop songs, and that's about it...none of any that's a particular focus.
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None of it is any good either. We could suggest MC Hotdog to him and let him writhe in the horrors of what they've done :p

Though a friend of mine once found a canto hip hop song that dissed Korean music, which was pretty awesome.
 
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latenlazy

Brigadier
Maggern said:
Thanks so much for your suggestions! I'll definitely check them out.
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Actually, I could send some stuff to you. I have a pretty large collection...

A friend of mine went to international school in Beijing and is a huge mainland rock fan. Here's a long list of them.
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Which city are you in? If you're in one of the big ones my suggestion is to walk around and look for concerts and bars and clubs. Sometimes you'll encounter something interesting. Once I encountered a modern music festival in Shanghai at the New Century Park. Some of that new age techno and electronica is still stuck in my head XP
 
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