#18 – Zuxiao Zuzhou 左小祖咒 Plenty to choose from, right?! An Introduction to Alternative Chinese MusicĬhina has a huge alternative music scene, particularly in Beijing, with all the sticking it to the man and long hair that that entails.Įxcept for a select few bands that have become massive hits like Hedgehog, punk rockers in China aren’t likely to hit it big time, not in the least because many have to resort to non-official means of distributing their music due to albums needing to get passed by music censors. Play An abomination everyone was singing circa 2014 Music is particularly good too because you can listen on the go, as opposed to watching movies or reading.Įqually one could be forgiven for thinking all Chinese-language music is slow love ballads about how the person you love doesn’t love you back or videos of really annoying songs about apples, but it’s not. If you like Hebe, great, but if you don’t, trying to find non-pop music can be difficult. But the focus ought to be finding music you actually like. There is of course a certain logic to listening to well-produced pop because the lyrics are generally well-enunciated and are useful for karaoke. In Mandarin-language musical terms, this can mean forcing yourself to listen to pop artists like Jay Chou and Hebe Tian even if their music isn’t your jam. When was the last time you actually talked about Manchester United in a conversation?
Two, you’re wasting precious brain space learning words you don’t even use in your native language.īefore you add the Chinese name for Manchester United to your already over-the-top and frankly useless 10,000 word Memrise vocab list, ask yourself… It’s a mistake a lot of people make, struggling through articles on things like sports just because they’re in a target language even though you can’t tell a football from a tennis racket. There’s a French language Youtuber whose advice basically amounts to something like this: if you wouldn’t be interested in reading or listening to something if it was in your own language, there’s no point forcing yourself to like it for the sake of learning. The only two people my teacher could recommend when I asked were Vanessa Paradis and Carla Bruni (the latter – the wife of former president Nicolas Sarkozy – particularly makes the eyes of many a Frenchman roll). When I was a kid studying French I remember trying to find French music.
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