Category: Music

  • Cuando Tu me Pegas

    Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos (literally translated to “The Whomever and the Whichevers”), often shortened as NSQyNSC or some variation of that, are famous for… being total clowns. They’ve got their bits of ska so often populating the good stuff of Peruvian Rock, ready for parties.

    I was recently updating myself with their discography and found this song called Cuando Tu me Pegas (When You Hit Me)… which talks about DV… domestic violence, or a variation of that since it’s not explicit that the couple in question lives together… in a very inappropriate funny way.

    Raul Romero, in the role of the woman… mocking “delicate” tone of voice and all talks about her relationship with a man who hits her, but she loves it. It probably goes in hand with that ever popular saying of “mas te pego, mas te quiero” (the more I hit you, the more I love you) or that thing called “amor serrano”.

    Of course, DV is no laughing matter… and I’m sure I’m supposed to be feeling socially conscious about the song and its context… I just can’t help finding this hilarious though. It’s not the lyrics perse, but the execution and overall feeling of the song that makes you go WHUUUUT and then laugh at it.

    [audio:https://personal.amy-wong.com/mp3_player/sound_files/nsq-nsc-cuando-tu-me-pegas.mp3]

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  • SunnyHill MV Goodies~ Midnight Circus + Pray

    I’m not really familiar with SunnyHil, but my curiosity was peaked when I caught a teaser for Midnight Circus that had BEG member Ga-In, just about the time when they released the video for Midnight Circus~

    I dug it… kind of a mix of music that wasn’t exactly Kpop… it had something — I was caught inadvertently saying “midnight cir-CUS!” once or twice. And the video is class… really moody… almost a bit cabaret-y punk-y, but not really that… it wasn’t the Dresden Dolls, but it was interesting Kpop. xD

    So I was really surprised with their MV for Pray — which once again peaked my curiosity with the teaser. There’s a certain sci-fi horror feel to it… combined with this creature that looked a bit like an orc combined with a little bit of Sloth from The Goonies.

    It’s just an outstanding music video overall — such a despicable (yet so familiar) storyline! A ‘monster’ lured in with affection that’s suddenly betrayed by the people that he thought care for him. Amazing.

  • OK Go – All Is Not Lost

    Here I thought that OK Go couldn’t impress me any longer.

    Of course this takes forever to load, and I’m always scared it might crash my computer being so old and outdated xD but I’ve seen it a few couple times  already. I keep hitting replay. LOL

    Check it out~ All Is Not Lost.

    This is a strong contender for Breakthrough of 2011 xD – on a side note, WTF is up with this year’s VMA not having the Breakthrough category? I thought that was sooooooooo sad~ It’s like… I have nothing to look forward!

  • Miyavi-sama in Lima

    I’ve had experiences with the artists I’d like to see and chasing after them… until finally they come to me. LOL

    It happened to me with Bjork, chasing her across Europe — missing her in Finland, Sweden… and later Madrid. Defeated back home, it wasn’t but a few weeks or a few months when Bjork announced she was going to be doing a show in Lima.

    Something similar happened to me with the Backstreet Boys.  After a failed Canadian visa for a friend’s wedding, I had already tickets for the BSB show in Vancouver that I ended up giving to my ex-roommate. I was pissed off at the embassy for denying me entry, and barely a month later, I head that BSB was going to play Lima.

    For a while now, I had been lamenting not being able to attend many Asian concerts, and when Miyavi announced that he’d be playing in Chile, I thought I could go there. I hadn’t heard from the festival organizers, but today I got word that Miyavi was playing Lima as well.

    Well, FUCK YEAH!

  • How to: Worldwide Tours

    With my excitement over the fact that Miyavi is going to be in Chile, I just thought it’s the perfect time to start off my How To Series. This time around with my frustration of living in a developing country that was never “lucky” enough to be part of the “world,” in that sense, we grew up never believing to be able to EVER see our favorite artists live.

    With a globalized world, this is changing — artists and managements are finally realizing the possibilities of other markets. This is even more prominent in the ever elusive, to the western fans, of Asian music. Many of my friends truly grew up watching their favorite idols from afar never imagining that they would ever EVER see them perform, unless they dish an enormous amount of money on a plane ticket all the way to the East.

    As the years went by, and the Asians communities began expanding even more and more (as well as in status) in North America, Asian artists began adding small dates in significant cities like Los Angeles (or San Francisco), maybe New York… sometimes they would switch it around to Vancouver or Toronto.

    However, adding a few cities in North America to your Asian Tour to make it a “world tour” – However, a World Tour is just not two parts of two continents. Of course, sometimes the amount of cities you get to visit depend on the amount of money you have to set your tour on the road, that’s why you need key cities which will let your fans travel to cities closer to you.

    This is where I come:

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  • Top10 Britney Spears Music Videos

    Hey, Britney~

    Let your body loseeeee control~~~

    I wasn’t aware Britney had enough videos to fill a Top10. LOL

  • LGBT Worldwide Music Videos

    Once again, if you were subscribed to the YAM Magazine RSS Feed, you would know about this two-part post with LGBT music videos from around the world.

    Also, you probably missed our LGBT Blogathon, didn’t you???

    Here’s:

  • My Best Chinese Music Playlist Yet!

    This one turned out to be really awesome, if I may say so myself.

    Of course, I have been trying to put this together since last year, LOL – so it’d better be good, right? Though, I know there are some repeat tracks if you’ve followed the blog, I think it’s fair to say that the combination of songs has a nice flow. It’s turned out to be a really moody list~

    You can check my previous Chinese Music Playlists [1][2]

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    1. Mavis Fan (范曉萱) – I Want Us to Be Together (我要我們在一起)
    2. Waa Wei (魏如萱) – Shangri-La (香格里拉)
    3. Jing Chang (張芸京) – Broken (壞了)
    4. Leehom Wang (王力宏) – Daily Necessities (柴米油鹽醬醋茶)
    5. R-Chord featuring LaLa Hsu (謝和弦 feat. 徐佳瑩) – Under the Willow Tree (柳樹下)
    6. Stefanie Sun (孫燕姿) – Silent All These Years
    7. A-Mei Chang (張惠妹) – What Time Is It Already? (你在看我嗎)
    8. Jing Chang (張芸京) – The Opposite Me (相反的我)
    9. Chris Lee (李宇春) – Lost Heart Crazy (失心瘋)
    10. Dream Girls – Weak (軟弱)
    11. A-Mei Chang (張惠妹) [as AMIT] – After the Sentimental Love of Animals (相愛後動物感傷)*
    12. Stefanie Sun (孫燕姿) – The Kingdom of Fools (愚人的國度)

    *Note: There’s some blurred nudity and depictions of sex in that video.

    You can check the playlist on YouTube.

  • 2CELLOS – Welcome to the Jungle

    I just gotta say this is sooooooooooooo cool.

    I actually like the Chinese/Taiwan music industry because so many of their artists combine classical music elements. In the case of 2CELLOS, it’s the other way around! It’s pretty kick ass.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSByjqMGtaU

    More info here.

  • Cold Mailman – Time is of the Essence

    This is pretty good stuff…

    First contender of Breakthrough MV of 2011~

    You can get more info on Cold Mailman over YAM Magazine ;P