Category: Music

  • More Bibi PBs!

    :O

    ZOMG!
    a la Juri! DVD + Photobook!

    Mainland pop star Zhou Bichang (a.k.a. BiBi) turns movie director! Since signing with her new record company, the 2005 Super Girl first runner-up has directed three shorts that were first released on the Internet. They are now collected on DVD, allowing fans to witness her developing visual creativity and narrative flair. The first one, “Hide and Seek”, was highly popular in the 3rd Global Awards of Chinese New Media competition. BiBi plays an angel in the second chapter “Angel’s Corner”, which expresses her concern for various social issues, while the final piece “One Half Each Person” is more self-reflecting.The DVD comes with a 210-page full-color photobook, in which the bespectacled singer appears entirely without makeup. The book also includes photos she has taken around the world, as well as excerpts from her diaries written between April to December of 2008.

    Ooh la! Short films~~~

    Bibi Chow - Make Up Remover, Good to Be Myself

    Too bad it’s not subbed. But still, would be interested to see it.
    And it’s okay-priced. Would you consider? LOL

  • This is a YAM post!

    So…
    it’s less than a month for YAM005!

    I’m excited, haven’t started laying out content but have been checking drafts.

    Some *very exciting* stuff in it, I believe…
    I do hope people that have agreed to write stuff begin sending their stuff in ^^

    Can you tell I have nothing substantial to share today?
    Well, here’s a pretty nifty Flash Audio thingy stuff~~

    aM laboratory - tone matrix

    Tone Matrix!!

  • And the June Music…

    Plus some July xD

    See… when I listen to more music, I watch less films… and when I do these things, I don’t read at all. I’m ashamed of how much I read now… LOL – and just so you can make fun of me, I’ve only been reading Buffy (season 8 comic) xD

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  • Don’t Laugh at my Romance Hong Kong!

    I posted this a while ago.

    Now I found out that there’s a Hong Kong version – VCD and DVD Region 3 – with subs (sadly no extras), which I’ve decided to purchase. I would’ve chosen the Taiwan Free region edition, but I decided to get the HK version instead because I had found other product reviews for the releasing company, and I couldn’t find anything on the Taiwan company.

    DVD reviewers, please review the DVD and not the movie!

    In any case, I will be reviewing the product once I get my hands on it.

    Also on my order? Bibi’s Time – China version which includes a Bibi Photobook and DVD!!!
    ZOMG! I had to get it… short PB with album with dvd! Less than $20!
    I couldn’t resist…

    I will be reviewing that too.

  • Woah, Seo Taiji’s Atomos

    Holy mother of O.o

    Seo Taiji - Vol. 8 Atomos Cover

    It’s Seo Taiji! I flipped out in the morning, even though I’m just listening to it.

    This is just too much to take in… First Bibi, now Seo Taiji~~~ All I need now is to find out Faye Wong has released a new album, and I can die happy. Buahaha. No, seriously though~~~ I’m divided. I would love a new album by Faye, but I’m afraid I won’t lurv the album. LOL – To Love was PURRRRfection – really, I almost got scammed just to get it. xD

  • Time for Bibi

    SPAZZ~~~

    I didn’t know! I’m passing out~~~ When did that happen???

    Bibi Chow - Zhou Bichang - Time

    I’m actually just listening at the moment, so I cannot spazz out more than I already did by finding out. It’s time for it to sink in and simmer well… LOL –

    After the news of change of management, she is now under Gold Typhoon (EMI) *le gasp*

    in the meantime! Enjoy~~

    Preview it via HaoTing.com Xiami

  • More Chinese Playlists!

    Okay, my Chinese music has taken over my Asian music as of lately. So I felt I should make another playlist =D – I feel this is an interesting list, even though I couldn’t find a good video for Vae (is he that independent?), and was able to find only one video for Yuguo =’-(

    [iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLA67DBE6728354D75&hl=en_US”]

    1. Yuguo – You Jian La Tian (Hello, Blue Sky)
    2. Mayday – Sheng Cun Yi Shang Sheng Huo Yi Xia
      (More than Surviving, Less than Living)
    3. Cheer Chen – Ji Ta Shou (Groupies)
    4. Crowd Lu – Wo Ai Ni (I Love You)
    5. LaLa – O Yi Xi (Oh, Easy)
    6. Vae – Ru Guo Dang Shi (In the Event that) – Not a video.
    7. Cheer Chen – Deng Dai (Waiting for You)
    8. Mayday – Bao Gan (Liver-busting)
    9. Milk@Coffee – Ran Shao Ba! Xiao Yu Zhou (Burn! Little Universe)
    10. Crowd Lu – Yi Bai Zhong Sheng Guo (100 Ways for Living)

    I love how this list turned out, kinda like telling a story… right? Like just beginning your day with a certain energy, then chilling down a bit, until is not so easy xD and then bam! Liver-busting *laughs* – Combustion!!! Big Bang!!! And finally life goes on… xD

  • Hibi no Neiro – SOUR’s Fans via webcam~

    I just ran into this video.

    O.O – it’s so great! So interesting, I want to see what each person does haha.
    And there’s an “Amy” in it!! xD ~~~It’s sort of an “interactive” video, I think. At least it got the fans of the band involved in more than “we need fans to show up in a concert-type-setting for the music video.” This seems like it was a lot of fun.

    And the music is pretty good as well, so I’m looking for their music. =D Any recommendation?

  • Music Video Director: Nigel Dick

    I was looking back on music videos this past weekend (which, by the way marked amy-wong.com’s 4th anniversary) because I was watching Michael Jackson music videos and thinking “wow, how come I don’t like watching music videos now” – at least I don’t watch videos of most music I listen to in English, though I’m generally impressed with Asian Pop Music Videos.

    When I was little, well… a pre-teen and teenage girl fuzzing about the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears with my friends at school, I began to notice director’s names. MTV (which I pretty much used to watch almost 24/7) used to show the Name of the Song + Name of the Artist + Name of Album + Name of Director. They did this until the beginning of 2002 or 2003 when the Director’s name suddenly disappeared from the credits. I dunno if it’s back, and I dunno if it was because I just went to Canada. LOL

    One of the first names I noticed was, of course, Nigel Dick.

    If I could describe Nigel Dick’s style of music-video-making when I was a kid, I would say “simply brilliant” – not because I was naive and didn’t really know much about the business, but because his videos were simple, but yet so full of life. Perhaps, the easiest way to show it is with a simple video such as Oasis’ Wonderwall.

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  • NHK’s Songs of our Generation – Shiina Ringo

    Did you know? Because I didn’t…

    I caught the repeat of Part 1 yesterday night – actually, I almost lost it (so you can imagine how my friend Julz felt when she actually saw Yossy live by chance) – ANYHOO~

    Back on topic~

    NHK (World Premium) is airing Part 2 this coming week:
    Wed. July 1st @ 9am-9.29am (Japan Standard Time. -14hrs)
    Fri. Jul 3rd @ 9.30pm-9.59pm (JST -14hrs)