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My Life in Music

August 2, 2015 — Leave a comment

Will keep this list updated here.

The Bangles – Different Light [YT Playlist]
Arena Hash [Soundcloud]
NKoTB – Hangin’ Tough [YT Playlist]
El Show de July No. 2 [YT]
Nubeluz [YT Playlist]
Los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos – Con el Respeto que se Merecen [YT Playlist]
Michael Jackson – Dangerous [YT Playlist]
Sister Act 2 Soundtrack [YT Playlist]
Beck – Mellow Gold [YT Playlist]
Michael Jackson – HIStory: Past, Present and Future [YT Playlist]
Salserin – Con Mucho Swing [YT Playlist]
Torbellino – Corazón en la Ciudad [YT Playlist]
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill [YT Playlist]
1999
- Backstreet Boys – Millennium [YT Playlist]
- Faith Hill – Breathe [YT Playlist]
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication [YT Playlist]
- TLC – Fanmail [YT Playlist]
La Ley – Uno [YT Playlist]
Alejandro Sanz – MTV Unplugged [YT Playlist]
Dixie Chicks – Home [YT Playlist]
Pink – Try This [YT Playlist]
Bjork – Medulla [Bandcamp]
Andrea Echeverri [YT Playlist]
Marit Larsen – Under te Surface [YT Playlist]
Bibi Zhou Bichang
- Now [YT Playlist]
- Wow [YT Playlist]
Mayday – Poetry of the Day After [YT Playlist]
Chang Shilei – Niu China [YT Playlist]
Jonsi – Go [Bandcamp]
Hebe Tien – My Love [YT Playlist]
Galaxy United – The Absinthe [YT Playlist]
Kishi Bashi – 151a [Bandcamp]
Calle 13 – MultiViral [YT Playlist]
Su Yunying – Ming Ming [YT Playlist]
ANOHNI – Hopelessness [YT Playlist]
Chen Weilun – Think Miss Sorrow [YT Playlist]
Chen Li – Playlist [YT Playlist]
ZenKwun – Existing like God [YT Playlist]
Yuguo – Angry Horse [YT Playlist]
Shortparis – Apple Orchard [YT Playlist]
The Dada – Hello! [YT Playlist]

Even if I say so myself~

I’ve got some pretty nice recommendations to share.

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Posted on May 19, 2013 In Chinese, DVD/BR, English, Films, French, Fun, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Misc., Music, Russian, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish, Television 2d classical animation, 3d animation, aftershocks (tangshan dadizheng), alfonso cuaron, amy adams, amy wong, andrea echeverri, animation, anna kendrick, anne hathaway, aoi miyazaki, ayumi ito, bae doona, battlestar galactica, baz lurhman, bbc, ben affleck, best of, bibi chow (zhou bichang), big bang, brad pitt, brown eyed girls, buffy the vampire slayer, canada, carey mulligan, cate blanchett, chang shilei, charlize theron, chiaki kuriyama, china, christopher nolan, chulpan khamatova, clea duvall, coupling, daniel radcliffe, darren aronofsky, dexter, diablo cody, disney, documentary/making-of, eita, ellen page, emma watson, eric bana, evan rachel wood, ewan mcgregor, family outing, food, france, glee, greta garbo, harry potter, haruki murakami, hayao miyazaki, hebe tien, helena bonham carter, hotaru no haka (graves of the fireflies), india, jake gyllenhaal, japan, joan crawford, jodie foster, joe odagiri, jonsi, joseph gordon-levitt, joss whedon, julianne moore, juliette binoche, kate winslet, kore-eda, korea, kwai lun-mei, lars von trier, latin america, lee hom wang, lee hyori, lgbt, li bingbing, louis garrel, maggie cheung, marion cotillard, mark ruffalo, masaki okada, mia wasikowska, michael jackson, mikako ichikawa, miki nakatani, mizukawa asami, modern family, movie classics, natalie portman, nicole kidman, noomi rapace, olivia williams, pixar, quentin tarantino, rachel mcadams, reality tv/variety, rebecca hall, rie miyazawa, roman polanski, russia, ryan gosling, ryan murphy, ryo kase, sa dingding, saoirse ronan, sarah michelle gellar, satoshi tsumabuki, shokuzai, short film, shu qi, shunji iwai, silent films, spain, stefanie sun, steve carell, sweden, t.o.p (big bang), taiwan, tetsuya nakashima, the nightmare before christmas, tilda swinton, tim burton, toni collette, tony leung, tv drama / tv series / miniseries, ueno juri, video game, wagner moura, white stripes, wong kar-wai, wowow, yam, yu aoi, yuguo, zhao wei (vicky zhao), zhou xun

Jing Chang Does MJ

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Jing Chang just posted a photo of her in MJ attire.

Though it’s hot from the knee up, I gotta say- shoes are kind of distracting.

Posted on March 31, 2013 In Celebrity, Chinese, English, Music, Sharing, Snapshots gender-bending, jing chang (zhang yunjing), michael jackson, taiwan

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I’ll never let you part for you’re always in my heart

I remember the feeling when MJ passed away. Within the family, it’s common to think that you could not possibly cry for people you’ve never met, and that’s true most of the times. I don’t know anyone personally that cried when MJ passed, but I remember the day of the memorial concert, when Jennifer Hudson performed Will You Be There [1]… it wasn’t her performance, it was the moment when Michael does her spoken monologue with that broken voice- I didn’t break down, but I did share a few hazy looks with my TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tw7luxEfc

In our darkest hour
In my deepest despair
Will you still care?
Will you be there?
In my trials
And my tribulations
Through our doubts
And frustrations
In my violence
In my turbulence
Through my fear
And my confessions
In my anguish and my pain
Through my joy and my sorrow
In the promise of another tomorrow
I’ll never let you part
For you’re always in my heart

Posted on November 24, 2012 In Celebrity, Clips, English, Lyrics, Music, Sharing death, michael jackson, performance

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The Voice of China: Three Days and Three Nights of Black or White!

September 15, 2012 — Leave a comment

I gotta admit that with Wang Feng being Na Ying’s coach, I thought I was going to get blown away by everyone’s performances, but seems like expectations were too high. Plus, YouTube cockblocking my watching.

Since Wang Feng was there to coach too, all of the arrangments had a lot (or, at least, a little) to do with some aspect of rock — be it rock & roll or plain rock (except for Zhang Yu Xia’s battle) — so, in the end, there was a lot of A-Mei being played and there was some extra Wang Feng going on too.

Anyway, there were only a couple of standout performances, and considering my favorites on Na Ying’s team from the beginning were Zhang Wei (张玮) [1] and Zhang Yu Xia (張玉霞) [1], I am rather ecstatic and sad. Super elated for the fact that Zhang Wei has a very good chance of being the Top4 (and may very well be the winner), and sad because Zhang Yu Xia — despite her flawless The Legend (传奇) performance in a battle vs. Li Min (李敏) — couldn’t advance any further. T_T

But, DUDE! The Zhang Wei and Ge Yu Sen (歌浴森) battle doing A-Mei’s Three Days and Three Nights (三天三夜) was great~ Like, couldn’t pick between the two, and I was almost siding with Ge Yu Sen, but would have been perfectly content if either of those two won.

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Michael Jackson’s VMA Legacy

You know you’re fucking awesome when you lipsync through a whole show and nobody gives a shit, because it’s still awesome. Though, I would argue that MJ should’ve stopped his performance in Dangerous.

Not since Michael Jackson began dazzling the pop music stage has there been any other pop act that has been able to define dancing the way Michael did. To this day and age, when dance pop music (in America) is stale, and Korea gives me pretty choreographed skill [1] — there’s still no one bringing anything new to the pop table.

You’re still missed MJ.

Posted on September 14, 2012 In Celebrity, Clips, English, Music, Sharing from the vault, huzzah, michael jackson, mtv, musical/choreography, performance, vma, why the 90's ruled

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Music Production Schools’ School of Pop

June 6, 2012 — Leave a comment

We’re always bombarded with news at how the music (and movies, and everything else) industry is losing money to piracy, even though we keep hearing all these facts about how Glee has had more songs charted than The Beatles.

When Sarah, from the Music Production Schools’ design team, emailed me this infographic depicting all these facts onto one place… is hard not to share, right?

I won’t lie to you, the numbers are good — though I really don’t know how that works with adjusted inflation — but the numbers also make me sad. To imagine Katy Perry standing on similar ground as MJ or Flo Rida standing on similar ground to The Beatles… or Ke$ha selling MORE than The Beatles. It’s depressing.

Mainly because there are MUCH better artists out there, and half the world haven’t even heard about them. I think it’s a crime that everyone knows Katy Perry, but it’d be rare if someone knows who Shiina Ringo is.

In any case, this is an infographic about sales~ so there you have it.

Full infographic after the break~

In English, Graphics, Music, Sharing adele, design, digital content, distributors, glee, industry talk, internet, itunes, michael jackson, the beatles

Grammy 2011 Nominations

December 2, 2010 — Leave a comment

Excuse as I say that I thought Grammy awards couldn’t get any lower than last years. This is me saying that I enjoyed Eminem, and Lady Gaga fine.

But it’s really effing sad that Katy Perry’s got a Grammy nod for Album of the Year.

Not really static about any of the main categories. However, one category did really jump out for me — Julieta Venegas got a nod for Latin Pop Album. She plays so many instruments… and she has her own sound. When you listen to Julieta Venegas, you know it’s Julieta Venegas.

Her album wasn’t even nominated for a Latin Grammy — instead, Nelly Furtado’s which I actually liked fine won. The saddest part was that when watching that I told my mother “You know what would be sad, if Nelly Furtado wins Best Female Pop at the Latin Grammys.” Let’s not pretend Nelly is not singing in Spanish for commercial purposes. If she were trying to connect with her roots, she’d be singing more in Portuguese.

Plus, they also nominated They Might Be Giants for their Children Album [Meet the Elements, I am a Paleontologist]. I think that’s pretty much it.

Here are the general categories nominees~

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Moi et le funky musique~~~

October 3, 2010 — 1 Comment

So… today it’s voting Sunday. And I’ve also setup my About page… and got rid of my Favorites page because… well, it seemed redundant to have two pages about me. LOL

In case you missed the post in which I talked about my taste in film, this is a similar post that talks about my history… or lack of history with music.

When I was about 7, my dad opened a Karaoke bar (how Asian, non?). But by then, I had already grown up with the likes of the music of La Nueva Ola (the new wave) — you know, the type of Rock n’ Roll from The King… Jailhouse Rock or Houndog but in Spanish. My favorite tunes were probably La Plaga (the plage, the Spanish version of Little Richard’s Good Golly, Miss Molly), and La Mantequilla (the butter, the Spanish version of Cliff Richard and the Shadows’ Move It).

Of course, I was a little kid going to Chinese/Peruvian school, so my repertoire also included the Cantonese Counting Song Yat Yi Sam, as well as the counting Elefantes song… as well as the Sukiyaki song. So from the very beginning… I had a predisposition for all types of music in many different languages.
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Michael Jackson – They Don’t Care About Us – Dancing Inmates

Awww, just to remember Michael Jackson.

They Don’t Care About Us is one of my favorite MJ songs. HIStory was my first MJ album ever, which I got for my 10th birthday — but that’s a story you should know by now [1]. The choreography is killer.

I miss choreography like this. You know what dancing on a show is now? Butt-jiggles and booby-shaking. No one is moving their feet when they dance now! At least singers… I watch So You Think You Can Dance – *legasp!* Yes, I watch some reality tv shows, I’m afraid. xD

Posted on August 30, 2010 In Celebrity, Clips, DVD/BR, English, Films, Music, Sharing, Television fandom, michael jackson, musical/choreography

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