Tag: soundtrack

  • Emily, Will You Marry Me?

    Awww… that is so awesome, non?
    Major points for the music~~~
    But of course, the big points come
    from all that light painting~~~

  • Faye Wong – You Lan Cao MV for Confucius

    The video is pretty disappointingly average,
    but the song is quite good. =)

  • Faye Wong Back for Confucius

    Turns out that Faye Wong had been working on the main theme for the Chow Yun-Fat Confucius film. The song, titled You Lan Cao (幽兰操), was finished on December 31st, and will be released on January 6th for the release of the film.

    It is based on the works of the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu (韩愈, 768-824). The director, Hu Mei, is reported to have described Faye’s rendition as ethereal, as “Communication of the earth and the sky’s beauty.”

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    The new song uses only 64 Chinese characters and is adapted from ancient poet Han Yu’s eulogy on orchids that resonated with the iconic philosopher Confucius.

    via Aiya They Didn’t.

  • Best Songs of 2000-2009 – Part 5/5

    Well, it’s last post of the year!!

    I’m off to the family’s big Asian dinner as always.
    Sadly, no fireworks T.T [watch last year’s here]

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  • Best Songs of 2000-2009 – Part 2/5

    To keep things interesting, I’ve decided to switch to the newest songs that made the best 100 songs of the decade. Just the heads up, it turned out to be very Asian. Is it trying to tell you something?

    One of those examples was the Welcome to Beijing song, which had a HUGE bunch of Asian (mostly Chinese, Taiwan and Hong Kong) stars. The scale of the project is probably similar to (or even bigger than) Michael Jackson’s We Are the World song… which in its time was epic. To me, and to many Asian (and non-Asian) people who keep track of the Asian music industry it marked an important time. Not only did the Olympics opened China to the world… and the world to China, but it also felt like a huge switch on everything from basic economics, industry… and entertainment.

    It’s as if Chinese musicians had been enclosed all those years while the economy started to pick up, and have exploded with a huge fireball of creativity. It’s amazing at the amount of talent coming out from there, especially now that they can upload their music through the many Chinese music websites like douban.com and haoting.com, and the amount of blogs and communities that are reporting on them.

    Some really awesome music, which I have already blog in this place. This is the reason, I want to get over these ones first, before I post many other songs from 2002-2006 when I didn’t blog that much (or at all).

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  • Best Albums of 2000-2009

    Well, I’ve found it easier to narrow down the number of albums for this Top100 Albums of the Decade, than to narrow my list of songs to 100. LOL I have around 350 songs at the moment. This is gonna be difficult… and also in every possible language xD

    Anyway, I’m sure that I had to take out some albums to include other albums. It was all a very difficult process to figure out what to include… going from “do I really have to take this song out?” to “OMG, I really love all these songs from this artist!!! Which one should I choose!- So please, bear with me, and comment what to add.

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  • Grammy 2010 Nominations

    Well, I certainly don’t keep track with Grammy Awards anymore, so should I be adding the event to my Award Season calendar? Or should I just wait to run into it when it’s airing?

    Grammy nominations were announced last night, and I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering why are the Grammy nominations so similar to MTV, the AMA and every other music-related award show? Just take a look at the General Field nominees to see what I’m talking about.

    Record of the Year
    Beyonce – Halo
    The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
    Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
    Lady Gaga – Poker Face
    Taylor Swift – You Belong with Me

    Album of the Year
    Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce
    The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D
    Lady Gaga – The Fame
    Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
    Taylor Swift – Fearless

    Song of the Year
    Lady Gaga – Poker Face
    Maxwell – Pretty Wings
    Beyonce – Single Ladies
    Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
    Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me

    Best New Artist
    Zac Brown Band
    Keri Hilson
    MGMT
    Silversun Pickups
    The Ting Tings

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  • Never did my “Best 2008 Songs”

    I’m also preparing for 2009, though to be honest~~~ I’ve noticed that I don’t have many 2009 albums – so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve chosen Top15 Songs of 2008 excluding Soundtracks, except for my #1 for sentimental reasons.

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  • Just a Quick Music Update~

    I just noticed I can direct link to my LivingSocial:Albums on Facebook.
    Babo me~ now if only they would allow embedding…

    LivingSocial Albums

    5 albums in Chinese, and loads of high-rated Asian albums. LOL
    You can fully check it all out here.

  • Salyu’s Extension + Style Changes

    I just needed a reason to post Salyu’s videos. xD
    Her newest PV, Extension~~~ She’s changed a lot since her days
    as Lily Chou-Chou xD – you can see some of the most obvious changes after the break~
    from newest to oldest…

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