I posted a short bit on Ang It-Hong's death here earlier this year.  Since his death, his sons Eric Hung and Hung Jung helped put together an album commemorating his songs with the help of various pop artists.  The album contains new songs inspired by Ang It-Hong, such as "阿爸" ("Father") written by Jay Chou and Vincent Fang.  (This report notes ( Read more... )

I posted one of his Mandarin compilations earlier, so you can find it under the "Maoshan Lee" tag if you missed it.

Recently, I've probably been watching too much Taiwanese TV. XD A couple of the shows I watch have quite a bit of Taiwanese/Hokkien in them:  "百万大歌星" and "王牌大明星."  The former is a contest in which various singers try to remember lyrics ( Read more... )

This isn't going to be a full song translation, but more of a translation of background information, since this song's title is a "成语" ("chengyu") or Chinese idiom.

Quick story for people who have heard LeeHom and (Mayday's) Ashin's latest collaboration, "伯牙绝弦."  (831 Band's A-Pu also helped write the lyrics.  831 is, of course, very much related ( Read more... )

This remake of Mayday's DNA with football-related lyrics (and English subs!) was brought to my attention by Merry of onedayinmay.net:



The scenes in this MV were taken from NFL China's attempts at bringing American football to the masses.  If you haven't seen this show, you can find the links on Merry's site.

- The song I mentioned here is on an EP not available on YesAsia, but you can download it from the link on this site.  Here's another song for the list, Suzy!  The second track on the EP also features lyrics by Vincent Fang and the style is ZGF.  Jay didn't write the music for this song, but I've pasted (part of?) Vincent's lyrics under this cut ( ( Read more... )

If you like Mayday or football or both, you can watch a short clip here.  There's more news on this compiled here and here, since there are quite a few articles about Mayday in English for this.  NFL China is trying to promote football in China, and how do you promote something in China?  With celebrities, of course!

Also, the video and the ( Read more... )

If you need some laughter in your day, read the list of this year's winner's here.  The translations leave so much to be desired, LOL!  "Capricorn" is suddenly "Magic Jay Station."  Whoever translated this obviously used an Online translator and maybe an Online dictionary and has no clue what a pun in Chinese looks like.  "The Fragrance of Wheat" ( Read more... )

After seeing this, I've decided that the GMA (Golden Melody Awards, or Gilded Mediocrity Awards if you prefer) judges are over-rated psychopaths with no real logic behind their throwing random songs/albums/artists together under categories by dialect instead of actual genre.  Genres are folk, rock, and hip-hop, not Mandarin, Hokkien, and Hakka!  In ( Read more... )

I'm sure lots of people have heard about "One Million Star" by now.  The first season's competitors ranked pretty high on the charts last year (though not as high as Jay Chou or Mayday, both of which were #1 depending on which sales chart you looked at).  There's one singer who appeared on the show but didn't compete and whose album also ranked ( Read more... )

On this post, I'll be posting links and tracklists for two different rock albums:  A-Yue's "OK" and Mayday's "Poetry of the Day After."

( Links, tracklists, and my nonsense... )