Beijing Rock - Asia Society at the Olympics

Beijing's hot bands - Xie Tianxiao's Cold-Blooded Animal, and Jiang Xin's Super Monkey. Join us for Day 2 of our week in the life of Beijing during the Olympics as pop culture and music industry maven Scarlett Li shows what's new and exciting in China's music scene.

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Music

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• china
• chinese
• beijing
• rock
• band
• folk
• alternative
• olympics
• cold-blooded
• animal
• jiang
• xin
• super
• monkey
• xie
• tianxiao
• 谢天笑
• 姜昕
• 超级猴子

[ktran11]

i agree, modern china is absolutely unseen from a foreign perspective

[apexi957]

first is fail

[derek8555]

shinkochan2, I thought about that too, but then the original translation actually works out this way:

随便的 could mean "any" or "common", so unusual could possibly mean "unique" or "special" in this case, which then makes sense.

[OlympiaBrian]

Yeah!! Let´s rock!!!!

[Hikarij]

:) Asians ROCK :)

[asianboi8585]

asian pride for life!

[shinkochan2]

TRANSLATION: The title of the Super Monkey album (我不是个随便的花朵) doesn't mean "I'm an Unusual Flower", which would translate directly as 我是个异常的花朵. Rather, it carries connotations of a woman overturning traditional notions of sexual promiscuity, and would be better translated as: (1) I'm Not Your Casual Flower (2) I'm Not Your Good-time Flower (3) I'm Not Your Anytime Flower.

Pow.

[shinkochan2]

CHEEEERS: To the (presumably young, cool and underpaid) video editors, who wisely drowned out the claptrap and used great concert footage from two hard-working Chinese bands.

[WangDianshi]

Hey! That's Liu Wentai from Louisiana..... he's currently working on Gao Qi's new "classical favorites" sung-in-mandarin compilation.

I'm glad XTX used the coffee/tea analogy, as opposed to the grass/crack analogy.

XTX's music really does have that strange oriental melodiousness to it.....

[250808115]

谢天笑

[ATPADPenergy]

I don't buy any of it ! English music is that which accompanies Morris Dancing, French muzak usually follows the ups and downs of Porn films, and Americans are into Slasher rock ! Isn't this just one big, "let's dissect fluff" stereotype ! The fact is most Pop whether it be C-Pop,J-Pop,K-Pop, or U.K Pop Crap is just manufactured tat glossed by fat and exceptionally bald men in suits.