Songstress Huang Ling recreates a scene from the glamor of Old Shanghai with her cover of “Bei Guo Feng Guang” on a Shandong TV, inducing all her male competitors to be in awe of her beauty:
Stills from new series “Cuo Dian Yuan Yang”
Cold male and happy-go-lucky female, season MCXVI
Known as “ice cream literature” for her soft and sweet tales, Xi Juan’s stories were the frontrunners of fanfic-like literature before there were fanfics. Two of her novels are being made into a new Hunan TV series featuring a cast of first-time leads. Cuo Dian Yuan Yang (Accidental Cupid, literally wrongly picking lovebirds) combines two stories around the Shi family, one of them with a timetravelling beginning that was cut out.
New My Fair Princess’ Princess Qing’er actress Zhao Liyin plays a tacky but clever maid who replaces her mistress to be married to the Shi family so that she can spy on them, while fellow My Fair Princess actress Zhou Fang plays a policeman who is actually a girl in disguise. Those two are paired with the first and second Shi son, respectively. Meanwhile, the third son Guo Dongdong (the musician from Modern New Species) has fallen for a courtesan, and the fourth daughter for her childhood friend Leng Gang (Bu Bu Jing Xin’s 10th prince Ye Zuxin).
Selected stills below the cut.
Stars rap in Shanghainese for Dragon TV’s New Year MV
Jin Sha and Xue Zhiqian shout of their love for Shanghai
For the second year in a row, Dragon TV featured a cute Shanghainese rap MV for its Chinese New Year’s show. This year, Shanghaineses artists Xue Zhiqian, Kym Jin Sha and Huang Ling, along with other artists like Fu Xinbo and Da Zhang Wei, participated in flash mobs in various famous spots in Shanghai to film the MV. Jin Sha also took the bold step of choosing to wear a hanfu for the MV.
Sorry about the video quality, but at least the cute Shanghainese makes up for it!
Isabelle Huang Ling Congratulated By “Shi Xiong” Author Han Han
We first posted on Isabelle Huang Ling last year, a rising young singer from Shanghai, due to the strength of her vocals and the unique quality of her songs from her first album Itch/Yang. Back then the buzz around her was just beginning, and she had just done a CM with BOBO, and had announced a second album. She made good on that promise a month ago with “Special”, an album continuing her unique style of music. This time she released to a much larger audience than before, her popularity having steadily increased in the past year, even promoting in Taiwan. Yesterday, in her fanmeet in Beijing she was congratulated by her “Shi Xiong” (her company senior in SMG), famous author and blogger Han Han. Back when he had dabbled for better or worse in in music, she appeared in one of his MVs, then a complete unknown, and just starting her musical training with the company.
Coincidentally, Chang Shilei, the talented producer responsible for the arrangement of her songs, and the composer of some of her biggest and most unique hits like High Song/High Ge and Red Eyes, also received a strong boost in popularity this year with his single Ge Ge, and released his second album Myself to much anticipation.
Amidst the commercialism in cpop, both seemed to tap into the public’s simple desire for quality music, regardless of what is trendy at the moment. And it is never more gratifying when that happens. Here’s hoping they will both release a third album next year.