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Super Girl girlband iMe to debut

May 10, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Super Girls 2009, Tagged , , , ,
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From left: Li Yuanxi, Na Lin (Thai), Yi Yizi, Shen Xuanjing (Korean) and Liu Meihan

The long anticipated Super Girls girlband is finally about to debut in the next month.  This will be the first major mainland girlband.

iMe is composed of a member each from Thailand and Korea and three members from last year’s Super Girls competition (Chinese Idol for females). The group is a collaboration between Hunan Broadcasting Systems company eeMedia and Korean company DoReMi.

An intro on the Super Girls members below the cut. (more…)

Super Boys approved for 2010

February 28, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China, Television, Tagged , , ,
Yay company!

Yay, company !(no pun intended)

2010 Super Boys (快乐男声) has received approval from SARFT. This year, preparation time will be less rushed.
Today at 11:53am Beijing Time – message sent from a cellphone

-Sina Weibo(microblog) of Zhang Huali, Vice-Director of Hunan Satellite TV

Super Boys has been approved by SARFT! After a three years, eeMedia will finally get a new dose of hot and talented singers.
In addition to Super Boys, another competition show named “Green China: Flower Blossoms” was approved mid-February. The show will be hosted by Hunan TV’s recently brought subsidiary Qinghai TV.

Super Girls releasing new songs

November 23, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Tagged , , , , , ,

Super Girls 2009 iBubble commercial

Going backwards from 2009, the the first 2009 Super Girl to release a MV was top 60 Luo Zhenhuan for her new EP. Zeng Yike will be the first to release her new album. See her album cover (with a sheep!) here. Meanwhile, Jiang Yingrong sings the new theme for Maybelline. You can hear the recorded version here, or you can watch the much superior live version:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGu8tnz-nmc]

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Super Girls after Zeng Yike; a summary

September 1, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Super Girls 2009, Tagged ,
The girl with a 80% chance of winning Super Girls

The girl with a 80% chance of winning Super Girls

Super Girls is the epitome of a suspenseful reality TV show. After the eventful leaving of Zeng Yike, Li Yuanxi and Pan Hongyue, Pan Chen and Tan Lina soon joined them. Liu Xijun leaving was a huge surprise, but perhaps not as much as Zeng Yike or Pan Hongyue leaving. She was soon followed by Yu Kewei, leaving Huang Ying, Li Xiaoyun and Jiang Yingrong to vie for the 3 spots next week. A few of my favorite performances since the 10to7:

Wei Chen ft Yu Kewei singing their love’s duet
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcCAQpU1nY]

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The little match girl of Super Girls

July 4, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Relationships, Super Girls 2009, Tagged , ,
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Who will light my sticks of hope?

A car accident made her an orphan at the age of ten.
A pile of family debt forced her to leave school when she was fifteen.
Five years later, a competition that brought her story to light.
This is her story, as told by Harbin TV News.
Meet Wang Zhixin, the Little Match Girl of super girls

Walking in the chilling, snowing night sky, a stick of match warms my dreams. Every step of frozenness, every step of loneliness, the coldness of people numbs my hands.

When the heavenly, almost ethereal sound was softly enounced from the mouths of a seemingly average girl, when it filled the 600 square meter room of the GBS auditorium, below the stage, the hundreds of audiences were silent.

On the night of June 14th, Wang Zhixin, a petite girl with a headfull of stubborn short hair, stood on the stage of the 2009 Super Girls, playing her guitar and lost in her own world.

Matches Heaven
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ccZkdfcerM]
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Build-a-girlband à la Super Girls

June 26, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Super Girls 2009, Tagged ,
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Welcome to the build-a-girlband workshop! Create your very own Girl Band and other related artists at the Build-a-Girlband Workshop! You can choose and group your new Super Girl...

EE-Media has stated that through this year’s Super Girls, they were going to create a “female version of Top Combine.” And since only three of the people I mentioned last time were in the top 18 (further proving that eeMedia CEO Long Danni and I do not have the same taste in artists), and all of the top 18 are already signed with eeMedia, I decided to do another post. On the other hand, not being in the top 18 doesn’t mean not being in the girlband. Only 2 members of Top Combine were in the top anything, and Hunan TV/eeMedia has said that they will invite selected eliminated Super Girls to go on Yi Hu Bai Ying to select more girlband members.

To keep with the female Top Combine comparison, I’ve even organized them into groups for you.

Wang Zhixin’s self composition – one night

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Best and most of Super Girls 300

June 6, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Super Girls 2009, Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
Super Girls

This year's Super Girls are definitely pretty, but can they sing?

A brief overview of the top 300 of this year’s Super Girls. Note that I haven’t watched every competitions, or even half of it. I watched most of Chengdu, Changsha and online. The rest are viewed only if someone on baidu tieba recommended them. And though there are a lot more good singers, I’ve only picked some that really stood out to me. All opinions are mine.

Best English singers: Yu Kewei and Pan Hongyue

I really love what judge Wu Qixian said about the two of them:

Right now, among those who can sing Western songs so beautifully, but still maintains the identity of Chinese, one is Qi Yu, and the other one is Yu Kewei. Pan Hongyue, you have even more techniques and things to show off than Yu Kewei. Unfortunately, when you sing Western songs, you become no longer Chinese but a foreigner. We can only see an imitation, not a Chinese who can understand the essence of Western music and culture. That’s the difference between Yu Kewei and you. Many may be wowed by your glamour today, but what we really seek is the uniquely Chinese way of expressing our values,spirit and culture, and you need more careful thought on that. I hope you can grow, and understand how much we expect of you.

Yu Kewei singing “Gloomy Sunday:”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIMuUhHYAHs]
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Beauty, Voice or Personality?

June 3, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China, Music, Super Girls 2009, Tagged , , , ,
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Conquering the world with beauty isn't easy when you look like you're made of glass

That’s the choice that millions of competitors and viewers have or will have to make this summer as the three talent shows battle it out. A look at what each one offers:

Conquer the world with beauty
Despite having the shallowest slogan of them all, SMG’s female “My Hero”, Jiayou! Dong Fang Tian Shi, or as we’re going to translate it, Jiayou! Dragon Angels,  has a quite deep, if not solid, backing. First up is the big fish – Huayi Brothers. Being a mainly film and drama producer, it makes sense that Huayi would want to go for the lookers over the voices. The Dragon Angels have been promised spots in Disney, SMG and Huayi’s High School Musical and possible spots in Feng Xiaogang movies. And then there are two starring roles in Hai Yan dramas.  If the Angels prefered flying over acting (who wouldn’t want to act opposite BOBO?), the top 60 are also guaranteed jobs as air attendants on CE-air. However, I do admire the fact that they require all contestant to audition without makeup. After all, SMG wants actresses, not make-up artists. (more…)

New Yorkers agree that Ugly Wudi is adorable

March 25, 2009 | Posted in Literature, Mainland China, Non-Chinese, Television, Tagged , , , , ,
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Lin Xinru adorable both before and after Ugly Wudi

Good Morning America, along with the random New Yorkers that it surveyed, agrees with Cfensi that Ugly Wudi is not that ugly. Click here to watch the report. Of the various news sources that have picked this story up, this I feel is the only one that shows justice to the story. Every other story makes it seem as if the Chinese hate it, when in fact Ugly Wudi was one of the most popular shows last year. Its product placement ads reached the level of Super Girl ads, and that’s beyond impressive. The third season is currently under production. (more…)

Taiwan Lifts Its Restrictions on Mainland Entertainers

December 30, 2008 | Posted in Mainland China, Movies, Music, Stage, Taiwan, Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
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Anson Hu a month ago became an exception to Taiwan's rule that no mainlanders could give solo concerts in Taiwan...now he'll be one of the many.

The company that brought Na Ying and Faye Wong to fame is ready to present it’s newest mainland superstar – Huang Yali, an energetic 19-year-old. Taiwanese companies have recently been increasingly signing on mainlanders, from rock bands such as Fusion and AOK to pop stars like Jade Liu. This is probably in light of the fact that after Taiwan’s changed presidents this past year, things have begun changing with respect to Mainland-Taiwan relations, including a suggested lifting of restrictions on mainland artists activities in Taiwan.

This finally became reality recently:
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