Yu Kewei and Lin Fan releases “Fierce Wife” OST, films new MV

May 10, 2011 | Posted in Music,Taiwan,Television, Tagged , ,
Thanks to the Fierce Wife, Yu Kewei and Lin Fan are holding concerts and grabbing awards.

Thanks to the Fierce Wife, Yu Kewei and Lin Fan are finally holding concerts and grabbing awards.

After topping Taiwanese KTV and radio charts for weeks through her insert song  Count on 指望, eeMedia’s Yu Kewei joins Lin Fan to release an OST including the songs for The Fierce Wife 犀利人妻. The popularity of the song gave the Taiwanese audience recognization of Yu Kewei’s skilled and ethereal voice. On YouTube, she’s one of the few mainland singers to have over 1 million plays.

After “The Fierce Wife,” Rock Records’ next big project is the OST for the New Huan Zhu Ge Ge/My Fair Princess. Hopefully, we’ll hear these two girls’ voices singing of the joys of Xiao Yanzi or the woes of Princess Fragrance.

The OST also features a new duet by the two, “listen to your words.” Watch the MV below from

Yu Kewei tops Taiwan charts with Hope, films MV a year later

March 9, 2011 | Posted in Mainland China,Music,Taiwan, Tagged , ,
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Although it took her nearly a year, Yu Kewei now finally has a song to her name that matches her heavenly voice.

Yu Kewei’s 指望/Hope got so popular in Taiwan recently that a MV was filmed for it a year after the song’s release. Following Ding Dang, Yu Kewei is another recent mainlander whose music has made it across the strait to top KTV charts. Like Ding Dang, whose popularity soared up her songs  for SETTV’s drama Autumn’s Concerto, Yu Kewei’s popularity came from her song 指望/Hope in SETTV’s  The Fierce Wife. The song showcases Yu Kewei’s airy voice with a song whose lyrics wraps perfectly around the tune.

Are you afraid to be rejected? Afraid to be ignored? Afraid to be lost in the mires of fate?
When love declares itself to be missing, the proud rose welts petal by petal.
Even if you apologize, regret, once love falls, it can no longer fly again.
Don’t count on me to forgive, don’t count on me to empathize
, love cannot be recovered with a nod.”

The song, first released last March as a part of her debut album from Rock Records (Emil Chou, Genie Zhuo, etc.), has been at the top of numerous Taiwanese charts, including both single downloads and KTV picks, recently, and has soared to become the most played video on our beloved fountainpark723′s YouTube channel.

指望/Hope uploaded by fountainpark723@YouTube

Super Boy Chen Xiang Featured on Sohu

Chen Xiang

Looking ahead to his glorious future

He has 552,653 fans on his weibo — and counting. His song “Yan Huo” on the Super Boys 2010 compilation album, My Stage, has been listened to more than 13 billion times. And he seems to be loved by all, in a similar way to how people loved Khalil Fong two years ago. He may have placed fifth in Super Boys, but that hasn’t stopped Chen Xiang from becoming the biggest surprise of this year’s competition.

People say he’s like a little orange: clean, pure, quiet, emitting a fresh and clean fragrance. (His name on his weibo is “陈翔橙” — “Chen Xiang Orange.”) Under the lens of the camera, his quietness makes him seem like a little prince who somehow wandered out of a children’s fairy tale. He has an elegant face, an expression like Lee Jun-ki’s, and a naturally clean and warm voice.

Every year we wait for a newbie to suddenly emerge like Jay Chou did in 2001. But right now, this generation is not one conducive to making stars that the entire country idolizes. More and more people are starting to care less if a person came from a competition, and are starting to care more about a star’s potential in the future. And as far as the future is concerned, Chen Xiang’s starting point may be higher than the other Super Boys’: with his clean voice and elegant looks, singing and acting are both viable options for him.

See him in action with Super Girl Yu Kewei — acting in a short clip and then singing in a duet. Sohu photoshoot plus a bonus .gif behind the cut:

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BoBo Fu Xinbo raises water quality awareness in Chengdu

August 16, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China, Tagged , , , ,
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What's a trip around Chengdu without visiting pandas?

BoBo Fu Xinbo and singer Yu Kewei recently went around Chengdu to promote environmentalism in the city. As a part of Sohu’s Easy Go program, the two looked at water quality in Chengdu’s rivers, and visited the Living Water Park, the world’s first inner city ecological park in the world with water as its. The public park includes a natural water purification system that not only raises awareness, but has also increased the water quality in surrounding areas.

Lots of pretty, fun and HQ photos under the cut, and also watch this cute kissing game BoBo played:

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Yu Kewei Releases “Warm Heart” MV

July 5, 2010 | Posted in Mainland China,Music,Super Girls 2009, Tagged
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Yu Kewei shares popcorn with her on-screen boyfriend (I have no idea who he is, but he kind of looks like a young Vincent Jiao in this photo)

Super Girl Yu Kewei released her first album in May of this year and has now released the MV for her song “Warm Heart” (暖心). In the MV, she promises her on-screen boyfriend that she’ll take a picture of every day that they’re together, and the ups and downs of their relationship are told through a series of clips and Polaroid photos.

Thanks to fountainpark723 for uploading this to YouTube!

Some more pictures behind the cut:

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eeMedia New Year Calendar shots

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Top Combine starts the year with pink

eeMedia releases their New Year calendar with all of its major artists. Including Top Combine, Li Yuchun, Meteor Shower cast, Jiang Yingrong, Tan Weiwei, and other Super Girls and Boys. This is the first year that eeMedia has released a family calendar, shot during the same time as their awesome family MV this year. Signs of eeMedia finally being organized under Long Danni? Definitely.

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eeMedia Family Winter MV Pictures Part 3

I want this poster on my wall

You can also watch behind the scenes here , here, here and here. The song is composed by Top Combine’s Ma Xueyang and you can listen to it here. Shoutout to fountainpark723@youtube for uploading most of the videos.


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Jane Zhang's new song and random news

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While Jane’s busy doing various things (she’s in Tokyo right now?), her company Show City Times is releasing its first album for Super Boy Wang Zhengliang late this month. Not a big fan of him, but he’s from our favorite Music Conservatory and has a good voice.

More interestingly, Super Girl Pan Chen is joining Show City soon. It’s uncertain she’ll sign a record or management contract, but at least we know she’s not in the girl group.

Yu Kewei was a little faster and signed record contracts with Rock Records this week. She was promised an album in 100 days, which means she’ll probably be the second 2009 Super Girl to release a new album. Listen to a new song by the first album releaser Zeng Yike here.

A day later, Li Yuchun also signed with Rock Records for releases outside of mainland. Does that make Yu Kewei her elder? Her latest album “Li Yuchun” will be released in Taiwan late this month. Her second self-composed/written/directed MV has also been released.

Most dramatic series of the year goes to…

..Super Girls?

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Pan Hongyue may seem pompous, but she has our respect for not hiding her disgust at the judges after the 15to10 competition.

Meteor Shower seems to have already lost the dramatic category before it even started. Super Girls’ scriptwriters are probably way better. What other drama has the music, the dancing, the pretty girls, the tears, the triumphs, the unsung heroes, the evil henchmen, and of course, the righteous Judge Bao (somebody on baidu tried to link his heritage to Judge Bao Qingtian) like Super Girls?

Friday’s Super Girls’s defining moment was Bao Xiaobo’s comments after Li Xiaoyun played the guitar for her song:

Li Xiaoyun, you know, on this stage, playing the guitar on this stage is very dangerous. But I want to thank you for reminding me of someone. Her name is Wang Zhixin, and she once sung a song called Match Heaven. I once said her music striked straight into the heart. I want to thank her and thank you.

I cried the moment he mentioned Wang Zhixin. But wow, if last week’s comment about “protective forces” wasn’t direct enough, this week’s comment about the guitar is way too obvious. (He’s hinting at the fact that Wang Zhixin got kicked out so she wouldn’t compete with Zeng Yike as the guitars).

The person who took the heat of the blame for making anyone but Zeng Yike playing the guitar being in danger is the outspoken Gao Xiaosong, who we first became familiar with after he told HIT-5 their song was “outdated” and that “mainland music wasn’t pure because they don’t have enough coastal lines.” It turns out that MT-muzik, the songwriters behind HIT-5′s “Say U love me again” and “I want you to know” actually wrote a song in response to him, titled “Hello, Gao Xiaosong.” It’s well-written, if unpolished.

Nihao Gao Xiaosong – MT muzik (translations of selected parts below the cut)
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Singing Competitions Boosts Singer Huang Ling's Popularity

July 16, 2009 | Posted in Mainland China,Music, Tagged , , , ,

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New singer Isabelle Huang Ling has gotten a steady stream of free publicity through competitions after her debut. On season four of Taiwan’s One Million Star her song Itch (Yang) was sung by Connie Kan, 3rd runner up season, and then in Supergirls 2009 one of the front-runners Yu Kewei, sang Itch as well.  Each time, people began looking for the original singer of the song, and were surprised at the quality of her debut album, whose songs were very unique, Chinese-styled, and different from the usual pop songs.

One of the interesting songs on her album: Red Weeping Eyes

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