Asian Wave (pan-Asian singing competition)
Spent some good hours watched the last 7 episodes of the aforementioned "Asian Wave" show, even some established artists participating:
Not even the most popular singing contest show in China during the same time, but I really enjoyed it. As 2/3 of the judges speak Chinese it certainly can't be convincing for non-Chinese singers, but I'm not aware of any better contest show. Very refreshing to listen to judges commenting on songs in a language they don't understand, especially from non-Chinese speaking judges since 1/4 of the songs are in Mandarin (1/2 in English). Although music is supposedly trans-cultural, the judges must have the hardest job in the world, I mean how do you choose between Bollywood dance and K-pop dance without bias?
Which makes Shila Amzah's win the more impressive. I wonder if all judges are changed to Indian-speakers would she have lost? The other 5 finalists are all-Chinese speaking despite while less than half of the contestants are Chinese-speaking. But it's hard to say whether the judges' were intentionally biased. Meanwhile Japan's soul singer Emi Tawata would probably have been there if not for the anti-Japan rioters scaring her home. While I wanted Indian singers to have more success, I also can't see how you can sing a traditional Bollywood song to win a singing competition, although I think that Bhavin Dhanak guy is pretty good.
The 2nd best placed female singer Lau WanYin is also Malaysian. She one notch lower than Shila but still good (and decent-looking) enough to become a major star. I don't know what's in Malaysia's water or weather but China with 1.3 billion seem to get completely outcompeted by them in this regard, as I think I mentioned this before, half of the most popular C-pop female singers seem to come from Malaysia/Singapore. Not to mention they are almost all multilingual, e.g. this girl WanYin spoke fluent English and Mandarin on the show, was a Taiwanese Hokkien competition winner, and now she's singing in Malay in this contest:
Brought the house down. I don't know whether Malaysia has a age-shaving problem but she was supposed to be born in 1996... As Korean judge Lee Min-woo said, if she were born in Korea, she'd be more popular than IU. No shit.
BTW despite a bunch of screaming K-pop groupies on the stands, all the manufactured K-pop artists (I mean boy groups) in this competition are all mediocre. (The solo singer Whee was good.) Yes you all can dance while rapping in American (some of them black?)-accented English just like the other 500 groups in your country but I'd prefer Shila's Manglish accent better, she sings it just like she speaks it. This is Asia after all. Gangnam Style's success is certainly impressive but can K-pop as a whole really invade America? I think not. Plus I don't think it's coincidence that a US-educated solo artist was the only one to break out in the U.S. while the highly promoted Wondergirls / Girls Generation etc. all failed. I'm so glad Malaysian judge Eric Moo called them out on the show. Now he's being crucified on youtube comments lol.
I must have watched 30 by myself. It was fun, but after a month I kind of get tired when half of the Youtube frontpage is still GS.
One of the better videos is a Hitler Gangnam remix one, I was shocked when Mandarin showed up at the end.
Spent some good hours watched the last 7 episodes of the aforementioned "Asian Wave" show, even some established artists participating:
Not even the most popular singing contest show in China during the same time, but I really enjoyed it. As 2/3 of the judges speak Chinese it certainly can't be convincing for non-Chinese singers, but I'm not aware of any better contest show. Very refreshing to listen to judges commenting on songs in a language they don't understand, especially from non-Chinese speaking judges since 1/4 of the songs are in Mandarin (1/2 in English). Although music is supposedly trans-cultural, the judges must have the hardest job in the world, I mean how do you choose between Bollywood dance and K-pop dance without bias?
Which makes Shila Amzah's win the more impressive. I wonder if all judges are changed to Indian-speakers would she have lost? The other 5 finalists are all-Chinese speaking despite while less than half of the contestants are Chinese-speaking. But it's hard to say whether the judges' were intentionally biased. Meanwhile Japan's soul singer Emi Tawata would probably have been there if not for the anti-Japan rioters scaring her home. While I wanted Indian singers to have more success, I also can't see how you can sing a traditional Bollywood song to win a singing competition, although I think that Bhavin Dhanak guy is pretty good.
The 2nd best placed female singer Lau WanYin is also Malaysian. She one notch lower than Shila but still good (and decent-looking) enough to become a major star. I don't know what's in Malaysia's water or weather but China with 1.3 billion seem to get completely outcompeted by them in this regard, as I think I mentioned this before, half of the most popular C-pop female singers seem to come from Malaysia/Singapore. Not to mention they are almost all multilingual, e.g. this girl WanYin spoke fluent English and Mandarin on the show, was a Taiwanese Hokkien competition winner, and now she's singing in Malay in this contest:
Brought the house down. I don't know whether Malaysia has a age-shaving problem but she was supposed to be born in 1996... As Korean judge Lee Min-woo said, if she were born in Korea, she'd be more popular than IU. No shit.
BTW despite a bunch of screaming K-pop groupies on the stands, all the manufactured K-pop artists (I mean boy groups) in this competition are all mediocre. (The solo singer Whee was good.) Yes you all can dance while rapping in American (some of them black?)-accented English just like the other 500 groups in your country but I'd prefer Shila's Manglish accent better, she sings it just like she speaks it. This is Asia after all. Gangnam Style's success is certainly impressive but can K-pop as a whole really invade America? I think not. Plus I don't think it's coincidence that a US-educated solo artist was the only one to break out in the U.S. while the highly promoted Wondergirls / Girls Generation etc. all failed. I'm so glad Malaysian judge Eric Moo called them out on the show. Now he's being crucified on youtube comments lol.
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One of the better videos is a Hitler Gangnam remix one, I was shocked when Mandarin showed up at the end.
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