Haiku's Music of Asia Archival Adventures Round 3 (1980-2005) June 11th @13:00 BST/@21:00 JST

[Diddy]

OMG the cute Chinese guy I slept with once sang this in karaoke - I was like


and then we went to karaoke and I was like
again

 

[COB]

This video better end with them meeting the Catford Cat.

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Song 13: Jolin Tsai - Sun Will Never Set - 2007 Taiwan

Jolin Tsai started off a sweet girl next door sugary pop star, before switching to a European style of music and these days is the closest thing Taiwan has to a slut pop answer to the likes of Koda Kumi.

This is a cover of a Swedish song by BWO "Sunshine in the Rain"

 

[Diddy]

She was the one who did the cover of Lena's It Hurts too!

 

[COB]

Them just filming in the back garden of whatever house in London they were staying in

 

[Diddy]

I need to investigate her more, in case she's living out a whole Chinese parallel Melodifestivalen fantasy

 

[Diddy]

I'm already SUPER into whatever this is

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Song 14 - Shirley Kwan - Happy Are Those In Love (True Love is Rare) - 1989 Hong Kong

One of Cantopop's biggest musical icons, this song of hers in particular went Multi-Platinum!

 

[COB]

Ooh a karaoke video! @Diddy get on it

 

[Diddy]

Ooh a karaoke video! @Diddy get on it

Sing along at home!

 

[COB]

This is GORGEOUS.

 

[COB]

And yes I'm in the mood for a bit of treacle, to be fair.

 

[Diddy]

It's a nice video too!

The videos you get for western songs in karaoke are really

 

[Diddy]

And yes I'm in the mood for a bit of treacle, to be fair.

GLOOP ME UP

 

[COB]

It's a nice video too!

The videos you get for western songs in karaoke are really

Do many of them even bother with videos here nowadays? It's all just those Sunfly ones with the nasty pixelated text

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Song 15 - Huang Yu Ling - Dàidiàn nǚhái (Electric Charged Girl) - 1989 China

Time for China City Pop now Huang had a career started in the mid 80s and started off with some pop songs before making the shift to composing.

 

[COB]

Oh this one is a bop already!

 

[Diddy]

Do many of them even bother with videos here nowadays? It's all just those Sunfly ones with the nasty pixelated text

I have no idea how they decide which ones get the actual videos - obviously mostly Japanese ones get priority though

 

[COB]

Touch me, I'm electric (charged girl)

 

[Diddy]

When are any of you sweethearts going to come visit Japan?

 

[COB]

When are any of you sweethearts going to come visit Japan?

I would love to! Let me save for a while then we'll talk

 

[COB]

Kelly

 

[Diddy]

This Kelly seems like a right ONE!

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Song 15 - Kelly Chen - Big Day - 1999 Hong Kong

Miss Kelly is more known for her ballads. Her 1998/99 work is kind of an anomaly in that sense with this song being a big hit in Hong Kong nevertheless.

 

[COB]

Ropey in the absolute best way possible

 

[Diddy]

That leather bum wiggle!

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

@Diddy she also did a Cantonese cover of Utada Hikaru's Automatic!

but seems to have took the lyrics literally cause the music video is pixelated images on planes and cars with her looking sultrily at the camera.

 

[COB]

Everybody!

MOVE

YOUR

BODY

 

[Diddy]

Random white person he's not even a model or anything, looks like a foreign English teacher

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Interval Act 3: Jennifer Paige - Lovin' You! - 1999 Japan

Here's Jennifer Paige of "Crush" fame singing in Japanese. The song is originally by Nanase Aikawa

 

[Diddy]

J-Paige!

I was so obsessed with her for the first and second albums

 

[COB]

Already bracing myself for disaster here

 

[Diddy]

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

 

[COB]

Did Jennifer do these basic YouTube captions herself, or is it just an enthusiastic fan writing in her voice for us

 

[Diddy]

She's doing a really good job

like

 

[COB]

Did Jennifer do these basic YouTube captions herself, or is it just an enthusiastic fan writing in her voice for us

Oh it's on her official channel!

 

[Diddy]

and my favourite fag from V6 in the audience!!

 

[COB]

Oh this is good! What a pro

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

It's from a Japanese show where artists cover each others work.

Normally they have two English artists on the show I guess so they can cover eachothers work but seems Jennifer was the only Westerner that episode.

There was also Sheena Easton on it covering MAX in a different episode.

 

[Diddy]

How bizarre and amazing

Jennifer Paige .. @Haiku with this and Inspire you're really hitting me where I live!