From the lyrics…I am guessing it is reflecting on a relationship that didn’t end well? And while the song is titled “Baoqian Baoqian” aka “Sorry Sorry” the cool part is the lyrics themselves actually say “I’m not sorry. Sorry.” Messy. The city lights and trees are going mad. Yeah, it’s a dream you scribble. . . . You have to
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An interesting concept. Things you experience in life can cut you like a knife, but that doesn’t always make it a bad thing. Zheng Jun wrote “Knife” as a love song for his wife. It’s his first performance on the Chinese show I Am a Singer-Songwriter. This kind of pain is like the joy after being shocked. This kind of
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I am not familiar with a lot of Chinese artists, I admit. This was my first experience listening to Huo Zun on the second season of China’s Singer-Songwriter competition. He performed his original song “Starfall” which has a very deep meaning behind it. Even though life is hard and you are but a little star…embrace the beauty in life and
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Let us take a break from rock music and jump into ballads. Della 丁噹 (Della Wu/Ding Dang/Wu Xian/Della Ding) is an artist from mainland China whose career launched in Taiwan. If you have watched some popular Chinese and Taiwanese dramas, I am sure you have heard one of her songs in the OST (i.e. Sound of the Desert). Most of
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Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and all that jazz. Thank you for spending another year with Asian Addicts Anonymous. Hopefully in the new year I’ll be back to blogging more regularly once more after the malaise and craziness of 2015 has passed. On the seventh day of Christmas, the song I gift to you is JJ Lin’s “Saranghaeyo” aka “只對你說 (I’ll
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The final giveaway winner of August was Phantom18! who decided to take a mix of Asian music versus a compilation of Thai-only music. Here is the completed playlist! Yes, I know that it is long. I tried to incorporate old favorites and recently discovered loves from the entire Asian music spectrum. Here you’ll find Thai, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, and
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Remember in August I did a giveaway for music? Yeah. Fast forward to November and I finally got around to completing the promised playlists. Yes, I am soooo bad. Below is the playlist won by lynette31. I had to make some adjustments because songs that were once available via iTunes went “poof” so you’ll get to see the original choice
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