Posts filed under: ‘Propaganda‘
~~Propaganda~~ Vol.2 Lee Hyori
- Lee Hyori’s Comeback Video “U-Go-Girl”
Toc Toc Toc
Toc Toc Toc hasn’t got the best music video, admittedly. It’s live footage of Hyori and her dancers but it’s a great dance to watch. If you look in the Related Videos there’s a video of five girls doing the choreography and I suggest you watch that too.
Shall We Dance
U-Go-Girl
Scolded
1 comment July 18, 2008
~~Propaganda~~ Vol. 1 Elva Hsiao
Elva Hsiao's 2006 Album "1087"
Sometimes not having much to do is a good thing. I spent most of today on YouTube watching the most random things ever (Pocky Adverts FTW!). Then, for some reason, I decided to oggle at things I can’t afford at YesAsia.
I came across one very interesting item.
Elva Hsiao – 3 Faced (With 3 previously released albums)
Never heard of the woman, but the fact you get four albums for £11.53 certainly piqued my interest. But I’ll never buy music that I’m not sure about, I’m diverse, sure, but I don’t like everything I hear. My main experience with Chinese artists has been the balladiers… and I’m not a big ballad fan. Which you’ll know if you’ve read some of my posts at KeysToEverything. But the fact that YesAsia had said “3 Faced comes packed with the high-energy dance tracks and soulful ballads that Elva is known for” was enough for me to do some research. So I went back to YouTube
LoVe
What you see is what you get, L-O-V-E with respect
Without a shadow of doubt LoVe is my favourite Elva track. It’s a dance song that is so catchy it’s almost unbelievable. Brilliant opening lines and the dance is awesome and I want to learn it. I believe this is from 1087… Yep, track 3 on 1087. If you don’t want to give anything else a try, at least give this one a quick listen. In my opinion it’s totally worth it.
Biao Bai is second favourite after LoVe. It sounds like a Chinese version of some Britney Spears song. One of the good ones. And Britney did have some good songs. There’s English here too, and it’s completely understandable. Unfortunately the video has big, white Chinese characters strewn across it so you can sing along or whatever. If you can read them, good for you… I just find them a bit annoying
Impulse
If you prefer slower songs, or aren’t inclined towards the other two here’s one of her ballads. Impulse demonstrates how good her voice actually is. And wow! a ballad that held my attention all the way to the end. The video’s really nice as well. It’s one of those storytelling ones and Elva looks gorgeous throughout.
I'll Be There
And finally, a grower. I’ll Be There has yet to really strike any chord within me, but it has potential to grow on me. It sounds a bit Eurovision, it’s a really heavy club track with random traditional instruments thrown in. I’m most interested hearing your opinion on this and LoVe. Her hair’s really weird in the MV though.
This was fun… I’ll do this again.
1 comment July 10, 2008
