Brand new song from JJ, very soothing tune, great to listen to at night… The official MV will be released on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Here is the audio version but I will add the MV when it is released…
(more…)July 31, 2020
July 26, 2020
【Slow TV】Korean Fried Chicken 韓式炸鷄
Very interesting! In most recipes, we are told Korean Fried Chicken are fried twice, but this video from Korea showed the lady at a street food stall only frying the chicken once! Still makes me hungry just watching, imagining myself standing there getting my order of the fried chicken, LOL…
Update August 28, 2020: Added another video which is double fried chicken, but truthfully I just love that slicer which looks like the paper cutter/slicer… Would love to have one of those, LOL…
(more…)July 23, 2020
Fei YuChing & Ayanga Performances in [Our Song] 費玉清、阿雲嘎《我們的歌》合輯
With the sudden interest in a 37-year old Mandarin song by Fei YuChing recently, I thought I would share his farewell performances earlier this year, as the 65-year-old Taiwanese singer is hanging up his microphone and retiring from performing. This singing show, Our Song (我們的歌) is the latest incarnation of the Chinese Idol (中國夢之聲) series, and aired from October 27, 2019 to January 19, 2020. Our Song paired established, well-known older singers with the new generation of young singers as sort of mentoring-process competition. Fei YuChing was one of the mentors and his final 4 performances were paired with the young Mongolian singer, Ayanga, and they labeled themselves as the duo 雲淡風清 (using character from part of their names, translated as Light Cloud, Clear Wind).
(more…)July 21, 2020
Extraterrestrial Objects 天外來物 – Joker Xue 薛之謙
New song from Joker! I like it! Only audio version available, hopefully he will release an MV soon…
Update November 15, 2020: FINALLY, finally they have released the MV for the song! I have embedded the video below…
(more…)July 20, 2020
Sunshine at the Winter Olympics 冬奧陽光 – Ayanga 阿雲嘎
This is one of the top 10 entries to compete for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics’ official theme song announced last week. Ayanga’s voice is so suited to this type of song…
(more…)July 19, 2020
Guardian (2018 WebTV Theme Songs) 網絡劇《鎮魂》主題曲片尾曲插曲
I am currently about halfway through watching this TV series from 2018, so far it has been quite enjoyable but there are some lazy plotlines that are really frustrating to watch, LOL… However the soundtrack is very good, so I’m sharing them here.
(more…)July 17, 2020
Yi Jian Mei (A Spray of Plum Blossoms) 一翦梅 – Fei Yu Ching 費玉清
Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao…
Truth is stranger than fiction! This 37-year-old Mandarin song from 1983 is sweeping across northern Europe and Down Under recently, making it into the Spotify Viral Top 10 in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands, even taking the No. 1 spot in late June in some countries, now it is also charting in Denmark, Finland and Switzerland. What’s going on?
(more…)July 15, 2020
Random Ramblings on BL Dramas (Part 2)
Last week, we were told the lockdown was back in place for at least another 6 weeks here, and now MasterChef Australia is in its final week, it is time to look for more TV series to binge. After watching too many Thai university themed BL dramas the past few months, I recently watched the short Japanese BL drama, Life～Love on the Line, which came as a breath of fresh air! So I thought I would now look for more diverse BL dramas to watch with more substantial storylines. OK, I am lying a bit here, this post is more about not-quite-BL TV series that were adapted from BL novels, hehe…
(more…)July 11, 2020
Love 喜歡 (網絡劇《百里挑一》主題曲) – Ray Liu 劉子瑞
This is the theme song to a new web series, 百里挑一 (translated as ‘Pick One from a Hundred’, or with the wordplay, ‘Baili Chooses Yi’), which is the new comedy TV series from the author/scriptwriter of the 2016 BL series, Addicted (上癮), Chaijidan (柴雞蛋). I have only seen a couple of episodes so far, and sadly it is not that captivating or funny. But I really like the song, so here it is…
(more…)July 5, 2020
You Are My Destiny (2020 WebTV Theme Songs) 網絡劇《你是我的命中註定》片頭曲片尾曲
Earlier today, the new music video by Taiwanese singer, TingTing (廷廷 a.k.a. 蕭秉治) was dropped onto YouTube, a very fun video and a very appealing song that I’ve been replaying a few times already. The song is Under the Moon from the new TV series, You Are My Destiny (你是我的命中註定), which is the 2020 mainland Chinese remake of the 2008 Taiwanese hit drama series Fated to Love You (命中注定我愛你). This popular Taiwanese drama series has also been remade by South Korean in 2014, Thai in 2017, and also Japanese in early 2020. Under the Moon is the opening theme song to this new Chinese remake TV series and the closing theme song, You are My Destiny, is sung by Della Ding 丁噹.
Update July 14, 2020: Added the official music video to Della’s closing theme song, You are My Destiny.
Update August 8, 2020: Added 3 other songs from the OST by Taiwanese singer/songwriter Ann 白安 which were originally released in 2019 from her 4th album, 44天 (44 Days).
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Corner Café 