After SEA You Soon 飄洋過海來看你 from a couple of years ago, here’s a new song written to campaign for the legalization of same sex unions between Taiwanese and foreign nationals from countries that ban the practice.
(more…)November 21, 2022
November 20, 2022
Love Pass 免死金牌 – Show Lo 羅志祥
Another ballad to add to my current listening playlist… This is the new song from Show Lo 羅志祥… The MV is 8 minutes long!
(more…)November 19, 2022
Young Royals 2 (Swedish Series OST)
Young Royals Season 2 premiered on November 1, 2022. Again with just 6 episodes so it is quite easy to binge watched. I already watched the whole season last week and thankfully the end is not as much of a cliff hanger as the end of season 1 so the wait for season 3 is not as painful since it will probably be another year before we get to watch the next season… As with the first season, there are many songs used in the series but I will just embed 3 songs that are more significant here…
November 17, 2022
O.A.O. – Ozone
This song is hot at the moment, especially for younger music fans. It is almost impossible to escape news about this newly formed idol boys group at the moment if you show any smidgen of interest in mandopop music… They are one of the boy groups that has been formed from the idol talent competition, Atom Boyz 原子少年, a few months ago. They are the most successful so far, but the winners haven’t even released anything yet so we will wait and see. I usually don’t pay any attention to idol talent competition but I was curious when this song rapidly climbs the chart the past couple of weeks and decided to have a listen and it is not too bad, a very catchy song! By the way, O.A.O. stands for One and Only.
(more…)November 14, 2022
Lonely Seed 落寞的種子 – DJ HEAD
An unexpected song from Taiwanese dance music producer DJ HEAD. A song written to remember his beloved late grandmother. Only the audio version is available but in interviews, he has said he would like to make a heartwarming MV to accompany the song in the future…
(more…)November 13, 2022
Wish You’d Understand 只想有人懂 – Ariel Tsai 蔡佩軒
So many beautiful mandopop ballads being released recently that I really can’t keep up! This is the newest single from Ariel Tsai 蔡佩軒. The very scenic MV is filmed in Alishan 阿里山, a very beautiful region in Taiwan.
(more…)November 12, 2022
Ups & Downs 人生，起起落落落落落? – Firdhaus 菲道爾
New song from Malaysian singer Firdhaus… A melancholy song about having to leave your hometown to live in another city…
(more…)November 9, 2022
Winter Flashback 初雪的夜空 – Power Station 動力火車
Brand new song from Power Station 動力火車 from the collaborative album, In the Name of the Moon 以月之名, which features 6 songs from 6 mandopop artists. This song is co-composed by 77Ke 柯棨棋 who came to our attention this year by composing and singing the 2 theme songs for the BL series, About Youth 默默的我，不默默的我們. He co-composed the song with Venk Yang 楊子樸 and the lyrics is written by the famed lyricist Vincent Fang 方文山 who writes lyrics for Jay Chou 周杰倫 almost exclusively…
(more…)November 7, 2022
Shards of Her 她和她的她 (Taiwanese Series OST)
Shards of Her 她和她的她 is a 9-episode Taiwanese suspense series that premiered on October 28, 2022. There are 5 songs on the soundtrack of which one is an old American classic from 1961. So far, only the main theme song has been released, I’ll add the other 3 new songs when they are released…
November 4, 2022
Beautiful Regret 最美的遺憾 – Sam Lee 李聖傑
New song from Sam Lee 李聖傑 from his comeback EP after an absence of 8 years.
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Corner Café 