Womxnly 玫瑰少年 is a song sung by Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 from her album Ugly Beauty released in December 2018. It won the category of Song of the Year at the 30th Golden Melody Award 金曲獎 in 2019. This week Jolin sang this song on Japan’s The First Take and she also became the second Taiwanese singer to be invited to sing on this Japanese YouTube channel. The spelling of the English title with the x is to emphasize gender equality (see link to the story behind the song below).
(more…)June 9, 2023
April 27, 2023
Kashimashi Meshi かしましめし (Japanese Series OST)
Kashimashi Meshi かしましめし (translated as Boisterous Meal) is a new 10-episode Japanese drama series that premiered on April 10, 2023. It is adapted from the manga series of the same name by Okazaki Mari おかざき真里. This drama has a gay male character as one of the 3 main leads with the other two being female characters, so it has a LGBTQ+ storyline but also not really a BL series as such. Below are the two theme songs…
April 9, 2023
Me, My Husband, and My Husband’s Boyfriend 私と夫と夫の彼氏 (Japanese Series OST)
Me, My Husband, and My Husband’s Boyfriend 私と夫と夫の彼氏 is a new 10-episode Japanese series that premiered on March 28, 2023. It is adapted from the popular manga of the same name by Ayano Ayano 綾野綾乃. So far only the closing theme song has been released, the opening theme song will be released in a few days time.
December 10, 2022
Marry My Dead Body 關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 (Taiwanese Movie OST)
Marry My Dead Body 關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 is an upcoming Taiwanese supernatural black comedy movie that will have its general theatre release next year on February 10, 2023 in Taiwan. However it just has its premiere as the closing film during the 2022 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 金馬國際影展 last month on November 17, 2022. It has a sort of LGBTQ+ theme as it is all about the rare Chinese tradition of a spirit marriage 冥婚, in the case of this movie between a man and a male ghost. The theme song has just been released and is sung by Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 and she co-composed the music for the song… And yes the official English title of the song is called “Untitled” although the Chinese title 親愛的對象 can be translated roughly as “My Dear Other-Half” because there’s no equivalence for 對象 in English that I can think of… it means a person of target for or to do something or in relationship term a person that could become a future boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife… From what I’ve read, the MV is a prequel to the movie depicting the ghost when he was alive…
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…
October 1, 2022
To Sir, With Love คุณชาย (Thai Series OST)
To Sir, With Love คุณชาย (Khun Chai) is a new 10-episode (??? updated to 17 episodes?) Thai-style soap opera (lakorn) which will premiere on October 3, 2022. It is a lakorn with LGBTQ+ theme but not necessarily a proper BL series as I think it will be more a soap-opera-type drama with an ensemble cast like last year’s House of the Dark Shadows.
July 26, 2022
Papa & Daddy 2 《酷蓋爸爸》第二季 (Taiwanese Series OST)
The second season of Papa & Daddy 酷蓋爸爸 will premiere on August 8, 2022. The audio version of the theme song has been released…
April 24, 2022
Heartstopper (British Series OST)
Last year we have the Swedish series Young Royals, this year we are getting another excellent LGBTQ+ coming-of-age series from the UK, Heartstopper. Based on the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman, the brand new 8-episode series premiered on April 22, 2022. It is a very good and well told story that I binge watched all 8 30-minute episodes last night and thoroughly enjoyed the series.
The songs used in the new series are very much all previous releases from the indie pop artists around the world. However there is one new song that was released in conjunction with the series by Baby Queen. The composer in charge of the music scores for the series is Adiescar Chase.
December 23, 2021
Komorebi 日光樹影 (Taiwanese Short Film OST)
Komorebi 日光樹影 is the final of the 2021’s 10-film GagaOOLala LGBTQ series that premiered on December 17, 2021. Komorebi, or 木漏れ日, is a Japanese term meaning “sunlight filtering through the leaves of the trees”. Below are the trailer and the theme song…
December 5, 2021
Single All the Way (Movie OST)
Single All the Way is a new Christmas holiday web movie that premiered on December 2, 2021.
Corner Café 