jay chou
tsai i ling
wu dzong shien
TVBS bitch anchorwoman (what’s her face)
supermodels always taking about what kind of man they want to slave for them
supermodels talking about their tits
tao dz (probably works for ministry of culture,ie she’s a government plant)
shri rouh shren (like she cares if somebody offs themselves over too much credit card debt. she can’t even act like she’s sincere.)
shiao S
best:
ling dz lin ( looks sincere and not stuck up)
dong dz chen ( a nice guy)
da bing (got nothing against him, gay or not. a nice guy)
more but i can’t think of em in this fucking negative mood. i’m gonna go read psalms.
Ric must admit, with terrible guilt, he still would like to do the vertical mambo with the funkier one (elephant tattooed one - Shiao S I think. “Da S” is the fugly, mousy looking no-talent Meteor Garden one, right? I try not to know, but it’s like a car accident - I can’t look away!!!).
Negative influcne: Da-bien. er, Chen Shui-bian.
Bad egg who poisons the whole cultural stew, pop and political…
Sissy Chen was a hard sell. She pissed off all the right people, and that’s good, but she’s a spinster primadonna whose intelligence and multilingual talent get bogged down by her eccentricities.
Good influence on Taiwan: Japanese porn channels.
Bad influence: every bit of television “news” here.
Bad infleunce: Skeltor, er “Steffanie” Suh Yanzi. If you’ve seen AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, with its “Don ‘No Soul’ Simmons” sketch, well if you wnat to take out any genuine emotion and artistic integrity from well crafted English pop songs like “Hey Jude” and “Venus,” and a slew of others - just have her do a rendition of it. The locals go ga ga over it and think anorexic beeotch f’n penned the songs 'erself (despite liner notes proving otherwise).
In retrospect, the current popculture lexicon in Taiwan isn’t as insipid as it was a few years ago, and it’s far too bland to be spiraling into a Styggian (sic?) abyss like mainstream American television, movies and music has in the last few years.
I always thought that white people trying to act black were silly. But living in Taiwan, I have found something much, much, much sillier. Yellow kids trying to act hip hop and “ghetto”.
Ran, can you please hold off on lists like that until you can write the names in a form we can actually recognize? I mean, I can decipher about half that list, but…
Xiao S is getting married too :bravo: . Maybe now she’ll get pregnant and dissapear for a while to raise them kids.
Similarly, Ling Chiling needs to take a long vacation as well. Is there anything she won’t do ads for? Just off the top of my head we have shampoo, cars, yogurt, that drinkable chicken stock type thing (wtf is that stuff?), soy sauce and a ton of other crap I can’t recall at the moment.
jay chou
tsai i ling
wu dzong shien
TVBS bitch anchorwoman (what’s her face)
supermodels always taking about what kind of man they want to slave for them
supermodels talking about their tits
tao dz (probably works for ministry of culture,ie she’s a government plant)
shri rouh shren (like she cares if somebody offs themselves over too much credit card debt. she can’t even act like she’s sincere.)
shiao S [/quote]
OK, let’s go. Jay Chou I think hasn’t had much influence except possibly boosting the R&B-ish thing. Unless you count the numerous songs - lyrics and music - he’s written for himself and others, although I don’t know how much those would have been an influence on the culture instead of just an addition to it.
Jolin (Cai Yilin), symptom of not influence on pop culture. She’s about as influential as a bee sting. She’ll be gone eventually and no-one will be even notice.
Wu Zongxian, not too sure if he’s had any influence on popular culture, but he seems, to me, more like Jolin - a representative of rather than an influence on it.
TVBS one and the two model ones - as above. No influence, and if they disappeared, no-one’d even notice.
Tao Jingying (Taozi) - not sure. And I don’t see what the hell the little conspiracy theory part has to do with anything.
Vivian Xu Ruoxian, possibly an influence early on in terms of “Japanizing” pop music after her career there. In which case I’d rank her as a bad influence. I don’t see what her acting talent - or rather, lack thereof - has to do with anything though. And come on, insulting a Taiwanese pop star for being a bad actor is like yelling at a pygmy for being short - it’s so normal you look like a tool for calling any one of them on it.
Xiao S… again, I’m going to have to sit on the fience here in terms of whether she’s an influence or not. I don’t see it, but it’s possible.
[quote]best:
ling dz lin ( looks sincere and not stuck up)
dong dz Chen ( a nice guy)
da bing (got nothing against him, gay or not. a nice guy)[/quote]
Lin Zhiling? Are you stoned? Could she be any more fake and insincere? And that bullshit giggly-schoolgirl shit she does… oh, and don’t forget whoring her image and name out to any product that can afford it.
No idea who the last two are…
Personally I think the worst influences on popular culture here are:
The American pop industry - they may not have invented it, but they perfected the production line, lip-syncing, talentless whorebag style of pop singer which plagues Taiwan, along with much of the world. Also boy and girl groups.
and
Whoever the first pop star to totally sell out and start using their music videos as 3 minute long advertisements for whichever product they’re currently shilling for was.
This honor would have to go to Jolin. I remember she was whoring the BenQ Joybee in her previous album and now she’s doing it again for Motorola (?) not too sure but I think its a cell phone or a camera, I usually change the channel when she’s on but I’ll do a double take next time.
I don’t think Jolin started it. Jay was doing it before that, selling Pepsi in videos. And I know in Hong Kong pop stars were whoring Pepsi out in videos back in like 1998, and McDonalds back in 1999 or 2000. So Jolin’s certainly not the first.
but i really wannna do ling chi lin. i would be really gentle cause she might break. it would be really soft mushy sex. i’m getting goosebumps thinking about it now.
