chinese oldies and the smashing pumpkins
Listening to Chinese oldies and feeling a little homesick.
I grew up listening to songs like Yue Ding/約定 and Zhu Fu/ 祝福 and while the music isn’t exactly my cup of tea, it makes my heart ache. My dad is big on music so he had tons and tons of Chinese CDs and karaoke music videos of early to mid 90s Chinese pop music. My mom is mostly apathetic towards music but she likes Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung. There are certain songs from my childhood that I just don’t know the names of and hopefully one day I’ll track them down.
In the mean time, feeling this melancholy is not helping me with studying Chinese at all. So, I should probably listen to Billy Joel or Rainie Yang.
I’m silly and superstitious– I can’t listen to Japanese music while studying for Chinese so no OLIVIA, Angela Aki, Porno Graffitti, Arashi, or Yamapi. Or as the matter of fact, ahahahaha Miyavi.1. For the very same reason, I can’t wear any of my Japanese shirts on days I have a Chinese test.
Also, I’m still in love with the Smashing Pumpkins’ Stand Inside Your Love:
But for the last time
You’re everything that I want and ask for
You’re all that I’d dreamed
Who wouldn’t be the one you love?
Who wouldn’t stand inside your love?
Man, I wish I were more musically-inclined for someone whose world revolves around it.
- I was going through my Japanese Rock music genre on iTunes the other day and nearly cried laughing. Oh Miyavi. I remember when I was all over Senor Senora Senorita [↩]
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