[quote="Matt"]
I liked LinLin and JunJun, I was hoping they would go back to China and become Mando-Pop stars. The only Mando-pop star I like is Yuki Hsu from Taiwan and she is now bankrupt, I always pick the winners. There was also this song from mainland China featuring a group of women singing something like, "if you don't have a house and a car, don't even talk to me," (pretty cross cultural, I think) It wasn't very good, but at least it was funny.
The Chinese pop market seems to only like slow moving love ballads. They all sound exactly the same. Up tempo dance music seems to be only marketed to little kids in Taiwan, and now that I've seen this LinLin video I guess in mainland China as well. The little kawaii baby voice really doesn't make use of her vocal talents. Oh well.
I was always most impressed with JunJun, as she was fluent in Japanese (of course) and at the San Diego Comic Con she had to address the audience in English, as she was the best English speaker of the group. I wonder what became of her.
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Although I don't agree with you that all the songs sound the same, probably because I love ballads, you are right about Chinese pop mainly being ballads. The top three songs on the weekly Chinese language chart are all from the same drama and the first two are ballads and the third one is the theme song (alternative rock). I think that that's a pretty big reason for it though, all the dramas, love ballads are marketable so if you want to hit it big, you have to do love ballads. We can discuss this further in
this thread before we get too far off topic.
JunJun is on TV a lot, and was on a show where she sang and danced. She's also done/doing some acting, so she may stick more with that and TV than singing.
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. All these other video sites make the computer run wicked slow.
