OKAY so, first time at yuyingtang. God, my whole fucking shirt is wet. It was so freaking hot there. There were four bands playing tonight: Momo, Bang Bang Tang, 甜品店, and FAF.
Momo was like a typical girl band. Pretty poppy stuffs... not that great. People didn't move much to this band despite their efforts to get people to, which I can kind of understand why.
Bang Bang Tang was pretty good stuffs. One of their songs was pretty poppy but the rest were generally pretty good. Xiao Bai is a pretty good vocalist with a powerful voice at times. The instrumentals were good and interesting, especially some of the things the guitarist did--like plucking the string at the tuning peg part as sort of a harmonic type effect. I wanted to buy their CD's but they said they didn't have any. It was also Xiao Bai, their singer's, birthday today so that was pretty cool. People didn't react to this band either. I even tried to pull a Sing for China. Actually, I have to bitch about how clingy Chinese people are. I was in the front and there were two couples right next to me--one on each side, and they both practically making out the whole time WTF. I'm also pretty sure that my hair was hitting them when I was trying to Sing for China. However, I failed... I will definitely go to watch this band whenever they play again and try to get a chance to talk to them.
甜品店 was your typical Chinese scr/emo band... and it seemed like all the girls were there to see them. I guess they'd be Chinese scene girls and they were head banging to some of their stuff. Despite their music kinda sucking, for the sake of awesomeness, I tried to pull another Sing for China. I thought since the crowd was getting more energetic, they would follow suit. But fuck, Chinese people are just too powerful. I need blackup guys. At this point I was pretty sure Shanghai people didn't enjoy music.
WOW OKAY, listening to this band's douban, made me very very hesitant, but still I decided to give them a chance. Especially since when they first came on stage, I only saw the guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboardist come on. So I thought maybe they linked the wrong douban. LOL NOPE, I was mind gamed, they played a brief intro which wasn't terrible, but then HOLY SHIT this faggot and this chick walk on stage and people went batshit crazy. I was pretty sure that I was doomed. The first song, as expected, was shitty ass typical mandopop/rap. And they LOVED it. At this point the situation pretty much reversed. Everyone else started to Sing for China, while I was dead still. The second song was a heavier song like a Chinese pop ver of Blink182 maybe. And I was thinking that okay, maybe the douban didn't represent their music accurately since the second song was pretty different from the first. NOPE, wrong again. The third song was the shitty ass love song they have on their douban... and the crowd loved it. after the third song, they mentioned a shout out to Xiao Bai and mentioned that they left right after to celebrate her birthday, which was my cue to leave.
In conclusion, most Chinese people like shitty music.
OH and BTW, no pictures because I don't own a camera. So yes, none of this ever happened.
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