Man, it seems like every weekend is spent at YYT. They need to give me a fucking discount card. In any case, today's show was Ze Lu He Feng's showcase or something. It seemed pretty promising on douban, but I guess I didn't really listen enough.
The first band was Pinkberry, I think. And it was just some kind of poppy rock. Kind of reminded me of Japanese girl bands like Zone. They got a mini mosh going, but I couldn't really get into the music. Also, their vocalist looked like a Gundam Pilot.
The next band played very soft mando-poppy songs. Should've known from the overly cute vocalist. But their bassist had mad skills--definitely the best bassist I've seen in China so far. I heard they found him as a sub recently or some shit. God, my Chinese sucks. The guitarist seemed to be really good also. Everything he played was exceptionally clean. However, he seemed to limit himself to more simple chords and the like. Sometimes it confounds me when I hear exceptional musicians play mandopop.
The third band, whom I also have yet to figure out the band name was the only band I enjoyed tonight. They were kinda like a more melodic and slightly softer Boyzandgirl. At first, they reminded me ALMOST of Noodles (I say Noodles and not Pillows because noodles is more ambient and less melodic than the Pillows) but that could've been my imagination. We'll see if I can get a copy of their CD eventually.
The last band, of course the most popular, was... well I don't even know how to categorize them. It was like punky disco pop or something. It seemed like a lot of girls seemed to enjoy it. I guess it was cause the guy was good at MCing or something. I don't fackin know I can't speak Shanghainese.
By the way your writing is really quite good wow
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