126: Mandarin pops

Recently in one month ago, I am suddenly addicted to listening to Mandarin songs, say, by Taiwan and Singapore singers. I used to listen to Canton pop usually and not very often to listen to Mandarin songs.

Many Mandarin songs are good and are not as K as HK pops. HK pops are becoming more and more K. K songs are not necessarily not good, but they are too easy to listen and remember and sing, so they may become boring after some time. And the variety is not wide enough so that many songs give out similar impressions. Interesting things done for 100 times could become boring. May be we can try to stop listening to some particular K songs and get back to them a few months later. They may become good again!

I think the point is not the language itself. Some Mandarin songs are also bad, even worse than HK pops, and of which the selling points are the artistes themselves and a whole collection of accessories and those songs are not like songs, just like saying some words within some flat keys without any particular singing techniques. In a word, they are rather superficial.

May be Taiwan and Singapore markets are much larger than HK and the variety they can have is wider. And dunno why even for the same song, they are of better feel if they are in Mandarin.

Anyway, it's a matter of self-preference. Just go for what we think it's good and worth.