Thursday, 26 November 2015

CANTO-POP

"Cantopop (traditional Chinese: 粵語流行音樂; simplified Chinese: 粤语流行音乐, a contraction of "Cantonese popular music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong popular music") is a genre of Cantonese music made primarily in Hong Kong and characterized by a Southeast Asian cultural context of production and consumption."

I have never, ever, listened to as much foreign music as I have whilst doing character research for Su-Lin. As she listens to and sings along with her favourite Canto-Pop songs throughout the entirety of play I felt it would be useful to listen to as many songs as I could to get a good idea of the rhythm behind them.

Though I definitely can't say I understand what they're saying (I have absolutely zero clue), I feel it's definitely useful for my performance that I have at least some indication of how the songs Su-Lin listens to may sound like. Especially as I have to sing one, but don't yet know how it actually goes.

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