Show rec

Recently, have been watching 《开端》aka "Reset", a new TV short series that has been surprisingly popular in China lately. Surprisingly popular despite the genre - a looping day akin to "Groundhog Day", though action/suspense rather than comedy. It's also only 15 episodes long, so doesn't require a huge investment of time.

Here's the official eng sub playlist on Youtube. First ep can be found here:

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And haha, I'll admit, I was made aware of this show because Zhou Shen sang its closing theme song 《My Only》. The song is also doing surprisingly well on the various music app billboards in China, made #1 both the 1st week of release and the 3rd week of release (that just ended). It's a full english song, which is interesting, since the show has no foreign elements in it. It's also a very clearly romance oriented song, even though romance...it's there but I don't think it's the primary focus of the show.

( Spoilers (not really)? )

EDIT: Seems like LJ crossposting is also not working anymore. -_-

Music please!

Zhou Shen has 4 performances on the various new year gala, though not the main CCTV one this year, and then another one on Feb. 2, plus a few other new year related galas that already took place the last few days. I figure I'll roll all of those into one post after the new years. So for now, I'll just post up some other songs that are new and/or seasonally appropriate.

This is his newest release 《出场》, just came out on the 27th. One of the many many theme songs related to the winter olympics. (I remember collecting many many summer olympics songs back in 2008, lol.) This song feels a bit similar to 《无所畏惧》, and I found it to be quite catchy. Unfortunately, its scoring on Tencent's billboard has been affected by 《My Only》, which is splitting off the majority of the fan votes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po6pzH1sGsc

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Digging further back, I really like this performance of 《好花红》 from the 2019 Guizhou CNY. Zhou Shen doesn't often sing in the traditional style (民族歌). This is one of his few official performances in this style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCQMI-cd-o

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