🧧 shenshen saturday #3! 🐯
Jan. 29th, 2022 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
presumenothing🎵好运来.mp4🧨
In an absolutely vexing turn of events I've not had time to gif anything this week between work + Chinese New Year errands… but hey, I've got plenty from last year! 年年有余 amirite.
Fifth one of 2022!
- 出场, 27 Jan: MV on YouTube, official audio on YouTube + ETA: Spotify!
Teensy bit of mixed feelings about the Olympics right now, but otherwise this is tied with last week's 回到你身边 as my favourite new release so far! The extremely adorable studio shots in the MV don't hurt, either, and possibly 江湖觅知音 has conditioned me into automatically being in favour of him in cream-colour sweaters. Which is not exactly a problem either.
Also I just spotted at least one other song from the compilation on Spotify so hopefully this one will be up soon too? See above!
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- Above the cut: the absolutely adorable outtakes from Hunan TV's CNY gala last year!
- Further proof for the actually-a-cat theory, courtesy of Jiangsu TV
- That 职业病 one-track mind moment when he accidentally picked up the paperweight instead of his mic…
- Is it an ox, though.
- And finally, the gifset compilation of last year's CNY performances! Of which some links may be broken, but just search the titles and they should turn up…
…and this isn't even everything from last CNY, I don't think. How did I find the time for this last year.
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recs (note: some videos may contain flashing effects)
I'm not even a festive person in the least, but judging from today's recs the season may be getting to me anyway.
- 望, also known as "direct attack on my feelings, the MV". (Which is saying something, given I'm me.) The storyline comes across even without the dialogue, I think, but see cut for transcript/translation as needed because ow. Also see: this practically-acapella piano accompaniment snippet and the multi-language subbed performance from Trendsetters because the fanclub is truly load-bearing.
我，江湖！ Exclamation mark being part of the song title, by the way, but I might've added it even if it wasn't because the vibes of this song are great. Possibly I may be biased in favour of all his jianghu-themed songs, but also?? The rapping in the harmony vocals?? 10/10 appropriate palate cleanser after those feelings.
A pair of not-actually-related 2019 performances that I always think of together: 南溪号子好美妙 (aka "don't judge this performance by the grass") and 好花红 (Guiyang CNY gala!). Neither very well-known performances, I think, but fairly conclusive proof that if anyone could make me buy an album of traditional melodies it'd be him…
And while not a rec per se, obligatory season-appropriate mention goes to 灯火里的中国, aka the duet with Zhang Ye that very possibly got stuck in the head of every single person who watched CCTV's gala last year. Also personally memorable as the first Zhou Shen performance I got to watch on TV! As opposed to every other (smaller) screen I own.
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watchlist (note: some content may be unsubbed)
Stuff watched:
- CNY performances so far: 生活总该迎着光亮 on Hunan TV, and first performance of 说声你好 + stage talk + 光亮 opera snippet on CCTV's online gala (another case of live >>> studio – the entire section from 3:20 onwards!!)
- This entire process video, thank you studio for this blessing (subs on Twitter: part 1, part 2)
- First performance for 回到你身边 – hopefully we can get a better-quality stage sometime soon! (On a related note, the intro notes and general vibes keep reminding me of 有一件美好的事情将要发生 I think they'd do great mixed together actually, though I don't have the skills for that.)
- Every single one of these high notes. How is this even fair.
- A rare Ukrainian Shenshen appears! Which of them is hosting the interview again…?
- Once again with feeling: are you sure that's a tiger you're drawing…
- Teaser for Dragon TV's CNY gala also featuring Da Zhangwei (another laoshi I massively respect!! also look at them bounding around each other like puppies)
- The entire second half of this Q&A that is NOT how a random draw works
- That poor Yorick moment with the balloon (also, I love this jacket)
- Also from Jiangsu: this A+ adorable photo 🐯
- Your Zhou Shen is buffering… please hold…
Upcoming:
- More CNY performances: Beijing TV, Jiangsu TV, Dragon TV, 百花迎春 all on 1 Feb aka CNY day! Yes I will be having a great new year thank you
- Yesterday's 生活总该迎着光亮 performance on 五个一百 which I haven't watched but the stage photos look gorgeous
- 一起向未来, 群星 edition – I need to know what all those high notes were for!!
- Apparently there's also a Olympics theme song for an upcoming VR exhibit – 星鱼?
Happy Lunar New Year in advance to everyone celebrating it! 新年快乐！祝大家虎年行大运！天天开心、身体健康！我们都要好好的！ (sudden 拜年.mp3)
