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My affection is real: Jon Bon Jovi covers a Teresa Teng classic- The Moon Represents My Heart
Teresa Teng was beloved singer throughout Asia in the 1970's. Whoever controls her legacy can tug at the hearts of a billion people.
She sang in Taiwanese, Japanese, Indonesian, Mandarin, and Cantonese
Faye Wong covered a number of her songs. English translations of lyrics here
Bon Jovi's 2015 tour intersects The Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix tonight
Teresa Teng was beloved singer throughout Asia in the 1970's. Whoever controls her legacy can tug at the hearts of a billion people.
She sang in Taiwanese, Japanese, Indonesian, Mandarin, and Cantonese
Faye Wong covered a number of her songs. English translations of lyrics here
Bon Jovi's 2015 tour intersects The Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix tonight
Some Teresa Teng songs covered by Faye Wong
1. Xue Zhong Lián – Lotus In The Snow
2. Ni Zài Wo Xin Zhong – You Are In My Heart
3. Dàn Yuàn Rén Cháng Jiu – Wishing We Last Forever
4. Jun Xin Wo Xin – Your Heart, My Heart
5. Chu Liàn De Dì Fang – Place of First Love
6. Nán Hai Gu Niáng – South China Sea Girl
7. Jia Rú Wo Shì Zhen De – If I Were Real
8. Cuì Hú Hán – Green Lake Cold
9. Huáng Hun Li – At Dusk
10. Nài Hé – Nonetheless
11. Yi Gè Xiao Xin Yuàn – A Little Wish
12. Jiàn Chui Yan – Again I see the
posted by otherchaz at 7:15 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
1. Xue Zhong Lián – Lotus In The Snow
2. Ni Zài Wo Xin Zhong – You Are In My Heart
3. Dàn Yuàn Rén Cháng Jiu – Wishing We Last Forever
4. Jun Xin Wo Xin – Your Heart, My Heart
5. Chu Liàn De Dì Fang – Place of First Love
6. Nán Hai Gu Niáng – South China Sea Girl
7. Jia Rú Wo Shì Zhen De – If I Were Real
8. Cuì Hú Hán – Green Lake Cold
9. Huáng Hun Li – At Dusk
10. Nài Hé – Nonetheless
11. Yi Gè Xiao Xin Yuàn – A Little Wish
12. Jiàn Chui Yan – Again I see the
posted by otherchaz at 7:15 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Again I See the Cooking Smoke
13. Yuán Xiang Qíng Nóng – Love of home is strong
posted by otherchaz at 7:20 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
13. Yuán Xiang Qíng Nóng – Love of home is strong
posted by otherchaz at 7:20 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
That was charming as hell.
posted by Lyn Never at 7:23 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Lyn Never at 7:23 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Teresa Teng's influence was so strong that it was said during the 70s and 80s, that wherever there were Chinese, she would be there too. Another saying was the during the day Old Deng (Deng Xiaoping) ruled; at night, Little Deng (Deng Lijun) was queen.
posted by Alnedra at 7:47 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Alnedra at 7:47 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Teresa Teng was (and still is) my mother's favorite singer. Seeing Bon Jovi cover it is one hell of a mindfuck.
posted by Hollywood Upstairs Medical College at 7:56 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hollywood Upstairs Medical College at 7:56 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Bon Jovi's mainland China tour dates were cancelled last week.
posted by bradf at 8:27 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by bradf at 8:27 PM on September 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Bon Jovi's mainland China tour dates were cancelled last week.
posted by otherchaz at 2:33 AM on September 20, 2015
When Mainland China opened its doors to the world after the Cultural Revolution under Deng Xiao-ping in 1978, one of the first imports was Teresa Teng‘s music. Unfortunately, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believed that Teresa‘s "decadent" western ideas of freedom and bourgeois capitalism undermined their socialist ideology and banned Teresa‘s music from the public sphere. Her music was first repudiated in the late-1970s and again several more times in the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign of the early 1980s. However, to the youngsters coming out of the Cultural Revolution, Teresa was the "first Taiwanese to become popular in the People‘s Republic" and her music represented an epoch of social, sexual, and economic reforms the CCP was not yet ready to handle.Not surprising.
posted by otherchaz at 2:33 AM on September 20, 2015
Teresa Teng was (and still is) my mother's favorite singer. Seeing Bon Jovi cover it is one hell of a mindfuck.
Does it help that any if Teresa Teng covers Lipps, Inc, Joan Jett, and Connie Francis?
posted by otherchaz at 4:41 AM on September 20, 2015
Does it help that any if Teresa Teng covers Lipps, Inc, Joan Jett, and Connie Francis?
posted by otherchaz at 4:41 AM on September 20, 2015
Another saying was the during the day Old Deng (Deng Xiaoping) ruled; at night, Little Deng (Deng Lijun) was queen.
NYT 1984:
"Taipei's most effective psychological weapon against the Communist Government in Peking is not Taiwan's higher living standards or its less stringent society, but Miss Teng, its pop singing star, who is known on the mainland by her Chinese name of Deng Lijun
"The Nationalist authorities like to tuck in a recording of Miss Teng when they loft a balloon laden with propaganda and small gifts across the Strait of Formosa. But thousands of Miss Teng's tape cassettes have been smuggled into China for profit, whether overland from Thailand and Burma into Yunnan Province or by fishing boat into Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, along with contraband wristwatches and cassette recorders."
posted by otherchaz at 4:58 AM on September 20, 2015
NYT 1984:
"Taipei's most effective psychological weapon against the Communist Government in Peking is not Taiwan's higher living standards or its less stringent society, but Miss Teng, its pop singing star, who is known on the mainland by her Chinese name of Deng Lijun
"The Nationalist authorities like to tuck in a recording of Miss Teng when they loft a balloon laden with propaganda and small gifts across the Strait of Formosa. But thousands of Miss Teng's tape cassettes have been smuggled into China for profit, whether overland from Thailand and Burma into Yunnan Province or by fishing boat into Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, along with contraband wristwatches and cassette recorders."
posted by otherchaz at 4:58 AM on September 20, 2015
Bon Jovi's Chinese pronunciation is much better than I would have imagined, though the 'zh' sound in 真 tripped him up.
posted by of strange foe at 9:15 AM on September 21, 2015
posted by of strange foe at 9:15 AM on September 21, 2015
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