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C-pop Saturday

I've been doing C-pop Saturday a bit more regularly this year, so here's a new one for September! In today's post I'm featuring a Chinese girl group for the first time. :)

 

SING- Ye Sheng Ge

First up is Ye Sheng Ge by Chinese girl group SING (also written as S.I.N.G). Their name stands for Super Impassioned Net Generation and they were formed in 2015 by Chinese music and streaming download service KuGou Music. 

The group originally consisted of 10 members (from different regions of China), but now there are 7. The current members are leader Qin Yu (English name Sophie), Wu Yao (Miko), Xu Shiyin (Valentina), Bian Li (Jessica), Chen Li (Pink), Lin Hui (Haha) and Jiang Shen (Debbie). Lai Meiyun (Sunny) was also a member but she then concentrated on being a member of Chinese girl group Rocket Girls 101, until their disbandment in June. She has now gone solo.*

SING released their debut single Youth Confession in August 2015. Their music is electronic dance that also has influences from traditional Chinese music.  One of their most popular singles is Wo Yao Shang Chan Wan (Moonlight Thoughts) which came out in 2018. They have an impressive catalogue of singles and several of the girls have released solo songs too. (Plan to check them out in future.) To date the group has brought out two studio albums, SING (2017) and Jie Meng (2019). Their latest songs include Disco, which came out in January and Phantom.

Ye Sheng Ge is also listed as Night Song and Song by Sheng in English. Zhe Li, the English translator and subtitle maker for the dance version of the music video, provides some background about the song in the YouTube comments. The literal translation of the title in English is "Song by Sheng". A sheng is a traditional Chinese instrument played at night for special events such as festivals and parties. The song is based on the music of minorities in Southwestern China. View the video on YouTube to read more about it (top comment). :)

Ye Sheng Ge was released in August 2018. This is the Dance Version, the video I first came across. Click "Subtitles/Closed Captions" to see English subtitles. 

Update 5/6/25: I had to replace the video but I think this is the same version. 

 

 

And watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD0LJxpJOjc

This is SING'S new single which came out in August. I think it's called Phantom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQ5HsxfUIE

 

For more on SING check out these links: 

Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/sing-members-profile/  

Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfq942KRTrU56yk0DaWmt8g

FB fan page: https://www.facebook.com/SuperImpassionedNetGeneration/

 

I don't know many Chinese girl groups, so it's been good to find them. Another is SNH48, who I plan to feature in a future C-pop Saturday. :)

You can find some Chinese boybands in these posts:

Features TFBoys: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/02/asian-music-k-pop-j-pop-and-beyond.html

Includes UNINE: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/01/c-pop-saturday.html


Julia Wu- Things Things Things (English version)

Next up is a new song from Chinese Australian singer Julia Wu. This isn't actually C-pop, but the English version of her Chinese language song Things Things Things. It's from her first English album 5pm which is out now. She also has a Chinese album called 5am.

The English version of Things Things Things came out in August, just before the new album.



Watch the video for the Chinese version here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/01/c-pop-saturday.html 

Also here is Chill, (another song from 5pm) which was released in June: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4e3yu0LBEQ

Listen to 5pm here: https://www.soundscape.net/a/11484

 

Casper True feat. Gen Neo- Body

Here is Body from Casper True. It features Singaporean born, South Korean based singer, producer and composer Gen Neo.

This is the official visualiser and was uploaded in July.



Fo more songs by Casper visit these posts:

Features THIS IS THE WAY: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/09/c-pop-saturday.html

Includes Tidal feat. NINE ONE#: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/01/c-pop-saturday.html


KUN- Hard To Get

This is Hard To Get by Chinese singer KUN (real name Cai Xukun), a former member of the boyband Nine Percent turned solo singer.

Hard To Get was released in May 2019. 


According to a commenter on YouTube, KUN doesn't upload videos much on that platform, but if you have the Chinese microblogging/social media platform Weibo then you're in luck, since he uses that more! View his Weibo here: https://m.weibo.cn/u/1776448504

 

Hope you liked the post! :) Do you have any favourite girl or boy groups?

 

See the previous C-pop Saturday posts from this year below:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/01/c-pop-saturday.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/c-pop-saturday.html


*These are Chinese names with the surname/family name first.

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