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C-pop Saturday

Time for another C-pop Saturday post! This is a semi-regular series and the last one was in July. It's September already, the year seems to be going quite fast! Here are some (mostly) new Chinese songs. :)

 

BOY STORY feat. Jackson Wang- Too Busy

First up is Too Busy by Chinese boyband BOY STORY and featuring Jackson Wang. BOY STORY literally is a "boy band" having been mostly preteens when they started out! There are 6 members- leader Jia Hanyu, Li Zihao, He Xinlong, Yu Zeyu, Gou Ming Rui (stage name written Mingrui) and Ren Shuyang.*

The group was formed by South Korean record label JYP Entertainment (big in the K-pop world) and Chinese company Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), starting out in September 2017 with the pre-debut The Real Project. They released their first single HOW OLD R U on 8th September that year, followed by the singles Can't Stop, JUMP UP and Handz Up in late 2015 and spring/summer 2018. 

BOY STORY officially debuted a year later in September 2018, with the release of their first mini album Enough and the lead single, also called Enough. To date they have released 12 more singles including Oh My Gosh, Too Busy , WAI from the official soundtrack of Airbenders and Change; and several EPs and single albums including I = U=WE: Preface  (2020) and I = WE: I (2020). Their latest EP I=U=WE: U is set for release this month.

For Too Busy the boys teamed up with Hong Kong singer Jackson Wang (who is also part of K-pop boy group GOT7). It's from their 6th digital single album of the same name (part of the Growing Project)  and came out in July 2019.

 



BOY STORY- I=U-WE: U Track 1 'MONSTER' Dance practice

And if you want to see the boys these days, here is a dance practice video where they are dancing to new song MONSTER! They are aged 14 to 17 now.

MONSTER is from their EP I=U=WE: U, due out in 3 days (14th Sept). The EP is the 2nd in the WE trilogy (since the first one was a preface). The video was uploaded in August.




For more on BOY STORY visit these links:

Cpop profile: https://www.cpophome.com/boystory/

Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/boy-story-members-profile/

Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BOYSTORYOfficial/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/official_boystory/


I haven't come across that many Chinese boybands, but check out these posts for three I've featured in the past:

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

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

WayV: ttps://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/05/weekly-music-video_12.html



Casper True- Chinese title

This a new(ish song) by Casper True. It has a Chinese title but according to Google Translate it means "Are you embarrassed" in English. The song has a nice, laid-back beat.  It came out in July.

 



Also check out another Casper song fom July, HERO featuring C.Z: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_W2Jb0Klk



Julia Wu- Split

This is Split,  the latest single by Australian born Chinese singer Julia Wu. It's a sultry Chinese R'n'B song and I believe it's about feeling split into two parts, due to a situation in your life. (Not 100% sure.) In the video Julia switches between singing for a love interest, to being in a hospital.

The video came out on 29th August. 



 Check out the July '20 C-pop Saturday post for more songs by Julia: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/07/c-pop-saturday.html

 

Hope you liked the post! :) What Chinese songs are you listening to at the moment?


See the previous C-pop Saturday posts from 2021 below: 

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/01/c-pop-saturday.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/04/c-pop-saturday.html 

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/07/c-pop-saturday.html 

 


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

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