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C-pop Saturday

Time for the first C-pop Saturday post of the year! If you're new to the blog, it's my semi-regular series sharing Chinese music that I started back in 2018. My last post was in September, so it's been a while! 

 

WayV- FREQUENCY

In December I shared the music videos for both the Korean and Chinese versions of FREQUENCY, the latest single by WayV, in my New Music Releases post. They are the Chinese sub-unit of Korean boyband NCT and sing in Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean.

FREQUENCY is the title track from the group's 6th mini album, which was released last November. Watch the videos here (scroll down): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-music-releases.html

 

Ozone- Looking at the Crescent Moon/New Moon Dance Performance Video

In my latest Asian Groups post, I featured the Taiwanese boyband Ozone (as well as Thai girl group 4EVE). One of the songs I shared is New Moon (or the Chinese title which is something like Looking at the Crescent Moon Together, which was released last September. It's the title track from their debut album.

You can watch the music video here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/01/asian-groups-thai-girl-group-chinese.html

I also thought I'd share the dance performance video for New Moon.  It was uploaded in September as well.

 


 

The 8 feat. JinJiBeWater- Orbit 

Next up is Orbit by Chinese singer The 8 and featuring JinJiBeWater. The 8 (sometimes written as The8) is also a dancer, and a member of both Korean boyband SEVENTEEN and its performance sub-unit. His real name is Xu Minghao (or Minghao Xu in Western terms).

The 8 started out by appearing on Chinese TV programmes and taking part in a dance competition in Shanghai, before becoming a member of SEVENTEEN. The group debuted in 2015.

The 8 made his official solo debut with the single Night and Rain in 2018. Since he has released 7 more singles, including Falling Down, Mom's Missed Call with fellow Chinese bandmate Jun, Hai Cheng, A Bite of Summer and his latest, The Orbit. He brought out his debut EP Stardust on 4th December last year.

In addition to singing, The8 has appeared on reality TV, including being a dance coach alongside popular Taiwanese solo singer Jolin Tsai, on the Chinese music survival show Youth With You (also known as Idol Producer) in 2019. (The winners of Youth With You became the boyband UNINE.)

Orbit (which features rapper JinJiBeWater) is the first single from Stardust and was also released on 4th December. It's sung in English and Chinese, and is quite a sexy song! lol. Click "Subtitles/closed captions" on YouTube for English subtitles. :)

 


 

For more on The8 visit these links:

Kprofiles: https://kprofiles.com/the8-seventeen-profile/

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

SEVENTEEN's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfkXDY7vwkcJ8ddFGz8KusA


Vinida Weng feat. Joeboy- Dia Dia

Now for some fusion music! This is Dia Dia by Chinese rapper Vinida Weng and featuring Nigerian singer Joeboy. The two artists have collaborated for a song that is a mixture of Chinese pop and Afrobeats.

Vinida has previously experimented with African fusion music, having released the Afrobeats inspired EP One Life Only in 2022 and WAIYA! which had influences from the South African music genre amapiano, in 2023. 

Dia Dia is described as an infusion of English, Pidgin and Mandarin on a heavy Afrobeat production". Cool mix! :) It was released on 6th December. The lyrics are on screen in the video.

 


 

For more music by Joeboy, watch/subscribe to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv3EFZRGITcQwdyCE_ap0UA 


Vinida- Kill The Fear

Vinida also just released a new album in November called 7th Seed. This is Kill The Fear, a dance song which is a mix of English and Chinese.

The is the official dance video and was uploaded on 28th December.

 


Listen to 7th Seed on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/76L0k8lPXrPAZtaX87FK6M?si=eArqwpqVSlqG4djKb61kzw&nd=1&dlsi=a7f1b9e32fa44af1

 

And for more Vinida, check out these links:

My C-pop Saturday post from a year ago, which features the music video for WAIYA!: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/02/c-pop-saturday.html

Music video for her latest single/video Marching (uploaded on 24th January): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75w6rbaex5g

 

Hope you enjoyed the post! :) What Chinese music are you listening to currently?

 

See my previous C-pop Saturday post (plus links to the others from 2024) here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/09/c-pop-saturday.html

 

 

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