One of life’s great mysteries…
…is that twenty-something locals and expatriates at TUN not only apparently know but also avidly dance to songs like Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis Eyes that I figured would never survive the dawning of the nineties let alone the new millennium. I’m not criticizing this, I simply find the popularity of eighties music in Beijing to be interesting.
Much weirder during last Friday’s ladies night is that, like a calm deserted island in the eye of a hurricane, a dozen people played UNO amid both the hundreds of party goers and the Jagermeister dance team – four leggy lasses, two healthy lads, and one dumpy moose (or is it a reindeer?) – that writhed about with whistles and neon light sticks. I tend to misplay my Wild Draw Four card under such circumstances…
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One eighties artist we could use more of at TUN…
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See: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/27/29-80s-night/
On the popularity of 80s music in Beijing: can someone explain to me the sequence of events that propels 80s two-hit-wonders Roxette to the top of the muzak pops in this town?!
Not only do I hear their “hits” regularly on the piped-music play list, but actually their _whole first album_.
The fact that I _recognize this_ is, of course, what disturbs me the most.
@ Shannon,
Here is a guess:
1. Chinese muzak company employee goes on a trip to US.
2. Sees Roxette’s first album in the “bargain bin” at a Wal-Mart of some such place.
3. Buys album and, on return to China, decides to make use of it for next music project.
4. Despite China’s rigid IPR regime, lazy Muzak decide to simply copy it.
5. Shannon recognize songs and gets, in how own words, “disturbed.”
Glad to help.
Cheers, Boyce