Friday, May 11, 2007

80's NEW MUSICAL STARS


The mid-80’s witnessed the emergence of a group of new musical stars like Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. These immensely popular singing artists move their focus in presenting the most stylish fashion and make-up rather than on the quality of songs that they are called popular idols rather then professional musical singers. Most of their songs combined foreign melodies with Cantonese lyrics.


“Bad Girl” "壞女孩"
-Why why tell me why , taboos are broken in the night
-Even gentle women stealthily want to go bad
-Why why tell me why. There’s no way to be a little lamb
-I blame myself for becoming too bad tonight

Sung by Anita Mui , the “Madonna of the East”, her rebellious and saucy image was epitomized in public performance. Most of them crossover to film, television. This practice is particularly ingrained in Hong Kong because a few very large companies control so many mass media outlets. Furthermore, this elevated cantopop conveyed cult status and encouraged teenage idolatry and this becomes a dominant feature of Hong Kong youth culture.

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