Bear with me, on this boba liberal’s video.

She talks a bit about restriction, censorship, and standardization of exported media by the ebil CCP /s, but rather focuses it on its consequent dullness, on-the-nose approach and cheapening of its media products…

How would you respond to this, point by point? (Sorry if I may sound like I argue in bad-faith)

Additional thanks if you don’t rely too much on whataboutism (yes, we can apply the artificial-politics-imposed media label, associated with CPC, on U.S media, like G.I Joe and Rambo, some of them even funded by the Department of Defense)

  • @DamarcusArt
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    810 months ago

    I’m sure they have quite an impressive music scene, I just don’t know anything about it personally. Did you have any recommendations?

    • urshanabi [he/they]
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      10 months ago

      Not the same person replying, I have a few:

      • Beyond (the songs 冷兩夜, and 光輝歲月, I’ve heard them referred to as the chinese beatles)
      • Cui Jian (Say Say Say, 不是我不明白, and 新长征路上的据滚)

      For something more recent and pop-y

      • 要不要买菜 (好男人都死哪儿去了 and 常乐)
      • Listening to Yinque’s Poems (芒种, 见山是山, and 红昭愿)

      Hope you like some of them!

      • @kikuos_child
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        510 months ago

        btw whats up w cui jian? I’ve js discovered him from u and the dude seems to be rocking a redstar hat alot but is it js posing? bc his Wikipedia says he got banned from performing for a while after the Tiananmen riots bc of his support for the rioters n the rioters co opting his music and what not. Did the dude go through some character development or is js a liberal larping

        • urshanabi [he/they]
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          510 months ago

          Oh what, I have no clue… I was in a Chinese restaurant and shazam’d his music. This is strange…

      • @DamarcusArt
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        410 months ago

        Thanks! I’ll check those out. Not normally a big fan of pop stuff, but it’s usually still nice to listen to. (there’s a reason it is popular after all.)