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Moonwrath

United States9568 Posts

March 24 2012 05:48 GMT

#52001

After watching Touch a few times on music shows, it's really been growing on me. It's an interesting sounding song.

Pulselol

Canada1628 Posts

March 24 2012 06:25 GMT

#52002

speaking of touch:

can i touch these abs

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On March 24 2012 14:27 Sc2zero7 wrote:
I wish my family's main dialect was Mandarin. Songs suckkk in Cantonese. Mandarin just sounds so much nicer. I actually think touch is a decent song vocally now, but the music still sucks.

whaaaaaaaaaat

cantonese #1

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foreigners often tell me that i sound really angry when i speak cantonese but in reality i'm just trying to order some food

polgas

Canada1720 Posts

March 24 2012 06:27 GMT

#52003

Skull - Trash

I find this surprisingly catchy. Saw it on nanashin's stream.

betamale

633 Posts

March 24 2012 07:43 GMT

#52004

i feel trolled by dream high 2.

Episodes 15 and 16 made no sense at all. It's like they had no idea how to finish the story.

Sc2zero7

United States574 Posts

March 24 2012 08:10 GMT

#52005

On March 24 2012 16:43 betamale wrote:
i feel trolled by dream high 2.

Episodes 15 and 16 made no sense at all. It's like they had no idea how to finish the story.

You saw a story? I watched 5 episodes and didn't see one.

Fox116

United States409 Posts

March 24 2012 08:39 GMT

#52006

MBC Music Core

Comebacks/Followups

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Debuts

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvI6WisRlWA

Other Performances

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+ Show Spoiler [Ailee] +

+ Show Spoiler [B1A4] +

+ Show Spoiler [C-Real] +

+ Show Spoiler [EXID] +

+ Show Spoiler [K.Will] +

+ Show Spoiler [LED Apple] +

+ Show Spoiler [Lyn] +

+ Show Spoiler [Miss A] +

+ Show Spoiler [NU'EST] +

+ Show Spoiler [Nine Muses] +

+ Show Spoiler [Shayne] +

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Goodbye Stages

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Extras

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+ Show Spoiler [Next Week] +

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5W9lG-bz8o

bLecK

Australia625 Posts

March 24 2012 09:15 GMT

#52007

Have to say Shinee are really impressing me this promotion cycle. Apart from the stage outfits (ikr? wtf?), they've really outdone themselves. I'm really liking the intensity of the choreography as well as the fact that they're in tune just about the whole time. Also helps that I find the songs catchy as hell. (Also is it just me or are there ball squeeks all over "Stranger"? especially during Keys parts, and Minho's rap).

TunaBarrett

Sweden1045 Posts

March 24 2012 10:48 GMT

#52008

On March 24 2012 11:05 Kaiwa wrote:

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Did you even read my post? I'm on your side man....

Lol oh yeah i know, I dont know why i wrote it that way. To clarify i wrote that to the people that you responded to

Sableyeah

Netherlands2119 Posts

March 24 2012 10:58 GMT

#52009

You crazy, nothing wrong with cantonese bruv, be proud it's the single hardest language to master :D

The music isn't the best at this point in time and I'm not at all up to date with everything but it's fiiiiine! Songs I listen to are still nice in cantonese.

Vorgrim

Korea (North)1601 Posts

March 24 2012 11:26 GMT

#52010

On March 24 2012 16:43 betamale wrote:
i feel trolled by dream high 2.

Episodes 15 and 16 made no sense at all. It's like they had no idea how to finish the story.

This is the case with so many Kdramas, maybe 50% completely fizzle on the last episode.

andyrau

13015 Posts

March 24 2012 11:39 GMT

#52011

On March 24 2012 19:58 Sableyeah wrote:

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both canto and mandarin sound really agitated/busy, the latter sometimes harsh in select dialects. not really pleasing to listen to either language, also not a great languages to sing in; I figure jay chou recognizes this, hence his slurring of all his lyrics.
my vocal conductor maintains Italian is the best language to listen to in music because of its lack of diphthongs, closely followed by Spanish and French, then Korean or Russian.

c-pop is mediocre in general, coming from a native speaker of both dialects.

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also Chinese is a fucking troll language to write/read. Jesus, you'd think that over 3millenia of unification would lead us to using phonetics like the rest of the world but nope. a frankenstein compilation of ideo/pictographs and phonetics is what we've managed to produce, along with two different ways to write them, and 50 different forms of speaking the language.

On March 24 2012 20:26 Vorgrim wrote:

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This is the case with so many Kdramas, maybe 50% completely fizzle on the last episode.

to this day I haven't found a kdrama ending I've been 100% satisfied with, the exceptions being stairway to heaven and iris.

iMYoonA

Australia462 Posts

March 24 2012 11:41 GMT

#52012

On March 24 2012 19:58 Sableyeah wrote:

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I don't think that's quite true man... is Cantonese really that hard? =/

Mandarin: a nice sounding language both spoken and sung

Cantonese: sounds nice when sung, but not the best when spoken. Doesn't sound all that logical or rounded (I speak fluent Cantonese, but only basic mandarin)

Korean: nice sounding when sung, and spoken by native koreans, in korea. In Australia the Koreans speak this ugly angry Korean.

Japanese is nice spoken and sung as well imo.

Sableyeah

Netherlands2119 Posts

March 24 2012 12:11 GMT

#52013

Yes, cantonese is very hard to learn. It has 9 tones instead of the 4 when learning mandarin. Word that you would spell like Tong as a foreigner, has like 8 different usages for me already (I don't think I got them all yet). That's not easy to learn at all. That's just one word. Tones are so important, it's not even funny.

Now, I'd say that chinese languages can sound quite aggressive and most of the time it's like that. So it's not really nice to hear it like that but the music is fine.

Vorgrim

Korea (North)1601 Posts

March 24 2012 12:32 GMT

#52014

The tonal thing is what ruins it for me, sounds so unnatural. Like the simplest phrase requires some convoluted vocal acrbatics. For want of a better term it doesn't flow in a pleasing way. Even German, which is a coarse language, doesn't jar like Mandarin. Has nothing to do with being aggressive.

zyzq

United States3123 Posts

March 24 2012 12:54 GMT

#52015

On March 24 2012 16:43 betamale wrote:
i feel trolled by dream high 2.

Episodes 15 and 16 made no sense at all. It's like they had no idea how to finish the story.

I gave up after the 8th episode, just complete non-sense, JYP should never be allowed to produce a drama ever again

lifeisgood99

Canada915 Posts

March 24 2012 14:36 GMT

#52016

I'm quite surprised by your views on Mandarin. I find it quite smooth and pleasing to the ear. Canto and Japanese sound extremely aggressive to me.

Otolia

France5805 Posts

March 24 2012 15:21 GMT

#52017

Nine Muses with the violet combi (or whatever name that piece of fabric has) was really retro. It's really impressive how they can manage to be that creative with recycling old ideas.

StyLeD

United States2965 Posts

March 24 2012 15:24 GMT

#52018

I've always thought Chinese sounded very harsh - not as harsh as Japanese but not as free-flowing as Korean either. Some of my Japanese friends told me Korean sounds like baby talk to them. Haha.