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Why is Chinese pop music so terrible? (www.quora.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I've tried to find some nice c-pop. So far rather unsuccessfully, everything I have found is incredibly boring/bland. It nearly always starts with a light piano intro and does not get any more exciting than that, there is little variation and if I skip through the song it often feels like I didn't skip a thing.

That's also why I started to search for a reason for this and found the linked quora question.

But perhaps someone here has found something recommendable within this wasteland, I'd be happy to hear about it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Found another good answer to the question in this quora thread: https://www.quora.com/How-does-modern-Chinese-pop-music-differ-from-American-music-in-style-instruments-and-chords-theory/answer/Elliott-Chen Could it have sth. to do with China's melody-driven karaoke culture?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Hmm, you mean things are intentionally kept simple so everyone can sing along? Something to note is that this answers is already 7 years old and may not be as accurate anymore.

But at least according to the author chinese pop wasn't good 7 years ago either, considering their harsh words:

In a purely subjective line, I will say most of the pop music in China, especially now is utter crap: saccharine schlock that wouldn't cut it in 3rd world countries without potable water.