Vu, Chi Pu and Phuong My Chi
Previously, Vu and Tim Wong (lead singer of Dear Jane) sang the Vietnamese song Forgotten Promises which also received love.
It remains to be seen whether the enthusiastic audience response will lead to a longer career for Vu in Hong Kong.
Or is it simply the momentary excitement of seeing a foreign singer sing in Cantonese, because with the shrinking influence of Hong Kong's popular culture in the past two decades, it must be strangely pleasing to see Cantonese chosen by a foreigner.
But anyway, Vu has introduced a Vietnamese composition to 10,000 viewers below. You have to take the first step, then think about the next steps.
You have to try it to know.
In the past few days, Chi Pu released the MV Finding you with two versions in Chinese and Vietnamese, simultaneously released in two markets.
The MV is a big test for Chi Pu after "Ti ty dap gio roi song" . Because like always, becoming famous thanks to a game show is not easy but not difficult either, with the combination of factors outside of music: the relationship between famous members participating in the game show, the performance stage effects, the appeal of the "exotic" feeling (the strangeness of an outside culture), the media support for the entire program.
Finding You
But when you step out on your own and start your own business, all those advantages are gone.
Even the "exotic" feeling, from an advantage of Chi Pu, can become a disadvantage, when her Chinese pronunciation is still weak and her singing ability cannot be embellished by any stage effects.
Whether Chinese audiences will accept Chi Pu as an independent singer, or still consider her just a "strange" element of a TV show, that remains to be seen. But once again, you have to try to know, and Chi Pu has tried.
Anyway, Chi Pu and Vu were very smart to choose a nearby market to try their hand.
Forgotten promises with an audio file of Hong Kong love songs, soft melody, without understanding the lyrics, you can feel the infatuation pouring out in each verse.
Meanwhile, Finding you is a slow, gentle R'n'B song, nothing special but easy to listen to. Surely when composing, Hua Kim Tuyen researched the preferences of the billion-people market.
Chi Pu
Can not reach the sky
Suppose those songs brought to more distant music, with sharper, more bouncy musical tastes, it is unlikely that they would have left any mark.
And perhaps, it is not by chance that Phuong My Chi's " The Universe of Flying Storks " has recently become popular in Thailand - it is the harmony of folk music materials with the lingering melody that makes it easier for people to feel it.
It would be difficult to imagine that the European and American markets could immediately appreciate such songs.
Even with K-pop, the world's leading music industry today, before stepping out into the world in a global sense, they must first conquer the world in a local sense.
That means before expanding its empire to the European and American markets, K-pop had conquered all its neighboring countries: China, Southeast Asia, and even the most demanding market because it already had so many talented people, Japan.
Even K-pop can't reach the sky, so it would be unrealistic to think that we can get completely different cultures with distant musical tastes to care about us, while even closer cultures with more similar musical tastes don't care much.
Perhaps that's the lesson K-pop teaches all aspiring local music scenes: dream far, but set your first destinations close.
How did Vu, Phuong My Chi and Chi Pu go out into the world?
Forgotten Promises is included in Vu's third studio album, which will be released this year. The song was composed and arranged by Dear Jane's guitarist and singer Howie, and written by Vu.
MV Forgotten Promises by Vu. and Dear Jane
Dear Jane's forte is pop punk and pop rock, although not too close to Vu's musical style, here the two sides meet in a romantic spirit and passion with similar emotions.
Phuong My Chi
After singing a duet with star Huang Xiaoming in a Hunan TV New Year's Eve program, Chi Pu has her first Chinese music product, Finding You , which has reached over 500,000 views on her personal Weibo account.
With a market as vast and endless as China, there is no need to become a top "traffic" but just maintain a presence and capture a very small market share to survive.
With two versions making it to the viral song list on Spotify Thailand, "The Universe of Flying Storks" is the title track of the album of the same name released by Phuong My Chi last year, a smooth transition between Phuong My Chi "folk song girl" and Phuong My Chi "generation Z artist".
The complexity of My Chi's growing up process, or that of a generation Z born in the countryside, is reflected in the song's soundscape: both a rural feeling with hints of cải lương and an urban feeling with modern music genres.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/vu-chi-pu-phuong-my-chi-chi-chinh-phuc-the-gioi-tu-dau-20240526093555115.htm
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