Her battle vibes are too powerful 🗡️ Blindfolded little girl plays “Ascetic” 行者 on a guzheng
Musical genius 🔥
The metronome and stopwatch were put there to shut mean people up (some comments on her other videos accused her of speeding up the videos).
This video is from her channel. The same video was uploaded on her music school’s channel first. Comments there say that weapons are going to start flying soon (referring to how musical instruments can be used in combat in wuxia movies) 🤣
The song is from the perspective of a puppet about itself and its puppeteer, describing their companionship and parting. The chorus uses a style of singing called opera tone (戲腔; xìqīang).
i have an exam tomorrow but i know my brain won't know rest until i post this. anyway i just looked up the lyrics to 超度我/set me free by floruitshow and i just. have to inflict this song onto other people it is so robits
(real quick one thing i will say is please listen to the song, i once described floruitshow as 'the perfect combination of classically trained and a little bit insane' and this song is 100% that vibe. like i cant promise you'll like it but i can promise that it probably won't sound like anything else you've heard before)
Also I'll only be translating the verses because the chorus is literally lines straight from the Diamond Sutra and explaining those is above my paygrade
(Verse 1)
来不及
There's no time left
最后一句想你来不及让你知道
No time left to say to you my last 'I miss you'
再也回不去
We can't ever return
那个有彩虹出现的下午
to that afternoon when the rainbow appeared
再也感受不到你温度
I won't ever feel your warmth again
如果你留我在梦里
If you left me in my dreams
我会放弃呼吸
I can give up my breath
请 超度我
Please, set me free
VR-LA during/after MR-SN's death?? reflecting on all the things he never got to say, all the things they never got to do because they never got enough time together, 'i can give up my breath' all that time VR-LA spent alone on that empty ship fighting the thoughts of leaving it all behind.. (yells)
(Verse 2)
对不起
I'm sorry
不经意就在你的影子里活下去
It's so easy to live on in your shadow
我不在意
But I don't mind
不过是白日梦里一瞬息
It's nothing but a moment in a daydream
为何还起念动心
Why does my heart still stir?
怪你名字太熟悉
It's all because your name is too familiar
当我是一花一叶一春木
if I pretend I were a flower, a leaf, a spring sapling
可否回到世界之初
Can I return to the beginning of it all?
请 超度我
Please, set me free
Y'all wanna talk about how VR-LA's still not over MR-SN. or how he spends s2-s3 haunted by his old crew ('live on in your shadow' owwww). 'a moment in a daydream' VR-LA seeing MR-SN in overclock... being stuck in the horrible horrible headspace of the Zuggtemoy curse and finding comfort in this snippet of the captain he can barely remember.. 'your name is too familiar' i mean just look at the wish speech! he says it better than i ever could, it's getting the old crew's names from maxim that really sets VR-LA off on this whole journey to find them because even after the everything just their names is enough for him to remember how much he loved and still loves them!! augh
(Outro)
我的执念 万千千千
My obsessions, hundreds and thousands
放不下地 放不下天
I can't let go of the earth, I can't let go of the sky
我把红线折折剪剪
I cut and fold at the red strings
落入凡间镜重圆
I fall to the mortal realm to seek reunion
Again, y'all wanna talk about how VR-LA's still not over MR-SN. but also the last two lines as being MR-SN's POV, the 'red strings' being a reference to the red strings of fate (strings that tie lovers/soulmates together... aaa), MR-SN (or well, Mystra, I guess) literally defying fate so that they can meet again. 镜重圆 here is likely referring to 破镜重圆, a phrase that directly translates to "mending a broken mirror" and basically refers to couples (generally romantic) reconciling/reuniting after a breakup/some kind of separation which... i mean yeah thats literally just 3.7 huh. MR-SN coming back from the dead to give VR-LA closure and catharsis. anyway i'm gonna go lie on the floor now
Hi! Just wanted to say thank you for this blog. I'm a Chinese American daughter of immigrants, and I've had a really hard time connecting with my cultural roots, partially because my only way of looking for recommendations and whatnot for Chinese media is through my parents... So there's not much that I find that's Chinese that I actually like. And when I try to look up stuff on the internet usually it's Japanese or Korean stuff that's recommended to me, since media-wise anime and kpop have much more international reach. So it was really exciting to me to find a collection of chinese music that's more recent and thus more likely to be to my taste than to my parents'. Idk if you're Chinese or just someone who's a fan of Chinese music, but either way I just wanted to say thank you.
Hi Anon!,
Ahh thank you for sending this - I know what you mean as I found it pretty difficult at first too, it's hard to know where to start. Especially as I'm not Chinese but I'm learning the language so I wanted to listen to some songs to help me improve. This is how I generally find new songs:
Douyin/weibo/xiaohongshu/bilibili (music being used in social media videos).
Also douyin has a top music tracks chart in the app.
Cdrama soundtracks my beloved! 🫶
Make a playlist on spotify (or equvalent) and look at the recommended songs.
Look at artist profile on spotify and check the 'people also listen to' section.
Useful search terms on spotify/youtube etc - cpop, mandopop, cdrama, gufeng, gangtai, plus different dialects.
Actually now I'm trying to find older songs out of curiosity but struggling XD.
I hope you can have an easier time connecting with your cultural roots too. I follow @dmdiaspora and I think they may have a discord group as they mention a server in the pinned post. If you're a danmei fan you might find a group of people with similar experiences there.
hi tira! do you know if the cn server has released the gufeng ost on bilibili or anything? ajdf i fell in love with the music and im dying to listen to it on repeat
😭i don't recall them ever dropping OSTs on bilibili the way they might on youtube... potentially it might be on a music-specific place that chinese people use like QQ音乐?
If you get this, answer with your top 5 music artists and send it to the last 7 people in your notifications! 😊💕
Oopsie sorry this late
Hueue ive mostly been listening to gufeng music recently and not paying attention to the specific artists overall but to pick out 5 artists in general uhh
Linkin park, hua chenyu, um uhhhh pax congo (except spofity took off most of their music from their one album i liked and i cant find them elsewhere so im suffering), two steps from hell, owl city