#gao yingxi

[vyvesvi]

there's something morally suspect about telling chinese trainees to do kpop instead of cpop but all of these girls like wang ju, gao yingxi, luo yitian, liu meng, zhong feifei, chen zhuoxuan, lu xiaocao, wang mohan, etc. would do so well...the kpoppies would eat them right up

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[shadowetienne]

Etienne’s Top Fives of 2019: Cpop Edition - Groups

Starting a new set with my Cpop Top Fives! First up: Groups.

This year was a little bit sparser for me in the Cpop department. I’ve struggled with keeping up with some groups, and some groups have disbanded or just not been active (or are going through a slow disbandment even if they’ve not officially fallen to bits). It’s also just harder for me to keep track of Cpop groups in general (please talk to me about Cpop, especially if you like groups, share things with me!!).

If a group has subunits or members doing things solo under the auspices of the group, I consider that part of the body of work of the group over the course of the year as long as the group has also done stuff as a group. (If there is solo stuff done not connected to the group it gets a little blurrier, but I try not to have soloists and groups overlap.)

The list with representative MVs is under the cut!

Cpop is what got me into pop music, back in the late 90s/early 2000s, Cpop was literally the only pop music I listened to. But things have changed, and my access has changed... I feel like there has also just been a major drop off in Cpop groups (as opposed to soloists which still seem to be going pretty strong). The recent uptick in competition shows seems to be bringing back the group as a format a little bit, and I hope to see that trend continue at least some, but so far, I’m struggling with finding groups that I really love. Please send me suggestions! Give me things to search up and enjoy! My level of Chinese is such that once I know what to search for/where in general to look, I can find more by myself, but generic searches to find things are hard because there’s an overwhelming amount for me to read through.

Here’s a shoutout to the groups that made the preliminary list (in the order I wrote them down over the course of the year): 疾风少女 [Blast Girl/Jifeng Shaonu] {Kimberley, Chen Fangyu, Liu Renyu, Wang Ju, Li Zixuan, Gao Yingxi, Qi Yandi, Liu Xiaoyu} (“疾风” [“Blast]) [They didn’t make the final cut primarily because they were a short term group formed for this song. I enjoyed the song itself and them working together post PD101China a lot!], Desert 5 ( “戰場”[“Battlefield”]) [This was a fun little collab group post Qing Chun You Ni, and it had a lot of contestants who didn’t make it that I liked, but they had a very short existence and one, admittedly very good, song.], R1SE (“谁都别吝啬” [“Be Yourself”]) [I wasn’t entirely happy with the results of Produce Camp, though my only favorite who made it as far as the final did make it into the final group. I haven’t been following them as closely as some other groups, but I have been trying to give their music a chance.], Tangram (“Focus” {MV released in Jan but song last year} / “Stay With You” audio released this year) [I love Tangram a lot, but their MV/song release situation was confusing this year.].

Honorable Mention:  S.I.N.G. (“Mermaid” {Jiang Shen solo} / “觸電” [“Electric Shock”] / “千盞” [“Millenium”] / “解夢” [“Dream”])

MV Link: https://youtu.be/mJHgG14eLQE (“千盞” [“Millenium”])

I was in a slightly weird place with S.I.N.G. this year with my favorite member is out until mid 2020. Even so, I quite liked “千盞” [“Millenium”] and to a slightly lesser extent “解夢” [“Dream”]. I love the fact that S.I.N.G. incorporates a lot of more classical Chinese elements into their music, and the dances for the songs are always interesting. (Bias: Lai Meiyun (who is out for Rocket Girls), to a lesser extent Xu Shiyin)

5) Rocket Girls (“风” [“Wind”] / “飒小姐” [“Extraordinary Girl”])

I have been pleasantly surprised with how happy I’ve been with Rocket Girls considering all the issues I had with PD101China as it was airing. They’ve produced a lot of songs I like! This year was solid, and I’ve enjoyed that they’ve tried to style all the girls in ways that suit them consistently. “风” [“Wind”] (above) was probably my favorite release from them this past year! (Biases: Sunnee, Lai Meiyun, but I’m fond of quite a few of the others, this group just took two of my biases from other groups)

4) 木及少年 [Muji Shaonian] (“专属爱称” [Exclusive Love])

I love these boys so much as a group, and I want to see more from them! Though I liked their 2018 MV better than the “专属爱称” [Exclusive Love] MV (above), I did think that this was cute and showed off their voices pretty well! They also did release “七剑雨茫似无双” [Seven Swords] MV this year, which I liked better in some ways. This year also featured my two favorite members going on Produce Camp, and while I have a lot of mixed feelings about that (and sad feelings that neither of them did as well as I hoped they would), it did give me more content for them, which was nice. (Biases: Lin Yadong, Zhang Dayuan)

3) Oner (“Attack”)

Well, this was a rough year for this group in some ways, generally a messy loss of a member. I am not commenting on that in particular, but I was really glad to see Oner release an as three MV, even just animated, of “Attack” (above), and start releasing more content towards the end of the year. I am hoping that 2020 is going to be a year with good outcomes for the remaining three members. (Biases: Ling Chao, Mu Ziyang)

2) Unine (“Bomba” / “Set It Off”)

Unine is about the most excited I’ve ever been for the line up of a competition show group. It was two off from my ideal line up, and I don’t dislike any of the members, and every single one of the members that I desperately wanted to make it did. I’ve been happy to see them relatively active in their first year making group music, and it’s a good sign that some of the issues that came up with Nine Percent have been figured out for a short term group this time around. “Set It Off” (above) was definitely my favorite release from them, but they’ve been overall solid, and they’re excellent performers. (Biases: Wenhan, Zhenning, Mingming, Changxi, but honestly... most of them, like I said, two off my ideal line up)

1) Nex7 (“頭號任務” [“Number One Task”] / “WYTB”) 

Nex7 (NEXT, however they’re billing themselves right now) is rising to be one of my definite favorite new wave Cpop groups in that they are a long term group that consistently puts out music that I like and is being promoted as a group not just a collective of soloists that sometimes does things together. I appreciate that Yuehua is working on refreshing the group format through this group, and hopefully more to come. (Biases: Zhengting, Quanzhe, Chengcheng)

[kaheis-archive]

playlist music tag ♫

rules: put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then choose ten victims

tagged by @akaimps 💗

dirty computer - janelle monáe shiny - gao yingxi  thirsty - taemin jasmine - dpr live faded love - wonder girls the open boat - primary & anda ft. colde johnny - brockhampton 4am - girl in red every minute - astro the cave - mumford & sons

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[rdlight]

i want to interact but im not watching the 101 show sorry ;--; is it good ?? who are your faves??

noooo pressure!! you’re good, i just need friends to talk too adkjff so pls interact im begging kkdfjkasfdj

i looooved p101c, i truly enjoyed the china one more because i dont think they focused on competitiveness, all of the girls truly got along and helped and supported one another no matter their rank or class. i think they tried too in the first two episodes (like the battle concept and sunnee vs reyina, that barely lasted). uhhh tencent really tried to control the show and the final rank and how the girls are shown/treated ex. the whole 3unshine situation, and how they barely showed sunnee and zining during the last few episodes (but those two overcame the adversity and were able to debut)

my fav girls were ofc all of rocket girls i love them to death esp yamy, meiqi and ziting. as for the girls who didnt debut (uGHGHGH) qi yandi, gao yingxi, lin junyi, chen yihan, lu xiaocao but honestly all of the girls have redeeming qualities and they’re soosos pretty

[pd101c]

Can you make a gao yingxi gif set from produce 101 (China) please???? I feel like she’s so underrated

She’s the cutest! Her voice suited the song so well too TT ♡

[vyvesvi]

What's a show that disappointed you and one that surprised you?

oo i don’t watch much tv but i can use produce seasons because that’s the only thing on my mind rn rip...

pdx disappointed just because it was the first time all of my picks (csy and lhg) made it but then x1...yeah

cz101, the season of produce with meiqi and xuanyi really surprised me because i wasn’t really expecting to like the final group! there’s one person i kinda can’t stand and would replace with one of my top picks who didn’t make it, but i really liked xuanyi, sunnee, mengjie, yamy, zining, fujing, and aojuan from the beginning. gao yingxi, luo yitian, and dongyue were robbed but hjsn is a pretty good team, which rarely happens i feel.

thanks for the ask as usual <3

ask me anything!!!

[pd101c]

Gao Yingxi

for Anon ♡