Mandopop: Jolin Tsai - Lip Reading (唇語)

The 4th single from Taiwanese Jolin Tsai's latest album "Play", this video sounds like a Bond theme to me, and the story theme is quite along those lines too.

• Jolin Tsai - Lip Reading (唇語)

Mandopop: Top 10 of the fourth quarter of 2014

Not quite so many really good songs this last quarter. Jolin Tsai almost got three songs on the list. And she kissed a girl.

10. Jay Chou - Extra Large Shoes. A fun video from Mr Famous.

9. Bonnie - Yolo. Surpsiingly enough her teen age attitude didn't irritate me as I thought they would. probably due to the humoristic edge.

8. Yise Loo - Addicted. Nice rock sound and a good voice.

7. Yang Rong - I do, my emperor. Catchy pop sounds and a nerdy video. That's enough.

6. Shiny - Da Bomb. A rather different approach for a mandopop video. I like it.

5. A-Lin - All in. A beautiful and almost grandiose melody.

4. Wang Rong - Chick Chick. Like the mega hit Little Apple earlier this year, this had the chance of becoming an internet meme, but it was just a little to much for many people I think. Instead it beame a kind of laugh-and-forget thing.

3. Jolin Tsai - Play. Most of her videos are pure eye candy and this is no exception, and the song is catchy.

2. Wang Qiao - Hello, Mulan. More of a children's song, but it is so catchy that it must be included.

1. Jolin Tsai - We're all different, yet all the same. The kiss between her and Ruby Lin while they marry is her crowning achievement so far in regards to her pro-homo support. And the song is really a touching one.

Mandopop: Jolin Tsai - Play (I Don't Give A / 我呸)

After the pre-release "Phony", Jolin Tsai releases the first 'real' single from her new album, the 13th. The song is "Play" and again is computer-game themed. Think "The Sims" or something like that, and she works the theme with her usual charm and the EDM sound is quite in my taste too.

• Jolin Tsai - Play (I Don't Give A / 我呸)