Mandopop: Wang Lin - I am a singer (我是歌手)

Some of my chinese friends won't like it when I say this, but this video is a very typical chinese video - cheezy, overloaded kitsch...and very charming. Wang Lin has been one of my favorite KTV (karaoke music) singers for a while, she has this semi-nerdy charm that really makes you love all of it.

• Wang Lin - I am a singer (我是歌手)

Wang Lin - Yami Butterfly (雅美蝶)

"Yami Butterfly" is really rather trivial KTV (chinese karaoke) music, but I am somewhat weak for Wang Lin's charming and happy songs.

• Wang Lin - Yami Butterfly (雅美蝶)

Mandopop: Wang Lin - Simida (思密達)

Obviously Wang Lin is taking her cue from Korean dramas in this video where she uses korean loan words like "oppa", and I am pretty sure the name of the song "Simida" is a korean word but I'm not sure which. It could be "습니다" which is a general ending for making a sentence more formal. A chinese friend says it should be meant as a chinese spelling of the korean word for darling (which one would that be, "salang"?). But I don't know. Anyway, for some reason I love this KTV (karaoke) song. The prelude is just fantastic electronica too. Don't miss her other good songs like "Shang Bu Qi".

• Wang Lin - Simida

Mandopop: Wang Lin (王麟)

Wang Lin is a Chinese singer who released a duet with Chu Boren in May this year, and she has sung several songs with modern themes like "I love QQ" (QQ = Chinese Facebook), "Jerk" and (my favorite) "To delicate to bear a blow/ Shang Bu Qi".

• Wang Lin - To delicate to bear a blow (伤不起)
• Wang Lin - Me and my little friends are shocked (我和我的小夥伴們都驚呆了)
• Wang Lin - I am a singer (我是歌手)
• Wang Lin & Chu Boren - Small chorus (小副歌)
• Wang Lin - Jerk (臭男人, Literally "Stinky man")
• Wang Lin - I love QQ (QQ愛, QQ is the Chinese version of Facebook)