Results tagged “popstars”

Doing nothing to put ends to the stereotype that Asians do all look the same, Tianya has an incredibly popular thread right now that compares East Asian pop stars that seem to have been separated at birth.

British culture magazine Monocle has an interesting look at Taiwanese pop and its infiltration into the mainland. Despite the decades of turbulence between Taiwan and China, the entertainment mega-machine based out of Taipei has barely hiccuped in its flow from the island to its more than receptive audience here.

At a recent Andy Lau concert in Chengdu, one fan managed to slip past the watchful eye of the security guards to get to the stage so as to present a bouquet of flowers to the mega-popstar. As soon as he got down though, he was surrounded by a mob of security guards and manhandled by them (it is not clear from the video whether the fan was actually hit by the guards). Upon seeing...