MCLC: Lady Gaga

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: xiaobing tang <maxtang at umich.edu>
Subject: Lady Gaga
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Apparently this Chinese adaptation of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" has gone
viral online (link below).  YouTube has logged over 709,000 viewers, and
there is a facebook community commenting on it.

I thought list members may get a kick out of this, in spite of our
cultivated interest in everything serious and ominous about contemporary
China.

Much can be said about this episode of Lady Gaga's Chinese afterlife.
This instance of genre-busting, border-crossing hilarious merry-making was
broadcast by the Hunan Satellite TV on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn
Festival.  The chorus comes from the Hunan Retired Cadres (government
officials) Activity Center in Changsha.  They sing in Hunanese (Changsha
dialect), and they make the English verb "hold" work so naturally in their
lyrics!

Watch for the lady in red at 3:18!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IF5WYaoWXI4

Xiaobing Tang