I've been spending quite a bit of time at Doubting To Shuo, and found an ancient blogpost about his discovery of a Chinese version of Madonna's "Material Girl", or 拜金女郎 for those who get the Chinese characters. (I'm don't think it's actually Madonna singing . . . anyone want to clarify that for me?)
While I love listening to Chinese, both spoken and sung, this sort of cross-cultural ("Asianification", if you will) translation of popular Western songs really bothers me. It's like the little kid on Engrish with the teddy bear t-shirt that says "Fuck off!". Even with the literal translation of Madonna's lyrics into Chinese, I wonder if they get the meaning of the song.
But I digress. The song is catchy, in either language.
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I'm flattered you've been reading my blog! It's not Madonna singing.
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