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Mayday
Mayday or Wu Yue Tian, is a Chinese rock band that originatedin the late 1990s but has since become one of the biggest rock bands to hitTaiwan pop culture. As one of Taiwan's million-selling rock artists, they havereceived a range of accolades as well as moving records all over the world.
They are locally regarded as the best rock band after Beyond,a popular rock band that is based in Hong Kong. Mayday's songs resonate greatlywith many Taiwanese youths who can identify with their themes of love, worldpeace and growing up. They are also influenced by The Beatles, which is theirfavourite group whom they aspire to be like.
Their music has the unique ability to bring the listener tohis feet or move the listener to tears. They sing songs mostly in Taiwanese andChinese although some fans profess that their Taiwanese songs are moreemotional and touching. Unlike some rock bands, they also project a clean andhealthy image and have never been seen smashing musical instruments wilfully,drinking or gambling. Mayday represent the zeigeist of the Taiwanese andChinese youth who identify with the band's themes of innocence, childhood,dreams, aspirations, loneliness and determination. At the same time, the band'sunique outlook on life has attracted many fans who find their views refreshing.
Mayday's songs are written mostlyin Mandarin with some TaiwaneseHokkien tracks by Ashin, who speaks fluent Hokkien in additionto Mandarin. They are popular for their student band roots, and their abilityin capturing the zeitgeist of Taiwanese youth in the mid to late 1990s.They are often cited as one of the pioneers of rock music inTaiwan.
Mayday's early style of music wascharacterised by raw music production that tended towards Hokkien garage rock tunes. They were also vocaladvocates on the issue of gay rights, with several songs making obliquereferences to the issue.As they gained popularity however,the band gradually shed its hard-edged sound and moved towards slickerproduction and sprawling anthemic songs.
Earlier lyrics written by Ashincentred around themes of teenage angst and growing up. However, in recentalbums, Ashin has alluded to several cultural icons notably the Chinese mythical monkey-god Sun Wu-Kong, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Neil Armstrong and Che Guevara. Ashin hasalso cited movies and novels as inspiration for his songs including "VivaLove"which was inspired by avant-garde Taiwanese director TsaiMing Liang's 1994 movie, Vive L'Amour and the song "Armour"which was influenced by a Chinese dramaand Haruki Murakami's novel, Kafka On the Shore.
Mayday hasmade no secret of its admiration of the Beatles whom they cite as influencingtheir ideals of rock music.The eighth track of their fifth album has a trackcalled John Lennon where the band espouses its dreams to become the"Beatles of the Chinese World". Other diverse musical influencesinclude the Irish band U2, the British band Oasis, the Japanese pop musicartists Mr. Children, Sting as well as the Taiwaneserocker Wu Bai and China Blue.
On his ownas a songwriter and lyricist, Ashin has helped Leehom Wangwrite lyricsfor a couple of songs in his Heroes of the Earthand 18 Martial Arts albums. He hasalso written for various other artistes including Fish Leong, Aska Yang on the song Onion, AngelicaLee, Jolin Tsai, Sandee Chen, Riche Ren, Della, Alien Huang and Jam Hsiaoon the song Loving Dearly. Also, he composed the song SHERO specially for S.H.E, which was chosen as the theme songfor the 2010 Taipei Flora Expo. Vocals-wise, he has collaborated withStefanie Sun twice on Mayday's 4th albumTime Machine and on the upbeat track First Day which also included F.I.R. He has also dueted with Cheer Chen on the song 'Eloping to theMoon.' In 2008, he dueted with Della on her album “What I loved” and starred inher music video. A visual arts and design student in high school and at ShihCheng University, Ashin has also dabbled in the design area, working notablywith graphic designer No2goodon a line of T-shirts by the name of Stay Real and designinga dogtag player for BenQ Music's Player. As an author, Ashin has released twobooks called Happy.BIRTH.day which he called a "book of rock poems".It includes photos taken by him and lyrics of the songs he wrote for the bandthe other artists. His latest book Escape to Japan, which is a traveloguereflection on Japan.
The othermembers of Mayday have also worked with other artistes mainly in the areas ofsongwriting and producing. Masa and Monster have helped with songwriting andinstrument playing duties on tracks by fellow Rock Records artistes Fish Leong, Victor Huang and Ding Dang. Both Monsterand Stone have also produced albums, notably Monster for Ding Dang's debutalbum and Stone for Victor Huang's 2007 album.本回答被提问者采纳
Mayday or Wu Yue Tian, is a Chinese rock band that originatedin the late 1990s but has since become one of the biggest rock bands to hitTaiwan pop culture. As one of Taiwan's million-selling rock artists, they havereceived a range of accolades as well as moving records all over the world.
They are locally regarded as the best rock band after Beyond,a popular rock band that is based in Hong Kong. Mayday's songs resonate greatlywith many Taiwanese youths who can identify with their themes of love, worldpeace and growing up. They are also influenced by The Beatles, which is theirfavourite group whom they aspire to be like.
Their music has the unique ability to bring the listener tohis feet or move the listener to tears. They sing songs mostly in Taiwanese andChinese although some fans profess that their Taiwanese songs are moreemotional and touching. Unlike some rock bands, they also project a clean andhealthy image and have never been seen smashing musical instruments wilfully,drinking or gambling. Mayday represent the zeigeist of the Taiwanese andChinese youth who identify with the band's themes of innocence, childhood,dreams, aspirations, loneliness and determination. At the same time, the band'sunique outlook on life has attracted many fans who find their views refreshing.
Mayday's songs are written mostlyin Mandarin with some TaiwaneseHokkien tracks by Ashin, who speaks fluent Hokkien in additionto Mandarin. They are popular for their student band roots, and their abilityin capturing the zeitgeist of Taiwanese youth in the mid to late 1990s.They are often cited as one of the pioneers of rock music inTaiwan.
Mayday's early style of music wascharacterised by raw music production that tended towards Hokkien garage rock tunes. They were also vocaladvocates on the issue of gay rights, with several songs making obliquereferences to the issue.As they gained popularity however,the band gradually shed its hard-edged sound and moved towards slickerproduction and sprawling anthemic songs.
Earlier lyrics written by Ashincentred around themes of teenage angst and growing up. However, in recentalbums, Ashin has alluded to several cultural icons notably the Chinese mythical monkey-god Sun Wu-Kong, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Neil Armstrong and Che Guevara. Ashin hasalso cited movies and novels as inspiration for his songs including "VivaLove"which was inspired by avant-garde Taiwanese director TsaiMing Liang's 1994 movie, Vive L'Amour and the song "Armour"which was influenced by a Chinese dramaand Haruki Murakami's novel, Kafka On the Shore.
Mayday hasmade no secret of its admiration of the Beatles whom they cite as influencingtheir ideals of rock music.The eighth track of their fifth album has a trackcalled John Lennon where the band espouses its dreams to become the"Beatles of the Chinese World". Other diverse musical influencesinclude the Irish band U2, the British band Oasis, the Japanese pop musicartists Mr. Children, Sting as well as the Taiwaneserocker Wu Bai and China Blue.
On his ownas a songwriter and lyricist, Ashin has helped Leehom Wangwrite lyricsfor a couple of songs in his Heroes of the Earthand 18 Martial Arts albums. He hasalso written for various other artistes including Fish Leong, Aska Yang on the song Onion, AngelicaLee, Jolin Tsai, Sandee Chen, Riche Ren, Della, Alien Huang and Jam Hsiaoon the song Loving Dearly. Also, he composed the song SHERO specially for S.H.E, which was chosen as the theme songfor the 2010 Taipei Flora Expo. Vocals-wise, he has collaborated withStefanie Sun twice on Mayday's 4th albumTime Machine and on the upbeat track First Day which also included F.I.R. He has also dueted with Cheer Chen on the song 'Eloping to theMoon.' In 2008, he dueted with Della on her album “What I loved” and starred inher music video. A visual arts and design student in high school and at ShihCheng University, Ashin has also dabbled in the design area, working notablywith graphic designer No2goodon a line of T-shirts by the name of Stay Real and designinga dogtag player for BenQ Music's Player. As an author, Ashin has released twobooks called Happy.BIRTH.day which he called a "book of rock poems".It includes photos taken by him and lyrics of the songs he wrote for the bandthe other artists. His latest book Escape to Japan, which is a traveloguereflection on Japan.
The othermembers of Mayday have also worked with other artistes mainly in the areas ofsongwriting and producing. Masa and Monster have helped with songwriting andinstrument playing duties on tracks by fellow Rock Records artistes Fish Leong, Victor Huang and Ding Dang. Both Monsterand Stone have also produced albums, notably Monster for Ding Dang's debutalbum and Stone for Victor Huang's 2007 album.本回答被提问者采纳
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