I just realized that a true Chinese classic was missing from this sharethread: the famous/infamous “小蘋果” by the Chopsticks Brothers (筷子兄弟) with its own Wikipedia page:
Little Apple (song) - Wikipedia. Here is the youtube video for the song itself (the video is not great but the sound is OK):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpnub-uM6eo&list=RDHpnub-uM6eo&index=1
and here is its extended version with the beginning that provides more context:
https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzk4NDIzNTgyMA==.html?spm=a2hje.13141534.1_1.d_1_8&scm=20140719.rcmd.239346.video_XMzk4NDIzNTgyMA%3D%3D
Recently came across New Pants. Wide variety of sounds 
Two favorites:
Mr. Miss (先生小姐)'s 明天的烦恼交给明天 (an a cappella version):
with lyrics:
别担忧还要再过多久 才能过你想要的生活
把明天的烦恼交给明天今天别想了 以后再说
别再问他会爱你多久 未来有谁说得准呢
把明天的烦恼交给明天今天别想了
未来走一步看一步没什么大不了的
没有翻不了的山坡 没有过不去的河
别人的看着总是好的 自己的又怕哪天搞丢了
把明天的烦恼交给明天今天别想了
别担心十年八年以后 将来的问题到时候再说
每一天过得轻松一点别想太多 把明天的烦恼交给明天
今天别想了
今天别想了
今天要快乐
今天别想了
Stuck in my head all week.
我並不想成為～～誰～～的指南～～～～針～～
To add a new person to this Faye Wong’s appreciaton thread , here is this:
All of the songs from this album are really quite good, too. Probably one of the best albums from Taiwan in the past couple years.
I’ve been listening to some Cantonese music eventually. The cool thing is that if you are familiar with Mandarin and listen as you read along with the lyrics, you can see the high degree of similarity between the languages.
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Try as I might to avoid it for the sake of focusing more on Mandarin, I think I’ll end up learning some Cantonese at some point soon. Funnily enough, the entire reason I even became interested in China, Taiwan, and Chinese languages was due to watching artsy Hong Kong films back in college. Slowly coming full circle.
I have a bit of a strange request, haha. Does anyone have any recommendations for music that is less on the ballad side of things? Thinking more like rap, rock, metal, that sort of thing. I’ve been trying to go through the top charts on things like Apple Music but it seems like ballads are insanely popular in the mainland and Taiwan.
I don’t have any particular suggestions, but looking through the top chart on Rate Your Music for "
chinese" is a good place to start to find albums. You can look over the tags for each album to get an idea of what it sounds like before trying it out. However, given the nature of the site, the results will be a bit biased towards being more hip and artistic (as they would say in Chinese, 很文青), usually at the expense of more popular albums being buried down unreasonably low in the list.
This is my impression as well. One useful source is ChinaTalk on Substack, they regularly have posts on a less conventional music they like, and they also offer a spot for other people, like Jake Newby with his Concrete Avalanche (a free newsletter on music in China Concrete Avalanche | Jake | Substack; please support if you can. Here are his playlists:
Buy Music Club), etc. As an example:
【退格Backspace】 - 自卑的冠軍Narcissus’s Death (official MV) (youtube.com)
Exploring Concrete Avalanche (see above) further, with many interesting songs, i will post this one, because it just fit the mood when i found it. (A bit short on words though🙂.) Wang Wen, “Mail from the river”.
I’m a fan of metal / progressive music and recently this pretty awesome chinese band, although the lyrics are quite strange^^
A chill song (“Farewell”) from “Carsick cars”'s new album: