If anyone is into the Emo Rap genre, I stumbled upon Marz23 and I am pretty obsessed, haha.
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I frequented a bar in 阳朔 while I was there that played a lot of really good folk music.
Here are a few of my favorites:
If you ever travel to 阳朔 be sure to hit up 小马的天酒吧！
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How can I not share.
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I LOVE this album! This song in particular. I was surprised because I wouldn’t normally consider this song to be in my taste, but I’m so obsessed lol. My coworkers and I were sharing Chinese songs yesterday, and I sent this one to them.
Here are some of my favorites: hopefully its mandarin.
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Some upbeat songs (abit more popular):
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Three indie Taiwanese songs from across the musical spectrum:
The last one I’m really kicking myself for not seeing them live here a couple months ago. For some reason I thought they broke up.
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A nice sleepy song about being unable to wake up, or being unable to move on.
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This has been stuck in my head for days now… 
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Been working on my listening skills and chinese tongue with music. Just sharing some songs. Chinese opera. Pop. Alternative Rock.
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Leah Dou 窦靖童 - 橘子汽水
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Faye Wong’s “Impermanence”: my favorite of hers too. It’s one of those songs that strangely make you feel nostalgic, even though you never heard it at the time, and lived thousands of miles away. I suppose it has the feel of a 90s classic, with indy, with hints of late 60s English psychedelia.
It’s easy to find the lyrics in traditional hanzi, of course, but I’ve run up a version in simplified (so if there are any mistakes, blame me).
王菲 “无常”
夜风微凉 树摇月晃
云儿在飞我在想
水流 花儿香
一片夜色放心上
喜中带忧暗中有光
怎么度怎么量
田野 山岗
美丽之下的淒凉
无常
你看那山色湖光
你看那蓝天白杨
看不到一丝渺茫
你再看蓝天碧浪 (蓝天碧浪)
你再看晚霞曙光 (晚霞曙光)
禁不住匆匆忙忙
把希望留给失望
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Here’s a few from Khalil Fong (RIP, he just passed away earlier this year). He was mostly from Hong Kong and in addition to making a lot of his own music, also wrote for other artists like Fiona Sit, Eason Chan, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, and A-mei. Also known a Fong Da-Tong (and maybe spelled a little differently depending on where you’re coming from).
His music is usually classified under the broad Mandopop term. I really like a lot of his music because I find his pronunciation really easy to follow (unlike someone like Jay Chou, and I do also like a lot of his music) and also because I like his instrumentation, sound, and production choices.
Here are a few of my favorites from him:
A more upbeat, fun one
A classic from him
A fun one to vibe to with singing and a rap collab
He has a ton of other music and more popular ones than these. Here’s a YT search sorted by view count for him.
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This is amazing, thanks man