Stephanie
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
You have a map because the map has checkpoints, but it's not like your phone and just a compass and you have to figure out how to get where you're going.
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I Hate Richmond
You've described that so well before. So I have these two little kiddos who are two and four, two boys, and they just are wild. And I was just wondering what the best parenting advice you've ever received was. maybe how I can bring that into my daily life to not get so overwhelmed.
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I Hate Richmond
Ugh, yeah, I'm in Richmond. Do you want me to hit record? Are we still doing it back?
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I Hate Richmond
Yeah. And they grab our chickens. And yeah, 100 percent. They'll just like pick up snakes, even though another reason Central Virginia is bad is there are venomous snakes here and there aren't back where I'm from in New England. So, yeah. How do I know where you're from in New England? From Brockton, Massachusetts.
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I Hate Richmond
I surprisingly know that. Yeah. I played Brookline High in sports a lot.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah. I'm not built to run either, which is why I tried to golf it out.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I know, but they have to want me to. I yeah, you're right. They have schools other places. I have. Yeah, I don't know what to say. I've applied.
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I Hate Richmond
Yep. I can't. My parents moved out of Rock. They're in Wilmington now. So, but yeah, I guess I would go somewhere around north of Boston. I can't afford that. No one can afford that.
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I Hate Richmond
I don't. I do not. They should not have me. I will complain about the bugs and the humidity and the heat and their inability to deal with snow and all of that.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah, as an undergrad, I checked off a box that said I had to travel, so then I got into this geology program, and that's not geography. Geology is rocks. Geography is people and places.
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I Hate Richmond
Yeah. I study a lot of different things, but I mainly use satellite data to understand changes in the landscape. Uh, so one of the things I, yeah, I can feel like I'm lecturing. One of the things I study is how climate change is affecting the timing of fall foliage in Maine. Cause I love Maine. Another thing I study is how deforestation in Brazil is affecting the regional climate there.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I think about that in the southwestern Amazon. I do stuff locally in central Virginia that I love. I use drones to help map historically black cemeteries that haven't been funded.
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I Hate Richmond
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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I do. It's been a tough week. So I'll tell you, yes, the lowest of bars.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah, I think it's okay to be anxious about it. I think it's kind of crazy if you're not anxious about it because it's very real. But I also have a two and a four-year-old, and that was like an act of radical hope in society that we would kind of figure this out. I think just getting outside and breathing and taking a walk and connecting with nature, that's what I do if I'm getting overwhelmed.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I think you can be overwhelmed, but you can't let it take over. And you just find faith in your community. You find what you can do. Maybe eat one less burger a week. But I'm not saying become a vegetarian or a vegan. Don't go vegan. You don't have to do that. It's not that good for the environment. If you just eat a little bit less meat, feel better about it. You can take one less flight a year.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
But honestly, just being okay with being upset, allowing yourself to feel your feelings. To me, I think we all should be feeling our feelings a little more.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
No, my kids have just been home from daycare with the flu. Oh, okay.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I took a private... That's not probably great for your arteries.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Oh, my God, the mahogany is, yeah, I mean, it's the best wood.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yes, I agree. I think it's not worth it feeling guilty because like you're not Exxon. You're not the U.S. You're not BP. You're not the people who like lied to people for centuries about what harm this would do. So it's not worth feeling guilty. But I think you can look for the good stories. A negative headline gets 10 more clicks than a positive one.
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I Hate Richmond
I know. I know I had agency in that decision, but I didn't think I'd have to be around them all the time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
So people are always going to write negative headlines. There are some really cool climate resiliency things going on. Some cities are planting more trees. Trees are really great for cooling down cities. L.A., I think, painted some pavements white for a while because dark surfaces trap a lot of heat. There are small-scale changes that a lot of cities in the U.S. in particular are making.
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I Hate Richmond
And yeah, I think it's going to be a mix of science and everyone realizing that These disasters that we keep having cost so much money. So it actually be cheaper if we start actually investing in climate change solutions and resilience.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I'm so sorry. This is the most depressing conversation you've probably ever had.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I just think we don't have geography in many schools. So I just am used to it's a battle I've been fighting for years.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I think everyone should just get out more and breathe more oxygen and stop looking at your phones more. Yeah, I mean, it's weird. There was an onion headline like 15 years ago that was like, humans look at glowing rectangles all day. And I was like, oh, it's only got worse.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I think everyone should just talk to more people and go outside and look at a tree and be like, wow, how long has that tree been there? Longer than I have.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
What if you take your phone and you watch your porn outside, though?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
A lot of people don't know why we have seasons. That's the question that my students get wrong all of the time.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah. Nice job. OK, great. A lot of people think distance from the sun. And that's not we're actually closer to the sun during the winter.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
And a tree, maybe, sometimes. My bar is low. I don't know.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
I have two kids. I have a two year old and a four year old and they're pretty feral. And my my oldest is a budding mycologist. He loves mushrooms. We always go mushroom hunting, but he has a book and he does record what we and he doesn't eat it. We don't let him eat the mushrooms.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah, we have a little mushroom fan club book. He's really into mushrooms.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah. Yeah. He gets outside. We can make sure we get our kids outside. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
No, no, no, no. He's great. He's with my two kids right now who are homesick from school.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
He's a behavior analyst, and he's the most patient man on earth. So he spends his days trying to help adults with disabilities just, like, successfully walk through the world.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Yeah, 100% all the time. Whenever we're arguing, a snack will appear out of nowhere, and I fully know what he's doing, and I will take the snack, and it doesn't matter.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
Well, he won't pop it into my mouth because it's a little much, but he'll be like, are you hungry? Do you want this thing over here? And I'll be like, yeah, I want that thing, but also.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
I Hate Richmond
We have been or we have been orienteering together, but and the snacks were more for like my self-preservation.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I'm good. This is the highlight of my day.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I would consider it for a little bit of time. And then, I mean, maybe I could sell it and make some money off of it. I don't know.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
Yeah, it'd be a pretty short amount of time.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I'm a licensed psychologist and I work in a university counseling center.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I mean, yeah, no, it's just a pause.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I, yeah, I've got a lot of questions.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I guess I'd be most interested to know what his biggest problems are in his life. Like what causes him distress?
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
Go ahead, Stephanie. So sometimes the problem is not that you're in distress, but it's that the other people around you are in distress. So that would be my kind of other question is, how do most people kind of respond to you?
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
Oh, no, it doesn't sound normal. That's
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
I mean, from listening to the podcast and your other interactions, his interactions with me sound a lot smoother than his interactions with you. I don't, I mean.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
The other option, too, is sometimes people, when they feel like they're being assessed, they kind of show the best of themselves, you know, and kind of want to be seen in a certain way and kind of do that, like, they kind of manage their public image more. Right, right.
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
That's exactly what I was saying, yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
So what does Conan bring out of you?
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
OK, well, I had a question for you, Conan, which is you said you you try to explain Jordan to people. What's your like shorthand description of him?
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The Conan and Jordan Show — Show and Tell
Yeah, I think Conan is better than you.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
And for some reason, somehow they were able to get a close up of the teleprompter. And it shows that they wrote drink singer. Pretend to make a mistake. Correct yourself. Oh, no. You're kidding me. Because they want to draw more attention and make this clip go viral so that everyone will hear about the yogurt brand. And they successfully generate so much buzz for the brand.
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That's what I'm saying. It was crazy. Additionally, the production team had set up individual rooms for each singer with dedicated camera angles that are being live streamed with the front of each singer's face, just like online streaming their rooms. And viewers could see the singer's reactions during the entire show. And netizens were so...
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
exhausted they would come home from a nine to nine they'd settle down at 10 p.m and they said that they feel like they are busier than the director of this show they got seven screens with seven different live streams set up they got the show they got one contestant two contestant three contestant they're like hey bring me your laptop i got another i gotta get another screen it was exhausting it was exhausting
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
And the cameras, the singers themselves, the cameras were pointed directly at their face, nonstop live streaming, because normally in these edited shows, you would see singers sitting there and then they would just kind of zone out because nothing's happening right now, right? But then it's being live streamed. And Fosia, I love her so much. I fell in love with her because of this show.
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She has a beautiful resting face. However, it's not super smiley. So then she would constantly catch herself just very serious looking. And then she would be like,
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
There's a camera Right in her face, and she's like I don't want anyone to think I'm like being rude cuz she's so sweet But it's just like she's just pondering preparing to go up on stage, and she's not smiling so then she's like It's just so awkward I mean she handles it like a queen, but I can imagine it's very awkward and her whole Listen, I wish I could.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
I'm going to try my hardest to, I don't know, do some like copyright. No, I'm just kidding. I can't, but I'll just sing it for you. I'll just sing how she sings.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
There is something about her singing. I usually don't get goosebumps when I watch people live because I feel like you watch a lot of people live. And then it just kind of wears off. And then you got to go to the concert to get goosebumps. I was getting goosebumps at every single one of her performances on this show. Especially her... I think it was like Desert Rose. Anyway, I'm going to link it.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
I was getting goosebumps. All the hairs on my arm were standing up and doing the wave dance. Like they were at the fucking Super Bowl. Like it was crazy. I was feeling so many things. People said that her voice is...
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is like a deep ocean not the beach but the ocean in the midst of a calm like wave cycle that's not how they describe it they describe it she just has it's like the last cycle of your washer you know It's like a gentle power. It's so powerful, but it's not chaotic. It feels warm and inviting. And then you have all of these emotions surging in your chest. I think I love her.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
I want to say I watched it every single day for like two weeks straight. Anytime I felt a little saddy, you know, baddies get saddies, a little depresso espresso, I would watch this clip of Nihao from the other side. And I just want to say that set me down a rabbit hole because the show that she was on was in China. It was a singing competition. And that clip goes viral.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
I think I'm in love, okay? Her vocal range, her technique, her stage presence is impeccable. When she finishes performing her very first song...
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
first of all i thought it's like playing a record on a cd like you're telling me this is not lip synced it's not it's not i'm not even saying it is but it was absolutely incredible everybody in the crowd they don't even know how to act they don't know how to respond they're so shocked what the fork is going on how is she 24 how is this happening and they thought okay this is about to be the best show ever
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she is the first person to sing oh she's the very first it's only gonna go up from here that's fucking crazy it's about to because you know you would think that they're gonna save like the best for a second to last last you know and then it's just gonna amp up and play with your emotions and it's just escalating more and more and then they play the second one um hi lai amu
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a folk singer that became famous through doing tiktok in china and mainly famous with like 50 year olds the song he chose to perform was clearly not a fan favorite and um it's like um it was like a boner kill everybody was so confused what just happened like they were so emotionally stirred up people were getting emotional in the crowd people were crying in the crowd and then all of a sudden
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
It was like back to reality. It's so weird. It was really weird. I mean, the skills were just completely unable to even compare. It just didn't make any sense. And then you had Rainie Yang. She's an icon of Taiwan pop culture.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
you know how many um like drama she was in like the really really trendy drama she's known for like having some crazy concerts she'll hang upside down like a moth like a moth in a cocoon she'll go underwater and she'll sing and it sounds like No, just kidding. It sounds really good. However, unexpectedly, I don't know if it's due to being extremely nervous. She was allegedly very out of tune.
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I'm so musically in talented. I was listening to every single person going, it's not that bad. How do I know if it's out of tune? It sounds on tune to me.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
No, it was still like a desert. Yeah. It was not even one mile per hour of wind. Yeah. It was like this room is sweaty. So she goes up there and she... I will say there was a lot of discourse amongst Chinese netizens at the time saying that a lot of the Chinese singers were too focused on perfectionism.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
They were too focused on being perfect with their body language that it didn't feel like a performance.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
She has to do hit a high note and she I don't know what's happening. She just overexerted herself. It's not that high of a note, but she tilts her head all the way back to look at the stars and the moon in the sky. And then her mouth is all the way open and people have compared her to a sneaker. A what? A sneaker.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
You know, when you take off your sneakers and you put them on the ground, the whole of the sneaker is perfectly circular and staring at the sky.
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But so does so much other stuff. This is probably the most controversial singing show other than a different one that we covered. But we're not going to get saddies right now. We're not going to get saddies.
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I don't know why they compared her to a sneaker I think the heat is making us lose our minds right now So they compared her to a sneaker And so that was like the first big meme to come out of the show. And even for the first episode, even the very experienced Na Ying that everybody thought it was gonna, she's got it in the bag. She fell short of expectation. She was not doing well.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
When it was her turn, she was so very clearly nervous for this very first live broadcast. The opening of her song, they said it sounded too tight. Her voice was obviously trembling, but not in the way that it should be. It just sounded like her voice was shaky and not stable. It felt... didn't feel good. But after the first chorus, she quickly gets back into her groove.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
And once her voice opens up, she gets a lot better. And when she finished singing, she comes down from the stage and fans are shouting at her like, great job. Don't worry. Don't be nervous. You can't lose. You got this. And then after her, Shantay Moore goes up onto the stage and everyone is like, OK, so this is the first foreigner killed it. Let's hope this one does it.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Because, you know, Chinese netizens, they were feeling a lot of Chinese pride. So they're like, We got it. We got it. And I think all of it was friendly, fun competition, right? And so she gets up on the stage and... They said, someone call the cops. Someone call the president. Somebody call somebody. Because we don't got it in the bag. The bag is missing. The bag is with the foreigners.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Shantae Moore comes up on stage and performs the song, If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys. And the way she comes up, you would think that she is up on the stage, Sunday service. singing a random song for five members of the church. So casual, so carefree. And her voice is like a 10 out of 10. The vocals are so powerful. Even like the register changes, people were saying everything was so smooth.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Honey, that's you.
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so natural and this is a pretty difficult song to sing it's not an easy one and the audience comments i mean they said this is definitely first place like this voice is so comfortable this is not even at the same level as any of the chinese singers what's going on right now even the professional singers like na ying can sit there and recognize the difference in skill level when she hears shantay's part she scrunches up her face in amazement
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
It's just like every time I see a TikTok of, if you're not doing this to your washing machine every two weeks, your house is going to explode. I send it into the family group chat and I think they're so sick of me. Anyway, I digress. It's actually from one of the most controversial Chinese singing shows in recent times. And that is called The Singer. I am a singer 2024.
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Na Ying throughout the entire season looks like everyone around her is farting.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Someone is tooting up a storm right next to her at all times. That's her look every single time. What's even more amazing is the host and hostess are talking to Shantae and she's like, yeah, I literally just got here from the airport. You didn't like need to prep for the past few weeks. Make sure your vocal cords are opened up to those facial steamers and stuff. You just like came here.
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What? What's even crazier is she didn't even know she was going to be performing because she said, oh, yeah, originally, I think that there was some miscommunication or language barriers because I thought I was coming on to the show to be a judge. But I came and I was a contestant. She didn't even know she had to sing, I think.
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Yeah.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah, she was like, let me just put my playlist on shuffle and see what happens. Okay, Alicia Keys, let's do it. People were so, people were commenting. After participating, she did realize she definitely could have been a judge. She was right. She definitely has the qualifications to be a judge on this show. So after Shantae, you got the last contestant.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
And they were, a lot of people were talking about them, but not in the best way. Secondhand rose. There's always been controversy surrounding secondhand rows. Some people call them China's funeral band. They're like a rock band.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah, they're like really old school and they have a lot of similarities to traditional Chinese ceremonial music that's typically used in like funerals that happen, not even in the cities, but in the villages. And so people say they're the funeral band. And so they came up and they sang a very expected song. And everyone says this is the funeral for CPOP.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
All the Chinese netizens said this is the funeral for Chinese music industry. The foreigners have taken over. We're being colonized. came over like there's we shouldn't even try anymore and that is how they end the night even na ying when the funeral band is up there she looks shocked she looks shocked at what she is witnessing it was it was bleak
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yeah yeah and so all the comments to the reaction of the funeral band song secondhand rose is if there's no way to beat the foreigners then let's at least creep them out was the motive from the secondhand rose I will say, I will say, I will say, I said, I will say, I like secondhand Rose. I like that they're doing their own thing.
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I like that how unique they are and they're not trying to conform to regular, you know, normal expectations of society. I like them. I stand them. Do I think that they seem better than Shantae Moore? No. Okay. That's just my humble opinion. Now, by the end of the first episode, it was undeniable that Shantae Moore and Fosia, who showed absolutely
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
outstanding vocal skills did much better in terms of vocals and stage presence and unsurprisingly they ranked first and second and then na ying ranked in third place
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yes. Every single week they rank them. And then at the end, they choose one. Oh, yeah.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah. And then netizens are commenting, the gap between Chinese and foreign singers level is like the difference between the Grammys and the Strawberry Music Festival. That is a Chinese music festival held in a small town. People were making memes of Fosia and Shantae at the Grammy singing. Like they said, this is the Grammy Awards.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Na Ying is the Golden Melody Awards, which is like the Chinese Grammys. And then everyone else is the Strawberry Music Festival. And then the other ones are the Red and White events, which is what they call traditional music. Village weddings. Village wedding performers. Yeah, and so some netizens are commenting, the competition for the last place is even more intense than for the first place.
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so uh people were not having a good time and then you have you know nae was making some funny faces throughout the entirety of the show and there's one where she's looking off to the side looking very stressed looking around and the meme is the words who signed me up for this does anybody care about my life
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in this show she holds up three fingers it's actually these three fingers she holds up three fingers i think she's making the okay sign right and then but her face is very serious and the caption reads need three people who can sing hurry and come right now i need three people And the Chinese netizens, they run with this show. They call this the National Protection War, okay?
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Netizens start suggesting finding better Chinese singers that can come to the show to compete. And they said, this is like, this is no longer a singing show. This is a battle to defend the honor of Chinese music. We need a national team assemble right now. Musicians, anyone on the national level, we need to bring glory to the nation. Okay, so people start commenting, singers comment sections.
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And like, you know how on TikTok, well, I don't know on TikTok, can you add memes now? You know how on Instagram you can add memes? Yeah, well, on Douyin and all these different places, you can add memes in the comments, okay? And all of them are doing naïve means. So there's another singer, Gloria Dang. All the netizens were like, Gloria, tap in. It's your time. You got to go in. Come on.
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She's so good live. She's very talented. People called her the queen of iron lungs because her body is like a pinky. She's like shaped, not shaped, like size, like a piece. She's a tiny little woman. And the voice that she's got on her. People say, how do you fit those lungs inside of you? That doesn't even make any sense. And she's very. Wait, what? Who? Gloria D-E-N-G. And so people. Oh, honey.
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Yeah.
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That's how they know.
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Ooh, it's like code.
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Oh, yeah. Damn, that's her code name.
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Jennifer Lawrence. Yes, yes, yes.
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I love her. So good. Okay, so up. They're all changing. All the netizens are changing their profile name to Na Ying and then posting Na Ying memes under Gloria's comment section. And it reads, Dear Gloria, come back soon. Can't hold up anymore.
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And then another one, the nation is in crisis. Please help me. And it's Na Ying. So Gloria is live streaming one day and she's eating beef noodle soup. And suddenly there's like a million netizens tuned into her life, which is crazy. Like a million people on a live stream. She's like, whoa, what just happened? And she's like, do you guys just really like beef noodle soup? What's going on?
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sometimes he would look at the meme and he would laugh for five minutes straight and i would be so patient on this side and i'd be like why what is it what is it and then he'd be like no you wouldn't get it i'm sweating oh and you don't want to give up your ice pack you're holding on to that ice pack like it's your first born child you guys want to hear the ice pack yeah
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Like I never have this many people on my life. And all the comments are, how can you still be in the mood to eat beef noodle soup right now?
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help save the nation stop eating and go save naing and so this is all the comment section and gloria also a funny lady she responds of course i know what's happening i know i get it you want me to save the nation right but i'm currently on tour okay so she can't go so they all abandon her and they say come on tap in gong lina
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this is your dad's favorite artist your dad loves her how do i know this information i don't know it's stored somewhere inside my brain now and i can't ever get rid of it okay she combines traditional like chi music that's how they describe it okay with pop fusion she's incredible okay and she's posting um she was on doing posting k-pop dance videos and everyone is commenting
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dancing i'm about to explode the other foreigners have nuclear weapons and we got the second hand rose throwing firecrackers we need help how do you still have time for k-pop when c-pop is on fire
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There was a clip that was going viral. Also, if I start sweating or if I look red, it's because the AC in our home is broken. And I don't know why. It's the middle of winter, technically. But I'm sweating. It's never been hotter. It's hotter than our wedding night. This is like the steamiest. The chemistry is awesome.
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and so then there's another band called phoenix legend ah that's another it's a duo yeah yeah and uh everyone in the comments you two stop training it's time for the battle come on it's time to fight against the foreigners let's go what are you doing and they're all responding sorry scheduling conflicts And so people are getting so fucking stressed out right now.
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And then on May 12th, one of China's most respected and powerful vocalists, Han Hong, posts on to Weibo.
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Oh no, this is your dad's favorite.
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Yeah, she's really good.
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Oh, she's the one that does... Oh, she's good. Yeah, yeah. She's good. And in her post, she declares, I am Chinese singer Han Hong, and I volunteer to join the battle.
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Yeah, she tags. And she's also in her 50s. And so all the netizens go, damn, two 50-year-old ladies guarding the National Door Hall. It's her and Na Ying. Really? That's what we got? That's what we got right now? Wow.
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yeah so good so uh nevertheless regardless of her intentions people were posting all these fighting for the country answer the call okay all these videos and people are trying to tap in even influencers are offering to go on there they're saying that i think i can do better and people were commenting can these random people stop recommending themselves we don't need more seventh places okay we don't need more seventh places
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No, they're literally so famous.
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So famous to the point where... Yeah, yeah. No, it's kind of funny and it's really cute and endearing. And I thought it was the cutest thing ever. So Shantae Moore, right after it premiered, she was out scene shopping just so casually. And first of all, that becomes a meme because how the f*** is she just out there shopping so casually? And all the Chinese singers are probably rehearsing nonstop.
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And she's just like, she looks like she's on here for vacation. And the show is a side gig. She's like doing it on the side for fun, like a volunteer project. OK. And so the first night she goes out, she is dressed super casually. But everybody is like, you're the Shantae Moore. And they keep taking pictures of her that the next time she goes out, she's dressed a little more formally.
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And she's like trying to be respectful of the customs and like not that she wasn't before, but like trying to, you know.
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just more like okay let me take pictures with you guys and there's people just like lining up everywhere taking they love them they love them it's supposed to be a joke you know they're having fun they're making fun of their own singers okay and so everybody is calling this the great chinese battle They're just having fun. They're bored. A bunch of people at home, bored, and they're making memes.
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That's it. And people also started these contestant recruitment rankings, polls, on who you think should be recruited for the army next, okay? And you've got some of the best singers, right? Jay Chou is on there. But he actually didn't get the most votes. The most votes went to someone named L-E-I-J-U-N. You know, Leijun?
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it's like all water now july 27th 2024 about let's say six months ago there are some other viral clips that are going from this show and it's not just nihao from the other side there's so much controversy from this show and it all starts with a kazakh singer and songwriter by the It's hard to hear exactly what he says, but when you audio enhance it, it's in English.
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He's the founder and CEO of Xiaomi. Oh, what the fuck? He's China's Steve Jobs. Yeah. And so people said they actually... Here, let me show you the video.
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Yeah. He's actually listed as a Western male singer on Chinese music apps.
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what is going on oh he went to india for a xiaomi presentation and uh yeah he his very famous line was are you okay and all the top comments are nobody asks if lei jun is okay cry face cry face cry face So he won top place for recruitment onto the show with 11.8 million votes. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Chou only got 20,000 votes.
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It's a hit song. And because it's in English, he is listed as a Western male singer on Chinese music apps. Yeah. I don't know what's so funny about that. But no, at the end, some netizens volunteered themselves. They said, if worse comes to worse, I'll do it. I'll brave myself. Even if the foreign singers win against me, it won't be an honorable victory. Okay. So let me go. Let me go.
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Others said, we need to get this guy on there. And they posted a link to a talent show, like one of those China Got Talent shows. And it was a male contestant who said that he can sing the highest pitch in China. And they were like, give it to us. What's the highest pitch? And he went, ah!
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Like a dog dropped in the lake. Yeah, so netizens commented, my dog makes a higher pitch when someone steps on its tail. This is scarier than stepping on a squeaky chicken toy. If a rat and a cockroach jumped on my face at the same time, I would hit a high note twice as high. So people were saying he needs to tap in.
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So then a week after the second episode airs and the show continues trending, it actually gets more explosive in viewership. In this new episode, you have two new singers, a Chinese singer that goes by the name Yellow and Hangai Band. It's like a rock band from Mongolia. They joined the competition. And that means the two lowest ranking contestants would be eliminated. Everybody loves Yellow.
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I mean, he's got very impressive singing skills. But he also is the new meme content for the show. People say he can make his talent is not really singing. He's good. But his real talent is making 800 different expressions in one second.
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Yes.
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People say he looks like the muscular Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants. Yeah, yeah. Or people say, what's that show? Austin Powers. You know the bald guy with the pinky that goes like this? He looks like him. They were saying lots of stuff. They said that his head is perfectly egg-shaped. I don't know, okay? I don't know. We're in an egg shortage.
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I haven't seen an egg in a minute, so I can't tell you. But after this performance, during the interview, he directly states that he had eaten too much... food and needed to urgently take care of business so they're like interviewing him after his performance and he's like i gotta go take a basically
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Also netizens dug up this Pizza Hut commercial that he was in last year I don't know what Pizza Hut in China is doing but Pizza Hut marketing in the US I don't know if their legal team just doesn't know how to have a giggle gaggle but this Pizza Hut commercial in China is It's the most insane thing that you would ever imagine. It's like a fever dream. I feel like I'm high on drugs watching it.
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I feel like I've taken ayahuasca shrooms. I've done acid, ketamine. I don't know. List all the drugs that I am legally not allowed to take simultaneously straight injected into my skull. That's what this Pizza Hut commercial is. He morphs into a pizza.
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He's laying naked on the table and then someone is throwing pepperoni to cover his groin and then he morphs into a pizza and then the pizza starts breaking.
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I'm so f***ing serious. Yeah, lots of memes are coming out. The lead singer from the band looks like the character King Kai from Dragon Ball. And then he keeps smiling and holding up his fist and then he looks like Doraemon. So everyone is like, what the f*** is happening? At this point, they're recruiting singers based off of memeability.
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It sounds something along the lines of, they said it must be Chinese before you. And everyone was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. And if you're just listening to this right now and you don't understand the context of this show and you haven't seen clips of people singing on this show, then you're going to be like, I don't understand what any of this means. But let me tell you what this means.
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They're not even recruiting based off of their singing abilities. It's just absolutely crazy. And then there was another singer by the name of Silence who goes up to sing a song that he dedicates to his mother, right? Which would have been all fine and dandy. But at one point he does like a monologue for his mom. Like he's like, I love you, mom.
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Like something like that, okay? Which I feel like even if it was a love song, it's kind of... okay bringing it back to 2010's R&B that's good I like it but like the way he did it was just not confident enough and it was also again to his mom right so it was just a lot everybody looked really uncomfortable backstage so then what happens is after your performance because all of this is live
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the host will sit down with you and they will go through their phone look up the trending things for your name and your performance and they'll have you react to people's netizens comments in real time and she keeps like tilting her phone away from the guy and he's so curious like why do you keep doing that so he leans over and the top trending phrase was silence is the worst singer
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Silence has the worst voice. Silence is a horrible singer. And he just looks really sad. And then Chinese netizens made that a meme. They memed it. Silence Wang internal monologue can't even win, but also not bad enough to leave.
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in the end he got fifth place and he seemed miserable like he seemed like he wanted to be last so he could just leave but he's still there and then when it was na ying's turn she seemed a little more confident this time but then by the end i think that she forgot the lyrics to the song So then she's like reading the teleprompter, but I think the teleprompter is moving too fast.
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So she's pointing randomly at the sky. She's like trying to follow the words like this, but she's pointing in the air like this. While she's singing and everyone was like, what the fuck's going on? And then the last contestant was Fosia. She chose Adele's Set Fire to the Rain.
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I had goosebumps. Every single cell in my body came to where my skin was, to my epidermis, and was like, let me f***ing out of here. I want to set fire to the rain. It was just so beautiful. It was so beautiful. And the contrast, netizens were like, Like we want to hate them. We want to hate them because it's fun, right? Because you want to hate the opposite team. It's like the Super Bowl.
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It's all in good. Well, I don't know. People get crazy about sports, but like they want to have that beef like foreigner beef. Ooh, national pride. But they were like, no, we love her. Like she could literally pee on me and I'll say set fire to the rain. I don't care. Pee on me. You're the queen.
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Ultimately, at the end, she took first place, which was not a surprise. Yeah. And Nayin got second place and Shantae secured third place. And the two singers that were eliminated were Rainie and Secondhand Rose. So a lot of people are commenting, why only eliminate two? Can't they just eliminate... Like five and just keep Fosha and Shantae because at this point, it's not even a competition.
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That means he's hinting at, they said a Chinese person has to win before you because you're not Chinese. You're not even ethnically Chinese. She's Canadian and I believe she's Moroccan. Oh, she's incredible at singing. Just you wait, right? And you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of another clip that I'm going to insert into this YouTube video of a race in China. A very what?
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And then in the third episode, they tease it. They said in the third episode, we're going to mix it up. We're going to bring in a new contestant to challenge someone here. It's going to be a one-on-one battle. And that challenger is Adam Lambert. Oh, bruh. Listen, I don't know much about Adam Lambert. I don't know the whole lore. I know all of his songs. I know a good chunk of his songs. Okay.
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He was the lead singer of like a British rock band Queen. But he's so many good songs. Like, I mean, they're just timeless songs. Anyway, he won a Grammy for best male pop vocal performance. He just is so freaking talented. And once that was announced, all the Chinese netizens commented, Chinese entertainment industry, it's time to pray for yourself.
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And then netizens are joking, someone get a bodyguard for Na Ying right now. Don't let her run away. 56 is the perfect age to run away and start fresh. Okay? Na Ying, the plan has changed. Get ready to compete for fourth place.
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Please. At this point, netizens are not even looking for Chinese singers anymore. They're asking foreign singers to come and represent China. Okay? They went to Lana Del Rey and they said, all right, you two, come on. Okay, hurry up. Let's go. They were going to Shawn Mendes. Very random. They said, you too. The Grammys has changed its location. It's now being held in Changsha, China.
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He was singing. And he posted on Douyin singing. I don't know if he's posting it. I don't know if he personally has the Douyin app on his phone. I like to believe that he does. I think so. I like to believe that Shaquille O'Neal is on Douyin. I don't know if it's his social media team. I think it's Shaquille. I think it's him pressing five buttons at once because his hand is so large.
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Posting on Douyin. he was trying to get tiktok but his fingers are so large somehow he got done okay now he's just posting singing videos on there and they said not you too aren't you a basketball player and it's just naive stressed out like not you too no more foreigners please yeah so um adam lambert comes also people are saying adam lambert the things you did for our nation we love you
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People noticed when he came to China, he was very respectful. They pulled up pictures, Chinese netizens did, and they said, this is Adam Lambert in his hometown. This is Adam Lambert at his concerts. And it's like him being Adam Lambert, okay? He's got nail polish on, he looks cool, his style is very recognizable, okay? This is Adam Lambert at an airport in some random country.
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This is Adam Lambert at an airport in Japan. This is Adam Lambert in an airport in China. Do you recognize this man?
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He just looks so normal. People were saying he was trying to respect, I guess, Chinese customs of not, you know, dressing it colorfully. I don't know. Because he usually likes wearing a lot of nice colors. And then like he'll have really good. He has a very fashion forward sense. And he wasn't doing that at the airport. And so people are like, wow.
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He has so much respect for us right before he destroys us.
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We love you. But please calm down. And netizens were joking. It's the Chinese limited edition well-behaved look. So he goes from the airport. He goes to eat some Chinese food and then he sings. Now people are saying, what kind of Chinese food did he eat? Turns out he went to Hunan Specialty Rice Noodle Soup Shop. Now Hunan people are very famous for eating relatively spicy food, okay?
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We talked about this. There was a race in China, a marathon race. People were running on their two legs, okay? And there were a group of foreigners that were running. And they were running really fast. And they're really good at running. And then near the end, near the finish line, suddenly, I don't know if all of them simultaneously get some sort of shared... Leg cramp? They just slow it down.
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I would probably be sharting 24 seven if I had some really authentic Hunan food, right? He goes and people see they see a picture of him from afar eating with like a whole entourage. And they were like, that's Adam Lambert. And so the owner of the shop said that they did the national honor by adding extra chili oil to Adam Lambert's bowl of noodles so that he burns his throat and can't sing well.
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Right. Of course, Chinese netizens were super upset. And then the owner was like, guys, I was literally just joking. OK, I'm not adding extra chilies. Are you crazy? I'm not trying to get sued. This is insane. And so it was just all in good fun. Everybody was playing into the memes, right?
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What do you mean? People are commenting, good news, the owner added lots of chili to help Na Ying by spicing up Adam's food. Bad news, the owner spiced up the wrong person. So it's not Adam Lambert, but it's Lauv, the singer that sings I Like Me Better, who happened to be in China for his concert tour.
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What? No, but also people are saying it's so funny that it's just like not another white guy. It's also another f***ing famous white guy. Like what are the odds of that? To the point where Lauv has to post a video response where he posts, he says, hey auntie, I'm actually... Hey auntie? Yeah. Auntie who?
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to the the owner of the spice restaurant and he says hey auntie i'm actually not adam lambert but thank you so much for the extra spice i didn't actually have any but my friends had it and they said it was actually very spicy but sending you lots of love and he's laughing he's being a good sport but netizens are dying they're like i'm dying after all that fuss It's not even Adam Lambert.
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It's not even Adam Lambert. It's not even Adam Lambert, but it's Lauv's team members. They say humor level of Adam eating spicy rice noodles, 100%. Humor level of spicing up the wrong person, 1,000%. Humor level of that person being Lauv, 1 trillion%. Okay, what the f***? What? Adam did indeed go eat noodles before the competition.
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And then he was also just spotted casually shopping around before the competition. No nervousness at all. But the Chinese singers were nervous when they found out that it was going to be Adam Lambert. You can see all of them. Yeah. Even Na Ying is looking like she can't even catch her breath right now. So they say that all of them are going to sing against Adam Lambert.
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And he's saying, what do you want from me?
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such a good song right a few things during that performance first of all nailed it chills people are crying it's not even an emotional song did you see the part that before he started singing oh i'm about to get there okay so a few things happened at the very end there's this really cute moment that chinese netizens are freaking obsessed with okay because adam lambert he's like a
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See dude, okay, he likes to pose sexy and strike all these fun poses, okay? But when he is done with his performance, there's this moment where he turns around and I feel like he's trying to hit a sexy pose, but then he remembers that he's in China and he stops himself and the Chinese medicines think it's the cutest thing they've ever seen and they fucking love him, okay?
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In slow-mo, you see a Chinese runner just surpass all of the foreigners and win the marathon. And it is the goofiest shit that you're ever going to see. And I thought that this was going to be something like that, right? But it just gets so much worse. You've got Adam Lambert show up on this show.
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yeah it was really cute and then what's even more shocking is that the whole performance what do you want from me?
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Adam lowered the key the whole key when he performed he was probably using 60 to 70 percent of his full singing capacity he performed at a lower key it's like um like he sang the same song at his concerts in the regular key the very high key and then he comes here like he's performing at his nephew's bar mitzvah You know? He's like, I'm just here for the fun.
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I'm not even like trying to win, y'all. I'm just here to giggle and gaggle. Yeah, so I'm not even going to like strain myself. I'm just, I don't even need to. And people said respect. He respects the Chinese netizens so much that he sang in a restrained manner. He held back his full potential for our dignity. Yeah.
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And then all the Chinese netizens said, go watch the one where he's got the lettuce flowers on his chest. That version is nice. Yeah. It's him wearing like a very elaborate brooch. It does look like a head of lettuce. Yeah, they called it the lettuce, head of lettuce version. And every Chinese citizen now knows it's the head of lettuce version.
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So what's more than that is that while another performer was up there singing, it cuts to the hostess who's in the back and she's just getting ready to interview the performer. And you hear Adam Lambert in the back.
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warming up in the bathroom i mean i think he could shatter a whole glass building with how high his voice is able to go it's so good and people were so confused what was her face reaction again She just looks like, we're fucked. Like, I don't even know if I'm supposed to acknowledge what's happening right now.
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Yeah, it was pretty crazy to the point where netizens were commenting, his vocals were even higher than when he was on stage, when he was warming up in the bathroom. He really sang with his EQ. He said, I want the Chinese netizens to not be too offended. I want them to like me, so I will humble myself.
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People commented, a man just eliminated some of the top Chinese singers by warming up his vocals in the bathroom. He sang so effortlessly, even the high notes didn't require him to strain his voice at all. People said his energy, the way that he lowered it, but it was still perfection. It's like he was doing a commercial performance for an insurance company.
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You sing for, you know, like a little jingle. You're in good hands or something. What is it?
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We are farmers. I don't know. Yeah, and then people said when he opened with, hey, that's when we realized how good the sound equipment actually is. They said him just casually saying hi. That was better than all the Chinese singers. These are Chinese netizens, okay? It was crazy. And then the last contestant in the episode was Fauzia. And she sang Desert Rose.
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Yes.
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She did like the Arabic because she's Moroccan. I don't know how to describe this song. I don't know how to describe this performance. It was emotionally enlightening. I think it changed my brain chemistry. I think the mitochondria. I think every cell. Of my being. I think the nucleus of every atom inside of me was altered by this. I think so.
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Yeah, it was so good.
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So Fauzia got first place. Adam didn't even rank. He just like leaves after this episode. Yellow won second place. Shantae was third and Naing won fourth place. And so because Adam just left after one episode, he was seen at the airport afterwards. Netizens said he came all the way to China and used a nuclear bomb to blow up an ant nest.
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He came to this show to sing one song and get some random Chinese singer eliminated that all Chinese citizens were like, you should have been eliminated, bro.
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I'm sweating. And finally, the final competition took place July 26, 2024. It was also the eve of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
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Yes. And Battle of the King of Singers came to an end. This was also the time that the Kazakh singer, Dimash, seemed to have made a very, he whispered the words and then it went viral to the point where he had to clarify. He came out and emphasized that what he was whispering was not, he did not say it has to be Chinese before you, like you cannot win.
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He was just saying that they were gonna pair people up to sing together and he wanted to sing with Fauzia, but they told him she's gotta sing with someone Chinese. He was saying, I said it has to be someone Chinese for you, not before you. That's what he claims. Nobody believes him. The Chinese netizen said, thank you. That was very nice of you. We don't believe you. And that's okay.
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That's not your fault. And then this is where it gets crazy. All the singers are standing on stage waiting for the host to announce the winner and everybody's facial expressions once again become a trending topic online.
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everyone seems like they know who's about to win that's the vibe to the point where before the host announced the result the singer next to na ying points at na ying to be like congratulations and na ying literally panics and does an x with her hands and pushes her hands down and both of them look incredibly awkward incredibly awkward and in the end na ying wins the title of king of singers
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She wins! She wins! I'm so confused. Another Chinese singer wins second place. And then third place is another Chinese singer. And then Fauzia wins fourth place. The other singers are not even ranked. So after the announcement, Na Ying's performance became a highlight again. Okay, she felt like she wanted to cry in excitement, but she could not.
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Chinese netizens, they're going viral with this. And at the end of the competition, what do you know? A Chinese singer does win the show. Now, her name is Na Ying, and she wins the title of the King of Singers. Logically speaking and technically speaking, I will say that Na Ying has a very high status in the Chinese music industry. Her music itself, her songs, they're incredible songs.
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She just looked like everybody around her was, once again, flatulent. Flatulent? Gassy. Just pooping it up. Like sharting their pants. And so, um... Netizens were not happy with this. They were saying, I mean, she has exposed all of her weaknesses. She was very nervous. She was out of tune most of the time. Her voice was always shaking. And now she wins first place. That doesn't even make sense.
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What are you talking about? And Fauzia, she never fell out of the top three in the past season. And she unexpectedly ranked fourth in the finals. People were making Excel spreadsheets to show how the probability isn't probability-ing. None of this is making any f***ing sense. They were saying that she could have gotten into f***ing Tsinghua University, MIT, Harvard.
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But then you said, nah, she's going here. That doesn't even make any sense. What is happening right now? People started saying, Na Ying is not the king of singers. She's the best actor. She needs to win Best Actor Award.
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with all of this na ying did some interviews and she responded in an interview if you win the championship there will definitely be a lot of negativity can you be brave enough to accept it i can i know what happened here i want to thank myself and i want to thank every singer that is present whoa yeah and when she was asked which singers do you think should come for the next season she replied do they dare come
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And people who are not having a fun time with that. Another singer, veteran singer, Jenny, T-S-E-N-G. She was friends with Coco Lee.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah, she tweeted. She was on Weibo saying she really didn't like the show. She said she has no respect for the show. And she, with a lot of other veteran singers, felt this way. They felt really shitty for the foreign singers. They said they paid foreigners to be manipulated and played around with the media when they clearly should have won.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
You paid them here to get the views, and then they didn't even win based on merit. It just wasn't fair.
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yeah but i do have to say yeah they won everyone's heart in china like they are obsessed yeah this actually made them even more loved yeah yeah everyone's rooting for them yeah everybody loves them i hope they release like albums in chinese or something oh there's so many fans now they're so good and people she was even asking this celebrity jenny was asking naing listen to your own singing aren't you embarrassed you're humiliating yourself by being brave enough to accept the victory
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah. And then the show itself made an announcement that said music cannot deceive people. Music cannot be deceived. Like she was the clear winner. And netizens were also confused about that. They said, yes, music does not lie, but the production team does. They said, well done singing competition. Let's not do it again.
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okay let's not do it again yeah that's the show that's what's happened what are your thoughts on this wow what a journey and again i want to clarify chinese netizens loved the foreign singers every single one of them they were eating them up for breakfast lunch and dinner i think they were just making these it was honestly some hilarious memes that were coming out of it just hilarious yeah so good
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so good insane now i gotta listen to those songs again go listen to them go stream their music and i hope you guys enjoyed and i'll see you in the next one bye
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
However, however, many netizens are very upset that she is labeled the king of singers. They are criticizing Na Ying and saying that she might actually be one of the worst singers in this season's show. So how the fuck is she the king of singers? People were commenting, this has got to be the biggest scandal in history. Always ranking at the bottom and occasionally making it to the top three.
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Singing off key, forgetting lyrics can win the title of king of singers. They're treating us, the audience, like fools for months.
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He has a Ziploc bag full of ice that is under his shirt. It's practically in his groin. It's up his pants. It's in places that I've never seen before. That's all I have to say about that ice pack. Whoa, it's melted.
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Yes, I asked.
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Okay, so I was like listening to Na Ying on this show. And Tiffany comes over and she goes, oh my God. She's shaking her head no, right? And I said, so like who is Na Ying in American standards? And she goes, before this, I would say like Celine Dion. And I said, what about now? And she was just like, I don't know what to tell you right now because it just gets so bad.
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So she was like the Celine Dion, I guess.
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Highly respected.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Yeah. I mean, I'm going to go through the whole show's rules and regulations. The show is actually a South Korean NBC show that they adapted into the Chinese version. And it's called I Am A Singer. And what they do is they only bring in professional singers who have already made a name for themselves. This is a competition of imagine getting Ariana Grande on.
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I feel like I'm going to start some shit.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
All on stage competing for the king of singers. That's what this show is. And this started in 2013 in China. And I will say in the beginning, it was rough. It was rough. They would invite foreigners over, but... In 2020, the show would end after eight seasons. They were declining in viewership. Nothing really was happening except 2024.
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Out of fucking nowhere, they announced that they're going to redo a show. They're going to do the ninth season of the show after a four-year hiatus. And now it's going to be hosted on Mango TV.
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Do I need to file a copyright? No, just kidding. Infringing on my intellectual property? No, I'm just kidding. So in 2023, they start scheduling and they start promoting the crap out of this show. And they say, guys, guys, this time we're about to make it insane. So here's the thing about CPOP. Here's the thing about Chinese celebrities and influencers that I've noticed thus far.
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You're not going to believe it based off of what we talk about on the Chinaverse. But it's kind of like Korea in terms of everybody is extra polished.
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There was a clip that was going viral. And this clip just sent me down a rabbit hole. And I still think about this clip every two to three business days. And it is a world-renowned, intelligent, beautiful, fascinating, so talented singer, Chantal Moore, on stage, on one of the most grandest stages I've seen. The set production of this is out the window.
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Like, you know, when you see East Asian celebrities, they're just so polished.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
what does that mean like they're just so put together oh they're very put together you know you have some of like the ogs that will goof around on stage when they're performing and singing songs but a lot of the times a lot of the artists pride themselves in being perfectionists and they don't like they're really um polished that's how tiffany was explaining it to me right um okay okay
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Yeah.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
And a lot of them lip sync. Sorry. Sorry. That's where I was going with this. A lot of them lip sync because it's very, do you know how difficult it is?
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to deliver a splendid performance, working on your visuals, your aesthetics, not looking like you're choking like a dog on a fresh bite of kibble, and then dancing whilst singing, belching out the highest chords of a song that you, you know, wrote 20 years ago and you don't remember the lyrics to, really. So yes, lip syncing, I... I don't really have beef with lip syncing.
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Do I think if I go to a concert and they're lip syncing, I'd be a little disappointed? Perhaps, yeah, depending on how much I paid for the concert. However, I feel like some people think lip syncing is like Satan's creation on this planet. A lot of them lip sync. So this is why this show becomes big. Because in 2023, they say, hey, it's gonna be live streamed. No one's gonna lip sync.
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There's not gonna be any perfection. Everything is gonna be so cutthroat, so raw, so real. It's gonna be, you're never gonna see your faves like this. This is the first time you're going to see something like this happen. So everybody starts freaking out. They start, who's going to be on that show? The show starts releasing these posters, these teasers.
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They're just releasing little names here and there. They hit them with the, you might know, you might know this name. Rosé.
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You might know this name. Lisa. Lisa. what you're kidding me but they were not on there is that what you think maybe you didn't see yeah rose lisa it's gonna be a celebrity lineup that you have never seen before international celebrities are gonna be flown into china for this
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show this is about to be the biggest fucking show that you have ever laid your eyes on everybody was stayed tuned everything is going to be live streamed everything on the teleprompters live stream not a second of it is going to be edited cut nothing it's all raw it's all live may 10th the day of the first episode release everybody's sitting there blinks
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Blinks are sitting there in China like, hello, where's my rose? And they say, we would like to proudly announce the next contestant on the show. Secondhand Rose. Say.
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That's the band name.
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Okay. It's a Chinese rock band.
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now they're old so they changed it's the second generation yeah okay and i'm just kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding and lisa lisa l-i-s-a we would like to announce proudly announce that all of our audio equipment the brand is from l slash isa Yeah, top quality. You're never going to get high quality audio experiences.
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They released the teaser that Lisa is going to be involved on the show. Shut the fuck up. You say the name Lisa. Who the fuck are you imagining? I don't know any other Lisa. I probably know 10 Lisa's personally, but I'm not going to think of them. I'm thinking of Lisa from Blackpink.
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And she is doing a cover of a very famous song. Of a very famous song that you know, I know, we both love the song. Adele. And she starts whipping out the chorus and she says, Ni hao from the other side.
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They say Lisa is going to be involved. That's so funny. And then in the opening, they say all of our audio equipment is from a brand called L-I-S-A, otherwise known as Lisa. What the fuck is happening? So there's going to be seven singers, five are Chinese singers who are really well known amongst the Chinese audiences.
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And then they're bringing in two foreign singers that were announced to appear on the show. You've got 24 year old Moroccan Canadian singer and songwriter Fosia and 57 year old Grammy nominated American singer songwriter Shantae Moore. Now, I will say many Chinese viewers were unfamiliar with the two foreign singers.
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because I think even in Korea like you have maybe a Handful of Western singers that are super famous like household names any random person you you ask the ajumma on the street and you say ajumma ni Do you know who this person is right if it's not Beyonce or Taylor Swift? She's gonna be like, I don't know this person. Who is this person? Is that the president? We don't know these people.
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Okay, and they would just keep it moving. They'd probably stare at you weird and So they've got these two foreign singers and everyone, all the Chinese netizens, because Na Ying is on this show. They start joking. The winner is already decided. It's going to be our girl Na Ying. Have you heard her sing? Like, she's crazy. She is one of the most famous OGs. I mean, oh, she's incredible.
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She's only one year younger than Shantae.
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Yeah, 55. Shante Morris, 56. Which, by the way, both of them look max like 35. It's crazy. She is one of the most recognized female vocalists, particularly famous for her explosive. That's how they describe her. Like she's just explosive.
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explosive lungs and she's known as the queen of pop she's known as like a diva in the chinese pop music history she has been in the industry for over 30 years i'm telling you like celine dion is what tiffany said she also was a judge on the voice of china so she's been judges on these singing competitions and now she's coming in as a contestant it's not even it's not
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Everyone in the comments is like, Na Ying, you got it in the bag. You don't even have to be nervous about any of this. Now the show finally begins and the host seems very nervous because everything is being live streamed. Everything is raw, unedited, live. And at the very beginning of the show, they even make a verbal slip up. They say, drink singer, watch Jian Chun.
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Chinese Singing Competition Invites Foreign Grammy Winners, Then Regrets It & Rigs The Results
Oh, I mean, watch singer, drink Jian Chun. Diantune is a yogurt brand that's sponsoring the show. So this little mistake goes viral because they're like, oh, the show is absolutely being live streamed. It's so real. Look at the hostess and host. They're so nervous that they mess up the lines of the show. But then there were some audience members that were there at the production date.
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Hey, I'm Stephanie from Michigan, and we flipped a Democratic seat to Republican with Tom Barrett.
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Correct. And he's an excellent guy. He was at many events that I got to speak intimately with him. He was very sweet. How can we make sure we hold him accountable, but making sure we don't fall back into the blue side in that region of Lansing?
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Hey, Dr. John, how are you?
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I'm doing well, thank you. I mean, I'm calling you, but I'm doing good.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
All right, well, um... First, I want to say thank you to you and George for the public service that you guys did at Dainey's a few weeks ago. That was incredible.
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No way! I was there and it was awesome. Y'all were amazing.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Oh, good. Good to know. I'll try to be there.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. Good deal. So I'm going to give you a little bit of a backstory. I'll try to make it quick. And then if you need more, just let me know.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. Good deal. So about 10 years ago, currently I'm not married. I am divorced. But 10 years ago, I was a homeschooling military wife and I had five kids at the time. And we had moved to a new duty station. I had signed up at a homeschool co-op and very quickly made one of the dearest friends I've ever had in my entire life. And she was my ride or die, call it 2 a.m. type friend.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
We did everything together. Sometimes the dads would join in, but usually the stuff we did was during the day. So it was usually us and the kids. And because we were military, we quickly moved. but she and I would keep in touch. And fast forward to about four years ago, she got a cancer diagnosis. And then shortly after that, I actually filed for divorce. It was a very abusive marriage.
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And so our grief journeys kind of overlapped a little bit. And early last summer, Actually, the day after my divorce was finalized, she lost her battle with cancer.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
So talk about a range of emotions there.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. Yeah. It was a hard 24 hours. 24 hours? Well, just a shock, I guess. Okay, there you go.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
No, it was a lot more than 24 hours. Okay, so fast forward to a few weeks ago. I got a Facebook friend request from her husband who had recently gotten on Facebook. And so I accepted it. We started talking. Oh, yeah. Oh, no.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. So it started out as he just wanted someone to kind of sit with him in his grief. And I was like, yes, I'm all in a hundred percent. So then it kind of shifted to, I started thinking, okay, is, is he interested in something more than just talking? Like what, what's going on? So instead of mulling over it in my head, I thought, you know what, I'm just going to ask him and dive right in. So.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Hey, hold on, Stephanie.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yes. Oh, gosh. Okay. So did your heart start beating fast?
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
My heart did start beating fast, but I was also freaking out like, oh, crap, me too. Oh, no. God, sweet. How many kids does he have? He has four, and I have six.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Sheesh. Okay, so here's my question. Obviously, if we continue on, I don't want to officially do anything until we've passed the year mark of my divorce and his wife's passing, especially for the kids' sakes. I don't want to mention anything to them.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah, actually.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
How do we purposely... walk through that because I am about going through it slow actually. And I've, I told him that last week. Um, and yeah, I guess I just want to know the steps that we do need to take and we're actually meeting. I haven't seen him in like 10 years and we're going to meet halfway in a few days and just be around each other.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. No, that was good. Just have intentional time together. And so I would just, yeah, I would love some, some advice from you on that.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
They range from 7 to 18.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. Yeah, for real.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
No, not at all. Because the last week or so, I've actually been like, oh no, I don't know if this is right. But yet... you know, is it my alarms and bells going off because I'm used to so much pain and, you know, so I've been kind of going back and forth with that. And he's actually been very gracious and he's backed off a little bit.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, but we still think it's fair to move, not move forward, but just continue talking and just see and just have fun and just see what it's what it's like. Cause this is brand new and it is scary in a lot of ways, but you know, I just, I don't know what's going to happen. And so I'm trying to tell myself to just relax. I'm not committing to anything.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, just by seeing him, it may work out and it may not. And that's okay. So everything you said is exactly what I needed to hear. So thank you.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Well, thankfully, he's not military. Oh, he's not? Okay. No, that is a plus right there.
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My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. All right. So we're getting out.
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I got a phone call one afternoon from a husband who was deployed to Afghanistan. His tone was very serious when I picked up the phone. It scared me because that was not an unusual time for him to call me. And he said, hon, he said, there's this baby.
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She is gracious and kind and amazingly resilient for what she's been through.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
She loves to play outside. She loves her baby dolls. She wants to be a doctor when she grows up. She has hope in what she wants to do. She has ideas. She's a breath of fresh air in our home.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
She suffered a fractured skull, a compound fracture to her left leg, multiple fragmentation wounds down her leg, and second-degree burns on her face and neck.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
Here is this orphan that has no one to stand up for it.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
And when I finally got to see her in person, I was shocked. I couldn't believe it was her. In fact, I questioned inwardly, could that possibly be her? Because her eyes were no longer big, round, and happy. She was closed off and guarded, and she had a scowl. And she looked...
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
scared frightened and obviously with what she just went through that was that was understandable but it was different she had lice she had parasites a lot of trauma and just emotional just adjustments that had to take place for her to feel safe and secure and the best way to do that was just to love on her and give her everything that we had and that's exactly what we did life finally settled but she loves school
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
Four, five, plus one more equals six.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
When you consider her past, when you see her in the day-to-day, it's incredible how normal she is. She is just like any other little girl.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
She, right now, she's loved, she's secure, she has a family, she has a future. And that would all be taken away from her. She would be absolutely devastated. And I don't want to see that shell of a little girl that I saw in Germany back again. And it has taken... a lot of time and pouring into her to see her be this vibrant girl that she is today.
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Senate Republicans Just Caved on Cutting Inflation | Guest: Daniel Horowitz | 2/21/25
And for that to be ripped away from her, it would absolutely destroy her.