Star Sighting
Hold on to your hats, kids, because this weekend in Taipei I had some star sightings! Ok, actually only one star, and she was Taiwanese so you probably have *no* idea who the hell she is, but here goes!
I saw the "ugly" member of S.H.E. , Taiwanese super pop group! This is the Taiwanese equivalent of seeing Justin Timberlake at your favorite bar! Actually, she isn't ugly. She is the 'cute one', as Lea insists on calling her, but for the rest of Taiwan, she is played off as the ugly one. Taiwan frowns on the "tomboy" and basically anyone who isn't high-femme 90-100% of the time. But my friends and I have all decided that she is the most interesting one to look at. She's the only one we could pick out of a line up. I mean, super cute girly girls are a dime a dozen over here, so anything different is worth paying attention to.
Sadly, most of my friends I was visiting in Taipei had no idea who she was and couldn't muster the excitement I felt at having seen her, but loads of folks were pumped when I told them at kindy this morning. After I texted everyone I knew in Taiwan to let them know, I started getting stories back from teachers who told their kids, and how the news disrupted class for an hour.
I saw the "ugly" member of S.H.E. , Taiwanese super pop group! This is the Taiwanese equivalent of seeing Justin Timberlake at your favorite bar! Actually, she isn't ugly. She is the 'cute one', as Lea insists on calling her, but for the rest of Taiwan, she is played off as the ugly one. Taiwan frowns on the "tomboy" and basically anyone who isn't high-femme 90-100% of the time. But my friends and I have all decided that she is the most interesting one to look at. She's the only one we could pick out of a line up. I mean, super cute girly girls are a dime a dozen over here, so anything different is worth paying attention to.
Sadly, most of my friends I was visiting in Taipei had no idea who she was and couldn't muster the excitement I felt at having seen her, but loads of folks were pumped when I told them at kindy this morning. After I texted everyone I knew in Taiwan to let them know, I started getting stories back from teachers who told their kids, and how the news disrupted class for an hour.
posted by CJ at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
(eric) i'd never heard of them, either. do these sort of pretty pop groups have the same sort of limited commercial lifetime that they do in other countries/languages?
I just flew back from seattle, and boy are my arms tired.
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