Those who follow my blog will know that late last year I received a fair few love calls to appear on some Chinese television shows. The calls came following the success of one of my youtube videos, 我的歌声里 (You Exist In My Song), which I covered in September last year. The cover itself is currently sitting on around 15 million views in total….unfortunately none of these are linked to my youtube channel as 1) the views are all on Chinese video sites 2) some kind person nicked it off my youtube and uploaded it there without telling me - no complaints whatsoever, just saying, so the views are all on other peoples accounts….which, I do admit, sucks quite a bit!
But 15 million views.
That’s quite a lot!
Here’s a link to the original video on Youtube:
A teaser for one of the shows I participated in was recently released so I wanted to share it with you ^^.
Hopefully, this will also deter many of the comments left on the original video including
- “But she’s white…must be fake!”
- “She’s foreign therefore she can’t speak Chinese. Fake”
- “It must be that a Chinese person sang it and she is just miming. Fake”.
Well, I guess we’ll just have to see. Haters gonna hate! That said, the number of people who are pleasantly surprised that foreigners can sing in Chinese too is .. well… pleasantly surprising!
Changing the world one step at a time… sort of.
Changing Chinese perceptions of foreigners…. slowly?
I’ll be back in the TV studios on Thursday before heading off to Shanghai next Monday…oh, such a busy bee.
But you all know me – I wouldn’t have it any other way!