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2008 Beijing Olympics Song

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July 1st, 2008 14 comments link to (permalink) posted by david


A galaxy of Chinese stars (almost none of whom are recognizable in the West) sporting Zoolander haircuts and wearing the type of clothes that children’s TV presenters wear (hip, but very clean, and not too hip that you’ll scare the kids) sing an anthemic, fist in the air, Chinese pop song of the universal “We are the World” genre.
This is a fascinating glimpse of what an emerging, mainstream Chinese TV culture might look like, and you get to see all the cool new buildings that Beijing has built for the Olympics (the stadium, swimming stadium, national theater, Beijing museum and airport etc.) The lyrics to the song go something like this:
“When you see our Olympics on TV in America, you will shit your pa-ants. We take your capitalism, sell you plastic toy and build ourselves a free-eeway. There are a billion of us, we are very indu-ustrious, you can never wi-in. Repeat 78 times: There are a billion of us, you can never wi-in.”

Running time: 6 mins 50 secs

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