Bo Bee (保庇) featured on CNN; Taiwan's Lotus Wang Compared to Beyoncé?

41 year-old Lotus Wang (Wang Cai Hua, 王彩樺) released a studio album for the first time with completely unexpected results. With her cover of T-ara’s Bo Peep Bo Peep gaining over 1.6 million views on Youtube, she has now become quite a unique sensation worldwide. CNN recently reported on her Youtube music video hit and showed clips of many copycat versions posted on Youtube by people all over the world. The CNN program called Wang’s version of the song a “global hit” and even compared her to Beyoncé!

The original song was Bo Peep Bo Peep by Korean idol group T-ara. Lotus Wang’s version is titled Bo Bee – drawing amused reactions from many due to its highly similar title. However, interestingly Bo Bee means “God Blesses” in the Taiwanese language. The entire song is also sung not in Chinese but in the Taiwanese language.

Check out both Lotus Wang and T-ara’s version of this song below as well as the CNN report!











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Ice Queen says a grand total of 10 words at Taipei Concert

Here are the numbers from Faye Wong’s Taipei Concert:
Total Number of Words Spoken: 10 (4 Thank Yous and 1 Hello)
Total Concert Run Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Concert End Time: 9.40pm (New Record for Earliest Concert End Time at the Taipei Arena)
Total Number of Songs Sang: 23

These are numbers befitting the one and only ice queen in the Chinese Music Industry. Despite only saying 10 words to the audience throughout the 1 hour and 50 minutes, she captivated the entire audience with her pure voice and charisma, earning large cheers and screams from her fans and warming up the atmosphere at the Taipei Arena. At 9.40pm, without saying goodbye, she turned around and walked towards the big LED screen, lighted up with red roses - giving the impression that she was slowly walking into the sea of roses. Magician Liu Qian, who was in the audience, exclaimed, “It was too intense! I never ever imagined a concert to have such an ending! She’s really a goddess and diva.”

He was not the only celebrity at the concert. Celebrities like Jam Hsiao, Vanness Wu, A-mei, Tanya Chua, Na Ying, Dee Hsu, Vicki Zhao were also present and could not help but express their admiration for Faye Wong and their enjoyment from basking in the entire concert experience. Dee Hsu expressed on her weibo, “Truly the Heaven of all Heavens!” Vanness Wu also tweeted, “Faye Wong’s concert was awesome… she said maybe only 3 words to the crowd, no dancers, didn’t dance… just sang.”




Source: Appledaily, news.sina.tw

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