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Faye Wong · Asian Adjacent

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Speaker 1: Here is an audio only version of Asian or Jason.
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Speaker 1: I'm James Jr.
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Speaker 2: And and I have another episode coming up next week
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Speaker 2: that's audio and videos. Don't worry about the video again.
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Speaker 2: But this one it's audio for a reason because what
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Speaker 2: you just heard when when we came on was a song.
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Speaker 2: I thought I'll make it just an audio version of
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Speaker 2: the song. I won't try to show the video and
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Speaker 2: get flagged or whatever online. James Jr. Of course it's
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Speaker 2: Asian adjacent. One of my favorite singers is Asian. Her
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Speaker 2: name is Fey Wong, and I'm gonna tell you a
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Speaker 2: little bit about her, because I mean, you may not
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Speaker 2: know who she is, but the song. I love so
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Speaker 2: many of her songs. There are several albums. And I
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Speaker 2: was introduced to her in the late nineties, only two
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Speaker 2: thousands by somebody I was dating, and I fell in
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Speaker 2: love with her. Fei Wong was born Wang Fei and
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Speaker 2: I know that she's my age August eighth, eighty sixty nine.
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Speaker 2: I no idea she's also she's a singer, songwriter, she's
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Speaker 2: an actress. I've seen a few of her films. She's
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Speaker 2: considered one of the most influential pop culture figures in
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Speaker 2: Greater China and East Asia. Why I like her is
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Speaker 2: that the music is very They call it canto pop
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Speaker 2: or Mando pop, like Mandarin Kitnese. She sings in in
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Speaker 2: those languages, but it's ethereal.
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Speaker 1: Her voice is ethereal. It's a higher pitches you can hear.
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Speaker 2: But it's the music whoever her producers are and musicians,
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Speaker 2: and the music's good. It's part techno, part pop, part
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Speaker 2: rock part It's just the music is what got me
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Speaker 2: into it. And with her vocals the way there, they
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Speaker 2: isolate there. It's just very minimalist, very emotional, minimalist. It's
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Speaker 2: so good. She just oh my god. And apparently that's
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Speaker 2: when she rose to superstar, was in the nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 2: and she has albums Fuzu Di Dar, Sing and Play.
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Speaker 2: She was one of the first Asian pop stars successfully
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Speaker 2: merge alternative and Western influence is a mainstream of Pele's
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Speaker 2: I agree now.
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Speaker 1: For English folks.
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Speaker 2: She does have a version of Dreams, the Cranberry's Dreams,
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Speaker 2: not through a mac the Cranberry Dreams. She sings it
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Speaker 2: and it's very haunting, and it's from Chunking Express, which
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Speaker 2: was a film she didn't nice Telly four she plays
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Speaker 2: she was an actress in that she played a quirky
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Speaker 2: snack bar worker. Oh yeah, and it's this whole little thing.
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Speaker 2: But she did a couple of films and but she is.
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Speaker 2: She is known for rejecting celebrity norms. I've never seen
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Speaker 2: an interview with her. They're very rare. She didn't do
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Speaker 2: publicity the way others did. To you, she had a
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Speaker 2: very androgynous for Asia androgynists, cool, effortless look. People. I
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Speaker 2: can see. I was reading this online. People they compare
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Speaker 2: it to b York or Shade for her mystique originality.
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Speaker 1: I can see that. I totally see that.
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Speaker 2: She comes and goes in the public like she's she's
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Speaker 2: very private.
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Speaker 1: Like I've never seen an interview with her.
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Speaker 2: She steps away, comes back, steps away, kind of very
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Speaker 2: much like shad AMW York. But I know that a
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Speaker 2: lot of Chinese I talk to you like her alive.
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Speaker 2: I've talked to many Chinese might bring her name up.
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Speaker 2: They're like, you know who she is, and she was
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Speaker 2: that big. She's a cultural icon. She's she represents independence,
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Speaker 2: especially for China, emotional honesty and artistic freedom.
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Speaker 1: So Nina, who fey WoT is.
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Speaker 2: You know what you go on all the you go Spotify, whatever,
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Speaker 2: and she has songs on there.
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Speaker 1: I say, go there and check it out. You won't
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Speaker 1: be sorry. And we may not know.
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Speaker 2: The language doesn't matter. I think it doesn't matter. It's
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Speaker 2: good music. I'm James I Jr. And this is Asian
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Speaker 2: adjacent Taught to you.
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