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Q: Do you think China's ever going to produce an international pop star?
Akin to Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Adele, Rihanna etc.
You'd think for a country with a 1+ billion population, it'd have produced some international talent by now.
11 years 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
You forgot to mentiion Psy the biggest pop star of last year and beginning of this year! And I probably don't see it happening. K-Pop was already big and popular to many people in Asia and in the west!
Scandinavian:
@66Silva: You should really try to read and understand things before you answer. I know you are hunting points, but try to at least make sense. This particular answer is just plain wrong, usually to get 9 down votes you have to be more than just wrong, but obviously you have been spotted as someone who writes incoherent random s&%¤ for points
Nearly all international stars in any of the performing arts make their mark using English, which is also the international language of entertainment. Chinese language performers simply have no market outside China.
Additionally, Chinese do not have the creativity or the passion to create that "special something" as far as a stage presence goes. It all seems orchestrated, and following a set of rules.
Psy is South Korean. It's amazing how the Chinese will desperately try to claim another nationality as their own when they have no one to look up to in entertainment. Like claiming that Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee are also Chinese.
Samsara:
Exactly, Traveler!
I completely agree about "that special something". At the moment China's main criteria for celebrity seems to be having cosmetically whitened skin. Maybe in the future they will figure out you need a personality too.
As to taking credit for achievements that aren't theirs: I was fairly irritated about them claiming Ang Lee after he won an Oscar (and editing his acceptance speech to remove about 6 references to Taiwan). Were he Chinese, he would be subject to the same restrictions as other Chinese directors, and literally could not have made this film!
