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Q: Does Rock Music scare most Chinese?
I just noticed after living in China for quite some time that rock music isn't very popular here at all.
Sure, you may hear the occasional Linkin Park song or something like Bon Jovi or Guns'n'Roses but overall it seems to be restricted or feared.
Rock music has a very obvious characteristics of promoting "rebellion" "individuality" and "hear my voice over the crowd" type of symbolism.
Does the government try to remove rock music and promote things like pop music?
Does the ferocity of certain rock music scare Chinese as they are not used to listening to it? I know Chinese opera certainly scares me... sounds like a dead cat making its death wails... maybe that is what it sounds like to Chinese?
So what do you think?
7 years 6 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
maybe thats one of the reasons I got busted on the ebike no one likes AC/DC.Metallica,Iron Maiden and The Rolling Stones have toured China
icnif77:
You should just tell cop, you're promoting ebike not AC/DC ... 
Chinese are more used to pop... "bands" such as this. Bright, cheery, and a clean cut image..
I think I can see how, say, 
Cannibal Corpse, might scare them off.
Robk:
I don't know man, you pick a grungy band a a kPop group and I see the contrast. Most rock bands don't look like that but most kPop or Chinese pop groups are even prettier.
Sometimes even prettier than women. It gives me confusing urges. 
If you turn on the radio and randomly tune into any station, be it in PRC or other countries, you will find most stations when they play music or songs, it is more on the middle of the road, or moderate, non disturbing side. Loud noise or high pitch noise is inherently uncomfortable to most people. During war times, high pitch sound is one way to torture war prisoners to elicit info.
Screaming and yelling are ways to release negative energies, so you see most people do that when they get angry, or panic. Other animals also do that, dogs bark, monkeys scream, snakes hiss. Each has its way to express displeasure, to warn the offenders to back off. Invariably the ways have to do with loud and high pitch noise.
Not that many chinese like the squeals of chinese opera, I find. It is a dying 'art'. It finds audience among oldies who have gone through turbulent war years. China practically has non stop war years throughout its god damned, cursed history. I think chinese opera is a product of that. Many are about war stories, cruelty, revenge, sufferings. So, screaming is basically it. This is also why those da ma dance with public brodcast type loudspeakers at full volume in public places is mostly spitted upon. These pschos can't care less, they just are there to jerk off their negative energy, no amount of spitting on them would change them. They are there to spit on you!
Rock music, in public, have the same effect on most of the public. It can be the reason why radio stations or DJs don't play much of them, short of the Rock stations.
I have a question for Rock music fans. Back in school days, one of the straight As engineering students in the top engineering schools has this habit. Normally he never listens to music, but when exams come, before leaving the house, he would turn his hi-fi to peak volume for half an hour or so, plays hard rock, then turns it off and heads for the exam. Every exam is like this. Fortunately, he isn't my housemate nor friend.
Why do you think he does that? Any guesses?
RandomGuy:
Chinese don't like loud noises? In what reality do you live? They are always yelling and trying to talk over the crowd. Loudest people I've ever met.
earthizen:
Big difference between not liking loud noises and making them. It is like abusers abusing others but don't like being abused. The don't do onto others that which you don't want to be done onto you rule doesn't work in china! The pollution level, fake and poisonous food, corruption....etc are living proof.
Rock and Roll began around the time the Korean War did. 'Nuff said.
Make a quiz and ask, I would say at least a billion of them, to get a clear idea
Make a quiz and ask, I would say at least a billion of them, to get a clear idea
