I’ve long thought that there should be more music videos for foreign bands being made in China.  This place is filled with weird quasi-futuristic and old traditional sights mixed together into an unholy cocktail.  The Australian pop duo Empire of the Sun just put out a very bizarre music video for their song Walking on a Dream that was filmed in Shanghai.  This song and the band members remind me of the pop band MGMT, whom I happen to enjoy immensely, though their sound doesn’t seem as good somehow.  Nonetheless it’s a cool/funny music video that includes many many aspects of modern Chinese culture as the Shanghaiist pointed out.

I can’t just include a foreign made music video from China, I mean China does have its own music scene.  If you sift through all the horrible crap that people listen to over here you can find some gems.  The song “Thirty Years” by the band 山人 (Mountain Men) is good and has a cool animated music video.  The band is from Yunnan where I used to live and which has a thriving music scene.  I first heard about them from Danwei.

And last but not least a video from my favorite Chinese band: 新裤子 (New Pants).  They are a Beijing based punk/pop band.  Here is the video from their song “Bye Bye Disco”