Bang Kieu & Minh Tuyet – Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em
Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet on the same album? What was on Bang Kieu’s mind? Moving from Khanh Ha to Minh Tuyet is like trading in a Lexus for a Corolla. But most people love economical car and Thuy Nga is a business-oriented production; therefore, the collaboration is understandable. Pairing up an idiosyncratic combination to provoke curious listeners has always been Thuy Nga’s marketing strategy even though they know damn well that these two voices don’t go together. In their integrated-effort Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em, we can tell right away that they don’t harmonize on the opening duet, Thai Thinh’s “Phut Giay Minh Chia Tay,” with the way they trade lines. Bang Kieu sings high notes while Minh Tuyet stays in the middle register. When they join forces, he has to switch to a lower range to mesh with her weaker vocals.
Although Bang Kieu has a striking countertenor of a voice, I still can’t get over his feminine quality. He needs to smoke some cracks, weeds, and cokes or do whatever it takes to deteriorate his gay-ass timbre or roughen it up. I actually started to accept him when he performed with Thanh Ha and Khanh Ha on Paris By Night videos, but now he takes me back to when I first described his singing as a hen-esque voice (giong ga mai). Crooning bubblegum pop tunes only makes him sounds campier, especially on the Chinese-inflected “Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em” when he caramelizes the words “hoi em” and “cho quen” on the second verse. Why he chose to sing Phan Dinh Tung’s composition is beyond me. I suspect Minh Tuyet puts him up to it.
As for princess Minh Tuyet, whom is she trying to seduce by flaunting out her chest on the album cover? Even Bang Kieu has to close his eyes to avoid staring at her breasts. He knows better not to mess with Trizzy Phuong Trinh. She would beat the shit out of him if she caught him peeping at a younger girl’s cleavage. Minh Tuyet may look sexy (depends on the angle of the viewer) but she can’t make Phuong Quynh’s “Anh Da Ra Di” sounds as sexy as Ho Ngoc Ha could. From the raucousness of her voice to the voluptuousness of her groove, Ho Ngoc Ha epitomizes sexiness. Even her rap delivery is more sensuous than Minh Tuyet’s stilted flow. I heard Cam Ly’s version of Minh Vy’s “Ke Dung Sau Tinh Yeu” not so long ago, and now her sister covers it. Which one do I like better? Neither. I can’t eat too many sweet candies. They make my bad teeth more pejorative. But I am sure young people who have good teeth will chew on this album like a bar of chocolate, especially fans of Minh Tuyet and Thuy Nga, but Bang Kieu’s followers may be disappointed.
Some people are naturally sexy, other tries so hard to be sexy, they looks slutty !!
Some people like real music,
children likes candy !
BK has sing “nhac cho” to keep
his popularity on top. His voice is really different and strong but MT has very weak vocal.. she moans like she’s having sex .. is that what you call sexy singing .? Yuck ! I am totally disgusted with this chic.
Wow, #1 has described MT perfectly.
Donny, You’re right. I’m BK’s fan and I was very disappointed just to see him duet with MT. It’s just like Tuan Ngoc doing cai luong. They come from two different ‘truong phai’ :-).
Can’t agree with you more, Donny. I went to a concert where BK and MT duet “Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em”. That was the worse duet ever. They were basically screaming at each other. Hihihi, I like the part you wrote about the cleavage.
i agree with you that it’s a bad choice for Bang Kiu and Minh Tuyet together. And i actually chews this album like a chocolate bar. lol
I like Ho Ngoc Ha’s verson of Sao Anh ra Di, too… I like it better, but since i’m a Minh Tuyet fan, it’s kindda balance out.. lol.. i like both Ho Ngoc Ha and Minh Tuyet..
i hated Bang Kiu voice.. it’s WAY too high !!!! The way Minh Tuyet being sexy.. some ppl may think it’s slutty.. but that’s hot… lol.. i would think Dan Truong and minh Tuyet would make great duet
Personally, I think BK delivered both pop and classical music beautifully. How many singers do you know that can actually pull that through? I think a good singer is someone who is always trying something new and not sticking to one type of music.
About Minh Tuyet, though her voice doesn’t impress me much especially when it’s next to Bang Kieu’s but I have to admit that she’s one of the hottest female singer in the industry right now. This CD is flying off the shelves so I think Thuy Nga knows what they are doing.
Thuy Nga got you buying this CD didn’t they?
Minht Tuyet = sleezy, cheap !
She won’t be around much longer, trust me !
well.. she might not be around for long, but uhm.. right now her casse is MUCH higher than other singers o Hai Ngoai
While you can’t seem to tolerate BK’s voice but you seemed to LOVE Dam Vinh Hung’s. That tells me how little you know what’s good and what’s not.
Bang Kieu = trained technique
Dam Vinh Hung = SCREAMING!!
MT’s voice..I just can’t stand it..TOOOO dragging..and always dragging..I don’t know why people describe is as “love songs”..
I enjoy this CD, even though no song is as sexy from both MT and BK.
“While you can’t seem to tolerate BK’s voice but you seemed to LOVE Dam Vinh Hung’s.”
Just because MT is hot right now doesn’t mean much to me..
I saw her singing at a night club before.. nothing specis al except baring her little boobs and trying hard to be so sexy..she and Nhu Loan makes me sick with their most of their chest hanging out of their bras..geez they have to sell their bodies cause not much talent to sell ..LOL how pathetic!
I think BK’s Mat Biec CD is his best, I especially like “Dau tinh sau”. I bought a few copies to give to my friends who had never liked BK before, and they love this CD. I’ve seen him performing live, and boy, he was GOOD! I used to dislike what you call his “hen-esque voice”, but when you get used to it, it becomes very soothing. His duet with Van Quynh, “Dau co loi lam” is also great. Van Quynh, too, did very well in this song.
i love both of the singers, i have the feeling you dont like PBN production, i think there s nothing wrong with being business-oriented, probably most of the production are, and dont blame them for that, you know how does it works.
BK performed beautifully in many songs…as such: “Mua Tren Ngay Thang Do” by Tu Cong Phung, “Trai Tim Ben Le” by Pham Khai Tuan
Yes, I very much agree with
BIEN CAN on Bang Kieu ‘s live singing. I sang a couple of duets with him “giot suong tren mi mat” and “trai tim khong ngu yen” I enjoyed performing with him greatly.
The duets came out very soulful because we were doing the improvisation which came out perfectly as though we have rehearsed. He asked me where did I came from and if I was a professional performer I told him that I usually sing in my showers only and I was came out of my shell on the stage because he inspired me !!
The smoothness of BK’s voice is addicting.
bang kieu is definitely THE SINGER of da moment. hes so charming and has an amazingly addictive voice to match. i esp love his version of “Lac mat mua Xuan”…sure beats mr Dam. wat he lacked in height he surely made it up wid his music…but then again i can be very biased cos i have extreme weakness for men wid northern accent…like da true “ha noi” accent….yummmy…
PS: miss thu hoai…im totally envious of u..for havin such beautiful voice and duet wid Bang Kieu…oh that would be my dream come true….
Thanks MiMi :) That is one of the hight light of my singing career ! When I sang those duets with him, I felt the intensity passion and power in his voice which inspired me to perform my best. He was very much surprised with my singing he told me “em hat hay nhu la co My Linh vay, em tu do den? La ca si chuyen nghiep hay la khan gia?” I smiled and said “em hat trong showers thoi, khi len day, em thay anh hat phe qua nen em cung hat phe luon ” !!
Sounds like an instant orgy on stage. :)
What the fuck is wrong with you ppl. Ya’ll so immature. He’s suppose to close his eyes, nawwwww he’s suppose to stare at her breast. And guys aren’t suppose to sing too high cause then they sound like gay guys, and Minh Tuyet does reach that high note, I think you have wax in your ears. I ain’t tryna seize Khanh Ha or anythin but she can’t compare to Minh Tuyet. Sis Tuyet is young and HOT as hell, you can’t compare her to Khanh Ha! God, get some common sense. Ppl these days. And you sayin “But I am sure young people who have good teeth will chew on this album like a bar of chocolate” Hah! I guess you an old fag sittin your ass at home havin nothin to do but go talk trash bout ppl. Minh Tuyet, cheap??!?!!?!? Damn you so dumb. Seriuosly. I’m not startin shyt so don’t don’t get all feisty wit me. I’m just defendin the one and only MINH TUYET.
Finally a fan of Minh Tuyet has shown up and quite piss. :)
thats her bro….good luck donny…
Correction: Khanh Ha is Minh Tuyet’s God ! hehehe :)
Let say I ‘ve done concerts with her and well yes Khanh Ha is her God !
Donny your reviews are getting nastier by the day, what’s going on?
ho ngoc ha epitomizes sexiness? I’ve learned from this comment of yours that I should never take anything in this blog of your seriously.
ho ngoc ha is a fugly monster…
minh tuyet ain’t exactly a work of art herself…but still!
Minh Tuyet =cheesy cheap whore
Minh Tuyet can be a good performer without selling her body. I first saw her on stage and I liked her performance since she has a cute look, fit body plus she has soft and sweet voice. But then she started to be just like one of the other PBN girls, the director must ruin them. I don’t like Bang Kieu, period.
BK has a high note voice which other ca si hai ngoai couldn’t perform like him. If you can sing his song, basically you can sing most of other songs easlily. When you practice higher note songs, lower note songs are nothing. I can sing most of his song except the song he sings with Khanh Ha. Too high.
A little off topic here–but must you always use the word “gay” in a derogatory way? Lighten up on the bigotry, man.
Hey Bien Can. I like Mat Biec cd too.
I agree with LaLa on this! Ya’ll so dumb and deaf that you don’t know how talented Minh Tuyet is. She sounds wonderful: angelic, clear, strong, and can perfectly reach the high notes. For examples, Muon Mang, Mai La Nguoi Den Sau, Quang Vang Mot Minh, Bo Ben La, Lang Thang are all songs that require an extremely strong and soulful voice to sing. Tinh knows the right kind of songs for Minh Tuyet to sing and she obviously made those songs famous cause other famous singers did rendidtions of some of her songs like Lang Thang. However, Thuy Nga foolishly chooses all the bad songs for her that’s not compatible with her voice. Tinh even give her better duet like Huong Ruou Tinh Nong with Huy Vu. They are the same age range and voice match better. Bang Kieu, no offense, sounds like a gay ass with the weird high pitch voice of his. We all got different tastes in music!! So stop saying shyt about stuff you don’t know.
huy vu is in too many gangsta karaoke videos… it would be a bad image for thuy nga… hence is why you have bang kieu (who looks like he couldn’t even hurt a fly)
he’s a lover not a fighter.
keke
I agree. Bang Kieu should be singing with Khanh Ha always.
Please listen to this song “Tinh Yeu Cho Em” from Thuy Nga’s Tron Kiep Binh Yen album.
Minh Tuyet is a fine singer but I don’t think she and Bang Kieu collaborated well in their vocal arrangement.
Xuan.
Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em:
This is the best duet for my record! Look at it in a different perspective, typical stereotype and collaboration of similar vocals is good like (Khanh Ha & Bang Kieu) but really its nothing innovative. Minh Tuyet & Bang Kieu duet collaborate from different avenue of vocals which is very interesting, different and fun! People that doesn’t like is just plane BORING!
The cover of “Boi Vi Anh Yeu Em” It’s more like BK want to dig into MT, but he is just to sceard!
well im just here to have my saying that minh tuyet isnt a bad singer buh i rekon Bang Kieu is more compatible with Khanh Ha then Minh Tuyet
i love their son “Tinh Yeu cho em” =]
Oh god, wth do u people know? If MT doesn’t have the voice, I don’t know who does!
And if I might add – there’s not a single soul in the US that has the voice as beautiful as MT! The good singers are with PBN / MT = Goddess of PBN!
People who think Minh tuyet can sing does not know shit about about music
YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE HAVE NOTHING TO DO BUT JUST TALK BAD ABOUT OTHERS. GET A LIFE! LOOK AT YOURSELF FIRST BEFORE YOU SAYING ANYTHING BAD ABOUT OTHERS.
Alright, i gotta go say. MT + BK = no good. one BK’s voice doesnt fit with MT’s. its too high. plus he is trying to be “hip” with his leather pants and everything. im not a fan that much, no offense. However I am a Minh tuyet fan for many years now and always will be. I have everyone of her CD’s and the one i cant get on CDs i have of mp3 i have almost 200 of her songs on mp3. soo as you can see…. to me… MT’s voice is perfection. yes sometimes she shows some cleavage here and there. however, its not the old days anymore its the 21st century we soo cleavage 24/7 its practically everywhere now. soo i dont think much of it. also, i have to admit with everyone that MT is one hot chick. Although a lot of people say taht she doesnt look as “hot” as she doesnt in person because pictures or different but still. MT is still one of the hottest Viet out there right now. and as for as i know.. ill support her 100%
dont u guys have better things to do then sit around and diss those singers they have talent unlike you. mt and bq is one of the best duets togather. i went to there life concerts and they are better then other peoples ive been too. mt cds are the best saler in every music stores, her cds are flyin off the stores. i agree with u timmy t she doesnt look taht good in person but shes really nice and she has a swt personally i met her and took a picture with her
I’m soo agree w/ lala b/cuz MT is a great singer w/ an extraordinary voices, wat the hel u guy were sayin that Ho Ngoc Ha was better????(Yuckk) wat goin in ur mind pals??wake up
:(. I also agree with woeva said Tinh chose better song and duet for MT. All the song she sang for Thuy Nga suckk… I dislike them. & wat wron w/ them let her sing with BK(OMG).it awful. dude. I wanna puke. MT body is hot.. kkk.. althou hav u guy saw her vidio on Thuy Nga most recent one, holy shit wat kin of vidio was that. That’s not my ideal singer…I was soooo dissapointed.
Stop hating dude..yo ba` ngoa.i probably won’t sound as good as MT does that’s why u sitting here trying to sound educated and bashing? What a hater..do you have a better life than this? Listen to yourself and look twice in the mirror again before you want to judge.
Oh yeah, by the way nails people are fans of lexus and louis vuton..are you trying to suggest something about yourself? Do you do nails on the side? That’s why you have all these free time to sit there and post nothing but trash..?
I think everyone can choose whom they want to listen to and vice versa. If you think BK look gay, then don’t look at him. I personally think music is music. I listen to anyone that sing a good song. Who care how they look. So stop sitting here and talk trash at singers. If you prefer to listen to BK and not MT then do it. Stop sitting here and talk trash about them.
I think Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet makes a cute couple..! I love them both.. i’ve seen them perform live before and theyre great! Bang Kieu is soooo good looking and his childrens just look like him!!
I love to see Bang Kieu and Minh Tuyet sing together.I always know that he’s a great singer,great voice.And she’s
not too bad herself.They look
so cute as a couple on stage.
I look for to see them more in
the next Thuy Nga video.
lol I found this review to be quite funny. I don’t find BK to be all that great of a singer. His voice is too high for my liking sometimes and too girly. But I do like it on this album. As for MT, she is not a bad singer. She deserve more credit then mentioned here. And the cover art is nice I think. MT doesn’t look like she’s flaunting her assets here. It’s better than her older covers. I liked 1/2 of the songs on this album. This pairing of singers is ok but I prefer Bang Kieu with Van Quynh.
I agree BK voice does not balance with MT but that does not mean either one is good or bad. Each has to be judge seperately. MK can not sing, and in addition to his feminine voice, he can only successfully sell his performance through duet with others. People gave him a chance due to the respect of his wife. Khanh Ha, gave him a shot to sing with her, and found out how bad BK was and never repeat that decision again.
I sorry, but your comment on Ho Ngoc Ha, I have to disagree. Most of the time, I do not see sex appeal from her at all. She looks like a corpse, hardly any facial reaction. Where do you see the curve on her? She looks like a skinny twelve year old boy.
MT is the best, haters!!
nice voice, nice body, what else do you want?
Minh Tuyet and Bang Kieu rocks together! theyre album is awesome. Minh Tuyet’s cute voice goes so well with Bang Kieu’s soft voice! They are 2of my favourite singers!!! If MT or BK is reading this!COME TO AUSTRALIA TO SING AGAIN!!! WE LOVE YOU!!
Minh tuyet Khong hop voi Bang Kieu.
luong tung quang goi loi cho minh tuyet la I Love You
i like the songs, but i do have to agree the pairing of the two singers was quite odd. they are definitely not on par vocally, but that’s probably a marketing strategy.
overall, good songs to listen to and relax, but nothing to ‘wow’ over.
MT & BK ARE THE BEST.
Minh Tuyet singing is ok, but i think she should not dress too sexy because her breast is too tiny to show.
boi vi em yeu anh
boi vi em yeu anh . toi muon wem ban nay
You all are dumb…MT and BK makes a great couple for a duet. Besides, you shouldn’t say that MT is a slut…have you guys seen HO Le Thu!! Now she is one. And i don’t actually think Trizzie phuong trinh cares that much.!! And you better not talk about MT.!!!!!
Both singers have talent. They can sing very well. Bang Kieu’s and Minh Tuyet’s voices do go together. Great CD!
BK’s voice = academic, unique and rare, and great for semi classical songs.
MT’s voice = ‘hàng chợ’
Combining these two voices is just a Thuynga’s awkward and thought-provokative marketing strategy.
Oh by the way, which sources say MT casse is the highest?
None of them worth the lexus or corola, a korea car, maybe.
I am so agreed with Khai in post 64
SUCH AS A RUBBISH PEOPLE
hey does anyone know how much these singers make per night performing live junctions ??!?!
ewde
Wow. As a friend puts on an MT compilation, I search and find this awesome thread. It’s refreshing to see criticism well spoken (as some is) about something so many follow like sheep locked into groupthink step.
We see MT now walking DS swaying her well-defined, buffed to a perfect polish abwork. I just took her as sort of a Pia Zadora and searched for ‘gangster’ along with her name, wondering just what could back someone, so marginal to many, to such fame, but you folks are even lucid about her. I’m impressed. [For me she sounds kinda skinny and worked on by the outboards in a few vs other clips, but that's me (shades of Khanh Ngoc, that wrapper of a thick ca phe sua nong sort of timbre, which I don't detect in most of her stuff)]. I don’t know much of anyone outside of Thanh Tuyen or maybe Huong Lan or Cam Van, but it looks like the production is getting the upper hand in presentation in general, and perhaps a lot of this MT business is affected by that. In the current piece, the band does their little crunchy guitar break (tham goi ten anh, I think it is). Some hokey blinky lights that aren’t much good at it, but isn’t that sexy hipswivel action to rival something you’d see on thehun worth a lot artistically?
MT was doing a party nearby recently at which the ever-cutting-edge and very-pro-can’t-you-tell-by-these-cut-off-gloves-we’re-wearing crew set lasers to burn straight into the crowd’s eyes, and some adequate though not really memorable sound work with equally cute stuff up there. I take this as a thread that runs through much of what’s given us by a generally sincere culture (VN) after being starstruck by the gloss of the Western polish. “Fake it ’til you make it” I hear a lot in criticism, and I don’t focus so much on a performer as what the crowd has been sold as cool to follow. It’s a lot of smoke and mirror imitation of what the industry has done and made it on, so why not?
I’ve worked with yankee singers you probably wouldn’t remember, and know a competitor of Thuy Nga, and somehow this is all in character with observations from that experience. There are better and worse singers for our personal tastes, and to each his own, etc. She is a polished presentation, and I guess good for what she is. I think there’s someone called “Fabio” or something who is in that kind of ilk, too. There’s a product for every taste, and she is apparently a good one for her own audience.
Of course, I never got the idealizing of PBN either. Seems to me, people wouldn’t eat up the tailings of a culture that held them in oppression and cost vast bloodshed to clear out. If you take into account the draw that such shameless slickness as that has upon Viet Kieu, any performance value of pretty wrapping fits right in. This isn’t to minimalize anyone as much as comment on what may underlie the fact of such success of someone whom many don’t think so highly of; it’s simply the nature of the surroundings in which they perform. MT is built on flash, like those wiggly lights on the floor that Truong Vu doesn’t need. Its like the bunch of fizz that people were sold by sharks from the West (I know some of them, too, buying gear cheap here to sell to producers in VN hungry for some of the action, at a killing), and it’s what they know and can call their own. There is similar criticism of opera singers here, with the not-so-visually-appealing ones with a great voice being loved for that voice while the fashion models (like the Russian who, according to a friend who ‘queezed her on the zeep codes’ to learn that she wasn’t a cosmopolitan Moscovite after all but from some farming area) find another part of the audience, and it all seems to work.
You’re all right in your own way. Try not to fight each other over something so subjective. Beyond any one singer’s virutes/drawbacks, the picture is much broader than focus solely upon MT’s feast of a derriere can take into account.