Asia 58 - La Thu Tu Chien Truong
As long as Asia Entertainment still around, the war will forever be reminded. Its new release, La Thu Tu Chien Truong (Letters From Battle Fields), conceptualized around the theme that the production has beaten to death already; therefore, it would be pointless to hear what the MCs had to contribute.
Musically speaking, the show only had two or three standout performances. It’s about time Asia brought a real talent on board. Not all that physically attractive, but Bich Van (whose voice mesmerized me two years ago) gave an exceptional rendition of Pham Dinh Chuong’s “Anh Di Chien Dich.” She hit the high notes right on the spot and her enunciation was flawless. By the time she finished, there was no room left for Y Phuong to match up. It’s the musical director’s fault for the unfair pairing. Bich Van’s performance should have been grouped with Nguyen Hong Nhung’s version of Hoang Trong’s “Nguoi Tinh Khong Chan Dung.” Again, Nguyen Hong Nhung was so damn hypnotizing that she left Thien Kim out in the cold. Nguyen Hong Nhung looked great too, but the sexiest chick of the show went to the new-but-blazing-hot Ho Hoang Yen. If there were a dress (military-inspired color with plenty of open space to display cleavage) like what she had on in the army, there will be a lot of jerking off in the boot camp. What song was she singing anyway?
That’s all I could walk away with from the show. The rest were just same old shit.
Đồng ý với Donny về Bích Vân’s (& Y Phương’s)performances. Bên cạnh đó, càng ngày càng thấy chán mô hình hát 2 người hát chung 1 tiết mục hoặc hát 1 đoạn đi vô! Gượng gạo và không lột tả hết cảm xúc của người hát và đánh nhạc (dù là hát nhép). À, trên YouTube có post 1 recital performance của Bích Vân tại Cal State Long Beach và cô ấy hát nhạc opera, Donny xem nhé!
Hồ HoànG Yến
Chúc Donny vui mạnh
If I don’t like Celine Dion I don’t go to Celine Dion’s show in Vegas and write about about how horrible it is. You knew what you were going to get when you saw the cover and the songlist, so why bother sitting down, wasting time, only to complain about what you knew was coming? Did they somehow trick you into believing that it was something other than what it is?
I can’t seem to understand why the supposed progressive Vietnamese always bash those who “remind repeatedly” of the war and marginalize them while beating off to the next rehash of TCS. Its not like anyone runs up to Clint Eatwood and tells him to stop working on Flags of our fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima cause we need not be reminded of World War II again.
Not that I’m talking about you Donnie. =)
With love, Tan
Tannie you are cute :)
Cai nay la vua ddanh vua xoa… hehe
Poor Donny :(
tụi nó ăn bám xác chết và quá khứ như lũ vultures vậy cứ hô hào là “vinh danh” người lính
I’ll agree that there wasn’t many stand out performances but overall I thought it was a good program.
May be it is better to see Ho’s will. He just wanted to go to Marx and Lenin for the eternity. Asia should talk less about the last war but focus more on obscenity of Ho and VCs.
Hi Donny,
Here’s an article on Bich Van on Vien Dong Daily News:
http://www.viendongdaily.com/Contents.aspx?contentid=3632&item=100
and my videotaping of her performances of P.Q. Phan’s songs at CSU Long Beach this March:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GNg0hN0Z0X0
Rub it in, Hoang :)
Don, my wife said that all the time :)
I like your choice of words… blazing-hot Ho Hoang Yen hehe
Donny is well-known by his choice of words! Minh den visualGUI cung vi his choice of words.
Lots of old songs that they have already used in their previous productions. And of course, a theme that they’ve repeated 4 or 5 too many times.
They have a pretty good cast of singers (Bich Van is a wonderful new addition), but the problem is they have TOO MANY singers. No one gets to sing a full song anymore. Asia always talks about respect for the songwriters, but then they go and dice up their songs.
I disagree about Nguyen Hong Nhung’s performance. She doesn’t have the skill yet to pull off that song (not many do though; it’s a tough one). And they chopped off most of the spoken lyrics–the the best part of the song!
Another weakness is that nothing Asia does here is subtle. From the overly busy scenery, the MCs, the video clips, to the awkward choreography– everything seems too in-your-face. The end product smacks of self-righteousness and emotional manipulation.
I do not care much about Hong Nhung in this song. The more I listened this song, the more I found out that she is not good.
She is just lucky to sing this song. That is all. If Y Phuong, Bich Van, Diem Lien sang this song, then I believe that they could be better than Hong Nhung.
I do not agree that only with Bich Van can do well in this DVD but Thanh Thuy sang so well in the song: BONG NHO DUONG CHIEU. My lord, how old she is now but her voice is still hot and unique than the rest of singers.
” tụi nó ăn bám xác chết và quá khứ như lũ vultures vậy cứ hô hào là “vinh danh” người lính ”
Comment by c — 6 May 2008 @ 6:48 pm
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