Van Son 43 In Atlanta – Nhung Cung Dieu Que Minh
Viet Thao issued yet another warning to the audience in Atlanta. Nhung Cung Dieu Que Minh could be the last show from Van Son entertainment if the bootlegging problem won’t resolved. I urge you to go buy original DVDs from Van Son. Even if you can’t save the artless Titanic from sinking, you can at least help Van Son buy his dancers some decent outfits. From the performance of Cat Tien to Le Nguyen to the group’s closing, the dancers’ clothes (T-shirts and jeans) looked as if they were purchased from New York Chinatown for a dollar a pop.
Worst was Ngoc Ha’s outfit in “Con Co.” That dress looks like it was purchased on the clearance rack the day after Halloween. The outfit has nothing to do with a songbird, but more like a cheap ho. Ngoc Ha has gone from classy to trashy and her cans looked like they were upgraded. What the fuck is wrong with her? A gorgeous voice is now accompanied by a sex-up image.
Speaking of sex, Van Son’s production is laced with sexual references. The standup comedy between Van Son and Bao Quoc is outright disgusting. Hearing two old men talk dirty is really nasty, not funny. Bao Quoc came across like an old dirty, horny bastard, but that is nothing comparing to Viet Thao’s rapping. It’s really embarrassing to see a grown-ass man rapping none-sense and had the ball to say it’s “rap not rape.” You were raping hip-hop, Mr. Thao.
Why a guy would need surgery is beyond me, but Vietnamese operatic singer Linh Tam creeps me out as soon as the camera zoomed into his face. His eyes, nose and lips are so fucked up that you can’t tell if he’s turning into a she or vice versa. Van Son has recruited some really weird-ass people on the show like a guy who plays the flute with his nose and a bogus magician even though magician’s act is the most enjoyable part of the the show. The only visual attraction is Hoang Thuc Linh whose look is 8 out of 10, but whose voice is 4 out of 10.
If this is the kind of crap Van Son put out, he might as well close up shop. It seems like he has nowhere else to go, but down.
Huh? Is this anything new ? :) Sad to see Ngoc Ha gone this way. I guess she does not feel confident enough with her old looks. What happens to the saying ” a sexy woman is a confident woman” ?
Kidding aside about their costume and other lame bs, I do think that pirating video on any production (Van Son, ThuyNga, ASIA) is not good for everyone in general. Their show might not be the best but not supporting their business would only mean less for everyone. All I say is, if you want to watch it… buy it. How many time have you going to the restaurant and not paid for the food? Even though the food is total shit.
Anyway, if there’s no more ThuyNga, Asia, VanSon… it just means I get to see less of boobs and flesh and whatnot :).
” a sexy woman is a confident woman” ?
Thật ra, ngược lại cũng có thể đúng!
Alot of cringeworthy moments in this one.
I miss Bao Liem’s performance, he’s the only naturally funny guy on Van Son.
Vâng, PTN, cũng có thể chứ chưa hẳn! Tự tin đôi khi bị nhầm là tự kiêu! Nhưng thường thì câu nói này được dùng để diễn tả về đàn ông hơn. Nhưng thời bình đẳng, ai cũng được… :)
Dear James,
Hiểu được ý James, anh sẽ tự thưởng cho mình 1 chầu Như Ý 9 Món đấy! Mà James hiểu được ý anh, thì cho là 2 chầu!
Actually I have seen lots of confident people who are so ugly LOL
Heh that’s because they have nothing else to lose :)
It would be nice to have your tooth pulled by a dentist who is self-confident, but dating someone like that? Again, different strokes for different folks, but I love the sweetness of someone who is a bit modest and timid. Imagine after a long hard week at work, you finally go out and your date acts and sounds like a boyscout leader or even worse, like someone who tries to persuade you that you should diversify your stock portfolio.
i am a dentist!! i think i can pull ur tooth out Suave..
Van Son production has reached a low low standard..even the ones who had done well in the past had run dry with ideas..I cannot find any bit in the dvd to enjoy. its more like a torture.
I am against piracy but i would like the production to step up their games b4 i pay for these dvd. I was given the copied dvd by someone who worked in the video shop. I wouldnt even buy the copied discs..kkkk
@Lam Dien: The main point you’re trying to make is….you’re a dentist. And we here are all filled with admiration!
Anon I would believe it coming somebody else :) But I personally think LD is a very sensible guy… So I think somebody is just being jealous… :)
Mình nghĩ – công việc là “công cụ” của mưu sinh. Sự đam mê, tận tụy và yêu thương công việc (bất cứ công việc nào) mới là điều mình nên lấy làm hãnh diện.
Bích Điền (LD) là một nha sĩ ở vế thứ 2 mà tôi được biết. Và với tất cả sự tự nhiên của Điền, tôi nghĩ rằng cậu ấy biểu lộ “I am a dentist” theo ý của vế 1 – nghề nha chỉ là “công cụ” của mưu sinh! Rất may mắn cho cá nhân tôi, Điền là một nha sĩ đam mê, tận tụy với nghề nghiệp. Chưa kể rằng, cậu ấy rất tự tin cho bản thân và cho cả những người chung quanh. Nếu quý bạn nghĩ kỹ, sẽ rõ.
Tôi đã từng biết những nha sĩ rất tồi – và ngược lại cũng đã từng gặp những bạn làm nails rất nhân văn! Chưa hề có sự khác biệt trong cái “công cụ.”
you guys are so off-tracked and gettin’ into career choices and occupations. I still want to see more hilarious responses to Donny’s review.
After reading Donny’s review, I just want to buy the DVD and watch it just for the sake of curiosity…
I actually agree with all of the posts. I meant to say that self confident is very sexy but yes I agree that “self loving” “inflated ego” unfounded is not sexy.. yes timid and modesty are sexy qualities.
Yes we are off the track here but I agree it is so ghetto to get pirate copies.
Lam Dien
You know when you go into a store and everything on sale at give away prices and you just don’t like anything you see even though the price is dirt cheap? Yeah.. the on sale clothes will just be sitting in the closet and then will find their ways to the Salvation Army :) I don’t buy any clothes on sale unless I amm willing to pay for it full price, a very good rule to live by.
“Ngoc Ha has gone from classy to trashy and her cans looked like they were upgraded.” Those are all the info I need to go out and by the DVD :))))
Thu Hoai is right, it’s senseless to spend money on something you don’t want/need, no matter how cheap it is.
PTN, Funny I was thinking of the exact thing. Just didn’t want to spell them out. It’s nice that you always read my mind :)
Dear ông Hoàng:
Quận Cam sắp sửa khai trương một nơi rất “âm nhạc” mang tên “Hội Quán Tuấn Ngọc” trên đường Moran (sau phở Nam Định) mà hiện giờ thì đang có cái tên “Hội Quán Âm Nhạc”. Nơi đây sẽ là nơi thi thoảng, dành cho riêng tiếng hát Tuấn Ngọc, Thái Thảo, Thái Hiền và band nhạc The Dreamers. Có dịp, ghé nhé!
Ghé để chỉ uống 1 ly sữa nóng trên con đường rất “trần gian”.
@ 12&13: Interpret it however you like. One can’t help but get the feeling that Mr. Dien jumped at the chance to make that declaration the moment someone uttered the word “tooth”. It was completely out of element since Big Gay Suave was obviously not talking about his teeth. This is one of the traits I despite most about us “mit”, that we have such low self-esteem we often become the worst blowhards. BTW, the majority of dentists are lowlife greedy over-diagnosing scumbags anyway, and that gotta mean something coming from one. You’d be better served by a sleazy mechanic.
Thanks Hoang and Pham thien Nhien for ur understanding and sticking up 4 me..I never thought this could happen from just me joking to Suave im a dentist.
Anonymous..you dont know me…dont judge me, dont group me together with what you have experienced in your life. Go to ur mechanic, no dentists want people like you as customers anyway. You can despite whatever in ur life but just dont be so bitter. Take it easy mate. And there is absolutely no need to Impress anyone online, especially you ANONYMOUS.
LOL
Hehe, I am using a cafe internet so I couldn’t read all the above comments carefully, but wow you are a dentist. I need some filling LOL
Oops, I saw “big gay Suave” Haha, as opposed to what, “big straight”? Haha. Ciao, I gotta go for some Thai food near Union Square now. Wanna join me? (-:
I can’t help but get the feeling that someone is having some issues with his dentist. Did he just give you a root canal or something?
Yes, I do have issues with most of them, having been practicing as one myself for 6 yrs. I guess it takes one to know one.
@Suave: For some reason, a jolly middle-age gay man always reminds me of Big Gay Al from South Park =)
getting interesting !!!
Kết thúc ngày bằng những câu hát thật đậm đà của Trịnh trên đoạn đường dài từ Los Angeles về quận Cam:
Tôi đã yêu em trong mùa gió
khi lá cây khô bay đầy ngõ
yêu em không cần vội vã
Tôi đã yêu em như trẻ thơ
Đâu biết đôi khi có lìa xa
yêu trong nỗi đau tình cờ…
…today feels more like:
bien song
dung xo toi nga xuong
duoi chan nguoi…
:) Dear Anonymous: Ngã dưới “chân” người hoặc ngã giữa “tim” người, bạn chọn cái nào nhỉ? Trịnh dùng từ hay lắm: Vạt nắng vàng nhắc lời thiên thu …
Chúc vui!
Ngoc Ha’s cans may be super sized but doesn’t the term up graded means better quality? Who says bigger is always better hehehe ..
I feel sad when I look at Ngoc Ha .. if she is happy with her looks then I will be happy for her. She has a beautiful voice.
One should be proud of of one’s career path. What’s wrong with that ?
Lam Dien is a very nice gentleman so chill Anonymous.
There is nothing wrong with his postings.
Be true to yourself. Be real, be honest, be respectful and most of all be kind.
Cai nao cung chet!
…toi khong la nguoi u me kho dai…
One person’s interpretation of another’s statement has generated a lot of feelings which have nothing to do with the blogger’s music critique. People seem to know how they feel, and therefore assume that others feel the same. The back and forth communication,they assume, need to be suggested, so the language is imprecise to the point of making generalization hazardous in this case. Is it anger that they somehow denied entrance into their world of recognition?
Does your post have anything to do with the blogger’s music critique? :)
LOL – I find this highly amusing.
Enjoying your blog Donny :D
More amusing than this Van Son release – :)
TDK chụp hình đẹp quá! Bạn có tài chụp hình đấy!
Mén chào anh Nhiên.
Em chúc anh và gia đình năm mới vui mạnh.
Cám ơn anh, em thích chụp hình lắm, và chỉ mới đam mê thôi.
Em ý định khi nào rãnh có thời gian làm cái slideshow với những hình em chụp ghép vào nhạc CD anh gửi em, cho anh thưởng thức.
Néu anh có đổi địa chỉ thì cho em biết.
Love your review Donny. It made me laughed so hard that my colleagues gave me looks of envy of why I didn’t share it with them. If only they knew Van Son DVD…I haven’t watched VS for a long time simply because its cheap trash and nothing has changed. Please surprise me for even once and it has never..If they make a better DVD with better and more creative content then Im sure their sales of original DVDs would go up and they don’t have to cry poor. Unfortunately they keep pumping out trash time after time and the consumers know it too so they just buy a 2 dollar copy to fill up a 3 hour space in their day. The same goes for Asia and PBN although these 2 productions try to be a bit more creative, once in a while.
VS productions might be getting bad lately, but are those name callings necessary? Grouping it with Asia / PBN is a short-sighted generalization also. They are just not in the same league.
But don’t worry about those so-called “trash” because there will be neither of them soon in a near future, thanks to both pirates and “crictics” like you.
The world needs critics like me because I tell it as it is. If its good i will praise and if its not i will… criticise! I have 30 dollars to spend on music, should I buy VS DVD or the latest album from John Mayer. Hard choice Im faced with, should i choose an unoriginal DVD filled with songs that have been sung at least a thousand times before by at least a thousand singers only this time they are sung by singers that couldn’t really sing. Or should I choose an original CD showcasing the latest work from one of the greatest contemporary artists..I know what my choice is.
Criticism and feedbacks are necessary by all means. What the world has enough – however – is negativity and destructive criticism. More or less, those music shows have been trying to preserve some remaining shreds of the Vietnamese cultures (beside making money – but again – it’s business, not philanthrophy). The question is: what can I do to help? There’re many ways to help them to improve for the better with direct feedbacks, requests, or buying original products… if you do care. If you don’t care, then just go buying a John Meyer CD instead. Using a VS or whatever Vietmanese music productions as a laughingstock contributes nothing for a better community or society.
Most Vietnamese entertainers are lame and tacky sad to say
I agree with you reader…But then again its a free world that we are living in. One has the right to produce and the other side, as paying customers (I hope you guys BUY at least) they have the right to criticize the product. It is sad to see that the products have declined in quality over the years as the companies have over produced to meet their quantity quotas instead of quality. Besides, there are so limited in new contributions from our younger generations. There’s so much u can “xao qua xao lai” from the same old tunes n singers. To all the talented friends out there…please contribute n save our music and entertainment industry.
I totally agree with you langtula. The problem facing the younger talented generation trying to breakthrough is that all the oldies are doing whatever they can and whatever means to hold on to their positions. It is very politcal. That’s fair enough as we live in a world where everyone has to fight for what they want. But it is absolutely shocking to see that there’s no innovation, no creativity, no new songs, no new style performed by the oldies all this time. They keep on recycling the old material time after time and yet the public, especially the middle age group adore them. It is sad. We need to have new stars and new production centres that foster the growth of the stars. Not a company that churns out trash or old stuff with new packaging time after time.
to who ever wrote the damn article… you are a haten ass mother fucker… how fuck you gonna hate on your own people and post it online talk about van son is disgusting??? he a comedian if you little bitch ass don’t like we do have a fucking remote controller over here in the u.s. you damn FOB… i bet you the one that bought the copy dvd and post it online huh… haha again haten as bitch.. email me back mother fucker you got my email..
is me agian and this is to all the haten ass commenter… haha you guys are not white… white people look at you guys and still think you guys a fucking yellow skin mother fucker… so dont act like you guys are fucking better than other people talk about vietnamese entertainment is lame… if it lame do something about it… dont just be on the side line talk about o yeah vietnamese entertainment are lame and talk about i sould buy other white people stuff so i can be cool like them… you guys are not white fucking dumb ass white wash motherfucker…. you guys would never ever in your life nor your son or grandkids life or grand grand kids life would be consider damn american… just look at the chinese see how long the been here and they still consider outsider… and you guy sit here discriminate your own people fuck all you guys…. by the way on the other hand i can talk shit about white people cause i did fight for this god damn country so guess what i consider all you people white black asian hispanic whom never fight for this country to be an out sider fucking dumb ass wanna be FOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow…calling people FOB n this n that…you should learn to do so in a more convincing way Lam… like starting with proper English?
It’s easier to find an audience with familiar tunes. Also there is no money in composing so most will just translate from Chinese pop tunes instead. I am with Donny in most of his comments, I did however found some refreshing songs in VS43.
“Home” it is a sweet opening number by Kristina Sa. She wrote and sang a brand new personal song about her longing for Vietnam – for a place call “home”. It is quite commendable especially knowing that she left VN when she was 7. The work reminds me of “Bonjour Vietnam” by Marc Lavoine and I wouldn’t dare compare Kristina to Marc who is an established composer, but considering that there are not that many Vietnamese female composers, her song is fresh, quite good and very encouraging. She is a talent and needs our support.
“Tai Tieng” is another original that was composed and performed by Tinna Tinh. Donny wrote a nice blog about her some time back. Tinna goes against traditions by wearing ‘angry’ clothes, singing original Vietnamese hardrock and then literally calling herself “Toi la tai tieng”. With some sense of irony, the performance embodies the word “bad name”. Her music is not something I would listen to normally but her work is original and is commendable. Artists have to take chances and make changes to both survive and express themselves. I do feel bad for her that Vietnamese musicians can’t fake rock so her accompaniment very much sucks.
Ngoc Ha sings “Con Co”, a song that’s popular in VN and it’s new. It’s got a new air and quite difficult to sing. There were other newer songs on VS43 too but I’ll stop. Ngoc Ha has a nice voice does a very good job singing the song. I prefer her old style back in Paris By Night 6x but that is just me. Ngoc Ha rockers are new and yes, what’s up with that? I think they must have had a sale on the big one or something. :).