The short version: A few years back, I bought a CD on a whim in LA's Chinatown for about 3 bucks. It features a startling 10 min. track entitled "Asian Dance Club Music Mix" which is built around a chorus of Chinese people singing Madonna's "Material Girl." And then it gets really weird. It makes about as much sense to share it as anything else, so here it is.
PRESENTED IN DIGITAL SOUND STEREO.
All this needs is a megamix of Jackie Chan's greatest hits for visuals. More fodder for video fun over the Summer. Gotta love "Whip It" by the Zapp Band (not the unrelated DEVO song) in Mandarin. Or is it Cantonese?
Posted by: Ms. Geek | April 30, 2007 at 03:34 PM
This should probably an extra for OTAKU USA.
Posted by: wildarmsheero | April 30, 2007 at 05:04 PM
I'm just wondering what type of Asian Dance Club would play this song. :P
Posted by: TheBigN | April 30, 2007 at 05:25 PM
The real challenge for true blue Canto-pop otaku is identifying every single reference in there. Hiroko picked out a Koji Kikkawa riff a few minutes in, then there was that manic Dschinghis Khan cover...
Posted by: Matt | April 30, 2007 at 06:43 PM
Whoever made that CD cover must (or has a very high probability of) being a South East Asian - the word 'rojak' gave him/her away.
Posted by: huhwhat | April 30, 2007 at 07:35 PM
Oh, and the whole thing is in Cantonese, except for a small snippet near the end where there's Mandarin, followed by Hokkien.
Sorry for the double comment.
Posted by: huhwhat | April 30, 2007 at 07:50 PM
But what does it all MEAN?
Posted by: Patrick Macias | April 30, 2007 at 07:51 PM
Yeah. "Rojak" is a term particular to Singapore and Malaysia. It's the name of a salad dish drenched in brown prawn paste. Rojak is used to described things mixed together.
Posted by: Zer0 | April 30, 2007 at 07:56 PM
The word 'Rojak' is also reminiscent of a robot jacked up on drugs. Much like a club goer who would actually boogie to this track.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | April 30, 2007 at 08:05 PM
So the bad guy from Space Giants is named for a SALAD?!
I am feeling so let down now...
Posted by: Steve Harrison | May 01, 2007 at 12:36 PM
I am a huge nerd, but around 7:20 to 8:20 is it just me, or do you hear the part right before the chorus and the chorus of the Eve song "Sentimental Behind My Back" from Megazone 23 Part One? It's like they messed it up a little, but I'm pretty sure that's the same song...
Posted by: Karaoke Ninja | May 08, 2007 at 11:38 AM