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brightknightie) wrote2022-11-27 05:02 pm
brightknightie) wrote2022-11-27 05:02 pm
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Monkey would approve
Don't you love it when someone writes an exciting, energetic, original, pop song about the book you're currently reading and delivers it with full orchestration on one of those singing competition shows? Granted, that's never happened to me before, but I've never read the unabridged Journey to the West before, so...
Subtitled in English: [Single Song] "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" sung by Hua Chenyu
(I listened to a podcast interviewing Julia Lovell, the translator of the recent (2021!) abridged version of JttW that I read before diving into the unabridged translation by Anthony Yu, and this was the outro music. I checked the podcast's credits to learn what it was and followed a link to this performance.) (Lovell's abridgement is very nice and absolutely imperative for classroom use! But I'm so into these characters that I need the whole hundred chapters. And, apparently, filks.)
Subtitled in English: [Single Song] "Great Sage Equal to Heaven" sung by Hua Chenyu
(I listened to a podcast interviewing Julia Lovell, the translator of the recent (2021!) abridged version of JttW that I read before diving into the unabridged translation by Anthony Yu, and this was the outro music. I checked the podcast's credits to learn what it was and followed a link to this performance.) (Lovell's abridgement is very nice and absolutely imperative for classroom use! But I'm so into these characters that I need the whole hundred chapters. And, apparently, filks.)