A very lovely morning to you and I'd thought this post to be a comprehensive list or rather genres of varied music I like to listen to first few hours after waking up in the morning when I'm just unwinding, drinking hot water and still making a mental list of chores in my head, but now this post is going to be about something surprising and sweetly strange I noticed so many times in the almost 7 years I've been living in China.
Often times there's a large group of mostly women gathered around during either the early hours of morning or sometime in evening post dinner when they like to break into a sort of synchronised low impact dance movements to stay fit.
Now this is usually free for all, and people keep joining in as they like and it's a wonderful spectacle to see so many people moving to songs blaring on a portable loudspeaker.
So the songs are mostly Chinese songs usually from the 70's or 80's and one can make that out by their music and vocal arrangement and some songs are commonly played, because they have the kind of sonorous beats that enable dance movements.
Right, so one song commonly, very commonly played is 'Jimmy Jimmy aaja aaja ' by 'Parvati Khan' from the movie 'Disco dancer'. I know, so weird. But it's such a popular song here that initially I thought maybe it's just a town thing where I used to live earlier, but I was totally wrong. Turns out that song is extremely popular here in China, in fact so popular that the singer in question was actually awarded a prestigious Chinese golden peacock award for that particular song.
I'd never have much cared for that song back in homeland but when you get to hear something of your own language playing enthusiastically in another country, it makes you feel oddly happy.
I know it's so silly but it's true, and the reason I'm writing this post is because this morning, around 6:30 I'd heard this song, albeit faintly, but it was there, because there was a group of people working out to this song.
Wonders never cease.
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