This New Chinese Propaganda Rap Video Is An Amazing Fail In Every Possible Way
You definitely need to listen to it anyway.
"This is China" is a new English-language propaganda rap video that claims to show the world what China really is and you must watch it immediately.
The song, co-produced by the Chinese Communist Youth League and CD REV, a young rap group from southwestern China that was founded last year on China’s National Day (coincidence!) has become a hit on Weibo since its release on Tuesday.
The melody is pretty catchy actually! But the lyrics can be, well, pretty clumsy. "Today I wanna restore the impression you have on my country which have been exactly fabricated by media for such a long time," the group raps. Okay!
The group really has a thing for foreign media (a previous song, The Force of Red, called foreign journalists “media punk ass white trash fuckers.”)
The song runs through criticism of China (from pollution to medical and corruption scandals) and counters with the chorus: "This is China! We love the country, we the Chi-phenomena."
Though the audience is clearly non-Chinese, the video has won most of its acclaim on Chinese social media. Maybe the group doesn't really understand who they're talking to? I mean: "You are prolly also confused about the situation in Taiwan."