I was reading along in this account of the Nanjing DNA concert last night, sorta nodding along with the comments about high technology and why DNA, when I reached this part of the last paragraph:
而主唱阿信则带动乐队演唱了《终结孤单》、《恒星的恒心》、《乱世浮生》、《恋爱ing》等经典歌曲，还有写给梁静茹等其他歌手的《燕尾蝶》、《听不到》等。自己的歌，别人的歌，新歌，旧歌，到了现场都成了五月天的歌。到了《知足》、《倔强》、《温柔》、《最重要的小事》等保留曲目时更是全场合唱。
Wait, was this person at the same concert as me? I sure didn’t hear Mayday sing “Loneliness Terminator,” “Star of Perseverence,” “Life is Troubled Times,” “Swallowtail Butterfly,” or “Can’t Hear.” (I did, as noted, hear “Love-ing….”) Then that whole “their own songs, other people’s songs, new songs, old songs” bit sounded really familiar.
And it should: it was copied from this report of the Harbin DNA concert:
主唱阿信带动乐队,演唱了经典歌曲《终结孤单》、《恒星的恒心》、《乱世浮生》、《恋爱ing》等,还有写给梁静茹的《燕尾蝶》、《听不到》。自己的歌, 别人的歌,新歌,旧歌,到了现场都成了五月天的歌,几乎每首歌都是万人大合唱,荧光棒和着震撼的音乐声叫喊声,几乎要把哈尔滨国际会展体育中心体育馆的屋顶掀开。
I didn’t notice this when I blogged about Harbin (I even complimented the plagiarized writing! For shame). But of course, that’s obviously the wrong song list for this tour. And so that story can’t be the original source of the quote.
And it’s not. The language seems to date from the Final Home tour in 2005:
五月天不僅演唱了歌迷們耳熟能詳的經典歌曲「終結孤單」、「恒星的恒心」、「而我知道」等，還有五月天演唱會必唱歌曲「志明與春嬌」，新專輯的「知足」、「牙關」「戀愛ing」等，還有寫給別人的歌曲「燕尾蝶」、「聽不到」，Energy「放手」，自己的歌，別人的歌，新歌，舊歌，到了現場都變成了五月天的歌，幾乎每首歌都是萬人大合唱，螢光棒和著震撼的音樂聲叫喊聲，場面頗為壯觀。
And that might not be the original source, just the oldest reference a very cursory search turned up. It looks like newspapers around China have been copying the old song lists and descriptions into reports on Mayday concerts throughout the country ever since, with no reference to what was actually going on at the shows. I guess now when news reports get things really, really wrong, we have a whole new explanation for why.
Haha! 2005!!
I suppose that reporter is writing a plagiarized novel, then?
Why would they use the same list of songs over and over for these reports? Are the reporters just so tired of waiting for the concert that they use a fake list so they don’t have to wait for the end of the concert to write their reports?