The CDs I actually managed to purchase in Shanghai

[petronia]

• Patricia Kaas, Je te dis vous
• Lisa Stansfield, Affection
• Feist, Let It Die
• Lisa Ono, Rio Bossa, Amigos and Romance Latino vol.2
• a hilariously pirated 2CD compilation of 'romantic' French pop songs (of the type where the lyrics booklet was copy-pasted from the Internet by someone who didn't speak a word of the language in question and wasn't paid enough to delete the HTML tags either)
• about eight albums worth of Teresa Teng, scrambled

You get the idea.

Being resident in the Francophonie I knew any number of Patricia Kaas songs before I knew Patricia Kaas - my first real impression of her as an artistic entity was actually that film she did with Jeremy Irons, in which she plays a jazz singer and he plays a gentleman jewel thief, in Morocco. It was an oddly frustrating piece of work that felt like the half-assed adaptation of a novel by the likes of Jostein Gaarder, one that hopelessly obscured the structure of the original through literal reading (although AFAIK it was nothing of the sort), but worth a watch given the chance. I mean, the casting ahahaha.

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Also: Feist is, you know, pretty amazing

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

But at least CD's are cheaper there? Right? Right?

Re: Also: Feist is, you know, pretty amazing

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Cheaper and very unlicensed. XD I bought the Feist because I was so shocked to see it (well, that and I didn't have it yet). Possibly she slid in on the great Chinese love for easy listening.

P.S. I am so mentally unprepared for the FFXII onslaught, I was like, "What, now? Tomorrow? Lemme grab my pants!"