To open with a cliché; different people like different things.
Whenever I talk to my students about which music they like best or what their favorite band is, plenty of boys will say ‘Boyzone’ or ‘Westlife’.
There are of course plenty of Chinese young people that are plenty knowledgeable about music and way cooler than I am. The point I’m trying to make is this; cultural stigmas don’t travel well.
Boybands are considered girly in the West. They’re pre-fab pop music of the worst type. Here in China, however, if you’re not a total music nut then boyband music is fine. It’s light, easily digestable and not too loud. Most Chinese can’t keep up with the lyrics anyway, so the whole endless cooing about love and such is not picked up.
Same goes for movies. The movie Pearl Harbor is pretty much universally considered a piece of crap where I come from - filled with cliches and cheap emotions. Here, if I ask what their favorite movie is, I get Pearl Harbor at least once or twice in a class of thirty-five. There’s love and death in it and crap blows up real good. What’s not to like?
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