july music highlights!
zs stuff
A) 红尘慌慌 (spotify) + 全世界的雨 (spotify) (new release slot)
on another episode of god im predictable. hi everyone. 红尘慌慌's 那些 一哄就好的伤 reminds me a lot of 人间's 但愿你的眼睛 which i have spoken abt in a prev repo ?? who cldve foreseen this. there's a specific subset of songs that don't click with me initially but will play in my head a couple weeks afterwards without prompting, which is disorientating since i've only heard them once; 红尘慌慌 was not exactly like that because i had listened to it multiple times but (as w the former type of song) as soon as the random earworm happened i knew it was all over 😭✋
and a zs/ella duet coming out this month was a very interesting coincidence for me personally hahah. even more of a coincidence that it was released the morning of that 大鱼海棠 even which ofc went uhhh swimmingly ? 全世界的雨 for sure lol. <- unrelated, but zs are you really running out of song names. 全世界下雨... 全世界的雨...
B) 缘分一道桥 + 火红的萨日朗 (event/show performance slot)
mutuals will know i am the last person to positively acknowledge the boy group super vocal and today i will continue not to do that. they are there? i guess. no one cares. i stumbled across this perf when refreshing yt after zs and wang lihong's duets (holy wardrobe?!) and it has been stuck in my head ever since!!! firstly zs' xiqiang i will always love u. zs when will u 愿 my 花旦周深梦.. [深深 深深 sticker].. secondly the physical relief i felt after hearing his beautiful 谈爱恨 不能潦草 / 战鼓敲啊敲 after all the craning was INSANE lol. craning like peacocking but crane ing get it because because gao tian [gunshot gunshot gunsh
///zs' 当 has this EXACT effect on me also. im still so furious about how good his fucking 0.0004-second 你的温柔 是我今生最大的守候 is 😭😭 can he stop this
and can everyone say Thank You Huhhot for me please!!! a full zs 萨日朗 cover was not on my 2026 bingo. hasn't it been 9 million years since that 黑你在干什么 ep hdlahfjs quarantine!zs was such an era.. he's got to be the only person who's ever done geshou From His Bedroom 😭✋
C) 临安初雨 (spotify) (慢热歌曲 slot)
this slot has become less 慢热 and more 珍珠 i think.. wgatever they r supposed to be random zs singles which i like and one of those is 临安初雨!! picked it when i went to a ktv w a shengmi friend the other day but we ended up just sitting and listening. dont worry. early-era zs' breathy vibrato ok
2. misc artists
A) sa dingding's 起初说 (studio ver- spotify)
at the start of the month, i enjoyed the liveblogging (live discord messaging?) of a friend catching up on this year's geshou stages. this is not one of them, but sdd did sing 时候 with zhang yuan during one of the duet eps (one of... manggou r really doing multiple duet eps now? tsk). sdd full solo 时候 when 🙏🙏!! mightve said this when i recced her 雾里 but i'm really in love w how freaky she gets w it (?) for lack of a better word. her vocal control is sooo fucking strong.. after sitting thru a bunch of geshou stages myself, i felt very lucky to have stumbled across this performance to cleanse my ears HAHSHA it popped up when i was looking for sdd 时候 solos!!
heard that she singlehandedly saved this langjie finale and tbh yeah i can tell. holy fucking shit this is a cool song!!!!!! linking both the live and studio ver bc i'm obsessed w how she mimics the techno effects of the latter haha wgat the fuck. my 女神 i love you
B) shan yichun's 好想谈恋爱
syc strikes again. this ver was my first time hearing this song, although i (like a lot of people) saw the bridge out of context and in a bad light back when the syc/lrh drama was at its peak, which is why i assume she's sung it now. respect! i hated every second of that. justice for my girl
rather interesting (???) lyrics but omfg is this one syc to the max ✋ firstly, ok tbh i do not get the dress (fashionable sausage?) but the collar is so shuai and the leather gloves r evil. they're so evil and i am SO easy. the dress may be weird but it's syc weird and i can respect it 👍 secondly, the staging was so fucking cool 😭😭 holy shit i love bleachers. and all her backup dancers' costuming.?.??. syc hitting the cuntagon again and again and again and then there's the actual song, which is ALSO a banger. WHAT can i say. the riffs the runs the whistle note. shan yichun (proper noun) definition The Cuntiest Person Ever ??
C) zhang liangying & chen chusheng's 巴拉莱克
mutuals may also know my many issues with cbiz artists' covers of menni songs. but this one is good!!!! i'm not tagging either of them for the reason this duet makes me mad, though, because holy shit. this performance is amazing and it's so zs that it pisses me off 😐 when i liveblogged my listen to this song, i think said smth like i wish zs and menni would duet (my zs duet with more men 2026 agenda)?? then i finished this stage and had to sit down. the ottava alta.. the patter... the operatic vocalisations at the end... this is sick. sick and twisted. sent it to the friend from earlier and they were also pissed off which means i'm NOT insane or biased <- still biased. i'm fuming. menni and zs.. collab..
