The Angry Pop Song Vocation Out China's Force Drawback.

"This is however you describe us: disembodied spirit, shrew, whore, hooker, man-eater." Being still on the stage, growling out her words, Chinese singer Tan Weiwei cuts a firm figure as she sings her latest pop hit, Xiao Juan, in an exceedingly recent live tv performance. She is flanked by a bunch of girls United Nations agency take away their spectacles and throw them aside, a silent demand to be seen as people.

A moody, excoriating denunciation against force, Xiao Juan has captivated and impressed many thousands of Chinese girls since its unleash. Its lyrics rail against hatred and victim-blaming in China, referencing specific cases of violence against girls that have dominated China's news headlines this year.

And it is a daring statement. Tan is one of the few thought musicians in China - may be the sole one - exploiting her music to deal with the difficulty, which remains thought-about a taboo topic for several.

'Know my name... and bear in mind it'

The title of Tan's new album "3811" refers to her age, additionally because the eleven songs on the album that chronicle the stories of real-life Chinese girls, from a taxi-driving single mother to a 12-year-old woman simply hit the time of life, and even Tan's own aunty, United Nations agency works as a ticket operator.

Chinese critic delivery boy - a nom de guerre - tells the album is putting not simply because of the robust feminist thread throughout, however additionally as a result of it provides a bunch of on the face of it, standard girls, a way of importance.

He says: "Years from currently, once we reminisce at this point amount, we are going to not solely be observing the same old films, books, news clips, and media websites to understand what happened. there'll even be this album that has recorded the stories and names of these standard girls United Nations agency would have otherwise been entirely forgotten."

But the foremost putting song from the album is doubtless Xiao Juan, the name typically given to feminine victims of violent crimes in China. off from dismissing these girls as a collective "Jane Doe", Xiao Juan is desirous to recognize them as real people. "Our names don't seem to be Xiao Juan… apprehend my name, and commit it to memory," Tan sings.