The Untamed (more thoughts) and foreign music

[020104isme]

I have watched snippets of various episodes of The Untamed just to refresh a couple of things in my mind and can honestly say I am not totally enamoured with the first half of the show.

I love anything involving the two leads, I adore the bunnies and like a lot of the interactions of WWX with the supporting characters. I cannot work up any intense feelings about Lotus Pier or the wider campaign against the Wen clan.

It looks ridiculously pretty, I love the soundtrack, I like the overall storyline enough because I know if I persevere I get to the episode where things start moving forward again. I really like episodes 33-50, I could honestly watch them on repeat.

I will do a full re-watch once I stop avidly reading fanfic for the show. I get over-saturated after a while and slow down the reading pace, based on past experience that will be in another week or so. I know my reading habits too well. 😂

Thanks to Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan I have now listened to Chinese pop, as well as k-pop and j-pop, though solo gets the credit for the last one. As I type, the Best of KAT-TUN is playing in the background.

I genuinely don't care if I don't know the language people are singing in, if I like the music then I like the music. If I have a song title/artist name then I can always try and track down a lyric video if I am really desperate to know the translation. I cannot retain song lyrics in English so it is not like I ever expect to memorise them. Never, ever, ask me to be in your team for a music quiz. I am hopeless at remembering titles, lyrics or recognising a tune after 3 notes are played. I applaud people that can do that, I am definitely not one of them. 😁

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Episodes 1 & 2, 33 - 50 are my favourites, too. That's why I've watched them twice as often as episodes 3 - 32. *g*

[020104isme]

I offer you a fist bump of solidarity 👊😁

With the addition of a limited number of additional scenes from the other episodes, that is my preferred list too.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, of course. For me, there are actually quite a few scenes from the other episodes that I really liked. I also have a soft spot for the time Wei Wuxian and the Wens lived at the Burial Mounds.

But yeah, I'm currently on my 8th rewatch of episodes 33 - 50, and I've watched the other episodes "only" four times, so my preference is pretty obvious. *g*

[020104isme]

8th is impressive! I will be excited to start my 3rd viewing of the complete series.

[trobadora]

I nearly noped out of The Untamed in the early flashback episodes. I liked the present-day parts much better! (And I preferred the novel's present-day-with-interspersed-flashback structure to the drama's Neverending Flashback.)

I genuinely don't care if I don't know the language people are singing in, if I like the music then I like the music.

We're total opposites there! If I like a song I want to be singing along. I mean, I can't sing - or rather, people tell me my singing is horrible, even if it doesn't sound that way to me - but that doesn't stop me. *g*

(I don't know much about music and can't tell things apart, but I remember lyrics just fine.)

[020104isme]

I can't sing either. 😊

There are certain songs I unconsciously know the lyrics to because I have been listening to them as long as I can remember. My parents love music and I grew up listening to the extensive vinyl collection they had at the time. I only know them when the melody is playing though. When the music stops I start losing the words. I take after my Mum in that regard. My brother and Dad never forget lyrics.

And yup, definitely prefer the present day parts of The Untamed.

[trobadora]

I'm always surprised by what I can still sing along to even when I haven't heard it for years!

[020104isme]

I am always jealous of people who can do that!

I can retain random facts like nobody's business and I remember random numbers all the time. (People at work ask me phone numbers for people because 95% of the time I give a quicker response than our online directory).

Music? I am hopeless. 😂