{"id":179907,"date":"2014-12-26T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=179907"},"modified":"2014-12-24T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:16:00","slug":"music-video-poor-guy-cant-stop-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/12\/music-video-poor-guy-cant-stop-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Video: Poor Guy Can’t Stop Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cartoon band Whale Island (\u9cb8\u9c7c\u5c9b\u4e50\u961f<\/a>) released its first single just after the Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, this April. Rollicking through the many deaths of the year past, \u201cPoor Guy\u201d is also a tribute to those who succumbed to ongoing perils in China, from chengguan<\/em> beatings to poisoning. The song is not just a year in review, but a jaunty eulogy for many of the dead of today\u2019s China.<\/p>\n (Click \u201cCC\u201d on the bottom of the YouTube window to view English subtitles.)<\/strong><\/p>\n [youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/jvopVkYS3kk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n Causes of death in \u201cPoor Guy\u201d include:<\/p>\n The two suicides in the video are exaggerations of the fates of good samaritans cheated by those they have helped<\/a> and of young single men who find they cannot marry before they\u2019ve purchased a car and a house<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the chorus, Whale Island laments that they continue to \u6251\u8857 puk gai<\/em>–Cantonese for \u201cfuck off\u201d and also the word for planking<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cPoor Guy\u201d was featured on Hong Kong\u2019s Phoenix TV<\/a> in the beginning of May. The music video recalls the 2012 viral hit \u201cDumb Ways to Die<\/a>\u201d and the Chinese parody \u201cDumb Ways to Eat\u201d (\u8822\u8822\u7684\u5403\u6cd5<\/a>).<\/p>\n Translation by Little Bluegill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cartoon band Whale Island (\u9cb8\u9c7c\u5c9b\u4e50\u961f) released its first single just after the Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, this April. Rollicking through the many deaths of the year past, \u201cPoor Guy\u201d is also a tribute to those who succumbed to ongoing perils in China, from chengguan beatings to poisoning. The song is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":179908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,20,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[348,4533,3558,15386,16802,6675],"class_list":["post-179907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-culture","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-air-pollution","tag-chengguan","tag-food-safety","tag-forced-demolitions","tag-music-videos","tag-qingming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n\n