{"id":190920,"date":"2016-02-03T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=190920"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:15:09","slug":"video-extols-party-slogans-wiith-rap-and-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2016\/02\/video-extols-party-slogans-wiith-rap-and-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Extols Party Slogans With Rap and Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xinhua has released a new animated music video fusing Beethoven with hip-hop<\/strong><\/a> in attempt to promote\u00a0the\u00a0“Four Comprehensives,”<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0blueprint President Xi Jinping laid out in late 2014 to\u00a0achieve his “Chinese Dream<\/a>.”\u00a0The New York Times’ Vanessa Piao and Patrick Boehler report:<\/p>\n

China<\/a>\u2019s Communist Party propagandists turned to rap and\u00a0Beethoven<\/a>\u00a0this week in their quest to reach a target audience often rendered indifferent to dull party slogans by lifelong consumption.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is everyone\u2019s dream, to build a moderately prosperous society comprehensively,\u201d goes the song in\u00a0a cartoon video<\/a>\u00a0released by Xinhua, the state news agency. […]<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0\u201cThere will be no panic in our hearts, as long as food is not a concern and our hands are full of money,\u201d the main singer enthuses in a heavy Beijing accent. As a song that will \u201cboth enrich your knowledge and help you achieve physical fitness,\u201d as Xinhua puts it, it could well become a favorite of China\u2019s famous, or infamous,\u00a0dancing grannies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tune turns to the swelling strains of the final movement of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, as the cartoon figures sing that, \u201cwith the Four Comprehensives, the China Dream will not be far away.\u201d […] [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n