Rainie Yang

Do you guys know who Rainie Yang is?
I was listening to one of her songs and suddenly realized shes' not getting as much fame as she should.
Rainie Yang, also called Yang Cheng Lin, is a Taiwanese singer.
She was born on June 4th, 1984, in Taipei, Taiwan (Repubilc of China). So she's about to be 28 years old.
Since I study Chinese in my high school, I decided to try and watch some Asian dramas, and listen to Asian songs, as you know from my earliest posts.
So, I think it was last year, a friend of mine from Singapore suggested I watched my first Taiwanese drama, Tian Wai Fei Xian. It was starring Ariel Lin (an amazing actress) and Hu Ge (a hot actor).
So after this one, I got hooked up with Asian dramas and asked for more.
That's when Vanora (my friend) suggested me my first Rainie Yang drama, Hi My Sweetheart, also starring Show Luo who is a Taiwanese actor I'd grown to love when I'd first heard him in a song.
And here began my "love" for Rainie, who was so beautiful and so talented.
If you ask on the net about Rainie, the first word anyone will tell you is "cute". Seriously, this is Rainie's adjective for excecllence. But you'll know what I mean only once you've seen one of her dramas.
But back to the point, as I was saying, I watched Hi My Sweetheart. Then, liking so much Rainie's performance, I proceeded to watch all her other dramas I possibly could, and that's how my RY list grew: Miss No Good, Hi My Sweetheart, Why Why Love, Drunken To Love You and, last but not at all least, Devil Beside You.
This last one is officially my favorite drama. My favorite Rainie drama, but also my favorite drama in general.
Here Rainie worked with Mike He, who is her commonly known as her counterpart.
And with that I mean, ask anyone, and they'll probably tell you the best drama couple is Rainie&Mike.
They look just too good together.
Too bad they apparently never had anything in real life.

So, going back in time, Rainie's career started out with the "Four In Love", a group of four girls obviously including Rainie, that made nice music.
Anyway, the group soon disgregated, but our good old Rainie never lost her goodwill.
She obtained a part in the famour Meteor Garden, a Taiwanese adaptation of the manga Hana Yori Dango, of which I talked in my previous post. So as you know, I didn't finish this drama because I didn't like it at all, but nonetheless I loved Rainie's performance because I'm a true fan. u.u LOL.
So, after getting small parts in various dramas, she finally hit the spotlight with her first drama that saw her as main character, and that was our awesome Devil Beside You. Well, what can I say.
Definitely a good point to start, seeing the drama was so effing beautiful.
So here her career as actress as well as singer began.
In fact, due to her previous career as a singer, she is the voice of two songs from the DBY soundtrack, Li Xiang Qin Ren, whose video's also starring our beautiful Mike He, and Ai Mei.
So with Devil Beside You, Rainie Yang officially started to fly and so far she hasn't come down to rest yet. ;D

Soo.
I guess I've bored you enough with one of my several obsession, so I'll stop here.
But make sure you check out Rainie's work!
Don't let the fact that she's Asian stop you. I know a lot of people are not used to seeing Asia as "homeland for famous people", for lack of words. What I mean with this is, if you asked me a few years ago, before I started studying Chinese, I would've told there wasn't anything produced in China and such for teens. Everything was in the US and Europe. I just didn't see Asia as a possibility. True, I only was in Junior High so I was kinda stupid at the time, but still.
What I'm trying to say is, Asia DOES have some really talented guy, who do not get enogh fame and popularity because people always solely concentrate on America and Europe.
We should all try to open your eyes and minds and see there's not just that.


I'll leave you with a list of my favorite songs by Rainie:

Yu Ai (my absolute favorite);
Dai Wo Zou;
Pian Shi;
Ai Mei;
Hei Se Yue Liang;
Leng Zhan.


Have a nice day!

xx darkwriter