Always concert in Nanjing

I rested in Shanghai on the fourth day of vacation, complete with a nice body massage, and then went to Nanjing for day 5. My good friend in Nanjing, Andy, bought us tickets to his favorite pop star's concert. 

The star, Andy Liu, is 52 years old and he almost never stopped moving and dancing with the dance team. I hope I can move like he does when I reach that age! 

I could only understand a few words here and there of the songs, which means I need to keep improving my Chinese, but the show was still enjoyable.

Apart from the singing, there was also lights, smoke, and rain effects. Dancing and acting. One particular song was a recreation of the music video- I'm told- which is a good chance to add a little commentary. The music videos in China that I've seen are quite different from MTV, chiefly in that they are refreshingly free of constant booty-shaking and party-making. Instead, most videos tell a story, often a love story, and very often about the common man/woman. This particular video was about a man who meets a girl at a dance; he rescues her from an abusive bf, and they have a brief romantic rendezvous before the bf returns with his gang. In order to save the hero's life, the girl returns to her ex. But they fight again when they are at the evil mans apartment, and he kills her. It is a very sad story!

Concerts in China, if I may extrapolate from my one experience, are very different than those in the US: no mosh pits, everyone sits down for 90% of the show, for example. So I am glad I got to experience a different style of musical performance and presentation, and I actually quite enjoyed it! My vacation had all but ended with the concert, with only a train ride back to Shanghai on the schedule for day 6. It was a great, week-long holiday!