Recently I’ve tried to find some nice c-pop. So far rather unsuccessfully, everything I have found is incredibly boring/bland. It nearly always starts with a light piano intro and does not get any more exciting than that, there is little variation and if I skip through the song it often feels like I didn’t skip a thing.
That’s also why I started to search for a reason for this and found the linked quora question.
But perhaps someone here has found something recommendable within this wasteland, I’d be happy to hear about it.
Chinese pop music mostly hasn’t picked up recent trends in Western pop music to the same extent as J-Pop or K-Pop has and hasn’t experimented with the genre in the same way, resulting in more old-school sounding pop music, which easily becomes too cheesy and even outdated from a Western point of view.