lindi’s bad himo ::
Monday, June 8th, 2009:: last week, Lindi (林笛), the lead singer and pipa player for the well-known Shanghainese band Cold Fairyland, shared with me some videos from a recent performance by her new band Bad Himo at Shanghai’s Yuyintang music club. Bad Himo is a two-person band (Lindi and her husband) whose songs are written entirely about the couple’s cat, Himo. In chatting with Lindi about Bad Himo, she said they formed the band because she has always wanted to play more straight forward rock and punk-styled music, but is too shy to actually write overly aggressive / provocative lyrics with curse words, etc. According to Lindi, the next best thing was to write songs that complain about her naughty cat, Himo.
The songs are silly, playful, definitely not punk, and sung in Mandarin, Shanghainese, and English, as those are the three languages Lindi and her husband speak to the cat at home. However, Lindi admits that during the show she forgot most of lyrics and just sorta made them up as she went along. Lindi is unsure how often, or even if, the band will play again, but they are looking for a drummer if anyone knows anyone.
Below I’ve shared a video from the performance last week. The song in the video, titled Little White Horse (小白马), is mostly sung in Shanghainese. For videos of all the songs from the Yuyintang performance, link here. Related, I recently produced a short video with Lindi performing solo / acoustic out of her home studio, link here to check it out. // AjS
