{"id":1102,"date":"2010-03-13T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-03-09T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:22:26","slug":"entering-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2010\/03\/entering-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering Stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<img height=\"140\"  src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31AA8YKVCKL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\">\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<b>Warm Strangers<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><i>Vienna Teng<\/i><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I like to be pleasantly surprised.  After two CDs, I thought that would be the end of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?s=vienna+teng\">Vienna Teng<\/a> collection.  I liked her music, at the same level of Charlotte Church&#8217;s first two CDs.  Two are enough for my library.  After all, I have more music than the time of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, through Kid&#8217;s connection, I got her <i>Warm Strangers<\/i> album.  In this CD, she moved up from a niche voice singer to a big league star.  Her other two CDs were good, but couldn&#8217;t hold my attention long enough.  After several songs, I would start to press the skip button, hoping to find something that was not a re-mix of the same ingredients.  This one, however, every songs was distinctively her and has lasting power.  I could savor each of them and would try to play them again.<\/p>\n<p>ITunes starred six out of the entire 12 songs.  That&#8217;s impressive.  The bonus track, a Taiwan folk song, was a treat.  Her Mandarin voice was sweet and authentic.  I can imagine a tour in Taiwan and China entirely in Chinese songs.  Imagine her parents&#8217; proud expressions.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I knew this is her second CD and I actually had her third, <i>Dreaming Through Noise<\/i> before this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm Strangers Vienna Teng I like to be pleasantly surprised. After two CDs, I thought that would be the end of my Vienna Teng collection. I liked her music, at the same level of Charlotte Church&#8217;s first two CDs. Two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2010\/03\/entering-stardom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[300,360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}