History Music / Sodagreen

* WordSaladLyrics: Qingfeng's lyrics can be very literary.
** He's a graduate in Chinese literature, so it kind of makes sense.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Qingfeng. The Vivaldi Project extends to his hair colour too. Pink for the Spring album, green for the Summer album and red for the Autumn album. [[spoiler:White for the Winter album?]]

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[[caption-width-right:248:Left to right: Wu Qing-feng, Liu Jia-kai, Ho Jing-yang (A-fu), Shih Jun-wei (Xiao-wei), Gong Yu-chi (A-gong), Hsieh Xin-yi]]

* BannedInChina: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y-TldhNBRQ Lover Animal]]", for a short period of time.

* BreakthroughHit: "Little Love Song" propelled sodagreen to mainstream attention throughout their native Taiwan. The greater Chinese region (the Mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia) began paying more attention to the band after their 2011 release, ''What Is Troubling You?''.

* OneOfTheBoys: Xin-yi. Her bandmates often joke that she's served in the [[{{TheOtherChineseArmy}} ROC army]]. (In Taiwan, it's compulsory for all males to serve in the army for a short period of time.)

* AnimatedMusicVideo: A few, especially in their early days. Notable ones include the music videos for "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrml2KJ7jk Flying Fish]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKC7Xe5nDRI Oh Oh Oh Oh...]]".
** These may double as {{SurrealMusicVideo}}s too.

* VitriolicBestBuds: The whole band.

* BreakupSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwdcMDbyJ8 Left Side]]" is a heart-rending rendition of a breakup. Listening to the song while watching the music video and it amplifies the effect.
* ChickMagnet: Jia-kai.

* DeadpanSnarker: Qingfeng is the most obvious example in the band, snarking (at his bandmates, friends, even the audience) a lot. The rest of the band can be this as well at times.
-->'''Qingfeng''': (takes off jacket at concert)
-->'''Audience''': (screams)
-->'''Qingfeng''': (to the audience) Are you all here for a concert or a strip show?

-->'''Xin-yi''': (on a talk show) [Back then,] I used to stay at school all night playing the guitar.
-->'''Qingfeng''': Playing the guitar or playing the guitarists?

* GratuitousEnglish: "Oh Oh Oh Oh..."'s chorus and "Signs and Symbol"'s bridge are prime examples.

* PrecisionFStrike: The Chinese equivalent appears in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOxGKqdotBg Fever]]".

* BreakupSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSvDdL2BPs And We Met Again]]" is set a year after a breakup.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwdcMDbyJ8 Left Side]]" is a heart-rending rendition of a breakup. Listening to the song while watching the music video and it amplifies the effect.

sodagreen is a band from Taiwan whose popularity is rapidly rising in the greater Chinese region. Their music is often described as a fusion of folk, pop and rock, with trademarks of the band including lead singer Wu Qingfeng's distinctive counter-tenor voice, which can sound nasal on the lower notes but ethereal and smooth while hitting the higher ones, and the band's poetic Mandarin lyrics. Although sodagreen began its life as just another band on the indie rock scene, mentored by Taiwanese indie veteran Will Lin, the band entered mainstream attention with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in8NNzwFa-s Little Love Song]]" from its second album, ''Little Universe'', landing the band a nomination for Best Lyrics and a victory in the Best Melody category in the Golden Melody Awards (the Taiwanese Grammies) held in 2007.

--> - What is Troubling You?

* LyricalTic: Qingfeng's 'le-li-o's, which are the most evident on the earlier albums.

** As part of the band's Vivaldi Project, this album portrayed spring as a season of warmth, awakening and playfulness. The music in this album was profoundly different from previous releases, carrying a very folksy vibe and incorporating various ethnic instruments and natural sounds. The lyrics referenced the Greek god Pan, the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, and the Taiwanese region of Taitung.

** Second in the band's Vivaldi Project, this album was produced in London, which also provided the inspiration for the Britrock -inspired songs here. The lyrics on this album reference Faust, Madame Butterfly, Don Quixote and Dionysus, and come off as far angrier and more direct as compared to the band's previous offerings.

* DeadpanSnarker: Qingfeng is the most obvious example in the band, snarking (at his bandmates, friends, even the audience) at every opportunity. The rest of the band can be this as well at times.

* PerishingAltRockVoice: Qingfeng favoured this in the earlier, college rock days, but now he sings in a clearer and better-enunciated way.
* PlayingTheHeartStrings: First bit of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mQv7NhBo-c Bird's Nest]]".

** Inspired by the Chinese capital, Beijing, this album spent four years in the works before its inception. This album's music is based on the idea of autumn as a season of both joyful harvest and reflective melancholy as winter approaches. A few song arrangements in this album also have traditional Chinese instruments in the forefront, which make an interesting blend with sodagreen's brand of folk-pop-rock. The lyrics in this album reference Classical Chinese poets Su Shi (Su Dongpo) and Li Bai, as well as Western composers like Debussy and Chopin.

* BreakupSong: "And We Met Again" is set a year after a breakup.

-->'''Qingfeng''': (onstage, to Jia-kai) Perhaps one day you'll [learn to] be a comedian (''xiexing'') too.
-->'''Jiakai''': (shakes head vigorously)
-->'''Qingfeng''': I meant 'xie' as in 'scary' (''xiemen'').
-->'''A-gong''': You mean 'xie' as in 'crooked nose' (''bizixie'').
-->'''Qingfeng''': (to the audience) Yeah, haven't you all realised how crooked [Jia-kai's] nose is?
-->'''Audience''': We have!
-->'''Qingfeng''': (to Jia-kai) Your upper beam is not straight and so is your lower beam (''lialiang buzheng, xialiang wai'', a Chinese proverb meaning that if a leader sets a bad example, subordinates are likely to follow suit).
-->'''Jia-kai''': (to the audience) [Qingfeng] was suggesting that my mum's nose is crooked.
-->'''Qingfeng''': I never meant to say anything bad about your mother. It's your own fault and you push the blame to your mum? What happened to filial piety?
-->'''Jia-kai''': Ah, but my mum's nose is crooked too.
-->'''Qingfeng''': But you're the one with the 'lower beam'.

-->'''Qingfeng''': Are you all here for a concert or a strip show?

-->'''Qingfeng''': (to audience) Yeah, haven't you all realised how crooked [Jia-kai's] nose is?

-->'''Jia-kai''': (to audience) [Qingfeng] was suggesting that my mum's nose is crooked.