History Music / Sodagreen

->"The [young] ones who will inherit the future, don't make the same mistakes."

* SingerNamedrop: In this case, a band namedrop. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPX7-tPRts Aerial Visions, Sounds And Illusions]]"' first line goes:
->"In the middle of the night, at three, I wake up"
->"And inexplicably drink a cup of '''soda'''"
->"A '''green''' forest bubbles out from my weariness"
->"And I feel slightly uneasy"
** Quite appropriate, as this song was off their first single.

->"This is a little love song"
->"Which sings of the complications of our hearts"
->"I guess I'm the happiest when I have your warmth"
->"The air by my feet spins"

* MoralityBallad: "King's Garden", which ends with the line, 'the [young] ones who will inherit the future, don't make the same mistakes'.

* SingerNamedrop: In this case, a band namedrop. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPX7-tPRts Aerial Visions, Sounds And Illusions]]"' first line goes: 'In the middle of the night, at three, I wake up/And inexplicably drink a cup of ''soda''/A ''green'' forest bubbles out from my weariness/And I feel slightly uneasy'. Quite appropriate, as this song was off their first single.

* ThisIsASong: The first few lines of "Little Love Song" go 'This is a little love song/Which sings of the complications of our hearts/I guess I'm the happiest when I have your warmth/The air by my feet spins'.

* 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?]]

** sodagreen's first full-length album was infused with indie rock goodness.

* 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?]]

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

* Leitmotif: The Vivaldi Project albums contain two leitmotifs: a descending phrase with six notes and a longer one with twelve notes. They occur in ''Daylight of Spring''s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRm6lC2Szw Stopping At Every Station]]", ''Summer/Fever''s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7KpTmxZJLE&feature= Summer Summer]]", and ''Autumn: Stories''' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z72ReHQMuQY The Last One in Your Heart]]" and "Little Star".

* Leitmotif: The Vivaldi Project albums contain two leitmotifs: a descending phrase with six notes and a longer one with twelve notes. They occur in ''Daylight of Spring'''s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbRm6lC2Szw Stopping At Every Station]]", ''Summer/Fever'''s "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7KpTmxZJLE&feature= Summer Summer]]", and ''Autumn: Stories''' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z72ReHQMuQY The Last One in Your Heart]]" and "Little Star".

* SingerNamedrop: In this case, a band namedrop. "Aerial Visions, Sounds And Illusions"' first line goes: 'In the middle of the night, at three, I wake up/And inexplicably drink a cup of ''soda''/A ''green'' forest bubbles out from my weariness/And I feel slightly uneasy'. Quite appropriate, as this song was off their first single.

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Xin-yi in "Stopping At Every Station" and Xiao-wei in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAtFLGQOlwg Having Fun in Life]]".

* 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 are shown to be this as well, just less often.

* GratuitousEnglish: "Oh Oh Oh Oh..."'s chorus is a prime example.

** He's a graduate in Chinese literature, so it kind of makes sense.

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* 2013 - ''Autumn: Stories''' (秋：故事)

* 2013 - "Autumn: Stories'' (秋：故事)

* DeadpanSnarker: Qingfeng is the most obvious example in the band, snarking (at his bandmates, friends, even the audience) at every opportunity. However, the rest of the band are shown to be this as well, albeit more covertly.

* DeadpanSnarker: Qingfeng is the most obvious example in the band, snarking at every opportunity. However, the rest of the band are shown to be this as well, albeit more covertly.

* ThisIsASong: The first few lines of "Little Love Song" go 'This is a little love song/Which sings of the complications of our hearts/I guess I'm the happiest when I have your warmth/The air by my feet spin'.

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

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 campus rock scene, it 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.

* TitleTrack: Every single album with the exception of the first (eponymous) one.

* AnimatedMusicVideo: A few, especially in their early days. Notable ones include the music videos for "Flying Fish" and "Oh Oh Oh Oh...".

* BannedInChina: "Lover Animal", for a short period of time.

* GriefSong: "When I Was Little", Qingfeng's song for his cancer-stricken and estranged father, became this after his father's death.

* LyricalColdOpen: "This Day".

* SelfEmpowermentAnthem: "Bird's Nest" and "What is Troubling You".

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Xin-yi in 'Stopping At Every Station' and Xiao-wei in 'Having Fun in Life'.

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 campus rock scene, it entered mainstream attention with "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.

* Idiosyncratic Album Theming: The Vivaldi Project albums. ''Spring'' has ten songs and two hidden tracks, ''Summer'' has eleven songs and three hidden tracks and ''Autumn'' has twelve songs and four hidden tracks.

* ProtestSong: "King's Garden" can be seen as one.

* NewSoundAlbum: The band's sound shifts distinctly from album to album, although the changes were the most pronounced in 2007's ''Incomparable Beauty'', when the band began experimenting with classical music, and 2009's ''Daylight of Spring'', when elements of folk music were incomparated into arrangements.

* Wu Qingfeng (Greeny) - lead vocalist and the band's main songwriter.
* Shih Jun-wei (Xiao-wei) - drummer. He contributes a few songs every album and occasionally pens the lyrics himself.
* Hsieh Xin-yi (Claire) - bassist. sodagreen's only female member.
* He Jing-yang (A-fu) - acoustic guitarist. The band's leader.
* Liu Jia-kai (Kay) - electric guitarist. The only one in the band who never sings backing vocals.
* Gong Yu-chi (A-gong) - keyboards and viola. Holder of a degree in music, he weaves into the band's arrangements intricate classical-like patterns.