Wuhan Calling: How Punk Rock Changed China’s Youth

[@kean6577]

I was just wondering this week about if there were any punk rock music in China. U guys are awesome, great job.

[@kylin3197]

punk rock and China's most delicious breakfast city 😁

[@mrainzooalgown2190]

Metal also in china doing great.

[@ll4680]

Probably not anymore since the CCP has stomped out any western influence in the last 3 years

[@alcyonae]

“Kurt Kobain was very hard working” he was, but how in character for a Chinese person to say, even for the founder of a punk band! Any achievement takes hard work and I love that the Chinese culture holds this value in such high regard.

[@assrammington7961]

That’s why they’re better than us. It’s too bad they’re wasting so much money on sub-Saharan Africas. The laziest and dumbest humans on the planet.

[@CineIt]

Punk will unite us all! Oi! Oi! Oi!

[@Purge_Punk_Hyena_1999]

Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[@martincraig1258]

Oi!!!!!!

[@kitchfairman5043]

FUCK YES!

[@kylin3197]

YESSSSS MY BELOVED WUHAN!!!!!!!!! 🥰 am Wuhaner

[@Bluwoo-ct6wz]

AYY stay safe! 💖💖

[@Americas_Laziest_Photographer]

Vox is a great venue, you can go and see punk, metal, post punk, and other underground music. Not sure if it's still there, but around the corner is Wuhan Prison, a bar started by Wu Wei, that is a great place to go for drinks before or after the show.

[@roundeyeshanghai2647]

Unfortunately, Vox is now in a shitty location in a mall a couple km down the street and has been redesigned to be a bit more commercial. It's no longer right around the corner from Prison. Prison is still there but it's definitely felt the impact of Vox's recent move. Wuwei of SMZB has fled the country due to the government crackdown on SMZB for the content of its most recent release. China's gonna China.

[@ritadamayanti2087]

This is how life around the world should be. Making music. Not war. Oi! To Us All!

[@foxopossum]

This is punk in its purest, best firm. JOY!!!

[@Qualitaetsnutzer]

Punk is a culture that unites the world. I think I could feel at home at any punk venue all over the world.

[@medusianAllure]

My family is from Wuhan. I wish I could go to Vox someday.

[@markeastonlimousine]

SMZB are THE best punk band in China, anybody who can record a song like “the Chinese are coming” while living in China, has got be respected!

[@carry_music0811]

武汉人本地len来鸟！武汉以前蛮多朋克乐队和金属乐队，正满都蛮少见鸟，我自己本sen也4一个音乐zi作len哈哈哈 （I speak Wuhan dialect，which is means I am the local from Wuhan，there used be so many punk or Metal band，but rarely seen nowadays，and I am a music producer too haha）

[@songbenny1492]

我超级喜欢AV大久保！

[@peterpanda1970]

They should rename the city to Punkhan ❤️❤️❤️

[@DOOWOOP1664]

Wupunk

[@andrewfield]

Very cool video. Not sure I agree that punk started in Wuhan though. It was already a scene in Beijing in the 1990s. And you should have mentioned SUBS! They came out of Wuhan in the late 1990s.

[@Tassiekaz]

Yeah came to say exactly this. Big punk scene in Beijing in the 90s!

[@walterpu8357]

Beijing punk is more like popular punk, wuhan punk is more like original sex pistol punk.

[@NuclearSplatter]

fuck yeah! punk is forever all around the world!

[@blackholerainbow3029]

Right on!

[@citizen1553]

voice of freedom voice of youth voice of wuhan

[@Fishlip5]

Up the Punx!

[@unpopularmoviereviews3622]

Add "go to a Chinese punk concert" to my bucket list

[@step2far]

No mention of Misandao from Beijing

[@raddkahnengels]

Because they're from Beijing, just like 1000 other bands... but yeah. Great band. R.I.P. Lei Jun

[@imjwin]

What’s up Broski 🦋

[@ULTIMATErainkurosaki]

What is the name of the song in the beginning

[@dealman3312]

I am so going to wuhan to hit up vox

[@catherinepremici452]

🤘🤘🤘👊

[@ASM881]

I wonder what their social credit score is.

[@sovereignnews3336]

I came for Demerited.

[@joyjoyoo]

如果用music genre形容城市，我一直觉得他是rap。。和grunge、punk 不沾边。😂

[@junweihe8229]

重庆才是rap

[@zuannetolu]

What Is china s government opinion about It?

[@esteebrown4102]

🥰👍🏻

[@vincentkong5115]

if i list chinese punk bands there always will be 苍蝇，盘古，生命之饼， NO，子曰

[@lavender9844]

I’ve gotta visit wuhan now wtf????

[@6saturnacaprisun156]

interested in whether they're allowed to criticize the state or if that's a little too punk. nice video tho, very hip and appealing to western audiences.

[@bonzo6805]

I wonder that too. During commie regime in Poland we had a similiar issue, police would see a punk kid and just beat him up. Now here you probably can get assassinated by being too punk i imagine, if you are a commercial artist i think, but I imagine that the underground scene is gigantic there so more amateur artists probably get to sing what they want, at least that's how I imagine it, never been to china lmao.

[@bewildercn9458]

@@bonzo6805 Of course there are many Chinese punk bands doing this.But you usually can’t listen to it in mainstream media.

[@bonzo6805]

@@bewildercn9458 Do police trouble you for being different? I imagine CCP would hate punk subculture for it's values. Keep the fight up :)

[@bewildercn9458]

​@@bonzo6805 Punk is so rare that it cannot attract the attention of the cops and CCP,unless someone complains about their shows and the song happens to be about politics. In fact, China may indeed be inferior to Western countries in terms of freedom, but it is not so bad, and the most terrible punishment is only banning performances,not to beat them or put them in jail. As for the punk on the street, if you don’t commit a crime, no one will care about you even if your mohawk is one meter tall hahahahahah

[@minebrosfinest]

@@bewildercn9458 you say that but the credit score system is what keeps this rare they are oppressed in less obvious ways

[@cron205]

There is plenty of asian punk bands from the 70s and 80s

[@helltownlive1078]

It is? Cool! can you tell me the names of the bands?:)

[@joy1ess]

There was a punk scene in singapore in the 80s - 90s.

[@MrCaquita23]

@@helltownlive1078 There's a video on KZbin of live recordings of Japanese hardcore punk/Crust punk bands from the 80s, some bands are good.

[@alcyonae]

Asian doesn’t mean Chinese

[@aygulmemet4201]

Why bring this up? They're not Chinese so they're irrelevant to this video

[@jet3910]

勤奋+天赋+压抑的社会环境＝朋克乐队

[@neilburton8131]

punk is sticking two fingers up at the establishment

[@josefk5659]

2 fingers?

[@user-pr3jm9jx1f]

@@josefk5659 both middle fingers, I presume

[@kylin3197]

Birthplace of Chinese punk and birthplace of Republic of China! 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

[@dukejivetalker7541]

Birthplace of a global pandemic! Thanks assholes!

[@mrainzooalgown2190]

@@dukejivetalker7541 nope its europe. They just confirm it in china but early march 2019 there is already trace of covid in barcelona sewers.

[@hiroprotagonitis]

@@mrainzooalgown2190 the study where they reported that was not peer reviewed, it could have been from outside contamination or false positive. there were no symptoms of covid in europe at the time, but the first reported cases and outbreak were in wuhan and spread because of the lunar year travels. the virus was still transported from china.

[@mrainzooalgown2190]

@@hiroprotagonitis it is already confirm that virus ddnt originate in china and from the bat's. There is also cases in europe of many poeple have peumonia at the same time that was before wuhan.

[@hiroprotagonitis]

@@mrainzooalgown2190 there are no reports of positive covid sars2 samples taken from before the outbreak in wuhan. unless you can provide sources about "many" people. the italian study that reported your figure was neither peer reviewed nor "confirmed." and please read my comment again, whether it strictly originated in china or not is irrelevant, the first major outbreak happened in and spread from china. i dont like demonizing an entire city but i know where your claims are from and the fact is that none of it has been confirmed yet. it is worse to spread misinformation.

[@brandonhagen6765]

And not a tattoo in sight. Now I'm going to Google tattoos in China lol

[@aygulmemet4201]

Tattoos are for the mafia and emos

[@jasonreviews]

punku is punk. damn my chinese is getting good.

[@Stichting_NoFa-p]

Do you know what Wuhan is also the birthplace of?

[@roundeyeshanghai2647]

hahaha

[@martincraig1258]

Yeah! Hell yeah! China has Punk! The world is safe! I love ya'll! Wreck shop!

[@bigman9497]

Hi

[@catherinepremici452]

Punk not dead....

[@armanborloza7981]

Nirvana is Punk?lol

[@garryrptr]

i mean it's not entirely wrong, cuz grunge is combination of Punk & Metal

[@jasonweber5464]

Niihau

[@gameoolimon]

Jockers..lol

[@The0ldg0at]

How can one talks about punk in China without talking about the severe drug problems of punks everywhere and the severe repression of drugs in China?

[@alefantozzi2774]

CCPUnk?

[@helenniasukofah3665]

Punk not kingdommm

[@itsjustmoses4313]

I may visit china for this.........

[@cron205]

The raincoats are 80s asian punk band

[@gasrulgarengaja9829]

Oi oii indonesia

[@死狗-s9y]

生命之饼！

[@hitty9]

yes they sound like punk, but Kurt Cobain was not punk guys. He was grunge.

[@yip2454]

Grunge is what the media gave him. he himself plays punk rock. its the nirvana sound that gave birth to what media calls it "grunge"

[@Ko_LA777]

*ЧЁ ЭТО БЫЛО А?* *_Зачем мне это рекомендует Ютуб а?_*

[@ZL-cp4ih]

Corona punk

[@diegos.loayza3706]

XD

[@travishurst8061]

Thier music sounds pro ccp and that aint for me wish u all the best tho

[@raddkahnengels]

Who's music, SMZB's? No, it's not. Wu Wei has gotten in trouble a few times, actually. It's been a few years since the last time it happened, and it wasn't anything really serious, but it has happened.

[@adrianhiisssthecat3795]

Listen to their songs like Chinese Is Coming and Red Riot, which are the opposite.

[@lowercaseguy3578]

Didnt punk genre died in the 90s.....

[@vivous6842]

Punk isnt dead, it will never die. Punk has just been over shouted by modern rap and pop music

[@hiroprotagonitis]

@@vivous6842 punk dies when the spirit dies, like when it became commercialized in the 90s. but ur also right, it was never about the sound, its about the values and ethos, the desire to subvert the "pop" of the time (60s guitar bands) with disruptive anti-establishment energy. punk's not shouted over, it simply migrated to indie, then to rap and noise. anywhere there are boundary pushers. dreamcrusher is punk. arca and noname are punk. independent rappers and DIY artists are punk. theres a surprising amount of punk in modern rap and pop.

[@buceoApulmon]

There are plenty of active DIY/underground punk bands in 2021. Just because a few bands became commercialized in the 90s doesn't mean that the scene is dead. kzbin.infovideos

[@darkcnotion]

​@@hiroprotagonitis I completely agree

[@cron205]

This isnt punk viberate two fingers are real Asian punk rock

[@khantin6526]

Isnt wuhan where covid started ?

[@alwaystoohonest8199]

It’s where the CDC identified the first pandemic, but it is not clear that the virus was indeed originated there, at least for today’s research.

[@PKMNFan4664]

Yes it is.

[@koostory1776]

China people always do things better, aka COVID-19 😨👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@suryaandrahuldev6263]

#kamalaharris daughter of lovejihad😂😭

[@tazboy1934]

Covid 19 gendre

[@dukejivetalker7541]

This is the most unpunk thing possible. It's cute that china tries, but yeah this is sad.

[@hiroprotagonitis]

they just tryin man. although its true, no true punks really exist unless they're using scappy dirt cheap gear, equipment is too expensive to really adhere to punk values, even in the 90s. they seem kinda middle class to even have access to instruments, but power to them for trying to express themselves and build a grassroots scene.

[@xchemie]

They're doing their best in an f'ing communist country where you get sent to "re-education" camps (or worse) if you offend the wrong person. That's punk enough for me. Quit with your high and mighty privileged judgement. 😐

[@victorhuang3896]

you're just self conscious about your own vanity and your precious American punk. This fringe "punk" scene doesn't represent what "China is trying" LOL are you kidding.

[@victorhuang3896]

@@xchemie nothing punk about regurgitating US right wing lies about "camps" in China thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/ . Personally, i think NOrth Korea is punk for being anti western imperialist and protecting her sovereignty for longer than the USSR was a thing. i think China is punk for being socialist with Chinese characteristics. And lastly, i don't care for a whole genre of music that is only "anti establishment" according to westerners.

[@Yogirliej4dee]

I feel bad for the Chinese youth

[@小肉肉-f4u]

You guys support Biden or Trump?

[@lazybones5390]

I voted Andrew Yang

[@qimao9542]

Jo jo

[@YourCompanyNameCouldBeHere]

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