Why Vietnam's 'Lady Gaga' lives in fear
IN THE dying days of February, an audience gathered in the foyer of the Phu Sa Lab performing-arts space in Hanoi’s Tay Ho District. Representatives from the American embassy and other members of the diplomatic corps rubbed shoulders with activists, musicians, artists and a small but excitable handful of journalists. Foreigners and Vietnamese alike, they were there to witness the launch of “Dissent”, Mai Khoi’s aptly and bluntly-titled new album.
But unlike Pussy Riot, the Russian outfit to whom Mai Khoi has occasionally been compared, the music still—has always—mattered. On the basis of her new songs This is sedition served ice cold, but Mai Khoi maintains that the album is as important musically as it is politically. “It’s a new direction [for me],” she says. “It has traditional and ethnic influences, but it’s not traditional or ethnic music. Also, it isn’t imported from the West or South Korea, like much music in Vietnam.”
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