The english language in music and movies

The things I wrote in "The Taiwanese and the English language" matches perfectly with the following. The English language is used on every occasion possible in music. You might say, that this is nothing special. Well....it is, considering I am talking about Chinese songs. When I was there, there were 3 lovely ladies called S.H.E. and they had a hit with a song called "Superstar". A very lovely song, but the title was about the only English that was used in that song. The song was completely in Chinese, except for that sentence. And that is a very strange thing to hear. You hear a lot of Chinese mambo-jambo, woven together to form a nice song, and all of a sudden you hear something that sounded like English. Until you hear it more often, and then you hear the title.

This isn't really an exception. I have heard quite some songs, where there is English used, to "spice it up a bit". Somehow I have the feeling, that they think that if there is some English in the song, it automatically becomes a hit.
And it's not only Taiwanese and/or Chinese who do this, but the other day, YuMei was watching a Korean serie, and she loved the music. So she downloaded it. And there are also a few songs that has only one English sentence in it.

And when you consider the way they are trying to put English in their songs, they must use the English names of American and English artists. But no.....all English names are being translated into Chinese form. And not only in music, but also in films. And even more strange is that they might never heard of the English names. Like the time I asked YuMei something about the Beatles. She never heard of them before. Until I named a song of them, and played it to her. Then she knew who I was talking about. So, you can ask someone who is Arnold Schwarzenegger, and they will be looking at you, like you are asking about the devil himself (well, some might say you are). Until you mention a movie (in Chinese).

This might be a nice game to play on those cold winter evenings, in front of the fireplace. One of you mention an artist in your mother language, and the other one must guess who you are talking about.