Alice Han

At the same time, global music is crossing borders in new ways, whether it's Bad Bunny topping charts in China after his historic Grammy win and Super Bowl halftime show, or international sounds finding new audiences in China.

There's a sense that nightlife culture is reconnecting China to the world again.

James, I'm going to ask you straight out.

Have you ever been to a Chinese undergrad club?

Oh, that surprises me.

Well, James, I'm normally a boomer in terms of my music interests.

It's normally jazz and classical music with a bit of alternative rock.

But I do have to say that I like Bad Bunny a lot.

And I thought his Super Bowl performance, if you haven't seen it, was just an absolute wonder to behold.

It was artistically, creatively beautiful to watch.

And at a time like this in the political environment in the US, I think so needed.

So I highly recommend watching this afterwards.

But fun fact, I was looking this up, that Bad Bunny's name in Chinese is...

is Huai Pi Tuo, which if you know Chinese means literally bad, naughty bunny.

I think that's actually quite interesting.

And I've seen more memes in China of bad bunny Huai Pi Tuo.

His album has reached number one on the Apple Music chart in China.

So it's definitely gaining traction in China at a time where in the last year or two, we've seen a lot of big foreign musicians, whether it's Kanye or Katy Perry, going to China and doing live concerts.

I believe Katy Perry recently was there in Hangzhou.

I saw a lot of videos of her performing too.