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song: China Girl
artist: Anna Ternheim
album: Shoreline EP
released: 2005-06-08length: 3:47
4.8
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I could escape this feeling with my China girl
I feel a wreck without my little China girl
I hear her heart beating loud as thunder
Saw the stars crashing

I'm a mess without my little China girl
Wake up in the morning, where's my little China girl
I hear her heart's beating loud as thunder
I saw the stars crashing down

I feel tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China girl
I could pretend nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl

I stumble into town
Just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the white of my eyes

My little China girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
You know it
I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world

And when I get excited
My little China girl says,
"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."
She says, "Sh."
She says, "Sh."
She says
She says

And when I get excited
My little China girl says,
"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."

And when I get excited
My little China girl says,
"Oh baby just you shut your mouth."

She says, "Sh."
She says, "Sh."
Anna Ternheim

Anna Ternheim is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She was born May 31, 1978, in Stockholm, Sweden. She began playing guitar at the age of 10. During a year abroad in Atlanta, Georgia, Anna created her first band "Sova", playing at smaller festivals and local clubs. Back in Stockholm she continued her songwriting and later in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was performing while studying French.

She released her debut album Somebody Outside in 2004, the Swedish Grammy jury awarded her the Best Newcomer of the Year award.

For her second album, Separation Road released on September 27, 2006, she was awarded Best Female Artist and Best Lyricist by the Swedish Grammy jury.

Her debut US album, Halfway to Fivepoints, was released on April 22, 2008. Ternheim moved to Manhattan that same year. She released her fourth album, Leaving on a Mayday on August 11, 2008.

Her fifth studio album, The Night Visitor, was released in the U.S. and internationally in autumn of 2011.

Reference List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ternheim

https://www.annaternheim.com/

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Comments ( 63 )
Posted 18 years ago by coentje:
stevo_b wrote:
Terrible album cover.....
Actually, I love it. Trying to get why some people find this disturbing I can only presume that since it's so easy to get a gun in America you could even be afraid of a sweet little girl playing with a toy. Or do you think girls shouldn't be playing with "boy toys"?
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Posted 14 years ago by calypsus_1:

David Bowie - "China Girl" Live at Olympia, Paris (2002):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0t136R8Gg

David Bowie
Live at Olympia, Paris
1 July, 2002

"Bowie is timeless...damn he started in the 60's,but he was great all the time. Even now."

 


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Posted 19 years ago by jah_blessed:
catmaven wrote:
Let's just not listen to songs that have "Girl" in the title, whether preceded by an adjective or not. That should take care of it.
Yeah, but does it matter if the tracks are performed by guys or not? What about "Material Girl"? Or "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"? "Nasty Girl"? (Vanity 6, ) I could go on for a while.
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Posted 19 years ago by rKokon:
Though I agree with most of the negative comments below, I must emphasize another aspect: the lyrics. I see no purpose in songs that refer to adult females as girls, and the "China" adjective has to be offensive on two counts: the dated adjective is now used just for dishware, and pigeonholing the person by her ethnic group can only serve to diminish and denigrate. I resent "Cinnamon Girl" on similar grounds. Let's just not listen to songs that have "Girl" in the title, whether preceded by an adjective or not. That should take care of it.
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Posted 19 years ago by jah_blessed:
Don't you love the rating distribution graph for this track? (I'm with the flock who gave it a 1. I'm so unoriginal.)
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Posted 19 years ago by algrif:
bschena wrote:
...hated the original. now i have a new version to hate too. though, odddly, i hate this one less.
Just about sums it up, except I don't actually hate this version. A 4.
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Posted 19 years ago by meloman:
Music, schmusic...I can't get past the awful photo on the cover of the CD. There ought to be a parental advisory warning for that!
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Posted 19 years ago by winter:
FlatCat wrote:
How interesting that so many people hate this. By all rights, I should too, for all the reasons everyone lists. And yet somehow the smokey atmospherics are beguiling and I enjoy it.
I like the atmosphere, too - but not enough to like the song as a whole. It falls horribly flat, IMO.
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Posted 19 years ago by donutsprinkles:
You people who are dissing this are nuts. It's beautiful. Though I love Bowie, you can actually hear the lyrics in this version, which is an improvement.
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Posted 19 years ago by bschena:
Anna gets points for balls for actually attempting a cover of this. Specifically, 2 points. ...hated the original. now i have a new version to hate too. though, odddly, i hate this one less.
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Posted 19 years ago by Jovica:
Great and unusual version.
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Posted 19 years ago by meadowwoods:
It's not that I don't like it, but it just sounds so....strange... Really like Bowie's China Girl much better.
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Posted 19 years ago by MrKite:
I really really love this.
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Posted 19 years ago by FlatCat:
How interesting that so many people hate this. By all rights, I should too, for all the reasons everyone lists. And yet somehow the smokey atmospherics are beguiling and I enjoy it.
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Posted 19 years ago by Beanie:
Wow. I logged in, just so I could reduce my rating on this from a 2 to a 1...
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Posted 19 years ago by DrLex:
It's as if the original was boiled during two hours to kill all the life out of it, and then the resulting sludge was sieved and filtered to keep only the lyrics and some vague hints of the melody.
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Posted 19 years ago by federico:
I beg to disagree with most other comments. This song does perfectly well what all covers should do: discover something in a song that the "original" version missed. It's an intelligent move to underline the poetry and sentiment in Bowie's work. After all, sentiment (this cover) and melodrama (the original), are not that different ...
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Posted 19 years ago by Stella:
This is just wrong.">
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Posted 19 years ago by KateD:
Make it stop!!!
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Posted 19 years ago by jadewahoo:
This is atrocious!
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