Vaswawa Opens Winter With a Spring Song and Stands Up for Old Favorites at an After-Work Singing Stream

M.ENTERTAINMENT — Vaswawa, a Chinese-language streamer with M.Entertainment, held an after-work singing stream on Wednesday and used it to defend her taste for older songs. Midway through, she said it seemed that singing the old favorites was simply more fun for her, and that she had a prejudice against some newer covers that sounded grating to her ear. “What’s wrong with just loving old songs?” she said.

Chat agreed. As she moved through the set, viewers wrote that old songs were simply good, that they were not old but classics, and that they were memories. The stream, titled around the cold weather and a day spent sleeping, drew a wave of replies about wanting to stay under the blankets and a joke that it was time to hibernate.

“What’s wrong with just loving old songs?” — Vaswawa, on her song choices

The set included a song she called “Kaibutsu” (怪物, “monster”). She said it was hard to sing and tiring near the end, and tried to find a backing track with harmonies for one section. She then found she had not saved that file, and learned the song shop only offers it during events. Later she picked an original version of another song, saying the arrangement she knew from another singer was too hard for her.

As winter set in, she noted that she had just sung a spring song. Chat asked whether spring still existed, and she answered that Taiwan does have one, though a short one. She also talked about the stream’s cover image, which viewers had praised, saying it was a cute picture left over from an old phone wallpaper she had shared.

Near the end she turned to the game she had been playing, saying the server was set to shut down in about a month and that she wanted to reach a stage she had never played before. She named the second-job dancer class and its heavy-rain skill for farming monsters as her target, and admitted it was disheartening to have played so long without much to show for it. She then sang a closing song she said she loved, and viewers answered with glow-stick emotes.