issue 54 - AsiaLIFE Magazine
issue 54 - AsiaLIFE Magazine
issue 54 - AsiaLIFE Magazine
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Goin In<br />
We Are Never Ever<br />
Getting Back Together<br />
As Long As You Love<br />
Me<br />
Lost in the Echo<br />
Thinking About You<br />
I'm a Man<br />
Lemonade<br />
One More Night<br />
Teen Idle<br />
50 Ways to Say<br />
Goodbye<br />
Jennifer Lopez feat Flo<br />
Rida<br />
Taylor Swift<br />
Justin Bieber feat Big<br />
Sean<br />
Linkin Park<br />
Frank Ocean<br />
Cee Lo Green<br />
Alexandra Stan<br />
Maroon 5<br />
Marina and the<br />
Diamonds<br />
Train<br />
Treme<br />
By Chris Mueller<br />
UK Top 10<br />
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How We Do (Party)<br />
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Read All About It Pt 3<br />
We Are Never Ever<br />
Getting Back Together<br />
Spectrum<br />
(All Along the) Watchtower<br />
We'll Be Coming Back<br />
Wonderful<br />
Simply Amazing<br />
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Wide Awake<br />
Titanium<br />
Give Your Heart a<br />
Break<br />
Payphone<br />
Let's Go<br />
Where Have You Been<br />
Whistle Poe Boy<br />
Blow Me (One Last<br />
Kiss)<br />
Want You Back<br />
Sam & The Womp<br />
Rita Ora<br />
Wiley feat Ms D<br />
Emeli Sande<br />
Taylor Swift<br />
Florence & The<br />
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Devlin feat Ed<br />
Sheeram<br />
Calvin Harris feat<br />
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Angel<br />
Trey Songz<br />
Ellie Goulding<br />
Katy Perry<br />
David Guetta feat Sia<br />
Demi Lovato<br />
Maroon 5 feat Wiz<br />
Khalifa<br />
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Ne-Yo<br />
Rihanna<br />
Flo Rida<br />
Pink<br />
Cher Lloyd<br />
Seven years after Hurricane<br />
Katrina devastated the Gulf<br />
Region, most of the postapocalyptic<br />
landscape in and<br />
around New Orleans has been<br />
cleaned up. While its people<br />
haven’t forgotten the immense<br />
challenges, setbacks<br />
and frustrations around the<br />
storm, they and their unique<br />
culture are still standing<br />
strong.<br />
In David Simon’s newest<br />
made-for-HBO series,<br />
Treme, he has succeeded<br />
in portraying the difficulties<br />
New Orleanians faced, and<br />
continue to face, long after<br />
the floodwaters receded. The<br />
show begins three months<br />
after Katrina and is set partly<br />
in Treme, a poor neighbourhood<br />
famous for its contribution<br />
to the New Orleans music<br />
scene. Simon, who gained<br />
recognition for his widely<br />
acclaimed series The Wire,<br />
has taken the same incredibly<br />
realistic format to Treme.<br />
The show intertwines the<br />
lives of a number of characters,<br />
such as the affable Antoine<br />
Batiste (Wendell Pierce),<br />
a jazz trombonist constantly<br />
struggling to find the next gig<br />
in a city full of musicians.<br />
Then there is Albert ‘Big<br />
Chief’ Lambreaux (Clark<br />
Peters), a Mardis Gras ‘Indian<br />
chief’. The Indians dress up<br />
in elaborate feather suits<br />
inspired by Native Americans<br />
during Mardi Gras, and are an<br />
important part of New Orleans<br />
traditions. Other notable characters<br />
include DJ Davis (Steve<br />
Zahn), a character based on<br />
real New Orleans musician<br />
Davis Rogan, who consulted<br />
for the show; and Annie<br />
Talarico, a classically trained<br />
violinist who makes money<br />
busking on the street.<br />
After the first few episodes<br />
it becomes clear that the true<br />
star of the series is the music.<br />
Every character is influenced<br />
in some way by both the<br />
hurricane and New Orleans<br />
music. Like the tough bar<br />
owner LaDonna, also Batiste’s<br />
ex-wife, who desperately tries<br />
to keep a familiar part of the<br />
community alive as the city<br />
seemingly descends further<br />
into chaos around her. Or<br />
John Goodman’s excellent<br />
portrayal of a vocal English<br />
professor and author who<br />
tries to show the world his city<br />
is still alive and kicking. In the<br />
opening of the first episode he<br />
throws a British TV journalist’s<br />
camera into the river after<br />
the reporter suggests the city<br />
doesn’t deserve to be saved.<br />
The gloomy premise of the<br />
show and the light it shines<br />
on the pathetic mishandlings<br />
by local and federal governments<br />
during and after Katrina<br />
can sometimes make for<br />
depressing viewing. But there<br />
is enough humour and brilliant<br />
acting that the viewer can’t<br />
help but sympathise with<br />
nearly every character. Treme<br />
shows how the city can bring<br />
out the best and worst in the<br />
characters that inhabit it.<br />
asialife HCMC 85
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