I was scrolling through Weibo at 3 AM in my Berlin apartment when I saw it – Zhang Haochen’s new song ‘等春天再说吧’ had just dropped. The excitement hit me like a caffeine rush. There’s something about discovering new music from home that makes being 8,000 kilometers away feel a little less distant.
I immediately opened QQ Music, my fingers practically dancing across the screen. And then… the dreaded buffering icon. The spinning circle of doom. After three minutes of loading, all I got was an error message about ‘content not available in your region.’
You know that particular flavor of frustration? It’s like smelling your favorite childhood street food but being behind glass that you can’t break through. I could see the album art – that beautiful minimalist design with what looks like handwritten lyrics – but I couldn’t hear the music that millions back home were already adding to their playlists.
What makes this especially ironic is that the song’s whole concept is about slowing down and rejecting the pressure for immediate answers. ‘Give anxiety a gentle pause button,’ the description says. Well, geo-restrictions certainly forced me to pause – just not in the way Zhang Haochen intended.
I’m not alone in this. My friend in Toronto group-chatted me yesterday: ‘Did you try listening to the new Zhang Haochen track? QQ Music says I’m outside the service area. Since when is music has a service area?’
There’s something particularly cruel about cultural content being locked away from the very people who might need it most. When you’re living abroad, music and movies from home aren’t just entertainment – they’re emotional anchors. They’re the taste of your mom’s cooking when you can’t go home for Spring Festival, the sound of your hometown dialect when everyone around you speaks another language.
Zhang Haochen’s transition from bestselling author to musician feels particularly meaningful for those of us navigating our own transitions between cultures. The song’s theme of moving at your own pace resonates deeply when you’re building a life in a new country, where everything from grocery shopping to making friends happens at a different rhythm.
So here I am, reading about how this ‘slow living healing universe’ is bringing comfort to people back home, while I stare at a loading screen that never finishes. The irony isn’t lost on me – the song about patience is testing mine in ways its creator never imagined.
Maybe there’s a metaphor here about the distances we navigate – both geographical and emotional. Or maybe I’m just overthinking because I really want to hear this song. Either way, the struggle is real for overseas Chinese trying to stay connected to the cultural moments happening back home.
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