Beauties Without Tears/In Love with Power Main Theme Song Released!

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I really love the the instrumental introduction to this song. The singing by Yuan Shan Shan and Han Dong is mediocre but the music is really lovely and soothing! I think some type of Mongolian wind instrument is used in the introduction, but I don't know name of it since I'm an absolute dumbie in terms of music. I hear it used a lot in Mongolian pop music. Wish I knew the name. =/

Link: http://v.163.com/zixun/V7OVUJ863/V81VV43DI.html

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