5 posts tagged “song of the week”
I am in severe denial about the fact that I'm moving from Boston back to HK permanently.
On the other hand, have become a major fan of DBSK. A fan's relationship with their idols are always so fickle, I feel. I've liked w-inds. since their debut when they and I were 15 years old, and I've liked them all until the end of last year. Their sound started changing so that I'd buy their albums but I wouldn't listen to their songs again, and I didn't like magazines and such that gave Ryuichi less space and attention because he was less popular than Keita or Ryohei. I understand the business, and they're in it to make money, so. I'm into DBSK now, but who knows? I'm already feeling chotto frustrated about the way they focus so much on Jaejoong in Japan. And when I was watching the tv show of someone called Tetsuko or dude I don't even know her name, she mixed up Junsu and Yoochun.
Dude.
And I prefer their Korean songs because I get to hear the other members sing; it's not so Jaejoong oriented/dominated, whatever.
So here's my flavour of the week by my 東方神起, called Whatever They Say.
I missed two, so I'm uploading two songs.
One is 烈女 by 楊千嬅. It's sort of a girl-power song, I guess. I dunno. Here we go:
This week's song is the Piano Sonata No. 8, "Pathetique", by Beethoven. It's sort of a change from the usual, but I discovered the score in my collection yesterday and have since played it through once. Need to practise. I only have the Adagio, but the entire sonata is worth listening to.
Of course, I have an economics exam tomorrow, which explains the procrastination...
This week's song is 原來你什麼都不想要 by 張惠妹, a Taiwanese singer. It's a pretty old song; it came out in the late 90's if I remember correctly. Anyway, I love the lyrics in this. It's such a desperate, unrequited love...although one part of me is like, GET OVER IT, BITCH. HE'S AN ASSHOLE ANYWAY.
I'm just a little bit drunk on a Sunday night at 11pm.
Ho hum.
Anyway, the chorus (translated) says something like:
I don't need your promises, I don't need your forever
I just need you to love me properly once
Dammit, I'm all cynical right now about relationships. They never work out, guys are asses, girls are so "long lai" and dammit I'm speaking chinglish. But that's okay, whatever.
I've decided to upload a song each week. It'll be mostly be Asian, hahaha, and no guarantees that it'll be recent, either.
The song for this week is 直上 by 鄧健泓. In English, a rough translation of the title would mean "Straight Ahead". I like this song not because of the singer (Patrick Tang) - he's not very famous and I don't think he ever actually made it big as a singer, but this song was really popular at my school when it came out in 2001, when I was still in secondary school.
I like the chorus to this, mostly. Something about the lyrics intrigues me, and even though I can't be bothered to translate, it's a love song, something about them charging ahead on the road of life. Perhaps this is the song of the week because I need some excitement in my life, haha. Although, with all the excitement I had this weekend, I'm not so sure I need any more. This promises to be a nice, quiet week. Until Thursday, the beginning of our long weekend YAY! My friend is visiting from Florida, where she's working now (graduated last year).
So, this weekend my friend and I got drunk after watching Running With Scissors. Awesome movie, a must watch. GO! GO GO GO!!! hahaha. Anyway, I'm never drinking whiskey coke again. But gin tonic and gin sprite I will, because it was YUM. I drunk-dialed this guy that was after my friend and I don't even remember what I said on his voicemail. Needless to say, it was one of those messages that you completely ignore after listening to it, HAHAHAHA. Later that night, she drunk-dialed her boyfriend, knocked the chips out of my hand, and then I kicked over my mug (yes, MUG) of gin sprite while attempting to pick up the chips. What a mess! And we were on the front steps to her brownstone, too! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh well. Go listen to the song. It's not the best singing ever, but I like it all the same. XD
