songs are supposed to lift your spirits but i think so many of these Chinese songs have such sad and depressing lyrics that they can make you more depressed... and songs jun sent me are so sad too... why's everyone pining for loved ones all the time...are there really a lot of broken hearts out there. maybe cos when we're happy we revel in the moment with others and tend less to pause and reflect. only in our darkest moments do we really think about lost friends/relationships/things that didn't work out that are still haunting us? and i'm totally overplaying JJ's Jiang Nan (which i only very recently discovered); i bet i'll grow so totally sick of it =P
ps: why are pop song lyrics mostly about relationships or relationship problems. imagine if a pop song has a nice melody but lyrics dominated by political content/ preachy stuff/filial piety/poverty in Africa.... would it be able to gain as much popularity/ become a megahit?
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oops, sorry mints, didnt mean to send u songs with sad stories/lyrics, just that if u noticed, the songs tt i sent u are usually with piano accompaniment, a music element which attracts me greatly as a listener :P also, while doing my work at night, i prefer to play songs that are "quieter" in nature, thus the slow songs...
and actually, wrt songs with "non-love story related" lyrics, jay chou's songs are one choice, cos fang wen shan writes poetic lyrics nicely; alternatively, david tao has song lyrics full of political/philosophical/biblical elements embedded in them too. if u are interested in listening to them for a change, just let me know, yeah? :)
hmmm that's true. ya i know jay's songs has interesting themes, other than usual lovey dovey lyrics... but i'm just wondering, it seems that many pop songs talk about love in some form...is it cos it's so impt to many of us...and perhaps more mass appeal?
well to answer your last question, i attended this year's ??? (a local song composition) talk, where they invited David Tao, Tanya Chua, Fang Wen Shan & Xu Huan Liang as guest-artistes to share their song-writing experiences with us, and I remembered that Xu Huan Liang Laoshi said something tt a song touches pple more easily if its talking abt something tt pple can relate to, thus the prevalent "relationships-theme", regardless of love bet family, friends, couples, etc.
as such, even if e song lyrics is abt pure description of an object, it will most prob be protrayed metaphorically to reflect some form of human relationships/ emotions in some of the phrases, simply cos if not, e lyrics will end up sounding "funny" & become rather difficult to sing, with no obvious intention or story behind it; or worst still, it will sound like an advertisement jingle.
thus, my point being is that love is just one of the many themes of human relationships that are being written into songs, and quite obviously its e most prevalent, cos we can relate to them somehow. and i guess most music producers will want to market their artistes as someone sensitive who "sings" such songs into their fans' hearts.. haha.
anyway, wrt Fang Wen Shan/Jay Chou or David Tao, while they may occasionally stray away from the usual love element, in replacement, their songs are filled with anger/??/??for the world, more "metaphorical type of love" instead.. which is still abt human emotions. so yup, dont think much songs can ever be completely detached from such themes, cos ultimately we are all feeling creatures. :)
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