The day before the last.

Finding it really hard to concentrate on studying for my last paper because THIS is distracting me and my small brain other than the irritating form of my mum.

This song is 我要我们在一起, originally sung by 范晓萱 as a blue jazz rendition. GEM 邓紫棋 remade it into a classical blues version on this Chinese singing competition for already established singers called 我是歌手2. If  you remember, I posted a video called 烟花易冷 sung by 林志炫 in the first season of the same show. I found this show really interesting because it actually tests the singing prowess of singers and allows them to sing other songs other than their own. It actually shows a different side of their personalities and not what they're packaged as. Even though majority of the singers are from China (which means I have no idea who they are..), there ARE singers from Taiwan and GEM is from HK. For this season there is also 张宇 who is like, the god of singing songs of bitterness （苦情天王）, you will probably know him by the song 月亮惹的祸, which he sang for the first introductory episode.

Really great to see him back. He is a brilliant singer and as they mentioned several times in this show, up to now, no one have ever managed to imitate or acquire his style of singing (that's what the Chinese love to do, learn famous singing styles like 张学友 or 刘德华 or 周华建, ok maybe not them they're quite unique too) but ya, nobody even came close to his style if you catch my drift. His era was over 10 years back but he did leave behind a legacy, particularly nostalgic to a 90s kid like me. It reminds me of what my dad commented during Chinese New Year when we were watching a Taiwanese lunar new year concert where a certain band was singing something about 东区 (not sure who they are or what they were singing, I hold no regards to Taiwanese bands besides a few like 五月天 or even MP 魔幻力量). Anyway, he said that songs now were so different from before, why would that kind of song be remembered and passed down even after years. It was another of his thought-provoking comments. I dare say majority of the songs now will be left forgotten 10 years down the road, and it's the quality ones able to strike resonance with hearts of people, aka 引起共鸣, that will create a special place in the hall of fame. Sadly, these are hard to come by in this peculiar age of 'more is better'. Some may disagree, but there ARE people who acquired fame far too early for their own good and let it get to their heads. (Read JB) Whatever that can make you can destroy you too.

Now that I've spent an hour creating this, it's really time for me to get back to my studying. Until laters!