Category: Mandarin Song

Insight into lyrics in English explanation

CoCo Lee李玟 – First mandopop singer-songwriter charmed Oscar Ceremony(73rd) and the world

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin Song

CoCo Lee(李玟 Lǐ wén) is a talented artist born in Hong Kong(1975) and her family emigrated to USA when she was little. Her stardom began with the participation on one singing competition held in Hong Kong in 1993. CoCo Lee's career reached new heights when she contributed to the Oscar-winning film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with her exceptional talent in 2000-2001. In addition to her personal albums, she also joined several singing competition designed for veteran singers as the participant, a guest singer, or a judge such as I Am A Singer(我是歌手), and Singer(歌手). In the recent time, she she contributed herself to the theme song for the Disney movie(2020), Mulan, and the song is 自己(Zì jǐ, reflection in translation)

See you again(再見你一面) in Chinese(Mandarin) lyrics — KZ Tandingan(譚定安)&Laurence Larson(羅藝恆)

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin Song

Singers, KZ Tandingan(譚定安)&Laurence Larson(羅藝恆), reinterpreted different versions of See You Again with Chinese(Mandarin) subtitles. Let's look at their music videos and see the table of Chiense lyrics below~

Lyrics Analysis— 漂向北方Piāo xiàng běifāng, Stranger In the North, sung by 黃明志 Namewee Ft. 王力宏Wang Leehom

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin Song

"Stranger In the North" , released in 2016, is a song by Malaysian singer Namewee and Chinese-American singer Wang Leehom, which was included in Namewee(黃明志)'s 2016 "Asia Open to Traffic(亞洲通車)" album. This song tells the story of non-Beijingers' experiences of drifting north and relocating themselves in Beijing. It has attracted much attention because there are a huge quantity of migrant workers working in Beijing but from other Chinese provinces.

Lyrics Analysis— 飄洋過海來看你(Piāo yángguò hǎi lái kàn nǐ) SEA You Soon, sung by 梁靜茹Fish Leong &艾怡良Eve Ai 

by Cesar Hsu, posted in Mandarin Song

The Music Video is adapted from real stories. Before filming, the director actually interviewed a number of same-sex couples who were unable to get married, and condensed their anxiety of not being able to meet and worrying about separation every time they are waiting at the airport.