S.H.E
我爱你
Wo ai ni
Chinese
imeem stream
mv
pinyin lyrics and translation
chinese lyric
quick comments about the links, there is also a 13ish minute video version where it tells a little story and you see the girls talking about it and crying and stuff. itll be really hard to understand if you dont speak any chinese but its cool i guess. the translation is pretty rough since its a comment, the most important difference is the final three lines of the song are not the same as the comment indicates, but rather i would translate them as, "i dont want to be without you, i cant be without you, i definitely cant be without you." PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE, anyone can hear that the words arent the same even if you dont understand them.
S.H.E has been accused of stealing peoples tunes (which they have, or at least someone does it for them) but they are still revered as gods of music in taiwan. i picked this song because while i have no idea who wrote it, or orchestrated it, its plain awesome.
我爱你 (wo ai ni, means i love you, you should know at least this phrase if anything of chinese), is from their 2004 album Encore. the winter 我爱你 came out, i first heard a snipit of it at the end of a chinese tv show on my friends computer and had to have it. this song is special because its another one of those slow ballads, but it has a lot of what i love, vocal harmony. im glad that they can sing in conjunction with one another as well as solo and exhibit a fair bit of depth in this song, which is more than you can say for a lot of groups.
as usual, the lyrics are good. they give you sort of a reminiscent sense of love which i guess is the point of the mv? the mood they set remind me of a french song ill add later, with that "ill go anywhere and do anything" feeling of a supportive perspective of a relationship. i also like how the melody progresses through the song, and the calm yet forcefulness in their voices.
what really makes 我爱你 stand out in my mind is the final stanza which begins at 2:45 of the actual mp3. it had just come out of the most energetic part of the song yet, settles back down, and then gives you a new set of everything, lyrics, accompaniment and passion, then ends.
definitely one of my most favorite chinese songs of all time.
S.H.E - 觸電/ 候鳥/ 不作你的朋友/ 聽袁惟仁彈吉他
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