Tuesday, May 29, 2012

29th May 2012 (吃鯨魚的人 – Juno Mak)

Today’s song is “吃鯨魚的人” by Juno Mak. Juno is not a popular singer, in fact, quite a lot of people dislike him because when he first started his singing career, the media had found out that his dad pay people to pretend to be his fans. Because of that incident, he loses his credibility. To certain degree, I feel sorry for him, because people no longer truly listen to his song, a lot of people change channel or station when his song came up.

I don’t feel negative about Juno, but personally, his songs are not the type that I like except a few, and today’s song is one of those. The direct translation of the title is “The person who eat whale”. I like this song because it talks about how us human being eat whale through whales’ point of view. It is a very interesting song because it talks about all the wrong things that we do to whales and how we treated the whale badly, yet throughout the song, the whale seems to feel that it is a normal thing. For example, it said that “why we are so close to extinction but you still come and hunt us down. Why are you so crude, you are always just looking for the next sacrificial offering just to give you the nutrition that you need.” But it also answers its own question “I guess you are doing this because you are just mortal, and hunting is just your survival instinct.” These lines really bring out the sadness, and to a certain extent, it shows us how we are being so selfish that we wanted to control everything around us with considering others that share this planet with us.

Hope you will enjoy the song.
吃鯨魚的人 – Juno Mak



The following is a but cruel, but if you wanted to see what Japanese have done to whale, click the video below, it will show you all the things that the lyrics talks about. By the way, they have also included a full translation of the lyrics.




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