A Song a day: 24th Jun 2012 (夜機

Sunday, June 24, 2012

24th Jun 2012 (夜機 – Priscilla Chan)

The song for today is “夜機” by Priscilla Chan. The newer generation probably think that this Priscilla Chan is the wife of Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook). Wrong, it is a different Priscilla. This Priscilla that I am talking about was very very famous in the 80’s and 90’s in Hong Kong. This song that I am talking about today “夜機” (English translation is “Night flight”) was a very popular song back then. Priscilla is no longer famous now, I think she still sing, but mainly in mainland China. Her voice is also a lot deeper now and singing style is quite different as well. She know that her singing style had change as some of her friend asked her why the way she sing her famous songs are different to before. She explained in her concert that it is because of her experience, she see thing differently now, so she have a different interpretation of the song. But personally, I still like her previous style, and honestly her voice back then was gorgeous.

The song that I chose today have a simple theme, it is about a girl dump/escape from her boyfriend. The lyrics said that the girl got onto a late night flight to fly out of the country. During the flight, she thought of her boyfriend, saying good bye to him (in her heart) and wish that he could forgive her. She explain that the reason she leave him was because he treaded her badly, ignoring her, these make her very sad and leave her no choice but to leave him. Priscilla sung this song in such a way that it expresses the sadness and loneliness of the song, which I think it is why I like this song. Though, nowadays when she sing this song, her new way of expressing this song just doesn’t match the theme, and it irritate me. So I have just liked to the old version of the song, hope you will enjoy it.