Monday, July 2, 2012

2nd Jul 2012 (紅綠燈 – Stephanie Cheng)

The song that I chose for today is “紅綠燈” by Stephanie Cheng. Stephanie is not that popular in Hong Kong and this song “紅綠燈” can be seen as her most successful song. This song came out in 2006, and it was very popular back at that time. The English translation of the title is “traffic light”.

The lyrics of the song are about love relationship. It uses traffic light to describe love. It said that when the protagonist was young, her teacher spent lot of time teaching her how to cross the road, the teacher told her that she need to look at both sides and then carefully cross the road. She applied this theory to love, but not being successful. She found that the traffic light could change colour all of a sudden. It was green before (green light in the lyrics referring to the stable relationship) but suddenly turn red (red light here referring to the relationship is in danger). When it is red light, should she still cross the road? If she crosses the road (referring to falling in love or saving the relationship), she could seriously injure herself.  But the opposite of the road (referring to her target/lover) is very attractive, is it hard to resist to cross the road. The whole song describe her feeling on whether to go for it or not. Hope you will enjoy the song.
紅綠燈 – Stephanie Cheng


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