A Song a day: 20th Dec 2012 (十二月二十

Friday, December 21, 2012

The song that I chose for today is “十二月二十” by Kay Tse. As the so call end of the world is approaching (21st of Dec 2012), I will do an ‘End of the world’ special, starting from today. The title of the song in English is “20th of December”.

This song uses the end of the world to describe how the wealthy and the poor see the end of the world differently. At the beginning it tell us that the wealthier people got onto an ark to travel to the Pacific Ocean to avoid tsunami. While the wealthy people have a party on the ark, drinking wine and having all the best food, the poor got nowhere to go. The poor was forced to stay at home with no water and power, they can only wish that they will somehow survive. But at the end of the world, it turns out that it was worse at the Pacific. All the wealthy people have to fight each other to get life jacket, while the poor just stay at home safely and eating the cheap food that they saved earlier. This song is not really about the end of the world, but rather using that to describe how our society have been split into two major bodies. Hope you will like the song.