19th Feb 2013 (異種 – Corinna Chamberlain (陳明恩))

The song that I chose for today is “異種” by Corinna Chamberlain (陳明恩). This is the first time I hear her sing. She got a rather unique background as a singer in Hong Kong. She was born and grown up in Hong Kong, but her parents are from Australia and New Zealand. I guess with her gold hair, you would never be able to guess that she can speak Cantonese. Although her pronunciation on Cantonese is a little off on occasion, but most of the time it is not even noticeable. The direct English translation of the title is “Alien” (note, Alien as in difference type of people, not alien from outer space).

The lyrics of the song are about herself I think. It start off saying that if a girl with gold hair meet a guy with black eyes, will she be loved. An alien travelled from Mars and landed on Earth actually feel very cold. Living in a world with different colour skin, she asked what type of person is she. Yellow or White? No matter what colour skin we have, we still live under the same sky, we will still be hurt if we got rejected. Perhaps no one will understand her, and rumours are out of her control, she still wanted to communicate with this Asian guy, but why he just doesn’t understand. She tried to change for him, but he still rejects her. She reckons that he should be proud to be with her, as he would be brave to show others that he can live differently. But she realised that she is not the type that he wanted. She is the only alien, different to others and can’t be accepted by others. So at the end, she moved on and accepted the fact that she will be alone. The ending of the song is rather sad, I hope this is not how she really feels. Anyway, I hope you will like this song. She really surprised me with this song, I will definitely keep my eyes on her and try to talk more about her songs if more came out.

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