The
song for today is “真真假假” by Dicky Cheung. Many people
forgot that Dicky can sing. He started his career from a singing contest, but
he wasn’t too lucky, being in the 90’s Hong Kong music industry with a lot of
big figure, he didn’t manage to make a big name for himself before he toke a
different path. These days he acts more often than he sings, I think he produce
a song maybe once every few years. This song was one of my favourite from
Dicky, if I remember correctly, it was a theme song for a TV drama. The drama
was big back then and because of the drama this song imprinted in my head. The
direct English translation of the title is “Real and fake”.
The
lyrics of the song are about the realness of love. The protagonist said that
when we lost love, we pretend that we don’t care. When we got love, it hurt so
much that we can’t speak. We can’t tell between real and fake as our heart is
like a mess. He said “I love you”, but he wonder whether you would really
believe it. Got told off for real or being told that we are loved for fake,
which one is scarier? Real acting and the fake you, both cute? Real dream, fake
tears, which need to be investigated? He wonder if he said he believe you,
would you believe him. There are always illusions in love, and there are lies
in love. So there is no need to distinguish between real and fake. Being real
for once, is that good enough? Let just lie for the rest of our life as there
is no need to find out who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps we are worry
about being real, so maybe fake is better. There is no point to distinguish
real or fake, all we need is to believe. Hope you will like the song.
真真假假 – Dicky Cheung
