A Song a day: 12th Oct 2014 (打開天空 – Daniel Chan, Kelly Chan, Ray Chan and Joyce Yau)

Sunday, October 12, 2014

12th Oct 2014 (打開天空 – Daniel Chan, Kelly Chan, Ray Chan and Joyce Yau)

The song that I chose for today is “打開天空” by Daniel Chan, Kelly Chan, Ray Chan and Joyce Yau. This song was from the 90’s, it was back at the time when it was ok for cigarette companies to advertise in Hong Kong. I remembered, each year, Marlboro (a cigarette brand) would host some advertising campaign which involve music. Those that sing the song for that year are either stars that were popular already or up and coming. For this song, we had Daniel and Kelly. Not much need to be said for Kelly as she is still quite popular these days. Daniel was very popular back then but he went down quite quickly (from memory it was due to some negative news with his manager). Ray and Joyce on the other hand, seem to disappear completely after this song. Back to the song, the direct English translation of the title is “Open the sky”.

The lyrics of the song are about being active and energetic (I guess mainly because the cigarette wanted a positive image to be related to their product). Daniel’s lines will be indicated by “D:”, Kelly’s by “K:”, Ray’s by “R:”, Joyce’s by “J:” and when they sing together “T:”. Note that a large section of the lyrics got repeated many times throughout the song, so I will not be repeating translating it in the following, I will only show it once when it first appeared. T: Sing, sing and sing to make it stand up. J: every cells are climbing to the top. T: Dance, dance and dance to make it stand up. D: Speak using rhythm. T: Sing, sing and sing to make it sounds good. K: You will sing out your talent. T: Dance, dance and dance to show off your skill. R: Like ups and downs. T: A flying Pegasus, it is not a problem to show your true feeling. R: Unlimited noise are filled in our blood stream. It is destiny that we couldn’t hide this anymore. K: Like dreams and wishes, it is always the same through time. Like Pegasus, couldn’t be controlled. D: There are many emotions; many feelings. But without good song, how could we attract more people. J: If without song, how could we live? So don’t be silence and don’t let it drag on. Hope you will like the song.

Other Daniel related posts:
1st May 2015 (兩男一女 – Daniel Chan, Alex Fong and Rain Lee)

19th Aug 2014 (另一半 – Daniel Chan)

17th May 2014 (借借你肩膀 – Daniel Chan)

6th Nov 2013 (急凍心靈 – Daniel Chan)

6th May 2013 (心的接觸 – Daniel Chan)

20th Sep 2012 (心理遊戲 – Daniel Chan)

26th Apr 2012 (一萬年 – Daniel Chan)