A Song a day: 28th May 2013 (野孩子

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

28th May 2013 (野孩子 – Miriam Yeung)

The song that I chose for today is “野孩子” by Miriam Yeung. This song was from one of my all-time favourite album “Miriam”, to me it is the best Miriam’s album. Many of the songs in the album were popular. From memory this was the album that pushes Miriam to become one of the top singers in Hong Kong. The direct English translation of the title is “Wild child”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The song describe a girl who most people see her as wild, the type that do that do the thing she wanted and not listen to others. In reality, she is just acting that way. She wanted people to see her that way. She knew that fallen in love with a boy is normal, but if she is just one of the ordinary girl, her boyfriend would not remember her if they break up one day. So she acts to be hard to control and wild, so that her boyfriend would need to spent lot of time thinking how to control her. Many people around her said that she don’t know how to deal with boys. Being hard to control had make her a bad name as well. They laugh at her, saying that she will never found her true love. She now broke up with her boyfriend. She ask if she have been truthful to him, would she be his only girlfriend. But it’s too late now, they haven’t even kissed and they have already broken up. Although walking away from this relationship might look a bit bad, but it has to be this way, otherwise he will not remember her in the future.

I really like this song. Although by reading the lyrics, it feels the girl is a bit strong and tough, but with the melody, you can feel that the girl is actually very soft. She is just trying to act tough to protect herself. Hope you will like the song.