Hacken Teaching Bad Things to Kids
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Hacken's CD Album "Hacken lee Concert Hall" exceeded over a million dollars in production. Along with Hacken they were able to welcome the four international level instrument players to record the CD. He was declared the first chinese person to have a Dual Disc, one side is CD and the other side is DVD, uses 96Hz/24 bits. "Zero Defect" excellent Vocal + well known instrument players + high grade recording = Good Album? That's not certain, it also depends on the lyrics.
This album contains ten songs. The overall melody is not vulgar, along with exquisite musical instrument performance, is soothing and delightful to the ear. "Love in Seoul" main instrument is the bamboo flute, "After Marriage" main instrument is the Marimba (it looks like an xylophone to me) and "Ten Years Later" main instrument is the violon. The mix between western and chinese musical instrument has created a pretty spark. In the song No Love In Seoul adding a bit of "Litte Night Song" is wonderful, on the contrary in "Father Li" they added a bit of Lam Mo See Gai (a person's name I assume). Go Sew Ho Fu's (another person name) "Flight of the Bumble-Bee" is a complete mess. Nevertheless, creativity and trying new things are a good thing, good try.
The melody and instruments are good, but the lyrics are no good. Five topics and ten songs, half written by Hacken Lee and the other written by Chen Sew Kai. Hacken has already had 10 years of experience in writing lyrics, lately "Tall Girl" and "Flying Trapeze" was pretty good, but this...
Listen to lyric the reporter is about to discuss Vulgar language originally isn't a problem, but to look at it in another perspective, vulgar language gives a "close" feeling. Wong Jim, Lam Chun, Lam Jik and many other writers have written many slangs and vulgar language in their work. The problem is, the instruments used in the song "Underage Club" are violin and chinese violin. Both these instruments are elegant and nice, but these lyrics just don't match that feeling at all.
What does the title "No Love in Seoul" mean? Is it "No other choice" pronounce a little differently? If that is the case, then what is the significance? "Love Lost in Seoul" or "Love Ended in Seoul" would still be understandable, "No Love in Seoul" and "No Love in Seoul (But the old name of Seoul, before it was Seoul.. sorry I'm not sure what it is in english)" other than the places, what is the difference? If you want to play with words, you have to consider the significance of the words as well. If the words are blurry, the meaning is obscure.
Listen to lyric the reporter is about to discuss. "High and low times" I understand, but Hacken flip the two words around, that is what I don't understand. If there's high times and there's low times and history is so brilliant, then why tamper with history? Also look at the lyrics [click to download and hear lyric] "Ten Years Later" "slapping myself", is it the cantonese meaning "self slapping"?
**The reporter goes on to critisize "An Emotional Person" lyric, I'm unsure of how exactly to translate it and it's getting quite confusing, so I'm not translating this part. Sorry!!**
Melody is the meat of the song, lyrics are the meaning of the song, singing brings out the soul of the song. To choose this years best album, looking at the melody, lyrics and the singing, it would be Eason's U87.
Translated by Tracy @ http://s14.invisionfree.com/Hacken_International/ [Please do not copy and post without permission]
Hacken's CD Album "Hacken lee Concert Hall" exceeded over a million dollars in production. Along with Hacken they were able to welcome the four international level instrument players to record the CD. He was declared the first chinese person to have a Dual Disc, one side is CD and the other side is DVD, uses 96Hz/24 bits. "Zero Defect" excellent Vocal + well known instrument players + high grade recording = Good Album? That's not certain, it also depends on the lyrics.
This album contains ten songs. The overall melody is not vulgar, along with exquisite musical instrument performance, is soothing and delightful to the ear. "Love in Seoul" main instrument is the bamboo flute, "After Marriage" main instrument is the Marimba (it looks like an xylophone to me) and "Ten Years Later" main instrument is the violon. The mix between western and chinese musical instrument has created a pretty spark. In the song No Love In Seoul adding a bit of "Litte Night Song" is wonderful, on the contrary in "Father Li" they added a bit of Lam Mo See Gai (a person's name I assume). Go Sew Ho Fu's (another person name) "Flight of the Bumble-Bee" is a complete mess. Nevertheless, creativity and trying new things are a good thing, good try.
The melody and instruments are good, but the lyrics are no good. Five topics and ten songs, half written by Hacken Lee and the other written by Chen Sew Kai. Hacken has already had 10 years of experience in writing lyrics, lately "Tall Girl" and "Flying Trapeze" was pretty good, but this...
Listen to lyric the reporter is about to discuss Vulgar language originally isn't a problem, but to look at it in another perspective, vulgar language gives a "close" feeling. Wong Jim, Lam Chun, Lam Jik and many other writers have written many slangs and vulgar language in their work. The problem is, the instruments used in the song "Underage Club" are violin and chinese violin. Both these instruments are elegant and nice, but these lyrics just don't match that feeling at all.
What does the title "No Love in Seoul" mean? Is it "No other choice" pronounce a little differently? If that is the case, then what is the significance? "Love Lost in Seoul" or "Love Ended in Seoul" would still be understandable, "No Love in Seoul" and "No Love in Seoul (But the old name of Seoul, before it was Seoul.. sorry I'm not sure what it is in english)" other than the places, what is the difference? If you want to play with words, you have to consider the significance of the words as well. If the words are blurry, the meaning is obscure.
Listen to lyric the reporter is about to discuss. "High and low times" I understand, but Hacken flip the two words around, that is what I don't understand. If there's high times and there's low times and history is so brilliant, then why tamper with history? Also look at the lyrics [click to download and hear lyric] "Ten Years Later" "slapping myself", is it the cantonese meaning "self slapping"?
**The reporter goes on to critisize "An Emotional Person" lyric, I'm unsure of how exactly to translate it and it's getting quite confusing, so I'm not translating this part. Sorry!!**
Melody is the meat of the song, lyrics are the meaning of the song, singing brings out the soul of the song. To choose this years best album, looking at the melody, lyrics and the singing, it would be Eason's U87.
Translated by Tracy @ http://s14.invisionfree.com/Hacken_International/ [Please do not copy and post without permission]
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