I am writing a review on Eason Chan’s new mini album called “Time Flies”, which was released on 12th March, 2010. Before commenting on his album, I would like to talk about the singer, Eason himself first. I believe most of us are already quite familiar with Eason. He has been a singer for quite a long period of time and he has married already. He is famous not because of his appearance, but his voice and songs. There is a scandal about Eason recently, that he was in affair with Kay Tse, who is also married.
There are 6 tracks in Eason’s latest released album. The song, “無人之境” is talking about an episode of a person having affair with others. It expresses the feeling of having affairs with others. Though he knows it is wrong to be in relation with someone else, he just could not stop himself from doing so. Some people are guessing that this song might reflect what Eason thought about his relations with Kay Tse.
The song, “大人” is a song talking about the reality of becoming an adult. As we are becoming an adult, we have to take on more responsibility and we are forced to face the reality. We might become more realistic and forget the innocence that we have during our childhood. In this song, Eason may want to remind us not to forget the innocence we used to have even when we have grown up.
Similar to “大人”, “陀飛輪” also talks about the change after being an adult. Personally, this is my favourite song in the album, not only because of the melody, but also the lyrics. I found the lyrics are very meaningful. In Hong Kong, money seems to be everything. People work around the clock in a bid to earn as much as they can. Yet, they have missed or overlooked many other things, which are priceless. Moreover, materialism is often over emphasized in the society of Hong Kong. Therefore, people in Hong Kong often feel empty. Perhaps the lyrics are also the reflection of Eason himself as well. He is a top singer in Hong Kong. He works hard and earns a lot by producing CDs and concert in a year, thus he can afford many luxuries. To him, perhaps being a singer was his dream since he likes singing. However, when he reaches the top of this career, he found that rather than enjoying singing, what makes him continue to be a singer might be money or the status brought by this career.
As most people will listen the melody rather than lyrics, "陀飛輪" uses a “K-song” melody to catch people’s attentions first. When people listen it for few more times, they will start to rethink about what the lyrics are about and I think this is a wise approach for promoting the idea of the song.
In my opinion, this song really suits him and I do not think there are other singers can sing as well as him in this song. He can bring out the mood of this song and touch on people’s emotion. This might explain the reason why this song has become very popular recently.
All and all, I think that this album is quite good as the songs match the image of Eason, that he is a middle aged man who are already married and have reached the top of his career. When many people are admiring what he got, these people may neglect what is the true happiness. After listening Eason’s album, we may really need to think twice on what happiness should be.
Leung Sze Lung, Margaux (10347229)
What’s a good choice to write on Eason’s songs! Your review has included three main parts, firstly the star image of Eason (referring to his stage of career and his recent news), then come the content analysis on his album (with emphasis on some selected lyrics), lastly your personal feelings as an audience (a part that many students missed). Though the analysis of each part is a bit simple and brief, you have already touched upon all stages of the communication circuit (i.e., production, representation and reception). Very good try!
ReplyDeleteKnow what? 陀飛輪is one of my favorite songs too (You made me listening to it again...)! It’s really a common strategy to write beautiful lyrics into a “popular” melody. In fact, the melody of this song is really appealing to me. I admit that I am quite “mass”, haha :)