RubberBand should be my favorite Hong Kong band. Not only the lovely voice of the vocal No.6 but their songs are meaningful with contain culture meaning. Connected is their third album with released in 2010. I like this album of them most. The reason of loving this album is not just the melody is good but they are all alive. The theme of the cover and the MV is Lennoon which is a special element of this album who is an ancient animal. The Chinese name of it called “連儂獸” which means connected in Shanghaiese. All the song in it is connecting to people that about different people’s daily life and feeling.
As the opening of the Connected, this first song《天連地》is about the connection between two fellow soldiers. The lyric「去連結你跟我」means connecting you and me. They song described the experiences of the soldier and showing the deep relationship. Except this, there are songs talking about the relationship between different groups of people – how they are connected. 《金獅同學會》is talking about the dream between the old schoolmates. They dreamed to filming together but all of them have given up but rushing for their life long time ago. Not just about the connection between them but also the sadness of life.《田鼠論壇》is about the people who meet each other on the forum. They support each other even they don’t know each other in the real life. 《雙城記》is talking about the missing of an old friend who moved to another country long time ago. 《海‧地》 reminded people to care about the world by using the case of tsunami in Haiti. Still, it should have love songs SimpleLoveSong and Hello in this album – love between different sex is also kind of connection.
Besides, quite a lot of the songs in Connected are talking about the life and inner world of people in differentindustry.《細街盃》is about the worker from Africa. World Cup made they miss their home when they are working in far away.《3字頭》is about the sales who need to call cold call everyday. From the lyric, we can feel how boring andbothersome their job is. They life of people who need to always work overtime until midnight is showing in《一轉身卻天亮了》.《囍宴樂隊》is about the live band who work in the wedding. All these songs are about those “little potato” in Hong Kong. The may be ignored by the majority group. No one would care or try to understand their life. But these songs gave us a chance to do it and also remind us to aware every little thing in the society.
This album is not only for listening but also reading. It just gave me double enjoyment of buying it!
Done by Agnes Tang Yim Kwan (10382574)
Agnes, you are really a loyal fan of Rubberband! You have tried to decode the connotations of “Connected”, with a brief textual analysis of the lyrics in this album. It covers nearly all the songs (10 out of 12) which provide us with very comprehensive and informative content.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the discussion on individual song is a bit superficial and deserves more in-depth analysis. Perhaps you should focus on a few selected songs and identify the symbolic icons (e.g., recurring themes, metaphors) shared among them.