Music is the Cherry Topping in My LIFE!

Listening to Jacky Cheung's "Black and White" album right now. Previously had Tension's "Story" album on repeat but now is Jacky's turn.

I realised in listening to these songs that the melody is v important to me first and foremost. I'll listen to the tune, enjoy the melody, the guitar, the violin or piano instrumentation and when I've got the tune in my head, I'll pay attention to the lyrics. If they are powerful, poignant and speaks to me, the song has got me hooked!

I love the beauty of the lyrics and the voices on Tension's "She's having my baby", David Tao's "Liu Sha" (Quicksand), and Jacky Cheung's "Hei Yu Bai" (Black & White) & "Ta Lai Ting Wo De Yan Chang Hui" (She came to listen to my concert). Especially the latter song written by Singapore's Liang Wern Fook, the lyrics depict the different views a woman has of love at different stages in her life - from excitement, hope, desperation, to resignation....very sad. I love David Tao's songs v much and Tension's too cos of the beautiful melody and meaningful lyrics.

Can one live without music? Even if we can't hear, feeling the rhythms boom out of a speaker box is the music of a quiet world if I was deaf. And yet music for me will mean nothing if the lyrics was superficial, rubbish or doesn't offer me a poetic perspective of the world I live in or the feelings I possess.