I was karaok-ing with the HDD when I finally got a title of a song by S.H.E which I've chanced upon a few weeks back - 安靜了, which uses the melody and some lyrics of an old Jay Chou song.
To my limited knowledge in commercial Chinese music, 99 percent of the songs I've heard revolves around love - it's mostly either the it's-ok-you-broke-up-with-me-I-just-want-you-to-be-happy kind or the I-love-you-too-much-I-have-to-break-up-with-you theme. Well that's not to say that Western music doesn't do it - it's just that Chinese love songs have come to the point of following a sappily formulatic structure, constructed from an efficient well-oiled assembly line.
Probably we love it because we need them as a outlet for our fantasies while soaked up in the frantic lifestyle in busy Asia? Aye, thats a topic for another time.
But I must say this song is one of the reasons why the Chinese music industry is able to sustain itself solely by churning out sappy love songs - perfectly constructed to appeal to the masses (even to rock-centric people like me). Kinda like the iPod.
Video Watch: Towards the last thirty seconds Selena acts like she's gonna have a heart attack or something, making me think that I've missed out a scene where she has a terminal illness. Phew, the 'lover with a terminal illness' music video should run its course already.