美国乐评人Michael McCarthy对新单曲的评介如下：
Today I received some good news via Twitter -- Laure Shang has unveiled a brand new song! It's called "Red Amnesia" and it's from the movie of the same name, also known as Chuang ru zhe where it was made in China. The film will be released on April 30th in China and "Red Amnesia" appears on its soundtrack. I couldn't find an image of the soundtrack -- or a release date -- but I did find a photo on imdb that I was able to save, so that's what I've used as art for this post. Here's the imdb description: "Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls." Sounds intriguing to me.
The song begins with faint percussive sounds and soon adds a hypnotic piano line that repeats a few times, fully hypnotizing you before Laure even begins to sing. But, obviously, it springs to life once her vocals enter the picture. As is often the case, they're both beautiful and haunting, which is exactly how I would describe the song overall. It has a very bleak if not ominous vibe, like a song that would play at some crucial point in a movie when it seems all hope is lost.
I translated the lyrics with Google and some of the lines it gave me include "This crazy memories wake up in the night," "Fiery brand of hurt my heart," and "Such as the sun rose, the wind scattered clouds." Obviously, Google fails to get the grammar right, but you get the general idea. These are poetic lyrics and they're a tad bit eerie at that. But I'd expect nothing less from Laure, whose lyrics are always insightful and sometimes menacing, as though they're about to tear your heart apart, maybe even your very soul. And you feel like that just might happen when you listen to this song and hear the parts where she cries out in a high pitched wail that very few singers could pull off, Laure having one of the widest ranges I've ever come across in pop music. Not that Laure is pop exactly. She reminds me more of Marilyn Manson than most pop stars. Not that I like comparing her to other artists but, yeah, I'd say she's like a cross between Marilyn Manson and Charli XCX or even Madonna. She's definitely as iconic, too.
"Red Amnesia" is the best song I've heard all month and the best Chinese song I've heard all year at that.
Today I received some good news via Twitter -- Laure Shang has unveiled a brand new song! It's called "Red Amnesia" and it's from the movie of the same name, also known as Chuang ru zhe where it was made in China. The film will be released on April 30th in China and "Red Amnesia" appears on its soundtrack. I couldn't find an image of the soundtrack -- or a release date -- but I did find a photo on imdb that I was able to save, so that's what I've used as art for this post. Here's the imdb description: "Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls." Sounds intriguing to me.
The song begins with faint percussive sounds and soon adds a hypnotic piano line that repeats a few times, fully hypnotizing you before Laure even begins to sing. But, obviously, it springs to life once her vocals enter the picture. As is often the case, they're both beautiful and haunting, which is exactly how I would describe the song overall. It has a very bleak if not ominous vibe, like a song that would play at some crucial point in a movie when it seems all hope is lost.
I translated the lyrics with Google and some of the lines it gave me include "This crazy memories wake up in the night," "Fiery brand of hurt my heart," and "Such as the sun rose, the wind scattered clouds." Obviously, Google fails to get the grammar right, but you get the general idea. These are poetic lyrics and they're a tad bit eerie at that. But I'd expect nothing less from Laure, whose lyrics are always insightful and sometimes menacing, as though they're about to tear your heart apart, maybe even your very soul. And you feel like that just might happen when you listen to this song and hear the parts where she cries out in a high pitched wail that very few singers could pull off, Laure having one of the widest ranges I've ever come across in pop music. Not that Laure is pop exactly. She reminds me more of Marilyn Manson than most pop stars. Not that I like comparing her to other artists but, yeah, I'd say she's like a cross between Marilyn Manson and Charli XCX or even Madonna. She's definitely as iconic, too.
"Red Amnesia" is the best song I've heard all month and the best Chinese song I've heard all year at that.
