The best singer ever

Long time never post, and what just made me feel the urge is not new year, not tech gadgets, not programming and not work or future or career. It is just a song. A song all know and love for so many years.

我只在乎你 - You are what I care about

時の流れに身をまかせ - Let yourself loose with the flow of time

- by Teresa Teng

So many times I listened to this song, but this is the first time I actually paid attention to the lyrics. Besides the perfect singing performance by Teresa Teng, tribute should be sent to the music composer and the lyrics writer, too. If you happen to understand both Chinese and Japanese, you will soon find that the lyrics are in sync, they have the exact same meaning no matter it is Japanese or Chinese. This is very rare in translated cover songs afaik. And the lyrics are so soft and so full of subtle feeling that perfectly expresses the feeling of women when in love. Everything blends in so nicely and perfectly.

Then, I went on to listen to the same song covered by other singers, but no one actually reaches the same level. Personally feel that they paid too much attention to showing their good voices and singing techniques, but forgot the fact that this song gotta be sung from their hearts.

Lastly, I would like to quote the Chinese sentence appears first on the Japanese version of the video above.

There is this sound that you do not need to deliberately remember, because you never forgot.