I'm currently listening to Hao Xin Fen Shou by Leehom Wang feat. Candy Lo, a song recommended by my girlfriend. This is an amazingly sad song after I read the translated English lyrics. Basically two ex-lovers are singing to each other in the video. The girl wants to leave and bury her exbf for good, but he sings to her pleading for a second chance to make her smile again. Anything to see her smile. It seems that males would battle for the moment when their paramour takes a break from crying and smiles, or laughs. This is the sunlight that breaks the torrential downpour. In the video, the girl sits across from a TV set which she tries to fix, but all she sees is static. To me this is a metaphor for her resolute decision to give her exbf up. She can no longer see him through the tv set singing to her so she does not care or want to care.
Why does this song speak to me even though I don't know the lyrics by listening to it? Emotions are elicited when I watch the video and its emotional quality. Candy looks incredibly sad and trapped. Her eyes show that she has given up and will not continue the relationship. Leehom is always singing with his headphones on so there really isn't visual energy, but his voice is accompanied by the strong Candy who has had enough of the failing relationship. He strongly begs for her to rekindle with him, but her voice is filled with anguish and equal pleading for him to let her go and free her because she has found no happiness while being with him. There is nothing worse than being in a stifled relationship where there is waning reciprocity.
How does a song work its emotions on me? Well first of all, the video is incredibly tearful because it's shot in the dark. Candy is in a dark room and it illustrates that she is trapped and unable to leave the darkness for light. There is no light in her relationship world. She also sits there watching the tv set, incapable of leaving the room, equally haunted by her ex's voice and pleads that she does not want to answer. The chorus when they sing together reminds me of how hurt she is. Somehow I sympathize with Candy more than with the dude. The way they filmed her face from the top down--this shows her eyelids more and allows more emotional posture. Her head is always down and she is deep in thought--this allows me to feel the hurt she is going through. Her eyes also tell tales of heartbreak and inability to give their love a second chance.
The saddest line is when she declares that she has never been happy in their relationship. There has never been a moment of happiness when she was with him. That is heartbreaking to hear and for her to acknowledge. I bet he is equally torn to hear that line. Leehom returns by asking her to smile one more time and to allow love to return once more but she wants him to release her and let her go for good.
The video ends with a shot of the girl feeling the ring on her necklace which resembles her reconsideration about the relationship and letting it go. The last shot is of the dead static-y tv set, but the girl is no longer in the room. She has disappeared and gotten out of the dark, out of the relationship.
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