Old Music Thursday: Songs About Being Alright
October 5th, 2006 | Published in food and music | 15 Comments
For J.L. and all of us who are heartbroken.
Kinnie Starr — Alright Madeleine Peyroux — I’m Alright
The Killers — Everything Will Be Alright
Komeda — It’s Alright Baby
Wu Yue Tian (Mayday) — Hao bu hao
The last one should really be entitled “ho ya um ho” because it’s a nice Hokkien/Taiwanese ballad by the Taiwanese band, Mayday. Really. I swear. I love it, especially the Hokkien lyrics! Makes you change your mind about Hokkien being unable to be poetic and romantic. um zai si tio ya si um tio, um zai si ho ya si um ho… wa yi sim wei yi eh yi mong wei ko li kuai lo, ho ya um ho. How poetic is that?
Um. The rest are really good too, especially Kinnie Starr and Madeleine Peyroux (who is totally fab and I’m in love with her).
We’ll be alright.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:19 pm (#)
I just saw Madeleine Peyroux live last week (in Vancouver)! she’s a bit of a weirdo but in an adorable way. my personal fav from the show was Once In A While..
October 5th, 2006 at 3:42 pm (#)
aww man, I wish I knew Hokkien. You can actually manage so many languages/dialects! And that header! Awesome!
October 5th, 2006 at 5:37 pm (#)
don’t you reckon madeleine peyroux sounds like billie holiday?
October 5th, 2006 at 5:43 pm (#)
Now that you mention it… a bit, but still distinctively different. To me at least (that is, with listening to her work as a collective whole from the early stuff ’til now..).
pey: i’ll teach you!
October 5th, 2006 at 6:04 pm (#)
err are you sure? cos I’ve been trying to learn it since forever but arghh I think I’m hopeless. Even my dad has already given up on me! heh. Nonetheless, that Mayday song is nice :)
October 5th, 2006 at 9:39 pm (#)
Hi Adri, thank you. This is just what I need at the moment.
Plus I have the same initials too so in a warped way, I totally relate to this post 100%. Have linked it to my blog.. hope you don’t mind.
cheers
October 6th, 2006 at 1:02 am (#)
I freaking love wu yue tian! hahaha. I’m not sure I should have typed that out.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:04 am (#)
pey: well… on second thoughts i cannot teach you proper proper hokkien because despite my best efforts, my spoken hokkien still comes out one or two tones too high, i use terribly quaint phrases (since the people i learned dialects from… are very very old, and learned them in china), and i can’t quite lose my teochew accent. this makes my hokkien grandmother very jealous, since my teochew grandmother had a sole monopoly on my accent and speech. maybe… i can only be good at teaching you how to watch taiwanese variety shows and soap operas when they lapse into very crude hokkien i can point out the jokes, and explain why they’re spanking people on tv, but that’s about it. your dad will be happy enough if you can understand right? :)
joe: sure, glad you liked it.
w: i dunno leh… i don’t lurve lurve them the way i lurve david tao, or my munjen rock inclinations are… more mainland China. okay i’m not sure i should have typed all that out either.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:24 am (#)
Thanks so much for the beautiful music, Adri. I like your page’s new style very much. I’m so happy I know you…
October 6th, 2006 at 9:47 am (#)
erk. heartbroken? I’ve always made out Kinnie Starr’s Alright to be a… uhm… make-out song. :P
October 6th, 2006 at 10:05 am (#)
Poppi - warm hugs and deep thanks.
Chen - listening from post-relationship perspective; bittersweet lyrics saying it’s alright if you still need to hold on to the comfort of memories.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:01 pm (#)
just pop in to say Happy Birthday! enjoy the celebration.. finally get to watch RAs legally..
October 6th, 2006 at 3:52 pm (#)
Hahha a bit early… thanks anyway
October 7th, 2006 at 12:14 am (#)
Eh u forgot the classic “I’ll Be Okay” by Amanda Marshall or something. Best Friend’s Wedding.
April 25th, 2007 at 8:11 pm (#)
Thanks for the link, darling. I appreciate it.