What?!
I would like you to give me more song requests for the Beach Set List, please… so far it’s only been a handful.
Isn’t that a lot of songs to practice, already?!
No, I prepared them in 5 minutes. It wasn’t that hard…
Oh?! So you want a challenge?! You want me to give you a challenge of even more songs to prepare?!
Yes please! Give me like 100 songs… then I can plan out our dates around those songs…
How many songs are you going to play at each date?
Just a few… but it’ll build my confidence to know that I have 100 songs ready to go!
You really want a challenge?! You want to be challenged?! Sing me songs in Mandarin.
(Wide-eyed) (Shocked at the sudden audacity) Songs in Mandarin?
Yes. Can you sing any songs in Mandarin?
(Shaking his head)
There ya go. If you really want a challenge — go and LEARN MANDARIN LOVE SONGS FOR ME. 100 OF THEM! PLEASE!!!
You probably won’t even understand half of them yourself?!
I know that. But it’s the EFFORT that counts. If it takes EFFORT for you to learn MANDARIN songs, rather than ENGLISH songs — then learn some MANDARIN SONGS.
Okay…? Which ones…?
(Giggles) Let me google…
- Joanna Wang — Let’s Start From Here (Okay, that is an English version, but there is also a Chinese version)
- Joanna Wang — 迷宮 (Chinese version)
- Mayday — 恆星的恆心 (下定決心版) — Oh my god, I love this song… it’s soooo beautiful…. and THIS VERSION…
WHAT THE FUCK?! I JUST TRANSLATED THE LYRICS THAT IS SO DRAMATIC!!!
Yesss!! Yes!!! That is TAIWANESE LOVE!!!! (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH) ^0^
And the way he sings it?! It’s soo… emoooo?!?!?!
(Nodding) Yesss…. It makes you feel the PAIN of LOVE!!!!!!!!! (AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH) ^0^
This is what you LIKE?! This is the kind of love songs that hits your HEART?!?!?
(Stares matter-of-factly) It’s very Taiwanese, I don’t know why you’re acting surprised… (LOL)
They’re more dramatic than English songs…
They are… Taylor Swift’s “Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” times 10,000 sometimes… (LOL)……………..
Why do Taiwanese girls do this?! The guy is HEARTBROKEN. She SHATTERED HIM!!!
(LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) ^0^
I swear, if you can sing this song… I’m pregnant.
(WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL~~~~~~
I can’t explain it. It’ll just… impregnate me….. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……
(Shaking that off) Any other songs… do I dare to ask for more?!
Well, there is a piano song… but I guess you can’t play it at the beach…
What song?
- Jay Chou… “Silence”…
That’s a breakup song?!
I know, but it’s sooooo BEAUTIFUL….
Why do you want me to sing you a BREAK UP SONG?! Now?!?!
(Laughing) Because it’s a BEAUTIFUL SONG….
I don’t think I really want to sing this song to you…
(Giggles) Okay, fine… but the PIANO IS SO GOOD IN THIS SONG. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO HOW GOOD THE PIANO IS!!!
Is it that good, though?!
Fine… I just really like it… I don’t know why…
It builds up, with the violins…
YES… IT BUILDS UP WITH THE VIOLINS…. I love it…
(Sigh) (Thinking some things to himself…) What else?!
- Wang Leehom — 唯一
This one should be easy.
Why should it be easy?
Cos his Mandarin isn’t that good, he grew up in America or something?! (LOL) Everyone knows his Chinese songs are the easiest to sing!!! (HAHAHAHAHAHA) ^0^
Oh?! Is that his reputation!?!?!?!? For growing up overseas?!?!?!?!?!
(Nodding) (Laughing) Yes!!! Even “I” can sing them! (HAHAHAHAHAH) Like, I can “read” the lyrics at Karaoke — many of the other songs, I can’t read them!!! (Laughing) so his Chinese is as “basic” as MY Chinese… (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)~~~~~~ ^0^
Oh, okay. So I might as well start with HIS discography. If I want to learn Mandarin songs?
Sure, okay. Start with him. They’re nice songs. I don’t mind any of them. (LOLOLOL)
I still feel like there’s a running theme here of Taiwanese girls breaking these Taiwanese guys’ hearts and somehow — you’re like, IN LOVE with that kind of LOVE?!?!?!
(Laughing so hard at this)…. Is there a theme?! I don’t know if there’s a theme…
Taiwanese love isn’t… “happy”…?!
Nooo there’s definitely happy love songs… I just don’t really know many of them…
(Shaking his head in disbelief) It’s like you’ve been brainwashed. You think THIS… this TORTURE… is LOVE?!?!?!?!
(Still laughing)…. ISN’T IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?
Well… what do you think now? In 2025?
In 2025 I’m enjoying the music for what it is… maybe it was a teenaged kind of concept of love… I don’t know… but now, I just… enjoy the music fondly… it’s not that deep. I know it could be taken as something that is “that deep” — ?! But it’s not that deep… LOL…
I think you like piano songs, maybe I should bring a keyboard to the beach?!
Are there portable keyboards that you can bring to the beach?!
(Staring at her like, “Is this a real question?!“) Yes?!?!?!
Oh, okay… (Giggling) Fine then?! Bring a keyboard?! Bring a ukulele?! Bring whatever you want!
(Laughing)
I love you!
I love you, too… xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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