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08 Jan 2013, 9:59 am

I disliked this song when I first listened to it because I felt that it was just another mass-produced Cantonese pop song, but I eventually loved it after listening to it several more times. This song isn't very tearjerking if compared to other songs but its lyrics filled my eyes up with tears. Background info: This song, Love in the Forbidden City, is the theme song for the Cantonese dubbed version of Chinese drama The Story of Zhen Huan.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ElL_8byxHY[/youtube]

Rough translation: "She startled a hundred flowers as she gently brushed rouge onto her cheeks. She dressed herself in bright and beautiful colors to compete against the flowers around her. Her frowns and smiles were significant enough to determine her nation's fate, but she never found out that her palace had been frozen in ice since dawn. Brilliant fireworks disappeared as night disappeared into day. She was one of her nation's most heavenly beauties, waiting for someone to claim her as his own. She broke the silence around her by playing the zither, but the snow, the moon, the wind and the flowers around her were too preoccupied to listen to her. Her love story ended the moment she was sent into this palace in the Forbidden City, she stared at the sky alone with tears in her eyes. While she was competing for glory so as to avoid humiliation, she fell in love with someone that she had never intended to love. She resembled a rock; ignorant of pain. She realized that snow had suddenly engulfed her world, she embraced the cold wind every night, had anyone else tried empathizing with her? The tree had shriveled and died, leaving a mess of crisscrossed tree rings behind--her life had ended in bloodshed and tragedy. She could not disguise her tear-filled eyes with cosmetics, she lost her moral compass in a struggle for whom? The lamp that she lit every night illuminated her fate--she whose beauty shamed the moon into hiding and shamed flowers into wilting was destined to be recorded in history, but no one could verify what History said about her. Her love story ended the moment she was sent into this palace in the Forbidden City, she stared at the sky alone with tears in her eyes. While she was competing for glory so as to avoid humiliation, she fell in love with someone that she had never intended to love. She resembled a rock; ignorant of pain. She realized that snow had suddenly engulfed her world, she embraced the cold wind every night, had anyone else tried empathizing with her? The tree had shriveled and died, leaving a mess of crisscrossed tree rings behind--her life had ended in bloodshed and tragedy. Time celebrated her departure. Even after her beauty had faded and her hair had turned white, she remained in this palace in the Forbidden City, sacrificing her youth for a dream of hers. Engulfed by love; engulfed by hatred; she had already become a rock ignorant of pain, she no longer expected anyone to empathize with her aching heart. As dimming sunlight entered her palace in the Forbidden City, her tears celebrated her departure from this world. Her life was just a fragile life within the Forbidden City's sturdy walls. She, a beauty who eventually ruined her nation, realized in the end that all her love stories were products of manipulation. Her love story in the Forbidden City was transmitted through the ages secretly."



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01 Feb 2013, 4:57 am

Note 1: This song is supposedly a funny tribute to many of the characters who appeared in a now discontinued series of English textbooks used widely in China in the 1990s. I cried non-stop even though this song is supposed to make its listeners laugh. Many netizens commented on Youtube that this song had made them cry non-stop too.
Note 2: Somebody used this song as the soundtrack for a fanvid dedicated to China's 2010 TV drama version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uly4bAfLKfE[/youtube]

Rough translation: "Everything happened because of an English textbook, featuring a boy named Li Lei, a girl named Han Meimei who was always by his side, Jim, Lily and Lucy, Kate, Lin Tao and Uncle Wang, there was even a parrot named Polly that kept chattering and flying around. I have not flipped through this textbook for years, but I still remember which characters were involved in which incident. I still remember their joys and sorrows inside the textbook, I still remember their accomplishments and scandals outside the textbook, I still remember wondering whether they are in love or not as I grow. I later learnt that Li Lei and Han Meimei never managed to hold hands with each other. Lucy returned to her country. Lily moved to Shanghai where she surrounded herself with numerous boyfriends as always. Jim, who was promoted to manager, married a Chinese woman and lived in bliss ever after. Lin Tao became a police officer. Uncle Wang retired last year. It is a pity that Li Lei and Han Meimei never managed to hold hands with each other. Like Li Lei and Han Meimei, we are living out a future that we have never anticipated. It is fortunate that Polly is still alive, Polly reminds us of all the joys that we experienced in the past, Polly will neither grow old nor fly away because we have kept her in our hearts."



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01 Feb 2013, 12:18 pm

Only one i can think of at the moment is.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb1ZvUDvLDY[/youtube]

Such a beautiful song and seeing his mum in the video always makes me tear up.



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17 Feb 2013, 1:18 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYgHbom5q4[/youtube]



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17 Feb 2013, 2:43 am

Speeding Cars by Imogen Heap
Halleluja by Jeff Buckley



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17 Feb 2013, 6:44 am

Yes, he CAN sing!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZnIGETQPQ[/youtube]


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17 Feb 2013, 7:35 am

it is so sad that when daffy and bugs swapped places in this clip, daffy always went behind bugs bunny. bugs got all the limelight and daffy has to pass behind him.
poor daffy.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY[/youtube]



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17 Feb 2013, 7:43 am

"cavatina" by stanley myers [from the soundtrack to "the deer hunter"]



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17 Feb 2013, 11:18 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkMVelmb08[/youtube]



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18 Feb 2013, 8:19 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK272-0K4kY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rauv7j2z5Ug[/youtube]



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19 Feb 2013, 10:13 am

i find this song to be quite like the persecution of an asperger person (her name is "haddie") relating to a disastrous situation that they blamed on a "witch" until the persecutors realized that the asperger woman maybe the only one that can save them from what they thought was caused by her in the first place. the "witch" saved them all from the doom that she did not cause in the first place. and she did not want to be thanked and she moved on.

it is a very powerful song in my mind.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPWo38JHuQ4[/youtube]



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19 Feb 2013, 12:06 pm

Russian melancholy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUQXiwZIWc[/youtube]



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19 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm

I like this one because it's not just a simplistically sad ballad, but such a range in one song.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BigHGSqg68E[/youtube]



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20 Feb 2013, 8:59 am

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20 Feb 2013, 9:34 am

From A Distance by Bette Midler.
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion

Any songs by Selena especially Dreaming of You.


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