Love's Beautiful

My interest in Mandarin pop songs has got a lot to do with my recent fervour for singing well. I remember there was a time I was watching the Singapore idol contestants rehearsing for a segment in the TV Theatrette for a charity show, and I turned to my manager and told her, I would like to be able to sing 'live' on stage one day. It was met with mild encouragement, because after all, unless you're a professional singer, most song items are mimed.

My teacher said singing is almost like acting. For the entire duration of the song, you're telling a story, you're conveying the feelings of the song to the people listening to you. You need to move them, and the only way to do it, is to get into the song. I figured it's almost like how we get into character before we deliver our lines. There're certain points in the song where you peak, and some, you speak with a whisper. The emotions of a song isn't very far from that of a scene from a tv script (although most Mandarin songs tend to be about love lost, which is rather melancholic in nature).

So if I may use a song to describe the drama I'm working on now, it'd probably be:

Love's Beautiful by Tanya Chua.

The word "love" is dealt with so unspecifically in this song, and yet it is able to convey the way love applies to the different characters in the drama with a bit of poignance and the need to value what we have。

One part of it goes:

Love's beautiful, so beautiful

我失去过

更珍惜拥有

我庆幸我是我

被你疼爱的我

紧紧牵着的手

不要放手

永远守护我

Almost everyone in the show is guarding over someone else, is someone else's emotional support and the source of love, hope and happiness.

I'm truly moved.