14th Apr 2013 (電燈膽 – Stephy Tang)

The song that I chose for today is “電燈膽” by Stephy Tang. Stephy was part of a group of nine girls, called “Cookies”. They made a few albums, but I think the group size was too large, and people can’t quite remember who is who, so the group later on reduced its size to 4. The smaller group was call “mini Cookies” and Stephy was still part of it. Though this group didn’t last long and eventually the four of them started their solo performance. Personally, I don’t like Stephy too much, but this song is one of the few that I quite enjoy. The direct English translation of the title is “Light bulb”.

Before we talk about the lyrics, for those that are not familiar with Chinese (I guess I should be more specific, so Cantonese), the phrase “電燈膽” could also be used to describe people that stick around with couple. For example, if you are going out with your sister and her boyfriend, then you are acting as “light bulb”. But note that this phase is not too polite, and typically use in the negative sense, so in that scenario, you will be called “light bulb” when one of they found that your existent is disrupting them. Anyway, back to the song, the lyrics are exactly about the above used of the phase. It start off telling us that the protagonist said that she can’t publicly say that she is jealous, so she got to learn to accept her fate.  During holiday, the three of them went out together, while their conservation sounds like it was warm, but she actually feel very cold as she feel that she is isolated. She thought about their past, it was her who accidentally introduced them to each other, and now it is her that feel left out. She is their closest friend, but when she see them kiss, she don’t know whether she should feel happy that they love each other so much or feel sad as she is not the one kissing with the boy. She tried to hide from them as she is sick of being a “light bulb”, and she felt great pain, but yet she is not used to being alone. So perhaps she should admit that maybe she purposely act as a “light bulb”, just so that one day when they broke up, she could easily go in and replaces her friend to become his girlfriend. She will never tell anyone why she still hangs around with them. She wonders if one day they broke up, would he choose her to be his girlfriend. Hope you will like the song.

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20th May 2016 (好心好報 – Alex Fong and Stephy Tang)
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電燈膽 – Stephy Tang