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#112 [#98]:

Song: 1+4=14
Origin: Tat Ming Pair
Link:

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Nominator: handsomeboy (9/15)

(7, 7, 7.1)

[Interesting track.]

Even without a translation, this song is so heavily influenced by Orwell's 1984 that you can see the inspiration from the second you start the song. And while this song is assuredly about China and everything going on there, the fact that this song came out two months after Kellyanne redefined lies as "alternative facts" makes this song distressingly relevant abroad as well.

...The parts of it I can decipher, at least. As a more recent song, I can't find anyone with any attempt to translate the song and the articles I can find about the song offer nothing I couldn't figure out on my own. And automated machine translations fail spectacularly:

considered to nerve
sin nerve
nerves you have been born
human nerve of
God letter nerves
I was the disappearance of nerve

One article states that nerve (or whatever word is being translated as nerve) refers "to the neuroticism surrounding the city" and echoes one of the band's earlier albums that lamented the end of the world.

...Which sounds like an album I should be listening to right now, to be quite honest, but I digress.

Either way, what we have here is a complex song; the basic message against government controlling people through repeated lies is easy enough to grasp (even I get the significance of "2+2=5" at this point), but the finer details of the song get lost in translation--all metaphorical and calling back to songs I've never heard.

...at least I don't think I've heard them, you did nominate a lot of Tat Ming Pair songs, and I certainly don't know which album this song is echoing to know if you nominate anything from that specific album. (The article claims that "2+2=5" has some similarity to the numbers at the end of the Fire Fighting Youths song, but I'm not seeing it myself).

As for the song itself: The opening with the false equation being repeated is neat. Perfectly sets the tone of the song and I'm always up for even slightly computerized voices. The main part of the song doesn't work as well for me as I might like--the backing music feels heavier than their usual work, which works for the subject matter, but is less fun and doesn't get stuck in my head like some of their other songs. I often find it difficult to remember much about the song, other than the intro and outro--each time I get to this song on a listen, I remember liking it but often can't recall a single note or anything specific about it, other than "it's that 1984 song I liked".

...Right; well it's a good song, I think I can decipher enough that I get the general idea though I'm obviously missing a lot of the specifics, and it's strangely satisfying to know that the group still gets together occasionally to release songs that are both good -and- politcally significant. But the song is perhaps a bit too heavy and serious to listen to often, so it drops here.

.......this was a long write-up that actually seems to have stayed on topic for once. I think I need to go lie down for a bit.

[Final Thoughts: Somehow, I doubt this is the Tat Ming Pair song you expected to be eliminated first.]

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