YI GE REN DE HAI
Famous for one wedding song she now cannot escape and did not write about love
vex on it
the runHonest use case: People who have created something that has been misunderstood or recontextualized by a wider audience.
Exhibit: “Their happiness weighs more than what I meant”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 136
- key
- A# major
- energy
- 0.66
- dance
- 0.91
- valence
- 0.46
- vocal at
- 6.4s
- length
- 3:22
- words
- 240
- clichés
- 0
- language
- Ma
most sung: “hai” ×15 · “ren” ×9 · “shi” ×4
lyrics
(yi ge ren de hai) Ta men zai hun li shang fang wo de ge They play it at weddings, in the part where everyone stands Wo xie de shi hai, bu shi ai qing I wrote about water. Nobody has ever heard water in it. A song leaves your hands and grows a different face And you meet it years later at somebody's table Wearing white, holding flowers, not looking at you Yi ge ren de hai, de hai, yi ge ren de hai One person's sea, and everybody swims in it but me Yi ge ren de hai, de hai, yi ge ren de hai I built a shoreline and they built a wedding on it Wo mei you jie shi guo, ye bu hui jie shi I have never corrected anyone and I never will Ta men de xing fu bi wo de yi si zhong yao Their happiness weighs more than what I meant Wo ma ma zai ta de hun li shang ku le. My mother cried at her own wedding when the song came on. She knows what it is about. She has never said so either. Yi ge ren de hai, de hai, yi ge ren de hai One person's sea, and everybody swims in it but me Yi ge ren de hai, de hai, yi ge ren de hai I built a shoreline and they built a wedding on it (de hai...)