The Golden Tripod Awards - Part 2
As the tag says, this is Teresa Teng singing in Taiwanese Hokkien. Please excuse my attempts at Hokkien transliterations for the tags of like half of the songs here. :X At least you can't say I didn't try! However, I won't try to translate all of the album titles, since some of them make absolutely no sense to someone like me who only understands some basic Mandarin. I will say that I understand the title "爱人叼位去" ("Where Are You Going, My Love?") because of repeated exposure to similar phrases. (Yes, I know, I'm combining Simplified Chinese with a Taiwanese dialect. XD)
One of the songs on this album is "苦海女神龙," which literally translates into "Bitter Sea Goddess Dragon," but it's the title a princess in a story gives herself. She was a knight in the desert. According to Baidu, said princess was a Tatar. The description in the info for this YouTube video has more info and a translation of the lyrics:
It also says that this isn't the only version of the song. Click here to hear a Japanese version and here to hear Teresa's Mandarin version.
This CD has several of the same songs as the Hokkien album I uploaded earlier, but they're different recordings.
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Tracklist:
1. 苦海女神龙
2. 祖母的话
3. 三声无奈
4. 望春风
5. 思想起
6. 难忘初恋的爱人
7. 天黑黑
8. 心酸酸
9. 烧肉粽*
10. 歹歹尪吃抹空
11. 缘投囝子
12. 十一哥
13. 碎心花
14. 爱人叼位去
15. 安平追恋曲
16. 劝世歌
*Incidentally, I recently came across this video encouraging Taiwanese people to write "Taiwanese" for their race when filling out the US census and someone's singing this song in it because it's a Taiwanese folk song. (It's around 1:35, the guy is holding zongzi, of course!)
^ And, yes, the Taiwanese/Thai thing gets on my nerves, too! If I tell someone that my favorite singer is Taiwanese, people think I must be learning Thai as well as Mandarin, but I've only heard Jay say a couple of things in Thai in a song and he certainly doesn't understand at 1:22 here. It's annoying to have to explain that Taiwan is an island north of the Philippines, south of Japan, and east of China and that people there speak Chinese for the most part and China claims it, yet it has a democracy. (To make it more confusing, it's not called "Taiwan" at all for sporting events! "Chinese Taipei" is also Taiwan.)
One of the songs on this album is "苦海女神龙," which literally translates into "Bitter Sea Goddess Dragon," but it's the title a princess in a story gives herself. She was a knight in the desert. According to Baidu, said princess was a Tatar. The description in the info for this YouTube video has more info and a translation of the lyrics:
Click to viewIt also says that this isn't the only version of the song. Click here to hear a Japanese version and here to hear Teresa's Mandarin version.
This CD has several of the same songs as the Hokkien album I uploaded earlier, but they're different recordings.
Download
Tracklist:
1. 苦海女神龙
2. 祖母的话
3. 三声无奈
4. 望春风
5. 思想起
6. 难忘初恋的爱人
7. 天黑黑
8. 心酸酸
9. 烧肉粽*
10. 歹歹尪吃抹空
11. 缘投囝子
12. 十一哥
13. 碎心花
14. 爱人叼位去
15. 安平追恋曲
16. 劝世歌
*Incidentally, I recently came across this video encouraging Taiwanese people to write "Taiwanese" for their race when filling out the US census and someone's singing this song in it because it's a Taiwanese folk song. (It's around 1:35, the guy is holding zongzi, of course!)
^ And, yes, the Taiwanese/Thai thing gets on my nerves, too! If I tell someone that my favorite singer is Taiwanese, people think I must be learning Thai as well as Mandarin, but I've only heard Jay say a couple of things in Thai in a song and he certainly doesn't understand at 1:22 here. It's annoying to have to explain that Taiwan is an island north of the Philippines, south of Japan, and east of China and that people there speak Chinese for the most part and China claims it, yet it has a democracy. (To make it more confusing, it's not called "Taiwan" at all for sporting events! "Chinese Taipei" is also Taiwan.)