DATE
3/11/25
TIME
6:03AM
written by
Xiaoxin Sun
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
我喜欢这首歌 （报刊杂志版） / I really like this song, magazine ver.
DATE
3/11/25
TIME
6:03AM
written by
Xiaoxin Sun
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
我喜欢这首歌 （报刊杂志版） / I really like this song, magazine ver.
DATE
3/11/25
TIME
6:03AM
written by
Xiaoxin Sun
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
我喜欢这首歌 （报刊杂志版） / I really like this song, magazine ver.
我好喜欢这首歌。它是汉堡黄的《乌鸦》，确实有在一个小的livehouse里面听现场的感觉，现在的乐队真不错，可以到处演出，感觉很好玩。她这首歌既很很现代，又有些欧美。女生的声音很南方，却又有些嘶哑，很有故事感。按照这个成熟的编曲，我本以为词也会很成熟性感，好像女生的声音。
看到歌词我有点失望，没有任何的逻辑，过于白话，不能被称为词。宋词到周杰伦隔了这么多年代，也没退化这么多，十年之内文字的退化，让我明白了之前某唐人街大纪元之流日报、周报上说的文字狱不是危言耸听。
有趣的是，曲和词是同一个人作的，汉堡黄。我找了找这个女生的信息，在网易2024年10月19日发布的文章《万字长文，专访汉堡黄：00后少女的天真迷恋与纵情燃烧》中，里面谈到她的封面选择、mv拍摄（还没找到该mv，无法评论）、对目标群众的看法，对坚持对自己的封面、编曲、造型、唱腔等其他创意方面的决定权的坚持、对整个专辑整体性的考虑，贯穿全碟的主题的一致性，但同时类型genre的多样性，非常展现了该年轻女歌手的多才多艺。我不知道该怎么形容找到她的欣喜，我已经太久没有听到这种组合的中国声音了，居然是湖南人。这是我喜欢的音乐吗？这叫什么？土帅土帅的。我喜欢这个电子吉他，电子吉他都这么好听吗？感觉是好有趣的女生。
啊，我刚看了，原来她是00后，比我小诶。原来我喜欢年纪小的女生吗，原来如此。
image by 汉堡黄, via Instagram
I really like this song. It’s “Crow” by Hamburger Huang. It really does feel like hearing a live performance in a small livehouse. Bands these days are great—they get to perform everywhere. Seems like so much fun. This song feels both modern and kind of Western. Her voice is very southern, but also a bit raspy—full of stories.
Given how mature the arrangement is, I thought the lyrics would be just as mature and sensual, like her voice.
But when I read the lyrics, I was a little disappointed. There’s no logic to them—too plain, too much like casual spoken language. I can’t really call it “lyrics.” From Song dynasty poetry to Jay Chou, so many eras have passed and yet we didn’t lose that much ground. But this regression of language in just ten years really made me realize those old articles from places like Epoch Times in Chinatown, talking about “literary decay” and censorship, weren’t just alarmist nonsense.
What’s interesting is that the lyrics and music were written by the same person—Hamburger Huang. I looked her up and found a feature article published on NetEase on October 19, 2024: “10,000-Word Interview with Hamburger Huang: The Innocent Obsession and Burning Passion of a Post-2000s Girl.” The piece talks about how she chooses her covers, the filming of her MV (I haven’t found it yet so can’t comment), her views on her target audience, her insistence on having creative control over cover art, arrangements, styling, vocal tone—pretty much every aspect of the project. It also mentioned how she put a lot of thought into the album as a whole: consistency in theme throughout, but diversity in genre. It really shows how multi-talented she is.
I don’t even know how to describe the joy of discovering her. I haven’t heard this kind of combination in a Chinese voice for so long—and she’s from Hunan, of all places. Is this the kind of music I like? What is this called? Rustic cool, maybe? I like that electric guitar. Are electric guitars always this good? She seems like such an interesting girl.
Ah—I just checked. She’s from the 2000s generation. She’s younger than me. So I guess… I like younger girls? Huh. Makes sense now.
I really like this song. It’s “Crow” by Hamburger Huang. It really does feel like hearing a live performance in a small livehouse. Bands these days are great—they get to perform everywhere. Seems like so much fun. This song feels both modern and kind of Western. Her voice is very southern, but also a bit raspy—full of stories.
Given how mature the arrangement is, I thought the lyrics would be just as mature and sensual, like her voice.
But when I read the lyrics, I was a little disappointed. There’s no logic to them—too plain, too much like casual spoken language. I can’t really call it “lyrics.” From Song dynasty poetry to Jay Chou, so many eras have passed and yet we didn’t lose that much ground. But this regression of language in just ten years really made me realize those old articles from places like Epoch Times in Chinatown, talking about “literary decay” and censorship, weren’t just alarmist nonsense.
What’s interesting is that the lyrics and music were written by the same person—Hamburger Huang. I looked her up and found a feature article published on NetEase on October 19, 2024: “10,000-Word Interview with Hamburger Huang: The Innocent Obsession and Burning Passion of a Post-2000s Girl.” The piece talks about how she chooses her covers, the filming of her MV (I haven’t found it yet so can’t comment), her views on her target audience, her insistence on having creative control over cover art, arrangements, styling, vocal tone—pretty much every aspect of the project. It also mentioned how she put a lot of thought into the album as a whole: consistency in theme throughout, but diversity in genre. It really shows how multi-talented she is.
I don’t even know how to describe the joy of discovering her. I haven’t heard this kind of combination in a Chinese voice for so long—and she’s from Hunan, of all places. Is this the kind of music I like? What is this called? Rustic cool, maybe? I like that electric guitar. Are electric guitars always this good? She seems like such an interesting girl.
Ah—I just checked. She’s from the 2000s generation. She’s younger than me. So I guess… I like younger girls? Huh. Makes sense now.
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