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火力全開 by Leehom
I bring to you the translation of Leehom's latest controversial song: Plagarism, which I will never ever believe of Leehom, and the use of Lady Gaga in his lyrics. Read it, listen to the song, and tell me how you feel about it.
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火力全開
Open Fire
打倒帝國主義
不願再做奴隸
我家大門被入侵
Defeating imperialism
Unwilling to become someone's slave again
My homeland is being invaded
你說 lady 卡卡
我說何必怕他
喔 喔 喔 喔 喔 oh oh~
別向她們 磕頭
You say Lady Gaga
I say why fear her?
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh~
Don't kowtow to them
文化是武器
埋在每根神經
被優人神鼓打醒
Culture is a weapon
Buried within each strand of your nerves
Woken up by the drum beats of Utheatre1
絕不允許失敗
勝利不必等待
因為MUSIC-MAN的到來
Failure is not an option
We don't have to wait for success
Because Music-Man has arrived
忽然間整個世界 開始在搖擺
節奏和音樂 入侵了血脈
這次的戰略 是火力全開
火力全 開 火力全 開
火力全 開
The entire world suddenly starts to shake
The beats, the music have invaded our blood
The strategy for this is to open fire2
Open fire, open fire
開
Open (fire)
so many accusations
of an Asian invasion
here they come a point’n fingers at me
preyin’on a mass emotion
stirrin’up a big commotion
trying to assign responsibilities
gonna stop this negativity
turn it into positivity with integrity
giving all of me
for all to see
this fight for equality
but even if they blame us
try to frame us but nobody can shame us
i’m a sing this next verse in Chinese
忽然間整個世界 開始在搖擺
節奏和音樂 入侵了血脈
這次的戰略 是火力全開
火力全 開 火力全 開
火力全 開
The entire world suddenly starts to shake
The beats, the music has invaded our blood
The strategy for this is to open fire2
Open fire, open fire
開
Open (fire)
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1 Utheatre (優人神鼓) is a Taiwanese drumming group, established in 1988. Its performances revolves around Zen practice and self-cultivation, to infuse drum beats into one's moment of peace and serenity.
2 The title's official translation is 'Open Fire', hence I translated it this way. However, "火力全開" as used in the verse can also mean "Go full thrust", not holding back.
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My own thoughts
Defeating imperialism
Unwilling to become anyone's slave
My homeland is being invaded
Invaded by? Western music? Are we all slaves worshipping at the feet of Western influences? But if we close ourselves to the outside, are we just taking part in blind nationalism? Or are we obliged to protect the culture we inheirted from our ancestors?
You say Lady Gaga
I say why fear her?
To be honest, and to be at risk of being flamed, I actively avoid all things Gaga. I don't get her, I don't get her music, and I don't get her fame.
Culture is a weapon
Buried within each strand of your nerves
Woken up by the drum beats of Utheatre
I so love this verse because of the imagery. There is a saying that Chinese are descendants of the Dragon. This verse painted a picture of a sleeping dragon inside each and every one of us, waiting to be waken so it can soar again. And to be woken up, an ancient rhythm is essential. An ancient rhythm from our 5,000 years of history.
The entire world suddenly starts to shake
The beats, the music have invaded our blood
The strategy for this is to open fire
Open fire, open fire
The world starts to shake? Because of the war between Western music and Eastern music? Hopefully this is not what Leehom meant. Perhaps he meant it in a more personal way, that because we've been awaken, we're going to impact the world with our culture. The beats and music have invaded our blood. The foreign music has invaded our blood, so we need to fight it? Or is it actually Leehom's music which has invaded our blood and is calling for our support?
so many accusations
of an Asian invasion
All can think of is kpop taking over the world. =D
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I think some of Lady Gaga's songs are catchy, but emm, she's just... I don't know what to say.
Lol, yes, I agree with you. There is too much of Kpop around. XD