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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.

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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gomen!!!! I'm urber busy this week, have got assignments, projects and quizes due every schooling day for next week, so gotta prepare for them!!! I'll contact you guys again soon, by the end of next week regarding the mag!!! Everything should be more or less settled ne? Demo, would like to ask if you guys want to send via registered mail for safety sake..That will cost an additional SGD2.30. pm me about it, but I may take quite long to reply! Gomen.

Arigatou, Arashi, for giving me this wonderful dream.

Demo, beautiful as they are, dreams are but dreams.

We all have to wake up from it one day deshou?

Especially when the calls of reality pounds at your consciousness every so often.

I've had a busy week. It's supposed to be the term break for a week, but I've got so much to prepare for; quizes, presentations, tutorials...all due the coming week. To top that, I wasted half my time away watching tvb dramas. And I finished Liar Game, Propose Daisakusen, Bambino and BokuImo.