Lin Xi_Songs of Others + My Lyrics_Taiwan Exclusive

Price: NT$450 *This product ships to Taiwan only. #Default shipping via SF Express. However, if SF Express temporarily suspends delivery to certain regions due to the pandemic, shipping will be rerouted via alternative methods without prior notice. Author: Lin Xi Dimensions: 140mm x 210mm Pages: 368 pages Publication Date: September 2022 ISBN: 9786269544578 [About the Book] "Songs of Others" is the title of a pop song Lin Xi wrote when he first started his career. Naming his book after it not only encapsulates the theme of the essays within—pieces written in his youth, about lyrics, songs, and the music industry from many years ago—but also highlights how time has rendered everything so wonderfully curious. Lin Xi describes these essays as special, focusing on "gossip about pop songs and idle talk about lyric writing. After being in the industry for a few years, I hardly wrote anything about songwriting. It's rare, hence valuable." Furthermore, when discussing the trivial matters of lyric writing, the distant past makes what is spoken and written feel like "songs of others." It's as he describes himself: "When the me of today meets the me of yesterday, it's like meeting a different person. Calling them 'songs of others' is incredibly fitting." As stated in the preface: "Eileen Chang once said that when you're busy falling in love, you don't have time to be in love; when you're busy writing lyrics, you don't have the time or mood to discuss lyric writing. For instance, novelists rarely talk about the art of novel writing. A mind that's too rational cannot give birth to naturally delivered life; thinking too much about and writing too many plot tricks can make a work mechanical and devoid of spirit. At the very least, to maintain an image of aloofness and sophistication, it's better to say less." A lyricist who has been writing for over thirty years, and still strives to write diligently. In the chapter "My Lyrics," he revisits a selection of Mandarin lyrics he wrote. Lin Xi explains these essays "go beyond the melody, adding to the lyrics where they fall short: extensions, elaborations, associations, annotations, and marginalia. I'm annotating my own lyrics; this act may not be the first of its kind, but it's certainly unprecedented." What makes this book even more precious are the numerous handwritten lyric manuscripts from those years, penned by Lin Xi on manuscript paper, included within. While it may not be claimed as the definitive collection of Lin Xi's lyric writing, the pieces compiled in this book are undeniably valuable. [About the Author] Lin Xi Graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, majoring in Translation. He has worked as a teaching assistant in the Chinese Department at HKU, an editor at Fast Magazine, a Creative Director/Deputy Manager of the Program Department at Asia Television, Creative Director/General Manager of Music Factory, and Head of Advertising Creative and Production/Creative Consultant/Consultant at Commercial Radio Hong Kong. He is now a full-time writer.