Show You Colour

Show You Colour
Show You Colour
Studio album by Cui Jian
Released	23 March 2005
Genre	Chinese rock, pop, electronic, Chinese hip hop
Label	北京ぺきん东西音おん乐制作せいさく有限ゆうげん公司こうし　Beijing Dongxi Music Manufacturing Company Ltd. (China, CD)
Cui Jian chronology

Show You Colour (Chinese: 给你一いち点てん颜色; pinyin: gěi nǐ yīdiǎn yánsè) is the Chinese Rock artist Cui Jian's fifth album,^[1] released on 23 March 2005. In contrast to his previous work, 'Show You Colour' combines elements of rock, popular music, hip-hop and electronic music to produce its distinctive sound.

Themes

Show You Colour is divided into three themes; red representing the internal spirit, yellow representing love and blue representing wisdom or knowledge.

"Blue Bone"

The second track is the most popular track with netizens, downloads and streams of the song far exceeding others on the album. The song ·蓝色骨こつ头· (lanse gutou), which translates as "Blue Bone" (or alternatively "Blue Man of Character") seems to be the album's main song, as Chinese music site, Douban, stated that the colour blue comes across as the most important of the colour themes. Although it concerns itself with "literate people" the song is Cui Jian's personal portrait of society and life. Douban suggests that only listeners who understand "Blue Bones" can grasp Cui Jian's current own situation and knowledge of life.

Critical reception

The album received majority positive reviews, with users on music site 360buy giving it 4 out of 5 stars.

Track listing

城市じょうし船せん夫おっと (chengshi chuanfu/"City Boatman")
蓝色骨こつ头 (lanse gutou/"Blue Bone") *possibly "Blue Man of Character"
迷失的てき季き节 (mishi de jijie/"The Lost Season")
小城おぎ故事こじv21(上うえ) (xiaocheng gushi v21 (shang)/"Small Town Story v21 (part 1)")
红先生せんせい (hong xiansheng/"Mr Red")
网络处男 (wangluo chunan/"Network Virgin")
小城おぎ故事こじv21(中なか) (xiaocheng gushi v21 (zhong)/"Small Town Story v21 (part 2)")
农村包つつみ围城市し (nongcun baowei chengshi/"Country Surrounding the City")
小城おぎ故事こじv21(下した) (xiaocheng gushi v21 (xia)/"Small Town Story v21 (part 3)")
舞まい过38线　(wu guo 38 xian/"Dancing across the 38th Parallel")
超越ちょうえつ那な一天いってん (chaoyue na yi tian/"Exceed That Day")

References

^ Wang Pei 王おう佩 (18 March 2005). "崔ちぇ健けん《红先生せんせい》乐评：做人要よう做红先生せんせい" [Music review of Cui Jian "Mr Red": Being a person should involve being Mr Red]. Sohu Music (in Chinese). Retrieved 18 March 2021.

External links

[1] Official Website Album List

[1] Wang Pei 王おう佩 (18 March 2005). "崔ちぇ健けん《红先生せんせい》乐评：做人要よう做红先生せんせい" [Music review of Cui Jian "Mr Red": Being a person should involve being Mr Red]. Sohu Music (in Chinese). Retrieved 18 March 2021.

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