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Gu Yu fanvid set to 安和桥 (Anhe Bridge), a song about halcyon days and memories of being loved.

Prompt from jianghuchild: "Gu Yu-centric. Something that explores his character, especially his inferiority complex, his pride, his sort of 可怜之人必有可恨之处 type of thing." + 安和桥 vibes + "If you feel so inclined to make it shippy with Jiang Xueming I would love that too but no pressure"

This was such a great song suggestion from the requester herself! I got all the feels reading the lyrics and found it perfect for a number of Hikaru no Go characters. ;__; I tried to squeeze in as many shippy moments as I could (as requested) but the gen / Go Club feelings won out haha. I love them!!! So much!!!

There were a couple of lines in the lyrics I wasn't sure I understood, so I'm afraid I might have mistranslated them. Thankfully my audience of one doesn't need subs???

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One last request left, with a week (and a whole weekend) to spare, which means I might end up dropping the ball on it. I feel bad for the requester already ajsksdfpa;sj;

Lol I meant to do my August roundup (since I consumed a fair amount of media), but, as usual, I got derailed by ZXC... and the utter delight/relief that there are other people translating and making lyric videos of his songs lmfao (he has an upcoming minialbum and is gradually dropping the tracks)

晚风 Lyric Videos:

By starrysea
This is the most straightforward translation with some personal touches, so it's easy to get the full picture + I think it's a good glimpse of what native speakers hear when the song is playing.

By fwoopersongs

YJTC/fwoopersongs likes to preserve as much as the wording and sentence structure as much as possible while interpreting the text, and I find this approach extremely useful when I want to understand everything that's going on in the song, especially because she's not limited by character count and has the ability to express everything fully (for example, "a version of me" for 某个我 which I wouldn't have thought of haha).

I sometimes get people retranslating my ZXC fansubs into other languages (with my permission), and as touching as it is, their trust in me wakes up my impostor’s syndrome, so I deeply wish I could shove YJ's song translations at them so they can refer to it lol. (One of them translates to Persian and does directly contact me for clarifications, which I think is very sweet! I’m not sure how active she is now, but at least for this song I have someone else’s line-by-line translation on hand as a resource.)

Mine:

This is half fanvid (using stock videos as well as clips from ZXC's works), half fantranslation, so it's very much interpretative. I tend to veer off original phrasing, and mostly I am okay with that because I'm used to working with contemporary songs and reading song translations... But a recent round of cnovel translation wank has made me second-guess myself again haha :')

Anyway I still love my lyric video thumbnails hehe

( text version of lyrics + translation for comparison, bc it fascinates me )

Slinking back to Vimeo because Youtube/Tencent auto-blocks the audio for copyright reasons. It seems like Vimeo's embed code now allows you to choose between "responsive" and "fixed". NICE.

This is the song that Zhang Xincheng/Steven Zhang recorded for When You Be Me, a new bodyswap romance cdrama (he's not part of the cast, he's only singing for it). Lyrically I find this way more fitting than the song he recorded for his own bodyswap drama (The Day of Becoming You), which sounded like a generic love song to me. XD

It seems that When You Be Me is yet another drama with an improbably deep lake. XD



NGL, the moment this MV dropped, I instantly downloaded it to my phone and considered the logistics of subbing it during a rally. (I could not, because battery drain haha.)


ETA: Added pinyin softsubs! Tap the CC button and select 中文 to activate and sing along. XD