Snow-Like Hair (髮如雪)

Snow-Like Hair (髮如雪) is the best track off of Jay's newest album - November's Chopin. (Check out the MV below). Reminiscent of Eastern Broken Wind, it's still pretty unique. Love the "la tsing" in the background (you know, the Chinese horizontal guitar). Who says Chinese songs can't sound contemporary and classically Chinese at the same time? Jay and Leehom do it well.

The video for it is a vignette in the wu xia style. It tells the tale of a fatal love triangle in a distant past life. In keeping with the theme of three, Jay performs the song in three distinct ways -- the singing of the verses, the raps, and the mainland opera-like bridge.

For some reason, I really like all of the recent nods to mainland China in these R&B/hip-hop/pop songs. That is, the mainland way of rolling the words. A bit dirty south might I add...ok, maybe not. Southern China then? =)

Here's the link to the album site...not that I can read any of it!