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City Zoo
City Zoo (Chinese: 摩天動物園; pinyin: Mótiān dòngwùyuán) is the sixth studio album by Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M., released on December 27, 2019, by Sony Music. As the executive producer, G.E.M. worked with producer Terrence Ma. The self-written album was done after G.E.M.'s departure from her former record label Hummingbird Music Limited in early 2019. It was produced and finished within eight months.
City Zoo marks G.E.M.'s first time acting in multiple creative roles, including the system director, music video director, visual director, and creative and planning director. Entirely produced by G.E.M. and Terrence Ma, the record blends pop and dance elements with influences from various genres such as trap music, electronic music, rock, rhythm blues, and other musical styles. Its lyrics touches on themes of self-worth, romance, and relationships.
The concept of the album uses the idea of animals as a metaphor to human nature, outlining the different aspects as well as expressing the voices of human beings between animal and nature. Each track represents a different animal and reflects themes of social phenomena and relationships. The album also includes a collaboration with Taiwanese singer Eric Chou.
City Zoo was preceded by the singles "Full Stop", "City Zoo", and "Selfless". The tracks "Miss Similar" and "Walk on Water" were also included in the album's track list, with the latter serving as the theme for the Chinese version of the film Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). The song "Long After" served as the theme for the film Do You Love Me As I Love You (2020).
City Zoo is an album that fully realizes G.E.M.'s vision from the concept of the album from song to song creation, music production, visual creativity, and event planning and promotion. The album starts from the human nature she has experienced in the past, turning her observation and care into lyrics. Each song uses metaphorical methods to convey the status of interpersonal relationships or social phenomena through an animal image.
The album begins with the album title track, which incorporates a large number of hip-hop arrangements, Describe the living postures of various animals, and reflect social phenomena, and sneer at the dark side that everyone may appear at some moment and hope that everyone can clear the temptation of false lies with the clearest vision and make the best choice. The second track "Fly Away" is a very melancholy song, and the symbolic animal is owl. Through this song, G.E.M. hopes to express her inner struggle and desire to share the mood with others, not to hear from others consolation, the producer used a very complicated rhythm set with G.E.M. whispering and multi-segmentation, and some echo effects, successfully creating the effect of empty echoes in the forest.
The third song "Selfless" symbolizes the animal as a chameleon. The song describes the state of being too fond of the other party and fascinates itself with the pulling state. When it is completely for the other party that it wants to sacrifice itself, in the end, it will only endure all the pain alone. The fourth track, "Long After" is symbolize the animals as cats. On December 18, the listening session shared the sound source of the song. The song describes that if it is injured, it can only hide in the corner and lick the wound, but it must be strong in front of people. The fifth track, "Walk on Water" is a very self-confident song. The representative animal of this song is the Jesus Lizard. When they are in danger, they can walk on the water to escape. This is exactly the meaning of the song: In times of difficulties and wind and waves, refuse to lose, don't retreat, and breakthrough with confidence. The sixth track, "Mama" is a song that G.E.M. written to her mother. The representative animal of this song is fireflies. This song describes about mother's love.
The seventh track, "Grey Wolf" does not want to show the slyness of the wolf, but G.E.M. hopes to let everyone reflect on the facts we see through the wolf. The overall arrangement is very modern, and a lot of effort has been put into vocal processing. The echo of the sound, more reveals the lingering blur and the sly hidden features of the wolf that the music wants to show. The eighth track, "Miss Similar" symbolizes the animal as a peacock, and describes this generation of imitation, giving birth to all kinds of strange ecology and humans. It is the only rap song in the album. The ninth track, "Missing You" is a pure guitar's ballad song. It rumors is a love song that written for G.E.M.'s current couple, Mark Ngai. The song is not symbolized or representative any animal. The tenth track, "Don't Force It" is a duet song featuring Eric Chou, representing the animal as a hedgehog. The "hedgehog's hug" is used to compare the state of a relationship. The two voices overlap to perfectly explain the heartbreak in love. The eleventh track, "Unreachable" is using a very strong synthesizer sounds, symbolizing as a butterfly. The song describes precious things that are often not caught, and thank you for helping you along the way.
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City Zoo
City Zoo (Chinese: 摩天動物園; pinyin: Mótiān dòngwùyuán) is the sixth studio album by Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M., released on December 27, 2019, by Sony Music. As the executive producer, G.E.M. worked with producer Terrence Ma. The self-written album was done after G.E.M.'s departure from her former record label Hummingbird Music Limited in early 2019. It was produced and finished within eight months.
City Zoo marks G.E.M.'s first time acting in multiple creative roles, including the system director, music video director, visual director, and creative and planning director. Entirely produced by G.E.M. and Terrence Ma, the record blends pop and dance elements with influences from various genres such as trap music, electronic music, rock, rhythm blues, and other musical styles. Its lyrics touches on themes of self-worth, romance, and relationships.
The concept of the album uses the idea of animals as a metaphor to human nature, outlining the different aspects as well as expressing the voices of human beings between animal and nature. Each track represents a different animal and reflects themes of social phenomena and relationships. The album also includes a collaboration with Taiwanese singer Eric Chou.
City Zoo was preceded by the singles "Full Stop", "City Zoo", and "Selfless". The tracks "Miss Similar" and "Walk on Water" were also included in the album's track list, with the latter serving as the theme for the Chinese version of the film Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). The song "Long After" served as the theme for the film Do You Love Me As I Love You (2020).
City Zoo is an album that fully realizes G.E.M.'s vision from the concept of the album from song to song creation, music production, visual creativity, and event planning and promotion. The album starts from the human nature she has experienced in the past, turning her observation and care into lyrics. Each song uses metaphorical methods to convey the status of interpersonal relationships or social phenomena through an animal image.
The album begins with the album title track, which incorporates a large number of hip-hop arrangements, Describe the living postures of various animals, and reflect social phenomena, and sneer at the dark side that everyone may appear at some moment and hope that everyone can clear the temptation of false lies with the clearest vision and make the best choice. The second track "Fly Away" is a very melancholy song, and the symbolic animal is owl. Through this song, G.E.M. hopes to express her inner struggle and desire to share the mood with others, not to hear from others consolation, the producer used a very complicated rhythm set with G.E.M. whispering and multi-segmentation, and some echo effects, successfully creating the effect of empty echoes in the forest.
The third song "Selfless" symbolizes the animal as a chameleon. The song describes the state of being too fond of the other party and fascinates itself with the pulling state. When it is completely for the other party that it wants to sacrifice itself, in the end, it will only endure all the pain alone. The fourth track, "Long After" is symbolize the animals as cats. On December 18, the listening session shared the sound source of the song. The song describes that if it is injured, it can only hide in the corner and lick the wound, but it must be strong in front of people. The fifth track, "Walk on Water" is a very self-confident song. The representative animal of this song is the Jesus Lizard. When they are in danger, they can walk on the water to escape. This is exactly the meaning of the song: In times of difficulties and wind and waves, refuse to lose, don't retreat, and breakthrough with confidence. The sixth track, "Mama" is a song that G.E.M. written to her mother. The representative animal of this song is fireflies. This song describes about mother's love.
The seventh track, "Grey Wolf" does not want to show the slyness of the wolf, but G.E.M. hopes to let everyone reflect on the facts we see through the wolf. The overall arrangement is very modern, and a lot of effort has been put into vocal processing. The echo of the sound, more reveals the lingering blur and the sly hidden features of the wolf that the music wants to show. The eighth track, "Miss Similar" symbolizes the animal as a peacock, and describes this generation of imitation, giving birth to all kinds of strange ecology and humans. It is the only rap song in the album. The ninth track, "Missing You" is a pure guitar's ballad song. It rumors is a love song that written for G.E.M.'s current couple, Mark Ngai. The song is not symbolized or representative any animal. The tenth track, "Don't Force It" is a duet song featuring Eric Chou, representing the animal as a hedgehog. The "hedgehog's hug" is used to compare the state of a relationship. The two voices overlap to perfectly explain the heartbreak in love. The eleventh track, "Unreachable" is using a very strong synthesizer sounds, symbolizing as a butterfly. The song describes precious things that are often not caught, and thank you for helping you along the way.