Everyone has a dream, fulfilled with all the
beautiful wishes and delightful hopes. As a lifelong fan of Ian Miller, one of
Joanna Wang’s teenage dreams is to get an inset of Miller to use as her album’s
cover picture. About six years ago, after a serious of emailing communication,
Joanna finally got a reply attached with a typical Miller style’s work, which
she used as the cover photo of this fantastic fairy tale style conceptual album
“The adventures of Bernie the school Boy”.
Joanna Wang describes her feeling of finally see the released of this
album as “A dream come true”. For her, this album is not only a record of songs
but her own musical stories. She makes her album like a storybook for “kidult”. It is not easy for this young indie singer to
display herself in a purely Joanna Wang style as she has a famous jazz music
composer dad, whose fame may overshadow her own talents. But Joanna Wang
finally proves her gifted ability with this album which includes 12 innovative
conceptual songs that are all filled with splendid imagination and combination
of the lyrics as well as the tunes.
Joanna
Wang suggests that it would understand this album better if listeners can view
this album as a whole. Therefore, different songs in this album are like
different episodes of a musical film. As one of the featured songs, Plotting
Revenge, the piece that I write in my research paper, is a typical conceptual music
work that put realistic content into a surrealistic nutshell.
The
general feeling of this album, reflected by the Progressive Rock music style
and Gothic design, is like Joanna Wang finally put her dream into concrete
work. She has a big dream that she can create her own music style but not only
a guitar jazz girl with smoked voice. From her album, I can still image the scene
where 7 year old Joanna Wang portrayed her little dream of music with an Ian
Miller book. Never be afraid to dream big, a big dream can drive people to work
tough, to spare no effect on a goal. “The process of producing this album is
hard but sweet, especially when you see all the musical notes finally come
together and become the melody you are dreaming day and night” said by Joanna
Wang.
Always remember the initial faith of a dream, conquer all the barriers step
by step and finally the greatest results will come, that’s a meaning of life.
I attach this live of Joanna Wang, enjoy and feel her innovative music style of this unique album.
Plotting Revenge feels like a background music of fairy tale.Joanna Wang, more like a Jazz singer, is courageous to make such an unique album.Expect her creative spirit, her experience of making her little-girl dream come true, is touching and encouraging.After reading this paper, I long to know more about this singer.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very inspirational topic, like what you stated in you story, a person should never give up on his/ her dream. Life is always come with barriers, what Joanna did is more like an example we should follow. It must be even harder for Joanna Wang to build her own music path under her father's shadow, but she did, so should we be fighting for our owns.
ReplyDeleteIt is too prosaic to say, "It is not late to dream a dream regardless of your age". But I agree that people who are ready to be change or improved have more possibility to make their dreams come true. I was fascinated by Joanna Wang's effort to put her musical ideal into her performance, which is unique.
ReplyDeletePeople always admire the person who has achieved his/her dream. People always say, “I want to be a singer”, or “I want to be a writer”, but never act. “Never too old to dream big”, but I think “never too old to act” is more important. People do not act, the dream just a dream that never changes. It is not hard to imagine that how massive the effort Ian Miller did to crawl out from under her father’s shadow, and at same time to achieve a big success belong to her own. Thus I think no matter when people dream big, the action is the key to fulfill what people dream.
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