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Utopia

by CHICKS ON SPEED

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Is utopia, the place of equality and space for each individual to live out fantasies in the digital world? The song is full of divers ideas of utopia, from the tsunami of free thought and equality of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, to the knowledge that our desire for utopia is being manipulated every day with the false possibility to buy our own private utopia. It's about asking yourself What do you want most?
we'd say to live peacefully together in an outrageous, creative place.
Utopia culminates with Yoko answering:
‘ unite and focus on what we want and we will get it, one of the things is peace, because we don’t want a violent world’

lyrics

translation Liz Nigol:


Pin-Yin

Wǒ xīwàng jīntiān, Wǒ xīwàng míngtiān,
Wǒ xīwàng de yǒngyuǎn měilì,

Nǐ de mèilì, nǐ de jiānglái, wǒ de xīwàng, nǐ de míngtiān, wǒ de jīntiān, wǒ dì měilì, nǐ de jīntiān


Phonetic

whor si-wang ming-tien, whor si-wang chting-tien,
whor sing-wang yong yeng-yter mei-li

ni ter mei li,
ni ter chtiang lie,
war ter si wang,
ni ther ming tien,
war ther ching tien,
ni ter chtiang lie,
war ther mei li,
ni ther chting tien


good luck!


On 14 March 2014 00:43, liz nigol <liz.nigol@gmail.com> wrote:
English
I hope tomorrow,
I hope today,
I hope forever (to be) beautiful,

I hope tomorrow,
I hope today,
I hope forever (to be) beautiful,

Your beauty, your future, my hope, your tomorrow, my today, your future, my beauty, your today

Chinese
我希望今天，
我希望明天，
我希望的永远美丽，

我希望今天，
我希望明天，
我希望的永远美丽，

你的魅力， 你的将来，我的希望，你的明天，我的今天，我的美丽，你的今天


PIN-YIN (tones must be correct of these words will not make sense)
Wǒ xīwàng jīntiān,
Wǒ xīwàng míngtiān,
Wǒ xīwàng de yǒngyuǎn měilì,

Wǒ xīwàng jīntiān,
Wǒ xīwàng míngtiān,
Wǒ xīwàng de yǒngyuǎn měilì,

Nǐ de mèilì, nǐ de jiānglái, wǒ de xīwàng, nǐ de míngtiān, wǒ de jīntiān, wǒ dì měilì, nǐ de jīntiān



ok. so I'm still working on getting a phonetic version of it. my mumsy did this for me:



whor si-wang ming-tien, whor si-wang chtin-tien,
whor sing-wang yong yeng-yer mei-li (x2)

ni ter mei li.....






but i got some advice from my friends from the melbourne asian phone tree, they said its really difficult to do because its a tonal language, if you get the pronunciation off by just a little the words could mean something totally different. you could be singing about licking a dogs balls by accident.



if you're really keen to sing it, one of my friends said that if you send a recording of you singing the bit and checking to see if it makes sense? haha



let me know.

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released July 21, 2017
Recorded at ZKM Karlsruhe with Anat Ben Davide, Amy Salah played the bubbles and sang Manderin.

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CHICKS ON SPEED Berlin, Germany

Chicks on Speed are art duo Melissa E. Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie who met in Munich, Germany while studying at The Academy of Fine Art, Munich. The duo cross lines and build new groups and are direct decedents of bauhaus, Fluxus, SI and created Electroclash in the last milenia. When they take a break they sleep in a lab and record their dreams which are sonified into the endless songs. ... more

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