Blossomy
S.H.E
Can’t Wait is the opening track on Taiwanese girl group S.H.E’s latest album.
It is also an apt description of how fans, who have been hankering for a new offering since Shero was released in March 2010, must be feeling.
It might also sum up how the trio felt about coming together again, after a filming accident in October 2010 left member Selina Jen with terrible burns and a long road to recovery.
The title track is an upbeat number that takes listeners through the years with the group, with lines such as “That year we moved into the girls’ dormitory, since then you’ve been there through the laughter and tears”.
Their first album was titled Girl’s Dorm (2001).
It is also very much about Jen’s journey: from “walking through the most hopeless ruggedness” to having the flowers bloom again.
That theme is also echoed on Our Hearts Are Still Warm.
They sing: “Old scars peel off, new life is throbbing/Love is a never ending bloom”.
It is a touching reminder of how the three have held fast over the years through thick and thin.
Elsewhere, they offer easy-on-the- ears tuneful pop, from the ballad Give Me Back to the forward-looking Tomorrow’s Me to the paean to friendship Later Later.
They have been more adventurous and playful in their music before but, for now, it is enough that Selina, Hebe and Ella are flowering as S.H.E once more.
(ST)