I’m Singing
Shennio Lin
Eight years after she emerged as the first runner-up on the third season of singing contest One Million Star, Taiwan’s Shennio Lin finally releases her first EP, whose title seems to be answering the question on the minds of whatever fans she has left.
Yes, she is still singing and, in fact, shining in mid-tempo ballads as they showcase her porous and emotionally evocative voice.
On Remembering You, reportedly based on her experience of having her boyfriend cheat on her with one of her best friends, the mood is more of sorrow than anger. She sings: “It’s not that I thought too much, the clues were all there/You loved me once/But in the end, you chose not to tell me.”
On the mesmerising A Better Tomorrow, she laments: “Later, later, time is like a thief/City lights have drowned out the starlight.”
The four-track EP also includes Waiting For Someone, the hit theme song of the romantic dramedy Cafe. Waiting. Love (2014), but not the Mandarin version of the mega-popular track Let It Go that she performed for the release of the animated film Frozen in Taiwan in 2013. On the Disney tune, she holds her own compared to original singer Idina Menzel, showing that she can belt it out without oversinging.
The important thing here, as the title proclaims, is that Lin is singing and there is the promise of more to come.
(ST)