My Name
Jocie Guo
Jocie Guo Meimei is back to claim her name.
The Singaporean singer’s career had stalled in China, where she was mistaken for the notorious charged-with-illegal-gambling blogger Guo Meimei, to the extent that people thought that her big hit No More Panic (2005) had been performed by the Internet celebrity.
Perhaps because of that sobering experience, the singer seems more grown-up now. She still sounds sweet, but she has ditched the cutesy hits such as Mouse Loves Rice (2005) in favour of forlorn love ballads with titles including One Hundred Reasons To Be Alone and Loneliness.
She sings on Blue Sky Tears: “Don’t say, black and white, rumours are vicious/Who says, right and wrong, hearts will shatter.”
While Keep Going might be a love ballad, it contains an epiphany that she could well have gleaned from the sorry episode: “Time waits for no one/I’ll just keep going alone.”
(ST)