Still Missing
Jia Jia
Taiwanese singer Jia Jia’s soulful voice is a thing of beauty.
She could have stuck to singing love ballads and everyone would be perfectly happy. Instead, she throws a curveball early on in this album with See Through, a number by singer-songwriter William Wei which juxtaposes a destructive relationship with a jaunty piano accompaniment. “If you want to hurt me, I won’t hide/A person who has given up can’t be hurt,” she sings.
Not to worry though, ballads are not completely missing from the album.
On the title track written by singer-songwriter Hush, Jia Jia conveys the tender pain of missing an old lover and the closeness they once shared: “More people have forgotten about you and worry about me instead/Forgetting that I am you.”
She also touches on familial love with an ode to her late mother on the album closer, She Was Beautiful.
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