[OLD] Song of the Week: Chu Shen Ru Hua (Superb) - Fahrenheit

For this week it's back to Taiwan for a song by one of my favorite groups of all time, Fahrenheit (or Fei Lun Hai as they say it).  This is the first Asian group I ever liked back when I first started watching dramas, which was got me into the music in the first place.  These guys are super cool (we don't speak of the fact that they are technically not together anymore...their contract ended and they didn't renew it...sad face).  Since they stopped producing music as a group, though, all of the members have continued in showbiz in some capacity.  Aaron, who's my favorite of the four, continued in music as a solo artist.  I'm not nearly as certain about what the others are doing, except that Jiro has been acting a lot and he was hosting on a TV show for a little while before his last two major dramas came out (Absolute Boyfriend and Fabulous Boys...both of which I WILL be watching VERY soon).

But enough about that.  The song I'm focusing on this time is an older song that was used as the opening theme for the 2007 drama The X Family.  This drama features all four Fahrenheit boys in varying amounts of screen time (one of the boys is only in two episodes...and the drama is fifty-five episodes long).  The song is called Chu Shen Ru Hua (Superb) and it's COOL.  Below are the lyrics*:

This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me

I've been patient for so long, it's feeling comfortable
Justice is boiling in my blood, forming a sea of fire
Every nerve is a match, the soul is gonna burst
You are waiting in the darkness, I wake up

Hot blood never feels tired
Even if it's raining
It can't extinguish the flame in the heart
Night is only missing a thunder
Only missing a moment
The steam in the chest is smoking
I'm ready to make the world feel ashamed

This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me

You said, "Why is the other side of love hate?"
You said, "Why is truth moving farther and farther away?"
You said, "Why should I save the world?"
I said, "I can't stop"
You said, "Why should I carry these burdens?"
You said, "Why can't the good defeat the evil?"
You said, "Why not put aside everything?"
I said, "I can't stop"

The story began in the swamp, I woke up from the chaos
The time bomb had been placed in my mind
The volcano hidden in my heart is about to explode
So come on
This life I defend my love, unable to stop

Tomorrow I'm not afraid of any danger
Even if love is frozen by snow
My heart has a long summer
Hurry, please test my limit
Please go ahead and put me in training
What other ultimate trials does God have?
I'm ready to make the world feel ashamed

This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me
This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me
This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me
This is my era, I will give you your future
If you want to live, then quietly follow my rule
I'll detonate the entire era, no one can escape
Look at me being superb, the galaxy is buried by me

All right, aside from this song being pure AWESOME, there are some cool things to point out about the lyrics.  For one, the somewhat subtle connection to the drama even though I don't think this song was written specifically for the drama.  At the very least, the lyrics do fit the tone of the show and they make sense overall in the span of the story.  Plus there's a lot of really cool imagery in this song, and I love imagery.

The music video is one that is interesting to watch, what with the science experiment sort of thing happening throughout.  There's really no specific story line to it other than the Fahrenheit boys looking like they're in prison (or at least one of them is) and the others are rescuing him.  I like this music video a lot.  In fact, it was really the first Asian music video I ever saw that had nothing to do with Romantic Princess (I was watching that drama at the time and thus was looking up everything under the sun from that soundtrack).

Overall, one of the first Asian music videos I ever saw, and as far as I'm concerned, still one of the best.  It's a cool song with a cool drama attached to it and I recommend both to just about everyone out there.

*Translation may not be 100% accurate.  Don't fault me; I don't speak Mandarin.
Translation credited to the X Family Wiki D-Addicts team