Nice song. Absolute banger :)

I usually don’t watch videos others post, but I did for this one. Damm, it’s… kinda emotional… especially as a music video.

From what I’ve read, a lot of migrant workers have to find work in cities, and therefore have to leave their kids behind in their village due to the Hukou system, kids couldn’t go to public school outside of where their Hukou is, so the kids rarely get to see their parent(s) (sometimes its both parents). (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-behind_children_in_China)

I got lucky, my parents paid for me and my brother to go to a privately-run school in Guangzhou (it was poorly-run, and worse than public schools according to my mother), my maternal grandmother was sometimes there to look after us. So I do have memories of Guangzhou, cuz otherwise all my memories of China would not be a city and tall buildings and cars and big roads, it would’ve been memories of the shitty village my mother was from. (no offense to my parents, its just facts lol, it was so behind in development). But even then, we only see our parents like late at night when they come home. So in summers… when didn’t have school, we just at home by ourselves, which why we fought a lot. I remember sometimes going back to the villages… so I’m guessing that maybe its summer we go back to Taishan, then winter break (like I think New Years stuff I assume), we stay in Guangzhou, because the break is shorter? Or something? (Not sure, fuzzy memories) But I do remember times of being at the apartment in Guangzhou, with my older brother, and my grandmother wasn’t home, parents weren’t home.

I’m not even sure that’d be legal in western countries to do that, I was no older than 8, and my brother was no older than 13, so two minors at home by ourselves… for a few hours at a time… seems like a CPS problem if this had happened in the US.

And the door thing is so weird.

You know how cars have child-safe locks? My parents got those doors that are like (1) anti-theft, makes it harder to break in, but also (2) it can be locked from the outside with a key. (So its locked on both sides, and only opens with a key)

Fire code violations lmfao.

But you know, my parents didn’t want us to run off somewhere. So… there’s that…

And yea… I think the reason why my parents are sort of emotionally abusive because of how rough life was, so either they had anger issues and lashed out, or maybe that was their version of “preparing us for life” or something. So much emotional damage from it. lol

Also: Its interesting how there are 2 lines of lyrics being simultaneously sung…