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We love Beetles until we are young.
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(yeah)Since you were young, you love the Beetles? (yes)
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What about any other influences?
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Any other major stars that you know that you think you would like to be like?
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We think Beetles have a lot of influence.
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even in western country or eastern country like in our world
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You know. So their influence is very huge and powerful for us.
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(hmm hmm) We think we might take this kind of power as music.
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We try to influence some generation of in the same as our generation in the same age
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And the music, which I've been listening to today, you know, big chord, stadium rock, you know, catchy stuff.
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You write most of it. You do the most. You'll sing a song?
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I wrote almost all the...
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What do you write about?
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I... We sing what we see, what we hear, what we think for our generation.
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And you are huge in China.
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I was talking to one of my colleagues who works in the BBC Chinese service.
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And they were telling me that it's because you have uplifting something.
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Some to tell people to hold on their dreams.
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Do you think maybe that part of your appeal in Chinese market?
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first of all, it's not about the market or what strategy we use in China.
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For that it's more like almost in the world.
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The young generation. The young generation, everyone think about the same thing.
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How to catch your dream? How to fight your world?
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Not only for a doubt or for your class.
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Or anything. So we just write maybe the young generation like us, what we think in our music.
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The point is young people around the world (yeah) are worried about the same thing.
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(I think so.) But as a Taiwanese rockband, big in Japan. Do you have to be careful about some of the things you write about ?
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not to be too political?
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Japan? No, in China. Sorry, do I say Japan?
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I just been talking about Japan. (laugh) You know. The Chinese rockband big in China. (yeah)
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Do you have to be carfeful about some of the things you write about?
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not to get too political.
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Actually, we are very honest to our songs.
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So we wrote what we really care about.
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Anything we wrote more basically we wrote more about relationship
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(hmm hmm) relationship around the pals. With friends, our families, and what we dream about.
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what we really care about. But I think the most important thing is Mayday always think very positive. (hmm hmm)
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positive message? Yeah, so always we think about we have a dream, then we can achieve that.
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So we keep pushing this message to all the people that can't speak Chinese.
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that's why. That is the question for you, isn't it? You are going to tour Europe and the US.
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But you'll be singing in Mandarin. (yeah)
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How is that gonna work?
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Are you expecting, you know, Chinese fan to come? or..
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There is a trick. We put some Chinese subtitle in our music video right now
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So people can check that.
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But also we think there is... you know, music has no language
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So if we have thinking this. If we thinking the same thing, then we play the same thing, then I think music can touch people's heart.
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Even don't have any language with it.