Waving Flag 乐评

Waving Flag

The first time I hear this song is from the Olympic games. As the topic song, this song would easily arouses people’s common sense when the melody goes on, and you unconsciously pat the desk with the rhythm you hear and sing out the lyric which is easy almost for everyone to remember. As the topic song of South Africa Olympic games, it’s obviously a great success, and make people around the world forever can’t forget that sweaty summer.

While it’s after the American culture and country music class, for the first time, I know that this song is adapted from an original South Africa song which meant to descript the war and race problem. Rather the sports version that puts an emphasis on the passion and dream, this version has a more profound meaning about the actual life condition of the black and their own voice from the deep of heart. Though the rhythm is not as fluent as that version, the lyrics touch you more.

The information sent by this song illustrate the so-called dream is not all world-wide or always connected with the people all around the world, but also the gap between the white and black. Actually we should take a new sight to view all the discrimination gaps around us.