Mirror, Hong Kong's most popular boy band, is hoping to expand with the release of their first English-language song.
, is hoping to expand its global reach and promote Cantopop in the process with the release on Friday of its first English-language song.
“It’s very different from all of our previous singles, because it’s a kind of dark and also a sexy type of song,” member Anson Lo told NBC News in an interview this month.has also fired up some of the band’s local fans in Hong Kong, a Chinese territory that is home to more than 7 million people. Cantopop once dominated music in Asia but has lost ground in recent decades to other regional genres like Mandopop and, above all, K-pop. But Mirror members say they are not trying to compete.“Launching ‘Rumours’ is just like introducing ourselves, introducing Cantopop to the world,” he added.
“In K-pop songs or English songs, those lyrics are very easy to understand, or quite simple or direct,” said member Edan Lui. “But for Cantopop, lyrics can be very deep and hard to understand. It’s difficult for people who don’t know Cantonese to understand those lyrics.”
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