My Upcoming Album Biography and the Story behind it

At first, I was thinking of putting this up on my fan page on Facebook but I guess sometimes, it's better for my fans to actually guess the meaning on its own. And I guess it's more personal and intimate this way that I put this up on my blog and my personal facebook account, which means ONLY my friends can read it. I've been working on my fifth album for like nine months now and this has been the most intimate and honest process for me. In my other albums, I've been writing songs according to my friends' stories and maybe, a speck of my imagination. However, this time round, I've managed to write songs about me. It was hard at first since I'm not really a big fan of looking at my life or my past but it gets comfortable each and everytime I write more. Every song in this album has been written by me and I guess the name of the album 'Biography' speaks for itself.

Intro - Friends
This is a lead up to the song 'Headline news'. This track is just this one guy talking stuffs to me. It might be weird for thoes who listened to this and not know the actual story behind this. The guy on this track kept talking like he knows me. And everything he's said is completely not true. Like, him seeing my dad not long ago or me living in 8 miles. It was fun to work on this since me and Ko Chan (the music producer) just sat for an hour and brainstormed ANYTHING completely bullshit about me. The funnier thing is how this story is actually true. When i came back from Sydney, I met a few people who's come up to me and said TOTAL bullshit about me, like 'Oh I've known Hein since I was five' or 'I know his parents', when actually I have no effing idea about what they are talking about.

Headline News
As mentioned above, this song is about those people who thinks that they know me. So, it's true that I encountered some people who came up to me and said all these things that are not true and quite stupid. It gets worse when I hear from others that they've been spreading news about me, which is NOT true, but which, I could easily guess, could have been triggered by things they see me doing or things they heard of me doing. It's sad actually because it's a big waste of their time. This song just pays them out completely on how stupid of a person these people are by first pretending to know me, being all nice and suddenly turn out to be just another person in the crowd who just says things about others.

Choose
I once dated this guy. I would say 'dated' because I find it quite hard to not use the word 'date' after you hang out together, both in restaurants and bed. I guess being a bisexual is pretty awesome and I have nothing against people who go for the same gender (duh). However, although I know these types of people exist, I can be REALLY impatient about confusion. It's true you get confused once in a while depending on your surroundings. But I guess I'm just not one of those saviors. I've saved enough people and I've been nice to a lot of strangers already, enough to know how it kicks you in the butt in the end to see this person, who you've been trying to change/save, gets all weird at you. This song is for people who likes to use others to make choices in their lives, just because they are afraid to do it on their own and just so they can have a safety package of 'Oh it wasn't my idea.. it was what he was doing and I thought I could try it' message, in case they don't like what they've chosen. Yeah, just be confident about your choice I guess. It's a waste of time being all unsure about things.

Interlude - Phone Call
This is just a pre-intro to the song Don't Give A F***. It's just this girl on the phone who just kept shouting out threats because I have dumped her. My cousin did a pretty good job in being that angry bitch.

Don't Give A F*** (Don't Care)
In Burmese language, this song translates directly as 'don't care'. The major drive behind writing this song, to me, is those people who thinks that by threatening you that they will break up with you, they would get what they want. It's unavoidable and I see it all the time. Even, I end up doing it sometimes. It's like "Oh I think we should take a break" and you just say that because you want a reaction out of it and you know deep down in your heart that you're NOT ready for a break up. This song gives a big F you to all those times I've been semi-threatened about being broken up. It's funny because in that instant I would be panicking and stressing out but now that I think of it, it's just another unusable fish that has just swam by in your sea of suitors.

A Song For Dad
One of the two English songs in my album. My dad died in 1999, when I was 19. I never actually made a big deal about writing a song for him. I guess, accepting the fact that he's dead took a bit of time because I've seen movies and read of orphans but never thought I would end up being dadless. I have this friend called Samir and I guess one of the main elements on why he's been so close to me is cos we kinda have the same past, not to mention our big appreciation for manga or anime stores. I told him once that I'd write a song for him and I have actually written this song for him. The original lyrics to this song were "I looked in the mirror today to see those eyes of green" but I changed it for my album and if Samir wants to sing this song for his dad, he's more welcome to use that line again.

Innocence
This is actually the Burmese version of "Simple Things". I wrote this song once called "Simple Things". It's about how I wonder if love could've been so much easier if we only had not been hurt in the past. It's just because we have become so experienced and so bitter about some things, we tend to ignore the little simple things in life. My boyfriend does not call me on the phone anymore. My girlfriend wouldn't talk to me as much as she used to anymore. These comments could easily be overcome with a simple 'because they are busy' or 'because they lost their phones', but instead it's just too human of us to assume the worst case scenario.

Closer
This song is one of those 'non-deep' lyrics but catchy and just a BIG EXCUSE to have a true steppers style song in my album. I have always wondered why none of the burmese singers have ever worked on this awesome beat. I guess it gives me a big opportunity to be the first one to come up with it. Despite the whole non-deep lyrics of this song, it does have a huge message. I guess it's dedicated to those, be it girls or boys, who dare not move on and find new love after they've been dumped once. One of the lines in the song goes 'Not all the guys resemble your ex.' I guess it's a huge reflectory song to my five years of being single and five years of fear of a relationship-gone-wrong-when-start-again.

That Thing
I'm a big fan of comedic songs. I even like it when it turns comedic to give a huge important shout out. I guess Eminem would be one of those people, who would always mix comedy with serious messages in a song. "That thing" refers to rejection in this song. Whenever I get dumped or rejected by finding it out on my own, I always wondered why they could be so inconsiderate to not say it in the face and keep me wondering. It's also a bit rude to keep the other one hanging on. But, when I actually had to dump someone I was dating, I was faced with a huge stress factor on how I should do it, when I should do it and where I should do it. Like it or not, rejection is a bitch and we all have to do at some point.

Psychic In Love
This song is for my partner. I know it sounds a bit weird to write about psychics but it's funny how I came to think of it. I was using Facebook one day and I have this application on it, where this psychic Anita reads my future. It's amazing how she always gets it right but that's another story. So, that day, I wondered how will psychics ever fall in love? Me and my partner right now had NO plans before and it JUST happened when it happened. I never saw it coming and I was not even looking forward to it when I first knew him. So, I guess you could say it's a bit of a shocker or a surprise in life to have something good just pop up in front of you. But , I guess psychics being in love would just take love to a certain higher degree. I mean, if a person who knows the future and who would never be surprised by what he encounters in his life could fall in love, that love must be pretty awesome. I guess it's my way of saying the love that I have with my partner right now just feels so right and, I guess I could say 'high'.

See It
This song was originally written in English for a friend of mine and it was called "Try". It's the whole 'all or nothing ' concept where a person fails to keep you in the 'know' about the status in your life. Am I your girlfriend? Am I your lover? Am I your friend with benefits? It's quite annoying actually haha. But, the song 'see it' is TOTALLY different. I read the English lyrics to "Try" again and noticed it didn't make any sense at all. It was too contradictory and the message never shines in the song. So, I had to change it to Burmese lyrics about asking your significant other to put themselves in your place. The whole song has ONE BIG MESSAGE: "put yourself in my shoes". I guess there isn't an obvious or a big trigger to write this song. There is always a bit of a selfishness in a lot of people I've dated. This song can be for all of them.

New Beginning
Inspired by a band of one of my close friends, Synergy, I have come up with their , hmm I could say protocol. Synergy's first album's name was used as a song in their second album and I find that quite spiffy. So, I've started using the name of my previous album as one of the songs in this album and I intend to have a song called "Biography" in my next album, if there's any. New Beginning is a song to me. It's a self-talking song. It's like I'm talking to this guy called Hein and telling him not to give up after a fall. The main thing here is my music career. Despite the fact that I can be called a 'celebrity', I'm not a big fan of the industry itself and the whole fame. Fame, to me, is more of the guy who lasts until the end of a pub crawl or someone who would initiate sex and the city marathon at their place. Now, those people could be popular to me anytime!! haha. So, basically, this song just reminds myself of how time is just an illusional factor which could be set up again everytime it's failed you. You got time! Just go ahead and do and start from beginning. I guess you could relate this song to almost anything. A failed exam, a job you got fired or a celebrity who hasn't made it big hahahaha.

Two People, One World
I really like this song. It's not only because the original English lyrics I wrote to this song was a cheesy song called "Booze Appeal" about how sex or a love initiator happens faster and better in pubs with a dosage of alcohol in your system and now it's a serious song about two people in one world. I guess it's also because it has a serious message in this song. I wrote it for all of the gay couples who wish they could have more freedom, more public display of affection and more normal treatments from others. But come to think of it, I guess when you're in love, nothing matters more than you and your partner. So, the big message in this song is 'no one has to know but you and i'. It's not like we are hiding from everyone but it's just giving you a boost of confidence in what you're doing is not wrong and no one has to approve of it or accept what you're doing. I DO support equality in almost anything, be it gay relationships or just women's right. I guess it's only fair that we DO treat ourselves like flesh, blood and bone in this era, given it's become so scientific and open-minded. Generation Y is about to fall off. People in the last few centuries should wake the eff up.

Breeze
It would be very unfair of me if I said this song is written about other people since I, myself, can be a bit of a breeze at times. Breeze refers to drifters. It's those people who comes and goes in your life. The song mainly focuses on this girl who kept coming in and out of my life and everytime she leaves, she keeps me wondering if it's over or if she would come back again. I could relate that with a lot of relationships I've had in the past. I guess, when one is confused about how much they can accept the other in their lives as, they tend to test themselves by having a time off from them and coming back in. I guess we're all nothing but a form of breeze, before we commit ourselves fully to someone.

Outro - The Audience
This is just a song to thank my fan and to tell them how important they are in my life. It's weird to say they actually save my life since it's NOT true. I could've survived without my fans BUT I can say that I would never be where I am now if it wasn't for them. They ARE indeed my 'music' career life savers!!!