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Comeback marked with multilingual EP The Taste Of, that blends music, memories and emotion
After a two-year hiatus, Golden Melody Award-winning artist Shi Shi is back with her new EP The Taste Of, a project that captures the wide range of emotions she experienced during the break.
It is hard to describe the feelings we feel every day using merely our words, but sometimes they can be expressed and digested in a song.
“In this EP, each track is like a unique cocktail, bringing a different flavour and taste profile, along with a different composition of ingredients and emotions. I hope my listeners can savour each one of them.”
Multilingual new chapter
The Taste Of is Shi Shi’s first-ever English-based EP, featuring songs in three languages – English, Mandarin and Korean, a nod towards her roots in South Korea and the first step by Shi Shi’s onto the international stage.
The album brings together an impressive lineup of global producers, including K-pop producer Parkhyeon, whose recording credits include Zara Larsson and Amine, and Latin Grammy-winning producer Andro Pop.
Among the album’s tracks, the two songs featuring Korean lyrics, Falling in Love and the earlier single Tteokbokki stand out as its most gentle and intimate moments.
Through food memories
On Tteokbokki, Shi Shi breaks away from her usual inspirations of relationships and works off a theme of “food memories”, portraying the emotions of the purest friendships that are both comfortable and also the hardest to come by, recorded as an ode to old friends.
Growing up in South Korea, tteokbokki was more than just a traditional spicy Korean rice cake snack to Shi Shi. It represents her youth, the route she took to go home each day after school and the warm atmosphere of the eateries where she spent her time growing up with her friends.
Shi Shi worked with Chinese American producer Morrison Ma on Tteokbokki to bring a retro feeling to the gentle song, which opens with a self-recorded slice-of-life audio of a busy Korean market to bring the audience into the atmosphere.
In the music video, Shi Shi reunites with her old friend, actress Lee Jung-Min, to play the role of two childhood friends who come together after a long time in their same local eatery, catching up on all the years that they missed.
A third-generation South Korean-Chinese singer-songwriter, Shi Shi has been slowly building a presence across Asia, with the new EP set to make a bigger splash with international audiences.
