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Six Days

Six Days

Artist: DJ Shadow
Album: The Private Press (2002)
Alternative version: remix with Mos Def
Original Vocal: Colonel Bagshot “Six Days War”

Thanks to Wong Kar-Wai again, it is really a lovely MV and a remix. I don't know the original reason why DJ Shadow approached Wong and asked him to make this MV. However, the music is really nice piece of remix and sampling, as well as the music video.

Until recently, I just know that the vocal of Six Days is taken from Colonel Bagshot “Six Days War”. Because the remix by DJ Shadow is so perfect, I thought it was a originally made song. Speaking of Hip Hop, really DJ Shadow is one of the kings. Or it is the only Hip Hop that I love to listen to. As the inspiration of instrumental Hip Hop, DJ Shadow uses a relatively slow pace of drum beats to create rhythm. And everything just matches with each other so perfectly.

Before I know the real content of the vocal part of the song, I though it is about a love story between a young couple. Well, although mainly because of Wong’s music video, it makes sense. The music video is so lovely made that it somehow makes the songs better when listening to it. As what Wong normally does in his movies, the lomo-camera-lile-color in this MV is emphasized, like the passioning of red, the envy of green, and the love in blue water. Camera position is also beautiful done. The scene when the couple lying on the floor and kissing each other is just unforgettable. Wong also made this MV to be sexy. No matter the kissing scene in water or fighting amid ice cubes, it is as sexy as the slow motion of Maggie Cheung in In the Mood of Love. I really like the idea of choosing Chen Chang as the actor. (He is the best actor in Taiwan in my opinion) As a spoke model of Olay, Danielle Graham somehow makes me think about 萧淑慎. I think it will be a good idea to put 萧淑慎 and Chen Chang together in one movie. Don't forget the number 0426 in this MV, it is such a nice trivia of 2046.

The remix version of Six Days with Mos Def is quite funny. It is mixture of Six Days and Walkie Talkie, but it matches perfectly. However, I still don’t know why Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift used the song. It is just not as sexy as the Wong’s music video.

After all, the grievous emotion it creates works both in love and in war. In some way, they are the same. Or maybe the quoting, “The possession of anything begins in the mind”, from Burse Lee at the end of Wong’s MV contributes that connection.


Lyrics:

At the starting of the week
At summit talks you'll hear them speak
It's only Monday
Negotiations breaking down
See those leaders start to frown
It's sword and gun day

Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

You could be sitting taking lunch
The news will hit you like a punch
It's only Tuesday
You never thought we'd go to war
After all the things we saw
It's April Fools' day

Tomorrow never comes until it's too late
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late

You hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead?
It's only Thursday
You feel a shaking on the ground
A billion candles burn around
Is it your birthday?

Tomorrow never comes until it's too late
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late
Make tomorrow come I think it's too late

posted by Yang @ 23:49