The Human Condition: “Stranger in the North”

In the song “Stranger in the North”, written by Namewee, the lyrics are talking about how life can be involved with dreams and reality by living in society. The video is following a young man who went to Beijing alone only with his backpack. He came there to make his dream of having a better life come true. The young man is talking about how hard it is to get a job and survive in a big city without money. People who are in a higher class stared at him with strange eyes and stay away from him. He sacrificed what he used to have such as safety and warmth from home. This song shows that people have to make lots of effort. In this song, the final message is negative: the singer is telling us that sometimes we should stop following dreams because it might not come true. He is saying that sometimes things will not be as we could think they would be and that it is better not to have illusions about life. The song interprets dreams are something that all humans share. It is universal, the singer tells us about someone who fails to reach his dream which is also part of human condition.

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