S12 E6: Hua Li 化力

I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee

I’m gonna start with a quote that I remember coming across about 7 years ago now when I started thinking about what we needed as human beings to navigate through what is best described as a 100 year life – and credit to Dr Lynda Gratton for that term – or multi stage life - which is one that breaks away from that model of my parents generation – education-work-retirement - to something much more multi-hyphenate and less linear and one where longevity and technology play a much more prevalent role.

I was also having a lot of thoughts about changes in my life at that time, which made me veer from excitement and possibility, through to panic and huge identity shifts.
The quote might be familiar to you....

'There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have changed.’

This was Nelson Mandela

I’m saying this as Hua Li 化力 by and large wrote the songs for her second album in 2020…a year which, instead of being a year in which she built on her success and achievements, turned out to be a period of extreme turmoil, grief and disconnection. Fast forward to 2024 and those songs have – after four years - appeared on that second album, called Ripe Fruit Falls But Not In Your Mouth, a wonderfully shapeshifting, almost chameleon-esque storybook - it’s wild how the music can veer inter-track from her fabulously sparse, old school rapping style to a more RnB vocal style, each track really showcases her vocal versatility. Each song feels like a journey in itself – an urban journey if that makes sense.
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