What I talk about when I talk about Shine...

Yes I know the Wyman concert has become hot topic of the town but I did’t go to see it. Before the show was held, as an iconic lyrist, with many star friends, it would cause Wyman no pain to make big names on his guest list. But who surprised me is that Shine appeared in the show! It truly makes me regret to give up a ticket!

Shine is a boy band formed by Wong Yau Nam and Tsui Tin Yau debuted in early 2000’s. While most boy band usually sold their handsome faces, vitality and cool appearances, they took an other approach by expressing sensibility of local yourg peoples. Taking their first album as example, names of songs all were adopted from famous movies, with themes of covering from signs about fast changes in the city (Swallowtail Butterflies, 燕尾蝶), buddies leaving for girlfriends (One One, 一一), teens wandering on streets in Mong Kok (The MK Lords, 旺角渣fit人)to identity as a common boy (Jules and Jim, 祖與占). They sang not particularly outstanding, but remarkably capture the spirt of the songs. It might not be the very first time but had reminded young people what issues they were concerned about other than dating. I think their producer James Ting and Wyman should be attributed to for the success. If they were not smart enough to capture the essense of the band, the boys would be Boy’z, their major rival at the time.

Sadly this was not enough to make them a bright career as singers. Unable to make breakthrough, few years later they virtually disppear from stage. It is heard that they focus on acting now.

I suspect Wyman saw Shine as media to experiement his new form of teen oriented lyrics. I think his major contribution is that he never holds himself from exploring new issues with his unique , precise and therefore impressive wording. Shine had never shone like a supertar but still were luckily enough to meet Wyman or today we can barely remember them.