Longing for My Beauty

I’m not usually drawn to rap. This song is an exception.

I first heard Xiao Xia’s solo version, and only later came across this collaboration with PO8. It amazed me. After hearing a song’s first version, I often find myself instinctively critical of later ones. This one was an exception.

The newly added rap verse feels like the artist’s name: PO8, poet, something like a poem. Perhaps that is what makes it humane.