LTK

Studying in a prestigious secondary school and then a well-known local university, LTK did not choose to side with the usual and easy path: focusing on grades, finding internships, having a stable job with a decent income guaranteed, and then calling it a life. LTK lives with a fervent desire to become a local lyrics writer, and she has made a considerable amount of sacrifices to go into this unusual industry. What might be barely imaginable is that LTK has only started writing lyrics since the preparation of DSE. However, discovering her interest only when she was almost an adult has neither deterred her from putting colossal seriousness into the dream nor determined her slim chance of success. LTK has made it to a well-recognised master class in year 2. While her peers are all focusing on their studies and career planning, LTK admits the importance and rarity of owning one’s passion with a strong clarity in order to persist. Nevertheless, LTK enjoys what she is doing in everyday life. She said, “even if I die any day, I will not have any regrets because I am living every day doing what I enjoy”.

The idea of diversity could be observed through LTK’s different commitments. LTK aspires to alter the culture of the cantopop industry. She has observed the vicious cycle in the industry, where songs are only created based on limited themes which revolve mainly around love and romance. In fact, the vicious cycle could not be blamed on one single sector, but on the interaction between the trinity of performers, creators and consumers. The narrow market taste may have lured the creators to produce songs of similar genres and sounds, but these songs of a similar kind may have in turn nurtured and intensified the focused appreciation of one single type of music. Ultimately, she dreams of writing lyrics that listeners will pause and think about.

就讀傳統名校，考入本地知名大學，LTK本可以像其他人一樣，埋首學習、做實習、畢業後找一份收入穩定的工作，但她並沒有選擇走這條「人生的捷徑」，因為這樣一成不變的生活並不是她所追求的。對於LTK來說，成為一名本地詞曲家是她的目標，而她也為進入這個行業做出了相當大的犧牲。但令人意想不到的是，LTK是在備考文憑試時期才開始接觸以及進行詞曲創作，雖然起步較晚、成功機會渺茫，但這也並沒有影響或動搖她對創作的熱情。通過自身的努力，LTK也終於在發展的第二年入讀了有關詞曲創作的課程。LTK明白其他同齡人都在進行自己的學業、職業規劃，堅持夢想是需要莫大的勇氣和熱情才能夠進行下去的，而她也從沒有質疑自己的選擇。她曾說：「即使有一天我離開了這個世界，我也不會後悔，因為我每天都在做我喜歡的事情。」

從LTK的想法中，可見她對於本地流行曲或整個行業的瞭解，而她也一直渴望改變粵語流行曲行業現有的文化。她觀察到行業的需求對於創作的限制，本地許多的詞曲主題都不外乎是圍繞著愛情和浪漫，表演者、創作者和消費者三位一體所結合成的閉環也導致產生了這樣一個惡性循環。狹隘的市場品味可能會誘使創作者產生狹隘的流派，但這些相似類別的歌曲可能會引致大眾只懂得欣賞這一單一類型的音樂。而LTK期望建立自己獨特的風格，有別於其他的作品，也希望自己所創作的內容能夠引人深思。