Playlist: Meet Lolly Fan, Media Executive of Maybe Mars Records

What is your favorite song to wake up to?
Jesus and Mary Chain’s “New York City.” It starts with a beautiful, soft melody. It helps me welcome the new day with a good mood. I hate to be woken up by a sudden loud sound.

What artist would you choose to take a long journey with?
From my experience, I wouldn’t want to travel with any artist! You can’t imagine what kind of weird things they get up to on a trip. All the artists I’ve traveled with drove me crazy.

What’s your favorite Chinese song, and why?
“Love of Life” by the Gar. The song is so euphonic and it’s about the love and the hate we experience in life. The courage, the hope, the confusion, the pain of life, and of youth. It always drags up memories for me.

What do you think is the saddest song, and why?
Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” It’s so hopeless. It speaks of a saddest state: When you got hurt and are in pain and give up. You feel nothing is worthy of love and your soul drops. You are abandoned but you tell yourself that you’re just comfortably numb.

If an alien came to Earth, which song would you recommend them to listen to?
The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize?” I love the lyric “That photo: mitchell pe masilun everyone you know someday will die/and instead of saying all of your good-byes/let them know you realize that life goes fast/it’s hard to make the good things last.” I would want aliens to know that we humans cherish our lives. Please do not attack us!

LOLLY’S FIVE-SONG PLAYLIST

“Echoes” by Pink Floyd
It is far beyond a song for me; it’s a grand movement. It’s sung so lightly but every note sinks into my heart and spirit.

“Lola” by The Kinks
The lyrics make up the best love letter I have ever read.

“Walking With Jesus” by Spacemen3
Drone can take me absolutely anywhere I want to go. It shows me the secret path to a fairyland.

“Search and Destroy” by Iggy Pop & The Stooges
The old D-22 always played this song before a show. When I hear this song, I’m ready to rock!

“Doola And Dawla” by Bang Bang (Brothers Of The Head OST)
The distortion is so sexy, with the hysteric vocal shouting; a total release of emotion.