There are albums you listen to and you can just tell that the record feels alive, as if the music is reaching out from the speakers to remind you that music can still be revolutionary. Adai Song’s The Bloom Project is one of those rare works.
Released in late August 2025, this album doesn’t just mark a new chapter for Adai; it feels like the flowering of everything she’s been hinting at for years. It’s a chapter in her artistic evolution.
More than just a collection of songs, this album is a Grammy Awards Candidate for Best Global Music Album and a profound reinterpretation of Chinese Shidaiqu. Adai is not just recreating historical sound, she redefines a new era.
The album which has 8 masterpiece tracks elevates the dialogue between the past and the present, a transformation of cultural storytelling into an engine for modern change.
The Bloom Project is a masterpiece with a great sound. Adai brings together Electronic dance music, parts, traditional Chinese instruments and short bursts of Rap to create this masterpiece. Instruments like Erhu, Guzheng and Pipa fit naturally with the digital beats and electronic sounds. The lyrics challenges old ideas about gender, bringing back stories that used to silence women.
TRACK ANALYSIS
A Lost Singer: This track begins with a calm and gentle charm. It feels like a conversation between memory and finding yourself, showing a quiet voice returning with strength. Adai’s vocal is worthy of note, soft and firm. There’s a soft trembling in her voice and light, airy delivery showing a sense of feeling. It begins with a piano chord and airy electronic pad that creates a misty sound. The piano and bass gives it a steady emotional base and as the music ends, the orchestra swells signal a rebirth.
Night Shanghai: This track switches the sound to a glowing picture of a city life filled with charms and thought. It begins with a radiant glow of city Rhythm and the vocal delivery is calm and controlled sung in smooth Mandarin that brings to mind the old, glamorous clubs of Shanghai. The song circles through chords that capture fascination coupled with loneliness.
Make Way: This marks a change in the Bloom project shifting the mood from quiet thought to confidence and victory. There’s a kinetic energy built on kick drums and a buzzing electronic bassline that places the song in a club music setting. The song’s idea reworks the 1940 shidaiqu classic Rose, Rose, I Love You which was once a symbol of passive beauty into a self-determination anthem.
Adai proclaims My thorns aren’t decorations, they hold up my pride and I want to grow wild in the wind not sit in a vase.
Carmen 2025: This changes the classical music of Bizet’s 19th century opera into a lively version that challenges the old musical rule. It opens up with a familiar tune from Bizet’s score but immediately gives a futuristic sound design which includes temple blocks and subtle gongs. Adai’s vocal is audacious and dramatic, taking on the opera style but in a modern form of delivery.
The song turns the legendary figure of Carmen into a symbol of independence and brave self renewal. The original tale’s tragedy becomes a story of empowerment.
The Bloom Project is not just a record, it’s a statement proving that History is a dynamic force when filtered through a modern lens. This is an album that is deeply reverent to it’s cultural past and boldly asserts the future.
This album reclaims narratives, transforms traditions into a tool for empowerment and stands as an essential piece of music that is ready to inspire change across generations.
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