#coco lee

[styleteeq]

coco lee (2000)

[y2kalbums]

CoCo Lee – Just No Other Way

[posthumanwanderings]

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[ 李玟 CoCo Lee - You & Me (2000) ]

[lavoixhumaine]

i’m really sick right now. it’s disgusting. our trip was postponed and i can’t write because i have a very slight migraine and i don’t want to make it worst. (even writing this is not helping, really) so i’ll wait until that goes away before writing again.

my bright idea while resting was to watch Rotten Mango’s newly uploaded video on YouTube about Coco Lee.

she died last july and it was reported that she took her own life. it was very sad and it was shocking to me because she along with Michelle Yeoh and to some degree, Ming Na Wen, were like my childhood. like single digits age era. they were the women i looked up to before i started exploring western performers and figures.

i hadn’t really thought about Coco in a while but to hear that she was gone…it was shocking. it was like hearing that someone you grew up with died. i couldn’t believe it. and to hear that it was depression…it was so jarring.

now i’m near the end of this video and learning that she was bullied to death by a goddamn reality tv show that she didn’t really even have to do but she did it anyway because she wanted to help other young people achieve their dreams like she did and she did all that while she was ill and there were so many tragedies she was quietly dealing with…like, jesus. those heart wrenching voice recordings are haunting. she was in so much pain and she freaking apologized for crying and asking for help as if she wasn’t supposed to do that…she was so worried about being a burden to other people. christ, that was so goddamn heartbreaking to listen to. and i don’t even personally know her, okay? she was just another human being who obviously needed help and it was as if there was just…nobody there.

if you don’t know Coco…man, growing up watching her. she was never not smiling. and there was always something about her smile…it was her entire face. you could see it in her eyes the way they would change it was just infectious. she was a great singer and she never put up a bad performance. and she stayed so humble and warm through it all. she was, as Michelle Yeoh called her, a bright star.

my heart is broken for Coco. she deserved so much more than she got. i hope wherever she is, she is truly happy and no longer in any kind of pain.

[loveboatinsanity]

R.I.P. CoCo Lee

[koshigurajumy]

CoCo Lee - A Love Before Time (English)

from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon OST (2000) Music: Tan Dun Cello: Yo-Yo Ma

[luna-rainbow]

Oh man I had no idea she passed away.

I remember she sang the Chinese cover of “Reflection” (from Mulan), and she had a couple other pop hits. I never followed her career closely but I always had a soft spot for her. She’s one of (if not the?) the first Asians to break into the American (and Australian) charts and you know, between her and Lucy Liu, they were like the only 2 immigrant Asian female icons we had back then to look up to. Mind you, this was before K-pop and K-dramas took off, when anime and J-pop were popular but niche, and while Utada Hikaru’s “First Love” was on every Asian teen’s playlist, the reality was even with Utada’s immense talent and impressive voice, she could only have a career by going back to Japan…despite being US-born and bred.

I’m not someone to looks to media for representation, as such, but Coco Lee and Lucy Liu’s breakout into mainstream American media were an acknowledgement of sorts. The western world at the time was good at politely ignoring the achievements of foreign-looking people. Seeing them on screen was a nice reminder that all the hard work we put in are going to be worth something, because we can’t be ignored anymore, even though goddamn it can be hard work.

All that’s meant to say that even though I didn’t listen to much of her later music, Coco Lee has a special place in my nostalgic years because of what she proved possible. So it was heartbreaking to hear her recording where she talks about how badly this talent show mistreated her. She was angry on behalf of the contestants, who she felt were unfairly penalised despite their points made them eligible for another chance. She has a congenital lower limb condition which I believe was flaring up at the time and she needed someone to stand next to her to support her while she’s wearing high heels, and when she spoke up against the show’s unfairness, they allegedly called her support person away causing her to fall on stage.

RIP to an icon, and I’m sorry you were treated this way.

[styleteeq]

coco lee (1999)

[saotome-michi]

Seeing all the evidence coming out about how cruelly the Voice of China producers treated Coco has been crazy and upsetting. Even more so because of how Zhejiang Television has a history of abusing people: the celebrities who appear on their shows and their lower level employees. The show that Godfrey Gao died on was also Zhejiang Television. I hope Coco's soul has gone to a happier place and that the people involved in her mistreatment really face some repercussions for this.

[y2kalbums]

Coco Lee - Do You Want My Love

[posthumanwanderings]

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[ 李玟 CoCo Lee - 愛我久一點 ‘Love Me a Little Longer’ ]

[bhollywoodnews]

Singer Coco Lee dies by suicide at the age of 48

CoCo Lee, a Hong Kong-born pop singer known for her successful international music career and performing at the Oscars, died Wednesday, according to...Read More.

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

RIP 李玟 Coco Lee 😢

[ricisidro]

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#RIP 🕊️🕯️

Singer #CocoLee’s sister shares on Weibo that Coco had been diagnosed with #depression a few years ago and after a long battle, attempted suicide on July 2. She died at the hospital 3 days later, on 5 July 2023, at the age of 48.

[ilhoonftw]

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like