You and Me - 2008 Beijing Olympics Official Theme - by Liu Huan & Sarah Brightman

The original 2008 Beijing Olympics Theme, sung by Liu Huan & Sarah Brightman.

2008 Beijing Olympics Official Theme Song: Sarah Brightman & Liu Huan - You and Me
This official theme song was selected from thousands of candidate songs. It was sung in two languages by Sarah Brightman & Liu Huan.
Why was this song finally chosen as the official theme song of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? Zhang Yimou, the director of Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, gave the following explanation.
"The Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee spent several years to gather candidate songs. We collected thousands of songs. I felt that many songs seemed to used 'hand in hand', the theme song of Seoul Olympics, as a model. Many people including media thought that the theme song of Beijing Olympics should be similar to that kind of song ('hand in hand'). And many lyricists and composers followed that style. Finally the same was I."
"One day I happened to hear 'You and I'. I felt that the song was beautiful at that time. The lyrics and music are simple. The major purpose of our creative work was to complete an artwork on site. We wanted to create a unique, original, unmatched and the greatest behavioral artwork in the world. And we wanted to express our best wishes. The lyrics of this song like 'you and me, from one world, we are one family' are touching and easy to learn. So other directors immediately loved this song. And we felt that it fit the theme of 2008 Beijing Olympics -- harmony. We recommended this song to musical professionals. They all liked it."
Zhang Yiping, the director of this song's MV, gave the following explanation.
"The message of this song is pure and simple. When I firstly heard this song, I could not believe that it was the theme song. Later I felt that its purity and simplicity was a good idea. It is different from the grand style that we might expect. But it was creative to choose this song. Especially when this song was performed on Olympics opening ceremony, the artistic conception developed from this song was very beautiful."
Jiang Xiaoyu, the vice executive chairman of Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, commented that "Former Olympics theme songs were full of joys and passion. This time we took a new way, which led to harmony and humanity"

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[AuntiPantiFan]

SARAH BRIGHTMAN one of the greatest singers around!

[demiexpuppy]

sarah brightman is AWESOME.

but the lyrics....

"travel dream, a thousand miles?" didnt make any sense.

[kevinsuperplane]

Is it just me, or is sarah brightman's voice insanely high? I mean, the song is great, but her voice pitch is so high it's causing static on my surround sound system.... Anyways, good job:D

[ekeeywaka]

@firered7435 Kinda like if you translate "I'll give you a phone call" Literally from mandarin, it's "I give you hit phone."

[firered7435]

@demiexpuppy It's actually "dreams travel a thousand miles" But the wording and grammar is different, and when literally translated doesn't sound so good nor does it make sense

[somegalfromcan]

Who are the people in the video?

[PhoenixAvenging]

why cant the world really be like this instead of killing one another and selfish bullshit materialism

[tacosvsburitos]

this was not the original recorded song sarah brightman seems like a ugly hag singing unclear opera compared to the original singers.

VERY TRUE!!!

[leeseoul5]

This song also makes me wanna cry...that's how sad it is!!!!

[leeseoul5]

I saw this video in Chinese class and I fell in love with the song! Thank you Mrs. Yen! Love the mv too! It's beautiful!

[ReiraHanabusa]

@demiexpuppy "for our dreams, we take on a journey of a thousand miles"