還是要幸福

This is a farewell song that refuses to be bitter, which is perhaps its most difficult emotional achievement. The arrangement is warmer here than in much of Waa Wei's work — acoustic textures, a rhythm section that moves with gentle momentum, production choices that feel almost like comfort without being saccharine. Her voice takes on a quality of hard-won tenderness, the specific tone of someone who has cried through the worst of it and arrived at something that resembles peace, though it cost them enormously. The song is addressed outward, to someone being released rather than held — a kind of active blessing extended toward a person leaving, an insistence that their future happiness matters even now, even in the wound of losing them. There's something culturally specific in this emotional posture: a Taiwanese sensibility around graceful letting go, the idea that loving someone well sometimes means wanting their flourishing more than your own comfort. The chorus expands naturally, not with dramatic orchestral swell but with accumulated warmth, as if the feeling itself is widening to hold more than just sorrow. For listeners of Taiwanese pop and indie from the mid-2010s onward, this song marks a certain emotional milestone — the one you play for the friend going through a breakup, or the one you play for yourself when you're finally ready to stop being angry. Reach for it on a Sunday morning when the worst is over.