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Mirrors is the debut full-length studio album by Hong Kong singer and rapper Jackson Wang. It was released by his own label, Team Wang and Western and 6th, on October 25, 2019. "Bullet to the Heart" and "Dway!" served as the album's lead singles. Background On September 12, 2019, Wang held a listening session of his first album Mirrors for the press: the digital record, which expresses the emotions of the contemporary youth and incorporates elements of China's traditional culture, was produced in China, South Korea, and the United States. Wang supervised the whole process, from the initial creation to the packaging, and was personally involved in arrangements, lyrics writing, and music video shooting. The album features the Chinese version of Stephanie Poetri's "I Love You 3000" and seven tracks in English, among which "Faded" was supposed to be released as a standalone single in March 2019. In an interview with i-D, Wang stated "For this album I actually found my true identity. I've released a lot of rap songs in the past; In China I release many ballads and R&B songs, so it just came to a conclusion where I felt like the fusion of it all was me." Through Mirrors, he shares his truest and deepest feelings, talking about love, running out of time, his achievements and where he is in life. Although the songs' main theme looks like romantic love, the counterpart he sings about is himself, his demons, fears, or his passions. The album's first single, "Bullet to the Heart", was released on September 24 and is about overcoming the obstacles and hardships experienced while pursuing a dream. The album's second single was "Dway!", published on October 22, and expresses Wang's pride towards his achievements and his conviction that he's able to master his life. The title is a word play with the Chinese word "对", which means "I'm right". The full album was released on October 25, 2019 along with a music video for "Titanic", a collaboration song with Indonesian singer and rapper Rich Brian. In the music video, Wang dances with Asian dance group Kinjaz.

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“I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.”
— Layal Abboud, June 15, 2017; Al Kahera Walnas
“The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998); Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
“Blue, round, miserable moon, full of magic, picture that draws like a magnet, pale-coloured, charmed jewel, made by sorcerers; swiftest of dreams, cold traitor, brother to the ice, most evil and unkind of servants, let hell consume the hateful, thin, bent-lipped mirror!”
— Dafydd ap Gwilym, in "Y Drych" [The Mirror], line 1; translation from Bards and Heroes (1989) by Carl Lofmark, p. 96
“It may be said that not only the soul, the mirror of an indestructible universe, is indestructible, but also the animal itself, though its mechanism may often perish in part and take off or put on an organic slough.”
— Gottfried Leibniz, in La monadologie (1714) § 77
“If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.”
— Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Vol. 2, Chapter 4
“The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?”
— Tom Waits, in "All the World is Green", on Blood Money (2002)

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Notable quotes

“I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.”
— Layal Abboud, June 15, 2017; Al Kahera Walnas
“The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998); Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
“Blue, round, miserable moon, full of magic, picture that draws like a magnet, pale-coloured, charmed jewel, made by sorcerers; swiftest of dreams, cold traitor, brother to the ice, most evil and unkind of servants, let hell consume the hateful, thin, bent-lipped mirror!”
— Dafydd ap Gwilym, in "Y Drych" [The Mirror], line 1; translation from Bards and Heroes (1989) by Carl Lofmark, p. 96
“It may be said that not only the soul, the mirror of an indestructible universe, is indestructible, but also the animal itself, though its mechanism may often perish in part and take off or put on an organic slough.”
— Gottfried Leibniz, in La monadologie (1714) § 77
“If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.”
— Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Vol. 2, Chapter 4
“The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?”
— Tom Waits, in "All the World is Green", on Blood Money (2002)

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