Music

逆高塔

“逆高塔” can be considered my first song that seriously dismantled the social role of the “strong woman.” I have always felt that society places a strange condition on women who appear capable, decisive and resilient: once everyone becomes used to seeing you strong, strength stops being recognized as effort and becomes an obligation. If you eventually collapse, the first reaction may even be, “How can someone like you be like this?” I did not want to write another song about a woman forcing herself to stay powerful. I wanted to ask what happens after she genuinely cannot hold herself up anymore. A tower looks stable from the outside, but there is still a human being inside it. The repeated demands in the song—do not cry, do not hide, do not surrender, do not disappoint anyone—are layers of social expectation. When she finally admits vulnerability, the hardest step may not be getting back up. It may be accepting that she was always allowed to fall in the first place. “Against the Tower” is therefore not against strength. It is against turning strength into the only acceptable form a person is permitted to have.