Eighteen years ago, on November 21, 2003, Rene Liu released her Chinese album "My Failure and Greatness".
This is Rene Liu's eighth Chinese album and her first album from Rolling Stones to Viking Records. The record company attaches great importance to this album, not only arranging for the company's general manager and lyricist Yao Qian to be responsible for the whole process of supervision, but also inviting Chen Zihong, Chen Wei and Chen Shanni to act as co-producers of the album.
Most of the musicians who have cooperated with Rene Liu before are musicians who are under the Rolling Stones or have been better with the Rolling Stones for a long time, and over time, both Rene Liu and fans are eager for a sense of freshness. Taking advantage of this change of owners, most of the creative teams of "My Failure and Greatness" cooperated with Rene Liu for the first time, such as Shunzi, Cai Jianya, Chen Shanni and Xiao Ke, wu Sikai each provided a composition for milk tea, and Yao Qian sent five filler lyrics.
Years later, Yao Qian recalled his first cooperation with Rene Liu, which was described as "like a blind date". Yao Qian said that the first time the two met was at a coffee shop designated by Rene Liu's agent, and Rene Liu smiled from beginning to end but rarely spoke, and her agent was responsible for communication.
Fortunately, good musicians do not need too many words between them, after "My Failure and Greatness", Yao Qian and Rene Liu collaborated on the "Hearsay" and "All Night" albums, and the two worked happily together and passed on a good story.
Refocusing on My Failures and Greatness, two of the album's most memorable pieces came from adaptations of foreign songs. Among them, "TravelIng Apart" is a cover of "Black Black Heart" by Thai-Canadian rock singer David Usher; "It Turns Out You Were Here Too" from Japanese singer Ryoko Mita's "Love Flower Love Flower".
Personal preference is "traveling separately". For fans familiar with milk tea, this song has obvious subversion. In this British rock-style work, Rene Liu shows the image of an untamed independent woman. Looking back now, I don't know how many conflicting young couples broke up because of this song, and I don't know how many people used this song to be more clear about their feelings.
In addition, Dai Ailing's vocal music and Huang Lixing's rap part also have strong empathy, and the three of them have achieved the effect of "1+1+1>3" for the first time.
In the past, under the Rolling Stones, Rene Liu's albums mostly contained some particularly mournful and lonely songs, in this debut album that joined Viking Records, milk tea's style is more lively and changeable, and it is really as she wishes, showing a different Liu Reuying than before.
Five months after the "My Failure and Greatness" album, Rene Lau, Andy Lau, Ge You starred, and Feng Xiaogang directed "No Thief in the World" officially began filming. There is no doubt that at this time, Rene Liu is at the peak of her career as an artist, and we still have a hard time remembering it.
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