In the blink of an eye, Faye Wong's album has been released for 21 years.
Faye Wong's album has many names, because from the official name, it is a standard artist album of the same name, so it can be called "Faye Wong's album of the same name".
But there is a very real problem here, that is, in Faye Wong's personal music career, including this album, there are a total of three albums of the same name.
The first album of the same name is Faye Wong's first album in the real sense, that is, "Wang Jingwen" released in "New Yibao Records", this album is good to say, after all, it is still the name Wang Jingwen, and it can be distinguished from the later Faye Wong's album of the same name. But what's terrible is that Faye Wong also released an album of the same name after transferring to "EMI Records" at a high price in 1997, and she used the name of this album to change back to Faye Wong.
At the same time, in 2001, Faye Wong also used Faye Wong as the album name when the last album of the contract period of "EMI Records" was released, so that in just four years of "EMI Records", she launched two albums of the same name, which is really the audacity of the artist. Because looking at the Chinese music scene, there are not many singers who can do this, but there are really none.
Therefore, in order to facilitate communication, fans later also called Faye Wong's two albums during the "EMI Records" period "Faye Wong 97" and "Faye Wong 2001" respectively.
Another common practice in the Chinese music scene is simpler and more effective, which is to rename the album with the most well-known song in the album, which is regarded as a secondary naming by the market. Therefore, "Faye Wong 97" is generally also known as the "You are happy, so I am happy" album, while "Faye Wong 2001" is generally called the "Flowing Year" album.
Oh my God, explaining the name of an album is already more than five hundred words ...
The song "Flowing Year" is the work of Chen Xiaojuan, Chen Xiaojuan is also a singer from the front of the screen to the backstage, before creating "Flowing Year" for Faye Wong, she also wrote "Overthrow" to Faye Wong in the album "Only Love Strangers", but compared to "Flowing Years" and later wrote "Empty City" to Faye Wong, "Overthrow" is a work that does not have such a sense of existence for the prime minister, not a fan of Faye Wong, many people may not remember Faye Wong having such a song.
But the song "Flowing Years" is also very controversial in the album "Faye Wong 2001". On the one hand, it was this song that supported Faye Wong's popular communication card in mainstream channels at that time, because the experimental nature of this album itself, except for this "Flowing Year", there is really no song that is particularly suitable for being able to come out of the circle under the current environment.
But on the other hand, as a very experimental album, the ballet attribute of "Flowing Years" is somewhat incompatible with other works on the album.
This point, in fact, after Faye Wong joined "EMI Records", there have always been problems, such as "The World" in the "Faye Wong 97" album, and "Red Beans" in the "Singing Tour" album, which is also this abrupt existence of the ballet type. Relatively good is 2000's "Fable", the album is the most out of the circle is "Laughing and Forgetting the Book", but it is still an artistic song, not that standard ballet song.
But when it comes to destroying the unity of the album, a new question arises, that is, does Faye Wong's "Faye Wong 2001" have unity? In addition to using empty experimental, avant-garde and other words, you can barely unify the temperament of the album work, but the reality beyond this is that the album itself is a "stewed" album.
However, Faye Wong's album has proved a common truth with practice, that is, not all subjective breakthroughs and attempts will be exchanged for a good result. Breakthrough, avant-garde, pioneer themselves should not become innate positive words, but neutral words.
For example, "Wings of Light" and "The Bible of Two People" on this album are the best examples of contrast.
Although the main structure of "Wings of Light" is rock, Liang Qiaobai actually incorporated some elements of electrification, industrialization and string music in the process of arranging, making the work have a baroque layer and atmosphere in addition to the heavy rock hearing.
"Wings of Light" can also be said to be the heaviest song Faye Wong has ever sung, the tone of the guitar wall is simply overwhelming, and Auto-Tune's vocal processing is also just right. And this song later became the most out-of-the-circle song in this album except for "Flowing Years", and it has been covered in some music complexes, such as Zhou Bichang's version on "I Am a Singer", which has become an important factor in the relay inheritance of the song "Wings of Light".
The success of the song "Wings of Light" also lies in the band. In order to record this song, Leung Qiaobai not only invited Wong Chung-yin, the Hong Kong guitar god, to play the guitar, but also invited Melchior Sarreal to play the drums.
Speaking of Melchior Sarreal, he is generally introduced by Jacky Cheung's royal drummer, which is not wrong, after all, such a rock masterpiece as Jacky Cheung's "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" is the drum played by Melchior Sarreal.
But from the band's point of view, when introducing Melchior Sarreal, we have to mention a very important, but often overlooked band in the early days of Hong Kong's "clip band" era - "Princess Wang".
The band has only released one album in its history, 1985's Lady Diana, and many of the songs of the band were banned from radio at the time because of the large number of taboo themes involved.
In addition to Melchior Sarreal, the members of the band "Princess" also include Lee Zhenquan, who later became Eason Chan's co-partner, and Lee Zhenquan is also the producer of the "Black Panther" debut album. In addition, Angus, the creator of all the works of the "Princess" band, later excavated the Hong Kong music scene such as Chan Huixian, Lo Man-chuang and Lai Rui-en.
But corresponding to "Wings of Light", Faye Wong has a problem with Wu Bai's cooperation unit in this album.
Because of the "red eyes" of "A Golden Flower" made by Wu Bai for Karen Mok, Faye Wong also thought of finding Wu Bai to make songs for her when planning this album.
And Wu Bai brought two works, one is "The Bible of Two People", the other is "One Way Street", the latter is Wu Bai's iconic style, and the former is a certain customized version of "A Golden Flower".
But "The Bible of Two People" is really not successful, the melody does not dance, the rhythm is relatively stiff, and Faye Wong's singing in it is also in line with the music.
The most interesting thing is that after the new album was released, Faye Wong complained about this cooperation in a very tactful way in an interview with Tao Zi. It probably means that because Wu Bai was not asked to make the entire album, coupled with the relatively short cooperation time, it failed to achieve the effect of "A Golden Flower".
To tell the truth, over the years, I have participated in many singers' auditions and press conferences, and generally on the spot, singers and producers will blow rainbow farts to each other. When it comes to complaining, at most, only partners who have a very good relationship with each other will tease each other in a coquettish way, like Faye Wong who frankly said that the cooperation is not satisfied, not very few, but none, none!
So, many times, some people love not only Faye Wong's songs, but also her character, right.
In this "Faye Wong 2001", Faye Wong was more satisfied with hearing two Cai Jianya demos, so she also included these two songs in the album, and Cai Jianya was still a quasi-newcomer to the Chinese music scene at that time.
But then there was still "oolong", appearing in the album "Typo Wrong", its original work "It's Your Chance", Tsai Jianya has actually released an English version in Singapore before, for a singer of Faye Wong's level, it is equivalent to inviting new songs to become "covers"...
However, there is one thing to say, "Wait" and "Typo", two songs written by Cai Jianya, are still quite good.
"Deep White" created "Sometimes Love Has a False Name" is also very good, and I think Liang Qiaobai's arrangement should have transformed the original appearance of the song, and the harmony of the chorus plus the use of Auto-Tune has changed the original temperament of the melody.
Another song by Jin Wulin, "Wandering Red Dancing Shoes", this kind of artistic song, is almost the ceiling of this field of the Chinese music scene, and twenty years later, you can still hear this taste in the same type of album now. If it is a female voice, nine times out of ten, even the singing voice will still taste like that.
"Faye Wong 2001" was actually not too good in terms of reputation and sales at that time, and the sales volume was obviously far from what the record company wanted. And this album's "chaotic" approach, although the creation and production lineup is considered the top match, but the difference is indeed too large, coupled with the absence of a real full-time producer, but also led to the lack of a certain internal main line as an album, many fans listened to this album at that time, only left a "chaotic" word.
The physical record of the album is also interesting. When it was released in Hong Kong, it was divided into two records, one containing eleven tracks of ten Chinese works, of which there were two versions of "Wandering Red Dancing Shoes". The other is a Cantonese EP, among which Nicholas Tse's "Ecstasy", Leung Ki-jue's "Color Blindness" and Kwok Wai-leung's "Sleepless Flight" are all Cantonese originals.
"The Queen's New Clothes" is the Cantonese version of "Typo", and "Heart Road" is the Cantonese version of "Sometimes Love Has a False Name".
However, after the album was introduced by "China Singing Shanghai", it was compressed and adjusted, that is, the capacity of an album and an EP was put into an album at the same time, and the sorting was only moved to the end of the album with "Wandering Red Dancing Shoes" (piano version), which was originally Chinese part of the album, and after the song "One Way Road", five Cantonese works were inserted, and there was also a more environmentally friendly and thrifty exclusive version of the mainland.
When the album was released in Japan, two versions of the Japanese song "Separate Way" were added.
This "Faye Wong 2001", which song is your favorite?
