Twelve years ago, on September 23, 2009, Eason Chan released the Chinese album "Happiness on the Fifth Floor". It is from this album that Eason Chan's new Chinese gradually lack heavyweight songs, and at the Golden Melody Awards ceremony a year later, Eason Chan lost to Tao Zhe because of the singing skills in the album, and finally missed the song king.
Let's go back to 2009, when Eason Chan was at the peak of his career, not only did he debut on CCTV Spring Festival Gala the previous year, but also won the "Best Chinese Album Award" at the 20th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with his Chinese album "Don't Want to Let Go" a year ago, becoming the first non-Taiwanese singer to win the award twice.
With the Golden Melody Award winning, the album "Happy on the Fifth Floor" soon debuted.
This time, Eason Chan did not choose the royal team of the previous albums, but tried a lot of fresh elements to try to make his work more innovative.
Under this line of thinking, Eason Chan invited Lin Weizhe to serve as a producer, and from many candidate songs, selected the works of famous musicians such as Cai Jianya, Wu Qingfeng, Zhang Yadong, Xiao An, etc., and recorded a new album slightly different from his previous style.
When recording the album, because the studios in Taiwan and Hong Kong happened to be on the fifth floor, Eason Chan simply named the album "Happiness on the Fifth Floor", which shows the pleasant atmosphere in the recording process.
The album contains eleven works, including nine Chinese songs, one Taiwanese song and one English song. Prior to this, Eason Chan's works were almost all Chinese and Cantonese, and the "I Jia You" created by Ah Xiang, the lead singer of the band, should be the First Taiwanese song sung by Eason Chan; and "Nothing Ever Happened", composed by Lin Zhe and lyrics by Lin Jiaxin, turned out to be Eason Chan's second publicly released music song.
The most famous work of the whole album is Composed by Zhang Yadong and "By Your Side" composed by Chen Shaoqi, but as the volunteer theme song of the Shanghai World Expo, the influence of this inspirational work comes more from outside the song.
The truly memorable songs may come from two works created by Wu Qingfeng for Eason Chan.
If "such a trouble" still has a typical "soda green" flavor, Eason Chan's singing still has a sense of violation, but in the "plot to kill" composed by Wu Qingfeng and lyrics by Huang Weiwen, Wu Qingfeng's style and the kind of works that Eason Chan is best at in the past have reached a perfect integration.
At that time, when listening to this album, I did not know that Wu Qingfeng originally gave Eason Chan two complete works, but Eason Chan accepted "such a trouble" without any fuss, but hesitated about another work originally named "None". In the end, on the basis of retaining the original song, Eason Chan re-invited Huang Weiwen to fill in the lyrics, and named the final work "Murder of Love".
Later, it was not until Wu Qingfeng sang the original full version of "none" on the tour of Soda Green In Summer that many fans suddenly realized why the style of "plotting to kill people" was so new and beautiful.
After the release of the album, Eason Chan's change was recognized by the industry, "Happy on the Fifth Floor" was named "2010 Chinese Golden Melody Award Top Ten Chinese Records", and Eason Chan was also nominated for the "Best male singer of Chinese" at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for the sixth time.
Unfortunately, on the night of the Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Tao Zhe, in the absence of the situation, actually defeated Eason Chan with a slight advantage of three votes, and won the song king with the "69 Movements" album.
It is reported that Yin Zhengyang, the general convener of the jury, once bluntly said the reason for Eason Chan's failure.
The first singer of the Golden Melody Award pointed out that the first round of voting brushed off Xiao Jingteng, Fang Datong and Lin Junjie, among the remaining two, Tao Zhe's intentional breakthrough is more commendable, and Eason Chan lost in the album did not fully show his singing skills, and the treatment of many false notes was disappointing.
Yin Zhengyang's comments belong to the benevolent and the wise, and there is no need to go to the true defense.
But it is undeniable: compared with other albums Chinese Eason Chan's peak, "Happy on the Fifth Floor", which lacks heavyweight love songs, is indeed relatively mediocre overall.
Wanwan did not expect that in the following years, Eason Chan successively launched the "? The three albums of "Rice & Shine" and "C'mon In~" are far less Chinese than the previous ones.
Although more of Eason Chan's classics come from Cantonese songs, the past Chinese are also excellent works. To be fair, as a fan of his, I really don't feel right over the years.
What's even more bizarre is that Eason Chan has gradually reduced production over the years and has not released Chinese album for a long time.
Nowadays, people are talking about how Jay Chou's new album is delayed, but I don't know if you have found that Jay Chou's last album is "Jay Chou's Bedside Story" in 2016, and Eason Chan's last Chinese album is "C'mon In~" in 2017, compared to Zhou Dong, he is not much better!
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