The long awaited Faye Wong concert has not been able to be held in Taiwan as her fans had hoped, however, in order to meet the expectations of the majority of Faye's fans, the record company has decided to release a double CD packaging, the full-length 126-minute Faye Wong Hong Kong Concert Live album. A year ago, Faye Wong's Hong Kong concert was the center of attention for all the avant-garde looks, remember her dazzling looks in a pair of invisible shoes with only a heel and Indians dressed up and so on? All of these looks are featured on the cover and inside of the album. The 29 songs on the album are all familiar favorites, including "Sky," "I Do," and "Obsessed", "You're Happy, So I'm Happy" and "The Promise" ...... are some of the most popular songs in the charts and on-demand. In addition, Faye Wang also sang her sister Na Ying's song "Dreams Wake Up", in which Faye originally played the role of Na Ying's chorus angel, but in private she loves this song very much, she also sang this song in the concert especially to re-sing it. The two divas have very different personalities, but their singing voices have their own unique flavors, and the two different versions of "Dreams Awake" are worth savoring.
The highlight of the show was Faye Wong's rendition of the classic "Bohemian Rhapsody" by glam-rock giants Queen, which is a very difficult song to sing, with Faye and her ensemble singing a rich and varied version of the song in multi-part vocal harmonies. The song is very difficult to sing, with Faye Wong and her ensemble singing in multiple parts of the vocals to create a rich variation of the song, with high and low rock styles as well as operatic vocals, demonstrating Faye Wong's excellent singing skills. The bridge of the whole song is quite varied, which is a high degree of self-challenge for her, but it also lets everyone see Faye Wong's ability to transcend herself once again, and these live singing highlights are fully recorded in this album, which is definitely a big collection surprise for Faye's fans.
And Faye Wong's own rendition of "The Promise" has also attracted a lot of feedback, with many Faye fans discussing the 'authentic' version of the song on the Internet. It is worth mentioning that the concert's musical team: Zhang Yadong as the guitarist, Dou Wei as the drummer, Dou Ying chorus of the 'golden combination', it may be difficult to see this combination in the future to work together again.
As for what Taiwanese fans are most concerned about, there is nothing better than when they can enjoy Faye Wong's wonderful concerts in Taiwan. Faye Wong's tour has been going on continuously, and the current schedule in Taiwan is temporarily scheduled for the second half of 2000, which is expected to debut with the latest Mandarin album, so Faye fans who want to hear Faye Wong sing live can only pin their hopes on the full-recorded album for the time being.
The psychedelic music started with a timelapse of Faye's world tour, followed by a prelude of her song "Emotional Life," which began the Hong Kong leg of the tour and Faye's journey into the world. Wearing a bright red dress, Faye Wong sang the first line of the song, "You love me, you only love me, I'm sorry to hear that I'm lonely" in mid-air, as if to explain to the audience the reason for another concert. However, with the whole costume, it has a different effect. The whole image is that of a goddess who sings, "I don't believe in my ears, but I'm superstitious about beautiful legends, and I'm falling despite everything," and she herself descends with the song.
After taking off her red dress, Faye Wong, a newcomer to the earth, found that "September is a dull and boring month, everything is fine, but only lacks worries. She doesn't believe that love is as simple as in the theater, and she is also uneasy with the general rules of the game of love, she doesn't seek stability, she is confident that she won't fall in love with a body full of scars, and she says, "I am not afraid of sinking, can I do everything as I please? This vividly depicts Faye Wong's own views on love. On the surface of the first part, Faye Wong sings her own feelings about life through her "emotional life", "restlessness" and "boredom", but in essence, she also sets off the prelude to the story of a fairy who longs for love and comes down to earth to find it.
The second part of the singer that fell into the love of the Jennifer, like a chess piece is not in their own control, no way back, just the eyes of the lover inconspicuous pawns, silently playing a silent pantomime artist, **** on how many years, still want to love but forget to say, in vain to let the lover walk through the eyes, so that the tragedy repeats itself, catching the illusory destiny, do not see the sky of the rift, hold each other tight but still fall through! The beautiful ones don't belong to themselves, and then they can't open their eyes and wait for their fate to come.
From the frivolous "Bored" to the bleak "Chess", "Cold War" and "Dark Surge", there is a strong contrast in the whole feeling. Then came "Can Everything Be Fun?" is "trying to get out of the realm of your control", presenting a sense of irony and confirming the fact that love is not something that can be controlled by one's own strength. Thinking that you will not be so in love that you will be covered in scars, you are already in the predicament of love, where you are not in control of where you go, and where you go is up to your lover to decide. Even if you know that the other party is not dedicated, but can not leave, can only be silent relative speechless, afraid of breaking down the lover's lies, they will be even more at a loss. However, despite the fear of confrontation, it is still in the heart. Even how close the body is, the heart is still far away. The outcome of losing her lover was something she had already foreseen. As the sky swelled with dense clouds again, she was drowned in the darkness and quickly disappeared from the stage.
The clouds lifted, the sky cleared, and the distance between her and her lover increased. "When will our skies connect? Waiting on each side of the world", alone, she ran across the field, step by step, higher and higher, attempting to move closer to the sky. The stage, with its curved steps, is a bit like a mountainside, with a touch of the Tibetan plateau as well.
When she sang "Face," which had a more natural feel than "Sky," Wang walked to the pool at the front of the stage and kicked up water like a child. Matching up with the stage setup and lighting, it called to mind the lyrics of "Face" naturally: "Climbing over your face, I never thought it would be so sinuous, I'm stranded on the left side of your face, but I'm going to keep on adventuring." However the live version does not have this verse. While Lin Xi used such profound and incomprehensible words to depict a complex relationship, Faye Wong simplified the lyrics and recited them in an unknown, self-invented language, which in turn emphasized the song's theme: "It's best if no one understands what I'm saying, but only if you can understand what I'm thinking. In the end, she just wants her thoughts and calls to be understood.
Out of the wilderness and across the sea, the singer gradually loses her way and enters an eerie forest. Trapped in memories and bitter love, the singer is trapped in the forest of memories, unable to escape. "I've been reading about you until I'm lost or not, and I won't be quiet." The four sides of the stage were filled with blowing water columns and green lights, which appeared to be trees swaying in the wind, and even more like a hand reaching out to the singer, forming a different kind of forest, and creating the effect of holding on to memories and not letting go of them. Trapped inside, it is not right to leave, nor is it right to stay. The singer ends up in a cacophony of red, yellow and green colors, never to come out. From "Sky" and "Face" to "Lost", Faye Wong is obsessed with love, "thinking about you until I can't remember", trapping herself, sinking deeper and deeper into her memories, hopeless. She constructed a world of memories for herself to live in, fantasizing about the company of her lover.
If you can't distinguish reality from fantasy, you think reality is a dream, confuse the two different worlds, and try to create excitement by letting yourself go into the dream. What's more, let the dream continue into reality, with the feeling of sleepwalking, trance heaven and earth how free. It turns out that waking up is too much of a curse, and it's the space of drifting that you feel you really have. Let the emotions develop freely, in the hustle and bustle but absent-minded, doing their own dreams. A complete psychopathology, detached from real life, living in an isolated world, letting themselves create a dream of falling in love with the dreamer.
For his own insane behavior, the singer also grandly hummed "Forgive Yourself," "Obviously over-attachment is unreasonable, ignore." "Obviously sinking and suffocating is about to kill me, but I'm also lazy to get out of breath." The most important thing is that we can think about each other, and it doesn't matter if we can't travel together. "It's not even good enough to chew gum, but if I kiss you, will you fly? Still talking about you is just a habit, a superstition. It's a habit, a superstition. It's an excuse to sink, and then it's an excuse to forgive yourself for sinking, and it's all so natural, so why make a big deal out of it?
Through the flood, over the volcano, the hedgehog came out of the forest, looking for that feeling of being loved, but others are afraid of its spines and dare not approach. Hedgehog is happy to enjoy himself, singing and traveling in the big world, providing the audience with a little bit of dreaminess, for the red tomato girl dressed as Faye Wong as a companion. The dreamy Faye Wong is like a native returning to the mountains, lively, jumpy and full of smiles. To a certain extent, my own way of doing things is a kind of sleepwalking.
Indulging herself in the sinking, falling into the confusion of the doomsday. The song "Ideal Wandering Crossroads, Don't Know Which Way to Go" is not about the end of the world, but about the confusion of not knowing what to do and the uncertainty of the road ahead. The stage was set up as a hell, with the psychedelic arrangement of "Doomsday" and "Fallen", a living hell was presented in front of the audience. Caught in the middle of four reels of ghostly fire, the singer remained unperturbed, willingly throwing himself into the net. "I have no other idea, I just want to let loose and pretend I didn't realize the falsehood behind the beauty." On the one hand, the singer hides his disappointment in life by indulging in degradation, and on the other hand, he is accompanied by like-minded people to fall into degradation. So the singer sings, "Come on, come on, I'll stay with you, come on, come on, come on, go on and on ......"
"If I could I'd like to be more sober, if I could I'd like to be lighter," in order to cut through the clouds and see the other person's heart clearly. The singer tells her lover that she does not want this to be a game, and as long as the other person guards her in life, she herself will be forever and ever, sweet and sweet, and truly love the other person day and night, and be the other person's guardian angel. Flying out from the hell of "Doomsday" and "Fallen", crossing the distance between heaven and earth, even though they are fallen, the singers who give true love are the most beautiful angels, the guardian angels of their loved ones. In this case, "The Angel" does not refer to angels from heaven, but to the sanctification of love, the fall for the beloved, also a holy angelic act. Slightly raised on a round stage, the singer is fluttering in her dress, a beautiful image of an angel.
Back to basics was the theme that followed, with Unplugged accompanying "Nostalgia" as well as "Waking up from a dream", and with Faye Wong's voice, simplicity is exquisite. "Without a trace enjoying the distance from you, maybe like to miss you more than seeing you, maybe like to imagine you more than getting you." Is the singer in love with the real person or the projected image of her own fantasy? The singer chooses to stay in the dream world she has constructed, missing everything about her lover, but not daring to step into reality and get closer to the person she loves. She clings to the address given by her lover, and even though she dreams of how high heaven is, she searches for it regardless of the odds. Unfortunately, it is just a guardian angel without wings. If you climb higher, you will fall more painfully. "I'm afraid that when I wake up from my dream, I'm already in two different places, and no one can undo this separation." The singer should not differentiate between love and hate, and should not pursue the responsibility, but only hope that she is still the woman of the other party after waking up from the dream. In her rendition of her friend Na Ying's "Waking up from a dream", Faye Wong gives the song another flavor. Unlike Na Ying, who sings with a soft voice, Wang Fei is a bit naive.
People have their sorrows and joys, and the moon has its ups and downs. The most normal thing in the world is that it is the most difficult to face and accept. But I wish people long, thousands of miles **** Canyuanjuan. Since ancient times is how many people's hope, however, never can not have a feast. How many mornings and dusk, even though the old love has been like a spring dream, fading without trace, still often hanging in the heart of the singer. As long as you think of each other, love and hate come together in your heart. The part of remembering her idol, Teresa Teng, is also the part of Faye Wong's nostalgia for her childhood. She chose to use the song to explain her growing up years, and her nostalgia for Teresa Teng was handled in a low-key way, without overshadowing the main event, and without creating a high profile topic.
"Your heart and mine can't ****ing sing, and bone-deep love becomes hate." Love and hate are intertwined, and the singer is caught up in a sea of uneasy emotions. The alternating emotions inside tormented her. Her heart separates into another self, calmly advising herself not to be superstitious, not to be tearful, not to be casually fanatical. The singer with a bit of evil spirit dresses up a bit like the legendary blood-sucking frontier corpse, that beautiful but cold-blooded demon that plays with feelings to confuse people's hearts. "It is not appropriate to show love, not too blatant adoration," said the word: commandment.
Because the reality is too boring, the singer will travel to the dream world, outside the world all do not ask, advocate calm and detachment, continue to sleepwalking in the big world. Although he said to himself, "Don't be pious until you know how to love the devil," then he overruled himself, "Don't be too serious, don't be that naive, how can nonsense come true, am I a god?" The preface is self-referential, dividing the dialog into two parts. The parts of "Uneasy", "Love Commandment" and "One Man, Two Roles" create a mysterious atmosphere of spirituality, which, together with Faye Wong's mysterious clothes and stage lighting effects, leads the audience into another realm.
Taking her attitude towards love as the theme of this section, Faye Wong walked between the four aerial gondolas in mid-air, fearless of doing anything wrong. "For one more crazy look at him for one more night, I will go out far, far, far away." Wong depicts how Faye Wong stayed in Beijing for love during that period, leaving her music career in Hong Kong in the lurch. Did you say she was stupid? She'll answer you: "If you really knew that you were really in love, maybe you'd do anything and everything ......"
Relative to the aggressive and proactive infatuation of "For Wrongdoing," "Di-Dar" is a passive version with a touch of sadness. "Don't have you much, is afraid that suddenly I remember, you turned out to be too important, I suddenly can't breathe, will suddenly want to scream want to jump want to ......" Emotions are completely manipulated in the hands of the other party, one's own with the lover's behavior and produce successive feelings. In order to be afraid of the emotional pull, they prefer not to see, not to hear, not to own. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do with this.
"I heard 1999 is the end of the world, we must get married and have a child by then, before he does too many bad things and let God take him to heaven, maybe we can get some of the glory too." Just like the psychological situation of "The End", facing the unknown future with a little bit of confusion, the whole song "The Way Out" is a variety of Wang Fei's worries. Trying to find a way out, attempting to approach happiness, but not even knowing what happiness is. Faye Wong's song "The Way Out" is one of the most important milestones in her creative journey. Written in 1994, "The Way Out" is not only a way out of her troubles, but also her expectation of love. Just like a prophecy, in 1999 Faye Wong and Dou Wei really had a child. From the fear of the heart in mid-air not on not down, to find a solution to the problem of the way out of the heavy ground, Faye Wong regained her smile and got a happy family.
"Ambiguous" to a certain extent takes over the confusion and overwhelm of "The Way Out". I can't even tell you what I want to do, but I can't open up to the person I like. I can't go any further, but I can't abandon them. Hesitation and wandering in the seemingly imminent between, but also can not recognize the bitter and sweet between the ambiguous eyes.
"Wandering in front of the road, looking back at this section", "The Edge of Love and Pain" and "Ambiguity" have an inextricable relationship with each other. In the lover's companion wandering not to go, just because the mood of the contradictory complex. You can't stay, you can't leave. Love like rain seems to break hard to break, the more you think the more messy, can not make any headway. In the end to choose to leave or wait? In fact, the style of the songs "Ambiguity" and "The Edge of Love and Pain" are not in line with the theme of the concert, and have absolutely nothing to do with it. This part was a concession to the people who came to see them, a concession to vulgar taste.
Challenging herself as well as the live band, Wang sang a post-modern opera, Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody, which follows on from the previous song "The Edge of Love and Pain," is titled in a similar vein. Although the lyrics keep repeating the phrases "I want to go" and "let me go", it is actually just the singer's bad luck talking. The singer wants to get out of the relationship, but she can't help but blame her lover, who says he loves her but leaves her alone and worse than death. At the end of the day, everyone knows that nothing will bother her anymore. The wind continued to blow as it had been.
"Your frown opened, so I smiled. Your eyes are red, my sky is gray." Simply put, Lin Xi has drawn out Faye Wong's emotional world and circled the world of two people. They can't get away from each other anymore, because they are as rare as a match made in heaven, and you can't even ask for that kind of match. You are happy, so I am also happy. I'm happy, so I'm happy. I'm happy with the status quo, I'm happy with the status quo, and I don't ask why. Faye Wong hides behind a curtain and stands in the flickering light, matching the disheveled feel of "You're Happy, So I'm Happy". Her daughter Dou Jingchong's lovely appearance is constantly projected on the curtain. Behind the happiness and contentment is Faye Wong's helpless, disheveled loneliness. This lover real is so hateful.
The journey of singing in the big world will always end, and the fairy will eventually leave the earth and return to heaven. Forget about heaven and earth, as if they can not remember themselves, but will not forget the day of the breakup of the doorway, walked through the long street, dim street lamps, as well as under the light of the good-looking face. Tomorrow, even if you don't recognize yourself, you will remember that you promised to watch the yellow leaves fly together. "Even if you have a strong chest and can't beat the weather, you'll be recognized by your gray temples."
The "Pact" is a poignant parting scene, while the "Red Beans" is a reminiscent of the love that comes with parting. A tray of brightly colored red flowers on the stage resembled a heavenly garden. Step by step, Faye Wang picks her way down the curved staircase from the elevated stage, seemingly with the meaning of completion. The shortness of time, there are too many things have not shared with the lover *** with. Sometimes you can only believe that everything has an end, meet and leave sometimes, and what is immortal. But the singer sometimes prefers to stay and not let go, "nothing is nothing, even if you are far away, it is not good to complain. If you don't give up and wait, maybe one day you will have another chance to watch the water flow together. Don't forget to watch the yellow leaves flying far away together. Because of the atmosphere, I have replaced "Red Beans" with "Repayment" to dilute the sadness of this part.
The skit "I Do" has been rearranged and is better than the original orchestral version, which was full of energy and excitement. A softer vocal always suits the song better. When a lover leaves the mortal world, the fairy can't help but miss each other. After the journey of searching for love in the big world, the singer finally chooses to never give up on her love, even if she has to pay more, as long as her lover truly responds with love. The journey of singing in the big world has been hard and happy, and in the end, the singer will still insist on saying, "Even if I am obsessed, let me be obsessed with no regrets.
The choice of "No Regrets" as the final song, and the abandonment of "Promise" at the beginning of the album, actually made the whole journey more complete. Because the original order of the songs was a little confusing, it didn't make a lot of sense to express the concept of the Singing Tour. The later scenes moved certain songs around to make the whole program flow better. Of course, not every change was good. There was no more outrageous change than placing "The Edge of Love and Pain" in the same spot as the original "Gentleman's Heart, My Heart". The former is so closely related to "Ambiguous" that separating the two really breaks up the program and makes it impossible to link the songs together.
This concert really made me appreciate and like Faye Wong as a singer. She proved that even though her live performances are often not as good as they should be, she can actually sing very well, depending on whether she puts her heart into it or not. With the exception of "The Edge of Love and Pain", which was a bit too commercialized, all the songs were in line with her musical path in recent years. The highlight of the concert was not only the design of the stage, lighting and costumes, but also the fact that she managed to put together about 30 pieces from different periods and different creative backgrounds, and still managed to organize the theme in such a way. It is rare in the Hong Kong music scene that a concert by a mainstream artist can give the audience so much room for imagination. If you subtracted the boring gimmicks (such as the ghastly hedgehog, and the designated handshake spot at later venues), this could truly be considered a concert, a gathering to re-create music with live performance for the sake of enjoying it.
The finale featured two more songs in the encore section - Black Panther's old favorite, "Don't Break My Heart," and "On Earth," which was sung for Dou Jingtong. Two of the most important people in Faye Wong's life were recognized at the end of the show. The song is not just a song from a mother to her daughter, but it is also a perfect ending for Singing Around the World. After traveling the world, the singer is no longer ignorant, has matured, has seen the world, and finally gives a little advice to those who come after her, which is the meaning of "On Earth". "Hopefully, you will understand where to go from here."