After graduating from the University of London, Karen Mok decided to give up her plan to stage a stage play and return to Hong Kong to develop her career because she met the famous Hong Kong gold medal musician Lui Songde (Weibo) in the future. , joined the newly established "Starlight Records". Facts have proved that signing this contract at the time was not a correct decision for Karen Mok anyway.
Because despite the support of musicians with great musical ideas in the Hong Kong music scene such as Zhou Qisheng, Lui Songtak and C.Y. Kong, Karen Mok's debut album of the same name as a singer only sold 800 copies. It can be said that in the history of the Hong Kong music scene, among the singers who will be crowned kings and queens in the future, the first album sold the worst. In fact, the album "Karen" still has certain ideas. The appearance of an Arab girl, the exotic musical elements, and even the fusion of Eastern and Western music all make this album slightly alternative to the Hong Kong music of the same period. temperament. However, due to the lack of promotion of "Starlight Records", it was difficult for Karen Mok, as a newcomer at the time, to spread her influence through this platform. This is also the only record released by Karen Mok on "Starlight Records" because this company withdrew from the record business only three years after its establishment.
"Actually, I have always wanted to tell you" - Feng Delun who once loved
Like Gigi Leung (Weibo) and Ekin Cheng's mismatched love, Karen Mok and Feng Delun's long-distance love run , is also a classic debt in the history of the Hong Kong entertainment industry. Deep affection, long use, and heavy resentment are all typical characteristics of these debts. Compared with ordinary people, the advantage of singers is that they can eventually express this resentment in the form of songs. In the 2007 "L!VE Is..." album, Karen Mok used the song "Actually I've Always Wanted to Tell You" to talk about her unethical sibling love for Feng Delun. Did you make it clear? The song makes people's hearts swell, but the people listening are still confused. Maybe, this is love, which can't be explained clearly. If you don't explain it, your heart will hurt; if you explain it, you may not be able to get rid of it.
"He Don't Love Me" - Witness the Two Himselfs in Life
"He Don't Love Me" was written by Karen Mok during her "Magic Rock Records" (Rolling Stone) period, and " The classic single as famous as "Cloudy Day" is also a favorite of many people in K Hall. It is a must-have for parties and oral humming. Regardless of whether Yang Lide, the lyricist of this song, wrote this song from a commercial perspective, anyway, later Karen Mok regarded this song as a heart song to sing, feel, and warm her heart. Because on the day when Feng Delun and Vivian Hsu (Weibo) announced their relationship, Karen Mok used this song to mark the end of her nine-year relationship at her own concert. The way she cried and sang at the same time still makes people look back. Moved. Later, after enduring all the hardships in love and becoming a married woman, she sang this song interactively with her husband at a concert. The song "He Don't Love Me" has witnessed two relationships. The same song has two completely different flavors due to different people.
"Hand in Hand" - Looking back at the person who turned out to be his first love
On August 6, 2011, Karen Mok performed at the Taipei Arena during her "Return to Wei" tour. When singing "Hand in Hand", she appeared in a wedding dress. Facts have proved that this is definitely not a prop that many singers will use in concerts, but a kind of notification and announcement. In the end, this became Karen Mok's last solo concert before her marriage, because shortly thereafter, she announced that she and her first love boyfriend would reunite and get married. And Cui Shu wrote for him in "Holding Hands" that "wounds should be treated slowly, time is good medicine, everything is expired and ineffective." While proving that Feng Delun has expired and is ineffective, he did not foresee Karen Mok's initial The wound, after being treated slowly, not only heals, but also allows time to become a good medicine.
"Unfinished Love" - ??the affectionate and kind-hearted Stephen Chow
The disastrous failure of his first album in the market also made Karen Mok, who returned to Hong Kong to develop her career, quickly adjust her career direction. And shifted the focus of acting from music to movies. In the following years, she frequently appeared in Stephen Chow's movies, and received many awards for her roles in movies such as "Journey to the West", "Dead Man" and "The God of Cookery" (movie version? TV version). The earliest recognition of her. Of course, if Karen Mok continues to follow the buck-tooth look of the double-sword turkey in "God of Cookery", she may have an acting career like Sandra Ng.
However, Zhou Xingchi, who she met through work and eventually became a lover, recognized Karen Mok's musical talent, which finally made her return to the role of a singer. That is to say, in the same year that she starred in "Westward Journey", Karen Mok obtained a contract with "Magic Rock Records", a label of "Rolling Stone Records", which laid the initial foundation for her future career as a diva. And the "Unresolved Love" between Mok Wenwei and Xingye, because of this, another kind of kindness was born in the love.
"Cloudy Day" - If you sing about cloudy days, it will be sunny
Mok Wenwei, who joined the "Rolling Stones" team, naturally had to face the then company boss Li Zongsheng, and the two "Cloudy", a collaboration between the two artists, quickly became another music legend for Li Zongsheng. Of course, it also made Karen Mok's status in the world, allowing her to have her first million-level champion single. "Cloudy" is also one of Li Zongsheng's last classic works in the last century. Compared with his earlier simple and simple works, the text in "Cloudy Day" is obviously more gorgeous and the paragraphs are longer, but it still retains Lao Li's delicate and sensitive brushwork. In "Cloudy Day" and "Room without Turning on the Lights" "In this fixed time and space environment, the small emotions in love and the experience of life are combined together. It is also easy for listeners with a little experience to lament this. And this creative method, even now that Lao Li has come back, can still be seen in his own works and the works he created for Yang Zongwei. It is worth mentioning that Lao Li's half-chanting, half-singing method did not hinder Mok Wenwei, who was still a quasi-newcomer at the time. Instead, he brought out his own angular voice characteristics and established the earliest personal style.
"Suddenly" - From a love song to another kind of love song
"Suddenly" was originally a part of Karen Mok's 1999 album "That's Mok" song. In anyone's eyes, this song is a standard and typical love song. However, in early 2014, due to the death of Karen Mok's father, and her quotation of the lyrics in this work, this love song that was once about love between men and women was given another meaning. In the long distance of life, in the gap between life and death, the love between son and daughter is infinitely extended by the love between father and daughter. "Even if life is like dust and inseparable, we may believe in love more." With a daughter like this, Father Mo in heaven can actually be very happy.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Karen Mok who plays the Beatles as jazz
As long as you are not a super fan of The Beatles, or a hippie idol of the 1960s , with a kind of enigmatic awe, usually the Beatles classic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" performed by Karen Mok will be regarded as one of the best cover versions to date, and can even be said to be more charming than the original. Kind, enchanting and charming. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" can be said to be a familiar classic hit. The creator of the work is George Harrison, who is also a very important guitarist in the Beatles but far less dazzling than Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Of course, the reason why the original work is wonderful is that it invited the guitar god Eric Clapton to join in the performance. Even so, through the jazzy structure and the embellishment of pipa, Karen Mok still made this classic work show a kind of cross-border charm that is both Chinese and Western, both good and evil, mainstream and alternative. Unique flavor. Karen Mok's talent in a variety of dances and musical instruments not only gives her the temperament to handle such a fusion of East and West works, but she can also show off her guzheng style in the MV.
"Out Tonight" - Broadway Dreams Come True
Starting in the Broadway stage play "Rent" also made Karen Mok the first female artist in Asia to perform in a Broadway stage play. Don’t think that this is Karen Mok’s crossover for the sake of crossover, as a way to gain a position, and as part of a diversified entertainment plan. In fact, this is Karen Mok’s specialty. You must know that when she was studying at Diocesan College in her early years, Karen Mok performed well in various extracurricular music activities such as jazz dance, Chinese dance, guzheng, oboe, etc., and she was fluent in Mandarin, English, French and Italian. He repeatedly won awards in various essay and recitation competitions, and became one of the top ten outstanding students in Hong Kong in 1985.
After graduating from the University of London, Karen Mok once planned a stage play in the UK. It is precisely because of this accumulation that "Out Tonight" is more like a return to the stage for her. No wonder she is like a fish in water.
"Look" - a new starting point after twenty years
"Look" is Karen Mok's latest single released in 2014. It is the beginning of her twenty-year acting career. The end is also the starting point of future acting career. I think most of the musicians who I worked with back then, such as Li Zongsheng, Zhou Qisheng, and Wu Bai, became famous. Wu Qingfeng, the author of "Look", is now considered a new generation in his prime. In this way, Karen Mok has accompanied Chinese pop music through the past two decades and witnessed the ups and downs of these two decades. Judging from the single itself, Wu Qingfeng's creation of parallelism gave the work a simple but lasting power. However, the arrangement was too heavy-handed, which to a certain extent concealed many of Mok Wenwei's vocal characteristics. In any case, "Look" gives us new expectations for Karen Mok in 2014. Everything has ended, everything will begin again.