The C-pop/M-pop Discussion 3rd Thread

[Yoake]

I'm searching for the english titles of last Jane Zhang's album starring Jane. Can anyone help me?

[Linoa62]

Originally Posted by Yoake

I'm searching for the english titles of last Jane Zhang's album starring Jane. Can anyone help me?

Starring Jane is a best actually, not a studio album, it was a Taiwan only release. This best includes some of her biggest theme songs hits (TV & movies).

1. You Are My Sunshine (”何以笙簫默” My Sunshine movie theme song)
2. 轉眼一生轉身一世 A Lifetime In The Blink Of An Eye (”於無聲處” In The Silence drama OST)
3. 無字碑 Wordless Stone Tablet (”武媚娘傳奇” The Empress of China drama theme song)
4. 敢為天下先 Dare To Be The World's First (”武媚娘傳奇” The Empress of China drama OST)
5. 老地方 The Usual Place (”我的早更女友” Meet Miss Anxiety movie theme song)
6. 破曉以後 Gem of Love (”龍之谷:破曉奇兵” Dragon Nest: Warriors' Dawn movie theme song)
7. Be Here (”露水紅顏” For Love or Money movie theme song)
8. 終於等到你 Finally Waited for You (”咱們結婚吧” We Get Married drama theme song)
9. 陪你走到底 Accompany You Til The End (”我愛男閨密” Honey Bee Man drama theme song)
10. 這麼近那麼遠 So Far So Close (”80後” 80s movie theme song)
11. 真愛的味道 The Taste of True Love (”無價之寶” Treasure Hunt movie theme
song)
12. 木蘭星 Mulan (”花木蘭” Mulan movie theme song)


Jane's English album release has been postponed by the way (its first two singles are Dust My Shoulders Off & Battlefield).
In the first place it was supposed to be released in April... But all we got was a Dust My Shoulders Off remix produced by Steve Aoki in early July.
Actually Jane scrapped some tracks and has been recording others. She recorded a couple of weeks ago 3 tracks produced by will.i.am.
According to what she said in early July to billboard, she wants to make her album more upbeat:

"Right now, I'm preparing more songs for my English album. I started about 2-3 years ago, and some arrangements aren't fresh anymore, so I'm trying to do something [newer] -- like the brand new stuff with Steve Aoki -- and I'm still looking for more collaborations with DJs, etc."

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Wilber Pan will release a new album on August 11th called "異類 illi". He wrote and composed almost all tracks! It's his first album under Warner Music.

I. Coming Home
II. 第三類接觸 Close Encounter
III. 硬鬧 Go Hard
IV. 致青春 Dear Memories
V. 啞巴 Numb
VI. 根本沒愛過 Never Loved
VII. 失眠 Insomnia
VIII. 鏘 Crank
IX. Fight For You
X. 稀罕沒理由 (feat. 吳昕) No Reasons (feat. Orfila)
Bonus Tracks：
XI. 第三類接觸 (寂寞版) Close Encounter (Lonely Version)
XII. 漫動作 (feat.關曉彤) Slow Motion (feat. Gabrielle Guan)

Title song Coming Home


第三類接觸 Close Encounter


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Khalil Fong, Elva Hsiao (tentatively scheduled for November), Stefanie Sun and Jolin Tsai are set to release albums by the end of the year.

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BTW, if you want to know what your favorite C-Pop artist has been up to, don't hesitate to ask!

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Linoa62

Starring Jane is a best actually, not a studio album, it was a Taiwan only release. This best includes some of her biggest theme songs hits (TV & movies).

1. You Are My Sunshine (”何以笙簫默” My Sunshine movie theme song)
2. 轉眼一生轉身一世 A Lifetime In The Blink Of An Eye (”於無聲處” In The Silence drama OST)
3. 無字碑 Wordless Stone Tablet (”武媚娘傳奇” The Empress of China drama theme song)
4. 敢為天下先 Dare To Be The World's First (”武媚娘傳奇” The Empress of China drama OST)
5. 老地方 The Usual Place (”我的早更女友” Meet Miss Anxiety movie theme song)
6. 破曉以後 Gem of Love (”龍之谷:破曉奇兵” Dragon Nest: Warriors' Dawn movie theme song)
7. Be Here (”露水紅顏” For Love or Money movie theme song)
8. 終於等到你 Finally Waited for You (”咱們結婚吧” We Get Married drama theme song)
9. 陪你走到底 Accompany You Til The End (”我愛男閨密” Honey Bee Man drama theme song)
10. 這麼近那麼遠 So Far So Close (”80後” 80s movie theme song)
11. 真愛的味道 The Taste of True Love (”無價之寶” Treasure Hunt movie theme
song)
12. 木蘭星 Mulan (”花木蘭” Mulan movie theme song)


Jane's English album release has been postponed by the way (its first two singles are Dust My Shoulders Off & Battlefield).
In the first place it was supposed to be released in April... But all we got was a Dust My Shoulders Off remix produced by Steve Aoki in early July.
Actually Jane scrapped some tracks and has been recording others. She recorded a couple of weeks ago 3 tracks produced by will.i.am.
According to what she said in early July to billboard, she wants to make her album more upbeat:

Thank you for your answer. It's so much easier for me to have english titles. I didn't know it was actually a best album.

[Linoa62]

Originally Posted by Yoake

Thank you for your answer. It's so much easier for me to have english titles. I didn't know it was actually a best album.

You're welcome!

Speaking of Jane, she released today a new song for the Chinese movie 三生三世十里桃花 Once Upon A Time called 十里桃花 Ten Miles of Peach Blossom:


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Originally Posted by maddy1111

Khalil:
well, he has his own label now, hasn´t he? I think FU Music was founded by him, so realizing that ... I guess, it´s much easier for him to do what he wants now and release new music more often.
Don´t you know how Journey to the West was selling in China / Taiwan?

Fu Music is his own label indeed.
While searching for JTW sales (haven't found anything BTW), I found an article saying that actually he's not the one who will release a new album this year... His label is going to "launch" its first newcomer.
It seems that Khalil said JTW would be his last studio album but he's not retiring, he'll be working behind the scenes or on other projects.

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Will:
in that case, I understand why his new music sounds so different from his previous work. I just don´t know if "go back to the roots" is such a good thing for him.

I also wonder if him signing with Warner is a good idea...

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Elva:
yeah, that´s a pretty good point. Unlike Jolin, Elva´s fame is fading away slowly .. she needs a huge hit for sure and cannot afford to have another flop album. Otherwise, she won´t be relevant anymore .. something similar happened to Rainie.

And for the past few years we've been mostly reading articles about her love life and not that much about her music unfortunately.

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Jolin:
yes, I know you are just posting what she's been saying .. absolutely nothing wrong about that ;-) Like I said in previous post, I was just sharing my personal feelings about releasing date of Jolin´s new album, that´s all
I don´t think she is trolling us deliberately, I just thinks Jolin herself has no idea when exactly album will be realesed, so she cannot properly react to those questions. When the work will be done, it will be done. Then we can get some specific info, now she is just in the process of recordings of songs and choosing the rights ones, deciding what concept of album to use etc. so it´s pretty early even for her to say if the album will be ready this year or next one.

Oh! I just meant that just because I was reporting things she said, that didn't mean I was "buying" everything. But that was not directed at all to something you said! I'm sorry if my comment was misleading.

Well, speaking of the devil... An article popped out, Jolin found lyrics for one song and recorded it. Progress for lyrics is still slow, she's still searching for lyrics that will resonate with her feelings and what she wants to say.

Something is bothering me...
Unlike Elva, articles are not saying that 8 songs have been recorded but "completed". Does that mean that they're ok music-wise but don't have lyrics?
On baidu one person said ironically "so good, the new album is 10% completed", so I guess that means in the end that 8 songs have been completed but don't have lyrics... LOL a release at the end of 2017 is impossible then.

太強了進度神快專輯已經一成了Jolin 3年前推出《呸》專輯後，粉絲敲碗期待她再推全新的音樂作品，Jolin在上個月透露新專輯已完成8首曲，選曲的方式「是要身體有感覺」聽到曲子身體會不自覺律動，雖然新曲有進展但歌詞卻是卡關零進度，她期望找到能表達符合她情感的內容，王永良則表示，Jolin已找到適合的詞，新歌已錄好1首歌了。

[maddy1111]

Originally Posted by Linoa62

Fu Music is his own label indeed.
While searching for JTW sales (haven't found anything BTW), I found an article saying that actually he's not the one who will release a new album this year... His label is going to "launch" its first newcomer.
It seems that Khalil said JTW would be his last studio album but he's not retiring, he'll be working behind the scenes or on other projects.

Khalil:
oh, that's completely different situation, but still thanks for the info! I wonder who it will be, but as long as his or her music will be as good as Khalils I'm fine with it.

Originally Posted by Linoa62

I also wonder if him signing with Warner is a good idea...

Wilber:
Why? They seem to give artists a lot of space for their own creativity. There are some really good singers signed under their name ... Jolin, Jam Hsiao, JJ Lin, Kenji Wu etc.
I guess Warner is still better than Sony Music Taiwan

Originally Posted by Linoa62

And for the past few years we've been mostly reading articles about her love life and not that much about her music unfortunately.

Elva:
well, I have never been reading these news, it is usually only a gibberish to me so I wasn't "following" Elva for a long time now. Only thing that interests me is her music so I really hope it won't be another dissapointment. Otherwise, she can follow Rainie to the land of oblivion

Originally Posted by Linoa62

Something is bothering me...
Unlike Elva, articles are not saying that 8 songs have been recorded but "completed". Does that mean that they're ok music-wise but don't have lyrics?

Jolin:
I don't know, but it's a little bit strange. Should be music and lyrics somehow connected? Music for songs is completed but she still doesn't have lyrics for songs? but what if lyrics wouldn't fit to those music? What then? She will be searching again and again?
I am fine with waiting for a new album till next year, but these news are just messy. It would be much better if Jolin would stop teasing us and just simply told us: "it won't be finished sooner than June 2018" (for example). It is always better to work longer and prepare another decent album than hurry things. Her contract with Warner is obviously not a problem so she doesn't NEED to realease a new album this year.

[Linoa62]

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Wilber:
Why?

Well, I wonder if they're going to put money into his music... When you watch the first two MVs from his new album, they're good, but they seem to have less budget than his previous ones which were also much better.
illi is available by the way. I think it will be on Spotify worldwide tomorrow.

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Jolin:
I am fine with waiting for a new album till next year, but these news are just messy. It would be much better if Jolin would stop teasing us and just simply told us: "it won't be finished sooner than June 2018" (for example). It is always better to work longer and prepare another decent album than hurry things. Her contract with Warner is obviously not a problem so she doesn't NEED to release a new album this year.

If she gets/finds all lyrics this month (who knows lol), a December release is still doable in the end since Jolin records her songs quite fast (she rehearses at home before actually recording them).

And who knows? An album by the end of this year is maybe one of the clauses of her new contract with Universal?

Her Taiwanese & Chinese fans at least have been taking it quite well, it makes them laugh actually and they're making lots of jokes about it o_O They didn't seem to be that surprised.
Whereas her Western fans were kinda sad and annoyed about it.

Originally Posted by maddy1111

Elva:
well, I have never been reading these news, it is usually only a gibberish to me so I wasn't "following" Elva for a long time now. Only thing that interests me is her music so I really hope it won't be another dissapointment. Otherwise, she can follow Rainie to the land of oblivion

What do you think about her new single, "Secret"?
According to an article I've found, it's a "warm-up" song so I guess it's going to be in the new album.

[maddy1111]

Originally Posted by Linoa62

Well, I wonder if they're going to put money into his music... When you watch the first two MVs from his new album, they're good, but they seem to have less budget than his previous ones which were also much better.
illi is available by the way. I think it will be on Spotify worldwide tomorrow.

yeah, I noticed that his new MVs look kinda cheap, but I guess that's intentional. Like you said, he wanted to go back "to the roots" with his music. So not only his first two new tracks sound more hip-hop-ish but also his MVs now look like they've been shot in 00s.
I don't know .. maybe it wasn't intentional at all and I am the only one who has this feeling from his new work :-)
Even though, I still wonder if "back to the roots" (doesn't matter if musically or visually in music videos) was a good idea. I guess Will has more freedom now while he is under Warner, Coming Home was enterily composed by him and also the whole concept of album about "the artist who had a strange dream about giving birth to a baby alien whom he believes is his reincarnation" is made by him, but it is questionable if this "freedom" may help his popularity or not ... not mentioned that this new album concept sounds totally dumb to me I am really curious about sales ...but somethings smells like a flop here.

Originally Posted by Linoa62

And who knows? An album by the end of this year is maybe one of the clauses of her new contract with Universal? .

I think we would know about that clause by now, but yeah, everything is possible with Jolin

Originally Posted by Linoa62

What do you think about her new single, "Secret"?
According to an article I've found, it's a "warm-up" song so I guess it's going to be in the new album.

I don't know ... it is kind of ordinary song. But I don't consider it to be a single for new album (maybe it will be included only as a bonus track), so for now I am still waiting for "real" comeback track that will hopefully blow my mind! ;-)

I think the peak of her music was 2006-2010 for me. I love albums 1087, Diamond Candy, Miss Elva, then it was a downhill .. I am Ready and Shut Up and Kiss Me were so-so albums. It is pretty unfornute because I used to like Elva more than Jolin. But then, Jolin took a blast with her Myself album (and Muse .. and Play) and now she is uncomparably better, more inspirational, more musically advanced artist than Elva who has been wasting her chance for a past few years.