Posted by toshimi Tks v much! --Previous Message-- Link: http://www.xanga.com/V4Victory
on 2/24/2006, 2:41 am, in reply to "recommended listening....."
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I love all of Shirley Kwan's love songs..
please come to see my comment to her on my web-site...la!
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: Elle Choi (Siu Suet) -- Yes I'm not kidding!
: Initially I thought she was just another
: image-driven non-singer (frankly her singing
: skills weren't that great for her first few
: albums) but then I happened to listen to her
: latest "Listen" (new songs plus
: compilation) and .... not bad at all!
: Actually her voice is quite distinctive and
: attractive....not in the sweet high note way
: but in a sultry smoky way.
:
: All the five new songs were pretty good,
: some covers by Korean composers. The quality
: of the songs are genuinely refreshing,
: nothing like the standard 'music box' piano
: songs of Chan Fai Yeung. Both fast songs
: like "Listen to my Heart" and slow
: songs like "sum gum ching yuen"
: are quite catchy...actually all the new
: songs are catchy.
:
: Elle's singing has improved a lot, she
: catches the mood of the song well, and
: honestly I think her musical sense is even
: better than Joey Yung...at least she knows
: how to improvise tune and do ad libs,
: whereas Joey pretty much keeps to the melody
: (this is exactly the case in Joey's "Or
: Dik Giu Au" (or, My Pride)-- the song's
: melody is good, but the singing is too
: musically uninteresting.
:
: Even though I haven't heard Elle's live
: singing, I think she's really got potential.
: But judging by the hype of super newcomer
: Jade Kwan (of the same company BMA) and
: Elle's previous negative news of hitting a
: reporter, she might end up in the music
: industry scrap heap in one or two years.
:
:
: Maggie Fu (Fu Pui Ga) formerly Ko Suet Nam
: A talented singer who's already disappeared
: from the industry. I haven't heard a lot of
: her songs but from the few Mandarin songs
: that she released and her last "Girl's
: Revolution" album, she is really
: talented to compose so many songs herself,
: and her voice is crystal clear, very nice.
: Recommended songs "December
: Rain"(mandarin) and "Thirsty"
: (cantonese). I think the reason she
: disappeared is she isn't photogenic
: enough...or maybe she just doesn't have some
: big shot willing to promote her. Frankly I
: think Universal just doesn't know how to
: promote new singers...virtually all the new
: singers under Universal does not have much
: market presence, unless if you've got a
: solid family background like Juno.
: (Disappeared singers under Universal: Maggie
: Fu, Stephanie Che, Jun...something I forgot
: what his name was)
:
: Also looking forward to see what Coco Lee's
: upcoming English album is like....I think
: her later albums have lost some of the
: 'soul' of her earlier albums pre-1999...she
: also had a quite good (and only) Cantonese
: album back in 1997 with the self titled
: "Coco Lee"....a really good song
: was "Love You Again in 2090", a
: kind of trip-hop style song similar to
: Shirley's "Love's Hard to Find"
: from Ezone. Anyway I'm interested to see if
: she can really break it into the US music
: industry (her last attempt "Just No
: Other Way" flopped).
:
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