Posted by fish on 2/21/2003, 7:20 am 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. 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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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.
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)
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