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Album: 改變自己 / Change Me

Artist: 王力宏 / Leehom Wang

Release Date: July 13, 2007

Review By: ashih

Blurb

Exactly two years ago, most of the world was waiting for Christmas,New Year’s Eve, Times Square, fireworks out of Taipei 101, etc. As formyself and the rest of the die-hard Chinese music scene, we wereanticipating the release of Leehom Wang’s newest album, “蓋世英雄.” Whenlisteners finally got their paws on the album, the response wasoverwhelmingly positive; songs like 花田錯 continued the unique “Chinkedout” style that Leehom is famous for, “大城小愛” proved to be one of themost popular ballads of the year, and the often overlooked 完美的互動featured collaboration with super popular Korean artist Rain. But afterHeroes of the Earth (蓋世英雄), Leehom started an extremely successfulconcert tour and began filming for Ang Lee’s 色戒(Lust, Caution), failingto release any new musical masterpieces in 2006.

Thus, when Leehom announced the release of a new album in 2007, fansstarted to wonder if their idol had lost the creativity that haddefined his musical career for the past three years, the creativitythat had made him one of the three “Pop princes” of China and Taiwan.Speculation continued to abound when the album title, 改變自己, “ChangeMyself” was revealed. When the song 落葉歸根 was played on hito radio inTaiwan, responses were mixed, just like the responses to the entirealbum when it came out. 改變自己 marked a departure from the “chinked out”style of music. Instead, Leehom experimented with a more poppy style in我們的歌 and adopted a more “Western” feel in (the actual song) 改變自己. Hecollaborated with Selina of SHE and tried some 台語 in 你是我心內一首歌. And hewent a little “wild” with Cockney Girl, and a little “crazy” with 華人萬歲.(Just listen to them and you will know what I mean).

In this reviewer’s humble opinion, 改變自己 is a solid album that Istill listen to on a regular basis. There is really something foreverybody here; the energetic can get more energetic with 改變自己, peoplelooking for some quiet tunes have 星期六的深夜, nationalistic people have華人萬歲, and what I personally believe is the best song off the album,不完整的旋律 will definitely become a KTV karaoke favorite in the future.

So what can we say about Leehom’s future popularity and musicalcreativity based on 改變自己? One thing is for sure, the album was strongenough and the response was enthusiastic enough for Leehom to maintainhis status as on the most popular singers in Taiwan and in Asia. At thesame time however, I can’t help but worry that because he took thisalbum in so many directions it will be hard for him to find one unique,identifying style that will make him more of a legend than he alreadyis. But in all honesty, I am not going to doubt him. Come on, he isLeehom Wang after all!

Review

Following up on his popular album “蓋世英雄”two years ago, Wang Leehom came out with a new one - “改變自己”, or inEnglish, “Change Me.” The biggest change in this album is that Wangmoves away from his almost sole rap style (for example, remember 哥兒們?)and branches out into say, a more romantic field of music. “你是我心內的一首歌”is perhaps the best example of that from this album - it is actually aduet with Selina of S.H.E fame. It has an extremely catchy beat similarto “今天你要嫁給我” by Jolin Tsai and David Tao last year, and may evensurpass it in ringtone downloads (I’m just being facetious), but trulyit is worth listening.