[Album] J-Pop: An Introduction (and discussion)

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Faye Wong sang "Eyes on Me" from FFVIII and was pretty huge in her homeland of China anyways (see the rather large number of well-selling albums she has).

I'm not sure if I quite understand this sentence very well. If you're saying "Eyes On Me" was very popular in China then that's not necessarily true. It was more of a hit in Japan, and later in the year in North America (whom know her, for the most part, for this song only). It's not a surprise alot of Fayenatics dislike the song, as it's not really a Faye styled track at all. But if you meant the sentence in a way that she was popular in China (as in past tense), then that's not true. She is still extremely popular, and is a major influence to this very day in the East Asian music industry.

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Originally Posted by Kairi Li

Quoting a older post I know, but how is it that Faye Wong has her own "style" of songs when she probably didnt write any of them, and the only songs I liked from her turned out to be covers of "Dreams" from the Cranberries and "Silent All these years" by Tori Amos? (Which by the way cause me to realise that the Canto Pop industry is full of lazy stars that won't write their own music to the point of covering famous western tracks to make them "hot". I stop listening to Faye and all Canto stuff after I discovered this)

Unless of course she has a legion of the same composers writing her songs, I don't see how the fans dislike Eyes on Me cause its not her "style" when there isn't seem to be her own style to begin with.

On a personal note, I much prefer Aki's rendition of Eyes on Me than Faye, her voice is much more powerful and projects better and she plays the piano with it too, just like Julia did in the game. Faye on the other hand probably can't project well enough that she relies on the microphone.

She does write alot of her own lyrics and compositions. She does do alot of cover songs, but I don't think this is a sign of being lazy. She's just singing songs she likes and wants to promote to an East Asian audience. Most of her discography is original material, though. Like alot of artists, she doesn't write all of her songs. I'd be too time consuming and I'd take alot of time with her busy schedule. She does have a style, but it changes every now and then. She likes to experiment with new things and at the same time give something for fans who like her older work too.

To each their own concerning "Eyes On Me", but from someone who knows Faye very well and her discography, it is certainly not a Faye styled song.

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