Saturday, January 24, 2009

on Lee Hom's new album



"但是商业专辑终究还是要迁就。《心跳》、Everything、是标准的情歌模式,也是大家钟爱的王力宏。前者其实在王力宏的情歌范畴里有小小的突破,加入了一些distortion 的效果。而后者“太王力宏”,则让小寒老师填的词都感觉绑手绑脚,尤其留住了王力宏副歌太浅白的歌词,让整个歌词很明显看出是两个不同人的成果。" - from freshmusic.


my exact thoughts. why would 小寒老师 use the words "my everything" when i think that with her command of chinese, she can easily find a more elegant and appropriate phrase?!?!?! i'm thinking the english words were infused by Lee Hom.

my greatest disappointment comes from my greatest hope. after hearing 摇滚怎么了, i assumed he will "revolutionise" the sorta stale, and not booming, chi rock music scene. instead it's the same routine of ballads and uptempo numbers. i thought he would go beyond and extent 摇滚怎么了's breakthrough, but it didnt.

Lee Hom still sounds good vocally. it's alarming the number of instrument and amount of background work he did all by himself. the backing vocals were lush and a pleasure to listen to.

but his greatest flaw is his lack of subtlety.

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