Yung Jo Yee, Joey

Yung Jo Yee, Joey

Joey Yung presents her special new Mandarin Christmas present with melodies for fans all over the globe!
The young star shares more of her romantic feelings with you on this fabulous 10-track album that is packed with moving songs like "Not Going Home", "Suddenly Alone" & "Can 't Wait to Love You" that will fascinate you from the first note to the last!

This version comes with an exclusive VCD that contains the new new 16mm short film "Solo Photo"! Don 't miss this treat!

Canto-pop diva beyond compare Joey Yung charges up to top musical live greatness!
The beloved superstar was all clad into captivating clothes that underlined her great looks while she went on stage at the HK Hung Hom stadium in mid-October 2003 with mega guest stars like Boy 'z, the Twins, Yumiko & Nicholas Tse!

During the heated tour she offered hits like " Betrayal " & " Who Will Love Me ? "! What 's more she also prepared a special Quartet Medley that included songs of Faye Wong & Miriam Yeung plus the theme song from her recent TV special "Hoping to Be Beautiful "!

Joey also entertained the cheering crowd with spectacular acrobatic treats while she performed hit after incredible hit leaving the crowd begging for more encores!
Though the recent supposedly white-hot TV series "Beauty Is Waiting" is not that a big hit, main actress Joey Yung's skyrocketing popularity seems not affected at all. Joey Yung's "Show Up" Tour is scheduled to take place in October and in order to be in tune with the theme of her concert, Joey offers fans the up-tempo song "Show Up" (Track#2) with 15 other brand new melodies on her latest album "Show Up"!

The leading track "Show Up" (Track#2) is boisterous, powerful and jolly. It fits perfectly as the theme song for Joey's concert in 2003. Nonetheless, it is not as classy as the concert theme song "Solemn Appearance" two years ago. The Mandarin version of "Show Up" is even worse because of the bad lyrics by Zhou YaoHui. The warning had been given all along not to invite Zhou to write any Mandarin songs for his incapability of mastering the Mandarin language.

All Mandarin songs written by him taste bad.

On the other hand, both songs, "I Am Willing" (Track#9) and "Slow-witted" (Track#10), written and composed by Wang DanYi sound great.

"I Am Willing" (Track#9) is quite a flourishing emotion-venting ballad which describes delicately how some young girls are prepared to make sacrifices in wars of love. Words like "My tears are ready, so please only betray me later rather than sooner" and "I am prepared, but please don ' t hurt my feelings that soon " impress the present reviewer much. As regards "Slow-witted" (Track#10), it is an interesting, softly fragrant and relaxing song.

The commercial theme song "Think Too Much" (Track#13) is beautiful and in rhythm with Joey's wonderfully expressive voice, while "Future Beauty" (Track#14) is a typical example of a TV drama theme song.Its lyrics and music are poor but it is extremely catchy and poppy nevertheless.

As for the rest, you might want to spare some time listening to "Forced Happiness" (Track#12), "Betrayed" (Track#3) and "Songstress" (Track#6). Yet, you would not miss too much if "Party Machine" (Track#8) and "Sweating" (Track#5) had been left out as they are a bit too flat, too ordinary and too boring.

Recommendations: "I Am Willing" (Track#9), "Slow-witted" (Track#10), "Think Too Much" (Track#13), "Forced Happiness" (Track#12)

Reviewer: Stephen Lee (Li ZhongYan) - Hong Kong
Translator: theDan (Chen EnNeng)