1) To Love
2) Leave Nothing
3) Carousel
4) Empty City
5) Passenger (cover of Going Home)
6) Beautiful Mistake
7) Sunshine Dearest
8) April Snow
9) Night Conceal
10) Smoke
11) In The Name of Love (cantonese version of To Love)
12) Flower withered (cover of Going Home, cantonese version)
13) MV (it's a short form of 'My Valentine' written by Nicholas Tse, cantonese)
31 Oct 2003 -- China has banned Faye's song "To Love" because if referes the drug opium in the lyrics, BBC News reports. The song can not be played and the upcomming album will have only 12 songs (in China), consequently. You can read the article here.
30 Oct 2003 -- Faye will be covering a song from Swedish singer-songwriter Sophie Zelmani on her new cd, called Going Home. Going Home is a very slow song. It's kind of melancholy and it's about the feeling of returning home, perhaps getting away from something in life. The lyrics are pretty touching. The imagery of this song is like you're on a journey home. There will be a cantonese version of this song on the cd too. If you want to listen to it you can download a mp3 here (3,6 MB).
Going home lyrichs:
So, I'm going home
We're too old to make a mess
So, I'm going home
Yes, I'm going home
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29 Oct 2003 -- Over at Afaye.com there is a download from a tv-station about Faye shooting the "To Love" MTV. If you visit the page, there are other downloads too and this one is the one on top. If you just want to download it, click here (6,9 MB).
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28 Oct 2003 -- UDN News has a downloadable 21 sec promotion video for "To Love" album. Click the link to view/download (2,7 MB).
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27 Oct 2003 -- Faye's new song "To Love" is out, right-click here and click "Save as" to download (1,4 MB). More information can be found on Sony Taiwan's website.
27 Oct 2003 -- Also the second song "Don't Stay" have been played by a Taiwanese radio station, and you can download it here (2,4 MB). Right-click and select "Save as" to download.
27 Oct 2003 -- You can also pre-order Faye's new CD+VCD at YesAsia for US$12.99. Moreover, YesAsia has a promotion page for Faye's new album where you can get a $1 cash coupon by sending an ecard.
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23 Oct 2003 -- I've created a special URL for Faye's new CD to YesAsia where you can sign up for being notified when the cd is ready to order. The URL is http://beam.to/to_love. Later you will be able to pre-order and order the cd, so check the link often.
23 Oct 2003 -- Faye is cover girl in Elle Hong Kong for November!
23 Oct 2003 -- And she's "Artiste of the Month" for November for both Channel [V] and MTV Asia.
23 Oct 2003 -- About the new cd, more news is comming out now. It will have 13 songs - 10 mandarin and 3 cantonese songs which will be a mixture of ballad, hip hop, latin. On Nov 7 she will have a press conference for her new album, followed by meeting with the fans, autograph, singing... most likely in Taipei, Taiwan. The VCD version will have snippets of 'To Love' music video and behind-the-scenes footages whereby the fans will get to see the Faye they've never seen before. And finally, here is the song titles of the first 6 tracks:
1) To Love
22 Oct 2003 -- It is now officially confirmed that Faye's new CD will be released on November 7. However, there is still no details about album name, song list and so on. But there will be a VCD included with some MTVs on it.
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21 Oct 2003 -- Oriental Daily has an online vote for Best Dressed Female Singer. Faye is currently second behind Kelly Chen so please go there and vote. Faye is the last name in the list, click her name and click the left button and you're done.
21 Oct 2003 -- A photograph of Takuya Kimura and Faye Wong praying for successful completion of the film "2046" at a ceremony in Shanghai has been distributed to the media. Takuya and Faye will play the "robot lovers" in the movie and are currently shooting in Shanghai.
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20 Oct 2003
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16 Oct 2003 -- According to a report from Tianjin Daily, 2046's story picks up right by the end of In The Mood For Love. After Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung) leaves, Zhou Muyun (Leung Chiu-Wai) becomes a very lonely writer. He meets a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi) and spends a night with her at room 2046, the very same room he had an affair with Su Lizhen. Then he starts writing a novel called 2046, in which he reunites with Su Lizhen. Chang Chen and Lau Kar-Ling plays a couple of lover; Wong Faye and Kimura Takuya plays a pair of robot lovers. They are all characters in the book, and they are all from the future...
16 Oct 2003 -- The christmas concerts with Faye in Hong Kong will be held on Dec 20-27. Have a look on this ad for some more info.
14 Oct 2003 -- Accordding to Chinese paper Shenyang Today, filming of "2046" will not restart until, at least, next year. Last part of the film, the climax, will be shot in Shanghai with assistance from the studio. However, stars of the huge cast and crew do not share the same schedule and gathering them together at one place to do one thing is somewhat impossible, at least for the rest of the year.
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13 Oct 2003 -- Here is the second song translation from Elle Magazine, thanks again to Yvonne Lai for the translation.
Windy, fiery, intensely
Let love go all the way, greatness is cruelty reincarnated
13 Oct 2003 -- And this is the rest of the articles in Elle Magazine. Did I mentioned that Yvonne Lai did all translations? Thanks for your great work! This is what she writes:
Dormant for two years, and about to release her latest Mandarin album,
Faye once again accepts Elle’s exclusive interview before any
notices(like promo n news n stuff?) regarding her new CD begin…Besides
talking about how she’s been doing, her music and lifestyle, she also
exposes some new song lyrics, which descriptively tell of her attitude
towards love.
Apparently the author of this article has already heard at least the
first song whose lyrics appear in the article, 'cause she describes
Faye's singing to be as always before, unique and mesmerising. She
goes to on elaborate: it's subtle yet rich, clear and poignant,
transparent and suspensful...makes the listener get very emotional as
it lightly floats amidst the air, channelling into the heart of the
listener...(wow..)
OK, and then I guess this lady takes a trip to Faye's production house
one September day to interview Faye...and when she sees her, she
describes her as having no makeup, her hair as being long, straight n
black with bangs cut unevenly (you know how she has her bangs
now)...(ok i aint good at describing a person's attire like Sianz so
pls overlook) she wears a vest, a long blue skirt, and flip flops,
emanating her own kinda style and air.
She asks, "How have you been these three years?" like an old friend
who hasn't seen her in a long time. Faye tilts her head and thinks
for a bit, as if it's a complicated question, and answers, "Hmm,
there's good and there's bad! I think this goes for everyone, you
won't always be at a low point, and things can't always be good." Faye
says that these past 3 years have been rather carefree for her, until
the beginning of this year which brought an increase in workload. She
says that she's in a pretty peaceful state of mind these days.
HER MUSIC
Although she hasn't released an album for 2 years, she and producer
Zhang Yadong actually have been keeping themselves busy. She says
that it's actually quite good to have so much time to produce an
album. Zhang Yadong was subject to a lot of pressure, because he
didn't want to make this new album just another "Fables," and even
though many people said it was really good or whatever, it still
wasn't very marketable...so there's always been a conflict in his
mind, and that they've been debating over this issue all along.
"But," Faye says, "it's useless to go on about it for half a day! The
end product actually had little to do with what we were debating
about. It still went according to our feelings, and it was still
impossible to go against our own likings just to appease everyone. We
both aren't this type of people!" (yayy we all know you aren't this
type of person either Faye..=)
As for this kinda pressure, does Faye feel the same as Zhang? Faye
goes, "Hm, actually I think my kinda pressure is quite different from
his...Certainly I'd wish for my album to sell well, for the music I
make to be popular among everyone. However, I'm very sure of my own
musical direction. Perhaps what I've always liked isn't very
marketable...Actually, it's always been my likings and musical tastes
that made all the decisions in my music, it's not that I purposely made
it to be that way. So I think, as long as there's a set group of fans
who like it, it's okay. I don't expect however many copies to be sold,
how well sales will be; this to me isn't pressure.
Each time's album to me represents my feelings at that particular
time...I don't think about how it will be like a few years looking
back.." She basically says she doesn't think about these things a
lot, just as long as it's whatever she was going through, her feelings
at that time, what she felt satisfied with, it's all good.
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10 Oct 2003 -- The latest Elle Taiwan magazine featured some lyrics written by Faye that will be in her upcomming album. A part of it was translated by Yvonne Lai, here it is:
I gave you fireworks, the occassion to him
The sounds to you, pictures to him
[I'd] rather leave nothing behind, never having anymore worries (never looking back)
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8 Oct 2003 -- Faye is cover girl on the October issue of Elle, Taiwan. To visit the online Elle, click here. You can also view the scans - thanks to Taiwan Fayenatic Nical - in my magazine section.
7 Oct 2003 -- Once the tickets to Faye's Hong Kong concerts are available, they can be purchased online through Urban Ticketing System here or here.
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6 Oct 2003 -- Here is some good news for Italian Fayenatics: Chinese Odyssey 2002 will be on Italian cinemas all over the country from October 10.
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4 Oct 2003 -- The new album from Faye will be called Future Love, Jiang1 Ai4, and release date in set to November 17. Given the number om MTVs that will be included we might see a first release of only an audio cd and 3-4 weeks later the full album with all 10 MTVs. I have two pictures from Apple Daily in connections with the new album that you can view here.
4 Oct 2003 -- The Christmas concerts in Hong Kong is also confirmed with up to 8 performances, starting December 20. Usually, 2-3 concerts are fixed and the rest added on demand if there is a lot of tickets sold.
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1 Oct 2003 -- Today is the 4 anniversary for my website over Faye. I like to say THANK YOU to everybody what visited my site over the years, you make it a joy for me to keep this site over Faye alive. Thanks again :D
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Not very often have we met
But the music's been too bad
Can only sense happiness
if the music is sad
I must hurry home
Where a life goes on
Dreams will keep me young
Old enough to stress
Only mirrors tell the time
I must hurry home
So will my life go on
Going home alone
And your life goes on
Apple Daily
Sing Pao
UDN News
Wen Wei Po
The Standard
Ta Kung Pao
Ming Pao News
Apple Daily
The Sun HK
Sina.com
ChinaTimes
2) Don't Stay
3) Passenger
4) Carousel
5) Empty City
6) Smoke
Oriental Daily
Sina.com 1
Sina.com 2
Sina.com 3
Sind.com 4
Hua Xia News
The Sun HK
Apple Daily
The Sun HK
Ta Kung Pao
The Standard
Sing Pao News
Ming Pao News 1
Ming Pao News 2
UDN News
Wen Wei Po
Ta Kung Pao
Yahoo HK
Faye arriving to Shanghai last week
Sing Tao News
Ming Pao News
Our love is like a battle
We shed no blood, yet have already sacrificed
Concealing a deadened heartbeat, burying a life of glory
Let love go all the way, the smell of blood being neither right or wrong
Let love go all the way, gentleness remaining, loneliness eternal
Apple Daily
Ming Pao News
I gave you the movie ticket, the seat to him
I gave you the candlelight, the dinner to him
I requested the song for you, gave him the microphone
I gave you the story, the ending to him
I gave you the crystal slipper, 12 o'clock to him
I gave [my] heart to you, body to him
If I still have pain, let the wind blow it asunder
If I still have happiness
If I still have pain, let the wind blow it asunder
If I still have happiness, perhaps
Yahoo Taiwan
The Standard
Oriental Daily
Ming Pao News
Sina.com
Ta Kung Pao
Sing Pao
The Sun HK
Apple Daily 1
Apple Daily 2
Sina.com 1
Sina.com 2
Sina.com 3
Wen Wei Po
Oriental Daily
The Sun HK
Ming Pao News
Yahoo Taiwan
Apple Daily
Ming Pao News 1
Ming Pao News 2
Sing Pao News
Sina.com
Wen Wei Po
Ta Kung Pao
The Sun HK
JxNews
China Times
