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Happily Ever After (G.E.M. Album)
''Happily Ever After'' () is the fifth studio album by Chinese-Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M. The album was preceded by three Extended play, extended plays (EP) with three songs each: My Fairytale, ''My Fairytale'', Fearless (G.E.M. EP), ''Fearless'', and ''Queen G'', which were released in increments between August and December 2018. The full album was released as CD-only on May 3, 2019, following the controversies surrounding the legal disputes between G.E.M. and her label Hummingbird. The title of the separate EPs are taken from one of the A-side and B-side, b-side songs in each of the respective EPs. The music video for the single "Tik Tok (G.E.M. song), Tik Tok" reached 119 million views as of July 2022. Background Following the success, and to support her first full Mandarin and fourth studio album ''Heartbeat (G.E.M. album), Heartbeat'', G.E.M. kicked off her third solo tour, "Queen of Hearts", on April 1, 2017, in Guangzhou, China. During the sold-out three-day con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandopop
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Standard Chinese, Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the School campus song, Campus Song folk movement of the 1970s. 'Mandopop' may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop, the English term was coined around 1980 after "Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin. Mandopop is categorized as a genre, subgenre of commercial Chinese language, Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
