''Girl's Dorm'' () is the debut studio album by

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S.H.E S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. They formed in 2001 and are managed by HIM International Music but decided not to renew their contract in 2019 due to having their own management company. ...

, released by

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on 11 September

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. This album is the only one in which each member has her own solos: Hebe's solos were "Someone Loves You Instead of Me" and "Too Much", Selina's "Forgotten to Forget About You", and Ella's was "Don't". Labelmates

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composed the songs "Fridge" and "Are You All Right". Three of the songs in this album ("Beauty Up Me", "Too Much" and "He Is") would be used to endorse Wacoal, SoGo and Digimaster, respectively. Most of the lyrics in this album were written by Wu Hsiung; from ''Youth Society'' onwards, most of the lyrics are by Shi Rencheng. The music video for "戀人未滿" (Not Yet Lovers) features Taiwanese actor

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. "Not Yet Lovers" is a translated cover of "Brown Eyes" by

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from their 2001 studio album '' Survivor'', with

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and

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credited as co-writers. The track "戀人未滿" (Not Yet Lovers) is listed at number 3 on

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's ''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' (Hit-Fm年度百首單曲) for 2001. S.H.E was nominated for ''Best New Artist'' at the 13th Golden Melody Awards in 2002 for their work on this album. GIO, Taiwa
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28 April 2004. Retrieved 2011-0509

Track listing

Music videos

The karaoke VCD included fully choreographed music videos for "Not Yet Lovers", "Beauty Up My Life", "Fridge", and "Too Much." The videos for "Are You All Right" and "He is Him" were essentially edited footage of S.H.E singing those respective songs. "戀人未滿" (Not Yet Lovers) is a story of three girls (Selina, Hebe, and Ella) fawning over the same boy (

), but deciding that their friendship is evidently more valuable.

References

External links

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S.H.E discography@HIM International Music
{{DEFAULTSORT:Girl's Dorm 2001 albums S.H.E albums HIM International Music albums