"It Is the Hour" () is a song recorded by Taiwanese singer

Hebe Tien Hebe Tien (; born 30 March 1983) is a Taiwanese singer and actress. She rose to fame in the early 2000s as a member of Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. The release of her debut album, '' To Hebe'' (2010), established her as a solo artist. Tien's son ...

released on 25 February 2022 under PQP Music. It is the second song from her Live in Life series which is a continuation of her project from her previous label,

HIM International Music HIM International Music () is a Taiwanese independent record label and artist management company established in 1999. It was previously known as Grand Music International Inc. (宇宙國際音樂股份有限公司). It is an International Federat ...

. The song was inspired by the poem "Be Drunk" by French poet

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticis ...

and was written by Guo Hong-an.

Background and release

On 20 August 2018, Tien released "Stay", a live recording single as part of her Live in Life series. Tien had been constantly mesmerized by the sounds around her and have always wanted to lay music and vocals on top of them. Tien mentioned her scenic travel on a boat with her parents on their way to

Wuzhen Wuzhen (, Wu: Whu-tsen lit. "Wu Town") is a historic scenic town, part of Tongxiang, located in the north of Zhejiang Province, China. It lies within the triangle formed by Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai. Covering an area of , Wuzhen has a tota ...

as the inspiration for "Stay", and since then, she noted other inspirations such as the sounds of collapsing icebergs while filming the music video for her song "Insignificance", and the sounds of the hospital monitors, the baby's heartbeat and first cry when she was in the delivery room while her

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. Si ...

bandmate

Ella Ella may refer to: * Ella (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Places United States * Ella, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Ella, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Ella, Pennsylvania, an unincorporate ...

was giving birth. "Stay" would become Tien's last release from her former label, HIM. On 15 February 2022, Tien and PQP released the first teaser, "feel", shot in a forest with bird sounds. The second teaser, "look", was released on 18 February 2022, and included behind-the-scene footages of musicians and production staff in the backdrop of the forest. The third and final teaser, "listen", was released on 21 February 22 and included a footage of Tien's mic with the S.H.E logo and herself singing in the forest. On 24 February 2022, Tien held a press conference confirming the continuation of her One, After Another tour in Kaohsiung which was postponed due to the ongoing

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

, and announcing the release of her new song. According to Tien, the single is in line with her recently found love of hiking in forests, "I really like the forest and aside from being touched, there is another kind of feeling". The single "It is the Hour" and the music video was released on 25 February 2022.

Music video

The recording and music video was filmed in

Dongyanshan Forest Recreation Area Dongyanshan Forest Recreation Area () is a forest located in Fuxing District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. History The forest used to be the logging storage area for the Forestry Bureau. Geology The forest spans over an area of 916 hectares and loca ...

. It was directed by Bill Chia who worked on her previous music videos. The music video included footages of the production team setting up, Tien and the musicians performing in the forest.

Personnel

Credits adapted from

QQ Music QQ Music () is one of the three Chinese freemium music streaming services owned by Tencent Music, a joint venture between Tencent and Spotify. As of 2018, the service is set to reach over 700 million users with an estimated 120 million subscribe ...

liner notes, and the music video. *

– vocals * Brandy Tien (布蘭地) – background vocals * Blackie Wu (吴加恩) – arrangement * Limtiok (林逐) – arrangement * George Chen ( 陳建騏) – arrangement, piano arrangement *

Evan Yo Tsai Min-you (born 12 November 1986), better known as Evan Yo, is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter. He was signed by his management company at 14 and has been signed by Sony Music Taiwan since 2006. He has released four albums and was nomin ...

– piano arrangement * Huang Qunlun (黃群輪) – bass * Romi Yung (容沛誼) – keyboard * Eric Hsu (徐研培) – guitar * YoYo/Wu Deng Kai (吳登凱) – cello * Allen Wu (吳沛奕) – handpan * Ziya Huang (黃文萱) – live mixing engineer * SHENB (沈冠霖) – live production assistant * Insert Studio (音色製作) – equipment coordinator

References

{{Hebe Tien 2018 singles 2018 songs Hebe Tien songs