''Shirley Wong'' is a 1989 album recorded by Chinese
Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
singer
Faye Wong
Faye Wong ( zh, 王菲; born Xia Lin on 8 August 1969) is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter. Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong. Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and her debut album '' Shirley Wong'' ( ...
when she was based in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
, then using the stage name Shirley Wong. This is her debut album with
Cinepoly
Cinepoly Records (新藝寶) is a Hong Kong-based record label founded in 1985. It was a subsidiary of PolyGram Records and the film company Cinema City. Ownership of Cinepoly Records switched to Universal Music Group after Universal acquired Pol ...
.
[Stan Jeffries ''Encyclopedia of world pop music, 1980-2001'' 2003 p224 "When Wong was sixteen her debut album, Miss Charming, was released to little notice. Within twelve months another two albums were on the market, but again the public showed little interest in the young singer's unchallenging pop music. ... Her first album for the new company, Shirley Wong, released in November 2, 1989, featured synthesized pop dealing with love and loss. Within a year she released two other albums, Everything (June 1990) and You 're the Only One (December 1990), focusing on similar material. Thereafter Wong, disappointed at the lack of interest her music was creating, moved to New York"]
Track listing
#無奈那天 (Mou Noi Naa Tin) - ''However That Day''
#藉口 (Ze Hau) - ''Excuses''
#有緣的話 (Jau Jyun Dik Waa) - ''If Destined''
#溫柔的手 (Wan Jau Dik Sau) - ''Delicate Hands''
#尾班車 (Mei Baan Ce) - ''Last Train''
#未平復的心 (Mei Ping Fuk Dik Sam) - ''The Unsettled Heart''
<
Duet with
Paul Wong>
#仍是舊句子 (Jing Si Gau Geoi Zi) - ''Still The same Old Phrase''
#中間人 (Zung Gaan Jan) - ''
Torn Between Two Lovers
"Torn Between Two Lovers" is a song written by Peter Yarrow (of the folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary) and Phillip Jarrell that speaks about a love triangle, and laments that "loving both of you is breaking all the rules". Mary MacGregor recorde ...
''
#愛聽謊言 (Oi Ting Fong Jin) - ''Like Listening To Lies''
#新生 (San Sang) - ''New Life''
References
1989 debut albums
Faye Wong albums
Cinepoly Records albums
Cantopop albums
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