''To Hebe'' is the debut Mandarin solo studio album of

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artist

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 ...

, of

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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. Si ...

. It was released on 3 September 2010 by

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. Tien is the first

member to release a solo album. The preorder edition contains a bonus DVD with eight tracks from Tien's 27th birthday party charity concert, "''330 Music Tien Birthday Party''" held on 20 March 2010. The tracks, "寂寞寂寞就好" (Leave Me Alone) and "LOVE!" are listed at number 11 and 35 respectively on

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's ''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' (Hit-Fm年度百首單曲) for 2010. The album is tied fifth best selling album in Taiwan in 2010, with

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's '' Rainie & Love...?'', with 50,000 copies sold. The album was also nominated for ''Best Mandarin Album'' at the 22nd

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in 2011. It won ''Best Music Video'' for "寂寞寂寞就好" (Leave Me Alone) directed by Hsu Yun-Hsuan (徐筠軒) and ''Best Single Producer'' for "LOVE!".

Background and development

Hebe Tien launched her career through the Taiwanese girl group

under

along with her group mates

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and

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. On September 11, 2001, during the

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, S.H.E released their debut album, '' Girls Dorm'', in memory of their prior living quarters, selling an impressive 150,000 copies for a debut group quashing speculations of unremarkable debut due to the incident.The entertainment industry in a crisis; S.H.E's popularity drops
November 11, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2007. Since debut, S.H.E has released twelve studio albums and received numerous awards and nominations. Tien has since appeared in Taiwanese dramas and has been featured in a few singles. The group's label acknowledged each of the member's strengths and for Tien who loved singing since her childhood, HIM arranged and planned a solo album for her which was in preparation for two years. Tien intended to release an album where she can sing diverse musical genres that are different from the music of S.H.E. Therefore, she named her album ''To Hebe'' as a personal album to show "the girl who loves to sing" and to sing songs she would sing for herself, and to share her different moods to everyone.

Reception

"Small Island" controversy

Almost twelve years after the release of the album, and following the critical reaction of the

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(PRC) to the

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to Taiwan, various Chinese music streaming platforms such as Migu Music and

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removed the track "Small Island" from their streaming service, with the former removing all of Tien's work and her artist information from the platform entirely. According to Little Pinks, the lyrics, "I think that this distance is good, we don't bother each other across the sea," hints about

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. The line, "I am a small island, I can't handle great troubles. Tourists, please come back early next time," was also assumed to mean that Mainland tourists are not welcome to visit Taiwan.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits from the album's liner notes. Musicians *

– vocals, background vocals *

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– vocals, background vocals * Fan Zhezhong (樊哲忠) – guitar * Allen Lu (盧家宏) – guitar * Again (蔡科俊) – guitar *

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– guitar * James Ni (倪方來) – guitar * Huang Xianzhong (黄顯忠) – drums * Rafael Lee (李守信) – drums * Wei Feng 威楓(仔仔) – drums * Wang Zheng Yi (汪正一) – bass * Michael Ning ( 甯子達) – bass * Bing Wang ( 王治平) – synth Moog * Yu Tsang Li (李雨蒼) – violin * Jenny Chen (陳怡蓁) – violin * Wei Sun (孫瑋) – strings Technical * Alex Chang-Chien ( 張簡君偉) – executive producer * Chuman Chu (楚怡辰) – executive producer * Bing Wang ( 王治平) – harmony composer * Ma Yu-fen (馬毓芬) – harmony composer * Guo Wenzong (郭文宗) – harmony composer * Terrytyelee (梁永泰) – harmony composer * Martin (馬丁) – sound engineer * AJ Chen (陳文駿) – sound engineer , mixing * Chief Wang (王永鈞) – sound engineer * Eugene Ke (柯宗佑) – sound engineer * Jiang Ziqiang (蔣自強) – sound engineer * Dave Yang (楊大緯) – mixing * Adam Huang (黃欽勝) – mixing * Craig Burbidge – mixing Music video * Bill Chia ( 比爾賈) – director * Hsu Yun-Hsuan (徐筠軒) – director * Shockley Huang (黃中平) – director * bounce – director

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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S.H.E discography@HIM International Music
{{Authority control 2010 debut albums Hebe Tien albums HIM International Music albums