C-Pop Artist Of The Week (July 13 – July 19) – Joey Yung

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Joey Yung (born June 16, 1980) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress from Emperor Entertainment Group. She won the “Most Popular Female Singer Award” at the 2003 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation with her hit song, “My Pride”, and won the same prize consecutively in the next four years, thus emerging as one of the premier Cantonese singers in Hong Kong.

Featured Songs

無電才是災難 No Power is the Disaster

續集 Sequel

七不思議 Seven Wonders

赤地雪 Red Snow

樂觀 Optimism

Other Songs

Ballads:
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可歌可泣 Can Sing Can Cry
搜神記 In Search of the Deities
歌姬 Diva
兩面 Two-sided
圓謊 Covering Lies
勉強幸福 Reluctant Bliss
流淚眼望流淚眼 Tears vs Tears
在時間面前 In Front of the Time (Mandarin)
我杯茶 My Cup of Tea
連續劇 Drama Series
天窗 Skylights
這麼近那麼遠 This Close, That Far
時不與我 Never with Me
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Non-ballads:
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蜉蝣 Mayfly
Now And Forever
正好 Right Now (Mandarin)
蟲之家 Home of Worms
流汗 Sweating
另眼相看 View in a New Light
Show Up!
派對機器 Party Machine
跟珍芳達做健身操 Get Fit with Jane Fonda
舌尖開叉 Torned Tongue
活該 Deserved (Mandarin)
臨床 Close to Bed
我所知的兩三事 Couple Things that I Know
心賊難防 Thief in the Heart is Inevitable
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Wrapup

Yes, that is a lot of songs listed! There is a reason for it! This is actually going to be the last AOTW feature that I do. I have been thinking about when I would be stopping since the beginning of the year. If you look at the my LIST that i use to keep track of these, it has been almost two years since I started and this is the 80th one. That is a lot and it feels like a good time to stop. Thank you guys for supporting it and I hope you got something out of it. There are a lot of unfulfilled REQUESTS, sorry about that. I did as much as I could. Big thanks to the Translations team also for helping with song titles and artist introductions. Also, thanks to KoS and Momo for proofreading and helping me not sound like a rambling idiot (I still ramble though!).

So for the very last AOTW, I wanted to finish it off with one of my favorite Cpop artists. I’ve done threads for Jolin and Waa, and now I am completing my top 3 Cpop artist with Joey Yung (S.H.E and Lala would be the top 5 btw~). I normally listen to albums while making a list of possible songs to use for these threads, then I re-listen to those songs, and narrow it down to a reasonable 10-14 songs. Since this is the last feature and Joey is one of my favorites, I decided to not cut songs. So, now there are a ton of songs that I picked out from the 6 or 7 Joey Yung albums that I listened to last week. I separated them into ballads and non-ballads just to prevent it from being a giant messy list.

It is probably boring to say that Joey is my favorite Cantopop singer, same as saying Jolin is my favorite Mandopop singer. But, I don’t think people can deny that she stands out compared to some of the others in the scene. I don’t know many Cantopop artists that have the range that she has. She has done a variety of genres and she does them well. Whether it is this diversity that makes her popular, or if it is her popularity that allows her to try out different sounds, I am not sure. But I am happy she doesn’t just pump out ballads. I have only listened to “Moment”, but I enjoy her Mandarin songs as well and will eventually check out the other albums.

There are tracks from many different albums. Some are from the early 2000’s and some are more recent. I recommend listening to a few random ones before you decide if you like her or not, especially for the non-ballad section. If you don’t like the older pop songs, that doesn’t mean that you won’t like some of her newer material, and vice versa.

Sources: ihktv, Joeyyung616 Wikia