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Duration: 04:15 minutes Upload Time: 2006-07-15 09:01:44 User: etcmail2047 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: Faye Wong's famous "Pledge" from her classic 1994 album, Sky. It was a significant milestone for popular music in Asia as one of the first popular songs to seamlessly combine musical elements from the East and West. The clearest examples of this are the solos performed on the chinese bamboo flute Dizi, by ex-husband Dou Wei, and Faye's folk singing at the end. The credits for the music of this song go to the team of Faye and Dou Wei, while she wrote the lyrics herself. Faye has often said that her lyrics reflect her inner feelings at the time of their creation. Here, the lyrics of "Pledge" seem to hint at Dou Wei's infidelity and its effects on their relationship, forshadowing their divorce a few years later. This classic music video, directed by Susie Au (區雪兒) and shot over 16 hours, has Faye bouncing around the streets of Hong Kong, sporting the pineapple hair style, previously worn by Bjork. Her music videos often showcase her unique body language, as is the case here and in her movies like Chungking Express and 2046. Lyrics - English translation from wongfaye.org I thought that we could be together forever Lots of times, I think of this and I don't want to fall asleep If you could give me a sincere certainty It doesn't matter; nothing matters to me The road ahead is perhaps not too clear After I proceed on confidently, perhaps I'll find it exhausting Perhaps I'll want to stop but can't stop The darker the sky becomes, the more tired my heart becomes I saw your face, listened to your unvoiced pledge At that moment I discovered That one day I walked past you and didn't catch your gaze I take my heart and give it to you to console Is it possible for me not to have to take it back? [Please] don't think that an assiduous heart is unbreakable [Please] don't think that nothing matters to me Lyrics - By Faye Wong 我以為永遠可以這樣相對 好幾回這樣地想起捨不得睡 如果你能給我一個真誠的絕對 無所謂我什麼都無所謂 前面的路也許真的並不太清楚 放心地走了以後也許會覺得辛苦 也許會想停也停不住 天越黑心越累我看見你的臉 聽著你說不出口的誓言 那一刻我發現我有天 經過你的身邊找不到你的視線 把我的心交給你來安慰 能不能從此就不用再收回 別以為執著的心就不會被碰碎 別以為我真的無所謂 More information on Faye Wong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Wong |
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| jszhb ::: Favorites 2007-12-23 01:19:53 This song has nothing to do with HK. It was co-written by Faye Wong and her ex-husband, Dou Wei, A Chinese mainland musician. __________________________________________________ | |
| jszhb ::: Favorites 2007-12-23 01:06:45 Faye wrote the lyric herself, and she was also one of the composers. Amasing voice. Faye is the best. Who care about the Bjork crap. __________________________________________________ | |
| mlodaalways ::: Favorites 2007-12-15 00:36:30 what a f.... __________________________________________________ | |
| caoq ::: Favorites 2007-12-06 22:00:06 *~I love this song!! :o) __________________________________________________ | |
| jeld97 ::: Favorites 2007-11-29 15:52:45 It's absurd to blame Faye for the Bjork ripoff. She is, or was anyway, a creative genius. The fact that her handlers and producers were slavishly aping Western pop to make a buck certainly wasn't her fault - her career was just taking off and she had little control of her 'image' at that time. __________________________________________________ | |
| ushireborn ::: Favorites 2007-11-25 02:34:39 The song was fantastic... still is... the problem is Faye's people were adamant on having her lift an image and she chose Bjork to a "T"... AND it's blatant. It shouldn't take away from the brilliance of her music though. As she matured... her image changed. __________________________________________________ | |
| ushireborn ::: Favorites 2007-11-25 02:30:52 the song was fantastic... still is... people are caught up in the fact that she is totally ripping of bjork's presentation. __________________________________________________ | |
| sulemgothica ::: Favorites 2007-09-20 22:04:01 i love this song __________________________________________________ | |
| QQDmonus ::: Favorites 2007-08-09 14:36:42 cant believe ppl can still dig these old videos out and put it on youtube. it was like 15 years ago. oh.. i love faye __________________________________________________ | |
| red0680 ::: Favorites 2007-08-08 14:12:39 yah, didn't we know she used to be a chinese bjork? i said used to... __________________________________________________ | |
| Hewson60 ::: Favorites 2007-08-08 11:58:58 Happy Birthday, Faye! :-) __________________________________________________ | |
| rldhug ::: Favorites 2007-08-03 00:36:45 This supposed 'classic' video is total rip off of Bjork. Not only hair, but whole 'singer acts kooky on streets'. Add a truck and you've got video for 'Big Time Sensuality', which came out about a year previous, I believe. Typical Hong Kong, even the cool stuff is a rip off of much cooler stuff from the west. And Bjork is still making original music, whereas poor old WF is trapped in HK celebrity-tabloid hell, it seems. __________________________________________________ | |
| rldhug ::: Favorites 2007-08-01 08:14:34 Typical HK..not bad song or video (kind of great song in fact), but video is bad fudge job of Wong Kar-wai movies and Bjork - not only hairstyle, but whole of video, clearly aping vid for 'Big Time Sensuality' which was about a year old at the time. Substitutes 'kooky singer on truck' for 'kooky singer on foot' is all. Typical HK, the only cool stuff is stealing cool stuff from the west. __________________________________________________ | |
| Hewson60 ::: Favorites 2007-07-28 15:08:54 The first two signs in the title mean "Faye Wong", right? __________________________________________________ | |
| Hewson60 ::: Favorites 2007-07-28 07:46:35 Thank you very much! Very good sound quality! __________________________________________________ | |
