Love Yourself
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愛自己 Love Yourself is the first mandopop
album and 12th overall studio album
of Hong Kong
pop
singer Prudence Liew
, released on May 1, 2000 in Taiwan
.
music industry, Liew landed a record deal with Taiwanese record label Rock Records
through her friend and colleague, Sandy Lam
. Production began in 1999 for this album. It was recorded in Vancouver
, Singapore
and Taipei
and produced by Lam's then-husband, Jonathan Lee.
Only one single was released from this album, "Everytime, I Take It Very Seriously". A music video was also produced to accompany the track. Quickly after the release of the single and album, Liew returned to San Francisco, where she resided at the time. Her next major comeback would be eight years later, when she announces her concert series, Opening the Sexual Boundaries
.
Mandopop
Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs...
album and 12th overall studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer Prudence Liew
Prudence Liew
Prudence Liew Mei-Gwan is a multi-platinum selling Hong Kong pop singer and Golden Horse Award winning actress, having released 14 studio albums and appearing in numerous films.-Career start:...
, released on May 1, 2000 in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
.
Album information
After a six-year hiatus from the Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
music industry, Liew landed a record deal with Taiwanese record label Rock Records
Rock Records
Rock Records is a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980 by Sam and Johnny Duan . The record label had their first multiseller in 1989 with Sarah Chen.It is now Asia's largest independent record label....
through her friend and colleague, Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.-Career:...
. Production began in 1999 for this album. It was recorded in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
and Taipei
Taipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
and produced by Lam's then-husband, Jonathan Lee.
Only one single was released from this album, "Everytime, I Take It Very Seriously". A music video was also produced to accompany the track. Quickly after the release of the single and album, Liew returned to San Francisco, where she resided at the time. Her next major comeback would be eight years later, when she announces her concert series, Opening the Sexual Boundaries
Opening the Sexual Boundaries
大開色界新曲+精選 Opening the Sexual Boundaries is a greatest hits compilation album by cantopop singer Prudence Liew, released on April 11, 2008.-Album details:...
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Track listing
- Tell You My Story
- 每次我都很認真 (Everytime, I Take It Very Seriously)
- 因為我沒有 (Because I Have Not)
- 傷人太重 (Hurting Someone Too Severely)
- The Last Night
- 讓步 (Give Way)
- 偷想 (Secretly Thinking)
- 旅行 (Vacation)
- 關燈 (Turn Off The Light)
- 好好過下去 (Live Well From This Point Forward)