Today 8 days have review of i-Weilian album by Jonathan Fam.
Album was give 4 stars out of 5 :)
(i-weekly give 3.5/5, U-weekly 3/5, Wo Bao (09/28) (no points but recommended CD), Zao Bao (09/30) (3/5 mainly for having few new songs but great comments on Wei Lian's singing improved) (PTDR, Can Liu, Fan Cuo, Chin Ai De Juo Ge Hao Meng, Nian Nian Bu Wang)
Just to summarize:
I-Weilian new album shows off Wei Lian's true talents. Touching in his melancholic voice which is very quality, laced with so much emotion and subtle nuances that makes it such a gem to listen especially when feeling the pangs of heartache.
It was also a shocker to him that Wei Lian/Joi tried a hip-hop number and result is not half bad and won't sound out of place in a JJ Lin album. Also mention a bit about your performance in Happy Sunday. Lastly a comment "We foresee greater things to come for this homegrown star"
Many people mistaken that the song I love you original singer was Aaron Kwok. I did some searching and found more history to the original singer Yutaka Ozaki. He was Japanese legend who died of young age of 26 leaving behind wife and son.
Found this posted by a Japanese fan:
By taka(Japanese (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews His name Yutaka Ozaki.. If there may be not some American who know about him. But he have the greatest populality from Japanese youngsters even now. The reason that I wrote "even now" is for that he is not alive. Ozaki passed away in such young age as twenties. The cause have not been known even now, alcohlism, suicide or death by violence..
He had gotten great populality in Japan music scene, however by such sudden death, he became a legendary singer. In those days after he died, the fan's suicide broke, he had the influence so much.
His singing style in live performance was simple with a acoustic guitar only except for some cases. In addition to that, his song words included very deep message, especially for teenagers, the resistance to schools, the contradiction to society, teen's life future or the mean that teen life even.
Honestly, I can not say that he is a great singer on the point of singing well or bad. But one time, he sing shouting, another time sing like wispering or crying. He sing as he felt and thought freely. And by using simple way like guitar only, his singing,sometime crying was conveyed to teenagers heart directly.
I think that everybody is troubled about their life especially at teen age is common thing over the world. If you listen to his cd, at any costs, I wish that you listen to the cd with understanding his words, or the cd may finish just a noisy sound. The half of his charms are his strong message.
Thank you for reading poor English.
Just to share and give tribute to the late Ozaki, found this youtube of his 1991 video I love you and to others who think Aaron was original singer of this song please listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxMRQwenWU8
Now I am thinking if WL sing this song with Japanese lyrics, won't it be great ?
Attach Japanese lyrics I found:
I love you ima dake wa kanashii uta kikitakunai yo I love you nogare nogare tadoritsuita kono heya Nani mo kamo yurusareta koi jyanai kara futari wa marude sute nekomitai Kono heya wa ochiba ni umoreta akibako mitai Dakara omae wa koneko no youna nakigoe de
(*) Kishimu beddo no ue de yasashisa wo mochiyori Kitsuku karada dakishime aeba Sore kara mata futari wa me wo tojiru yo Kanashii uta ni ai ga shirakete shimawanu youni
I love you wakasugiru futari no ai ni wa furerarenu himitsu ga aru I love you ima no kurashi no naka de wa tadori tsukenai Hitotsu ni kasanari ikiteyuku koi wo yume mite kizutsuku dake no futari da yo Nando mo aishiterutte kiku omae wa kono ai nashi de wa ikite sae yukenai to
Repeat (*)
Other famous Otaki songs:
1) Sotsugyo (Graduation) 2) Oh My Little Girl, this song was also sung by HK singer before 3) Forget me not (live), HK Nicholas Tse sang this song before
Congrats to Kelly Poon, Wei Lian's PSS1 alumni and good friend for releasing her album overseas.
Thanks to Xinyi for her well wishes for Wei Lian. We hope more local singers like Wei Lian, Kelly etc can make it in overseas. All the best to Kelly Poon (潘嘉丽) . Seen latest Kelly image is definitely much nicer than last image. Long hair and look cute and sweet.
Paste here portion of Kelly's interview related to Wei Lian :) 第一届绝对Superstar出身,潘嘉丽表示自己和陈伟联的走的路线不同,不能比较,自己更擅长舞台展示。问到是否想在发行上胜出陈伟联,潘嘉丽觉得谁强谁弱不靠发行量。点击
Here latest Kelly's news from xin.sg: http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=9690&category=
Do tune in to Mediacorp Channel 5 Wednesday 09/26 Results show at 10pm, Wei Lian our Superstar will be back for just few days and this is his 1st appearance after he went to Taiwan for his album release.
Visit http://livethedream.mediacorptv.sg for information regarding the show!
Xiao Sian was invited by Wei Lian to support his 1st Mini concert after they met on the recording of Super Sunday where Wei Lian and Xiao Sian was from same team. Both of them duet one song.
Finally today I managed to receive the videos mailed all the way from Taiwan to Singapore for fans to catch the mini concert. Thank you Melody you are so kind to us !!!
Its an exciting day today as i-Weilian cd finally released in Singapore !!! There are 2 songs which is not in the Taiwan version plus another song in acoustic.
Very happy indeed to collect 50 copies of cd from my favourite cd shop. Went around distributing 30 copies cd and left balance to be delivered by a kind blue angel.
Wow, cannot believe my eyes, Wei Lian looked so handsome in white and so smiley and happy. Am so glad the reporters took such nice pictures of my Superstar. :)
First I would like to thank Melody for sharing the information and review of Wei Lian's first Taiwan mini concert. Secondly really thank Howie for his review in Wo Bao today. It is
very heart warming to read such comment and review from Howie. So touch by
Personally I like this new version instead of the NDP one. The music and the background singer made the song feel much nicer and this version was just nice not too fast nor too slow. Felt very 'qing soong' and relax when listen to this song.
LATEST! Wei Lian will be on Taiwan's Apple Line Radio at 11 am today! Simply click on the "Qing Chun Xian Shang" (青春线上) button in the website to hear it! http://www.apple-line.com/modules/extcal/
Wei Lian on KISS RADIO FM 99.9 at 4pm 5th Sept ! Please tune in to Da Zhong Guang Bo FM 99.9 at http://www.kiss.com.tw/index.php
I went to Warner Music Taiwan website today and saw these beautiful pictures. Thank you Warner Music for making Wei Lian look so nice and boyish in these photos. I would like to share with fans. I have it as my wallpaper on my computer.
Good news, 933 Singapore's radio station has started to play Wei Lian's new album songs and surprise to all, Wei Lian and Joi Chua has a rap number called "Fan Cuo". It is a really good try and find it a fun song to listen to. Let's tune in from today.
Direct link to listen is http://www.lucky7.com.tw/on-air-1.htm Someone send me link to latest news from website review of Wei Lian's latest Taiwan album. Here I have the links and paste part of the news to share:
Throughout the program the male dj commented on Wei Lian's new album and his voice. He said many songs in i-weilian album in Taiwan are worth listening and he find though most of the songs can be sad but Wei Lian's voice has this 'wan nuan de gan jue' which means warm feeling.
Songs recommended by DJ: 1. Sia0 Ren Wu De Xin Sen 2. Pu Tong De Ren 3. Lu Pian De Yi Ke, Rung Su Xia 4. Hua Cai Tian Tang 5. Gu Dan De Ye Li Wo Bu Gu Dan 6. Heaven Knows 7. I love You
Song that Wei Lian recommend: Qing Ai De, Zhuo Ge Hao Meng
Here I included Wei Lian interview on 933 31st Aug 6.10pm with DJ Choong Qing (Zhou Xian Sheng, Zhou Tai Tai) for those who miss it.
In i-Weilian CD last 2 pages of the lyrics booklet has message in English and Chinese for his fans and people who has helped and supported him till today. (which includes you and me :) )
Here I have the enlarged photo for fans to read the message.
Seems that Joey Yung is looking forward to perform with Wei Lian. Hopefully this time Wei Lian is able to show his singing talent since having the chance to sing with HK diva.
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If music be the food of love, play on. This is a blog where I share with people about myself and my favourite Singaporean Singer Kelvin Tan Wei Lian. All who are my friends, colleagues and family are welcome to come to my blog and get update here. I am part of Kelvin Tan's FC who is named the Blue Angels since he won PSS1 in 2005