Posts Tagged ‘Raymond Lam’
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There were controversies – unfounded, some would say – when Raymond Lam was awarded “The Most Popular Hong Kong Male Singer in the Asia Pacific Region” two years in a row on TVB’s Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards. Now the hot Hong Kong singer/actor is out to prove a point with the release of his long-awaited first Mandarin album. Aptly titled First, the album is a collection of 10 new songs tailor-made to Raymond’s magnetic voice. The heartfelt ballad “Let Me Love You For An Hour” comes to be the first plug and is followed by the up-tempo number “One More Time”. Some of Raymond’s biggest Cantonese hits are also adapted into Mandarin here, such as “Another Way To Love You” and “Love Searching For You In Memories”.Tracklist
01. 再一次 (One more time)
02. 太熱了 (Too hot)
03. 讓我愛你一小時 (Let me love you for one hour)
04. 換個方式愛你 (Change to another way of loving you)
05. 不想讓你失望 (Don’t want you to be disappointed)
06. 吻過吸血鬼 (Kissed a vampire)
07. 愛在記憶中找你 (Love to search for you in memories)
08. 一直都在 (Have always been here)
09. 我們很好 (We’re very well)
10. 長假期 (Long vacation)
Thoughts
Ahhh Raymond Lam. He’s my favourite HK actor / singer. But this doesn’t mean this will be one of those “OMG YOU MUST BUY THIS – HE’s HOT!” type of review. In fact it’ll be quite the opposite. Sometimes I feel like I’m being more harsh on him because I know he’s capable of better.
Firstly – the cover. Does it even look like him? My answer is no. I’m not a fan of it, at all. There’re actually better photos inside this album but they chose this one. I would like to know why. Not the best first impression.
The major problem (and this is critical) I have with this album is that there is only three NEW songs. Apart from “One more time”, “Too hot” and “Let me love you for one hour”, the other SEVEN songs have been previously released in his Cantonese albums. As Cantonese is my first language, one of my pet peeves is Cantonese converted to Mandarin songs (and vice versa). This pet peeve is right up there along with people who chew with their mouths open, or people who talk way too loud on their mobile phones on the bus.
I am trying to get back into the habit of blogging (because I do want to write reports for the last few weeks) so I’m beginning with short posts. 
Ni Bu Zai has been one of my favourite songs since I’ve heard it a couple of years ago, I think it’s the beginning piano which had me hooked. Recently, Raymond Lam did a cover of this at his concert. The original singer, Leehom Wang, also did a Japanese version in his album “Hear my voice”. So which version is the best? I’m actually leaning towards Ah Fung’s version, even though it’s a bit unfair to judge Leehom’s original version because it was released back in 2003. His singing has definitely improved a lot since then.
