It's time to talk about Karen Mok. A friend clicked it before, but I didn’t know which song to start with. And when it comes to the Young and Dangerous series, I naturally think of her. In the fourth part of the third and fourth part, she played the pheasant's girlfriend, the daughter of Pastor Lin, but then this line was lost, it was in Young and Dangerous. In the final piece of "Nine-Dragon Ice Room", Ekin Cheng's woman is played again, a character who is obsessed with bringing Zheng Chong into the water who wants to reform. The day before yesterday was also related to Karen Mok, Shu Qi’s husband Feng Delun’s ex-girlfriend, and Su Huilun sang "Long Live Broken Love".
is still from my first knowledge of her, this is the ending song "Journey to the West" with "Unfinished Love" as the ending song. Needless to say, the movie is my age, even if I haven't watched it, I can hear the lines in it. In addition to the plot and the director of the film, the level of film soundtrack is second to none.
The soundtrack of the entire movie was handed over to mainland musician Zhao Jiping, a Northwester, who made the soundtrack for films such as "Yellow Earth" and "Red Sorghum". Later, he wrote the famous "Roar when the road sees unevenness" for "Water Margin". , Which is in line with the northwest wind and roughness of the filming location. This song "Reed Dang" is the opening music of the movie.
and several theme song episodes, the director still hired Hong Kong musician Lu Guanting to take care of it, and thus left a famous piece like "Love in a lifetime". Perhaps this song is so glamorous that it occupies most of people's memory and also covers up other episodes, including Karen Mok's early impressions in the music scene.
However, this song "Unforgettable Love" is also a creative idea from the soundtrack of the entire movie. The material found from classic old movie songs is the theme song "Singer Girl on the End of the Road" from the 1930s, originally sung by Zhou Xuan. The composer is He Luting, an older generation musician, and he should have seen this name on many classic song creation lists.
Even if you listen to some modern versions of Xu Xiaofeng, you can feel that "Unforgettable Love" is a big adaptation and it is difficult to directly correlate it. It can be seen that Lu Guanting's adaptation still has a lot of work, especially in the arrangement, which has many psychedelic colors. And Lu Guanting’s wife and partner Tang Shuchen also fully understood. The words filled in are also slightly sad and sometimes sad, but there are some longings: how beautiful it is for the couple to join hands together. Your heart seems to be playful and incomprehensible. This truth is drifting and changing. If you are at a loss, say goodbye to your lover and go hurriedly away. For whom and who makes you remember
, I don't know if Bai Jingjing sang it to Supreme Bao, or Karen Mok sang it to Zhou Xingchi. Anyway, it's "you who changed your heart". Karen Mok's singing is also from the heart, with a touch of sadness. But by the end of the filming, it should be another heroine who was sad. Later, she didn't cooperate with Zhou again, and Karen Mok started a journey with Zhou Xingchi. The song
was also included in Karen Mok's 1996 Cantonese album "Full Body". This is her second album, and it is said that only a few thousand copies were sold that year. And the first album was three years ago.
Karen Mok's family conditions are still good. My father is a cultural person, involved in many fields, especially good food, he likes to write books, after Karen Mok became popular, he also wrote a special bodybuilding soup for Karen Mok, Cantonese love to drink soup is indeed a well-deserved reputation. Karen Mok wrote about the soup he drank since he was a child. He felt that Mo's figure was so good because of these soups. His mother worked in a radio and television station. When Leslie Cheung took the second place in a singing competition, her mother used her position to arrange for her 6-year-old daughter Mok Wenwei to come on stage to present flowers, but she would never have thought that this handsome guy would be so popular in the future.
Unfortunately, there is no more clear
. Later, Karen Mok went to study in the UK and met two friends there: Lei Songde and c. y kong, both of whom began to occupy many Cantonese song creation lists in the latter half of the 1990s. The three of them always play music together, but they tend to have a restless, avant-garde style of music, and have a good feeling about themselves, so they send demos to friends in the record company in Hong Kong, but they all fall to nothing. The hard work paid off, and finally a record company took a fancy to Karen's style and recorded her first album "Karen".
In that era when the four kings were monopolized and cover songs became popular, small record companies lived in the cracks. Sure enough, as soon as the album was made, the company was facing bankruptcy. There was no publicity, and nothing outstanding. It is said that only a few hundred copies were sold, which made Karen Mok temporarily frustrated to doubt his life. Of course, the original version of this album has now become very popular.
can't sing, just make a movie. Starting point is better thanThe taller, from the very beginning, was starred by Stephen Chow, and joined "A Chinese Journey to the West" and "Return to the Soul Night". Later, he participated in Wong Kar-wai's "Fallen Angels" and won the Best Supporting Actress Award. Of course, Zhou Xingchi had the most cooperation, and later there was "The God of Cookery" and "Dead Grass". In "The God of Cookery", he also showed his voice, reinterpreting the famous song "First Love" adapted from Japanese singer Takazo Murashita.
With his popularity in the film world, Karen Mok wants to sing again. With the outstanding performance of "Unforgettable Love", a larger record company produced it for her, the Rolling Stone who wanted to enter the Hong Kong market at that time. But just like this, there are albums blessed by creative masters such as Li Zongsheng and Liu Yida, and they still encounter Waterloo in the market. Except for the bold and avant-garde cover, the high-level and multi-element music itself did not attract much attention at that time.
"Alice Lives Here Forever" is one of my favorite songs. And the composer who wrote this kind of blurring style was not very successful in the experiment at the time, of course, only that the market reacted.
Cantonese singers didn't accept it, Karen Mok followed the company to develop in Taiwan, but he didn't expect it to be a big success. Several albums are selling well. In Taiwan, Karen Mok began to work with the composer again, becoming a new interpreter of his classic music.
In terms of movies, the "wandering" Stephen Chow is naturally unable to catch it. In "The King of Comedy", Karen Mok only made a cameo appearance, but this is also the last official collaboration. However, Karen Mok also contributed her another Cantonese masterpiece, "The Love of One World" as a movie episode. "Originally, only the new guys laugh, and who heard the old guys cry." This song is sung to Stephen Chow and Cecilia Cheung. Who remembers that the singer is Karen Mok, who has already announced the curtain call.
time is the best healing medicine. After more than ten years of personnel changes, Zhou Xingchi changed his career to concentrate on being a director. In 2013, he directed a "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons", and invited Karen Mok to adapt and sing "The Love of a Lifetime". The feelings remain the same, but things are not humans. In 2016, he directed a "Mermaid" and invited Karen Mok to help. Karen Mok, who had already lost his first love and renewed his front line, was pleased to sing with Zheng Shaoqiu, one of the theme songs of the Legend of the Condor Heroes, "The World Is Always Hello".
is the so-called: After the vicissitudes of life, the love of life is gone now, who is always best?
