Fourteen years ago, on June 15, 2008, Elva Hsiao released the Mandarin album " Three Faces of Eve ". This is Elva Hsiao's ninth Mandarin studio album and her first album back in EMI. It was from this album that Elva Hsiao let himself go even more unscrupulously.
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As the most outstanding female singer under EMI subsidiary Virgin Records, from her first album of the same name to " Fifth Avenue ", Elva Hsiao's seven studio albums in five years can be described as classics.
She not only left behind popular classic songs such as "The Most Familiar Stranger" and "I Love You So Much", but even some ordinary love songs that are not the title songs have the quality of other female singers' title songs.. Under the creation of Yao Qian, as the first sister of Virgin Records, Hsiao Hsiao has become the representative figure of American R&B singing style after Min Lee. She not only drives the electronic dance music trend, but also steps towards becoming the queen of Chinese language. throne.
Unfortunately, singers and producers can often share adversity but not wealth.
After becoming famous, Elva Hsiao was quite critical of Yao Qian. She didn't like the pressure Yao Qian brought in the name of hard work, and wanted to prove that she could become a peerless superstar even without Yao Qian. After the contract with Virgin Records expired in 2004, Elva Hsiao did not choose to renew the contract. Instead, he signed a new contract with Warner Records a year later, hoping to usher in a new breakthrough in his personal music career.
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This is not a wise choice. At this time, Warner Bros. was in a turbulent period of internal reorganization and high-level personnel changes. In addition, the company already owned Sammi Cheng, Zhang Huimei, Stefanie Sun, Na Ying. It was a situation where there was more than enough. The embarrassing situation is that there are really no more resources to support the newly joined Elva Hsiao.
It was not until the Warner personnel dispute settled in 2006 that the newly appointed general manager Liu Tianjian reached a consensus with Elva Hsiao and released Elva Hsiao's eighth Mandarin album "087" in December.
Frankly speaking, the overall quality of "1087" is still excellent, and Elva Hsiao's fans are not dissatisfied with the album. However, without releasing a record for more than three years, Elva Hsiao's influence has been greatly weakened. She is no longer the unique "Wild Rose" under Virgin, and seems to be just one of many outstanding female singers.
Seeing that her "spirit was unstable", Elva Hsiao cut her losses in time. After the short-term contract with Warner ended, she did not renew her contract, but chose to return to EMI.
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At this time, Virgin Records has changed its name to Gold Medal Gale . Although the company has changed its name and executive Yao Qian has resigned, the company's support for Elva Hsiao remains the same.
EMI even made an exception and used the Viking brand again to launch a new album "Three Faces of Eve" for Elva Hsiao. is worth mentioning. This is also the last album released by the Viking label. Since then, as EMI has withdrawn from Greater China, the reorganized Gold Medal Wind has never abandoned the Viking label.
"Three Faced Eve" contains a total of twelve works, produced by Chen Wei, Elva Hsiao, Jae Chong and others. Among them, Elva Hsiao participated in most of the production work such as lyrics, chorus, and singing, and independently completed the lyrics of "Baby Girl".
According to Elva Hsiao's planning, the album is divided into three different versions: "True Eve", "Autonomous Eve" and "Brave Eve" . The diva does not forget her original intention and hopes to let fans know different aspects of life through these musical works. Own. And this is why the album is named "Three Faces of Eve".
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I personally think that this is just a gimmick to sell albums. Since it has "three sides", the album was naturally produced in three versions by the record company.
Each version has different art designs and gifts. For example, "Sincere Eve" comes with impulsive MV behind-the-scenes photos, "Autonomous Eve" comes with More More More dance (martial arts) full record, "Brave Eve" Comes with behind-the-scenes photos of two people's lonely MV.
The entire album contains twelve songs, which are just split into three versions of records. If fans want to collect all the behind-the-scenes photos, they must purchase three albums.
Driven by this kind of marketing method, "Three Faces of Eve" shipped 670,000 copies across Asia in just 9 days after its release.
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Now looking back at "Three Faces of Eve", the biggest feeling is that Elva Hsiao suddenly "changed his face".
This change in the singer's overall appearance and facial features once stole the attention of the album release. It was after this album that Elva Hsiao began to let himself go more unscrupulously.
As far as music content is concerned, "Three Faces of Eve" can be regarded as a continuation of the temperament transformation path of the previous album "1087" . Through three title songs that show different personalities, Hsiao Yaxuan's voice is delicate and full of explosiveness. The advantages. Even today in 2022, songs such as "I'll Be There", "Impulse" and "Two People's Loneliness" are worth playing on repeat. After the success of
, Elva Hsiao continued his efforts and soon released his tenth album " Diamond Sugar ". After returning to the top, more avant-garde and bolder works such as "Miss Chic" and "I Love Me" followed one after another. At this time, Elva Hsiao was already a well-deserved Asian fashion queen.
Of course, As for the emotional stories about Elva Hsiao, as well as her face that becomes more and more charming and unfamiliar, this is a matter of opinion and wisdom!
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