Twenty-three years ago, on May 18, 1999, Chen Huixian launched the Cantonese album " Facing Love ". However, this album that puts her ambitions into her cannon fodder in the golden era of Chinese music in 1999.
This is Chen Huixian's 14th Cantonese album, and it is also her second album to switch from Polykin Records to Xinbaoyi Records. A year ago, Chen Huixian complained that Polygon Records did not attach enough importance to her, thus ending the contract signed by both parties since 1986 and seeking new breakthroughs for themselves.
Unfortunately, 999's Chinese music scene is no longer the era when Chen Huixian made a comeback casually, and she can revisit legends with the album " Return ".
At this turn of the century when the gods fought, she not only had to face the following songs of Fai Wong , Sichelle Cheng , Lin Yilian , Coco Lee , Ah Mei , Superior , Keep Chan , Keep Chen , Hsu Ruo-young , Miria Yeung , Kain Mok , Keep Chen , Hsu Ruo-yun , Miria Yeung , Kain Mok , Kain Mok , etc., such as Keep Chen , Keep Yeung , Karen Mok .
And behind these singers, the music scene has been constantly emerging in Jianya Cai , Jingru Liang , Elva Hsiao , Jiang Meiqi , Zhou Hui , etc. The newcomers in the music scene are getting smaller and smaller.
If you are smart, you must learn to "submit your old age" and know how to retreat bravely. Not to mention Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung , who "retreat" early, even the four kings no longer pursue sales and awards. They gradually reduced production and volume in 1999 and successively withdrew from major award ceremony.
However, Chen Huixian was not willing to admit defeat and was still greedy for the wonderful feeling of the stars lying in the moon back then. She always wanted to prove that she was still the singer of the generation of the past.
So she began to seek change and joined Xinbaoyi's first record " Love Two Thousand Hours ", which is a concept album created around the development of the content and plot of love novels. In 1999, Chen Huixian couldn't wait to release the new Cantonese album "Face to Love".
Chen Huixian invited Fang Shuliang , who worked with her for the first time, to serve as the producer of . The new album contains twelve works, and the overall style has changed drastically from her past works. This time, Chen Huixian not only began to follow the trendy Band Sound electronic music route, but also deliberately changed her singing style to a trendy girlish style, trying to bring a new feeling to fans.
More than a year later, 42-year-old Zhou Xun was able to play a girl in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", but in 1999, not all fans could accept that 34-year-old Chen Huixian began to focus on trendy girl style.
Those fans who have accompanied Chen Huixian along the way hope that she can sing some more thoughtful "big songs", and it is difficult for the new generation of fans and passers-by to pay attention to such an "ancient singer". Chen Huixian's transformation did not achieve ideal results, but instead made her path narrower and narrower.
Even so, with the popularity accumulated over the years, the album "Face the Love" sold 15,000 copies in Hong Kong. Although this number cannot be compared with Chen Huixian's previous works, it was a pretty good number in 1999 when Hong Kong record sales were gradually declining.
Unfortunately, Chen Huixian was not satisfied with this. Instead, she felt that the record company did not attach enough importance to it and did not give more publicity. After launching her fifteenth Cantonese album "For You" in 2000, she ended her contract with Xinyibao Records and faded out of the music industry again.
In this regard, I can only sigh that Polygon Records protected Chen Huixian too well, which made her more and more and more difficult for her to become mediocre.
Today in 2022, if you look back at the album "Face to Love" and ignore the singer's name "Chen Huixian", it is estimated that even the most picky fans will find it difficult to say that there is something unacceptable to this album. Works such as "It's love", "I want everything", "He knows I know" and other works are worth playing loops.
Unfortunately, there were too many excellent works in the Chinese music scene in 1999. "Face to Love" became cannon fodder, which can only be said to be bad luck.
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