Friday, July 14, 2006
Read the Straits Times Life!Music Colummn this morning and this is what the music commentor wrote about Steve Chou's latest album:-
Commercial,no doubt, but still highly respectable, are the lastest batch of ballads from Steve Chou. Detractors are wont to point out that he seems to create from a template that has his indelible stamp all over the material.
Those in his camp would retort that this merely reflects a consistency of quality, which is not an unfair rebuttal.
The title trcak of his new CD builds in the "Ode To Joy" riff from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - a tacky and oft-employed method of working a classical motif into a pop nugget which has been catching on big time in China and Taiwan.
Still, the somg scores, especially with Chou's sensitive singing and delivery.
To his credit, the rest of Happiness Etudes plays on seamlessly and is likely to spawn a few more hits.....
Well as a avid fan of his, i have absolutely no comments because i also hope that he can inject more surprises in his ballads instead of the repetitive same old melody of songs that seems to follow a template. It can be quite boring rite. Hope that there will be English or even Cantonese ballads protraited in his next album. Hee
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