Faye in CNN part 1

CNN interviewed Faye Wong in 1998

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[cdefgqqq]

她不說英語可能是想表現自己是中國人，要說國語，你來採訪我，那­請你自己翻譯吧...好像成龍去外國出席某些場合穿唐裝一樣吧.­..天后嘛, 當然是要外國禮讓她啦! 好像日本的濱崎步都是大部份時間用日語接受外國cnn訪問 (好似是cnn, 或另一個台)!

[huei321]

说中文，因为大家是平等的。

说中文，因为自信。

[CAMILLeeer]

好美，眼睛很嫩

[okita9411]

王菲年轻时可真是美人啊

[DudethatyelledMurloc]

@reginablablabla It's the hair! It's not asian enough

[travellertoday]

does it really matter??

she is still faye wong!!!

[tangmingli]

王菲是亚洲的天后，关TMD美国红毛鬼什么事，不说英语又怎样，­她可是正宗的中国人！永远支持你，我心中的女神！

[westofthetracks]

Also, her image- at least at a few times, as in her most famous film Chungking Express- was tomboyish, with severely short hair. This was unusual, punk, for a beautiful mainland Chinese girl back in the early '90s. And being from the mainland, and eventually moving back there, she can be counted as a rebel in her homeland, even if by UK or US standards she may appear as just another gorgeous pop star. Finally- lyrics- she didn't write them all, but she did some- and they tend toward real poetry.

[westofthetracks]

In HK pop she changed things too- it was a very conservative style, and had been for decades. HK rock that sold anything also tended to just ape the most popular rock sounds of the UK. Cocteau Twins were unpopular, uncool and even forgotten in their home country in the mid '90s until Massive Attack got Liz Fraser to sing on Teardrop in '98 (which only became a massive hit slowly over the next seven or eight years). Faye was ahead of 3D, Daddy G and Mushroom in recognizing that band's importance.

[westofthetracks]

Faye worked in HK in her early career, but when she switched to Mandarin albums, she revolutionized the mainland music industry. Given the severely limited history of pop music of any kind in mainland China, I think it's pretty impressive that a 25-year-old woman coming out of that environment produced some of the only '90s guitar pop albums that rival the ethereal perfection of The Bends. Her music is not nearly as inventive as real Cocteau Twins, but it's on another level from the Cranberries.

[westofthetracks]

Faye's rise was soon after that era- she wasn't ahead of things, but she was pretty early, she represented the change, one of the first domestic pop stars- she repped for Teng (who was massively popular but still a somewhat countercultural figure by PRC standards) and expanded Teng's unabashedly personal and sentimental pop style into the basis of modern mainland pop. And then in '94 to '99, she embraced psychedelic influences from other genres including UK alternative and HK rock- e.g. Dou Wei.

[westofthetracks]

by the very conservative standards of Mandopop music before her, she was a rebel. PRC had no pop scene at all until the past 25 years. people were so enamored of just hearing a song that said "I Love You" (Teresa Teng) or proclaiming individualism (Cui Jian) that it took much longer before confrontational sounds started to develop. The late '80s/early '90s were a time of new freedoms- '60s counterculture from the west mixed with '80s pop and hip hop and HK and Taiwan styles- all with no context.