'Just Sing It' sold well all over the world and won nine awards in Asia
Penny's third fully composed album 'Just Sing It' has been widely praised since its release. It has been recognized by the public in terms of sales, singing, and song quality. The song "Blessings on the Street Corner" from the album won the top spot on the on-demand rankings for three weeks at Qianbai KTV and became one of the most popular songs for girls to sing on KTV.
In 2002, Penny also won recognition from many awards, including Malaysia's "2002 Popular Golden Melody Awards" and won "Best Album" and "Best Female Singer" at the "2002 Entertainment Association Awards" ", "Best Song and Lyrics", "Best Singer-Songwriter" and "Best Song" were recognized in nine important awards.
After finishing the promotion work for her last album, Penny took a big vacation and flew to an uninhabited island in the Aegean Sea of ??Greece to enjoy the blue sky and blue sea and recharge her batteries. Because after coming back, Penny will start to devote herself to the production and preparation of the latest album "No Penn, No Gain".
The best gift for White Day is 'No Penn, No Gain'. You will get something if you give it up.
The new album is named 'No Penn, No Gain', which means "eat something". No pain, no gain." (No pain, no gain) Through Penny’s nickname, we changed to ‘No Penn, No Gain’. This is also a blessing to Penny.
I have released four albums and written more than 40 songs. These moving melodies and affectionate lyrics commemorate the same memory. Penny, a Taurus, is slow to get into relationships and even slower to get out of a relationship. She repeatedly wrote about the different emotional aspects of that memory from different viewpoints and angles; all the pain, suffering, unbearable, and inability to let go were all written into the song by her, turning it into a relationship between you and me. Sung music.
For Penny, without that unforgettable memory, there would be no moving melody. People can't always stay where they are. Regarding the past, we can only say that "you will gain only if you give up."
The new album was released on White Day, March 14th, and I also hope to use this day to bless Penny. After knowing how to let go, Penny can find the happiness of letting go.
Sacrifice your vacation to drink cold syrup from musicians
I will give up anything to get closer to the music you want
In order to get closer to what you want For music, Penny sacrificed her vacation time to go to Singapore, picked her own drummer, guitarist, and bassist, formed a band by herself, and arranged and performed the backing part.
The arrangement part of the first three albums was handed over to arranger teachers. Since each person interprets the songs from a different perspective, the style of the music they produced may not be the same as Penny’s original concept. So this time Penny decided to arrange the music with Band herself. She said, "Communicate directly with the musicians about the details of the arrangement, including timbre and playing methods, so that the resulting music will be closer to what I want."
This way of working can more faithfully convey the original creative concept, but for Penny, who is not from a music major, facing a group of professional musicians and telling them how to make music is actually quite stressful; but in order Penny went all out to make the music she wanted. During the recording period, she had to drive back and forth between her home in Malaysia and the recording studio in Singapore every day. Under great physical and mental pressure, Penny caught a cold. She drank cold medicine as water to maintain her basic health. I didn't take a good rest until I finished the recording work.
Penny doesn’t take any trouble in these little things. In order to get closer to the music she wants, in order to be able to say loudly and proudly, “This is Penny’s music,” she “will give up anything.”
Hear the deep emotion of 40 songs in a memory
Hear the folk rock flowing in Penny’s blood
The music style of this album is both dynamic and quiet. The themes described in the lyrics are also more diverse.
Starting from the emotional memory, we hear the affectionate Penny.
“I’m willing to give up everything” is Penny’s understanding of the past love affair. She said, “I don’t want you for anything, as long as you are happy, no matter how hard you work, it’s worth it. What’s even more worth it is that I lived in your heart. After a while, I will give up anything in exchange for your smile." In the lyrics, we see the female strength of "Girls will give up anything for boys to be happy", as well as Penny's understanding of the past that she had to give up to gain.
The song "In the Middle of the Water" is Penny's new attempt at a medium-fast version. The arrangement adds musical elements of Balinese folk percussion instruments. In the lyrics, she is not bound by love and floats into the water. Wandering at will.
"Hiding in the Night" opens with string music with a special atmosphere, describing the feeling of missing someone secretly crying at night.
In the song "Heard", Penny uses simple and plain words and Enya-style singing style to interpret the heaviness of breakup.
"It's been a long time" Penny puts the finishing touch on the window period between men and women before they break up in love, which is very interesting.
On the other side, we hear the power of folk rock flowing in Penny's blood.
Seeing the chaos in the world and the frowning news, Penny wrote "Oh! My God", a folk narrative poem with a slightly critical meaning. The lyrics say that I am just a small person, and I may not have any great contributions, but in the face of all kinds of chaos in this world, I also have my own views and opinions; when I dare to be angry and dare not speak out, I write songs to express my feelings. Express complaints. This song is a masterpiece of folk narrative after "1999" and "World of Desire". Penny once again did not compromise with the market and insisted on her own creative style.
With "overbearing" electronic folk rock and layered beats, we see that Penny's rock and roll power is fully unleashed.
"Reject"'s alternative attempt at electronic sound effects and its anti-gossip paparazzi appeal of rejecting gossip and prying eyes make this song different from many unbalanced records in the market.
Thinking of the friends she had not contacted for a long time, Penny wrote the friendship song "In a blink of an eye" for those friends she has never forgotten.
Seeing the flirtatious girls chasing girls, Penny wrote the interesting song "Who Makes You Happy" to advise them to love seriously if they want to love, and not to have one-night stands.
Judging from the direction of lyric content, Penny’s songwriting directions are becoming more and more diversified. She said: "I have a lot of inspiration from the memories of past relationships, but life is not just about feelings, although that is also a very important part. Everything around me that touches me can be written in songs." Her horizons expanded, The world created by Penny is also wider.
No Penn, No Gain Non-Stop 2003’s first all-composed album
When listening to this entire album, you will find that each song has its own unique characteristics. The connection is very smooth, and I listened to the entire album before I knew it, leaving me unfinished and wanting to listen to it again! In fact, this is a non-stop effect that Penny deliberately created for the sake of the integrity of the entire album.
Since Penny herself was responsible for the production and arrangement of eight songs, Penny wanted the entire album to sound emotionally coherent before starting to arrange the songs, so she specially pre-prepared each song. "Foreshadowing" is left so that the songs can be connected from beginning to end without any interruption. For albums that generally have several producers, it is difficult to achieve such integrity. Only creators like Penny who write the lyrics, music, and arrangements for the entire album can create this album with a complete concept and A fully composed album in one go!
No matter how much hard work I put into the music video for "I Will Give Up Everything", it is all worth it
I have released four albums and worked with several directors, but it was not until the filming of "I Will Give Up Anything" that I "'s MV, it was the first time she collaborated with director Lin Jinhe, and it was the first time Penny left the suburbs of Taipei and went to Nantou for location shooting.
In order to visually present the original look of the creation of the "Pain Version" of "Giving Up Everything", and the feeling of relief after things have changed in the "Gain Version", the director decided to shoot two different versions of the same scene. To interpret two different aspects of the same song.
The "Pain Version" arranged by Acoustic acoustic guitar, the director used a one-shot technique to interpret it.
Penny - plays the guitar and sings "I'm willing to do anything". The slowly moving camera guides the listener's emotions. We can seem to see Penny crying when she composed this song. Adding electric guitar and rhythm "GainVersion", the director used a light plot to carry the emotional ups and downs of the song.
The shooting location of "Nothing Is Given" was the provincial staff dormitory in Zhongxing New Village, Nantou, which was later converted into a dormitory for substitute male laborers. The first time she filmed outside the boys' dormitory, Penny caused a big sensation. The male substitutes took out their cameras and V8s to shoot at Penny, so the director had to order the staff to clear the scene so that the filming could proceed smoothly. Penny, who entered the dormitory for substitute boys for the first time, was quite calm when she saw so many boys surrounding her. However, as the filming progressed and she moved to the roof for filming, she saw the "Ten Thousand Flags" (boys) hanging in the clothes drying yard. Underwear), Penny was still a little shy and looked away.
Originally, the weather was not bad in the morning, and the director immediately rushed to take pictures. However, as the time approached noon, there were more and more clouds in the sky, and the sky became darker and darker. Seeing that there was insufficient light, he was very demanding about light and shadow. The director immediately announced that the work was over and would reshoot at another date. In order to shoot in Nantou, Penny got up at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night and started putting on makeup and hair. She took a long car from Taipei to Nantou in the early morning, but she didn't expect to have to go back home at noon. Penny can understand the director who is also a Taurus like her and is eager to be kind to her. "We Taurus are not really that stubborn, we just want to do things well!" The record company's planner laughed and said, "It's all you." The lyrics say "No matter how much hard work it is, it's all worth it", and sure enough, the filming was re-filmed another day!
On the day of reshooting, the sun finally showed up.
The director found a rooftop of a building and filmed the actor and Penny sitting on the eaves and looking into the distance. Climbing up to the roof again, Penny was already familiar with it. She said that this was all thanks to the record company's "training". Since the last album, she had to climb the roof several times, and after several times, her original fear of heights was cured by the medicine!
Using the unforgettable past to create 11 moving melodies
Penny Tai No Penn, No Gain
She said she was so lucky, she has always been She writes her own lyrics, composes her own music, and sings her own songs. She has released four albums and published more than 40 works, but what she loves is the same memory.
In "Give It All" PENNY sang 2 versions, (Pain Version) We seem to see the scene where she shed tears and immersed herself in the creation when she wrote this song reappeared, ( Gain Version) we hear PENNY smiling and relieved that things have changed.
In the spring of 2003, we may have lost our relationship, but we gained more precious memories because of PENNY. Thank you PENNY for letting us hear that giving up is also a kind of happiness.
The ever-evolving music, the assertion of independence from external forces, the self-confidence of not pretending to others, and the vision of not being careless, use the unforgettable past to create 11 moving melodies