"I Only Care About You" is a song sung by Teresa Teng. The song was composed by Tsuyoshi Miki, lyrics written by Shen Zhi, and arranged by Makoto Kawaguchi. On December 28, 1986, the song was first released in Japan as an EP. On April 1, 1987, the song was included in the Mandarin album "I Only Care About You" and was released in Hong Kong and other places.

This song is the Chinese version of Teresa Teng's Japanese song "Time of the Current". The song is the main song of Teresa Teng's last Mandarin album and has been covered by many singers over the years.

Creative background

1986 Japanese single cover

On February 21, 1986, it was created for Teresa Teng by Japanese musicians Yuki Araki and Yuki Miki. The Japanese single "Toki no Flow れに Body をまかせ" was officially released and topped the Japanese cable chart for half a year, breaking the historical record of the Japanese cable chart for the third time. In October, "The Current of Time" won the All Japan Composition Award. In December, Teresa Teng won the All Japan Cable Broadcasting Awards and the Japan Cable Awards for the third time with "The Current of Time", becoming Teresa Teng. Following "つぐない" in 1984 and "Lover" in 1985, it was the third annual champion song in the third year of its comeback in the Japanese music scene, thus setting a record of "double awards and three consecutive championships" that no one has broken in the Japanese music industry. At the end of December, "Toki no Ryuu no Kashin" won the gold medal at the All Japan Record Awards. On December 31, the song was once again selected as a hit in Japan's "37th Red and White Uta Battle". "Toki no Ryuu no Kenshin" ORICON stayed on for 57 weeks, with total sales in Japan of more than 2 million copies.

In 1986, Teresa Teng invited Taiwanese lyricist Ms. Shen Zhi to fill in Mandarin lyrics for the song. Shen Zhi named the song "I Only Care About You" and kept the Mandarin lyrics with the original meaning of the Japanese lyrics. Teresa Teng then sang the Mandarin version using the accompaniment of the Japanese version, and the chorus in the song was sung by Teresa Teng herself. During the recording of the Mandarin version, Teresa Teng was suffering from kidney disease. Although the sound of her Dantian caused pain in her waist, she still completed the entire piece at a high level.

On December 28, 1986, the song was released in Japan as an EP. In January 1987, the song was included in the album "Drunken Tango" and was released in Japan. On April 1, 1987, the song was included in the Mandarin album "I Only Care About You" and was released in Hong Kong and other places.