Basic information

Album: Confusion

Artist: Alan Tam

Year: 1988

Record type: Cantonese album

Publishing company: PolyGram

Album number: 834-298-1

Track list

01. Play with Fire

02. See you or leave

03. Midnight Lovers Road

04. Pa Pa O Ma Ma

05. Deserter of Love

06. Preference

07. Almighty You

08. Baby

09. Fake stimulation

10. Half Asleep

"Bewildered" is the fourteenth Cantonese album released by Hong Kong singer Alan Tam. Just before Alan Tam announced that he would no longer accept the award at the 1987 "Top Ten Chinese Golden Song Awards", he released this record. As a result, he proved that no longer accepting the award did not affect the popularity of his songs. The first branch Taiwanese song "Playing with Fire" implements its newly adopted Chinese version of the music style, and the arrangement also gives people a refreshing feeling. The following song, "Half Asleep and Half Awake," was the hit song of the year, occupying the top spot on the pop charts for several weeks. The third song to be released, "See You or Be Parted", was once again adapted from Tokunaga Hideaki's song "Summer Sketch" and continued to sweep the major pop charts. The other songs in the album are also quite good, including "Midnight Lovers Road", which he once again served as the composer, "Preference", a duet with Japanese singer Yu Hayami, and the romantic love song "Baby" arranged by Zhou Qisheng, who is good at electronic music. A favorite piece for music fans. "Fake Excitement" is a new breakthrough for Alan Tam in interpretation.

In addition to "Love in the Mist" and "The Root of Love", this album is often considered the best album by music fans. However, since Alan Tam has announced that he will no longer accept awards, "Bewilderment" only received some sales awards but no song awards.

In 1988, Alan Tam ushered in another peak in his singing career. On February 12, PolyGram released his new Cantonese album "Bewilderment". The sales volume of this record that year was astonishing. It stayed at the top of the sales list for eleven consecutive weeks, for more than three months. Later, statistics reached 350,000 copies in Hong Kong alone (seven platinum titles), and its sales volume in Taiwan also reached 150,000 copies, which is an unprecedented good result for Cantonese records in the Taiwan market. The number of illegal piracy is even more incalculable.

The design of the album cover is also very aesthetic. Under the gloomy sky, next to ancient ruins, the characters on the screen are shrinking in the wind. The songs in the album, except for one "Pa Pa O Ma Ma", all match the artistic conception given by the cover. The name of the album is "Confusion", but this song is not included in the album. However, there are several songs in the album that give people a feeling of confusion. The first song "Playing with Fire" is like this. The prelude of the song gives people a very unique feeling, and the whole song is spent in the rhythm of the mid-tempo. In fact, Alan Tam's previous mid-tempo songs were not very listenable, such as "My Hands Behind Your Back". "But this song breaks this precedent. I think the main reason is that Alan Tam has made a breakthrough in singing. He no longer sings this type of song using his best routine of singing romantic love songs, but drags it out. The processing of the sound has a lazy singing voice, which he used in his singing of "Wine Red Heart", a song with a bit of jazz flavor. Of course, it is also related to the soundtrack of "Playing with Fire", which is a bit clever. The flavor in "Do You Still Love Me". "See You or Be Parted" is a work by Tokunaga Hideaki. It is the same as the song "Love and Love" in the album "Love and Thoughts", and the styles of the two songs are very similar. This song describes the loneliness of a wanderer who returns to his hometown but cannot find the girl who made the promise to him. The lyrics are well written, and the melody is also very sad. Compared with Sun Nan's song, which only makes people scream at the top of their lungs. The song of the same name by Ganhou is much better, but unfortunately the difference in popularity is also very big.

"Pa Pa O Ma Ma" is a song that is very inconsistent with the overall style of this album. It is a ghost-like song, sung by Alan Tam, Teddy Robin, Au Ruiqiang, and Chen Baixiang. The four people have different voices. It is unique that except Alan Tam, the other three people were very active in the development period of Hong Kong's new folk music and played an important role in promoting it. The most interesting thing about this song is that Chen Baixiang keeps saying Pa Pa O Mow Mow in the song. "Almighty You" is a song with very hot lyrics but a very warm melody, so it sounds lukewarm and has no feeling. There has been a remix version. Although the accompaniment is more powerful, it is difficult to make a cake without straw. No matter how good the arranger is, there is no way to turn such a song into a hit song. Chen Meiwei, the composer of "Baby", has served as the producer of Alan Tam's Mandarin records many times in the future. This song also shows that he is also a good composer. One of the main features of this song is that it is very listenable, and the first part is very suitable for Alan Tam to sing with his deep voice, but the climax part is a bit inferior. "Fake Thrill" is the only truly fast song in the album. Although the tempo is still much slower than "Storm Goddess", the passion used in singing it does not sound less. The song opens with the sound of a motorcycle starting, followed by Alan Tam's roaring singing. It feels like the singer is enjoying the speed of a speeding motorcycle to get rid of the pain of losing love. I think this kind of singing method is very difficult to achieve without enough skills. In the later period, Alan Tam sang the two songs "Chasing" and "Pain in the Wind" with the same but more intense singing method, and his performance was even better. .

Brief introduction of the singer

Alan Tam (born August 23, 1950), nicknamed "Principal Tam", is the son of the late football star Tan Jiangbai. He was born in Hong Kong and his native place is Xinhui, Guangdong, Hong Kong. One of the most iconic singers in the pop music world, a musician and film actor. He was a member of the Losers in the late 1960s. In 1973, he became the lead singer of the Wenner Band. In 1979, he went solo and released his first solo album, "The Fighting Stars" in 1981. He won the Best Actor at the 18th Golden Horse Awards in 2001 for "If I'm Real". The three albums "The Root of Love", "Love in the Fog" and "Love Trap" released from 1984 to early 1985 are known as the love trilogy. From 1984 to 1987, they won the top ten hits in Hong Kong and the "Most Popular Songs" for four consecutive years. Welcome Male Singers" and then withdrew from accepting the award. In 1996, he won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the Hong Kong music scene. He has composed nearly 90 songs and won the CASH Music Achievement Award in 2007. In 2008, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong SAR Government. His artistic age has spanned the five decades of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the new century. He is an idol and role model for rising stars. When it comes to age, he claims to be 25 years old and advocates an optimistic and cheerful attitude. Basic information

Song: Confusion

Singer: Zhang Xuan

Album: My Life Will

Release date: 2006-06-09

Language: Chinese/English

Publishing company: Sony BMG Song introduction "Confusion" is a piece with a very cheerful rhythm, which emphasizes the guitar part.

If you know too little about song lyrics, you need to think

If you know too much, you will start to worry

What is better and what is most important

We think about what worries us

We still don’t know

Rules are often prisons given by people

You dismiss different ideas as nonsense

Should you go with the flow or stick to your goals

I believe but I question

I still have to eat them all

Uncompromising luck is hard to come by

It is hard for me to have a brave conversation with reality.

yayiyayiyayiya

I feel small

I can’t please anyone else

yayiya I don’t want yours or anyone else

I don’t need need

wo... Song: Confusion

Singer: Nick Cheung

Album: "Journey to the West CD PLUS"

Release date: 1997

Produced/distributed by Modern Music Industry Co., Ltd.

Language: Cantonese

Lyrics: Tang Biqing

Music : Huang Zhongyuan

Arranger: Qian Youlan

Producer: Mo Fan

Guitar: Ni Fanglai

Recording engineer: Lin Youcong, Liu Fangzhi

Remix: Liu Fangzhi

Lyrics:

Dreams have infinite roads for everyone to walk

Persistent people will not Traveling thousands of miles just to get a result

In the dream, I will accompany you on the road and you will walk with me

It is also a mistake for those who are passionate and have no intention of distinguishing love

Why? After the result

I began to be confused

I am not the me you want

Why do you love until the end

You are willing to admit your mistake

Say this is not the result you want Basic information Singer: Su Yongkang

Album: "Too Nice"

Release time: 1999-02-01

Affiliated company: Fumao Records Lyrics Su Yongkang

I suspect that there is uneasy fear in life again and again

The short period of joy is exchanged for this long emptiness

There are too many unpredictable opportunities in the future

A gentle dream may be a heavy blow

There are invisible crises in the work after hesitation

Small achievements are indeed followed by great pressure

Love has too many problems that cannot be easily controlled

A touch of sweetness but a long distance apart

How many heavy burdens are carried

How many joys and pains have been hidden deep inside

How many passes have been passed and how many promises have been forgotten

Tired heart Where to go

How far will the unknown journey go

Who will be by your side in the end

If we are destined to get together easily, if not, we will only be separated

How much confusion is there in life? There are only more confusions