Faye Wong (
Chinese: 王菲) is the ninth Mandarin studio album (eighteenth overall) by Chinese recording artist
Faye Wong, released through
EMI on 11 October 2001. It is her second self-titled Mandarin record following Faye Wong (1997). Wong worked with new partners on this album, including Singaporean singer-songwriter
Tanya Chua and Taiwanese rocker
Wu Bai.
Songs
The songs Faye Wong are a mixture of pop and rock numbers, including
pop rock,
techno and
electro genres. It included 11 tracks in
Mandarin Chinese and five in
Cantonese. The latter provided Wong's most significant release of new Cantonese songs since Toy in 1997.[1]
Critical reception
Reflecting the varied contributors to the album, reviewers found it a mixed bag. A retrospective review in Singapore's
TheStraits Times mentioned that Wu Bai's techno-rock track "Two Persons' Bible" was "more Wu than Wong". The Cantonese section was considered "more heartening".[1]