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The lead single Chinese Language has been generating controversy, for allegedly pandering to China, and blitzing the charts. In other words, a marketing executive’s dream.
Guess it is only a matter of time before this gets picked up for our own Speak Mandarin campaign.
Elsewhere, the album takes a playful approach to music-making, even sampling London Bridge Is Falling Down. This has yielded both hits and misses.
The duet with boyband and fellow label mates Fahrenheit on Thank You For The Tenderness will have you scrambling for Mayday’s original version of Tenderness.
On the other hand, Listening To Yuan Weiren Play The Guitar fares better with its unusual point of view of a neighbour being inspired by the composer working on his tunes.
Play also features, for the first time, music and lyrics from the three girls.
There is enough going on here for the trio to still keep things fresh and exciting on their tenth(!) album.
(ST)