I'm Pets
Pets Tseng
Taiwan’s Pets Tseng got her start on singing contest One Million Star, but it was as an actress that she made it big, playing the role of the androgynous King on the idol dramas KO One Return (2012) and KO One Re-act (2013).
With a short crop and slightly left of centre outfits, she carries that over into her debut album with an image that is more groovy than girly.
Music-wise, she covers the ground from bouncy light-hearted pop to emotional ballads.
Black-framed Glasses is about a “shopping queen” who “loves lemon tea”, but pulls back from the edge of cutesiness as Tseng sings: “Sometimes she feels that life is meaningless/But she chooses to believe and not look back, and move on.”
Then on Just Lose It (Hurt So Much), she nurses a broken heart.
While the songs are pleasant enough, the album can be jarring when taken as a whole – she is chirpy on one song and morose the next.
At 14 tracks, it is also too long.
Dip into this for little nibbles rather than imbibe everything at one go.
(ST)