The Moment
Aaron Yan

Popu Lady
Popu Lady

While Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit’s Jiro Wang has put out a rock- flavoured solo project What Are You Waiting For (2012), bandmate Aaron Yan (below) opts for the tried and tested in his debut individual outing.
The Moment is filled with middle- of-the-road ballads and sentiments, with Yan penning the lyrics to two tracks – The Love Left, a cover of American singer Pink’s I Don’t Believe You, and Lonelier Than The Loneliest.
The chorus for The Love Left goes: “Perhaps you still love me, loosening your hand and giving me freedom in order to let me miss your tenderness.”
The emo streak continues on Bluff but at least that is cloaked in an upbeat tune as he sings: “Thought the one I loved, will remain beautiful regardless, I really don’t wish to understand howhelpless cruel reality makes me feel.”
Now that Wu Chun has left Fahrenheit and Yan has released this disc, Calvin Chen is the sole member of the boyband without a solo album to his name. He must be feeling the heat.
While prettyboy Yan wants you to pay attention to his music, newcomer girl group Popu Lady peddle wholesome sexiness on their debut EP. The music is as flimsy as their see-through dresses on the cover, as the five thin- voiced girls serve up sappy tracks such as Kiss Me and Keep On Loving, a treacly cover of Norwegian girl group M2M’s Pretty Boy.
Want To Turn Into An Apple has them crooning: “Want to turn into an apple, oh oh oh, let you take a bite, oh oh oh, let you have a taste.” Bite me.

A Piece Of Summer II (2CD)
Cheer Chen

Between her Immortal Tour in 2010 and A Piece Of Summer II tour last year, Cheer Chen did not release a new album. So, if you have the Immortal Tour discs, you might want to skip this. Still, thanks to her body of work stretching over five full-length albums, there is little overlap between the two concert recordings.
Also, tracks have been reworked for the Summer gig from the dusting of electronica for Little Dust to the chugging-train intro for fan favourite Travel With Sound. New tracks include covers of songs such as Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose and Chang Yu-sheng’s Thinking Of You Every Day.
Another piece of Cheer for the hardcore fan or completist.
(ST)