| "Separate Ways" | ||||
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| Single by Faye Wong | ||||
| A-side | "Separate Ways" | |||
| B-side | "Eyes on Me" | |||
| Released | July 2001 | |||
| Genre | J-pop, Mandopop | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Faye Wong singles chronology | ||||
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"Separate Ways" is a single by Chinese singer Faye Wong.
The title track was the theme song for the Japanese television serial Love From a Lie (ウソコイ, Usokoi) in which Wong also had a leading role. [1]
The title track is one of Faye Wong's few songs recorded in Japanese. It also includes some lines in English.
Track 3, "Eyes on Me", was the theme music for the video game Final Fantasy VIII.
Track 4 had been released the previous year on Wong's album Fable .
Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong romantic crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The first story stars Takeshi Kaneshiro as a cop obsessed with his breakup with a woman named May, and his encounter with a mysterious drug smuggler. The second stars Tony Leung as a police officer roused from his gloom over the loss of his flight attendant girlfriend by the attentions of a quirky snack bar worker.
Faye Wong is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress, often referred as the "Diva of Asia". Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong. Born in Beijing, she moved to British Hong Kong in 1987 and came to public attention in the early 1990s by singing in Cantonese, often combining alternative music with mainstream Chinese pop. Since 1994, she has recorded mostly in her native Mandarin. In 2000, she was recognised by Guinness World Records as the Best Selling Canto-Pop Female. Following her second marriage in 2005, she withdrew from the limelight, but returned to the stage in 2010.
Eyes on Me can refer to several musical works:
Kiyomi Angela Aki known professionally as Angela Aki, is a pop singer, songwriter and pianist born in Itano, Tokushima, Japan to an Italian American mother and a Japanese father.
"Kokoro no Senshi" (心の戦士) is the second single by Japanese singer Angela Aki. It was released on January 18, 2006, reached number 9 on the Oricon Daily Charts, and number 13 on the Weekly Chart. It features the Final Fantasy VIII theme song "Eyes on Me" by Faye Wong and "Today", The Smashing Pumpkins cover.
Fable is a 2000 Mandarin album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong.
The music of the video game Final Fantasy VIII was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu. The Final Fantasy VIII Original Soundtrack, a compilation of all music in the game, was released on four Compact Discs by DigiCube in Japan, and by Square EA in North America. A special orchestral arrangement of selected tracks from the game—arranged by Shirō Hamaguchi—was released under the title Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec Final Fantasy VIII, and a collection of piano arrangements—performed by Shinko Ogata—was released under the title Piano Collections Final Fantasy VIII.
Faye Wong (王菲) is a self-titled album by Chinese singer Faye Wong. Her first recording with EMI, it was recorded in Beijing and released in 1997, around the time that she relocated to Beijing after several years of success in Hong Kong.
Coming Home is an album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong. It was released on her return to Hong Kong in 1992 after her year-long stay in New York City.
No Regrets, also translated Stubborn and Regretless and Never Deplore, is the translated title of a 1993 Cantonese album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong. The title track was released in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
Fuzao is the fourth Mandarin-language studio album by Chinese singer Faye Wong. It was released on 3 June 1996 through Cinepoly. Wong took more artistic risks with her work as she approached the end of her record contract, resulting in the experimental nature of Fuzao. Many consider it her boldest and most artistically coherent effort to date.
Sapmaan go Waisammo? or One Hundred Thousand Whys? is a 1993 Cantonese album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong as 王靖雯 Wong Ching Man, when she was based in Hong Kong. It is named after a popular Chinese science book, One Hundred Thousand Whys by Ye Yonglie.
Mystery is the translated title of a 1994 Mandarin album 迷 recorded by Chinese singer Faye Wong as 'Wong Ching Man' when she was based in Hong Kong.
Random Thoughts, alternatively Thinking Here and There or Wondering Music, is the translated title of a 1994 Cantonese album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong. It confirmed her move into alternative music and covers songs by the Cocteau Twins, whose influence she readily acknowledged.
Sing and Play is a 1998 Mandarin album by Beijing-based singer Faye Wong. It includes 10 tracks in Mandarin, with a bonus disc of 3 Cantonese tracks. It was released on 21 October 1998 in Japan.
Lovers & Strangers, also translated as Only Love Strangers is a 1999 album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong. It contains 10 tracks in Mandarin with bonus Cantonese versions of two of the songs. The title is from a line of the refrain in track 4.
Faye Wong (王菲) is a 2001 album by Beijing-based singer Faye Wong. The songs are a mixture of pop and rock numbers, including pop rock, techno and electro genres.
To Love is a 2003 Mandarin album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong.
Separate Ways may refer to:
If I Were for Real is a 1981 Mandopop album by Teresa Teng released in Hong Kong by Polydor Records as Love Songs of the Island-Nation, Vol. 7: If I Were for Real (島國之情歌第七集—假如我是真的). " This album was later introduced in Taiwan by Kolin Records.
