To Love (Chinese:將愛; pinyin:Jiāng'ài) is the tenth Mandarin studio album (nineteenth overall) by Chinese recording artist Faye Wong.[1] Released on 7 November 2003, it was Wong's first album to be released under Sony Music Asia. It contains thirteen tracks, ten in Mandarin and three in Cantonese. Wong wrote the music and lyrics for three songs, the title track "To Love", "Leave Nothing" (不留) and "Sunshine Dearest" (陽寶), as well as the music for "April Snow" (四月雪). To Love remains the singer's last original album to date.[2]
"All-In" versions were issued with the music videos on VCD and DVD. These versions had a different cover with a portrait of Faye Wong printed in black on a red background. Before the album's release, the Cantonese version of the title track "In the Name of Love" (假愛之名), with lyrics by Lin Xi, was banned in some areas such as mainland China and Malaysia because the lyrics mentioned opium.[3][4] Interviewed in December 2003, Wong said that she preferred her own Mandarin version of the song, which made no reference to drugs.[5]
Songs
Wong said that her favourite track was "MV", written by Nicholas Tse with whom she had an on-off romance. She admitted that her song "Leave Nothing" was a reflection of her love life, but declined to identify the other persons referred to in the lyrics.[5] The album also includes "Passenger" (乘客), a cover of Sophie Zelmani's "Going Home". Asked about the pattern of 2-character titles for the songs, Wong said that this was not important, but reflects a modern habit of abbreviating things in everyday speech.[5]
Reception
To Love was more successful than her previous self-titled album, both financially and critically. It sold more than one million copies in Asia within a week of its release, half of those within China. Afterwards, she held numerous successful concerts for over a year; ticket sales in Hong Kong set a new record.[5]Taipei Times called it a mixture of "saccharine pop and daring avant-garde".[6]
↑ Shane Homan, Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture, ,2006, p224. "... almost exclusively on contributions from Hong Kong-, Beijing- and Singapore-based composers along with her own compositions on Sing and Play (1998), Only Love Strangers (1999), Fable (2000), Faye Wong (2001) and To Love (2003)."
↑ Chan, Boon (28 October 2011). "Faye's back". The Straits Times. Singapore. p.C2.
↑ Faye Wong is all woman, Taipei Times 2004-11-24. "Her most recent album, To Love (將愛, 2003), is a mosh of her two recent artistic tendencies: saccharine pop and daring avant-garde."
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