Super Star (S.H.E album)

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Super Star
SHE-CD05A.JPG
Studio album by
Released22 August 2003
Genre Mandopop
Length40:49
Label HIM International Music, EMI
Producer Joeloe Kuo
S.H.E chronology
Together (Best Collection)
(2003)
Super Star
(2003)
Magical Journey
(2004)

Super Star is the fourth studio album by Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. It was released on 22 August 2003. Ella suffered a back injury during the shooting of a television show one month before the album was released. Because of this, Ella is absent from some of the music videos. As of 2006, the single "Super Star" from this album has been S.H.E's biggest hit. German producer Roberto "Geo" Rosan and vocalist Jade Villalon, as Sweetbox, composed "Super Star" for S.H.E [1] during the sessions for Sweetbox's Adagio, and they also released their own English version as a single at the time. In 2004, Canadian singer Skye Sweetnam re-recorded "Super Star" as "Superstar".

Contents

Reception

Super Star continued Youth Society's success by landing six songs on the HITORadio Top 10 charts. Furthermore, Super Star earned S.H.E their second consecutive Best Group and Best Chart Performance awards at the 2004 HITO Awards. [2] The album's title track itself was also well received. "Super Star" was crowned Metro Radio's 2004 Song of the Year, [3] and recognized as one of the year's best songs at the HITO Radio Music Awards, [2] Singapore Hit Awards, [4] and Hong Kong TVB8 Awards. [5] The four awards earned by "Super Star" were the most for any S.H.E song until "Don't Wanna Grow Up" (Once Upon a Time) earned six between 2006 and 2007.

Music videos

Both "Far Away" and "River Shore Park" are based on themes of lost love. "Super Star", while dominated by a rock concert concept, contains a loose love plot where the girl is rejected, only to receive a kiss later in the video. "Heavy Rain" is a story of companion love between two parents, played by Selina and Hebe. "I.O.I.O" is a story of two girls, Selina and Hebe, fighting over a boy (Ella) who actually doesn't like either girl in the first place. The video was the first to feature S.H.E super deformed; more concrete versions were featured in S.H.E's next album, Magical Journey .

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Super Star"Derek ShihJade Valerie Villalon, Roberto Geoman RosanJade Valerie Villalon, Roberto Geoman Rosan3:14
2."遠方" (Far Away)Derek Shih Andrew Fromm, Calum Maccoll, Howie Dorough Yao Hung 4:07
3."北歐神話" (The Legend of Northern Europe) Vincent Fang Anan ZuoYao Hung5:11
4."半糖主義" (Half Sugarism)Hsu Shih Chen Lindy Robbins, Kevin Savigar Bing Wang3:36
5."河濱公園" (Riverside Park) Vincent Fang Jay Chou BabyC3:52
6."I.O.I.O"Han Ji Maurice Gibb, Barry Gibb David Lu2:57
7."長相思" (Always Missing)Derek ShihAnan ZuoYao Hung4:23
8."落大雨" (Rainy Day)Anson Yen, Derek Shih David Tao Bing Wang4:11
9."夏天的微笑" (The Smile of Summer)Daryl YaoReal HuangBabyC4:46
10."你太誠實" (You Are Too Honest)Jennifer HsuDeep WhiteYao Hung4:08
Total length:40:25

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Malaysian Albums (RIM) [6] 2

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