Released September 1999 Artist Faye Wong Label A Production House | Lovers & Strangers
(1999) Fable
(2000) Release date September 1999 Genres Mandopop, Cantopop | |
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Similar Faye Wong albums, Mandopop albums | ||
Lovers & Strangers, also translated as Only Love Strangers (Chinese: 只愛陌生人; pinyin: zhī ài mòshēngrén) 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 (... 我只爱陌生人, I only love strangers...).
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The album sold more than 800,000 copies and reached number one in the album charts of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
After the release of Lovers & Strangers, Guinness World Records declared Faye Wong the best selling female Cantopop artist of all time.
Track listing
Tracks 11 and 12 are Cantonese versions of tracks 5 and 6 respectively. Only track 12 has a different musical arrangement.
The title of track 5 is the Chinese name of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Use in other media
Track 10, the rock song "Spectacular", featured in a Pepsi commercial. A VCD showing the filming of the commercial was released with some versions of the album.
The title track, "Only Love Strangers", was featured in the Sylvester Stallone film Get Carter.
Track 5 was used by Taiwan's STAR Chinese Channel as the ending theme song of the Chinese television series The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The original ending theme song was sung by Mao Amin.
Songs
Kai Da Tu Mi5:13
Cui Mian4:27
Zhi Ai Mo Sheng Ren3:42