QUOTE(Gill#1Fan @ May 28 2006 4 56 AM) [snapback]2462171[/snapback]
I'm wondering since you guys said they sang I Really Want to Love Him live. When was that? Anyone got the clip on YouTube?
It was that one audio clip in the last page lol and you thought you only heard Sa singing because Gillian was singing so softly and gently.
QUOTE(Transition @ May 28 2006 6 44 AM) [snapback]2462401[/snapback]
I don't like the idea of companies releasing 2nd and 3rd versions of an album, but with only one or two songs/MVs as extras. Like the 2nd version of 'The Missing Piece'. But since they know that there are some hardcore fans out there who would buy all the products of their idols anyways, so why not? I always wondered though what the artists themselves think about it. Out of all the artists, I've only heard Eason express what he thinks about it, and as expected he (like most of us) doesn't like the tactic much either.
EEG used to be much better before, with artists like Grace, Swing (even though I haven't heard them sing, but Eric is definitely a good composer), Lillian, Roman etc. Compare their artists before and now...that's a huge difference in terms of talent. Isabella, Yumiko nor Mandy is nowhere near Grace...
I think many HK artists of the younger generation doesn't speak Cantonese that clearly. They tend to have those 'lazy sounds' (懶音). For example the word I/me (我), which should be pronounced 'ngoh', they would pronounce it 'oi' instead. I think it will add some "sluriness" when one speaks like that.
Hm, as busy as Twins are, they probably don't even realize that so many versions of each album are released. I mean, Twins usually leave everything up to EEG's productions crew to take care of and the only thing Twins control are their vocals in the recording studio and their attendance at promotions. Even if Twins did know and were against it, they're not as bold as Eason to directly jab at EEG's money hungry ways.
Yes, EEG's not the only music label that has dwindled down in terms of quality, others have too, which altogether creates the depressing slope HK has experienced these past few years.
Yeah, the youth has been using too much slang lately, sometimes I can't even understand half of the things they're speaking when I visit Taiwan lol but perhaps, my Mandarin isn't up to par anyways lol.
QUOTE(Little_Purple_Bell @ May 28 2006 10 19 AM) [snapback]2463022[/snapback]
When even others see what Gillian beholds, what do we see from her own management company? Gillian only found out that she was even offered the leading role in 'Abnormal Beauty' after it was turned down by Mani/EEG. The reason they gave was it ruins the image of Twins. Then what is it that we're seeing here of Gillian receiving '49 Days' and Charlene receiving 'Diary'?
Seriously, EEG really is promoting and sponsoring Sa to grab a hold of the
Best Actress Award before Gillian, aren't they?

If only Gillian had been aware that the role of
Abnormal Beauty was offered to her, she may have attempted to override Mani's decision. Gillian would have ruled the box office placing at #1 and #2 and who knows, Gillian may have won
Best Actress with two convincing roles under her profile. I don't buy that exuse either of how Sa and Gillian are acting towards different images so certain films accepted depends on that image.

I'm sorry, but Gillian's
Beyond Our Ken and Sa's
Diary is similar, and I said similar not exactly! So if those two films fall within the same range,
Abnormal Beauty so does too but why the rejection for Gillian and acceptance towards Sa? I guess, Sa will always be the exception for everything. Gr. Thinking about this issue really upsets me.
QUOTE(Little_Purple_Bell @ May 28 2006 10 19 AM) [snapback]2463022[/snapback]
Charlene has had just as many duets with someone else as Gillian has; she had one more than Gillian if you count Fishball song.
Gillian:
How Bad w/ Edison Chen
The Legend Of Love w/ Kenny Kwan
Conscience Discovery w/ Kenny Kwan
Charlene:
Love (Cantonese) w/ Nicholas Tse
Love (Mandarin) w/ Nicholas Tse
Love Saint w/ Nicholas Tse
Fishball Song w/ Foo Wing
I wonder what it'd be like for Gillian to sing with Alex though; Alex is practically the king of duets from the younger generation. All his duets are so nice and touching, but I highly doubt that they would have a chance to collaborate, seeing the incidents that the media blew up about them.
We have our reasons of complaining; you'd think we'd be here discussing about something more happy and exciting rather than be typing up all these things that EEG could do better for Gillian if nothing biased is occurring towards her.
I think the question mark should be 上 (xiang), and seeing that the lyrics didn't write Gillian's parts in, I added in my own (G)'s.
Gillian says that the time she spent in Mainland filming her serial really helped her improve her mandarin since she frequently had to speak it to communicate with others. Charlene's voice often has a little fuzzy effect on it, but I'd imagine that's just a characteristic of her voice?
It's so nice to hear that Gillian's sneaking in vibratos!! She's really trying to give more challenge to herself to give improvements to her singing!
I don't hear Charlene doing vibratos either, but maybe it's because the MV version was still a bit fuzzy, and Charlene's voice isn't very easy to listen for sometimes. Right now, she sounds pretty much the same to me like her previous songs, but let's just see how it is when the CD version comes out.
Sheesh, I'm so busy nowadays that I can never make my replies without being interrupted.
I'll be back to respond to the rest later.
Hm, don't forget about Sa's duet with Yu Chiu or are we just counting duets with males?

Even though, there will be some hardcore Alex-Stephy fans out there attacking Gillian if Alex and Gillian were to collaborate on a duet, but I think the majority would love to hear that. Gillian's voice is sweet which suits deep voices like Alex, Nic, Edison, even Shawn etc. I thought Alex and Stephy's
Nice Love music video was well produced.
Aiya, that question mark is the character 上? That simple eh, and I missed it!

The vibratos usually come in at the end of each note. Gillian stretches her voice in vibratos so lovely and beautiful whereas Sa, she takes a breath at each ending note so it makes it difficult to detect vibratos if there are any. And it seems like Sa is ending her notes a bit earlier than usual while Gillian is extending them in visible vibratos. I guess, Twins have differed in singing techniques afterall.
QUOTE(gillforever89 @ May 28 2006 12 20 PM) [snapback]2463391[/snapback]

yeah for three day weekends...too bad i have so much homework!
sorry for that randomness...anyway
asillysaint: thanks so much for the link to the Weakest Link! everytime i saw gillian say "pass" or
guess wrong i'd feel so bad for her b/c she'd look so cute and embarrassed at the same time. i love when
edison was really excited when he got that question right about what bobo's chinese name was
wow, i've watched the half of the 'i want to love him' mv 28 times and still counting! i love this mv and the
song is so catchy

as a gillian fan i of course loved the part when the guy wipes the jelly off of her lip
and when they were staring at eachother at the table and he grabbed her hands and she seemed surprised
and was blushing
and then, the dork that i am, i also loved the part where the camera skims over the table and shows 1. the
donuts 2. the little jelly sandwiches 3. the little doggy treat shaped like a bone... so cute! and i thought it
was pretty funny when ah gill and ah sa were posting up those lost dog posters and they were just taping
one right next to each other instead of spreading them out
since i've listened to the song so many times already and played the mv 29 times as of now, i can really
hear the vibratos in gillian's singing...it's great to hear ah gill stretching out her notes
also...can't wait for gillian's serial to be out!
Gillian does express the most innocent
Oopps reaction ever.

Yeah, Edison was funny.
I love this music video as well. It's so highly invested. I love the unclear light colors, they create a sorrowful yet hopeful tone. I've watched this short music video all morning yesterday and today; I have it on repeat so boy, I've already watched it way too much.
Gillian's serial probably won't be finished and ready for release until the end of this year which is perfect timing since Gillian doesn't have much activities at the end of this year so she'll be able to attend the promotions and functions while Sa is out filming.
QUOTE(lilsleepyhead916 @ May 28 2006 1 33 PM) [snapback]2463543[/snapback]
The thing about Gillian doing vibratos, I think she has started doing vibratos a bit earlier. The first time I really noticed Gillian doing a bit of vibratos was in Starlight Amusement Park, it's like her 2nd or 3rd line in the song, its very small and short, but if you listen in carefully, you'll be able to hear it. Then after I noticed it, when I listened back to some of her old songs, I heard a bit of it, there's none that I can really think of now except for one, and it was in the Legend Of Love themesong. I noticed she did a bit of vibratos from the mv that was uploaded onto youtube from TC.
I also have this clip of Gillian singing at their Beijing concert in 2005 where Twins sings this song called "Quing Fei De Yi" or something like that, I posted a karoake version of this song earlier, but yeah, in their live performance of this song at their concert, Gillian sang this song WONDERFULLY. It even had some small vibratos in it too, well I think so. At first when you hear Gillian singing, she sounds like her usual self, but the more she sang her solo verse in the song, she got more into the song and sang more powerfully to where she sounded really confident and sang really well. I would upload this clip, but I need to cut the part out seeing how it's a big file. So I'm going to try to do that during this weekend seeing how we have Memorial Day off too. So just wait for a while to see Twins singing this song! After watching her performing this song, I kept on going back to her parts over and over again to hear her singing. =D I'm not sure if you guys would like it as much as I do, but yeah, it's one of my personal favorites of Gillian's live performances, even though she forgets some lines again like how she does sometimes, but still a great performance from her.
I think Gillian has done vibratos a while back as well. If you guys check out Gillian's solo,
My Father, Mother at 3:11, 3:20, and 3:42, Gillian sings vibratos.
Ooo, do upload please. I would love to hear Gillian perform in vibratos. Well, even though Gillian forgot some lyrics in the
Hover Bird solo live performance last time, it simply wasn't enough to ruin Gillian's voice as a great singer.
QUOTE(shorty vicky @ May 28 2006 7 45 AM) [snapback]2462554[/snapback]
well i guess it's up to the director to decide whether or not gillian will stay with the guy. i just hope he doesn't disappoint me. lol. i mean, it's only logical for charlene to step out of the picture. it's not a true friendship if charlene's going to be the barrier that forbids gillian from her lovelife. so i;m hoping hoping hoping for a happy ending. xD hmm i think we'll have a completely different feel of the mv if they were to switch places. i can't seem to imagine charlene having those expressions of gillian's. lol. maybe it's eyes...

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thank god for memorial's day! lol. NO SCHOOL WOO! i'm gonna sit home the entire day tomorrow and wait for the complete version of the mv. xD but i'm really looking forward to their live performance. what show was it that they performed in? it was never mentioned (or was it?). but i hope that gillian does some vibratos while singing live, to prove that she's not only capable of doing so on cds.
well this is only her second performance so we shouldn't be expecting something spectacular! lol. but she is a great singer! her song feelings is almost as good as the original manderin version. xD but of course there are always haters saying that she can't sing...

if she can't sing, i don't know who can.. lol. that's almost like saying joey can't sing.

thanks!

kangtaxvanness

omg... have you watched the mtv asia awards? hotttttt. xD
Me too. I'm just sitting in front of my computer today waiting for the full version incase someone receives it earlier than expected since we are a day away from other fans residing in the far East lol. Hm, I like both of their characters at the moment too. It would be weird to watch a switch of roles.
Gillian has been singing like CD quality. All of her emotions are present yet her physical appearance is so gentle and calm during live performances. There will always be haters out there tyring to convince others that Gillian can't sing compared to this person and that person and even if Gillian was to win an award for her singing, those stubborn people would claim that the award show was rigged lol! Who cares. Gillian is still continuing strong even without their support.
No. I haven't seen the MTV Asia Awards yet but I'll search for it.