This cover album has a very electronic and rock flavor in its arrangement and orchestration. It uses a lot of drums, guitars, and bass guitars. The main arranger is Su Dehua (who can be regarded as the number one guitar player in Hong Kong). , Liu Zhiyuan (former member of Beyond and Ukiyoe band), etc. Love songs like "Caress Your Face" and "Who I Love the Most" would have definitely not lost to the original singers if he had performed it in a decent way, but he handled these two songs very "hard" and his voice seemed to have gone through Post-processing makes it look very metallic. Especially "Who Is My Favorite"? It is a unique move to start the whole song with a metallic vibration sound coming from the left and right channels respectively. The arrangement of "Qian Qian Que Song" is even more incredible. From beginning to end, life is on the right channel and music is on the left channel. It is somewhat similar to today's karaoke VCD, which is very interesting. "Can't Leave You", which was arranged by Minimal, a member of Renshanrenhai, is a quite electronic piece. There are also two works, "Days We Walked Together" and "Iron Tower Ling Yun", which are quite unique in combining the Chinese erhu, especially the former one. The arranger Daxiong adapted this piece which was originally in a Chinese minor key style. It has become a rock style, but it is occasionally combined with the erhu and vocal ancient poetry recitation with Chinese music characteristics, and Alan Tam's interpretation has a more vicissitudes of life than Andy Lau's version!
"Caress Yours" "Face" (originally sung by Jacky Cheung) and "My Favorite Is You" (originally sung by Lin Zixiang) are originally very touching love songs, but Liu Zhiyuan's arrangement has hardened them, and the sound seems to have been post-processed to give it a metallic feel. . Especially in the opening of "My Favorite Is You", Alan Tam's trembling voice slowly floats to the ears from the left and right channels, which is truly ingenious. In "Qian Qian Que Song" (originally sung by Priscilla Chan), the vocals are placed in the right channel and the music is placed in the left channel throughout the song, which sounds more like a karaoke OK. "Days We Walked Together" (originally sung by Andy Lau) and "Iron Tower Ling Yun" (originally sung by Xu Guanjie) added rich Chinese classical folk music accompaniment, and the erhu became the main instrument. Especially "Days We Walked Together", the main melody has always been played under electronic music, and the combination of the two is not forced, especially the recitation of ancient poems by Alan Tam in the middle, which further reveals the original singing style. There is no sense of vicissitudes of life. The three songs "Lonely Again" (originally sung by Jenny Tsien), "Capriccio" (originally sung by Xu Xiaofeng), and "Star" (originally sung by Guan Zhengjie) incorporate many modern soundtracks into them. To show a more layered texture without making much changes in the singing method. The changes to several other songs are relatively minor, including "Somewhat Sad, Somewhat Crazy" (originally sung by Wang Jie) and "Perseverance without Regret" (originally sung by Wang Jingwen).
It is not difficult to find in the album that his singing style has changed. As he grows older, his voice becomes a little thicker than before, which is why he sings a lot in this album. Quite an atmospheric piece. There is no doubt that Alan Tam's singing skills have reached an advanced level. He knows how to best use his voice to express the artistic conception of the song.
To be fair, people who have no feelings for Alan Tam or who have not listened to this album more than 5 times may not like this album very much. But if you listen carefully to this album, you will find his attitude of playing music as he pleases. Whether it is covering the famous works of "former enemy" Leslie Cheung, or covering "younger singers" Faye Wong, Andy Lau, and Sammi Cheng, he can let go (I believe that many big names do not have the courage to lower themselves). In any case, this attitude is worthy of respect.