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Hey Christine,
The version of 音乐密码/Music Code you listened to isn't actually an official album, but more like a demo release.  (Edit: His third album, Music Code, will be released on March 21, 2006.)  Anson has released two albums before this one, the first in 2004 (Music混合體) and the second in 2005 (超時空愛情).

Anson Hu, who was born in Beijing, is currently 22 years old.  If you would like to see pictures of him, you can visit the photo section of his official site.  Here are three pictures of him:






-=ViC

Last edited by MaStAViC (2006-03-08 8:11:pm)

Overall he's not that bad. He's definitely different though. Some of his songs caught my attention the first time around. The others I had to listent to a few times before I was able to enjoy it more. His demo has potential, but I doubt it's going to be anything like Lin Jun Jie's Cao Cao- which is phenomenal.

quadshock wrote:

zhong_zhao_shi wrote:

Overall he's not that bad. He's definitely different though. Some of his songs caught my attention the first time around. The others I had to listent to a few times before I was able to enjoy it more. His demo has potential, but I doubt it's going to be anything like Lin Jun Jie's Cao Cao- which is phenomenal.

maybe this is not the place to say it, but if you say that his music hasn't gone anywhere close to JJ's Haven, I would agree. Cao Cao sounded rather rushed and relatively.... careless to me.

I know what you mean about Cao Cao sounding a bit rushed.  JJ Lin's Haven seems to have been put much better together.  But I would take any of JJ Lin's album over any of Anson Hu's album (I hope that no one will take offense to this).

-=ViC

Well Anson is jumping on the other side of mainstream music, which is equally homogenous. It's leaning closer to the kpop style than the Taiwan, Jay-dominated style. Looking at it from a broader perspective, Anson is hardly innovative but I have yet to hear anything that I can safely say is similar but equally good as "Jiang Nan"

I've heard a couple of his songs.
It's not that unique, his songs are mostly mainstream R&B.
But he's really talented and he has a very nice voice.

Aly wrote:

Ahhhh i was just ranting about him on my blog xD.
I like his first track, Huang Di (King)... It's very interesting. His album comes with a VCD that contains 2 mvs and a 'making of album' clip. And he shows us the five different demos of Huang Di... It was really interesting to watch how he evolved the song into it's final release ^^.

Track 2 is a slow love song... it didn't hit me as that great... but i guess it's something mainstream would like.

03- San Dui San (3 against 3)- Is a rockish number, it almost in some parts makes me think of a song from Justin Timberlake Justified album.

07- Hu Die (Butterfly)- Is kinda nice, it has 'chinese feel' to it with the 'gu qing' in the background

08- Yuan Wang (Wish)- Has a mellow feel with the chinese flute to acompany it.

I also like track 06- Tian Ruo You Qing- it just has this funky beat to it... ahah and so i like it xD.

Those are the ones that caught me at first listen... I also noticed that he did a lot more variety of styles in this ablum then in his previous. Usually he sticks to one style within an ablum (ie just rock or just R&B) but in this one, it's an interesting blend of both ^^.

Thanks for the review Aly!
It's interesting now.

MaStAViC wrote:

Anson Hu, who was born in Beijing, is currently 22 years old.

i thought he was born in Shanghai because when Anson made his debut three years back, the DJs introduced him as a new singer from Shanghai. Even he himself said that he is from there during interviews.

p/s: this album is in my pending list for review.

-amber-

rogue870304 wrote:

p/s: this album is in my pending list for review.

-amber-

Cool! I'm looking forward to that.

Anson's new cd is awesome! It's very catchy. Maybe it'll be one of those cd's that I'll lose interest in after listening to for a few days . . . but for now, I'm really enjoying it! I would have to say that track 6 has a phenomenal and kind of  funky aspect to it. It'll make you want to get up and have a dance party! As for the rest . . . they're awesome too. This cd covers a wide range of taste- from r & b to rock to some softer rock. It's definitely good stuff, so check it out!

Christine

I've found one of the songs he copied. I can't believe Qing Bu Zi Jin isn't his own creation ;_; Parts of Avril Lavigne - "Who Knows" were plagiarized. The guitar in the background is like a carbon copy, along with a few lines of vocals.
Totally lost a lot of respect for him because of that. And damn it, Qing Bu Zi Jin really was my favorite song.

Christine wrote:

I've found one of the songs he copied. I can't believe Qing Bu Zi Jin isn't his own creation ;_; Parts of Avril Lavigne - "Who Knows" were plagiarized. The guitar in the background is like a carbon copy, along with a few lines of vocals.
Totally lost a lot of respect for him because of that. And damn it, Qing Bu Zi Jin really was my favorite song.

Is "Qing Bu Zi Jin/情不自禁" from his latest album, Music Code? I can't seem to find it in the track listing of that album.

Thanks,
-=ViC

zhong_zhao_shi wrote:

Qing Bu Zi Jin/ 情不自禁 is actually from his album called Music Mixture/ 混合体. This same album also features Waiting for You.

~Christine

Ah, I see. Joi sia/Thanks, Christine

-=ViC