Lovers & Strangers | ||||
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Studio album by Faye Wong | ||||
Released | September 1999 | |||
Genre | Mandopop, Cantopop | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Faye Wong chronology | ||||
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Lovers & Strangers | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 只愛陌生人 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 只爱陌生人 | ||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | zhī ài mòshēngrén |
Lovers & Strangers, also translated as Only Love Strangers (Chinese: ; 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...).
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.
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.
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.