偷 Stolen Moments |
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Studio album by Prudence Liew | ||||
Released | July 6, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
Genre | Cantopop, Jazz, cover album, audiophile | |||
Length | 39:55 | |||
Label | Cinepoly | |||
Producer | Prudence Liew Alex Fung Jerald Chan |
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Prudence Liew chronology | ||||
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Singles from 偷 Stolen Moments | ||||
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偷 Stolen Moments is the 15th studio album by Hong Kong singer Prudence Liew. This is the second in a series of three cover albums released by Liew in three different languages: the Mandarin album Love Addict was previously released in June 2011, and the English album Reincarnated Love released in July 2017.
The reasoning behind naming the album "偷 Stolen Moments" is actually explained on the cover of the album:
偷是兩個字的組成 人和俞 俞者:安定,允許,愉快
人站在那安定,允許和愉快之間,有誰會抗拒那些感覺,所以很自然地會戀上了偷。
([The Chinese character] "steal" is a combination of two different characters: "person" and "enjoy". A person who is enjoying is stable, accepting, happy. When a person stands in the realm of stability, acceptance and happiness, who would resist that feeling? And therefore [the person] will naturally fall in love with stealing.)
Liew stated that she immensely enjoyed the recording session, hence a person and enjoyment combined together to form the Chinese character "steal". In the liner notes, Liew explained that in the process of covering another person's work, besides paying the royalty fees to the record companies, no permissions were granted by the original artists, composers, and lyricists, and therefore is a form of stealing from their artistic moments.
Of the ten songs on the album, a more pop version of "左右手 (My Left and Right Hands)" was previously included on the Leslie Cheung tribute album, ReImagine Leslie Cheung released by Universal Music Hong Kong earlier in the year. The first printing of this album had the compact discs pressed in Germany at Arvato Bertelsmann to ensure the audio quality of the album was preserved. The album is released as a double album, with the second disc being a bonus DVD with music videos of all ten tracks.
Universal Music Hong Kong promoted the album by releasing a triple single on June 1, 2012 of three tracks "怪你過份美麗 (Blaming You For Being Too Beautiful)", "戀愛大過天 (Loving is More Important Than the Sky)", and "烈燄紅唇 (Red Hot Lips)" for digital download and radio airplay. The songs did not chart on the major commercial radio stations, but all three songs charted on the MOOV Top 100 Singles Chart, the official Hong Kong digital singles download and online airplay chart, with "怪你過份美麗 (Blaming You For Being Too Beautiful)" debuting within the top 20 at number 14, and the other two tracks charting in the top 40 for the week ending June 10, 2012.