Vanness Wu - V

I know this is japanese but Vanness isn't someone you can just pass by. So this'll be the second post with his japanese music. He obviously neglects the chinese market! But I'm happy someone's finally uploaded it (what took them so long O.o) and we can enjoy it. His last album was great let's see how about this one.

The album starts with nice and upbeat Break Out! which is perfect for an opening. Mission keeps the dance tune. Why starts in English and then Japanese comes. This song is... very Japanese, lol. But that's a compliment and the song is very pretty. Ending is very nice. If you haven't heard his single No More Tears yet you can hear it here. I like the song very much so I'm happy it's on this album. Soldier was a single too (and was horribly hard to find!). It's completely different than any other song on the album. It's spported by fast guitars. Same goes to Better (that it was on a single). It's a beautiful ballad sung entirely in English. The next track is actually a remix of Shine On. Sometimes it happens that a remix is better than the original song but in this case I prefer the original. And that's mostly coz the remix here's lost the strings in the background that ver a very important addiction. Well, they made a dance version, that's all. But it repeats itself almost all the time the same rhythm. Unfortunatelly, we're heading to the end and the last song is Love Will Come which took my breath away. Coz I wasn't expecting it. I think you can label it as a electro-rock track. Amazing. I think it's whole in English but I'm not sure since there are parts where it's hard to vary words. It stays on replay in my player.

Artist: Vanness Wu 吴建豪
Album: V
Year: 2011
Language: Japanese
Genre: pop/dance
01. Break Out!
02. Mission
03. Why
04. No More Tears
05. Soldier
06. Better
07. Shine On (Plasmo` Electric Mix)
08. Love Will Come

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Vanness Wu - No More Tears

I'm back yo. I've been away for two weeks and I'm sure I missed lots of good releases. There was a certain number of releases I've been waiting for and when I got back home I checked them out and didn't have time to look at any others, so there will be only a small update.

If it comes to Vanness - I know it's his japanese single and this blog is about chinese music, but let me just review this. Coz of my love to the guy.
No More Tears is somehow different from his previous songs. His japanese and chinese releases vary a lot, coz the needs of japanese and chinese fans are different. But No More Tears is just different. His Reflections was soaked in japanese climax, but this isn't. Or maybe it's just me? I really like the song though. The chorus is amazing. That Girl isn't that good. But this time it's so Japanese. The way it's supposed to be I guess. And for the end his English song. I like his English songs, they're mostly really good. So is Supafly.

Artist: Vanness Wu 吳建豪
Album: No More Tears
Year: 2010
Language: Japanese/English
Genre: pop
01. No more Tears
02. That Girl
03. Supafly
04. No more Tears (Instrumental)
05. That Girl (Instrumental)
06. Supafly (Instrumental)

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Vanness Wu - Reflections

I kinda wtf'ed when I saw Vanness' Reflection on chinese music sites lately. It's not like it's something that new, it was released... a month ago? And it's in japanese mostly. But I thought since ppl are giving it on their blogs and I really liked the album why not me?

For some reason I don't really like when mandopop artists hit japanese market. Not that I wish them bad and don't want to see their success. No. I really do want them to success, but as far as I saw everyone who's hitting northern market doesn't really do a good job. It's like they either digg their old stuff and rearrange it in japanese, or do some boring ballads or they go without any echo. That makes me sad coz they're underrated there. But in Taiwan (for e.g) they're respected. I'd rather prefer them to do one or two songs in japanese on their mandarin albums. That's better I think. Like Peter Ho did once.
But on the other hand it looks like Vanness is doin' pretty good with his single in Japan. I'm glad. And his album is really good.
Hyper Car is something that'll make you sing it on and on. I'm totally obsessed with this song. He mixes English with Japanese so smoothly and with that freaky rhythm it's really hot! My favorite song here. Kodoku is typical japanese ballad. I like it though I prefer Vanness doin' more dance tunes. Same goes for Stuck On U. Reason seemed boring for me in the beginning but for now... I think i'm starting to like it. His voice sounds so good there! Even with that autotune or whatever it is. Purple Rain has boring verses but chorus is nice. And his freakin' east coast accent when he sings "rain" ^^ And here's where the Japanese part ends and English song come. Super Model isn't that bad... but I know it could be so much better. And I must admit that I love the "hey, how're ya doin? Good to see ya..." (and so on) part. But still too monotonous for a song 4 minutes long. And there's Sail Aways which is beautiful and it's the first song I had heard before I listened to the whole album. It actually made me listen it all. And Devil. Another song that I'm obsessed with. But the beginning talk annoys me. Actually the whole religious message of this song does, but I can skip the lyrics and focus on amazing rhythm, flow, voices and everything that makes me dance to this tune. But is it appropriate to dance to song about Jesus? Lol. And I almost forgot. Vanness sings in Mandarin here too. So we've got 3 languages on this album. Amazing.

Artist: Vanness Wu 吳建豪
Album: Reflections
Year: 2010
Language: Japanese/English

Genre: Pop/Ballad

01. Hyper Car
02. KODOKU
03. Stuck on u
04. Reason
05. Purple Rain
06. I don't wanna lose you
07. Only
08. Super Model (English)
09. Sail Away (English)
10. Devil ft. The Empire (English)

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