| Ingratiate Oneself | ||||
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| Studio album by Faye Wong | ||||
| Released | December 1994 | |||
| Genre | Cantopop | |||
| Label | Cinepoly | |||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
Ingratiate Oneself (討好自己) is a 1994 album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong.
Cinepoly Records released this album in December, only a few months after her highly influential alternative music Cantonese album Random Thoughts and her second Mandarin Chinese album Sky. It did not match them in terms of commercial success.
Faye Wong composed the songs "Ingratiate Oneself" and "Exit" herself, and these continued her move into alternative music. The remaining songs were more conventional in genre.
The lyrics are all in Cantonese except for "Exit" in Mandarin. She spoke rather than sang the words to this song, so that it is sometimes described as a rap. Somewhat pessimistic in outlook, it was not popular with all her fans. Nevertheless it was a hit single, along with the title track, "Honeymoon" and the ballad "Brink Of Love And Pain".
"Being Criminal" is a cover of "Here's Where the Story Ends" by The Sundays. "Sky Doesn't Change, Earth Changes" is the Cantonese version of "Amaranthine" (不變, Bù Biàn) on her Mandarin album Sky.
The album was released with three different album covers.
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