Only Love Strangers

Only Love Strangers (Chinese: 只愛陌生人; 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...). Although there is no official English title on the original Chinese version, the lyrics card in the Japanese release bore the English subtitle Lovers and Strangers, and this is sometimes given as the title in English media.^[1]

The album sold more than 800,000 copies and reached number one in the album charts of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.^[1]

After the release of Only Love Strangers, Guinness World Records declared Faye Wong the best selling female Cantopop artist of all time.^[2]

Track listing

1. "開到荼蘼"

   The Last Blossom

2. "當時的月亮"

   The Moon at That Moment

3. "催眠"

   Hypnotise

4. "只愛陌生人"

   Only Love Strangers

5. "百年孤寂"

   Century of Loneliness

6. "蝴蝶"

   Butterfly

7. "過眼雲煙"

   A Passing Cloud

8. "嗶一聲之後"

   After the Beep

9. "推翻"

   Overthrow

10. "精彩"

    Spectacular

11. "守望麥田"

    Watching the Field (Cantonese version of track 5)

12. "郵差"

    Postman (Cantonese version of track 6, with a different musical arrangement)

Use in other media

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.^[3]

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