2014.06.04 – 06 Hebe @ Campus Concerts + GMA Updates (Updated)
Hebe has been scheduled for a performance slot on this year’s Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ceremon, despite missing a music nomination for her latest album, Insignificance. As for the type of performance she is programmed for is unknown at the moment, seems like they are still in discussions. I will update again when there is more concrete news. According to news sources, Hebe will be performing a medley of several classic hits.
On the other hand, Hebe was kept busy this week, with 3 consecutive campus concerts held in different parts of Taiwan. Although she enjoyed the performances at the various campus concerts, the fatigue from constant travelling and consecutively performing hit her as fans reported seeing her asleep and yawning after returning from the concerts.
With no surpise, she performed the same set of 7 songs for all 3 nights. Despite this, there were still some subtle differences in her singing for certain songs and is a great and interesting opportunity to compare her live singing of the songs. Some differences were quite obvious whilst some may be a bit tougher to pick out.
2014.06.04 Feng Chia University Campus Concert
Hebe was in a great mood (probably because she was going to the night market after that, oops) and smiled a lot throughout the concert. Not sure if she was still recovering since the HITO performance and 2gether 4ever concert, seems to me that certain songs were lacking in power and emotions (or was she distracted in thoughts I’m not sure).
She did however, had a great time at the night market after the show and bought tons of snacks, browsing the stalls till the market was almost fully closed.
Photos
*Credits to -ching-清- & 田馥甄妳是我的上上籤 from weibo
Videos
1. 終身大事 (Most Important Thing In Life
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
2. 你快樂未必我快樂 (Your Happiness Doesn’t Equate to Mine)
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
3. 茅盾 (Contradicting)
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
4. 愛著愛著就永遠 (Love On and It’s Forever)
*Credits to Hebe W from youtube
Please note this is not a full version, refer to below for full version.
FULL Version
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
5. 無常 (Inconstancy)
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
6. 你就不要想起我 (Don’t You Think Of Me)
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
7. 寂寞寂寞就好 (I’m Fine Alone)
*Credits to Wei Huang from youtube
2014.06.05 National Cheng Kung University Campus Concert
Though this was the second night of performance, her voice does sound better than the first. It seems she was more focused and was letting the emotions come through the songs better, just imho. The details in some of the songs were also more well taken care of and handled better.
Photos
*Credits to 田馥甄妳是我的上上籤 from weibo & NCKU Facebook page
Videos
1. 終身大事 (Most Important Thing In Life
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
2. 你快樂未必我快樂 (Your Happiness Doesn’t Equate to Mine)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
3. 茅盾 (Contradicting)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
4. 愛著愛著就永遠 (Love On and It’s Forever)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
5. 無常 (Inconstancy)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
6. 你就不要想起我 (Don’t You Think Of Me)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
7. 寂寞寂寞就好 (I’m Fine Alone)
*Credits to marscraftaegis from youtube
2014.06.06 National Sun Yat-sen University Campus Concert
She was in a great mood at this concert, where it was held at the campus grounds at Kaohsiung’s Sizihwan.
Pretending to be in Spring Wave (since it was quite close to Kenting), she was very relaxed, talked quite a bit with some jokes (including a mention on a pretty emcee for the concert) and even signed 2 albums on the spot, passed to her by students downstage.
Some fans however, did mention she seems to be suffering a minor cough.
Photos
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from facebook & sylvialinchang from instagram
Videos
1. 終身大事 (Most Important Thing in Life)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
She missed some lyrics and seems like her voice got a bit tired from the past few days of performance.
2. 你快樂未必我快樂 (Your Happiness Doesn’t Equate to Mine)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
Noticed how she had changed her singing/tone slighty at the A1?
The arrangement also felt a bit more jazz to me, nice change once again.
3. 茅盾 (Contradicting)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
It’s acoustic version again, I really love this version amongst all her variations done with this song.
Some of her high notes were quite nice imo, but some were definitely a strain. Hope her voice gets better before the GMA performance. Her emotions in this song was quite good too this time round, the one at Cheng Kung University the night before was not bad as well.
4. 愛著愛著就永遠 (Love On and It’s Forever)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
At the start of this video, Hebe sums up the previous song Contradicting that it really needs one to be really contradicting to be able to sing and convey that very song. Then she receives a new bottle of water which is not warm and she gets excited, thanking the crew for the kind gesture. The crowd starts shouting for her, saying Tien Fu-Chen, I love you and such, to which she thanked them for risking a hoarse voice or sore throat to support her. Someone shouts for Hebe to follow him home, she replied in a cute voice asking if the bed was a double bed? The person said no and so she says, “then it’s not convenient for me to follow you home”. She asked if students are so open-minded these days and followed up with another question to the guy, asking if he was a student from the school. When he said no, Hebe quipped, “that’s why you asked me to follow you home, you are tarnishing their reputation! ”
She continued by thanking the crowd, for withstanding such a long wait and heat, standing / squeezing in the space to listen to her sing, she was really happy and thankful. She introduced the next song by saying, “I will now sing this song Love On and It’s Forever for the one who wanted to bring me home.”
5. 無常 (Inconstancy)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
6. 你就不要想起我 (Don’t You Think Of Me)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
7. 寂寞寂寞就好 (I’m Fine Alone)
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
8. Talking 1
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
She addresses the crowd and asked if it is really a university campus. When the public answered yes, she shouted they were lying because the venue was like Spring Wave Music Festival, the place looked like a holiday chalet. She was not convinced the place was a real campus, thinking the university may have rented an external venue near the school. She asked if the students will not wish to graduate with such a great campus, then answered it by saying, they will still yearn to graduate because it was tough forking out the university fees for four years and it must have been tiring having exams.
Realising the audio was having feedback, she asked if she should stay back (further in stage), the audience wanted her to stay front but she said the system keeps making noises. So she suggested viewing the LED screen instead to see her looks, her ‘idol-like’ looks.
Someone shouted she looked good, she told the person to take care of his throat or he will have to report to the doctor’s the next day.
She continued saying if she knew the ambience was so great here, she should have brought her entire band and bikini. If only she knew, she kept lamenting and then said if there’s a chance next time she will do so, but graduation only happens once, the graduates can come back as alumni to watch the concert. If she really gets to perform the next time she will honour her word and wear the bikini beneath her shirt. The weather was quite hot, so she asked if anyone wore bikini, though the students replied they don’t feel the heat because she was there.
Hebe confessed she missed a lyric during the song before because she was swallowing her saliva, due to the sight of the various food stalls at the back of the venue. She then continued to introduce the next song and at the sight of someone holding her album in the crowd, she thanked them and said she will be mainly singing titles from her latest album.
9. Talking 2
*Credits to INFINI HD ( dan201 ) from youtube
She hears the crowd shouting there was a letter for her, so she immediately went forth to collect it (and got a tissue), signed off some albums and DVD before heading back to her seat. She asked if the audience at the front who were squeezed like sardines were here early in the afternoon under the hot sun of Kaohsiung and if they were feeling tired. The crowd responded loudly that they were not tired and were happy when she asked. Hebe clearly enjoyed the response and continued to ask if the school always had so many food stalls? When the crowd laughed and answered no, she said, “Oh, you don’t have it. I was thinking your school’s welfare / canteen is really special. So I misunderstood, it’s only here for today”.
After drinking from her bottle, Hebe told the crowd she must be crazy because it was warm water inside her bottle. She thanked the audience for offering her tissue.
*NOTE: I will get to the translations of the talking portions later tonight. Done! Apologies it came late!