I'm not disappointed either since I didn't have high expectations.
alan has an amazing voice, but let's face it...it's no use if her composers suck X_X
And I seriously have so many problems with the production of this album! They pay Leslie Kee a good amount of money and only 3 of his shots are in the album. The rest of the booklet pictures has already been released since like 2 months ago. They got Kazuhito Kikuchi to shoot the other pictures...seriously?
And also the album packaging...I believe they got the producer of one of the songs on the album to do the design! The coloring sucks
They got such a horrible arranger for Phoenix and then he also served as a lyricist and producer for other songs? That's just stupid seeing how his lyrics seriously suck
And it's a good thing you guys don't know Chinese because the lyrics in this album are really lackluster.
I really have a beef with her company too. They've been telling us alan has been recording since freakin' last year! Then they said the album will come out in February, March, April, May, June and now the album release date has been changed to 6/30.
They have had multiple promotion events on Weibo and then they haven't done anything with the first event where you posted about your alan collection and you might get an autographed album. I have heard nothing about that event now.
It's important in Cpop for songs to have a high rate of being sung by the general public, but I feel this album didn't fully explore alan's voice. I understand why a lot of Cpop singers have generic, calm songs because some of them really can't sing. However, alan has a great voice, so I really hope they can fully utilize it next time.
The songs, by themselves, are good to me. But everything else can go die in a ditch.