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Faye Wong is determined not to perform! It has been 21 years since she last released an album. Is she really going to retire?

2024-07-23

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​It is confirmed that Faye Wong will not hold a concert this year, and her agent Chen Jiaying has issued a company statement!

Why would the agent come out to deny it?

The reason was that there was a sudden rumor online that Faye Wong would be holding a concert this year, and many ticket agencies were collecting deposits in a formal manner, creating the impression that Faye Wong was really going to hold a concert.

In order to prevent fans' rights from being damaged, her agent quickly issued a statement, denying that Faye Wong was going to hold a concert.

In response to this, the comment section was filled with wails, with one fan saying that they had gradually accepted the fact that Faye Wong had completely retired.

Judging from her works, Faye Wong has indeed had no output in recent years and is close to a "semi-retired" state.

The last complete album was "Will Love" in 2003, which is 21 years ago.

The last time I went on tour was the “Concert Tour” series in 2010.

Of course, everyone also remembers her 2016 "Fantasy Show", which was held at the Mercedes-Benz in Shanghai. Tickets were sold at sky-high prices at the time, but now many people who have seen it are glad they bought at the high price. It has been eight years since 2016.

Relatively speaking, Faye Wong is still "in business", just occasionally singing some OSTs.

The previous EP was "Smile Angel" in 2019. It was actually not a commercial EP, but a souvenir donated by the Smile Angel Foundation. It included two singles, "Smiling Angel" and "Heart Sutra", as well as the "Diamond Sutra" recited by Faye Wong herself.

In 2019, she did have an OST that became popular, which is "My Motherland and I", the theme song of the movie "My Motherland and I". It is a digital single and the MV is just a clip from the movie.

In 2020, she sang "River of Life" with Na Ying, which was the ending song of the movie "Win the Championship".

In 2021, she released two songs in a row. One is "Bay", the theme song of the 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film and Music Gala "The Moon Rises in the Bay Area"; the other is the familiar "As Wish", the theme song of "My Fathers and Me".

In 2022, she sang the theme song "There is Wind on the Return Road" for the movie "A Thousand Miles Home". This song is also very popular. Shang Wenjie also covered it on "Singer 2024" some time ago.

These songs are just digital singles. Faye Wong didn't even take photos for the single covers, and she won't release an EP. However, if her digital singles from these years were recorded into an album, it would be enough to make up an album. From "You Lan Cao" to the current "Guitu You Feng", she has released a total of 20 songs over the years.

It also includes the popular "Wish" and "Fleeting Time". Basically, it can be said that the OSTs sung by Faye Wong are more popular than the movies themselves. If she is willing to take the job, there will probably be a long queue of people who want to ask her to sing the OST, but now Faye Wong hardly even sings the OST...

The last time he made an appearance on a variety show was in 2018's "Fantasy City".

She did make appearances, for example, when she went on a skiing vacation with her boyfriend Nicholas Tse, and showed off their affection at the airport.

Her most recent schedule was to go to Taipei to have a secret meeting with her good friend Qiu Likuan. It was because of this meeting that the news came out that Faye Wong was looking for someone to plan a concert.

It is said that works are the foundation of an artist's long-term popularity. Because Faye Wong's works during her heyday were so influential, her OSTs in recent years are still deeply rooted in people's hearts and can continue to attract young fans, so her status as a "queen" has always been stable.

It's just that the public has expectations and whether the artist himself is willing to perform are two different things. She has not been working hard on her works for many years. It can be imagined that the focus of Faye Wong's life is no longer on her career. The royalties alone are enough to make a living these years. She might as well fall in love and live a free life.

She is happy, and her fans are heartbroken, so they have to accept the fact: maybe the queen really wants to retire.

I wonder if Faye Wong will suddenly get addicted to singing and start singing like crazy someday in the future? You know, Jacky Cheung, who has been quiet for many years, has suddenly started to sing intensively in recent years! There is still hope, but I wonder how Faye Wong's voice is now, and whether she can still hold a large-scale concert?