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''To Love''〔Shane Homan, ''Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture'', ,2006, p224. "... almost exclusively on contributions from Hong Kong-, Beijing- and Singapore-based composers along with her own compositions on Sing and Play (1998), Only Love Strangers (1999), Fable (2000), Faye Wong (2001) and To Love (2003)."〕 () is a 2003 Mandarin album by Beijing-based C-pop singer Faye Wong. This was Wong's 19th official studio album, and the first to be released by Sony Music Asia. it remains her last album to date. Released on 7 November 2003, it has 13 tracks: 10 in Mandarin and 3 in Cantonese. Wong wrote the music and lyrics for 3 songs, the title track "To Love", "Leave Nothing" (不留) and "Sunshine Dearest" (陽寶), as well as the music for "April Snow" (四月雪). Before the album's release, the Cantonese version of the title track "In the Name of Love" (假愛之名), with lyrics by Lin Xi, was banned in some areas such as mainland China and Malaysia because the lyrics mentioned opium.〔(China bans 'opium' song ), BBC News, 30 October, 2003. Retrieved 1 May 2013.〕〔(Pop diva Faye Wong performs in Kuala Lumpur ), China Daily, 23 April 2004. Retrieved 25 September 2010.〕 Interviewed in December 2003, Wong said that she preferred her own Mandarin version of the song, which made no reference to drugs.〔(China diva, Faye Wang, changes her Ice Queen image? ), Straits Times, 2 December 2003. Cited at China Daily. Retrieved 25 September 2010.〕 Wong said that her favourite track was "MV", written by Nicholas Tse with whom she had had an on-off romance. She admitted that her song "Leave Nothing" was a reflection of her love life, but declined to identify the other persons referred to in the lyrics.〔 The album also includes "Passenger" (乘客), a cover of Sophie Zelmani's "Going Home". Asked about the pattern of 2-character titles for the songs, Wong said that this was not important, but reflects a modern habit of abbreviating things in everyday speech.〔 ==Reception== ''To Love'' was more successful than her previous self-titled album, both financially and critically. It sold more than one million copies in Asia within a week of its release, half of those within China. Afterwards, she held numerous successful concerts for over a year; ticket sales in Hong Kong set a new record.〔 ''Taipei Times'' called it a mixture of "saccharine pop and daring avant-garde".〔(Faye Wong is all woman ), ''Taipei Times'' 2004-11-24. "Her most recent album, To Love (將愛, 2003), is a mosh of her two recent artistic tendencies: saccharine pop and daring avant-garde."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「To Love (Faye Wong album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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