OLDIES WINN.
Click to viewWIN WIN AND WIN. I mean, COME ON. Ekin Cheng, Sammi Cheng AND Chapman To in the same MV all dressed up!! :O And I love how Sammi and Andy had this reflexes contest in the MV, lol:
"In the end, Sammi’s performance won applause and made everyone burst into laughter, especially when she display her leg’s reflexes as she lift her leg to rest over her leg to challenge Andy, it’s an eye opener for everybody. Andy admitted defeat to Sammi and quipped: “I did told you to shoot action films!”"
That last quote there (telling her to shoot action), he's referring to Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Did you know Andy Lau had originally wanted Sammi to be in the movie? And that she actually was asked to be casted?
Ugh, or is this just news to only me? D: SHE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE IN DETECTIVE DEE, OMG!
lol, anyway...
It's not all that win if you don't know Sam Hui's songs, I guess. But I thought I'd share since my dad and I are huge fans of the Hui brothers. Sam's music appealed mostly to the working class people in Hong Kong much around the 70's and 80's, and is still very influential today. It is especially popular amongst the poor because most of Sam's songs use a lot of Cantonese "slang" which a lot of richer individuals find a lack of elegance in. And it's just something the poor can better relate to, I guess. I'm sure if your parents are Chinese, they will know Sam Hui and his brothers.
This is Andy's recent cover of Sam Hui's "人辦". It's actually one of the very few songs I don't know too well, tbh. But I know Sam's style of music very well, and I always thought Andy Lau's voice don't suit it very well. BTW, this also isn't the first time Andy has done Sam's covers. He released an entire CD of Sam's songs a very long time ago (which I own and religiously keep safely because my love for both Sam Hui & Andy Lau know no boundries lol), and likes to sing his songs in charities and stuff. I just think Andy's voice is too flowy and artistic for Sam's style of music.
But it does bring in his own style into Sam's songs, I guess. There are a few covers Andy did that I liked - so I'm not say it's bad. It's just that if his aim was to recreate Sam's style, it just sounds a bit lacking, y'know?
Check it out, ya? And yes, that's Andy playing as Charlie Chaplin. lol.