This song is the second song, “forget love potion,” from Andy Lau’s new album.
The first one was naturally “congratulations on getting rich,” which he sang at the Spring Festival Gala.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many people had only recently woken up.
Furthermore, they still needed to go out to pay New Year visits, so naturally, the songs from Andy Lau’s new album would take a bit longer to ferment.
However, an excellent album, excellent songs, will never be buried.
When many people heard Andy Lau sing with his incredibly familiar voice: “When he was seventeen, he loved chasing dreams, he only wanted to fly forward his whole life…”, they felt that the flavor of this album was just right!
It truly lived up to being an album tailor-made for Andy Lau by Su Yu!
And the chorus, “Ah~ give me a forget love potion…” was also sufficiently catchy and brainwashing.
He listened to it almost only once and could never forget it again.
At this moment, Jacky Cheung, who was in Xiangjiang, was also listening to Andy Lau’s new album.
He skipped “congratulations on getting rich” directly; some merchants outside were already playing it.
After listening to five consecutive songs— “forget love potion,” “Heaven’s Will,” “today,” “Ice Rain,” and “Practice”—Jacky Cheung fell into deep silence.
Because each of these five songs was perfectly suited to Andy Lau’s singing style!
And they were all the kind of love songs Andy Lau liked.
Most importantly, each one could be called a classic song of representative work level.
Jacky Cheung had not released a new album in recent years, though he had released some singles.
But in terms of quality, they could not satisfy him.
He also wanted to release another quality album while he could still continue to sing.
At least to tell all his fans who liked him that he was not truly old yet.
However, a good song was already very hard to come by, let alone ten songs?
Now, in the album sphere, after Su Yu’s continuous bombardment, if he didn't have a few presentable songs to hold the fort, it would really be too embarrassing for someone like him to release a new album.
He felt that Andy Lau’s luck was truly good enough!
He was actually able to establish such a deep friendship with Su Yu, and even had Su Yu write this entire album for him in one go!
It was currently past nine in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Andy Lau’s new album had been online for one hour, already achieving a heaven-defying sales volume of 3 million.
In Jacky Cheung’s opinion, this album could break through ten million within three days!
It might even surpass the record held by Su Yu’s album!
This made Jacky Cheung feel very sour.
Could he also try to contact Su Yu and see if he could also seek a collaboration?
Jacky Cheung thought this as he clicked on the seventh song of Andy Lau’s new album, “Karma in the Next Life.”
After listening to this song, Jacky Cheung became even more silent.
Because this was another representative-level song not weaker than the previous few songs!
Is there really no end? Does every song have to be a classic?
However, when he heard the eighth song, “Days We Went Through Together,” he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn’t that this song wasn’t good, but rather that it was actually the cantonese version of “Karma in the Next Life.”
One melody, two sets of lyrics! This was a very common operation in Su Yu’s works.
But thinking about it, he understood; Andy Lau was from Xiangjiang, how could his new album not have cantonese songs?
Jacky Cheung listened to “Days We Went Through Together” very carefully.
He seemed to be competing with himself.
The result was that he found the cantonese version equally excellent!
The ninth song on the album, “Secretly Infatuated,” was yet another song.
In this song, Jacky Cheung heard Su Yu’s consistently skilled early creative style.
He was truly too good at writing these songs with a sense of age.
He even made Jacky Cheung unable to hear any sense of incongruity.
After listening to the previous songs, he looked at the album’s title track, “seventeen.”
It was just the album’s title track, not the lead single.
Because Jacky Cheung felt that any song in this album could actually be a lead single.
However, when he saw the song information for this song, he was a bit speechless.
“seventeen”
Composer, Arranger: Su Yu
Lyricists: Liu Furong, Su Yu
Vocals: Liu Furong
Good heavens, Liu Furong felt that just singing Su Yu’s songs wasn’t enough, so he actually started to participate in lyric writing?
He wanted to see what quality this song, co-written by the two of them, truly possessed!
And “seventeen”? This old fellow isn’t pretending to be young again, is he?
Jacky Cheung complained about Andy Lau in his heart.
“【On that day, at seventeen, I shamelessly joined the challenge.
Stars also had training classes, a short year was so fresh.
Remembering Brother Four and Fa Ge, I had already met them,
Later, promoted to lead actor so suddenly.】”
But after listening to the first few short lines of the cantonese main verse, Jacky Cheung felt a bit awkward.
No wonder Liu Furong participated in the lyric writing; if Su Yu had written the lyrics, could he have complained about Liu Furong like this?
However, Jacky Cheung understood the tone of this song.
This was a song looking back at the past.
It was not some shameless declaration of being forever seventeen!
Otherwise, Jacky Cheung would really have to send him his classic meme GIF to mock him.
Andy Lau’s singing continued.
“【At twenty-nine, at the awards dinner, fans were too crazy.
Come listen to me sing a love song, the lyrics of one song are too classic.
My true voice, falsetto, are already too skilled,
Yet I never tire of singing love songs.】”
Jacky Cheung laughed directly when he heard this.
He felt that Andy Lau’s self-analysis was still very accurate.
At first, Andy Lau’s singing skills were indeed not very good, and he only gradually became skilled later.
The song continued.
“【If you like me, don’t hide your face, let passersby discover.
Sing your heart out, infuse this emotion into the song.
Let’s all sing love songs together, once again,
Always remember the applause resounding through the sky.
Come sing love songs, from the beginning again…】”
Unconsciously, Jacky Cheung had finished listening to “seventeen.”
At this moment, he was both touched and moved.
He felt it was truly, truly good to end with such a song!
Of course, if this song were his, it would be even better.
At this time, as time went on, the remaining songs in Andy Lau’s new album also began to gradually climb the new song charts.
And the momentum of each song was exceptionally fierce.
Especially the last song, “seventeen,” co-written by Andy Lau and Su Yu.
Too many people liked Liu Furong; after hearing such a song, they were naturally very moved.
So, at ten o’clock in the morning, “seventeen” directly broke into the top ten of the new song chart.
But compared to the terrifying sales of Andy Lau’s new album at this time, who would still pay attention to the new song chart!
“seventeen” had been online for just two hours, and its sales had already exceeded 5 million!
After seeing this news, many people’s heads were buzzing with shock.
Was it just because of the New Year? Or did the elders give out New Year’s money, and fans had money to buy albums?
Otherwise, how did these 5 million sales in two hours come about?
Even Su Yu wasn’t that fierce back then!
Although Andy Lau’s 2 million sales in the first hour were not as good as Su Yu’s 3 million, he directly surpassed him in the second hour.
Crazy, is this the terrifying strength of a national superstar?!