Kit Chan breaks free in new album
Singer revamp
Attitude with a capital "A' describes Kit Chan's new
album. And that goes for the new Kit Chan, too,
flamboyant, and slightly rebellious
By SUZANNE SNG
KIT CHAN has a new name these days. You can call
her Lola.
In Lola, her latest recording effort, the homegrown
songbird takes on the persona of a flamboyant traveller
who goes by the name of -- no prizes for guessing it --
Lola.
""Lola is the heroine I play. She is a carefree spirit,''
says the singer in a phone interview. ""This comes
closer to who I am, the real me, more than any of my
previous albums.''
She hastens to add: ""That is not to say that all the
ballads I sang in the past were false. Those were more
subdued versions of me.''
Like a blast of exuberant music -- with frenetic drums
beating in the background -- she breaks free from her
signature mould of power ballads.
""The lyrics are not so poetic, more matter of fact. The
mood is very urban, like that of a pub or part of sleazy
night life,'' she says in her breezy manner.
The changes to her style and image have been brewing
in her head for some time, and she admits that her
last two albums, Mandarin compilation album That
Day That Night and Cantonese effort The Best Of Kit
Chan, are compromises.
""The poetry book was a big catalyst,'' she reveals. She
had penned her thoughts in the form of poems for a
book, Cork Out Of My Head, earlier this year. (The
Taiwanese version is available in bookshops, and it will
be re-packaged and released here in August.)
In the book, she confessed to committing ""crimes''
and having ""secret pain'', and her forthrightness gave
her producers a glimpse into the gutsy,
slightly-rebellious and very articulate woman behind
those torn, aching ballads like Heartache and Worry.
In fact, producer Benjamin Lin even put the book on
the must-read list of all those involved in the project.
Baring her soul a little bit more, the 27-year-old wrote
her first Mandarin song, a saucy, taunting number, I
Have Finally Forgotten About Your Birthday.
Laughing slightly, she says: ""Obviously, the line did
come about because I did forget someone's birthday.
Obviously, it was somebody special. I wrote it down in
my notebook, and I thought, "It's cool.' ''
""There are two ways to look at it,'' she says. ""You
know it has been hard, but you finally did it. And then
there is this slight rebellious tone to it as well.''
After more than five years as a singer, she has sung
enough love songs to acknowledge that they tell ""the
same old story''.
""The girl falls out of love and tries to forget,'' she says.
""I wanted to get it out a different way, be more
flamboyant about it.
""When things get very sad, the only way is to turn it
upside down. That's how I react to things.''
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