The good news is David has been nominated in 3 categories in Golden Melody Awards: Best Song of the year for Marry Me Today, Best Songwriter for Marry Me Today & Best Male Singer for Tai Mei Li. He probably will not attend but I am rooting for him to get Best Song or Songwriter. As for Best Male Singer, he has some vry interesting nominees - Nicky Lee, JJ Lin, Gary Chow & Kenji Wu. Basically I am happy that they are all nominated & has no favorites. Anyway congra to all the nominees!Tai Mei Li did not get into the top 10 albums chosen by Chinese Musician Society in TW but Marry Me Today did get into the top 10 songs. Actually did not expect the album to get into the list only cos of the cm songs. Felt that he should have included them as bonus songs & not in the album tracklist. However the reason cited was that they felt this album was 'weak' & not as powerful as his previous albums. I dun know but surely one should judge the album on its own & not by his previous works. They also said that they felt they had to include Marry Me Today because they knew it was not easy to compose such a melodic commercial song of high standard which kinda sounded like a backhand compliment :P
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Actually glad that they apply stricter rules on him than others. Also find it interesting the different musical tastes in various Asian countries. For eg, I think Beautiful actually well-received in Singapore & music critics thought it was a great easy-listening album which was David's intention. When he was interviewed in HK, he said he wanted to make an album to relieve stress, an album that people would want to listen to after a hard day's work. Beautiful was also nominated for MTV Japan's Buzz Asia award much to everyone's surprise. Maybe it could be that these 2 countries are more exposed to Western music & so more open to the musical influences in Beautiful. Anyway for sure David is happy abt the results. Congra to our Dave ^__^
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