Ady An Yi Xuan

[sunnysnow]

I'm not too crazy about that cover pic of her...she just looks tired and the smile looks forced. It's not too bad, but she's looked so much better. Maybe it's the lighting?


Personally, I'd say they're both bad and both better at acting (although Ady is clearly stronger in this area). The only actress I know that can sing well, excluding musical theatre stars, would be Anne Hathaway, and maybe Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman aren't bad. The Asian ones tend to be a bit less multitalented.

I guess I'm more picky than the average person because many people I sing with have really good relative pitch or even perfect pitch, but come on, LYF live is practically tone deaf. You have ONE YEAR of professional training and you can't even stay on key? That's a hint that music isn't your thing. Besides, she's supposedly played piano since she was a little child? That's supposed to give you a musical ear.

Naturally the album always sounds better, since voice editing does so much. Like you can take the note from measure 2 and replace it with the note from measure 9 or blend them together...

As for Ady, her voice is unusually soft in her recorded songs. I don't know if this is because she has a weak voice, or if they're purposely making it soft. I mean, with voice editing, you can easily make the entire thing louder. I think the real test is if she can sing on pitch live. It's so sad how it's good now if these actress-turned-singers can even stay on pitch, let alone possess an outstanding tone quality.

Lastly, for someone with professionally written lyrics, I can't say much for LYF's blueberry song. And "Fang Fei Mei Li" has kind of crappy lyrics too. I like Ady's song "Ru Guo Na Tian Mei You Yu Jian Ni" though - very relaxing. Hey sunnysnow, wasn't there a clip once of Ady singing "Bu Gong Ping" from Dou Yu? I remember one...I'll try searching for it.

I think some asian actress-turned-singers who aren't all that bad in singing would be people like Angela Zhang (who really should stick to singing cause her acting is pretty bad), the older HK actors/actresses like Liza Wang, Adam Cheng etc. and the 4 heavenly kings as well. One HK actress who i think can sing very well would be Sammi Cheng. Faye Wong acts and sings as well. Certain TVB actors like Bowie Lam and Gigi Lai handle both singing and acting very well too.

Ady does sounds softer than usual when she sings which is pretty weird because her voice is pretty loud when she speaks normally. I guess it's probably because she has a weak voice or cannot hold the note too long or maybe was told to sing soft. But i do think she cannot really hold a note long enough because she tends to go either off pitch or sound breathless towards the ned of the note.

As for the "Bu Gong Ping" song, yep it's probably Ady's first attempt to sing professionally way back when she was acting for "The Outsiders II". She sounds pretty bad; pitching and tempo problems which is made even more apparent since she's just singing w/o any music backup except for a soft piano piece which makes her mistakes pretty obvious. I wouldn't say that song is nicer than her current ones because i think "Bu Gong Ping" is a pretty nice song but she probably sounds slightly better now as compared to then when she sang BGP. BTW, i dont think BGP was edited, it sounds pretty natural to me and wasnt an officially released song so i think they wouldnt have bothered editing it.

I can upload the song if anyone's interested

[sunnysnow]

I can't seem to open the first song. I get the error page.

I still like the Tian Xiang song though. Too bad there's no version to download.

There is a short/ incomplete version to d/l here:

http://www.laitingge.com/laitingge/...m/LT9361582.mp3

And if u want to listen to the full version, here:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/8zRqAY00NiQ/

As for "Xiao Lian Jing Xing Qu" i dont know why it doesnt work but i cant upload it for u cause i deleted it from my mp3 list already and im too lazy to go search for another link for it.

[Sparky]

a lot of the Hollywood actors/actresses are pretty decent at singing and acting- you can tell by the fact that they get actors/actresses to do voiceovers in animated films rather than professional dubbers. On the other hand, imagine watch Finding Nemo or Happyfeet with a cast of Chinese actors/actresses. When you look around Hollywood, very few of them can't handle a simple dubbing role, while in Chinese entertainment, very few have a voice that is tolerable for the audience.

Well, I don't think that having a nice speaking voice necessarily qualifies you as a good singer, but I think Hollywood actors/actresses in general are more realistic about their singing abilities. The only really crappy singers I can think of are the Disney stars like Hilary Duff, etc. and maybe talentless people like Paris Hilton. I think most of them tend to be musical enough that with some training and voice editing they'll sound decent.

Your point about dubbing is a good one. Finding Nemo...starring Liu Yifei as Dori...what a disaster. No humour there. I love Ellen. Even take Shark Tale and replace Renee Zellweger or Angelina Jolie with Liu Yifei. I think that Ady has good vocal expression and acting though, just not the most beautiful speaking voice to listen to. But that's just natural and she can't change that.

you're kidding o.o you can't play an instrument since you were young and still have such bad relative pitch. Perfect pitch is rare, but given that she's got background music, she shouldn't be THAT bad, to the point where she can't find the right key!

I was watching one of her promotional interviews once on youtube I think and it was like "Hobbies: Singing, Dancing, Piano" and when someone was asking her about singing, she said that since she was little she's been dancing and playing piano. Incredulous. Okay, so compared to the strings where perfect pitch is desirable, piano doesn't require nearly as good pitch, but from playing a musical instrument you should get a musical ear. I'm also doubting her intensive dancing training, since I don't think she dances very well...just my opinion. Just the way she stands and such doesn't seem very dancer-like.

i am being totally honest when i say that i'd rather listen to the Blueberry song than Ady's cutesy one. Don't download it!

For the sake of not loading up my temporary internet files folder, I'll listen to your warning. Is Ady's cutesy one better than "Wo Yao Wo De Zhi Wei"?

[Sparky]

I think some asian actress-turned-singers who aren't all that bad in singing would be people like Angela Zhang (who really should stick to singing cause her acting is pretty bad), the older HK actors/actresses like Liza Wang, Adam Cheng etc. and the 4 heavenly kings as well. One HK actress who i think can sing very well would be Sammi Cheng. Faye Wong acts and sings as well. Certain TVB actors like Bowie Lam and Gigi Lai handle both singing and acting very well too.

I've never heard Angela Zhang, except in this really weird song with something about "bu yao nie wo" or something like that...

Faye Wong is more of a singer-turned-actress, and I think those tend to have more success. I know when I went to a vocal workshop once we did staging operatic scenes the second week and we had to take dramatics and dance. I think part of being a singer is being aware of your body and putting in emotion, and that helps you in acting. Meanwhile, acting doesn't help you learn to breathe properly while singing or develop good pitch, so that's why so many actress-turned-singers suck. Where is Faye? She was one of the few people who sang in Mandarin that I liked in the entertainment industry.

Ady does sounds softer than usual when she sings which is pretty weird because her voice is pretty loud when she speaks normally. I guess it's probably because she has a weak voice or cannot hold the note too long or maybe was told to sing soft. But i do think she cannot really hold a note long enough because she tends to go either off pitch or sound breathless towards the ned of the note.

I personally think that she was told to sing softly. In the original "Bu Gong Ping" the singer starts softly too and eventually grows on it...Ady's was just weak throughout. At the very least, I don't think they put much effort into editing it. Not praising Ady's singing or trying to make it seem less bad, but if she couldn't hold a note for long, they have the technology to cut and paste and such, and lengthen a note. Take LYF for instance - live she sounds breathless and can't last for longer than two minutes, but in the album she can sing four minute blueberry songs and sound good enough. I think part of the fact is that LYF's album/songs are edited better, so that might make her seem better. I don't think it's possible to judge until we hear Ady live. Didn't she give a live performance once?

I can upload the song if anyone's interested

[Sugar]

i really want to hear ady live. i am more curious how much worse she sounds



for lyf, it was pretty true she did worse. However, so far I can't hold anything she says credible. So far, her acting job was bought. An essay wrote how kind she is,was written by a close friend. She is so called going to stanford while it had been confirmed that she is filming. She graduated from beijing film academy with no signs of exams or studying. She claimed that she was singing since a lil girl with music abilities.... hmmmm

Dancing. she can be the ballet dancer not a pop dancer.. so I can't say much. Her clip when she was younger tells me she was ok doing those classical dance.



and on the note, maybe I am being biased or such.. but i just feel that now in asia, looks are the first priority. In Hk, you get actresses from recycled miss beauty pageants. In China, you are getting just beautiful/pretty actresses. Taiwan, anyone bubble/cute looking is thrown on screen and given a singing career.

[Cacophony]

Ahh but I haven't heard it yet!! I'm so curious so hear that pop - y song by Ady even if it's bad. Can you still upload it?

[Cacophony]

Ok sorry about the double post but I found full downloads for Tian Xiang and Xiao Lian...

Tian Xiang:
http://www.laitingge.com/laitingge/g.../LT9361582.mp3

Xiao Lian:
http://www.tingqu.net/yinyue100/allm...1598105782.mp3

I have to agree. Xiao Lian is pretty bad. I cringed when she tried the English at the beginning.

[sunnysnow]

Ok sorry about the double post but I found full downloads for Tian Xiang and Xiao Lian...

Tian Xiang:
http://www.laitingge.com/laitingge/g.../LT9361582.mp3

That's not the full version of "Tian Xiang" if u compare it to the tudou clip someone uploaded (in my earlier posts). The mp3 versions of "Tian Xiang" are always 1 stanza/chorus less. Yet to find the full version for d/l

[Cacophony]

Ahh sorry. I must have posted the wrong link. i have the actual full length version (it's on my ipod now). i'll try to find it again for you guys.

[yearning]

Eeps, she sounds SO monotone in the MV with the Outsiders as the backdrop, pretty much at the same level as Edison Chen and that is putting it pretty badly considering my opinion on Edison's singnig. Yeah, she should really stop wasting her time w/ the whole singing thing, not to put it harshly. She's getting there w/ her acting, but somehow her agents or Ady herself doesn't seem to see that? *puzzled*

[0-0-0]

Well, I don't think that having a nice speaking voice necessarily qualifies you as a good singer

no, nice voice deson't equal good singer, but a lot of animated films have singing in them, done by the actual actors/actresses. EG. Happyfeet has Brittany Murphy and Nicole Kidman as two of the female singers, and they sound really awesome, while in the chinese industry... well take a look at Ady as an example of someone who can act, but even on recording, sounds weak.

For the sake of not loading up my temporary internet files folder, I'll listen to your warning. Is Ady's cutesy one better than "Wo Yao Wo De Zhi Wei"?

damn you give me a tough choice...

[sunnysnow]

Finally seen her debut MV "Xiao Nian Jing Xing Qu" she uploaded onto her blog:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4a40c29801000899

The MV couldn't be more cliched and bland..it's oh-so-typical taiwan-cutsey-pop type of MV with lotsa pouting and prancing around, coupled with cute cuddly toys It doesnt help that the song is bad and I dont know if its just me or what but i think Ady looks really unnatural in this MV, her smiles and actions seem somewhat fake...probably because im so not used to seeing to seeing her behave this way- the cutesy fake barbie way.

Loads of personal pics uploaded onto her blog here:http://blog.sina.com.cn/anyixuan

[ann_fang]

Ok I think the MV was not the best, but the singing was not that bad. I think actually it was better than she who must not be named's singing. Her voice was so so.

[Sugar]

eee, her song. I knew it was gonna be typical sugar pop.

I don't know, I don't think it is horrendus.. on par with LYF's cutsie mayonoka

[asillysaint]

I'm speechless, the music video was really um overwhelmingly bad, the song was bad, and yes, Ady looked bad too. It was the makeup that made Ady look not so refreshing like the song was supposed to display and definitely, Ady's cutesy prances were forced.

Man, the ballads better be lifesaving.

[GuGu]

MV is not impressive. And yeah, she doesn't look pretty in the MV...

[yearning]

Isn't she too old for this kind of stuff? I mean, at least Liu Yi Fei can kind of get away with it considering she's only 19 or 20 (still too old in my opinion lol, <10 years old is my limit for watching girls act so stupidly cutsy), but Ady is like what, late 20s?

[Sparky]

Isn't she too old for this kind of stuff? I mean, at least Liu Yi Fei can kind of get away with it considering she's only 19 or 20 (still too old in my opinion lol, <10 years old is my limit for watching girls act so stupidly cutsy), but Ady is like what, late 20s?

She's only 26 - she's cute, but I agree that she's too old. Frankly, I think LYF looks older than Ady regardless of what her real age (let's not go to that debate), in her Mei Chaofeng pics such as this:

She's showing her age already

Meanwhile, Ady has big eyes and when she's not tired, that exuberance that makes her look younger than her age.

Between the two, I'd say LYF is more suited for cutesy MVs, since Ady has more of a mature beauty than her in some pics, not just that cute, innocent look LYF has.

On the other hand, I haven't looked at Ady's MV yet and I don't think I plan on doing so. I'm not a huge fan of her singing, and the thought of seeing more cutesy videos (the blueberry song MV with the messed-up Roman Holiday already screwed me up enough) is not appealing at the moment.

I just wish Ady would stick to acting. With Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan and her great performance in that, I thought it'd be a step towards her doing more serious acting. She definitely has the talent and versatility for it, IMO. Now she's just trying to be the quintessential Taiwanese cute idol, which is really just too low for her. I mean, LYF can do whatever cute/sexy stuff she wants and preferably leave serious productions alone, but it's just a pity that Ady's not focusing on acting.

Heh, we ought to write a petition to make Ady return to acting...anyone got her fanmail address?

[GuGu]

Sparky, you know that I love you, right?

BUT LYF doesn't look older than 20 in any picture that I've seen. Ady on the other hand, if I didn't know her bio, I would say she was in her early 30s.

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[Sparky]

Sparky, you know that I love you, right?

I know - in fact, I probably make Yang Guo jealous. Who doesn't love Lady Godiva?

BUT LYF doesn't look older than 20 in any picture that I've seen. Ady on the other hand, if I didn't know her bio, I would say she was in her early 30s.

I disagree with your age estimates, probably because I see things differently, but most of my friends agree with me. Like when I show pics of LYF in TLBB, they assume she's in her 20s, and she was only 15 at the time and still decent looking. Now she's taken that CREEPY sexy image and I'm sure that's counted for aging. However, on the whole LYF looks younger than Ady, partially because she's chubbier so it gives her a youthful image, while Ady is so skinny.

On the other hand...rant time! I don't see the big deal about looking younger. I think having MATURE BEAUTY is more important than looking like a teenager. People always thought I was 3 or so years younger than I was when I was little, because I was petite, and that annoyed the heck out of me! Maybe it was summer and I was putting my err...unique fashion taste into action and people thought, "She doesn't follow trends, she's probably still young" or whatever? The point is that it's annoying! Maybe it'll benefit when I'm 30 or something, but for now I think I'm stuck with eternal youth

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