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Tomorrow night she is set to rock the National Taiwan University Stadium (台大綜合體育館), a new venue which has only recently completed construction after eight years and is said to have cost NT$3 million to rent for the event. Able to seat 7,000, organizers Magic Stone (魔岩) are obviously expecting a big turn-out.
Lin Wei-tse (林暐哲), who has been behind most of Yang's biggest hits as songwriter, will be bowing out of Yang's back-up band to be her producer for this show. With the massive light show and sound effects planned for this huge occasion, he wanted to dedicate all his attention to planning Yang's largest-ever Taipei concert.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGIC STONE
The Back to Music concert -- perhaps a veiled reference to comments about her personality and too-cool-for-you attitude -- will see the first use of a 3D rotating projector so that images will be projected over a 360-degree screen. The combination of visual effects and the KTV videos of Proof and other tracks that have powered sales of her new album are all peripheral to what Yang herself is focusing on, namely the music.
Yang has often insisted that a singer needs to hold firm to her integrity, and her latest hit Queen continues in that tradition. The neurotic lament of Silence which is the flip-side of her ultra-cool stage persona is brought to a new level of realization, with Queen combining both narrative and emotional elements as never before. As one of the few singers to break the mold of lachrymose Mando-pop with a strong dose of attitude, Yang is one of the few singers in mainstream music who lets her personality come through in her songs. For all that, her sense of fashion seems to have taken a buffeting, and after Silence, she seems to be trying to turn herself into a cheaper version of Faye Wong (
Performance Notes:
What: Faith Yang Back to Music Concert.
When: July 7
Where: NTU Stadium, corner of Hsinhai Road (辛亥路) and Hsinsheng South Road (新生南路).
Tivkets: NT$800 for standing area, NT$1000 for seating area. Tickets through Acer ticket outlets.
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