Princess Faye Wong at the 2025 Spring Festival Gala - Photo: CCTV
1. Faye Wong's duet of "Promise 1998" with Na Ying instantly became a classic moment. Now twice her age, she's appearing at the Spring Festival Gala for the sixth time. Her voice may have faded, but her charm remains undiminished. One viewer commented: "I can't stand seeing Faye Wong at the Spring Festival Gala every year!"
Standing amidst a stage with special effects resembling a vast, sparkling galaxy, Faye Wong sang a brand new song titled "Moments You and I Once Shared," by a young composer.
Faye Wong sang a duet of "Promise 1998" with Na Ying.
Faye Wong's duet "Promise 1998" with Na Ying. It's hard to find a Chinese female vocalist who performs songs about the passage of time, the vastness of the universe, and the brevity of human life better than Faye Wong.
Her cool, clear, delicate, and ethereal voice seemed to possess an otherworldly quality, effortlessly singing lines like: "A river that flows for a hundred years. Yet it is merely a moment that you and I are experiencing."
Such contemplative moments prove that this year's Spring Festival Gala isn't just about the robot's drunken boxing performance.
Although Faye Wong doesn't appear in public often and has long since distanced herself from the spotlight, her musical and film legacy continues to expand. Last year, an Italian youth fashion magazine published an article titled: "TikTok unearths Faye Wong."
They called her the IT girl of the 1990s, and "young people realized few were cooler than Faye Wong." Numerous videos teaching how to dress like Faye Wong, how to build a Faye Wong-style image, and clips of her making sandwiches while dancing to California Dreamin' in a casual diner in Tsim Sha Tsui continue to go viral.
Jacky Cheung
2. Memories of Hong Kong never fade. Recently, Jacky Cheung, a legendary Hong Kong musician from the 1990s, held his 324th concert in his 60+ tour.
In Hong Kong alone last year, he performed 20 consecutive nights. Each night he sang more than 30 songs, lasting over two and a half hours, even though Jacky Cheung is already over 60 years old.
Even in his 60s, he still effortlessly hits high notes. And at an age where he has nothing left to prove to anyone, Jacky Cheung boldly brings back more experimental, lesser-known songs, a departure from his previous A Classic Tour which focused on classic love songs, the culmination of his lifelong career.
Farewell Kiss - Jacky Cheung
Even a familiar love song like "Farewell Kiss" in 60+ was revamped with a Broadway-style mix of hip hop. Jacky Cheung really had a blast.
Of course, there are also moments of reflection. For example, his new work, "Another Ten Years," takes us into the mind of someone entering the twilight years of their life: "In the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed. Regarding life's ups and downs, I still only have a half-hearted understanding, but I have learned to adapt." Jacky Cheung is still full of contemplation. It's just that in his youth, he contemplated love. Now, he contemplates human existence, life itself.
3. Those who experienced their youth in the 1990s can never forget the feelings of love and life that Hong Kong legends created. But even subsequent generations, who only indirectly experienced those memories, are captivated by Hong Kong.
On the social media platform Threads, a post sharing the song "Walking Through Hong Kong 1999" by young indie singer/songwriter Bo Lu Xi suddenly went viral. Even people who claim to never listen to Chinese music fell in love with the song.
The song begins with Cantonese vocals and then opens up to a musical space of pop, R&B, and city pop, with some lines even having a Cantopop vibe from the 1990s, making you feel like you're strolling through an old Hong Kong neighborhood. There's no mention of Hong Kong in the lyrics, but just listening to the music is enough to conjure up a polaroid photo capturing those typical TVB romances of childhood.
And when the singer expresses, "Those moments when I think of you, when I miss you, are so beautiful," we wonder: could it be that the singer isn't expressing his feelings to any girl at all, but only to Hong Kong?
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/dao-buoc-hong-kong-1990-20260301093941788.htm
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