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Faye Wong covered a lot of western songs, including famously Dreams by the Cranberries
She is from Beijing, but her early career was in Hong Kong - and as such the first cover 梦中人 "dreamer" was in Cantonese - a light hearted song with similarities to the original. She later created a Mandarin cover 挣脱 "throw off, break away" which keeps the general structure, but is much darker in tone, and there is a question if you can really call it a cover purely (both released in 1994)
Below is a comparison of the lyrics of the two
Some choice comparisons:
Cantonese
Follow with a ten-minute kiss
Mandarin
Let’s end it, don’t linger
Cantonese
Never been this close to you
Mandarin
I thought my tears were worth it
Cantonese
Dream lover
Mandarin
Love is extinguished
Cantonese
For ten thousand minutes of your kisses
Mandarin
Waving goodbye to yesterday
She is from Beijing, but her early career was in Hong Kong - and as such the first cover 梦中人 "dreamer" was in Cantonese - a light hearted song with similarities to the original. She later created a Mandarin cover 挣脱 "throw off, break away" which keeps the general structure, but is much darker in tone, and there is a question if you can really call it a cover purely (both released in 1994)
Below is a comparison of the lyrics of the two
Some choice comparisons:
Cantonese
Follow with a ten-minute kiss
Mandarin
Let’s end it, don’t linger
Cantonese
Never been this close to you
Mandarin
I thought my tears were worth it
Cantonese
Dream lover
Mandarin
Love is extinguished
Cantonese
For ten thousand minutes of your kisses
Mandarin
Waving goodbye to yesterday
