My Pride
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My Pride is the name of an album by Joey Yung
that was released on March 25, 2003. The title song, "My Pride," was a cover of Fiona Fung
's English song, "Proud of You." Due to the success of "My Pride," Yung would earn over five awards for that song alone.
My Pride is Joey's fifth Cantonese studio album. This album does not only have quality non-plugs (non-singles), but all the songs plugged became hits, most notably My Pride (我的驕傲) which was considered 2003's biggest hit in the Hong Kong/Chinese music industry. This album is also famous for starting Joey's interlude trend in her later albums (most of them included interludes), though this is the only album where all tracks had interludes (with the exception of the Mandarin version of My Pride and Joey's duet with Deep).
(* symbolizes that the tracks are interludes)
song sang by the Cantonese
female vocalist Joey Yung
.
This "golden song" has brought Joey more than 50 awards in different parts of the world such as the USA
, Canada
, Hong Kong
, China
, Taiwan
, etc. The Mandarin
version of this song is titled 揮著翅膀的女孩. The song was originally a 30 second English Commercial song sang by a new female singer in 2008 named Fiona Fung
. The song was then changed to a 30 second Mandarin Commercial song sang by Joey (note that this is different from 揮著翅膀的女孩). Finally, this short commercial song was changed to a full Cantonese pop song (also sang by Joey), and this was the version that was plugged/promoted and later on topped the charts, becoming a hit and dominating the music awards.
Joey Yung
Joey Yung is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress from Emperor Entertainment Group. She won the prestigious JSG "Most Popular Female Singer" and "Ultimate Best Female Singer - Gold" awards a record breaking six times, thus emerging as one of the premier Cantonese singers in Hong Kong...
that was released on March 25, 2003. The title song, "My Pride," was a cover of Fiona Fung
Fiona Fung
Fiona Fung , also known as Fung Hei-yu, is a Cantopop singer-lyricist based in Hong Kong.- Biography :...
's English song, "Proud of You." Due to the success of "My Pride," Yung would earn over five awards for that song alone.
Track listing
- Geminian Theme*
- 習慣失戀 Immune To Break Up
- Joey's Clock*
- 神魂顛倒 All Dizzy
- Some Time*
- 心淡 Fading Love
- Yummy !*
- Honey !
- 你的擁戴 Your Lead*
- 我的驕傲 My Pride(西九龍泓景臺廣告主題曲)
- 好好聽 Sounds Great!*
- 跩跩 Naughty
- Meow's Greeting*
- 與貓共舞 Dancing With A Cat
- Clubbin*
- 囉囉攣 Uneasy
- Lesson One*
- 最後一課 Last Lesson
- 他都不愛我 He Doesn't Like Me Neither (duet with Deep Ng)
- 揮著翅膀的女孩 Girl Who Has Spread Her Wings To Fly
My Pride is Joey's fifth Cantonese studio album. This album does not only have quality non-plugs (non-singles), but all the songs plugged became hits, most notably My Pride (我的驕傲) which was considered 2003's biggest hit in the Hong Kong/Chinese music industry. This album is also famous for starting Joey's interlude trend in her later albums (most of them included interludes), though this is the only album where all tracks had interludes (with the exception of the Mandarin version of My Pride and Joey's duet with Deep).
(* symbolizes that the tracks are interludes)
Song
Proud of You/My Pride (Chinese: 我的驕傲) is a title of a popular CantopopCantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...
song sang by the Cantonese
Cantonese people
The Cantonese people are Han people whose ancestral homes are in Guangdong, China. The term "Cantonese people" would then be synonymous with the Bun Dei sub-ethnic group, and is sometimes known as Gwong Fu Jan for this narrower definition...
female vocalist Joey Yung
Joey Yung
Joey Yung is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress from Emperor Entertainment Group. She won the prestigious JSG "Most Popular Female Singer" and "Ultimate Best Female Singer - Gold" awards a record breaking six times, thus emerging as one of the premier Cantonese singers in Hong Kong...
.
This "golden song" has brought Joey more than 50 awards in different parts of the world such as the USA
United States
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, Canada
Canada
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, Hong Kong
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, China
China
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, Taiwan
Taiwan
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, etc. The Mandarin
Standard Mandarin
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version of this song is titled 揮著翅膀的女孩. The song was originally a 30 second English Commercial song sang by a new female singer in 2008 named Fiona Fung
Fiona Fung
Fiona Fung , also known as Fung Hei-yu, is a Cantopop singer-lyricist based in Hong Kong.- Biography :...
. The song was then changed to a 30 second Mandarin Commercial song sang by Joey (note that this is different from 揮著翅膀的女孩). Finally, this short commercial song was changed to a full Cantonese pop song (also sang by Joey), and this was the version that was plugged/promoted and later on topped the charts, becoming a hit and dominating the music awards.
Awards and achievements
This song is considered by many fans to be responsible for making 2003 such a successful year for Joey and thus helping Joey achieve the Pop Queen status. The following are some of the many awards won by the song and the album.- 2003年度十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮 (JSG Top Ten Songs Awards)
- 金曲金獎 (Golden Gold Song/Best Song of the Year Award)
- 十大勁歌金曲 (Top Ten Songs Award)
- 2003十大中文金曲頒獎音樂會 (RTHK Top Ten Gold Songs Awards)
- 全球華人至尊金曲(Best Global Chinese Song of the Year)
- 十大中文金曲(Top Ten Chinese Songs)
- 2003年度新城勁爆頒獎禮
- 勁爆年度歌曲(Song of the Year)
- 勁爆歌曲 (Top 21 Hits of the Year)
- 2003年度叱咤樂壇流行榜頒獎典禮 (CRHK Hit Songs Award)
- 叱咤十大 (CRHK Top Ten) 7th Best Song (considered unfair by many fans since My Pride was the #1 song of the year at all the other stations)