Faces of Paranoia
2014 studio album by A-Mei / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faces of Paranoia (Chinese: 偏執面) is the seventeenth studio album by Taiwanese recording artist A-Mei. It was released on July 2, 2014, by EMI and Universal Music.[1] The album was originally scheduled to be released on July 4, 2014, but due to the audio files being leaked online, it was announced that the album would be released two days earlier.[2] It was jointly produced by A-Mei and Adia, and contains a total of 10 songs. The album continues the concept of the first and second half of her previous work R U Watching? (2011), since the first half of the album contains slow-tempo songs while the second half contains upbeat ones.
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Released | July 2, 2014 (2014-07-02) | |||
Recorded | 89 Studio | |||
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Length | 40:05 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
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Faces of Paranoia received generally positive reviews from music critics, who commended its production and hailed it as one of her strongest efforts. The record sold more than 50,000 copies in Taiwan,[3] becoming the year's third highest-selling album by a female artist and the year's sixth highest-selling album overall in the country.[4]
The album earned three Golden Melody Award nominations at the 26th Golden Melody Awards the following year, where she won the award for Best Female Mandarin Singer.[5] While the album's graphic designer Joe Fang was nominated for Best Album Design, and the album's title track was nominated for Song of the Year. On April 4, 2015, A-Mei embarked on her seventh major solo concert tour, the Utopia World Tour, in Taipei and ended the tour in December 2017 in Shanghai.[6]