I've been meaning to write a review for the concert but I never got a chance to since I've been crazy busy! I figured, if I don't do it now, I'll never get it done. And besides, I'm sleeping too much these days, it's a bad habit to get into if I'm heading into crunch time next week.
So I never really watch HK concerts only because I've labelled them as boring and pointless. To be honest, I haven't watched a lot of Hong Kong concerts but the few that I've watched include Joey Yung and Twins, lol. And they were such a waste of my time. I always thought concerts weren't just the artists singing their songs, the artists were supposed to PERFORM their songs and make a -show- for the audience. Seriously, the Joey Yung concert I watched was so boring. She just ran around the stage singing her songs and banging her head to the music and flipping her hair to the water that poured out from the ceiling during the "high" of her concert. I like a lot of her songs so I did go in with high expectations and I was very disappointed. LOL.
So I was reluctant to watch Raymond's Let's Get Wet concert just because it was another Hong Kong concert... this time I DON'T know a lot of his songs so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to connect with the concert but I was so wrong. I totally loved his concert!!!
He first started the concert with a face-paced song, which I think is smart because you have to build the exciting atmosphere, you don't want people to like relaxed and sleepy during your first song. I remember Joey started her concert with My Pride, I love that song but I remember just kind of swaying to the music at the beginning but I wasn't *excited*.
I liked that he tried to dance in his concerts, like choreographed dancing, not head-throwing-running-around-the-stage dancing. His dancing was kind of awkward, but I do appreciate the effort.
After the first song, he followed with a couple slower paced songs. I didn't know all the songs he sang, but I LOVED THEM ALL!!! I really like his voice. I'm probably over-rating him but I find him to be in the better group of TVB actors turned singers.
Vincy Chan was one of the guest performers at the concert. Apparently they're from the same label. I haven't heard of her before but she and him sing good duets.
After Vincy, guess who else came?! WONG CHO LAM! I think it was really smart of Raymond to invite him as a guest singer. Wong Cho Lam works the audience so effortlessly and he was so funny. The only problem I can see with Raymond inviting Cho Lam is that Cho Lam makes Raymond look like such an amateur singer. I didn’t realize that Raymond wasn’t THAT great of a singer until I watched the two of sing a duet. Wong Cho Lam just sings without straining but I kind of find Raymond struggling a little. They also fit Nong Fu in with WCL, they’re like these Hong Kong rappers, I actually really like them too. I youtubed them and I found a couple of their songs that I liked and downloaded. Apparently, Edison Chen “founded” them. Whatever that means. LOL. I still think Edison is so stupid. It’s not because of the whole scandal, even BEFORE that, I think he’s so talentless. I don’t think he can rap at all or dance. But this is a whole other rant.
After Wong Cho Lam leaves, Raymond sings a combination of slow and fast paced songs, more slow ones though. I find that Raymond likes to sing slow songs more because he feels like he has more control of his voice but I find that when he sings fast songs, he doesn’t come across as “trying so hard”. He’s great with both, but seeing as this is a concert, I sort of wished he sang more fast songs.
I also figured that he didn’t have a lot of his own songs, he has like what? 2 CDS? So he sang some renditions and I think he did a great job with those songs. He totally turned the songs into his vocal range and his singing style so it wasn’t a carbon copy of the original.
Before intermission, he sang, “Finding you in loving memories”, I’m not sure if you guys know the song but it’s like part of the soundtrack for the TVB series Drive of Life. IT WAS SO AMAZING‼! LOL. I love the song and hearing him sing it live was even better!
After intermission, he started off with a fast song again. Very smart. LOL because I was starting to get tired of the slow songs. I’m not sure what the first fast song was but it led into a song called Tonight. I really like it, I think I’ll download that song sometime soon, the only strange part of the song was this random guy’s voice that goes, “Uh uh, go Raymond, uh uh.” *speechless* The song is good though. He’s not much of a dancer, he’s kind of stiff, they should’ve gotten the backup dancers to kind of jiggle like he does so he wouldn’t look so bad and it would look more like the dance was SUPPOSED to be like that. LOL. But still... he tried. KUDOS for that.
Afterwards he sang a series of slow songs... I didn’t know a lot of them. LOL. HE SHOULD’VE SANG MORE FAST SONGS‼! But I guess, by the middle of the concert, he had to do one of those go-around-and-shake-hands thing so I suppose it was easier for him to sing a slow song and go around to shake hands than a fast song?
Then he had another guest singer, Ah Sa from Twins. I don’t think she’s a bad singer, not phenomenal but she has gotten better over the years. They sang an English song together... I’m not quite sure why... But their English was good so I guess the producers wanted diversity in the songs? Ah Sa made a joke about how she became a guest singer because Linda Chung couldn’t make it, his rumoured girlfriend. After their duet, Raymond walked around the stage with her as she sang a song by herself which I found really weird. Like, why didn’t Raymond go off stage to like take a break or change his costume?
Raymond sang a few more slow songs until LAUGHING GOR CAME ON STAGE! Michael Tse is his name I think. I LOVE THE DUDE. I didn’t know he sings though... They sang a duet together, it was so jokes because it was a Twins song. Their dance battle was also kind of cheesy. I even though Michael was the better dancer between the two. Seriously, Raymond needs more dance classes. But Raymond was clearly the better singer.
After Michael left the stage, Raymond had the “wet” part of his concert, where “rain” started to fall from the ceiling. He sang a Jay Chou song... I think that was the worst song he sang at the concert. It wasn’t bad, but I personally don’t know anyone that can pull of a Jay Chou song. Then he sang the song “Let’s Get Wet” and I thought it was going to be a fast song, I mean, doesn’t it just sound like a fast song?! But it was a slow song. So basically it was “raining” and he was singing this slow song, and these half naked dancers like “dance” in the water and like... yeah. Actually, the dancers were fully dressed, the half naked girls were just girls who had to act all sexy in the water... I think that’s what they were doing anyways.
After the “rain”, Raymond goes in to change and he comes back with a beanie. I guess that’s smart. He’s probably cold from all that water, and he looks good with his hat. LOL. And he sings like 2 more slow songs. And THE END.
He ended the concert with “Ai Bu Gou” which is like... one of his most famous songs from the TVB series Moonlight Resonance. I don’t think that song will ever get old. He’s like a hit song for him.
I think he did a pretty good job, I don’t know how many concerts he’s had but if this is his first, then it was pretty good since he’s known as an ACTOR not a singer. Am I right on that? The only thing that I wasn’t a big fan of was his clothes? I thought he could’ve been more innovative with the clothes and his random “Yo” throughout the concert, LOL. Cute. He’s cute no matter what he does but still‼!
The concert was good. I would watch it again and again. I downloaded a lot of his songs just because of this concert. Wong Cho Lam has got to be the highlight of the show. I'm sort of glad Linda Chung didn't come just because I don't like the pairing... lol. And I just don't like her in general. I don't know why. I remember when I watched her in the pageant, she totally won me over and I wanted her to win so badly. But I guess, now that she's a celebrity, I don't find her that great of an actress or a singer. I don't know.
I wish I could go to one of his concerts.
