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Over the last two years, the torch-ballad "Rouge" (1986) by moody songstress Miyuki Nakajima has become something of a pop anthem across much of Asia, though not in its original form. The ten-year delay is curious, explainable in part through a timely convergence of improved communications, greater purchasing power and weakening ideological constraints. All these factors were lent a charming face in the young Canto-pop pixie Faye Wong (also known in an earlier incarnation as "Shirley") whose "Easily Hurt Woman" (1994) cover of the Nakajima song went instant gold in Hong Kong and Taiwan (and "massive" in mainland China) simultaneously. The music is credited to Nakajima, but Faye Wong sings unrelated lyrics more in the lilting semi-classical style of the late Taiwanese diva Teresa Teng, who was perhaps the closest thing to the Pan-Asia Star we've seen (she recorded in Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Japanese, English and even Indonesian). This much is unremarkable.
Yet in 1995, the same melody resurfaces in Vietnam as a danceable Viet-rap number by Nhu Quynh, as the disco-cha-cha (!) "Mega-Dance" in Cambodia, and as an up-tempo "karaoke show" number by Aye Chan May in Myanmar (who knows what other versions must exist elsewhere?). This song (these songs?) is on everyone's lips in these countries (this Asia?), lights blink and mirrorballs spin to a wide variety of "Rouge" rhythms everywhere. But by this stage, Nakajima's authorship is never acknowledged and very likely unknown. The instrumentation, arrangements and lyric content have changed completely, though the singer always remains a woman--gender is apparently hard-programmed into karaoke. But then again, absolute "originality" is never in question. Except to the absentee royalties collector.
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