Hong Kong Scenic Tour - Faye Wong in concert, HK Coliseum, December 24 Faye Wong is well-known for her ability to captivate, but the way she left the audience in silent awe for six long minutes was a sight to behold. Screams withered away and fluorescent tubes vanished from view as she belted out: 'Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me.' With these words, Wong once more dared to venture into new musical waters.
If the teeny-boppers that made up the crowd failed to make head or tail of her brave cover of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Wong could not care less.
This take on glam rock's epic swan-song embodies what Wong stands for in the local music scene - an artist who successfully re-packages left-field musical elements and sells them to the masses as populist entertainment.
Wong is a forerunner in providing shows that merge the values of good live music with the excesses Canto-pop audiences bay for.
Whether she succeeded in doing so in this show, however, is questionable. Wong is visibly caught between maintaining her much-preferred detached, icy-chanteuse postures and reaching out to appease the crowd.
Her uneasiness in boosting between-song banter was a case in point; her slight discomfort in partaking in acrobatics - one involving her stepping between airborne podiums five metres off the ground - was easily another.