City Zoo

City Zoo (Chinese: 摩天動物園) is the sixth studio album by Chinese–Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M., released on December 27, 2019, by Sony Music.

The album starts from the human nature she has experienced in the past, turning her observation and care into lyrics.

Each song uses metaphorical methods to convey the status of interpersonal relationships or social phenomena through an animal image.

[3] The album begins with the album title track, which incorporates a large number of hip-hop arrangements,[4] Describe the living postures of various animals, and reflect social phenomena, and sneer at the dark side that everyone may appear at some moment and hope that everyone can clear the temptation of false lies with the clearest vision and make the best choice.

hopes to express her inner struggle and desire to share the mood with others, not to hear from others consolation, the producer used a very complicated rhythm set with G.E.M.

The song describes that if it is injured, it can only hide in the corner and lick the wound, but it must be strong in front of people.

This is exactly the meaning of the song: In times of difficulties and wind and waves, refuse to lose, don't retreat, and breakthrough with confidence.

The echo of the sound, more reveals the lingering blur and the sly hidden features of the wolf that the music wants to show.

[5] The eighth track, "Miss Similar" symbolizes the animal as a peacock, and describes this generation of imitation, giving birth to all kinds of strange ecology and humans.

The tenth track, "Don't Force It" is a duet song featuring Eric Chou, representing the animal as a hedgehog.

song reviewing the 12 years of her artistic career, she once learned a blank piece of paper.

She also hopes to use songs to encourage all those who stand at the crossroads of life and are confused about the future.

wrote down the limitations and pains of life and showed her determination not to be defeated by reality.

The standard edition was physically released on CD, as well as made available for digital download and streaming.

The music video earned 2 million views worldwide on YouTube on its first day of release.

It reached the top 5 of KKBox daily and weekly chart in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

made the first live performance of "Full Stop" at the 2019 AFA Asian Fashion Awards at Taipei City, Taiwan.

held a new song listening session, sharing with the live media and fans new works that have not been exposed.

Positive evaluations indicate that each song in the album has distinctive features, and in addition, the arrangement has also been well received.

's used very spoken but profound music to show her struggling during this period of time and her 12 years of debut.

Many music critics have pointed out that although there have been significant improvements in lyric writing, individual songs are still weak, and the album's idea integrity is slightly inferior.

[24] Track listing and credits adapted from the album liner notes, Apple Music.