# Please Myself

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***Please Myself***,[2][3] also translated as *Ingratiate Oneself*[4] (Cantonese: [討好](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A8%8E%E5%A5%BD) [自己](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%87%AA%E5%B7%B1); *Tou2 hou2 zi6 gei2* [Jyutping](/source/Jyutping)), is the eighth Cantonese studio album by Chinese recording artist [Faye Wong](/source/Faye_Wong). Using the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯; *Wong Ching Man*), the album was released on 20 December 1994, under [Cinepoly](/source/Cinepoly_Records).

## Background and release

[Cinepoly Records](/source/Cinepoly_Records) released this album in December, only a few months after her highly influential [alternative music](/source/Alternative_pop) [Cantonese](/source/Cantonese) album *[Random Thoughts](/source/Random_Thoughts_(Faye_Wong_album))* and her second [Mandarin](/source/Standard_Chinese) album *[Sky](/source/Sky_(Faye_Wong_album))*. It did not match them in terms of commercial success. The album was released with three different [album covers](/source/Album_cover).

## Composition

Faye Wong composed the songs "Ingratiate Oneself" and "Exit" herself, and these continued her move into alternative music. The remaining songs were more conventional in genre. The lyrics are all in Cantonese except for "Exit" in Mandarin. She spoke rather than sang the words to this song, so that it is sometimes described as a [rap](/source/Rapping). Somewhat pessimistic in outlook, it was not popular with all her fans. Nevertheless, it was a hit single, along with the title track, "Honeymoon" and the ballad "Brink of Love and Pain". "Being Criminal" is a cover of "[Here's Where the Story Ends](/source/Here's_Where_the_Story_Ends)" by [the Sundays](/source/The_Sundays). "Sky Doesn't Change, Earth Changes" is the Cantonese version of "Amaranthine" (不變, Bù Biàn) on her Mandarin album *[Sky](/source/Sky_(Faye_Wong_album))*.

## Critical reception

In a 2023 review of four reissued Wong albums (*Please Myself* to *[Fuzao](/source/Fuzao)*) by *[Pitchfork](/source/Pitchfork_(website))*, Michael Hong wrote that the album "sharpened [Wong's] artistic identity" and most of the album consists of a "palette of dazzling [dream pop](/source/Dream_pop) and fond adoration".[1]

## Charts

### Weekly charts

Chart (1995) Peak position Hong Kong Albums (IFPI)[5] 2

## References

1. Hong, Michael (28 October 2023). ["*讨好自己 Please Myself / 菲靡靡之音 Decadent Sound of Faye / Di-Dar / 浮躁 Restless*"](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/faye-wong-please-myself-decadent-sound-of-faye-di-dar-fuzao/). *[Pitchfork](/source/Pitchfork_(website))*. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

1. Billboard - 1995 1 28 "FAYE WONG TO PLEASE MYSELF cinepoly"

1. Shane Homan Access All Eras: Tribute Bands and Global Pop Culture 2006-p228 "Faye Wong (1993) No Regrets. Hong Kong: Cinepoly. Faye Wong (1994) Mystery. Hong Kong: Decca/Cinepoly. Faye Wong (1994) Random Thoughts. Hong Kong: Cinepoly. Faye Wong (1994) Please Myself. Hong Kong: Cinepoly."

1. Maximum rocknroll No.191 1999 "Faye Wong "Di Dar" TP $4 Faye Wong "Ingratiate Oneself" TP S4"

1. ["Hits of the World Charts"](https://books.google.com/books?id=sgsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=faye+wong+ifpi+hong+kong+group+please+myself&pg=PA61). *Billboard*. 28 January 1995. Retrieved 5 April 2024. – via Google Books.

## External links

- [Ingratiate Oneself](http://www.wongfaye.org/fwcds16.htm) summary and translated lyrics
- [Ingratiate Oneself / Toe Ho Ji Gei](https://web.archive.org/web/20041027015459/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8598/faye/disc/15.html) summary at another extensive fan site

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