''Can't be half'' is the third full-length studio album released by Chinese

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singer Jason Chan. The album contains songs in

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, English and

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. The album was released on 18 December 2009 by record label

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. One of the songs appearing on the album, "最後的擁抱" contains a part of the melody from a song by the Japanese pop group flumpool. The guitarist from Flumpool is listed as the producer for the song.

Track listing

CD DVD * "最後的擁抱" has the same melody as the Japanese song "MW ~Dear Mr. & Ms. Picaresque~" (MW ～Dear Mr. & Ms. ピカレスク～) by the Japanese group '' flumpool''. Kazuki Sakai, a guitarist in ''flumpool'', is credited as one of the producers for the song for Jason Chan.

Cultural Influence

*"You Deceive, I Deceive" has become one of the greatest hit of Jason Chan. After

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, some netizens from Mainland China were celebrating for the disaster in Japan. Some netizens in Hong Kong had created a transformative work (namely "Martyr in Fukushima", 福島烈士) based on this song, in the hope of fighting back the netizens from Mainland China, and to show support to the Japanese victims. The song was also supported by Sony Music Entertainment Hong Kong.

References

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