'Always going to resent it': Joanna Dong still affected by criticisms on Moonlight in the City

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Set against the backdrop of the HSBC Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, local songbird Joanna Dong performed a cover of Moonlight in the City in April last year during Star Awards. Though the 40-year-old kept her rendition a ballad — albeit with a dash of her distinctive jazzy style mixed in — the backlash came swiftly and furiously. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5VdFaeQeOQ[/embed]...

Set against the backdrop of the HSBC Rain Vortex at Jewel Changi Airport, local songbird Joanna Dong performed a cover of Moonlight in the City in April last year during Star Awards.

During an interview for her upcoming Lunar New Year concert You Must Believe in Spring, she shared: "I'm always going to resent it. Let's just be honest. I've moved on but it's always going to bug me a little bit. "I was kind of self-conscious. I put on bit of weight during the pandemic and so I thought they're going to say I'm ugly, right? So I was prepared for that. But I was not prepared that people hated my singing, because I think that was where I was more confident."

Joanna added: "Believe it or not, in my discussion with my music director who did the arrangement, we said, 'Hey, this is a well-beloved classic, let's not change it too much... It should still be a lovely ballad, it should still be a slow song.'" That said, she acknowledged that she is privileged because her husband has a job so she "didn't stop eating well or living comfortably" despite the loss of income.

 

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