"Forget Him" is arguably the most widely known Cantonese pop

Cantopop

Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...

 song ever produced. Written by Hong Kong media maverick James Wong

Wong Jim

James Wong Jim was a Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter and talk show hosts. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong...

, it was originally sung by Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng

Teresa Teng , was an immensely popular and influential Chinese pop singer from Taiwan. Teresa Teng's voice and songs are instantly recognized throughout East Asia and in areas with large Asian populations...

 and was included in her first Cantonese album, "势不两立" (1980).

Fifteen years later, the song was given a shocking makeover by Shirley Kwan

Shirley Kwan

Shirley Kwan, Kwan Suk’E, or Kwan Suk Yee is an influential Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. She first shot to fame in 1989 as a pop sensation with the hit, "Happy Are Those In Love" and was popular throughout the early to mid-90s...

, as part of her 1995 tribute album 'EX' All Time Favourites

EX All Time Favourites (album)

'EX' All Time Favourites is a Cantopop/Mandopop tribute album by Hong Kong solo artist Shirley Kwan, released in 1995. It was published in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan, and later remastered in 1997.-Track listing: Hong Kong Release:...

. This new Dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...

 version was featured in Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...

's art house movie Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels (1995 film)

Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok.Fallen Angels can be seen as a companion piece to Chungking Express...

(1995) as the Jukebox song number "1818." As the title suggested, the hitman played by Leon Lai

Leon Lai

Leon Lai is a Hong Kong-based actor and Cantopop singer. The media refer to Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings . He uses the stage name "Li Ming" or "Lai Ming" which literally means "dawn."-Biography:...

 wanted his accomplice, Michelle Reis

Michelle Reis

-Biography:Reis was born in Macau which was then a Portuguese colony. Reis is of mixed ancestry as her father is Portuguese and her mother is Chinese. So, she can be considered as a macanese. Reis attended Maryknoll Convent School, and matriculated from St. Paul's Secondary School.Reis started...

, to forget him.

Also, Hong Kong famous pop star Jacky Cheung sung a song call "Forget Him" (1993) which recorded in one of Jacky's Cantoese album,"Me and You" (1993).