Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Posted by maei at 10:17 PM

jay chou rocks!!!

it's super-duper fangirl gushing time!!!

i'm so super happy, coz i got jay chou's album today! and guess what, it includes the mv's and a calendar (guilty: dearie told me he wanted the calendar the moment i told him there was a calendar given. but i wanted the calendar so much, so...) that is in fact picture cards of jay chou. his image is so super different from "qi li xiang" lar... he's like the soft romantic... and the talented musician who's quiet most of the time... even the songs are softer in this album.

even his raps have a singsong quality to it, and i mean it in a nice way. there's music to it. i mean, it's still basically rap, but it's not like "ren zhe" that kind. more along the lines of "zhi zhan zhi shang" that kind, but it's not so harsh. how to say lei? must must go listen.

til now, i'm pretty much stuck on a few favourites, tho' i seriously think the whole album is very nice, but i think i'll need time to familiarize myself with the entire album. i'll be listening to this playlist for a long long time...

the tops:
1.)"ye4 qu3" - nocturne
2.)"si4 mian4 chu3 ge1"
3.)"ni4 lin2" / "fa4 ru2 xue3"
4.)"shan1 hu2 hai3" - coral sea

i'm rather stuck on these few songs... but because it's such a hassle to type chinese on a com that doesn't have a chinese-typing program, except for the onebuilt in in windows, i'll refer to them by hanyu pinyin... let me give a short comment on each ba, depending on my personal opinion. this is by no means a review, and i don't mean it to be so either, but just a way to express my opinions on the songs... hee~


*ye4 ge2*

this song is, as expected, the number 1 hit in this album. it's artistic - the lyrics are beautiful, the music is awesome. i think the song is about his dead lover... and he's such a dedicated lover... it paints a beautiful picture -- a lone figure sitting in the middle of a cemetry with overgrown weeds at a black grand piano. he is playing chopin's nocturnes to his lover, whose grave is somewhere nearby. maybe there's a bouquet of white roses lying on the piano, but the roses are starting to wither and shrivel. and he just keeps playing, a look of stoic grief on his face, preferring to express his lost love thru his music than words. maybe it's just the way he is, that he doesn't have a way with words, despite being so dedicated and talented. who knows, maybe he has so much love unexpressed for his deceased lover.

it paints such vivid picture, and tho' the lyrics look odd upon first reading, they go so well with the music you just don't feel they're weird anymore. even the part about the flesh-eating ants attracted by rotting flesh sound artistic. god only knows. it's a song that one simply must listen to, with an appreciation for the lyrics. so pretty.


*si4 mian4 chu3 ge1*

this song is about the paparazzi. about his critics and about how he hates constantly being hounded by the media for gossip, and how he feels it's extremely distasteful that the reporters actually harrass his family. by the way, he refers to them as dogs.

in a rough translation, he described a scene where he was walking home, then he suddenly saw a whole bunch of dogs rushing towards him, and he wondered when he had kept so many dogs... whahaha. of course, these dogs referred to the paparazzi. then he went on about how he didn't like it that the reporters would just hound him and his family for gossip. and the way his critics try to shoot him down. but he also said that when he's at the top, nothing they do can topple him. he said smth extremely cute:

even if you can't defeat me, you can still be my dogs.

woots~ super attitude. there are loads of other things he said that really made this song great.

as you can guess, he wrote the lyrics himself. and the song has a very simple chorus comprising largely of "la-la-la's" so it's very catchy. which makes it such a nice song. the sheer attitude of it will also make you want jay chou more. ms said she wanted to marry jay chou. i'm sure many girls want that too.


*ni4 lin2* / *fa4 ru2 xue3*

these 2 songs just appeal to me. i don't have my lyric booklet with me at the moment, so i can't really make out very well what they are about. but they both have very nice music.

the first is a fast song. rappy. nice rhythm. one of the 2 or 3 true rappy songs in this album, tho' like i mentioned, even the rappy songs are wuite melodious. only he can do this. melodious raps. what an oxymoron.

the second is a slow song. his vocals are really well exercised in this song. his falsetto is awesome, tho his voice sounds a little pinched, it's still a range which many guys cannot hope to reach. it sounds good! that's the main point, coz even tho' it's a strain on his vocals (i hope it is, or i suspect he's a castrati *shudders*) he can make it sound great. nice song.


*shan1 hu2 hai3* - coral sea

nice tune. but the lyrics are rather simple. and the female singer (yes it's a duet) has a voice that doesn't compliment his. but ah well, it's got a nice tune and nice enough lyrics, tho' it's a typical love song - no, not in the sense of normal lovey dovey duets, this song is one of a break-up that occurred because neither loved each other anymore. rather sad.

the rest of the songs are all very nice too, but like i said, i haven't had the time today to listen to each in detail -- i'm easily mesmerised by my favourites and find myself going back to them time and again... hmm... maybe one day i'llr ealised that i've listed every one of the songs in this album under "tops".

but of course, that'll only be coz his album is so superb.

jay chou rocks!

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