Jay vs Chitose Hajime

Jay's new album has some Japanese influence, especially track 4, 花海! Reminds me of Chitose Hajime, the zhuan yin haha....nice try Jay hehe...

花海-周杰伦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areh8NJK8Dg

Chitose Hajime - Katari Tsugo Koto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbuI6FQC10

Chitose Hajime - Haru no Katami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwFiMXzoscg

OVerall, I enjoyed his album. Feed-good album. Not the best, but makes me happy.

Especially 魔术先生and 稻香.

魔术先生 - from the conversation in the beginning, the yodelling, the circus-like music, the cheeky lyrics, the change in tempo, till the blending in of 不用麻烦了, seems to me like he's having lots of fun@!

稻香 makes me forget my worries, especially with pre-reg, and just do my best n not worry too much.

给我一首歌的时间 is the typical Jay-RnB song. Thought the pre-chorus singing style was quite interesting.the opera-like 拉音.. hehe.. nice surprise. The MV sucked though. Just him trying to "moon-walk" and shots of the pretty lead actress. Waste time...

说好的幸福呢is a touchnng song! great 周式芭乐...Jay-ballad... 100% KTV hit!

the 1st track sounds like a song for a RPG game...or even epic film? quite grand kind.na... too exagerrated..

the 中国风 song not to my liking... still prefer 发如雪 菊花台 东风破.

流浪诗人 reminds me of Jacky Cheung's 如果这都不算爱, but in a more Jay-ish way. There's even 闽南语 in it.. like 1 of his songs in 八度空间. Quite a cool song though... has the country-cowboy-laidback feeling...

时光机 is the kind where it's not easy to remember - not as much "commercial" hook, but it grows on you..

Hated 蛇舞. totally didn't finish listening to it.. reminds me of Jolin or other dancing-diva-wannabes...乔克叔叔 reminds me of 扯 which I didn't like too due to the female vocals. then this song also has that "fake" female vocals..also the intermittent laughters scares me haha...oh but the Spanish feel in the interlude is quite nice..

Despite that, the albunm's still on repeat mode for the past few days!
Yeah Jay rocks! ha...

稻香

Jay Chou 周杰伦 - Dao Xiang / 稻香 / Fragrant Rice



YEAH! Jay's new song! Wow it's this time of the year that many of us will wait eagerly for the album, and then listen intently to the songs being released 1 by 1. hehe... I like this... the good old Jay is back.. nostalgic feeling...

random fav songs

Sigh today went back to school and realised I haven't got a lot of things done. But still can;t get down to doing them..

Chinese review of the concert
http://omy.sg/showbiz/enews/200801/20080121_004_jay.html

Like the last 2 paragraphs:
演出整体来说相当成功，意义有两层。第一，当然是周董自己实力的展现；第二，就是近年来他转战电影，但还是证明了自己在音乐上的成就和人气。

毕竟周董，是周董事长的意思。正因为周杰伦懂得如何在乐坛做出精彩的事情，首席的地位才能坐得久、坐得长。

video clips by Stomp
http://www.stomp.com.sg/stompcast/

and lots more fan taken videos on youtube, just do a search! haha..

周杰伦演唱会08

哎哟！不错哦！周杰伦真的很忙，在台上也超忙的！不但要换七，八套服装，还得弹钢琴，弹吉他，弹古筝，击鼓，跳舞，扯铃，唱歌。。。。真的是太精彩了！我觉得我不是再看演唱会，而是在看周董表演，耍帅！

他不愧是亚洲小天王，每一个举手投足能得到大家的欢呼掌声。而我呢，光是看到他就已经high到不行，根本都没理会其他人！每次看演唱会都很失态，唉，不懂大姐的朋友有没有被我吓到。

不管了！豁出去了！霍霍霍霍霍霍霍霍！！！这是encore的时候大家都在喊的！哈哈。。。

我不能再写长篇大论了，因为还有很多事没做！值得一提的是他古筝真的是弹得很棒，扯铃时也是太帅了！跳“牛仔舞”（牛仔很忙）和“僵尸舞”（本草纲目）时也是太可爱，太棒了！弹钢琴就不用讲了。是有目共睹的帅。而他在和辣妹g共舞时的尴尬笑容真是太好笑了。。 哈哈。。南拳妈妈改编的不能说的秘密也很搞笑，什么“从安静到千里之外都用同一个和弦”。。。而那位女生拉的二胡也是很好听，太有feel了！

还好他有演唱几首脍炙人口的旧歌，如黑色幽默，安静，开不了口。可惜他没唱很多其他的歌曲，如我不配，青花瓷，回到过去，还有很多我喜欢的旧歌。奇怪的是我最讨厌的阳光宅男和甜甜的都让我很high!

觉得最美中不足的是他好像生病感冒了，所以影响到演唱功力。。。而且也太短了,11pm 就结束，太早了！

尽管如此，我还是觉得这场演唱会超赞的！杰伦真的是很用心，很卖力，而且服装造型都很好看，都很有视觉效果！我也觉得他的嘴巴很甜，不过没说太多话啦。。还逗我们，问我们要他几时再来开演唱会，明天还是明年，哈哈。。

Official Setlist on the 19/1 Concert - Credits to : serene_sg @ jay-chou.net

黄金甲/ Huang Jin Jia
无双/ Wu Shuang
最后的战役/ Zui Hou De Zhan Yi

不能说的秘密/ Bu Neng Shuo De Mi Mi
退后/ Tui Hou
麦芽糖/ Mai Ya Tang
牛仔很忙/ Niu Zai Hen Mang
听妈妈的话/ Ting Ma Ma De Hua

piano
黑色幽默/ Hei Se You Mo
最长的电影/ Zui Chang De Dian Ying
安静/ An Jing

**Piano with Yu Hao**

千里之外/ Qian Li Zhi Wai
菊花台/ Ju Hua Tai

** Nan Quan Ma Ma sang their songs: Tonight, What Can I Do, Mu Dan Jiang **

本草纲目/ Ben Cao Gang Mu
夜的第七章/ Ye De Di Qi Zhang
夜曲/ Ye Qu
迷迭香/ Mi Die Xiang --> Jay's Grandma came out.. =)

** Edited version of: 双节棍/ Shuang Jie Gun **

彩虹/ Cai Hong
开不了口/ Kai Bu Liao Kou
甜甜的/ Tian Tian De

Encore:
阳光宅男/ Yang Guang Zai Nan
发如雪/ Fa Ru Xue
霍元甲/ Huo Yuan Jia
双节棍/ Shuang Jie Gun



ps: if u want the audio recording, just tag or email me. heehee...more photos here, all taken by my 2nd sis! heehee..


Jay Chou concert 19/1/08

http://community.webshots.com/album/562200888AMTWwg?vhost=community

Happy Deepavali! 等了好久的公共假期！

Presentation down, last dispensing practical down, still got 2CAs next week.. but don't care first....now looking forward to A-mei's concert!

And just received Jay's album. After resisting all those online listens, downloads etc... just prefer to listen ti the real thing haha.... however, no feeling at all, after the 1st "scan-through". Now giving it a 2nd listen.

I'm not happy with the recycling of the OST songs... although they are nice, but it just shows his insincerity.

Shall give a review soon...

Meanwhile, go view live performance of sodagreen's new song! Very clean-cut - just vocals with piano!
http://www.sodagreen.com.tw/main/weekly8.html

updates?

Oooohooo! Jay's 2nd 主打歌！According to jc.net, it's actually a song, First Kiss from the Secret OST. 为什么我没有印象嘞？But I think it's so unlike Jay also...It sounds very familiar, but can't recall anyone or any song. Definitely not Jay-ish to me...hmmmm... but nice...the rap in the middle is Jay already. Yay... haha...

But please I hope he doesn't recycle all the tunes from the Secret OST! That would show that he's very insincere!

周杰伦 - 彩虹(Jay Chou - Rainbow/Cai Hong) w/LYRICS



And while youtubing his song, found this song also from Secret OST, and the cute singer is rumoured to be with Jay. Ahyo, so pretty and cute, Jay 会被电到吧？哈哈。。。

周杰伦词曲主阵 江语晨《晴天娃娃》

Ahya might as well 一次过 post what stuff I've found these few days. Kept seeing her name appear, didn't know who she was nor heard her songs, so I youtube-ed her name la, and now thinks she's dam cool.... She's not exactly pretty, but she has that kind of "sei", the style, attitude. And her voice's warm and strong. I like! She's KT Tunstall, a Scottish singer-songwriter.

And I think the kind of looping system she often uses in her live performance is dam cool la. Suaku me didn't know such stuff existed.

KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree


KT Tunstall If Only Acoustic


Other Side of the World MV



Oh then ah, today when I was on the bus, I saw something that is usually not seen one in Singapore. There was this man who kept bending down when standing, I thought he has some muscle weakness or something, or that he fell asleep, but it wasn't. It was a conscious effort in the bending. Then a few people, a girl, and a beng-looking man, and me of course, kept looking at him. The girl, like me, was smiling to ourselves, cos don't know what he was doing. Maybe he was exercising or something. Then finally, the beng-looking man asked if he was OK, and he said it was cos of his foot or something. (I was listening to music, didn't hear their conversation.) But then later they actually had a friendly conversation. hahha...it's quite rare for me lor, this sight. Everyday, when we board the bus or MRT, everyone looks so glum and are so abosrbed in their own world. When would you see strangers striking up a conversation? haha...then they even "grabbed hands", like best buddy like that haha... so cute...and secondly, the beng-looking man isn't that beng afterall... do not judge a book by its cover.

K la, better get back to proper work...

牛仔很忙！

hAHA... Was waiting for the 首播 when doing experiment in lab. I kept laughing to myself when I first listened! It's super hilarious. After reading the lyrics, it's even funnier la... trust them to come up with such a song.... it's soo soo different... I like it, but I may grow tired of it, I don';t know... but can't wait for his album!

呜啦啦啦 火车笛 随著奔腾的马蹄 小妹妹吹著口琴 夕阳下美了剪影

我用子弹写日记 介绍完了风景 接下来换介绍我自己


我虽然是个牛仔 在酒吧只点牛奶 為什麼不喝啤酒 因為啤酒伤身体

很多人不长眼睛 嚣张都靠武器 赤手空拳就缩成蚂蚁


不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 不用麻烦不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了

你们一起上 我在赶时间 每天决斗观眾都累了 英雄也累了


不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 副歌不长你们有几个 一起上好了

正义呼唤我 美女需要我 牛仔很忙的


我啦啦啦骑毛驴 因為马跨不上去 洗澡都洗泡泡浴 因為可以玩玩具

我有颗善良的心 都只穿假牛皮 喔跌倒时尽量不压草皮


枪口它没长眼睛 我曾经答应上帝 除非是万不得已 我尽量射橡皮筋

老闆先来杯奶昔 要逃命前请你 顺便餵餵我那隻小毛驴