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Jay Chou gathers lyrics for Olympics globally, he personally writes the tune
by kelvin@multistars - 21st October 2007Source: Beijing 2008
Today in the afternoon, super popular idol Jay Chou took the opportunity while on Beijing's TV show "Dream Olympics" to announce, starting right away, he is gathering lyrics for the Olympics from all over the world, and he is going to write the song himself, he will be participating in the Beijing Olympic song gathering event.
At 1 in the afternoon, Jay Chou walked into the studio welcomed by screams from the fans, not only did he sing classic songs "Snail", "Nun-Chuks", "Beyond A Thousand Miles", "Chrysanthemum Flower Bed" for the fans, he also interacted with some fans, he did some basketball and nun-chuks tricks with them. At the very end of the programme, Jay Chou took the opportunity to announce that starting from now, he is gathering lyrics from all over the world for the Olympics.
Asked as to why he wasn't using his usual lyricist Vincent Fang, Jay Chou said, the span of the Olympics song is very big, the scope of the lyrics are also very broad, he hopes that through this event, apart from generating a good interaction with the fans, he's looking forward to receiving an even better piece of work. "If I don't receive a very good piece of work, I'll still get Vincent Fang to write it." Jay Chou said.
Talking about the requirements of the lyrics, Jay Chou said, the lyrics must have the characteristics of "Chinese style". "The Olympics song in the past was a bit protected, a bit cool, we can change the style in the past. I already have the style of the melody, it will definitely have some rock elements, it will have things like electric guitars in there, the effect I want is to make foreigners jump back a bit."
The person responsible for the Beijing Olympics song gathering event Wang Ping Jiu expressed that he was very happy to have a super popular idol like Jay Chou participating in the Beijing Olympics song gathering event, he was very grateful for his continual support of the Beijing Olympics. When asked what requests he had of Jay Chou's Olympics song, Wang Ping Jiu said, "We won't limit it to a certain style, type, Olympics song should be a very inclusive song, as long as there are a lot of people who like Jay Chou's song, then it's a good song". Wang Ping Jiu introduced that the lyrics that are participating in Jay Chou's Olympics lyrics gathering event will be delivered by the Beijing Olympics song gathering office to Jay Chou's hands.
Jay Chou hopes that when it's the 2008 Oympics he can bring his family to watch it. "I like watching Yao Ming play basketball the most", Jay says.
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