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Jay Chou has his birthday, two sides blame people
by kelvin@multistars - 13th January 2004Jay Chou celebrates his birthday, displeases overseas and mainland fans!
Jay is going to be 25 on the 18th of January, before on the 11th in the afternoon he held a low key birthday celebration in Taipei with his fans, to his surprise after it finished, it caused the fans to strongly rebound, a lot of overseas fans criticized the record company for changing the dates last minute, causing them to waste their plane ticket money; Taiwanese fans complained that the originally planned to be 3 hour party, finished in half an hour. "Alfa Music" responded with "We will work hard to improve" and they also expressed that no matter how they did it, they can't please everyone.
Director Chou plays games as compensation
According to Alfa Music record company's provision, only members of "Jay Organisation" can participate in Jay Chou's birthday celebration.
Last year in December, Alfa Music actively prepared for Jay Chou's celebration party, welcoming all members to sign up and they also notified that this birthday celebration party would be held on the 17th of January, making the fans look forward to it. Unexpectedly, on the day of 6th of January, Alfa Music notified the fans that the celebration party would be held earlier on the 11th of January.
A lot of overseas fans one after another went online and left messages protesting, expressing that they already booked their tickets, hotel ages ago and they have only 5 days, they can't get refunds at the travel agency, they are very dissatisfied with Alfa Music!
For this, there are only 150 fans participating in the birthday celebration on the 11th of January, but, Jay came out on time and he gave every fan there a signed photograph, making the fans happy. Jay, who originally didn't play games, played "Blowing the ping pong ball out of the flour" game with the fans at the last minute. Director Chou, who plays games very diao, smoothly blew out the ping-pong ball and he didn't get a face full of flour.
Still has to work over the New Year, nothing the birthday boy can do about it
The only thing that made the fans angry was that the birthday celebration party that was originally planned to be 3 hours, from when it started at 1 in the afternoon, it was finished unexpectedly in half an hour, "Forget about them changing the time, but finishing it early, they really don't have sincerity!" Afterwards one after another, the fans posted messages protesting online.
Alfa Music expressed: "Originally Jay already had a free on the 17th of January to see his fans, but at the last minute he had another extra job, he won't be in Taiwan on that day so that's why we changed the date."
Alfa Music said, there were a lot of year-end dinners at the end of the year, after they changed the date they had to book another venue, they also had problems finding a presenter, they had no choice but to change to the 11th, they are very sorry to the fans, but no matter how they did it, they can't please everyone, the fans that weren't able to come on the day but signed up, Alfa Music will be sending a signed photograph as compensation.
Director Chou originally had to fly to China on the 15th to rehearse for Central television's New Year night party, but Director Chou put forward his dream of not working on his birthday, at the moment Alfa Music are still coordinating.