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Jay Chou has thought of a route of retreat for himself ages ago
by kelvin@multistars - 10th December 2003Jay has not been deified, this is a problem. When we gradually take R&B as being Jay Chou, when Jay holds a concert in the winter and the public feelings are still excited, when they still put Jay and Zhang Yimou together as the target of gossiping, we really cannot help but admit: Jay is too hot. Yesterday he came to Shanghai for pre-heating "Don't walk the usual path - Jay Chou Shanghai concert", Morning reporters had a chance to interview him exclusively, analyse the young heavenly king's innermost being world close up.
In his heart, Bruce Lee is God
People who are familiar with Jay will know, he worships Bruce Lee. No matter if it's that song "Nun-chuks" that has been sung to "pieces" nationwide, or deliberately imitating Bruce Lee's classic action look in his MV, this all reveals the Bruce Lee complex he has no way of covering. Recently a movie that is right now in preparation "Bruce Lee", it hasn't even started filming and they have already gossiped about Jay being willing to do the film with zero pay. And when this passed onto Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee's ear, she was worried, "He is not suitable, Bruce Lee should be played by a gentleman who doesn't have any rumours." Just like this Jay was inexplicably criticised. Facing the reporters, he wasn't angry, "I don't know about that matter at all, and I have not expressed that I wanted to play Bruce Lee. Me worshipping Bruce Lee and wanting to play him are two different things." Jay started to criticise himself, "I think I don't have the qualifications to play Bruce Lee. Don't see that I seem to always do a few moves in my MTV, but I only play nun-chuks for fun, I am not a training boy."
The reporters asked, "Then what is Bruce Lee like in your heart?" "Bruce Lee is God." Jay said, "Whoever plays him, they will be a bit short. I think he is very hard to surmount, not only that but he should always live in people's memories."
Being an actor, I am not very good at it
Jay pulling his hair down to his eyebrows cool image, you can easily associate him with a person who can forever live in his own world, making music he can be even more himself, but being an actor it is clear he is going to face a lot more of people's burning vision. But yet Jay once again expressed his interest towards movies. Recently, a movie "Hidden Track" with the flag signal of Jay's maiden movie just came out, but yet his performance in the film has caused a lot of criticism. Jay said frankly, "This cannot be considered as my movie, I'm only guest starring. I think that me being an actor, I am not an expert in it, I am more willing to film MTV." But he expressed, he truly wants to be a director, right now he has already been using a DV to try to film things.
Standing on the stage, if there's up then there's down
Should say, some of the things Jay has gotten now has come too fast, in the entertainment circle where idols grow apace, with his alternative temperament he quickly stole and occupied the market, making everyone shocked. The reporters suddenly threw out a solemn question, "Have you thought about, one day when you will suddenly not be popular, you cannot ride sports cars like now and eat Shanchen, can you still get back yourself?" Jay did not show a trace of seriousness but instead he said very calmly: "I've thought about it, I will go back and be my piano teacher. Before I became famous, I always wanted to be a piano teacher, if I had to go back now it's no problem. Since I came out, I don't see fame being very important and instead I thought about my route of retreat very thoroughly. No one can be popular for a couple of decades, this is no big deal."
Filming commercials, I'm scared of being alienated
People become popular, the commercial companies that look for him will naturally keep coming, this time before he came to Shanghai to hold his concert, he continuously dressed, texted, etc...promotion for being a spokesperson. Entering the business so frequently, will Jay be vexed? He said, "Everyone is in fact using each other, this usage is not in the derogatory sense, they can rely on my songs to attract the fans to buy their products and I can market my own music through broadcasting commercial songs, both sides win." The reporters kept asking, "Can it be you are not scared of being alienated by this kind of business packaging, that is you lose the sincerity of when you made music at the beginning?" "People live in reality!" Jay's response was very real.
And towards music, Jay is intelligent and real, you can say that he used his own hard work to make Chinese R&B really popular. The reporters asked: "Where do you think the trick lies in your own songs becoming popular fast?" Jay said: "R&B can be said to be things of foreigners, but my songs are good in that they take Chinese elements and combine them very well. Like "East Wind Breaks", the rhythm is western but the lyrics are ancient Chinese, the link between them can produce a kind of magic. When I perform R&B, maybe my oral expressions are not as strong as westerners, but my lyrics' view that has been accumulated by an established history is something they are far from having."