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Jay Chou: to get into a relationship right now, I'm not worthy
by kelvin@multistars - 15th October 2007Source: shzgh
Jay Chou, who successfully entered the movie industry as a director with his first movie "Secret", is officially returning to the music kingdom, he's starting to get busy for his new album "I'm Very Busy". But, for his performance in this year's Shanghai international arts festival "My Territory" 2007 world tour, yesterday Jay Chou came to Shanghai to prepare. Perhaps it was his success in the movie industry that gave him a good mood, usually he says little when faced with the media but yesterday he talked a lot. He laughed saying: "'I'm Very Busy' is just my situation, I'm really very busy right now." As for that song that is about love in his new album "I'm Not Worthy", he expressed, it is similar to the current state of his love life. Getting into a relationship right now to Jay Chou, who is so busy he has to split himself up for his career, all he can do is sigh with a "I'm Not Worthy".
Jay Chou admits that the songs in his new album have shadows of his life. For instance, "I'm Very Busy" is a reflection of his life, being a director, starring in movies, writing new songs, holding concerts, he is busy with a lot of things. And the love story of the song "I'm Not Worthy", which he plans to change the name to "Distance", is the current state of his life. "This song writes about the feeling after the break up between boy and girl, you can't say some lyrics are just about me, but indeed my life is inside." He expressed, the story from "I'm Not Worthy", the boy who has a beautiful girlfriend is pursued by the paparazzi, he is enjoying the romance in the restaurant, yet in the middle of it he has to drag his girlfriend away to hide, he couldn't give his girlfriend happy times, all he could do in the end was choose to separate. But, he plans to change the nane to "Distance", to express the feeling that "even though two people are really close, but yet the distance between their hearts are very far apart". He thinks, there are a lot of differences between the lives of boys and girls. Just like his current love life, in a certain stage of his life he is definitely not suited to being in love. "Career and love, you can only choose one, love right now, I'm not worthy."
The first plugged song "Very Busy Cowboy" from "I'm Very Busy" has been questioned by people online, they think "it's practically a kids' song, it doesn't have the atmosphere of "Beyond A Thousand Miles", the grace of "East Wind Breaks"." This song's lyrics are practically slang: "Justice calls me, the beautiful girl needs me, a cowboy is very busy...I la la la ride a hairy donkey, because I can't get onto a horse, when I bathe I have a bubbly bath, because I can play with toys…" Towards these questionings, Jay Chou said with confidence that he wanted the effect of a kids' song. In the background he keeps singing "Don't bother about it, don't bother about it", he wants children to sing it all the time.
According to his revealing, this song came from Gui Lun Mei's catchphrase. "When we were filming together, she often said "Don't bother about it", the feeling is very unique as she says it. There was a piano right there at the side, I played and sang "Don't bother about it". Originally all I wanted to do was make her happy, the result instead was that I discovered there was a kind of country feeling, it was also very cool." He said frankly, he wasn't changing his style with writing this song, instead he was shutting other peoples' mouths, to make those people who criticise him not able to say his music has no changes. He expressed that writing "Beyond A Thousand Miles" was also for this target: "My mother likes that kind of song, I made one for them to see, to prove I can change." But, this kind of change can only be one song in the album, the other 9 are still Chou style music.
Towards the concert in Shanghai stadium on the 24th of November, Jay Chou said, his biggest mission right now is to learn to dance properly. He said smiling: "When foreign artists watch our concerts, they must go crazy from the scare. All they have to do is sit there and sing, we have to have a richer content, sing songs and dance."
In the concert Jay Chou will use all his skills and perform "retro" songs, he'll do cover versions of songs he wrote for other people, he'll also be performing in rock "Bamboo, selling sweet congee, three pounds of walnuts and four pounds of shell", "Swing and swing, swing to grandma's bridge", etc these chants from Shanghai. In the concert, he will be singing all 10 songs from his new album. Thus, he hopes fans will "hurry home and learn them, then they can sing together". As for performing guests, at present they have only decided on "Nan Quan Mama". But, he will be choosing a few suitable people from the artists he's written songs for, he was most satisfied with Eason Chan. Because, Eason Chan performed his musical feeling to the "most right taste".
Apart from this, yesterday Jay Chou said: "There's still another "gimmick", that is a "memory of nationality", everyone has learnt to sing it when young, only Chinese people have it, foreigners won't know how to play. But, right now I can't spoil it." But he expressed interestingly, "That is definitely ‘Chou style music', definitely still pronouncing unclear. If I sang it too clearly, then it won't be called my concert."
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