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Jay Chou wants number 1, if he can't get it, rather retreat to background
by kelvin@multistars - 6th September 2004Jay wants face, his new album "Common Jasmin Orange" has sold over 300,000 copies in Taiwan, apart from celebrating and being happy, he is worried about the sales of the "Incomparable" concert on the 2nd of October, "Music, I want the number 1 for sales, but it's good if my concert is not the worst." Repeat and repeat again "the problem of face", when asked which experience made Jay the most humiliated? He smiled grimly saying: "The GMAs!" Jay said: "The problem of face, I'm singing all live, this is a must!"
Director Chou targets concert to sell 30,000 people, at the moment they have already sold 10,000 tickets, "Can't do anything, recently I've been hearing too many gloomy ticket sales, I'm still worried." Director Chou said smiling that it is not appropriate to say lies in the market now, "There are too many factors to consider for concerts, I even want to control the lighting, scared that some people might be loose, disorderly putting lighting, not good picture effect." Considering his personality he gets nervous easily, Director Chou is not planning on changing into many clothes, "Changing clothes, it made me have cramp, affecting my mood, my performance will not be good." Alfa Music general manager Mr Yeung expressed: "Last time Jay's concert, the sound conditions weren't good, we have had experience and will be more careful, we will definitely spend a lot of money to get the equipment up." There were even rumours of someone singing backstage for him, the crisis of lip singing, he is not satisfied with that time's overall performance. Jay's nationality consciousness is strong, he hopes to attract foreigners who don't understand Chinese to come and watch, it was also the purpose of him writing "Nun-Chuks", this kind of Chinese style song.
Jay's skin is super thin, he needs face, he has to get number 1 in music, "If I can't get number 1, I will retreat to the background, the thing I want to seek is a kind of status of a musician." He said smiling, this year's GMA may be called one of the most humiliating experiences, "At that time I had 100% confidence, yet my points was 0."
Last year Director Chou was the champion of sales at G-Music, if he keeps a hold of the title again this year, he will give the prize "Sedan" to the second place artist, everyone thought of Jolin Choi, he only said: "That is I give it to the second place." And Jolin Choi lost to Stef Sun for "Most Popular Female Singer" in the Chinese Awards, Jay thought there isn't fair or not fair, "Whoever gets the award, to me it is not important." The two heavenly goddesses are preparing their new albums, Director Chou only cares about progress of Jolin's album, he also said he would write songs for her and produce, as for Stef Sun, Director Chou said: "We haven't worked together, therefore there definitely won't be any of my songs in her new album."
Director Chou said 3 years ago he once wrote a song for Stef Sun, but yet because of the reason of the "style is not unanimous with the album" it was rejected, "I really want face, I don't like the feeling of getting songs rejected." Afterwards will he still write songs for Stef Sun? He said, wait until Stef Sun asks, then talk about it.
But this did not affect Director Chou and Stef Sun's friendship, at the celebration party of the Global Chinese Music Awards, the two chatted for a bit. Director Chou admitted he is very nosy; he likes to ask about other people's love lives, "I asked her if she was happy? How she was? That is I wanted to ask her about her and her boyfriend!"