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The 3 songs that have influenced Jay Chou the most
by kelvin@multistars - 7th November 2005Creative genius Jay Chou has written many songs since coming out 6 years ago, Director Chou's "Nocturnes" has accompanied many students studying and many fans going to sleep, on Director Chou's path to musical creation, what songs have influenced him the most? Director Chou said: "There are 3!" Grasshopper's David Lee's "Return", Stevie Wonder's "I just want to say I love you" and Jacky Cheung's "Goodbye Kiss".
Jay remembers when he was 6, as long as David Lee's "Return" is on TV, seeing David singing and dancing, it will arouse Jay's desire to perform, he will run up to the TV twisting and dancing, after his family see this they laugh, their comments were: "You dance well, but you don't pronounce clearly!"
When he was 10, his father drove him to and from school, the song being broadcast on the way was this western song of Stevie Wonder's. Jay also revealed that, "Many years when his uncle passed away, his aunt placed a bunch of fresh flowers in front of his grave and also broadcasted this western love song of Stevie Wonder's." At that time Director Chou was young, he didn't understand the relationships of the adult world, after growing up he understood, this scene also became the MV story of his "Nocturnes", only thing was that in front of the grave it changed to broadcasting "Nocturnes" written by Director Chou.
When Jacky Cheung's "Goodbye Kiss" sold over a million copies, Jay was still a student at Jinhua Junior High School, at that time he was pursuing a girl, he listened to "Goodbye Kiss" with this girl, this aroused his desire to write, the confident Director Chou told his girlfriend, "I can also write a great song!" It was his first time writing a song to give to his girlfriend, Jay seriously researched about chords, "I really wrote a song." At that time his girlfriend commented: "It has a lot of feeling."
When he was in junior high, Jay's idol was Jacky Cheung, "I could never have thought that after many years I would be sitting with him offstage at the Hong Kong award ceremony, waiting to go onstage to collect the award, not only this but he sat next to me." That night, Jay said, "I was more excited seeing Jacky than getting an award."