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I appreciate the fact that she takes her time to do her thing, but this process should be faster right? Considering she works with demos and everything...
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New endorsement: SHISEIDO Taiwan!
Pictures http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=924 Videos SHISEIDO 60th anniversary – micro movie 那支堅強的口紅篇 That Strong Lipstick SHISEIDO TW – 美麗不設限 Beauty Without Limits SHISEIDO TW 60th anniversary video During SHISEIDO TW 60th anniversary press conference on March 8th, here's what she answered when asked about a new album release this year: Quote:
Another excerpt from Milk X HK/TW interview back in January. > Jolin basically chooses her demos "with her guts". She doesn't have a special idea beforehand of what she's looking for. While listening to the demo, she's thinking about what style it can become. If she knows instantly what she can do with it, she keeps it. But most of the time the final product is totally different from her first idea. There are preliminary ideas [concept wise], she will choose the songs and the album's concept will come afterwards. She might also find new things when everything is completed. It's a stressful but fun process. |
Maybe that freedom is what's making her albums more and more brilliant. Really, MUSE was spectacular, but PLAY was one of the best albums I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. I confess her composer debut was not my cup of tea because electronic pop music is not my style really. But everything else was perfect IMHO. That's why I'm not worried about new material. I'm pretty confident. The only Jolin album I ever felt was a step back was Butterfly. The others, from before and after, I feel it's her evolution as an artist, as a performer.
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Play is what made me a fan! I like Muse too but its got nothing on Play!
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Butterfly was indeed a weak album - with the exception of the title track, that was great.
My fave album still is Myself. Still gorgeous from beginning to the end. But compared to some of you, I'm also a long time fan. |
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I started with J-Game, but i think Agent J is my favorite album. Overall she has pretty strong title-tracks and singles.
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My favorite is PLAY just because it's amazing and I can't get enough. But before it agent J was my way to go with her <3 thankfully there are some fans of this gem <3
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If I had to decide, my favorite album might be Muse... though I also love Myself (Love Player is my favorite song). Play is also great, I'm a rather new fan and started with that album :)
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I love every album after butterfly. :)
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For me, it goes like this :)
1. Myself 2. Play 3. Agent J 4. Muse 5. Dancing Diva 6. Castle 7. Butterfly 8. Magic 9. J-Game 10. Dancing Forever (I consider this album to be a mini-album with remixes as bonus tracks) Even if I love Jolin, I dont care about her first four albums at all (1019, Dont Stop, Show Your Love, Lucky Number) |
I've listened to Myself, MUSE and PLAY, but the last is for me her best work. I love this song:
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Album release in 2017 more and more unlikely to happen.
What Jolin said yesterday during a SHISEIDO event (nothing about the DVD release btw): ► It would be a bit rushed to release the new album in the second half of this year. There are MVs and choreographies to think about, Jolin is still trying different styles music-wise, she asks us to give her a little more time ► 1 or 2 songs will be recorded soon ► Last Thursday she recorded a new song for charity (release tentatively scheduled for May). |
PLAY World Tour DVD (& BD?) coming soon.
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I still feel MUSE was a huge leap for Jolin. Up until MUSE, she was becoming more and more like an icon, but MUSE was when she finally owned it and put it on display in every video, every song, and on stage. I still remember seeing The Great Artist for the first time and thinking, Jesus, Jolin is proving a point here. She really is a force to reckon with.
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In China Jolin is "only" labeled as an "A-list" celebrity and not as an "icon/legend" like Jay Chou or aMEI. Her turning points were Magic, and most of all Dancing Diva. With this album she became a star. Dancing Diva and Agent J are still considered as her peak... Her aura started plummeting afterwards, especially with Myself (it did "so-so" in Taiwan but flopped in China). MUSE has been more of a "mini-comeback" for her there. Some newspapers even said back then that it was her second best album after Dancing Diva. MUSE is the album that gave her a lot more visibility worldwide, and it really refreshed her discography and videography. Myself was only released 2 years before MUSE but when I listen to songs from Myself, I feel like they sound a bit... dated? compared to MUSE's. |
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It may look like she's been trying "too hard" with these 2 albums but maybe it's because she actually had a lot to prove (or felt like she had a lot to prove)? When she won the Best Female Singer Award for Dancing Diva at the GMA, people said that it was not a singer who won, but a gymnast (Jolin is talking about it in MWT DVD). For years she has also been dubbed as the "copycat queen" and eventually, she got sick of that. That's why since Myself (THE album where she started to involve herself more in her music) she's been looking for never-released demos for her albums, and why she's been wearing for the most part original outfits nowadays, designed for her. With PLAY she wanted to prove that she was a real artist and singer and not just a "dancer". She took opera courses, singing courses, acting & performance courses, producing courses too for this album, chose to make simple choreographies for her MVs, barely danced and did no "acrobatics" during the Tour. About her playful side, since Myself Jolin said she has learned to enjoy life and enjoy her performances more... She's now way more confident as well. And I think we can see that in her works, and in general. (Elva is supposed to release a new album this year by the way if you didn't know) Quote:
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I think MUSE is my least favorite album, I love The Great Artist and Beast. I sort of like Fantasy but that's it. My most favorite album of hers has got to be PLAY, I'm so glad that I
got to hear some of the songs live when she came to New Jersey. My ultimate favorite song is Pulchritude, I started loving this song when she sang it live. I NEVER SEEN THE MUSIC VIDEO. I didn't know this album existed, ULTIMATE come to think of it I never knew that Jolin had greatest hits albums O.O O.O :tired I'm going crazy right now. brb going to watch all of Jolin's videos |
Finally a cpop discussion with some quality! <3 a-mei is absolutely one of the best singers ever and I totally agree with whoever said she is one of those indispensable acts in music.
I actually came to know her last year when I was dating this Taiwanese guy and I told him I was studying Chinese and I like some Taiwanese singers. He right away said "jolin?" and I said yes! And the he said "you have to know this one" and showed me a-mei. At first, as it was a ballad I didn't give a shit... Some months later my teacher talked about her (about famous singers in Taiwan, she compared a-mei as a phenomenon to a Brazilian singer called Ivete Sangalo) and I wanted to listen to her. The first song I listened to was bad boy and I fell in love right away. And since then I still have a lot to listen to cause her discography is huge and lovely <3 BTW there are some of her stuff on spotify! ;) About play tour in bd quality YAAAAAS |
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AMIT 2 is not there :( Jolin is on Spotify too just in case some of you have been living under a rock lol https://open.spotify.com/artist/1r9DuPTHiQ7hnRRZ99B8nL |
AMIT 2 IS THERE!! But under the name... amit... in Chinese hahaha there's only amit 2 btw haha https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WpN5ddRbqM9mb2Xjxcy5l
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AMIT 1 is there though, under the name aMEI in Chinese: https://open.spotify.com/album/5MChttfU7HaYkbRMqE1GDk aMEI aside, Jolin performed on stage with 林宥嘉 Yoga Lin on April 16th at Taipei Arena (this concert was part of THE GREAT YOGA World Tour). Setlist: 舞娘 Dancing Diva + 思凡 Captain S.V |
IMO I hope C-Pop takes more of the world stage in the years to come. I couldn't imagine how dull my music library would seem without Jolin, aMEI, Elva, Angela Chang, and even guys like Show Luo, Jay Chou, and (my favorite) Wilber Pan.
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YOHO!GIRL (April) http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=928 Marie Claire Taiwan (May) http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=933 |
Jolin's painting for SEE THROUGH, exhibition against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia! It's called "你", "You".
http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=934 Description: "You look at others with strange eyes and distort their appearance, but what's actually reflected is your inner soul, which is also distorted. You can decide what you want to look like!" It will also be the cover of the limited single "WE ARE ONE" (1,000 copies only). The song is about LGBT rights. 張惠妹 aMEI, 蔡健雅, Tanya Chua, 林憶蓮 Sandy Lam, A-Lin, 那英 Na Ying, 楊丞琳 Rainie Yang, 蕭亞軒 Elva Hsiao and 小S Dee Hsu among others are singing in it. Release date: May 17th (international day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia). ________________________________ Jolin is one of the nominees of the daf BAMA MUSIC AWARDS 2017! You can vote by posting #DafBama2017_JolinTsai on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. (and since we are on an Ayu forum, she's one of the nominees too... If you want you can vote for her by posting #DafBama2017_AyumiHamasaki on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Namie is nominated as well #DafBama2017_NamieAmuro.) |
New single released yesterday: 讓愛傳出去/Rang Ai Chuan Chuqu (literally "Let Love Spread Out")!
It's a cover of one of 慈濟 Tzu Chi Foundation's songs (https://www.tzuchi.us/mission/ page in English). Jolin has always been very involved in public welfare activities. After seeing Tzu Chi's volunteers earlier this year and hearing 讓愛傳出去 performed by children, she decided to cover this song. 讓愛傳出去 has been re-arranged. Jolin spent several days in the studio, and recorded two versions, a warm one and a light one, and Jolin's mother chose the warm one. She said "very touching, very moving!" when she heard it (it seems that her mother has been volunteering for Tzu Chi for years btw). Since her mother is her biggest support, Jolin is also using this song as a Mother's Day gift for her, and wishes a happy Mother's Day to mothers all around the world. The music video below is made of family pictures sent by people to DaAi TV (Tzu Chi Foundation channel) and it aired today, on Mother's Day Eve (Mother's Day = May 14th in Taiwan). https://www.facebook.com/DaAiTV/vide...PAGES_TIMELINE Song only English translation by Hui Ying Chin@youtube Quote:
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PLAY World Tour editing done. No release date yet.
And new upbeat single coming in June! |
New single next month, yeah!
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It turns out that they met 17 years ago at Mission Impossible II press conference: They talked about their respective lives, Jolin made 2 cakes (it took her 7 days), and he gave her peonies and a diary inscribed with her name. |
I think you'll all be happy to hear that Jolin said today during an event that her new album will be released this year! When asked "Will the new album be released this year" she answered positively "It will! It will!".
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This fan is also adding in the comments that according to him/her, this collaboration, if it turns out to be true, will most likely be released as a single. People in the comments are rooting for Jolin, Elva Hsiao, G.E.M, Coco Lee... Jolin is releasing a single in June... She's keeping mum about the details. Let's not get our hopes up too high though. On Weibo Britney fans are talking about it as well, Taiwanese netizens think this Chinese singer is either Jolin or aMEI. Britney is coming to Taiwan to perform for the first time on June 13th... This collaboration -if it's really coming- might just be a performance on stage. |
Jolin's meeting with Tom Cruise: videos.
And Britney Spears posted this on her official Weibo this week: "Hi guys, if I have the chance to collaborate with a Chinese artist, who should it be? " People answered Jolin for the most part in the comments. |
Oh wow I didn't know she had a tattoo near her ear
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On May 20th, Jolin held a private fan meeting in Shanghai.
Here's one video of her performing 開場白The Prologue, 特別的人 Special Person (方大同 Khalil Fong cover) and 非賣品 Priceless in front of fans. If you don't know 特別的人 Special Person, here's the original version: |
New collaboration single, release June 20th: We Are One - Hardwell feat. Jolin Tsai
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jolin_caiYip~New single Is coming out tonight at 00:00 am ! #weRone #Hardwell #和我一起走到世界盡頭 edit: oops already posted :) Anyway, I think it's ok... |
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New video: It seems that this single will remain Asia only for the time being. And it's a warm up single for the new album. Jolin is also leaving Warner for Universal. The upcoming album (music, MVs, photoshoots, marketing...) will be produced independently by her own company, Eternal Music, founded in 2009. Interview (in English) on billboard C-Pop Star Jolin Tsai on LGBTQ+ Representation in Her Music: 'I Am Just Following My Heart' http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...n-in-her-music There's something in it about the new album coming at the end of the year: Quote:
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Hardwell has released an "international version" for We Are One.
Which one do you like the most? We Are One feat. Alexander Tidebrink We Are One feat. Jolin Jolin's English accent is weaker but I like her rendition better. This guy's voice is too "cringy" to me, and his rendition is less "intense" than Jolin's. _____________ We got lately some info about the new album: Jolin has 8 songs out of 10 (articles didn't mention if these 8 songs were already recorded or not), but she's stuck because of lyrics. She asked Ashin from Mayday to write lyrics for her, but he hasn’t handed any work yet. |
Jolin found lyrics for one song and recorded it.
She's still searching for lyrics that will resonate with her feelings and what she wants to say. By the way, the 8 completed songs are only completed music-wise it seems. |
^When you say found, it means she wrote it?
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I'm hoping as well that we'll see once again lyrics written by Jolin... Last time it was in 2012 with Beast :( |
PLAY World Tour DVD (and BD ?) release in November, new single coming before the end of the year, album postponed to next year...
Only 2 songs have been recorded, she's still stuck because of lyrics. She asked people to write lyrics (including Ashin from Mayday) but they haven't handed their works yet because of their busy schedule. |
Jolin has been invited once again to attend Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week.
She attended Versace fashion show last Friday and will attend LOEWE fashion show in Paris. Pictures http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=970 |
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PLAY World Tour DVD/BD will be released in late November/early December !
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So there's going to be a bd release? finally! 楽しみ!
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Still no news about the single announced by Jolin and supposed to be released at the end of the year... |
It feels like she's been touring Play for like 5 years.
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I can't wait for the new album :( it's been so long... |
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I need a new album, she gets better with each one.
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New single 幸福路上 On Happiness Road coming on November 20th for the movie of the same name.
Preview Cover is featuring a 3 year-old Jolin. She's going to perform the song at the upcoming 54th Golden Horse Awards (kinda like Taiwanese oscars) on November 25th. And we also got a possible release date for PWT DVD/BD. It's not official yet, but it's coming from very reliable sources. Release date for DVD: December 29th Release date for BD: January (January 18th according to another source). The concert featured in this release will be a mix of the 8 Taipei dates. Jolin's performance with Namie will be included! |
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Can we get dl link of On Happiness Road?
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J-Game LP coming on December 15th:
http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=438495678630 https://www.yesasia.com/global/j-gam...0-en/info.html And PLAY World Tour DVD/BD coming in early January (pre-orders will start this month). It's official, coming from Warner's CEO. Official announcement from Warner is coming very soon. |
Finally we’re getting the dvd!!! I’m so excited.
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Tracklist Section A - Magic World 美杜莎 Medusa 大丈夫 Real Man 美人計 Honey Trap 愛無赦 Bravo Lover Section B - Spooky Chinese Horror Scene I`m Not Yours 特務J Agent J 花蝴蝶 Butterfly Love Love Love 布拉格廣場 Prague Square 第三人稱 The Third Person & I 獨佔神話 My own legend Section C - 1920 Gatsby 大藝術家 The Great Artist Mr. Q 唇語 Lip Reading 檸檬草的味道 The smell of lemongrass 我知道你很難過 I know you're feeling blue 天空 Sky 七上八下 Butterflies in my stomach Miss Trouble Section D - The Sea World 日不落 Sun Will Never Set 無言以對 Nothing left to say Section E - Pool Party 迷幻 Fantasy 愛情36計 36 tricks of love 電話皇后 Phony Queen Dr. Jolin 舞孃 Dancing Diva 看我72變 Magic aka See my 72 Changes Encore - Alice in Wonderland 不一樣又怎樣 We're All Different, Yet The Same Play我呸 PLAY Behind The Scenes “We Are All Different, Yet The Same” Documentary Series Story of Lin Hsin Pei Story of Tseng Ying Chi Story of Katherine Tseng Story of Yeh Yung Chih Scrapped songs: the whole "old songs" segment (it was after 不一樣又怎樣 We're All Different, Yet The Same and before Play我呸 PLAY), 野蠻遊戲 J-Game, You Gotta Know. Most probably because of copyright fees. Pre-order links: DVD http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=438495678999 BD http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=438495679000 It's not on YesAsia yet. This release includes a 52x26cm poster and a hardcover 40-page booklet (size 14x28x1.5cm). So no awful shipping fees because of a big box with heavy postcards like Myself World Tour :P |
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Shipping fees costs to Europe are TWD$230 (6€49) for the BD and TWD$300 (8€46) for the DVD. |
Thank you, that's pretty reasonable I think.
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Can't wait to buy both together! :heart
Couldn't really invest much in music this year because of my half year abroad in Japan. Gonna order both DVDs now in January. |
New single: 什麼什麼 Stand Up. This single will be the theme song of Chinese movie 捉妖記2 Monster Hunt 2, sequel to the fourth highest-grossing movie in China, 捉妖記 Monster Hunt (2015).
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The song is catchy, I like it!
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It seems that the demo was slower, but when the producer received the demo, with Jolin in mind he decided to make it faster. _____________ Jolin has released 4 singles in 2017, 2 ballads, and 2 upbeat songs. 05/2017 讓愛傳出去 (Let’s share our love) / theme song for Mother's Day on Tzu-Chi Foundation's channel* *This one had an upbeat version, but Jolin's mother liked the ballad version more. 06/2017 Hardwell feat. Jolin - We Are One / Migu Music theme song 11/2017 幸福路上 (On Happiness Road) / On Happiness Road movie theme song 12/2017 什麼什麼 (Stand Up) / Monster Hunt 2 movie theme song Her new album is tentatively scheduled for a release before summer 2018. |
I don't really like the new songs :/ I hope she'll have more upbeat tracks on the new album.
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Jolin's performance with Namie will be in the DVD/BD, confirmed today during PLAY World Tour DVD/BD press conference (teaser starting at 33:45):
She watched Namie's performance on Kouhaku. Since there were no Chinese subtitles, she could not understand what Namie was saying, but she could feel that she was very emotional. She also said that Namie in private is "as cute as a little girl". |
8min+ trailer, included behind the scenes and Namie part.
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50 € for the BD (28 € on 5music, 34€49 shipping fees included) and 40 € for the DVD (19€35 on 5music, 27€75 shipping fees included)... https://www.yesasia.com/global/jolin...0-en/info.html https://www.yesasia.com/global/jolin...0-en/info.html |
^but if so, yesasia is much cheaper since their shipping fees are low as heck
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5music is much cheaper... From 13 to 16 € less than YesAsia. DVD (shipping fees included) : 27€75 (5music) | 40 € (yesasia) BD (shipping fees included) : 34€49 (5music) | 50 € (yesasia) |
^ah I see...sorry. Can everyone order on 5music?
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There's a bit of Google Translate to use at first to register but it's not that hard afterwards. Their customer service is good too. The prices I posted are for shipping to Europe by the way. Don't hesitate if you need help ! DVD: http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=438495678999 BD: http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=438495679000 |
^yeah i'm from Germany. Would be the same. I'll look if I can figure it out.
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PLAY World Tour DVD/BD packaging:
BD https://i.imgur.com/3PbKvqQ.jpg DVD https://i.imgur.com/qSdBwkP.jpg Both versions come with a photobook & a poster. |
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Jolin held a fan meeting last Sunday in Taipei for the DVD/BD that lasted nearly 4 hours !
Lots of interactions, games, and selfies with fans. Lots of singing too, including I'm not yours feat "G-Dragon" and J-Game feat. "Namie Amuro"... I cracked up when I saw "Namie Amuro" !! Spoiler:
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