In MUSE we got one song more than usual (11)? Myself had 15 tracks including 10 songs (standard C-Pop albums have 10 tracks). The 5 interludes were only there to fit with the "non-stop party" concept of this album. It was a one-time thing.

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)

Same for me ♥ Have you listened to AMIT (the first one)? Unfortunately I don't have R U Watching? I own AMIT 1 & 2, and Faces of Paranoia.
aMEI's Utopia Tour is ending in August, I'm really looking forward to the DVD/BD!!

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

WHAAAAT XD
She has quite a lot of them (6 I think?), most of the time these bests are released when an artist leaves its label. In Jolin's case, sometimes years after she left, her previous labels (Universal, Sony...) kept releasing bests.

Here just in case other people would be interested: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6noxsCszBEEK04kCehugOp
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

It's not available in France... I wonder why?

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.

Jesus, some of these boys too... Like Wilber. They're like fine art.

He's also working on a new album. I really liked Crown/Clown and his previous one, The Story of Billy, so I can't wait for this new one!

Magazines:
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).

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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

PLAY World Tour editing done. No release date yet.
And new upbeat single coming in June!

New single next month, yeah!

Please don't let this be another Pepsi CM-only song, or another Journey. Jolin, please bring an album behind this.

She already stated several times that an album release in 2017 was more than compromised...
Unless she pulls a Beyoncé on us, we won't get anything until 2018 :(

It probably will be some CM-song because album is far from being ready to be released so it makes no sense to release a song that would promote an album.

Tom Cruise was in Taiwan to promote The Mummy and had oolong tea with Jolin on Wednesday afternoon.
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!".
It's tentatively scheduled for December according to reports.

What does this mean?

https://www.facebook.com/BritneyTWof...161075/?type=3