[Jolin Tsai] Work Hard & PLAY Hard with Jolin in her 18th thread!

Linoa62 · #1 27th March 2016, 12:42 PM

Sorry for the lame pun but a magazine used it recently so...

♦ Work Hard & PLAY Hard with Jolin in her 18th thread ♦

♦ Short introduction ♦

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Jolin Tsai (蔡依林 Cài Yīlín) is a Golden Melody Award winning Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter. She is one of the most successful and popular singers in the Mandarin music market.

♦ New album UGLY BEAUTY ► December 26th 2018 ♦

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01. 惡之必要 Necessary Evil

02. 玫瑰少年 Womxnly
Who put the wrong souls into the wrong bodies
And turn those bodies into self-imprisoning jails?
In troubled times, hearsay abounds
Some beauties simply arouse envy
You are not guilty, it’s the world that is guilty

*Being alive is not a sin
You don’t need to be sorry
One day I will be you Baby boy, and you gon’ be me
If the clamor won’t stop,
I’ll stay quiet with you
I wish I could hug you till you’re really really being free

**The most beautiful roses have the sharpest thorns
A life in rosy hues shall be
The cold dish of revenge we serve the haters
Never let anyone change who you are
Boy or girl, you can be whichever you want
There will always be someone willing to cherish you

Try to imagine you switched to his body
Sexuality may be their reason to harm you
Countless deep wounds, endless cold insults
Who’ll be there when you’re drowning?
Who’ll be there when you’re dreaming?

Same shit happens every day
Has the world changed since you left?
Mistakes of ignorance still happen nowadays
We’ll never ever forget Yung-Chih, your story will be forever engraved in time

* Repeat
** Repeat

Rose Boy, your story will always be in my heart
Blooming vigorously in rose pink
You’ll never be forgotten by us

Your accusation was silent
Yet it has conveyed profound truths
Yet it has awakened innumerable kind-hearted people

03. 怪美的 Ugly Beauty
Lurking evil has always been around me
I’ve grown up in dirt with little support from society
But those traumas nourished me and made me tough
Those comments condemning the ugly and idolizing the beautiful
Oh, they made me laugh to tears

Survival of the fittest? Who are you to judge? What’s the rush?
Self-loving, self-loathing, self-negating
My external self reflects my internal self

*Who are you to say Wrong or right?
Beautiful or ugly?
If you ask me, I would say
I’m insanely beautiful.
If you can’t see my beauty, you must be blind
Talking sweetly in front of me but saying foul things behind my back
Who dares to set the standards of beauty
True self, false self, my self; Who I wanna be today
It all depends on me

Repeat *

Who can take me to the next level?
I’ve shouldered too many moral responsibilities. Living has become such a torture
Hurt me as you may. Defame me as you may. I don’t care
Being too polite to people can take a negative toll on the soul
Positive and negative energy, I’ve taken them all in
Beauty and ugliness are both necessary.
I don’t care if you love me or hate me
Save your disingenuous hugs
To thrive, we have to unleash our inner evil

Who are you to say Wrong or right?
Beautiful or ugly?
If you ask me, I would say I’m insanely beautiful.

04. 你也有今天 KARMA
When your dearest treats you like a disposable toy
Like a lamb to the slaughter, I fall into your decoy
Falling from Cloud nine
Does my pain bring you joy?
When the most caring embrace chokes the heart
And the tenderest hands ruthlessly strike
When the most cherished lips bite back
You deserve it, deserve it

*You will finally know what is karma
And learn the lesson you taught me
Thanks for living up to my expectation
Serves you right, finally

Watch as the butterfly becomes the Queen bee
See how the sheep retaliates against the beast
Witness the weak tears reincarnate into diamond fists
Isn’t it amusing? Amusing isn’t it?

* Repeat

A master heartbreaker, you should know
This heartache is nothing, compare to my woes
Just wait and see, Fate’s got more up her sleeve
The best is yet to come

You’re living proof that karma is real
A living nightmare is how it feels
Don’t let me down, here’s my wish to you
“Many happy returns”
Year in, year out
Year in, year out

05. 紅衣女孩 Lady In Red
Why is Mona Lisa black-haired, not red-haired?
Why’re you drinking black coffee, not red tea?
I like it red… I like it red…

Why do brides wear white veils, not red veils?
Why do you wear a bowtie, not a red flower?
I like it red… I like it red…

*How do you draw blue apples?
What outfits match with green dance shoes?
How do I use my phone when the screen goes black?
Don’t get it? Go play in the sandbox

**Red roses, are they blooming? Are they?
Red candles, are they lit? Are they?
Red clothes, are they dirty? Are they?
Hey, it’s your fault. Why’re you staring at me?
I like it red… I like it red…

If you hate me, I will take double the payback
If you love me, you will be doubly repaid
Love or Hate, I’m game
My red you won’t forget

I’m blood, I’m fire, I’m danger
I’m tears, I’m red eyes, I’m the lady in red
If my feelings for you could say their last words
I would hear your strong prejudice against the color red

Why are piano keys either black or white?
Why don’t people throw red handkerchiefs when they surrender?

I like it red…

* Repeat
** Repeat x2

Why must Prince Charming ride a white horse?
Why are you drinking black beer, not red raspberry sour?

I like it red…
U fucking dead

06. 甜秘密 Sweet Guilty Pleasure

07. 愛的羅曼死 Romance
How incredible that two people are destined to meet in a corner of this vast world
In cheesy love movies, whirlwind romances happen in the blink of an eye
Romance is poisonous, but some people are willing to hurt themselves for love
Unlike us, we end up together simply out of convenience

I can live a mundane life and have lots of babies with you
or we can have a dramatic relationship and deal with malicious gossip
There are both U and I in our “juicy” relationship
But in reality, the most popular love words are “I’ll buy you a house”

All I wish for is a typical romantic relationship
Candlelight, roses, entanglements, and vows
No need to be extraordinary
I just want to love you till the end of my life
After all, I’m not that valuable in your eyes

Really, all I wish for is a standard romantic relationship
From “I love you” to “goodbye”, every act is the climax
However, what’s underneath the pink wrapping paper is the damn reality
My tears are not enough to compose a poem

This marks the last time I lay my head on your chest and view cherry blossoms at night
The whole country mourns the death of our relationship with overwhelming noise
I need to get myself a blood red tattoo to get over our painful breakup
But all you need is a short breakup text, and then you move on

All I wish for is a typical romantic relationship
Candlelight, roses, entanglements, and vows
No need to be extraordinary
I just want to love you till the end of my life
After all, I’m just another cheap girl for you

Maybe what I really want is a melodramatic romance
Tragically beautiful and heart-wrenching
Unfortunately, what’s underneath the pink wrapping paper is our plain and ordinary life
At what point did our romance die ?

08. 如果我沒有傷口 Vulnerability

09. 腦公 Hubby
I’ve hit the jackpot, joy from above
No other words than I’ve struck gold
Waking up to you is enough to fill me up

Um lala Um ah ah ah
Just your imagination, I didn’t say a thing
Would you like a piece of toast?
Smile sweetly

Wanna call you my hubby hubby hubby
Every minute and every second, hubby hubby hubby
Always be with me, love me, cherish me, hug me

My hubby, like the extraordinary in the ordinary
Shining so brightly, makes me go ah-ooh ah-ooh
And I, like a reptile, cling onto you
for warmth
Going ah-ooh ah-ooh for you, oh yes

My hubby drives my imagination wild
Like my Senpai, reset my system mode oh
My hubby knows everything
Just doesn’t quite get me

If, one day, we let ourselves go
And chubby we both grow
Even then, don’t forget our taste for
Each other

Wanna call you my hubby hubby hubby
Every minute and every second, hubby hubby hubby
Keep your eyes on me always
Ok?

My hubby, like the extraordinary in the ordinary
Shining so brightly, makes me go ah-ooh ah-ooh
And I, like a reptile, see you in
full color

Hubby hubby hubby
Every minute and every second, hubby hubby hubby
Eyes on me only

My hubby, like the extraordinary in the ordinary
My hubby drives my imagination wild
Like my Senpai, reset my system mode oh
My hubby knows everything
Just doesn’t quite get me

Wooo You’re quite lucky
Wooo To be my hubby

10. 消極掰 Life Sucks
Don’t wanna wake up, don’t wanna go to bed
Don’t wanna change my underwear, don’t wanna take a bath
Just wanna surrender and wallow in self-pity
System malfunction. Noise jamming.

*Life sucks
Romance dies
There is no greater sorrow than apathy
I’ve got nothing but my glazed eyes now

Struggle to find love; suffer from loneliness
Struggle to make a living; stay in a job I hate for small paychecks
Down on my luck, only attracting jerks
It takes time to take these dark jokes

**Well said. You fall down, you lie down
Be negative. Negativity helps. Life has its ups and downs
Well said. Flush your bad luck down the toilet and forget about it
Be negative. Shake hands with your negativity and then throw it out

***Well said. You fall down, you lie down
Be negative. Negativity helps. Life has its ups and downs
Well said. Flush your bad luck down the toilet and forget about it
Be negative. Embrace your negativity and then cut it out

No more fake smiles. It’s fine to look gloomy
No more being polite. Wanna get unreasonable
Heartbroken. Wanna put all my troubles behind me
Hormones out of whack. No longer thinking straight

* Repeat

Struggle to find love; suffer from loneliness
Struggle to make a living; stay in a job I hate for small paychecks
Down on my luck, only attracting jerks
Gotta calm down and figure out why life throws us curve balls

** Repeat
*** Repeat x2

Enough rest. Time to gear up
Enough lethargy. Get up and stretch
Enough negativity. Say goodbye to negative thoughts
While there’s life there’s hope. Negativity is the way to healing.

11. 你睡醒再看 Shadow Self

All English translations by Bingo Bilingual@FB for Jolin's official YouTube channel except for Hubby (Wendy Huang) and KARMA (Wen Leng Leng)

♦ UGLY BEAUTY MVs ♦

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♦ Studio albums ♦

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♦ Lyrics / Music by Jolin ♦

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♦ Some hits ♦

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♦ Collaborations ♦

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♦ Some performances ♦

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♦ Links ♦

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Linoa62 · #2 27th March 2016, 01:07 PM

What has Jolin been up to recently?

> She won't release a new album this year
> She's supposed to start working on a new album in the second half of 2016
> She dubbed Judy Hopps in the Taiwanese version of Zootopia
Press conference pics: http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=837
> She attended Namie Amuro's concert in Taipei on March 5th and sent flowers
Pictures: http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=840
> She had a long interview with CommonWealth magazine, Taiwan's first political- economic magazine run by professional journalists
Article's summary

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> She got a Silver Award at an international Cake Competition held in Birmingham (UK)
Pictures: http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=844
> She also went to London with her mom and friends/singers Tanya Chua & Peggy Hsu
Pictures: http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.co....php?album=845
> She held two concerts in Atlantic City yesterday and today
Pictures: http://www.jolinjenerationgallery.com/index.php?cat=194
Setlist

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Fancams

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abestfah · #3 27th March 2016, 01:52 PM

thank you for updating news

JackieRos · #4 27th March 2016, 05:02 PM

Long post sorry!!!

I went to her Sunday concert and it was amazing, the only thing that I have to complain about is that she only spoke in Mandarin all throughout she only spoke a few words in English. I understand that she's a Mandarin singer but come on she was in USA, they of course know that not everyone that was going to her concert understood Mandarin. That's the only thing that I have to complain about.

The concert was 2 hours, 1am to 3am, I'm wondering why they chose that time. I sat next to the place where they did all of the sound stage stuff, not too far not to close. I took a few videos with my phone (they are a little bad quality), I'm going to upload them and link them here soon. I'm wasn't going to go to her concert but I thought who knows if she's ever going to come to USA and perform so close by me anytime soon (I live in New Jersey but I had to drive 2 hours to get to Atlantic City T.T) I know the last time she performed in USA was back in 2009 so I'm glad that I got to see her live for the first time. Thank you Linoa62 for announcing that she was going to be here, I'm surprised that her social media accounts didn't announced that she was coming here. I wouldn't even have known if you didn't say it here.

My favorite part was the end where she performed PLAY. She also performed a jazz version of Butterflies in my stomach, it was awesome.

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Linoa62 · #5 27th March 2016, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by JackieRos

Long post sorry!!!

I went to her Sunday concert and it was amazing, the only thing that I have to complain about is that she only spoke in Mandarin all throughout she only spoke a few words in English. I understand that she's a Mandarin singer but come on she was in USA, they of course know that not everyone that was going to her concert understood Mandarin. That's the only thing that I have to complain about.

Concerts outside of Asia are unfortunately only targeting Chinese people who study there/people of Chinese descent. Marketing is mostly done by fanclubs and the organizer's Weibo/Facebook, and in Chinese only.
Jolin spoke only in Chinese because they were not expecting non-Chinese speaking people at all...
I got a feedback from someone who went on the first day about this:

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She did noticed that there were some non-Chinese people on the audience (including me, yay!), and asked us if we speak Chinese. Of course we said we don't, and she responded: "but you sing my music, right?". It was a funny moment, but that's the only english interaction we had all over the show.

The same thing happened at her London concert back in 2012, she only spoke in Mandarin.

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The concert was 2 hours, 1am to 3am, I'm wondering why they chose that time. I sat next to the place where they did all of the sound stage stuff, not too far not to close. I took a few videos with my phone (they are a little bad quality), I'm going to upload them and link them here soon. I'm wasn't going to go to her concert but I thought who knows if she's ever going to come to USA and perform so close by me anytime soon (I live in New Jersey but I had to drive 2 hours to get to Atlantic City T.T) I know the last time she performed in USA was back in 2009 so I'm glad that I got to see her live for the first time. Thank you Linoa62 for announcing that she was going to be here, I'm surprised that her social media accounts didn't announced that she was coming here. I wouldn't even have known if you didn't say it here.

I went on the organizer's site, and concerts by other C-Pop artists were also at that time... I wonder why as well.
Someone on Weibo said that he came all the way from Toronto to attend Jolin's concert o_O

And you're welcome ^^ I'm glad you were able to attend!!

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The video you're referring to has been uploaded a few months ago on her YouTube channel.
During the Tour they aired 3 stories:
1st story

2nd story

2nd story's aftermath

The 3rd story was about a girl in a wheelchair, but it got deleted from her YouTube channel (maybe on the girl's/the girl's family request?).

By the way, can you please confirm the setlist I posted? It's very hard to get accurate setlists when she's touring outside of Asia

AyuHamasaki01 · #6 27th March 2016, 07:46 PM

Didn't Jolin study/major in English or something?

Linoa62 · #7 27th March 2016, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuHamasaki01

Didn't Jolin study/major in English or something?

She did, in English Literature if I'm not mistaken

AyuHamasaki01 · #8 27th March 2016, 07:49 PM

Yet she only speaks a few English words at her concert

I'm assuming that people who went to her concert, their first language is probably English anyway since it's in the USA? (assuming they were born there).

Well we still love you Jolin

Linoa62 · #9 27th March 2016, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuHamasaki01

Yet she only speaks a few English words at her concert

I'm assuming that people who went to her concert, their first language is probably English anyway since it's in the USA? (assuming they were born there).

Well we still love you Jolin

You have a point here

Since her staff promoted these concerts in Chinese, she must have thought "why even bother talking in English, if they're here it's because they can speak Chinese" I guess?
I may be mistaken, but I feel like Jolin and her staff are still not realizing that she actually has an international fanbase (even if it's not as big as K-Pop or even J-Pop fanbases) which does not necessarily speak the language she's singing in

AyuHamasaki01 · #10 27th March 2016, 08:51 PM

^That's really a shame

But doesn't she post in English on Instagram?

Linoa62 · #11 27th March 2016, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuHamasaki01

^That's really a shame

But doesn't she post in English on Instagram?

Not always, but she does post more and more in English there.
Like she used to do on her -dead- Twitter account...

JackieRos · #12 27th March 2016, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Linoa62

By the way, can you please confirm the setlist I
posted? It's very hard to get accurate setlists when she's touring outside of
Asia

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with the Mandarin names, like I know the English
name of the songs but not the Mandarin and I only took a few videos with my
cellphone.

I was watching my videos and your setlist through 1 to 10 is right.
PLAY was the last song.

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I uploaded some pictures I took with my canon camera
THEY ARE A LITTLE BIG
http://imgur.com/a/3UYJg

And I uploaded the videos I took.
If you're wearing headphones, turn the volume down

In some videos it sounds like very strong wind but is the music that was super loud.
youtube playlist

Linoa62 · #13 28th March 2016, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by JackieRos

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with the Mandarin names, like I know the English
name of the songs but not the Mandarin and I only took a few videos with my
cellphone.

I was watching my videos and your setlist through 1 to 10 is right.
PLAY was the last song.

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I uploaded some pictures I took with my canon camera
THEY ARE A LITTLE BIG
http://imgur.com/a/3UYJg

And I uploaded the videos I took.
If you're wearing headphones, turn the volume down

In some videos it sounds like very strong wind but is the music that was super loud.
youtube playlist

Thank you for the pics and videos!!!!

Wait, does that mean she scrapped the "Under the sea" part? (it contains 日不落 Sun Will Never Set, 無言以對 Nothing left to say, You Gotta Know and 野蠻遊戲 J-Game)

***koumori*** · #14 28th March 2016, 08:31 AM

Thanks for the concert review, JackieRos

The photos are great; I wish I could see her live as well.

Also Linoa62, it's a great first post to the thread. I can't believe how different Jolin looked in the late 90's/early 2000's!

AyuHamasaki01 · #15 28th March 2016, 09:43 AM

Great photos and videos. You're so lucky you got to see her live.

JackieRos · #16 28th March 2016, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Linoa62

Thank you for the pics and videos!!!!

Wait, does that mean she scrapped the "Under the sea" part? (it
contains 日不落 Sun Will Never Set, 無言以對 Nothing left to say, You
Gotta Know and 野蠻遊戲 J-Game)

Yeah I think so because Agent J was included with I'm not yours but
I don't have all of the songs on video so maybe she did sing them but in another order.

Sorry I can't be much of help with the set list.

Linoa62 · #17 28th March 2016, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by JackieRos

Yeah I think so because Agent J was included with I'm not yours but
I don't have all of the songs on video so maybe she did sing them but in another order.

Sorry I can't be much of help with the set list.

That's ok.
The pics and videos you provided are already more than enough

I'm jealous of your sign by the way lol

JackieRos · #18 28th March 2016, 03:50 PM

Thank you so much.
I scanned my ticket and put on a border.

I can't believe this was the first Asian concert that I've ever been to.

AyuHamasaki01 · #19 28th March 2016, 04:42 PM

I really wish Asian artists would acknowledge that Europe exists more often

RikkuK · #20 30th March 2016, 04:33 AM

Her concerts look freaking amazing