On Jay Chou

Well, as usual, I always seem to be behind time, only discovering Jay Chou recently while watching a video of his world tour while in the DVD shop recently. Well, of cos I've heard of Jay Chou way back when he and David Tao became top hits at the same time around 2000 and I've heard many of his songs on radio etc. But to watch Jay Chou on video life in concert is another thing.

His 2007 world tour video (Taipei) is really a spectacular display of theatre, music and dance. After watching the video, I became interested to find out more about him. It seems that Jay has been a musician all his life and a very good one. Beginning with learning piano at 3 and then cello and subsequently he was discovered by Jacky Wu and started writing songs for other people before he released his own album.

Anyway, I must say that I was very inspired by his World Tour Video and I must say that the concert was very very well planned and designed and doing what he does on stage is surely every performer's dream - A whole orchestra, dance ensemble, transparent piano, special effects, fire-works etc etc at his disposal... Well, if he ever comes to Singapore, I'll definitely be there this time and be part of the euphoric atmosphere.

Here's one of my favourite songs in the video. A Theme song from Curse of the Golden Flower.

So I guess I've become a Jay Chou fan overnight.