Jay Chou Mania 周杰伦

Monday, February 8, 2010

Jay Chou's "gold partner", the Taiwan Provincial famous song composer, Vincent Fang arrived at Qingdao. In Bookstore, he held a speech about "rhyme poem" and incidentally held the book-signing of his new book "Fang Dao Wen Shan Liu (方道文山流)", the audiences were too much that the 300-seat available in the conference room was full and not enough, the mainstream audiences were the young students who would rather stand to listen to the speech, we don't know if this is Jay Chou's driven popularity or Vincent Fang's. In fact, it's very difficult to say it, even Vincent Fang admitted that "Now no one can do without the two."

The new book is more like a private journal

Because of the special relationship with Jay Chou, Vincent Fang's fans in the Mainland get a great influence. But most people only know that he is Jay Chou's "song's composer", but they do not know he was a poet, publisher, director.

Vincent Fang is an editor of the Chinese territory of publishing houses in Taiwan Province. He was the first-person propagated and was responsible for the enterprise company. The book "Fang Dao Wen Shan Liu" is the first time for Vincent Fang to publish a book in the Mainland, but this is his sixth book, and most famous book is "Vincent Fang's Rhyme Poem (方文山的素颜韵脚诗)." If we compare with his previous book, the book "Fang Dao Wen Shan Liu (方道文山流)" is more like a magazine, the contents of the article embracing the cultural observation, casual style of prose, the Chinese wind lyrics and songs notation, private life's photos, and so on. We may say that it's through Jay Chou, we all know Vincent Fang know, and through this book, the readers can find a closer to the real of Vincent Fang.

A friend of Jay Chou

Some media reports that as dissatisfied of low paying for the songwriting has made a disagreement between Vincent Fang and Jay Chou, but the new book of Vincent Fang broke the rumor. And more, Vincent Fang at the press conference yesterday, also revealed that Jay Chou's new album have been identified and will be launched in April this year, both of them is remained the same as the previous albums, cooperate to compose nearly half of the songs. For the front of the stage scenery and behind the silence if there is unfair, Vincent Fang also has its own comments, "not the same position, each has its good and bad. If a singer's album sold poorly, he may never have a chance to record the next album, while the terms for songwriters are different, change a new company, you can continue to compose new song, and our life period is longer than the singer."

After being partner with Jay Chou for more than 10 years, many thinks that it's a fate arrange for both of them. But Vincent Fang said, "Tacit understanding is fostered, and now become a revolution in the feelings." Vincent Fang said," At the beginning the two of us were new to the company's arrangement with us, and then slowly in cooperation with the accumulation of tacit understanding is trained up. "As for who is now left who, Vincent Fang said that it never comes to his mind, "Our relationship has turned into a friend from a writing partner, friends would not want this problem, if there is such a thought, it's not friend."

Does not rigidly stick to the "China Style"

Jay Chou's new album is forthcoming, and now the most topics are there any new element of style? How many "Chinese style" songs in the album? Vincent Fang replaced Jay said that, "since the second album, the media kept asking the question whether we have a new style, new element. In fact, each Jay Chou's album, all blend of love songs, ethnic wind, magic and other elements, the content and style have been a lot of style, while others may be a few albums just in a style, but the media still request Jay Chou for new thing, and this a little unfair. "

For the high-profile respected "China Style" request, Vincent Fang stressed that "China Style" in every of Jay's album, is not the main song, also in the number of parties only one from ten of all the words from Vincent Fang. However, because "China Style" has a very high degree of cultural identification, coupled with several who have made large tracts of the theme song to do the film, so naturally being the fans readily accepted. Vincent Fang remind the fans, "China Style" is certainly unique, but other works are also not neglected.

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周杰伦的"黄金搭档"、台湾省著名词作者方文山昨天抵达青岛，在书城做了一场关于"韵脚诗"的演讲，顺带签售他的新书《方道·文山流》，听众多到爆棚，容纳300座位的会议室座位不够用，以年轻学生为主流的听众宁可站着听讲也不离去，不知道这是周杰伦还是方文山本人带动的人气。其实这些很难分得清，连方文山自己也承认，"现在两人谁也离不开谁。"

新书更像私人杂志

因与周杰伦的特殊关系，方文山在内地歌迷中拥有广泛的影响力。但大多数人只知道他是周杰伦"御用词人"的一面，却不知他还是诗人、出版人、导演。

方文山是台湾省华人版图出版机构总编辑，台湾省第一人称传播事业有限公司负责人，此次《方道文山流》是方文山第一次在内地出书，但这已经是他的第六本书
了，在内地中比较著名的是
《方文山的素颜韵脚诗》。与以往他出版过的图书相比，《方道文山流》更像一本杂志，内容包罗了文化观察的文章，休闲式的散文，中国风歌词及歌曲简谱，私
人的生活写真照片等等。可以说之前大家通过周杰伦，知道了方文山，而透过这本书，读者们可以了解一个更接近真实的方文山。

与周杰伦是朋友

曾有媒体报道称方文山因不满歌词创作报酬低而与周杰伦产生分歧，但方文山新书周杰伦欣然作序打破这一传言。而
且方文山昨天在记者会上也透露，周杰伦的新专辑已经确定将在今年四月推出，两人仍然像以往的专辑一样，搭档创作其中近一半的歌曲。对
于台前风光与幕后沉默中是否存在不公平，方文山也有自己的哲学注解，"位置不一样，各有好坏。如果一个歌手的一张专辑卖不好，他可能再也没有录下一张专辑
的机会了，就此沉寂了，而词作者不同，换一家公司可以继续创作，我们的生命期比歌手长。"

与周杰伦搭档超过10年，并创下10年风头不减的奇迹，在外人看来两人的默契是一种命运的安排，但方文山说"默契是培养出的，到现在变成了革命感情。"方
文山说，"一开始我们两个人是新人，是公司安排我们在一起，后来在合作中慢慢有了累积，默契是那个时候培养起来的。"至于现在谁能离开谁、谁离不开谁的问
题，方文山表示，没有刻意想过，"我们的关系已经从创作伙伴变成了朋友，朋友之间是不会想这种问题的，如果有这种念头，就不是朋友了。"

不会拘泥"中国风"

周杰伦的新专辑即将发行，现在话题最多的是风格有没有新元素？有几首"中国风"？方文山昨日直替周杰伦叫屈，"从第二张专辑开始，媒体就不停地在追问有没
有新风格新元素。其实，周杰伦的每一张专辑里，都杂糅了情歌、民族风、魔幻等各种元素，从内容到风格都已经很多元了，而其他的歌手可能几张专辑都只是一种
风格，但媒体还是要求周杰伦有新东西，这有点不公平。"

对于如今被高调推崇的"中国风"，方文山强调，"中国风"在周杰伦的任何一部专辑中，都不是主打歌曲，在数量上也只占方文山全部词创作的十分之一多一些，但是因为"中国风"具有极高的文化识别度，加上曾为几部国产大片做电影主题曲，所以自然而然地被歌迷轻易地接受。方文山提醒歌迷，"中国风"固然有特色，但其他作品也不必忽略。

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2/6 Jay: Stubbornness is my Greatest Advantage 周杰伦: 固执是我最大优势

For the first time when the director filming TV series, Jay Chou's "Panda Man" received not the flowers but the tile: In the local stations broadcasting the dismal ratings, recently in the Shenzhen Star TV prime-time broadcast was again evacuated - "Panda Man" Is this real gold or just a rot iron? Is Jay Chou has been uncrossable supported? Yesterday, the reporter interviewed JAY via e-mail; he said that he has his own way, while filming TV drama needs the co-operation with the others directors so that the film will be accomplished well.

Filming the movie "Secret", the accumulated number of directors' experience, but when making the film "Pandamen", Jay got a difference feeling, "I am the only one director on the film, I am on my own way. While filming TV series need to cooperate with several directors, and I seldom co-operate with the others, this is a big challenge for me." According to Jay, and his stubbornness is his biggest advantage," In 2000, when I introduced the first albums, many people feel that my music strange, and even been regarded as non-mainstream, but later I got a great sold. So, in my music, I always have a super-confident on myself. I think my ear is that the ears of masses, what I feel good will be good for all, what I am feeling good on will be nice, my stubbornness is my advantage, my superiority. And now I want let my stubbornness to work in my film, although film is not my expert and I am not good in it.

Reporters notice on the Internet that a lot of internet users feel that the film don't reflect on the high-tech of year 2030. For this, Jay said: "I think in the year 2030, the city will not necessarily have the car flying in the sky, and the very different buildings. I think that in 2030 the city around us, and now perhaps also similar. But if you look carefully, or find some different feeling, such as the dress is very trendy. "

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首次当导演拍电视剧，周杰伦的《熊猫人》收到的不是鲜花而是板砖：在地方台播出时收视惨淡，日前在上深圳星卫视播出又被撤离黄金档——《熊猫人》究竟是真金还是烂铁？难道周杰伦一直在死撑？昨日，记者通过邮件采访了周董，他坦言自己是个一意孤行的人，而拍电视剧恰恰是需要和其他导演合作才能完成的一件事情。

拍摄电影《不能说的秘密》时，积累了一些导演经验，但是到拍《熊猫人》时，周杰伦发现感觉又不一样了，"拍电影就我一个导演，我非常一意孤行。而拍电视剧要跟几个导演合作，而我平时又很少跟人合作，这个对我来说是个很大的挑战。"在周董看来，他的固执是他最大的优势，"2000年，我推出第一张专辑时，很多人都觉得我的音乐奇怪，甚至被人认为是非主流，但后来却大卖了，所以，我在音乐上一向是超自信的。我认为我的耳朵就是大众的耳朵，我觉得好听的就是好听的，好看的就是好看的，我的固执是我的优势。而现在我想把它发挥到电视剧上来，尽管这不是我擅长的。"

记者在网上看到，不少网友觉得剧里根本没有体现出2030年未来高科技的感觉，对此，周杰伦认为："我觉得2030年的城市不一定就是要有会在天上飞的车子，和非常不一样的建筑。我觉得2030年我们身边的城市说不定和现在也就差不多。但是如果你们仔细看，还是能发现一些不一样的感觉，比如穿着打扮很新潮的。"

Source: jaycn.com