From Album: "Jay" 17470 841
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Perhaps it was because Jay was just a nobody at that time, although he had already helped a lot of singers to write their own songs, but the last thing that people remembered was always the one who sang it, so Jay's first album was a big hit for the record company. The first album of Jay Chou for the record company has a big mood in which the small fight, can be red is certainly good, can not be red is also harmless, the key...
Perhaps it is because at that time Jay Chou was just a nobody, although he has helped many singers have written songs, but the last thing people remember is always the person who sings, so Jay Chou's first album for the record company there is a kind of petty emotions in which can red is good, can not be red is not harmful, the key is the whole album of the behind-the-scenes work basically out of the Jay Chou, the record of the The production cost is not high. Who did not expect Jay Chou to be popular, although it is not overnight, but his popularity is more terrible than the overnight popularity, like a contagious disease, one by one, ten by one hundred, gradually a disease called "Jay Chou" more and more prevalent. The popularity of "Jay" is definitely not inexplicable or unprovoked. The key is Jay's music style to a large extent different from the conventional route of Chinese pop music, and then can make his set of both absorbed the foreign pop elements and can be combined with the local characteristics of the R& B, Hip-hop in a piece of the Chinese market in the middle of the rule, the four flat and stable to kill the blood road. About R&B, Hip-hop, before not no, just more are imitation or copy, but not like Jay Chou land this so Chinese characteristics. Jay Zhou is borrowed this "Jay" in the Chinese music industry set off a R&B, hip-hop trend, and until today it can be said that these are still a mainstream element of the market. The typical Jay Chou R&B style of "Lovely Woman" is commercial in today's world, but at the time, such a light and rhythmic style was definitely a novelty in the Chinese music scene. Jay Chou's melody is smooth and clear, and Rachel Tsui's lyrics are warm and soulful, resulting in a love song that was fresh and beautiful at the time.
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Representative song: "Double-Cut Stick"
From the album: "Fantasia" 16006 880
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The popularity of "Jay" made Jay's second album "Fantasia" the most talked about, and he didn't disappoint in "Fantasia" either. The "Fantasy" album pushes Jay's R&B, hip-hop style to the forefront, and the melodic nature of the entire album...
The popularity of "Jay" made Jay's next sophomore album, "Fantasy," a much-anticipated release, and of course Jay didn't disappoint on "Fantasy" either. Fantasy" album will be Jay Chou style R & amp; B, Hip-Hop style to a climax, the whole album melodic more prominent, rhythmic rhyme performance is more distinct, especially Jay Chou in the music creation in the imagination and his style of the perfect combination of the listener and even the Chinese music industry at the time brought a rich and varied musical journey, true to the meaning of the album "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy", "Fantasy" and "Fantasy". Fantasy" meaning of the album, and thus a scene called "Jay Chou" was formally formed. The whole album continues the iron triangle pattern of Jay Chou, Xu Ruoxuan, Fang Wenshan, Fang Wenshan's lyrics in the text of the performance is more elastic and Jay Chou's melody has a perfect mosaic, and Jay Chou's creation is still in the performance of personality at the same time also does not lose the corresponding popularity, so the whole album pattern is actually also very clear, both "Ninja", "Shanghai 1943", "Castle Williams", "nunchaku", etc. These styles are varied, music, such as "Ninja", "Shanghai", "Shanghai", "Fort William", "Double Nunchaku", etc. The album's format is actually quite clear, with masterpieces such as "Ninja", "Shanghai 1943", "Fort William", "Double Nunchuck", etc., which have a variety of styles and musical elements, as well as masterpieces such as "Simple Love", "Can't Open My Mouth", and "Quiet", which are poppy and emphasize melodic fluency. Vanity Fair" is still an insurmountable peak for Jay Chou, and a classic masterpiece that many people still never tire of listening to. The song "Nunchucks" from "Fantasy" is one of Jay's early rap masterpieces, but it is also a classic masterpiece that combines Western musical elements with Chinese culture, and can even be seen as a prelude to the Chinese style that Jay has been popularizing ever since. The popularity of "Nunchucks" is not because of the song's melody is how smooth, but more because the song in the connotation of the performance of the Chinese and Western elements can be well integrated, and then dense a unique temperament to make people feel distinctive and distinctive. So it's not an exaggeration to say that although "Jay" is red, when it is only the prototype of Jay's characteristic style, and "Vantage Point" is the real Jay's style has surfaced as a phenomenon.
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Representative song: "Orca"
From the album: "Octave Space" 15065 804
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After two albums that were unanimously acclaimed by the public, when it came to the third album, "Octave Space", the view on Jay's music style gradually began to be controversial. There is a part of the world that believes "Octave" is still the pinnacle of Jay's sky-high...
After two albums that were unanimously applauded by the public, when it came to the third album "Octave Space", people's views on Jay's music style gradually began to be controversial. Some people think that "Octave" is still the peak of Jay Chou's work, in this album, Jay Chou's imagination, whimsy can still be integrated into his music, so Jay Chou's play on the music as well as the presentation of the way more seemingly at ease and can give the listener a sense of joy; while at the same time there is also a part of the people think that Jay Chou's "Octave" has already appeared to copy the traces of their own, listen to the music, not to surprise, not to feel the difference, not even to feel the difference. There is no surprise, no difference, and even the songs in the album can find a sense of déjà vu. The difference of opinion is always inevitable. In all fairness, "Octave Space" despite the push for innovation in this piece is indeed not as "Fantasia" to come to that kind of stunning and extreme, but the overall level of standard and "Fantasia" to maintain a level line, so despite the melody of the line or a sense of resemblance, but the creativity is still noteworthy, so is also regarded as a piece of work of the standard. Orcs" was the theme song for World of Warcraft Asia that year, and a gorgeous opener for the "Octave" album. In the beginning of the song, there is a nearly 1-minute overture to pave the way for the whole song, as if it is the prologue of a movie, the mysterious sense of mood gives people the space of imagination, and the middle of the interspersed with the sound of beasts barking, marching footsteps to a certain extent for the song to bring more imaginative space and sense of the picture. The melody of the whole song is hard and smooth, and Jay Chou's singing is still vague and lazy. The two are in contrast, but at the same time this is a representation of a characteristic, and that characteristic is called Jay Chou.
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Representative song: "East Wind Break"
From the album: "Ye Huimei" 15861 585
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"Ye Huimei" album can be said to be the beginning of the focus of Jay Chou's albums to create, image, since then from the former that in the album cover styling casually wearing a top hat or wearing hooded sweatshirts. Jay Chou has disappeared, and the Jay Chou who emphasizes on creativity, packaging, and gradually presents a sense of magnificence has appeared. And on the music side...
"Ye Huimei" album should be said to be the beginning of Jay Chou focusing on the album, the image, since then from the former in the album cover modeling casually wearing a top hat or wearing a hooded sweatshirt Jay Chou disappeared, and that pay attention to the creativity, packaging, and gradually showed a sense of magnificence of Jay Chou appeared. In terms of musical performance, it can be said that "Ye Huimei" is one of Jay Chou's more outstanding works in terms of overall musical construction and performance after "Fantasia", and from this album onwards, the music pattern of Jay Chou's albums has gradually become a unified pattern, and until today, we can all place Jay Chou's songs from each of his new albums into this pattern. And it can be said that the musical temperament of the album "Ye Huimei" has been elevated to a new level, in addition to the fusion of musical elements, the expression of a more distinctive and broader approach, and string ensemble, Tibetan sound, the fusion of Taiwanese folk songs, and even the use of opera aria vocal all appeared in the album. The whole album also has a leading significance, that is, by Jay Chou brought up the "Chinese style" characteristics of the music officially debut in this album, it can be said that after this, "Chinese style" has become a Chinese pop music in one of the most popular music style, so far there are still many singers never tire of using, including Jay Chou. The song "East Wind Breakdown" is Jay Chou's first Chinese style masterpiece in the true sense of the word. The song is about the beauty of the mood, through the melody, lyrics, arrangement to create a beautiful mood with ancient flavor. The melody of the song "East Wind Break" is beautiful, the minor key style shows elegant feelings, and the R&B elements mixed into the song does not lose the sense of popularity, in addition to the guzheng, pipa playing and can convey a sense of ancient charm of the wind. Of course, Fang Wenshan's delicate lyrics are full of "word brand" features, which add a lot of color to all the elegance of the song. From another point of view, the appearance of Chinese style in "Ye Huimei" album is not only the beginning of a kind of popularity, but also for the gradual beginning of the Jay Chou-style Hip-Hop, R&B style listeners to bring a sense of freshness.
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Representative song: "Seven Miles of Fragrance"
From the album: "Seven Miles of Fragrance" 15726 563
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"Yip Huimei" let Jay's music pattern formed a fixed pattern, then "Seven Miles of Fragrance" is the first album to put on this pattern. So actually listening to "Seven Miles" gives one the impression that Jay has stepped back in time, and many of the songs on the album seem to be basically the same arrangements as "Ye Huimei" as well as the songwriting...
"Ye Huimei" set Jay's musical pattern into a fixed pattern, and "Seven Miles" was the first album to put that pattern on. So actually listening to Seven Miles will give you a sense that Jay has stepped back in time, and many of the songs on the album seem to be basically the same arrangements as on Ye Huimei, but the whole album can't be said to be the same. But the whole album can not be said that there is no change, just that these changes have appeared in the details, such as the album's slow works of melody is still Jay Chou characteristic type of work, but it is to be more than before, full and delicate and listen to; and a few of Jay Chou Hip-hop, R& B-style masterpieces, although the feeling of the work with the previous works do not exist too much change, such as like The use of Beijing accent in "My Place", although it also appeared in "Terraces", but this time the performance is more comprehensive and extreme; Another example is "The Beast's Battle", although it is still the flavor of heavy metal, but this time in the heavy metal also added the British rock qualities. These are the changes that Jay has made in the seemingly unchanged situation in the "Seven Miles" album, which is being miniaturized and detailed, but it is also considered to give people a real sense of Jay's pursuit of music as well as innovation. Seven Miles is the album's self-titled title track, and is Jay's first crossover collaboration. Of course, the so-called crossover cooperation still has some reservations, only in the content of the lyrics borrowed from the Taiwanese poet Ximu Rong's poetry, after Fang Wenshan's packaging not only does not lose the poetic feeling, but also can be well embedded into Jay's melody. In terms of style, this is a song with a western light rock flavor, but the biggest feature of the whole song is actually the poetic lyrics. The song has a very oriental feel to it, and some people even categorize the song as another type of Chinese style, which is a bit of an overstatement.
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Representative song: "Hair like snow"
From the album: "November Chopin" 15438 599
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"November Chopin" can be said to be the one that really put Jay Chou in the vortex of "nothing new, repeat yourself". The reason for this perception is that Jay seems to have really run out of steam in terms of pushing the boundaries of what's new and what's not, and the songs on the album are more and more self-reproduced...
"November Chopin" can be said to be the one that really puts Jay in the vortex of "nothing new, repeating himself". The reason for this perception is that Jay seems to have really run out of steam in terms of pushing the envelope, with more and more of the songs on the album being self-replicating, playing the same routines over and over again. Of course, from a certain point of view, the outside world will have such a perception of Jay Chou is because of Jay Chou in the music presentation of the expectations are too high, so once Jay Chou in the music to bring the value of novelty reduced, then even if this is still a quality of work is difficult to escape become a target of the fate of the masses. It's hard for Jay to scale one height and then another. Of course, as far as details are concerned, "November Chopin", despite its lack of novelty, shows no signs of sloppiness, in other words, even if Jay is copying himself, he is copying with full sincerity. Hair Like Snow" can be seen as a continuation of "East Wind Break", but it is really more extreme than "East Wind Break" in its rendering of the Chinese style, especially in the expression of the mood of the presentation of the ancient elegance of the wind is heavier, emphasizing the poignancy of the feelings is also heavier. However, unlike the elegance of "Broken East Wind", "Hair Like Snow" is more chivalrous and tender. Rap passages are also added throughout the song, and an improvised Beijing accent is added at the end, as in Nan Quan Mama's "Mudanjiang". As a whole, "Hair Like Snow" is much richer and more varied in its structure and vocals.
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Representative song: "A Thousand Miles Away"
From the album: "Still Fancy" 14702 673
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The name "Still Fancy" is a continuation of the album's name, but it is also a way of expressing the album's desire to be as brilliant as "Fancy". Of course, the album's name is still more of a gimmick than a reality, and the overall performance of Still Vantsee is not to say that it surpasses all of Vantsee's splendor...
The album's title, "Still Vantastic," is a nod to the album's name, but it's also a way of saying that the album is going to be as good as "Vantastic" in terms of brilliance. Of course, the name of the album is still more of a gimmick than a reality, and the overall performance of "Still Vantastic" is not to say that it exceeds all the splendor of "Vantastic", but just to say that it maintains a level of excellence, which is difficult for "Still Vantastic" to do. And in the case of the overall musical structure remains unchanged, Jay Chou this time again once again in the details of the effort. Just like in the Chinese style works, this time he found little brother Fei Yuqing chorus, both to create a topic, and in the form of music singing can give a person a sense of freshness; and in the style of the aspects of the "Rosemary" to join the bossa nova elements, "Moulin Rouge" in the Latin music can be on the surface of the listener to bring a different feeling, these are also regarded as Jay Chou's this album in a new attempt. But as I said before, these are some superficial behavior, in fact, Jay's music construction is still the same as always, the form of musical expression is still the same, so comprehensively speaking, "still Fantasy" there is a sense of freshness, but as the so-called soup is not a change of medicine, then these so-called novelty is more or only floating on the surface. The most popular song in the album still belongs to the song "A Thousand Miles Away". In terms of musical expression, it is still Jay Chou-style Chinese style, and can even be seen as another replica of "Hair Like Snow". But this time, the smart Jay Chou is no longer a single shot, but to find the "evergreen" Fei Yuqing to join the singing. And because this is the song with Fei Yuqing chorus, so let the song not only have a topic, at the same time, freshness doubled, the key is Fei Yuqing's beautiful voice record and Jay Chou singing traditional singing style can really sparks. Fei Yuqing's vocal contribution in "a thousand miles away" for Jay Chou's music brings freshness, and at the same time, Jay Chou's this approach also for Fei Yuqing's personal development brought another day out of the day, can be said to be two birds with one stone.
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Representative song: "Porcelain"
From the album: "I'm very busy" 14966 685
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"I'm very busy" is afraid of Jay Chou was criticized before this the most of an album, perhaps because of the Jay Chou is really very busy, but also as a director, and when the actor has to shoot commercials, so the full-time The work of the music are no time to take care of, but also helpless to a year an album of verbal commitment, and finally "I am very busy" hastily completed the introduction...
"I'm very busy" is afraid of Jay Chou before this was criticized most of an album, perhaps it is because of the Jay Chou really busy, and when the director, and when the actor but also to shoot ads, so the work of the full-time music have no time to take care of, but also reluctant to a year of an album of verbal commitment, and finally, "I'm very busy" hastily complete the introduction. The market expectation of this album was still very high at that time, but the evaluation value showed a straight line downward trend after the publication. It can be said that this album Jay Chou not only did not innovate, breakthroughs, even copy are copied inaccurately, let a person saddened. Of course, this is not accurate is relative to Jay Chou himself, if the "I am very busy" placed in the Chinese music industry in the year, "I am very busy" still has a certain level of music albums, otherwise this album will not be nominated for multiple awards in the 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, I can only say that the large Chinese-speaking region, the music talent is actually so short of talent ah! Despite the many criticisms of "I'm Busy" as a whole, a few singles from the album still shine brightly, like the song "Blue and White Porcelain". Porcelain" can be regarded as another peak of Jay Chou's Chinese style, the song as a whole from the "thousands of miles away", "hair such as snow" which emphasizes the multilayered structural arrangement, followed by a simple, euphemistic treatment of the song to make the song seem more melodious and aesthetic. Fang's lyrics contain a great deal of classical literary features, appearing elegant and vivid, and presenting the beauty of a landscape painting with the flavor of Jiangnan's smoky rain. In other words, "Porcelain" really adds a lot of color to Jay Chou's "I'm Busy", and if there was less of such a song "Porcelain", I'm afraid "I'm Busy" would be even less worth mentioning.
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Representative song: "Sea of Flowers"
From Wanted: "Magic Jie Zuo" 13910 1082
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If you really want to compare, then compared with "I'm very busy," the "Magic Jie Zuo" is indeed a lot of progress, at least the level of Jay's music has returned to a normal level of value, but of course only to return to the basic level of Jay's music. Jay Chou's basic musical quality is guaranteed, not exceeded. In fact, from "November Chopin" or even earlier to...
If you really want to compare, then compared to "I'm Busy", "The Magic Seat" has indeed improved a lot, at least Jay's music standard has returned to a normal standard value, of course, just return to the basic quality of Jay's music to ensure that, rather than beyond. In fact, from "November Chopin" or earlier to "Seven Miles", Jay Chou's music performance has been more in the details of the changes rather than the entire music mode of change, so even if you come to the "Magic Seat", Jay Chou's music has always been difficult to escape from the lack of breakthroughs, no surprises these phrases to describe, which is fast becoming a kind of many people on the evaluation of Jay Chou's music albums of the mantra! This has become a kind of mantra for many people's evaluation of Jay's music albums. Although the structure of the album has not been broken, it can not be denied that Jay has taken some action in the local processing. It's just that these changes in detail seem too weak and small to talk about for the listener who has accepted the big surprises that Jay has brought to his music one after another. So sometimes I really don't know whether to say that Jay Chou has let everyone down too much, or that everyone's expectations of Jay Chou are too high again. Sea of Flowers is a different song from his previous works in the album "Magic Jerseys", and the biggest difference in this song is in the performance of the singing. Jay's interpretation of the song is sung in the Japanese island song style, which is best characterized by dragging notes and skipping on two beats. Although Jay's interpretation of the song is only a symbolic representation of the Shimakata style, it is undoubtedly a new attempt at singing the song. Interestingly, because the island singing style is not common, many people at the time listening to "Sea of Flowers" also mistakenly thought that Jay Chou broke his voice while singing, causing no small amount of discussion, thus bringing a lot of attention to the song.
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Representative Songs: "Across the Era"
From the album: "Across the Era" 13535 1638
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After the album "Magic Jazz", Jay Chou continued his very busy entertainment life again, and also to avoid the new album appearing like the "I'm Busy" album because of the very busy rush job production brings The album was released more than a year after the release of "The Magic Seat", to avoid any unsatisfactory performance like the "I'm Busy" album, which was made in a rush. Though "Transgression" is Jay...
After the "Magic Jaguar" album, Jay Chou continued his busy entertainment life, and to avoid the unsatisfactory performance of the new album like the "I'm Busy" album because of the busy rush production, the "Crossing Era" was released more than a year after the "Magic Jaguar" album. Despite the fact that "Crossing Times" is Jay's longest-running album to date, it still hasn't brought Jay a lot of goodwill, and none of the singles on the album have had the kind of reaction and popularity as songs like "Qing Hua Porcelain" and "A Thousand Miles Away" did. The whole album is still in the details of the changes. First of all, in terms of musical elements, this time Jay Chou in the music and incorporate a lot of new elements, such as electronic elements, blues style, etc., these are Jay Chou before rarely try; Secondly, in terms of singing, "across the times", Jay Chou in the bite of the word is more clear, and emphasize is the sound of the different music out of the rhyme, so in this album Jay Chou's singing, especially in the slow works in the So in this album, Jay's singing, especially in the slow songs, can make people actually feel different from the previous singing. The most important feature of the song is that Jay has added the most popular electronic elements to the arrangement, making the whole song sound electronic. However, in retrospect, in addition to the electronic elements, in addition to Jay's voice wrapped in electronic elements, is still a very Jay's work, including the song style, features, and the flavor of which will not be because of the invasion of electronic elements and the slightest flavor, perhaps this is the so-called the basic format of Jay's music!