Sunday, March 20, 2011

The emptiness after the song ends, Director Chou, the superman is afraid of loneliness

Jay Chou held his 8 night “The Era” tour concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum on the 16th. He said that every time after he gets really high from the concert, he’ll go home or to the hotel and face the feeling you get when the party ends all by himself, “Emptiness. The contrast is just too great.” It turns out “Superman” can’t fly and is also scared of being alone.

He said that after he goes offstage he has a lot of complex feelings, especially emptiness. How does he deal with it? “I would call the dancers to play with me, I’ll ask them ‘Was I diao today?’, ‘How was the dance before?’” You can tell “Superman” needs praising from friends.

Normally he stays in a normal room, when he’s holding a concert he upgrades to a presidential suite, for this time his room is about 200 square feet and high up, you can see the long queue at the entrance of the Hong Kong Coliseum, “Every time I would go on the porch and look at the queue on the opposite side, after I finish singing and return to the hotel, the people still linger around, there are loads of people, you get a real sense of achievement.”

In 2007 he stayed in this room as well when he held a concert in Hong Kong, at the time he invited Andy Lau up as a guest, “My assistant sent my a text asking me if he could get a photograph taken with Andy Lau.” Afterwards not only did the assistant get a photo taken, he himself also got one taken too, the memories feel fresh for him. When he was working in the behind the scenes he never thought he’d become a heavenly king, at the time there were only the four heavenly kings, no one could match them, afterwards he was crowned “R&B young heavenly king”, even though he is not just R&B, but he felt happy in his heart, “It sounds nice”, now he is already equal to the four heavenly kings.

He’s used to living in a large place and he likes having people around, in the future he wants to have a few kids, the more the better. He pointed to the living room and said: “It would be great to have a group of them running around over there!”

Yesterday night the guest for his first concert was Jacky Cheung, the two sang “Kiss Goodbye”. He started listening to Jacky Cheung’s songs in junior high, he was influenced by him and started to write pop songs, he gave it to the girl he liked; in high school the girl he liked also liked Jacky Cheung, he played the piano and sang Jacky Cheung’s song to impress her, he playfully gave his thanks: “Thank you for influencing my music path, you’ve allowed me to meet a lot of girlfriends!”

He once wrote Jacky Cheung into “Listen to Your Mother’s Words” to express his thanks; in 2007 when he was holding his concert, Jacky Cheung did a duet with him with the song “Listen to Your Mother’s Words” through VCR. Yesterday night was his 101th night, before going onstage he was very nervous, “When I duet with guests I get nervous, Jacky Cheung is a god-like senior, what I’m nervous about is the fireworks between and god.” This time he is holding 8 nights in a row at the Hong Kong Coliseum, breaking his own record and breaking the record for the most nights for a Taiwanese artist, the mots expensive tickets, the total box office is 2.4 hundred million yuan.

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