Jay Chou continued to wow fans on the 3rd night of his concert at the Taipei Arena. Not only did he impress the audience with yet another performance, but more surprisingly, his rumored ex-girl friend Jolin Tsai was special guest of the night!

The Era 2010 World Tour marks the 4th tour in Jay Chou’s 10-year career. Its state-of-the-art visual effects and production is said to cost 100 million (NTD). However, the concert was criticized by fans for being too short and featuring too many singers from his company. Jay Chou was quick to react as he added 4 songs on the second night. JVR Music’s Lara, The Drifters, Cindy Yen and Gary Yang all took the stage. Unfortunately, The Drifters was noticeably the show’s washroom break when they performed.

After former J-Girls Jessie Chiang and Hebe attended the concert earlier, fans got a real surprise when Jolin Tsai appeared as the special guest on the final night. She ascended onto the stage while Jay Chou was singing “Give Me The Time of a Song” during the encore. Fans were shocked and excited as they screamed through the rumored ex-couple’s entire performance. Interestingly, Jay Chou previously said his special guest would be someone beyond everyone’s expectations. And yes, he has kept his word indeed.

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Not long ago Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou were rumoured to be getting back together again, but now news is coming out that, the two met to talk about business! Due to the fact that there is only one album left on Jolin Tsai’s contract with Chen Ze Shan, it is now rumoured that Jay Chou intends to sign Jolin Tsai, after all Jolin Tsai’s yearly income is 3.5 hundred million, if he was to obtain the heavenly queen, his books will certainly look good, but the agent companies from both sides have not commented on the rumour, only expressing that they are not clear about the contents of the contract, leaving it to the imagination of the outside world.

Things to wear, things to drink, things to wash, things to use, Jolin Tsai is like a commercial board, she is spokesperson for endless products, now even her old flame Jay Chou is rumoured to be entering the battle for her.

It turns out playing bowling wasn’t because the love had been reignited, but it was to talk about business, Jay Chou wants to snatch the heavenly queen, what he sees is of course the major commercials behind her; totalling from last year, Jolin Tsai took on 24 commercial performances, raking in 80 million; she held 2 sessions of concerts totalling 7.8 million, she was spokesperson for 11 brands, 2.3 hundred million, another 20 million for royalties and also royalties for her own design, 10 million, her income is close to 3.5 hundred million.

Based on the average cut between agent companies and record companies these days, even if it was split 30% and 70%, if you won the record contract you’ll still earn money, the contract between Jolin Tsai and Chen Ze Shan is only one album per year, now the last one is at the end of July, Jay Chou, who previously got into an argument with Chen Ze Shan about buying chart numbers, has been rumoured to harbour intentions of turning his old flame into his colleague.

Jay Chou’s agent company expressed, because they are not clear about the contents of the contract, they will not make any comments, Chen Ze Shan also didn’t comment, who will Jolin Tsai end up with, it is inevitable it will become a talking point, it is also indirectly increasing her fame.

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Jolin Tsai’s birthday wish is to be Taiwan’s Lady Gaga! Jolin, who always seeks perfection, aiming to constantly make new breakthroughs in music and dancing says that her idol burden prevents her from making bold attempts. She revealed that she admires that Western artists can display their inner self: “Watching Lady Gaga’s MV, what she does is also what I really want to do, but her personality is very different from mine. If I am more brave, and don’t care about how others criticize me, then I can be like her!”

The strong queen, only admits defeat when it comes to love. Jolin revealed: “As soon as I meet love, I’m finished, infront of my other half, I am not strong at all, I’m that kind of person who.. fakes pity, of course sometimes I do think that I am quite pitiful la, haha!” Jolin is about to welcome her 3-month holiday, and she has decided to leave more room for herself; she said laughing: “Give myself a break, enjoy life, that way I may still be able to be an idol when I’m 60.”

Last year, Jolin joined Warner Music, and hoped to break into the international market. According to Chinese media reports, Jolin’s ‘Butterfly’s album sales are extremely impressive, and that she hopes to break into Japan. They also reported that she would be secretly going to Japan in December to promote, and even sing a duet ‘Brilliant’ with Kobukuro, and also film the MV. However, Taiwan’s Warner Music denied this rumour, and Jolin’s manager revealed: “Currently we haven’t heard this plan yet, but we’re letting Jolin go on holiday till the end of the year, she won’t even be accepting any New Year Eve’s performances.” 

Source: UDN
Translation: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net

Taiwanese diva Jolin Tsai assured her fans that she would neither smoke nor be addicted to drugs. This was in response to the spate of reports on Asian celebrities caught for drug abuse.

Hong Kong singer Jill Wei-shi, who was recently caught for misusing drugs, explained her addiction to be from stress. Tsai, on the other hand, expressed that she has her own method of relieving stress and does not even smoke.

Tsai seeks solace in friends, play mahjong or drives around the city when she is stressed. The only time that she recalled herself crying over stress was during her concert rehearsal.

In Hong Kong to promote her new album, Tsai was chopping the roasted pig, in the traditional ceremony signifying prosperity and hopes of great sales for the album, when the knife dropped from her hands and almost caused an accident. She later explained that she did not know the chef, who was helping her chop the pig, was loosening his grip on the knife. Also the handle was too oily so she was not prepared. Fortunately, the knife dropped on the stage and did not hurt anyone.

Speaking about the swine flu in the States and Mexico, Tsai reminded everyone to take care of their health. The singer who was in the States for concerts and dance training last year, said she will be focusing on the Asian market in the next half of the year and not return to the States for work any time soon.

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For the first time in her life, Jolin caught a wedding bouquet and although she looked delighted on the outside, her feelings were actually down for a while. She moaned “I don’t have a lover!”, revealing that she really wants to start dating!

For her new MV “My Reliance (我的依賴) (Wo De Yi Lai)”, Jolin turns into a wedding party singer, giving blessing to the married couple. On the day of filming the MV, the wedding location was chosen to be the green pasture outside and when asked about her own ideal wedding location, Jolin said “I will choose to marry at the seaside. A very simple wedding and then have a party to celebrate!”

The director arranged for the bride to throw the bridal bouquet and Jolin will be in the midst of a crowd. The bridal bouquet will unexpectedly fall in front of her, giving Jolin no choice but to catch it. The workers joked that “Catching the bridal bouquet means that you’ll be the next to ring the wedding bells!” Although Jolin was delighted to hear that, she couldn’t help but lament “There’s not even a candidate yet, how will the wedding come?”

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Jolin Tsai’s new album ‘Flower Butterfly’ will release on the 27th and new song ‘Give In’ invited popular male star Ethan Ruan to star in the MV. Initially, her management company was afraid that the 2 were not familiar with each other, but unexpectedly, they realized that they had already collaborated together in a video game ad 5 years ago. Jolin praised him saying: “Feels like he’s grown taller and became more handsome.” Ethan also said: “Choosing to film this MV, besides having feelings towards the song, of course the singer is also someone I like a lot.”

On the day of filming, the weather was very cold. Jolin was wearing a white t-shirt and she had to walk along the Nei Hu bridge. She was so cold she began shivering but at the same time had to act natural. Lucky it was only for 3 hours; the rest of the MV was filmed indoors, straight into Ethan’s warm embrace.

According to the plot, Jolin has to help Ethan shave and she was very nervous: “Lucky the director put some shaving cream inside the razor, otherwise I would be very scared about hurting Ethan.” She also added: “Now I know that you have to shave in the forward direction, I always thought it was backwards, very miserable, never shaved for my boyfriend before.” As for Ethan, this is the first time someone’s shaved for him and he expressed: “Very soothing.”

Ethan, who has done many brave bed scenes in previous idol dramas suddenly had to become very reserved towards Jolin. The 2 lie on a bed together, and she wounds up courage and extends her hand to hold his, but he immediately turns his back on her. This scene made Jolin’s good friend laugh: “Can’t believe you have this day too.” Jolin said: “The love concept in this song is quite similar to me, I’ll also give in to many things for my other half. In the end, I suffer internal injuries, too scared to talk about the problems, and I begin to lose my personality more and more; this is my biggest problem.”

Source: UDN
Translation: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net

Yesterday Jolin held a listening session for her new album [Butterfly Jolin]. She openly admitted that the good friend on her blog is Eddie Peng and that the two of them have kept in contact all this time.

Jolin said that not only Eddie, even Lee Wei, Lee Yi, Show Luo (Xiao Zhu) and others, “As long as they come over to my place, crazy things are written.” Furthermore, she stressed that Xiao Zhu who was questioned during the purchasing chart sales disputes, is actually very hardworking. When Xiao Zhu heard that Jolin had voiced her support for him, he told his agent that he wanted to call and thank her; Jolin laughed when she heard this, “He still hasn’t called!”

New song “Parachute” is Jolin’s favourite; she likes to use analogies to express feelings. Often, you can only fly if you have the courage, and need support from your other half. It’s just that Jolin who is blind when in love, will trust her partner even if he lied; she is very perservering when it comes to love. However, in regards to Rihanna being abused by boyfriend Chris Brown, her eyes widened and she said, “I can’t believe it!”

Her new album [Butterfly Jolin] will be released March 27 and Jolin will be holding 10 campus performances. In order to further express her sincerity, she was personally involved in the planning of these events and even suggested performing a ballet dance, publicly performing her ballet “Fouette” skills. Jolin laughed saying, “I feel like I’m causing trouble for myself. There’s a lot of pressure because I might not be able to spin properly! I’m really nervous!”

Source:  UDN
Translated by catalie @ http://asianfanatics.net

According to reports from Hong Kong, the MV for the song ‘Real Man (大丈夫)’ in ‘Butterfly (花蝴蝶)’, the first album that Jolin Tsai(蔡依林) is releasing under her new company, has been accused by netizens of plagarising a perfume advertisement featuring Agyness Deyn, a famous model from England.

For the album, Jolin’s look was also accused of copying Ayumi Hamasaki’s (滨崎步) cover page for a magazine and her new album. Added to that, her MV for her main single ‘Real Man’ has also been accused of being lifted from Agyness Deyn’s perfume advertisement. Some netizens said: “Her songs style is copied from Lee Hyori, her image from Ayumi, now even her MV has to be copied from someone else!” There were also images from youtube clips pinned up for netizens to compare.

In the MV, there was a scene were Jolin was wearing a western-style suit with long pants, and after tossing her hair, she cuts off the sleeves from her suit, and at the end she rips off her long pants and it become a pair of sexy mini-shorts. Though it appears that it is full of creativity, but when we compare it to Agyness Deyn’s advertisement, we see that the two scenes are exactly the same as each other. Even though her company claims that it was ‘purely coincidental’, and her fans reason that there was bound to be similarities in the entertainment circle, it is hard to shake off the suspicion after Jolin has yet again been accused of plagarism.

Jolin’s Real Man MV

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Agyness Deyn perfume advertisement

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Fans of Taiwan pop diva Jolin Tsai can get a sneak preview of her new Mandarin album “Flower Butterfly” tomorrow when the video of the title song premieres on a screen at the World Trade Plaza in Beijing.

The music video of the title song “Real Man” will be shown on Asia’s largest LED-screen before the offcial release of the album on March 27, website Sina.com reports. Entertainer Nick, the leading man in the music video, sings a rap part.

In the lead-up to the release of her new album, Tsai asked American dancer and choreographer Jonté Moaning to choreograph some of her videos and took ballet classes to broaden her dancing skills, the article said.

The new album is Tsai’s first produced by Warner Music. Previously released promotional photos show the singer hanging upside-down from wires to create a shadow of the shape of a butterfly wing.

Source: Crienglish

Queen Jolin Tsai has joined Warner and will release her debut album <Flower Butterfly>. Again challenging difficult moves, this time she had to hang upside down on a wire, so to let her shadow portray a butterfly spreading out its wings. After an agonizing hour, Jolin had bruises all over her waist and she cried: “Hanging upside down is very sore, and having to smile at the same time is very hard la!” Afterwards, staff members told her to do the photoshoot before rubbing on medicine and Jolin could not help but huff: “No conscience!”

This will be her 10th year in the industry, and her new album is set to release at the end of March. However, her old company has fought to release a special album, and she is facing the crisis of self-fighting-self. Jolin has special feelings towards the name of this album, she revealed: “In private, my colleagues will call me ‘Cai Shi Fei’ but I’ve trained myself to be strong, I don’t care too much about outside gossip, and I hope all girls will learn to be strong and be themselves, do not fear other people’s opinions.”

The production costs of <Flower Butterfly> has reached a new high – the 16 promotional outfits cost $2.5million and the 6 most beautiful outfits were specially ordered from America. After Jolin established her own <Seventy Two Changes> brand, she personally collaborated with a Taiwanese stylist and designed a pink vest, hoping to start a new spring/summer trend. Putting on blue contact lenses, Jolin’s eyes sparkle even more.

Source: UDN
Translation: Sarah @ http://asianfanatics.net