HAPPY 10 YEARS

I would never want to be labeled as one of those fan girls ooglozing over mainstream celebrities. I especially find those diehard fan girls who worship asian celebrities the biggest nuisances ever. But these are my confessions,

I started listening to Jay Chou back in my 3rd year HS. The first song I had with him is Yi Lu xiang Bei (All the way North) because of his lead in filming Initial D. I was a silent "listener" back then, coz I dont know other people who also likes Jay Chou, so I never claimed myself as a fan. I can't say that he has infested me through the ages, not until Now! FANGIRL KUNG FANGIRL. I maybe a late bloomer since I just joined Jay Chou in his middle of his career, which urges me to crave his music more and more. Jay Chou has made me the most ardent, know-every-song-by-heart-and-its-piano-cover, fan girl ever. Last week, I listened to his new album “The Era”. Beloved, Jay Chou has done it. Jay Chou is officially hands down the best artist of this decade. Jay Chou has gotten rebellious pure Filipino girls like me re-washed in his sappysappy songs and fobby glamor.

Jay Chou has all the reason to the awards and appreciation He's getting from Media to his fans...

**Genre Defying-Jay Chou’s music ranges from hip hop, r&b, rock, rap, ballads/poppy, and even country. While Jay’s songs are so crazily ranged, they all still remain true to his style and are still signatory to Jay. He is the only pop artist that has been able to sustain a fan base for 10 years and keep it growing. I would blame his success on his open-minded optimistic attitude. Let’s face it, artists today are so frikken prideful. They are so obstinate on sticking to their own styles and morals that their creativity has been completely subdued by their stubborness. The day that T-Pain stops auto-tuning, Taylor Swift gets over her high school heart breaks, or Eminem controls his anger, is the day that I die. Fine, maybe Jay Chou’s country song was slightly ridiculous, but at least he tried. And because Jay chou is such an experimenter, he’s been able to create truly fresh and original songs.

**Shakespeare 2.0-People think they can collage the following words -shawty booty drank love club- in any song and call it music. NO. Check out this sample of words from Jay’s song “Qi Li Xiang”. Don’t laugh because the translation isn’t entirely right, just know that these words in Chinese translate to some epic rhymes.

雨下整夜 我的爱溢出就像雨水
The rain lasts all night, and my love pours out like a deluge
窗台蝴蝶 像诗里纷飞的美丽章节
The butterfly outside the window looks like a page of a book describing an idyllic scene那饱满的稻穗 幸福了这个季节
The granary is full to the brim, indicative of this bountiful season
而你的脸颊像田里熟透的番茄
The hue of your face is like a field of ripe tomatoes

Nuf said. Next,

**Marriage of East and West-Every time I hear some Asian artist try to sing in English with his fobby accent, my gut wrenches with ethnic embarrassment. It’s catastrophic when Asian artists try to imitate western artists. However, Jay Chou successfully marries eastern and western flavors. Jay’s able to create funky fresh songs and beats that are sprinkled with erhus, orchestras, chinese drums, and old school opera singers. And it WORKS, magically. His musical ingenuity is one of a kind.

**True and Trendbreaking- You have all these musicians today who sound the same because they’re chasing a trend. You have your Lohans and Cyruses undergoing sluttaformation because destroying dignities is the supposed road for every young female superstar. Trends die, Jay doesn’t. Jay is the only artist I know who can top the charts with his raps about his grandmother or produce a song like “listen to your mother’s words”. He is not only creating his very own musical flavors, but challenges the moral paradigms of this perverse music industry.

The list could go on and on, but HAPPY 10 YEARS OF SUCCESS JAY. I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER AND I WILL STILL BE LISTENING TO YOU ON MY LIFE'S JOURNEY.