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Pop Music - Fearless EP (Jay Chou / Chieh-Lun Chou)

2006-02-26T11:27:00.000+08:00

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Release Company - Alfa Music

Release Date - 01/20/2006

Tracks -
01. Huo Yuan Chia (Fearless)
02. Hsien Shih (Present to World)
03. Huo Yuan Chia (Fearless) MV
04. Yeh Chu (Night) MV
05. Lan Se Feng Pao (Blue Storm) MV
06. Fa Ju Hsueh (Snowy Hair) MV
07. Hei Se Mao Yi (Black Sweater) MV
08. Sze Mien Chu Ke (Besieged on All Sides) MV
09. Feng (Maple) MV
10. Lang Man Shou Chi (Romantic Cell Phone) MV
11. Ni Lin (Reversed Scales) MV
12. Mai Ya Tang (Malt Sugar) MV
13. Shan Hu Hai (Coral Ocean) MV
14. Piao Yi (Float) MV
15. Yi Lu Hsiang Pei (All the Way to North) MV
16. Features from Jay Chou Hong Kong Concert

Introduction to Album -
Hard to predict this world. Hard to get good music.
Stage is waiting for people. Who can get it?!
Chinese music hero, Jay Chou, his first EP "Fearless" in 2006.
International martial art hearo, Jay Lee, his newest movie "Fearless" in 2006.
This EP includes "Hsien Shih" Live Cantanese version.
And a DVD "Fearless & November's Chopin" 13 MVs.
＊Newest-produced "Lan Sze Feng Pao" and "Ni Lin" MVs!
＊Features from Jay Chou HK concert "Wu Yu Lun Pi HK Concert". You can't miss this!

"Fearless" EP
Fearless --- the theme song of Jay Lee's newest action movie "Fearless." It's another masterpiece after "Shuang Chieh Kun" and "Lung Chuan." It starts with Chinese big drums with the background of Guzheng and flute. It's a Chinese hip-hop. The lyric has the spirit of martial art. It delivers a positive message to teenagers that evokes them to treasure their lives.
Hsien Shih --- the song Jay Chou wrote for Hsiao-Chun Chen in 2003 and he sang on his HK concert. Live version gives another feeling. This is the first Cantonese song of Jay Chou.

DVD Bonus
13 music videos of “Fearless & Vovember’s Chopin…
Jay not only made and sang the theme song for the movie “Fearless,” but also directed the music video of it. In the music video, he showed Locking fan dancing and martial art. It will make his fans scream again. The song “Fearless” and the songs in the album “November’s Chopin” are worth collecting! The music videos include the newest-made “Blue Storm” and “Reversed Scales.”

Jay Chou’s HK Concert Features---
This time, we especially put some features from his HK concert on DVD. Fans can get it with the EP of “Fearless.” You cannot miss those spectacular scenes!

[ Fearless ] Synopsis
“Fearless”, Jay Lee’s newest action movie, will be the last movie of his about martial art! This movie focuses on the growth process of Yuan-Chia Huo. It illustrates that although Yuan-Chia Huo was always debilitated when he was a child, he worked hard on martial art and then finally became a famous martial artist. The climax of the movie is when Yuan-Chia Huo went to Thailand on business with his friend, he was chased by the villains. He hid himself in the Yen Luo Village. Also, the love story between the male and female main characters is the other main point of this movie.

(Translated from Alfa Music. Without permission, do not plagiarize the translation above.)

Idol Drama - My Son Is a Ganster (Wo Te Erh Tze Shih Lao Ta / 我的兒子是老大)

2006-02-21T09:48:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
The heritage problem is destroying the brother relationship between Tien-Ting and Wang-Tsai. The good relationship between these two families was walled by their argument. As a big brother in this big family, Tien-Ting (Chien-Chun Huang starring) is intelligent and lucky. However, he doesn't have any children, so that he can't take the heritage. Wang-Tsai is unlucky, and he hasn't done anything big so far. However, he has a son, Hsiao-Ming (I Chen starring). This preserves him a chance to take the heriatge.

Wang-Tsai was cheated by a scam group. He delightedly went to invest real estate but just bought a container house. The four people in his family just could use the container house to sell betel nuts. He even let his wife, Mei-Hui (Mei-Hsiu Lin starring) and daughters, Hsiao-Mei (Shih-Mei Tu starring) and Hsiao-Li (Ai Sha starring), be betel girls in order to increase their business. They offered speical flavors of betel nuts, so that their business stayed not bad. After knowing that, Tien-Ting opened another betel shop right across theirs and even hired hot chicks as the betel girls in order to rob Wang-Tsai of his customers. The resentment between these two families became more complicated.

Hsiao-Ming is naturally timidous and weak; therefore, he is always bullied in high school. One day when he was punished by the teacher and left school half an hour late, he saw the firing of gangsters. He saved the chairman of Chi Shih Party, A-Ming (Hsieh-Liang Pu starring). Later on, A- Ming was trapped and went to jail. Before going to jail, he announced that Hsiao-Ming would be the deputy chairman. This made his personal assistant A-Hui (Chia-Hao Tang starring) feel unfair...

(Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Cast -
Hsu, Wang-Tsai: Chang Chian
Lung, Mei-Hui: Mei-Hsiu Lin
Hsu, Hsiao-Mei: Shih-Mei Tu
Hsu, Hsiao-Li: Ai Sha
Hsu, Hsiao-Ming: I Chen
Hsu, Tien-Ting: Chien-Chun Huang
Tseng, Hsiao-Sheng: Tsui-Ping Wen
Ta Wei: Shih-Lun Kuo
Emily: Li-Fei Lin
A-Ming: Hsueh-Liang Pu
A-Hui: Chia-Hao Tang
Frank: Chuan-Yi Wang
Funny: Ching-Ting Shia

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 02/06/2006 -, 9:00pm, Monday to Friday, on Videoland Channel

Official Web Site -
1. Videoland Channel: http://ontv.videoland.com.tw/channel/boss/default.asp

Newspaper Reporting -

Idol Drama - Fairy (Tien Wai Fei Hsien / 天外飛仙)

2006-02-19T09:35:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Hsiao-Chi (number 7) is the youngest daughter of Yu Huang Ta Ti (God). She has been spoiled since she was little by Wang Mu (God's wife). Therefore, she is very naughty. She likes to violate the rules of Tien Ting (Heaven).

In Tien Ting, there is a "Yu Ming Yuan," prisoning divines who make mistakes. The second sister of Hsiao-Chi has been prisoned here for 50 years because she secretly went down to the human world, fell in love with a man and didn't admit she had made a big mistake. There is a Li Mao (an animal resembling cats and foxes) in the jail, too, because she did a lot of wrong things.

While Hsiao-Chi sneaked into the Yu Ming Yuan, Li Mao cheated on Hsiao-Chi, asking her to free her. Disguising as a beautiful girl, Hsueh-Mei Hsiang, Li Mao went down to the human world. She is trying to get a hundred hearts from people who are very nice to their parents in order to learn magical tricks against Tien Ting. Afterwards, the human world is in chias!

Hsiao-Chi did something wrong, upsetting Yu Huang Ta Tu. Yu Huang Ta Ti abolished all fairy magics she had and put her down to the human world! Hsiao-Chi has to do 1 hundred good things in the human world so that she can go back to Tien Ting!

Hsiao-Chi carried several missions to the human world. Among them was finding the lover of her sister for her sister to see if that guy still loved her sister. She wanted to find Li Mao in order to stop her destruction. Moreover, she wanted to find out what kind of attraction the human world has, why everyone in Tien Ting was so obsessed with it.

It was a hot summer in the human world. There were three good friends in school, Yung Tung, Shang Kuan Hao Chi, and Yuan-Pao. They didn't expect that a fairy and a Li Mao would change their lives.

"Human World, I'm coming!" Onthe way to the human world, because sje didn't know the skill, she dropped into the chest of Yung Tung. A destiny started...

(Translated from CTV. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Cast -
Hsiao-Chi: Yi-Chen Lin
Tung, Yung: Ke Hu
Shang Kuan Hao Chi: Chih-Kung Tou
Fu, Yuan-Pao: Tae
Tsui Niang: Hsiu-Li Chen
Hsueh-Mei Hsiang: Hsueh Han
Teacher Lao: Chun-Hao Lu
Second Sister: Fei-Li Kuo
Lee, Sai-Chin: Yi Lu
Yu Huang Ta Ti: Chin-Chiang Hsu
Ma, Na-Na: Hsueh Erh
Tung, Chien-Fa: Yueh-Li Yueh
Tung, Wen-Pin: Chin-Chin Lee
Lee, Mei-Feng: Lei Wang
Fu, Shan: Liang Chao
Shan Kuan Nien Tsu: Yung-Hsuan Yen
Lin An Yi Pa: Chih Han
Wang Mu Niang Niang: Ching-Ching Wu
First Sister: Yu-Yu Lee
Third Sister: Huan Chang
Fourth Sister: Yen Wan
Fifth Sister: Chien-Yeh Wang
sixth Sister: Yi-Lin Lee

Broadcast Date -
1. Taiwan: 02/07/2006 -, 8:00 - 9:30pm, Monday to Friday, on CTV

Official Web Site -
1. CTV: http://www.ctv.com.tw/event/2006/fairy/

Newspaper Reporting -
1.

Pop Music - Deep White (Deep White)

2006-02-19T08:52:00.000+08:00

Title of Album - Deep White

Release Company - Avex Taiwan

Release Date - 02/17/2006

Tracks -
01. Na Ke Jen (That Person)
02. Chiao Chiao Hua (Whisper)
03. Yu Tsai Shui Li Ku (Fish Cries in Water)
04. Help Me I'm in Love
05. Hai Neng Pu Neng (Can't We)
06. I'm Crying
07. Chi Yi Sen Lin (Memory Forest)
08. Nothing Wrong
09. Pien Yuan (Edge)
10. That's Me

Introduction to Album -
A music group who catches people's eyes - Deep White. Their first self-titled album. Once, Deep White wrote many songs for a lot of singers. They touched us. Now, he, a love song genius - Deep White, and she, a pure female vocal - Tuan-Yu, will use music make life intact. Accumulating music energy 10 years. They are ready to start...

(Translated from Avex Taiwan. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Pop Music - Lovelorn, Not Guilty (aLin)

2006-02-18T02:24:00.000+08:00

Title of Album - Lovelorn, Not Guilty

Release Company - Avex Taiwan Inc.

Release Date - 02/10/2006

Tracks -
01. Shih Lien Wu Tsui (lovelorn, not guilty)
02. Ah Ah
03. Wo Hai Shih Pu Tung (I still don't understand)
04. Sze Chi (Four seasons)
05. Hsin Te Tze Wo (Brand new me)
06. Chia Wa Wa (Fake Doll)
07. Wei Chih (Position)
08. Hui Chia (Ca ba hai nu la ma)
09. Run Back to Me
10. Beautiful

Introduction to Album -
A born singer brings up the antidote of love. Number One female singer, aLin, debuts in the new year of 2006! "Lovelorn, Not Guilty" was made only for aLin. It draws out our emotional and unseparable memory as if it were telling a story happening to you and me. It is so close to our heart. As for vocal performance, aLin used her medium low, thick voice, singing out the pain after losing love. We can't hear regret and torture; instead, we hear affirmative power. This is the unique antidote aLin presented. It seems that people can get back what they lost from this album. 2006 will be the beginning of aLin's success.

(Translated from Avex. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Pop Music - I Want Happiness? (A-Mei / Hui-Mei Chang)

2006-02-18T01:52:00.000+08:00

Releasing Company - Warner Music Taiwan

Released Date - 02/17/2006

Tracks -
01. Ping Chang Hsin (Take it Easy)
02. Jen Chih (Hostage)
03. Pu Hsiang Ke Ta Jen (Not Like an Adult)
04. Yin Wei Ni Tsai (Because of Your Company)
05. Wo Yao Kuai Le? (I Want Happiness?)
06. Chinese Girl
07. Pu Yao Luan Shuo (Don't Rumor)
08. Tan Chun (Pureness)
09. Suo Yi Wo Yuan Yi (So I Do)
10. Hai Kuo Tien Kung (Relieved)

Introduction to Album -
Close your eyes, listening to her singing quietly!
Her singing touches the deepest origin of your and my heart
A-Mei, the purest sound...

This is a very private album. It's A-Mei's and also yours.
The silence in the past one and a half years is not imaginable and experiencable to many people. She freed herself away from all the work in order to understand herself more, to adjust her pace, to discover where her happiness is. On the plane to Boston, A-Mei once thought that she'd never been the ordinary A-Mei anymore. Throughout facing herself, listening to her own voice, and adjusting her pace, she wanted to let people know a true A-Mei. We are glad that she made it. Please listen to her songs carefully. Those include your and my emotions inside.
This album has a uniform style, but also has some sophisticated ideas. We can hear the new music elements from the musicmakers and music itself. The producing director Tze-Hung Chen and the text director Yu-Kang Wu of this album sparkled perfect music.

(Translated from Warner Music Taiwan. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Idol Drama - Bump off Lover (Ai Sha Shih Chi / 愛殺17)

2006-02-10T12:34:00.000+08:00

This idol drama is coming out next Sunday, which is leaded by Angela Chang (Shao-Han Chang). This is probably the first thriller idol drama in Taiwan! Looking forward to it! ^^"

Story of Drama -
　　Yi-Chen, a happy girl, fell in love with the brother of an suspicion, Ke-Chiang (starred by Ting-Wei Lu) after the death of her younger sister, Yi-Ching (starred by Shao-Han Chang). While she was trying to get rid of the sadness caused by the death of her sister and live with the true love with Ke-Chiang, the truth of the death of her sisetr was getting disclosed step by step......
　　Ke-Chieh Chou (starred by Shan-Chieh Chang), a rebellious but innocent guy, was thought of the murderer. In order to keep a secret for the girl he liked, he decided to commit suicide......
　　Ke-Chiang Chou tried to give a dream for his younger brother Ke-Chieh and himself. His brother became a murderer. He vowed to use violence to get his brother's fame back. Now, the only person who can put off the first in his mind is the sister of the victim, Yi-Chen......
　　Right on that day...... The death of a 17-year-old twin Y-Ching destroyed a happy family. When the myth is gradually known and the truth is been assembling, can people accept this cruel truth?

(Translated from GTV. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Cast -
Lin, Chia-Wei: Shih-Hsuan Yang
Hsu, Yi-Chen: Shao-Han Chang (Angela Chang)
Hsu, Yi-Ching: Angela Chang
Chou, Ke-Chiang: Ting-Wei Lu
Yang, Jen-Yu: Chung-Tien Wu
Chung, Yu-Wen: Yu-Chen Chang
Shih, Ching-Ching: Sha Yeh Chia
Chou, Ke-Chieh: Shan-Chieh Chang
Chieh, Ai-Lin: Hsin-Yi Chung
Liang, Ya-Chuan: Shih-Hua Shen
Hsu, Chung-Yuan: Chung-Yueh Yun
Yu, Mei-Chin: Yu-Hsien Lee

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 02/19/2006 -, Sundays, on CTV

Official Web Site -
1. CTV:
2. GTV: http://www.gtv.com.tw/Program/S051420060211P/

Related Newspaper Reporting -
1.

Idol Drama - The Magicians of Love (Ai Ching Mo Fa Shih / 愛情魔髮師)

2006-02-10T12:08:00.000+08:00

This idol drama is gonnna be on TV from this Sunday!!

Story of Drama -
A world-known chain salon, Neo-Image, just had its business. Three popular top designers, Artz (Ya-Sze) (starred by Ming Dao), Riche (starred by Shao-Wei Wang), and Fernando (starred by Fang-Kang Chu), attracted a bunch of people. Meanwhile, a diplomat went to ask them for help. There was a competition named "Taiwan and France Hair Competition" held by a shampoo company. The company found a part-time hair washer to compete with French top designers because they wanted to promote for a French shampoo. This would defame our country, so Artz and the others decided to help the diplomat join the competition.

The three hair designers replaced the part-time hair washer and won the competition. While the glowing model with a fancy hair style walked out, they were applaused like heroes. As for the part-time hair washer replaced by them, she was Juo-I pei (Hsiao-Pei) working at the "Chung Nan Barber Shop" at the alley next to the New-Image. Although Artz kicked Hsiao-Pei out of the stage, he saw the first hair cut she did and thought that she had talent in hair design. He wanted to recruit Hsiao-Pei for Neo-Image.

Neo-Image opened its business under lots of attention. However, it heavily struck the business of the Chung Nan Barber Shop, which is a family one. Its boss, Lao-Pei (starred by Shun Chao), started to run this store after his duty in military. The number of its customers was getting fewer after that high-end salon started. What's worse, his daughter, Hsiao-Pei, was totally lured by the looks of the designers at the Neo-Image.

Chou Mei (starred by Shu-Fang Chiu) finally got her own chance of doing hair desinging after traveling 18 cities with Artz. At the night of Neo-Image's opening, Chou Mei walked into the "agic room" in the store but didn't walk out anymore. Hsiao-Pei saw Fernando wave a knife through a dark window, and then blood was popping out... At the back door of the Neo-Image, Hsiao-Pei saw Rache pass a big bag to two people. She thought that Chou Mei must have been killed, so she reported to the police. Artz and the other two designers went to jail. Hsiao-Pei had a press conference at the Chung Nan, describing the "murder" scene she had seen. Later on, Chou Mei went back home. Everyone realized that they had misunderstood the Neo-Image, but it was over the publishing deadline of newspaper.

The next day, "suspicious murderers" was the headline of every newspaper. Fernando immediately had a press conference in front of the Neo-Image, trying to clarify the suspicion of them. In the middle of clarifying, the minister of National Defense went to the Chung Nan to get a hair cut. All the reporters dashed to ask him about Armed Force Joint Training. Artz and Hsiao-Pei bet on the size of tomorrow's reportings. Artz lost Hsiao-Pei. He needed to take wedding pictures with Chou Mei and live at a "haunted house", the attic of the Chung Nan. Drunk Artz thought Hsiao-Pei was Ching-Kung, so he warmly hugged her. Che-Ming (starred by Yu-Jung Wang) didn't know the situation and locked the door. Artz and Hsiao-Pei stayed together all night...

The accident happening half a year ago let Artz lose his mother and younger brother. He didn't dare to tell Grandma Li-Lien, who lived in Kang Shou Village, this accident. Therefore, he pretended his twin brother Ya-Chun. Coincidently, Hssiao-Pei went there to do hair-cutting volunteer. Artz was forced to keep pretending...

Artz and Hsiao-Pei accidently walked into the "Water Maze". People said that if two people could pass the maze without thinking the route, they were destined to be a couple. Before, Artz and Ching-Kung couldn't pas the maze; however, Hsiao-Pei passed it one time. This really surprised Artz.

The wedding picture of Artz and Chou Mei put outside the store upset Artz, and he wanted to revenge. Hsiao-Pei's assistant Tung-Tung (starred by Hsiao-Chieh) was wonderring outside the Neo-Image. Artz wanted her to work at the Neo-Image. Artz and Hsiao-Pei made a bet again. If Tung-Tung jumped to the Neo-Image, Hsiao-Pei also needed to work there. Tung-Tung really went to work for the Neo-Image. Hsiao-Pei lost. Hsiao-Pei felt uncomfortable because she would need to leave her father and go to the Neo-Image. While she was hesitant, a car accident happened. She felt somebody saved her but only remembered there was a "23" on the shirt of that guy...

At the first day of Hsiao-Pei's working, two famous models, Ke-Lan (starred by Tang Sui) and Emma (starred by Ai-Hui Sun), argued for a TV commercial. The number one model Ke-Lan fell in love with Fernando when she was hot. However, Fernando fell in love with Emma, and media shot the picture of their kissing one another. After the effort of Riche and Artz, Ke-Lan got the TV commercial.

Riche's godfather was a gangster in Hong Kong, Chen Ke. Riche's father lost and gave Riche to Chen Ke, so, for Rache, Chen Ke was his boss forever. Chen Ke's 9th wife Pai-He loved Rache, so Chen Ke misunderstood Riche. Riche was forced to leave Hong Kong. Chen Ke assigned several people to "greet" Riche back to Hong Kong. When Riche was in trouble, Hsiao-Pei was always with Riche, so she thought Riche was a "police officer." Riche didn't deny any of it. This kind of identity made Hsiao-Pei fall in love with Riche.

Ching-Kung (starred by Meng-Chin Lin) secretly went back to Taiwan. She didn't keep her promise, visiting Artz. Instead, she was examining Artz under the table. She found Artz was very nice to Hsiao-Pei. She was depressed. The contest of the assistants in the Neo-Image was about to start. The assistants were allowed to look for their won models. Ching-Kung meant to get close to Hsiao-Pei without revealing her true identity. She became Hsiao-Pei's best friend. Artz meant to hide the fact that Ya-Chun had died. In order to make his grandma happy, Hsiao-Pei agreed to be Ya-Chun's girlfriend one day. On this day, Hsiao-Pei found several good things about Artz. She had a love feeling towards Artz.

The contest finally started. Mango (starred by Ke Wei), the one who was most likely to get a promotion to a designer, chose Che Ming as her model. Che Ming had a big arguement with Hsiao-Pei not long before. Hsiao-Pei tried to calm down. While she wanted to show her skill, Ching-Kung appeared in the Neo-Image. When Hsiao-Pei learned that Ching-Kung was Artz's ex, her heart was broken, and she lost all of her inspiration. She lost the contest. At that moment, Riche found Hsiao-Pei had loved Artz very deeply.

The existence of Ching-Kung blocked Hsiao-Pei's love and business. The love between her and Artz became unpredictable. Anna, the marketing director of the Neo-Image in England, had an extramarriage affair with Artz's father. Anna aggressively pleased Fernando after coming back to Taiwan. she split the Neo-Image against Artz. One party was oriented by commercials, and the other was oriented by art of hair design. Will Artz and Rache be able to prove that their perseverance will make their dream come true? Hsiao-Pei was confused between Artz and Riche. Who will be her final decision...

(Translated from SETTV. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Cast -
Tu, Artz: Ming Dao (member of 183CLUB)
Pei, Juo-I: Chih-Chiao Tseng (member of Sweety)
Lin, Riche: Shao-Wei Wang (member of 5566 and 183CLUB)
Fernando: Fang-Kang Chu (member of 183CLUB)
Che-Ming: Yu-Jung Huang (member of 183CLUB)
Ke-Lan: Tang Sui
Emma: Ai-Hui Sun
Ching-Kung: Meng-Chin Lin
Tung-Tung Kuan: Hsiao Chieh (member of 7 Flowers)
Lao-Pei: Shun Chao
Antie Hsiang-Hsiang: Man-Yin Lu
Grandma Li-Lien: Ai-Chen Tan
Mango: Ke Wei
Chanel: I-Ju Pan
Moli: Po-Jen Cheng
Chou Mei: Shu-Fang Chiu

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 02/12/2006 - , 9:30 - 11:00pm, Sundays, on TTV

Official Web Site -
1. TTV: http://www.ttv.com.tw/drama/2006/Magicians_Love/index.htm
2. SETTV: http://www.settv.com.tw/metro/m099/

Related Newspaper Reporting -
1. "Ming Dao and Shao-Wei Wang were love opponents in the Prince Turns to Frog. This time, in the The Magicians of Love, they are opponents again. Most of the actors in the The Magicians of Love are from the Prince Turns to Frog, and it also has funny and romantic scenes to attract young people to watch it." - TTV News 02/10/2006
2. "The first episode of 'The Magicians of Love', played on the 12th, got a 4.17% viewing rate highest among differnt time periods, breaking the record made by 'Prince Turns to Frog,' which is 3.92. Because of the same crew from 'Prince Turns to Frog,' now many overseas companies are interested in this new idol drama." - MOL 02/14/2006
3. "'The Magicians of Love' is challenging the record made by the 'Prince Turns to Frog.' The first episode broadcast on SETTV got a 2.27% viewing rate, which is only 0.1% less than that of 'Prince Turns to Frog.' The second episode on TTV got a 5.26% viewing rate. It is going closer to the highest record of the 'Prince Turn to Frog.'" - MOL 02/21/2006

Idol Drama - Express Boy (E Nan Chai Chi Tien / 惡男宅急電)

2006-02-06T04:11:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Tien-Nan Hu, who was a young chairman of the biggest gang party in Taiwan, vowed to be a good person after being released out of prison. He ran a delivery company, “Express Boy.”

“Express Boy delivers everything to the world no matter how big or small mail is” is the rule of thumb of Express Boy. Tien-Nan Hu’s ultimate goal is to deliver things for every recipient as if delivering gifts!

Tien-Nan is doing this helpful delivery work for two years. He also adopts many gangsters and leads them to a right avenue. However, he adopted Lung Yen. Lung Yen was working in the Ta Chiao Party for a police officer, Lee (Chin-Piao Lee). He got involved in gang again. Although Lung Yen grew up with Tien-Nan and prisoned him three times, they still treasure their friendship. They think they’ll be best friends ultimately.

Tien-Nan got through many difficulties and trouble with Fei Lung, Grandpa Wei Chueh, Lung Yen, Ou Ku, Elva, and Mai Mai. They not only learned how to slove problems, help others, and care for life, but also found their future.

Tien-Nan is passionate about work and just go ahead when facing trouble! However, he always fails love credits. He has fallen in love with Jung-Jung Su since he was little, but can’t clearly express his feeling to her! Jung-Jung loves Chin-Piao Lee so much that she can’t help it! Chin-Piao Lee can’t accept Jung-Jung’s love because he can’t forgive his own mistake which caused his wife’s death!

There is a triangle relationship between Tien-Nan, Jung-Jung, and Chin-Piao.

Tien-Nan and Jung-Jung start to date one another after getting through lots of trouble together; however, the different family background of Jung-Jung and Tien-Nan puts them into a dilemma… Will they have a happy ending? How about Chin-Piao’s love?

(Translated from TVBS. Without permission, do not plagiarize ant content above.)

Cast -
Director: Che-Shu Chang
Script Writer: Yi-Shih Wang, Shih Chao
Producer: Tsu-Wu Hsieh, Kun-Cheng Shih

Hu, Tien-Nan: Chun-Hsiang He
Su, Jung-Jung: Wei-Lun Hsu
Lee, Chin-Piao: Shu-Yuan Ke
Lung Yen: Jui-Chia Chang
Ou Ku: King Kong
Elva: Ying-Sze Yen
Mai Mai: Yi-Chia Chen
Grandpa Wei Chueh: Kai-Chung Cheng
Fei Lung: White Cloud (Pai Yun)
Ta Chiao: Ming-Chih Yeh
Dumpling (Shui Chiao): Kuan-Te Chu
CK: Lung-Chieh Chiu

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 06/29/2004 to 07/29/2004, 9:00pm, Monday to Friday, on TVBS-G

Official Web Site -
1. TVBS-G: http://www.tvbs.com.tw/TVBS_G/t_g_a/express_boy0726/index1.htm

Related Newspaper Reporting -

Idol Drama - Love Contract (Ai Ching He Yueh / 愛情合約)

2006-02-06T03:33:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Hsiao-Feng (starred by I-Chen Lin) is an outgoing girl.
She is like a little boy in university.
She also likes to make friends and hang out with a bunch of guys.

Hsiao-Feng behaves like a boy…
But in fact, she hides some sadness and painfulness inside…
One day, Hsiao-Feng’s buddies, in order to celebrate her birthday,
decided to give her a man, A-Ken (starred by Chun-Hsiang He).
Mean Hsiao-Feng kept playing tricks on A-Ken.
Their friends tried to set them up and push them to be together.
However, they found the reason that Hsiao-Feng couldn’t fall in love with a guy…
What’s worse, the people realized that they are just like Hsiao-Feng.
Their love also can’t afford any strikes…

Gradually, this world is falling apart…

(Translated from TVBS. Without permission, do not plagiarize ant content above.)

Cast -
Director: Chao-Jen Hsu
Origianl Screenplay: Shu-Hei Chiang
Script Writer: Kuo-Kuang Wang, Hsueh-Jung Liu, Shu-Hei Chiang
Producer: Ching-Feng Su, Chao-Yi Tsai

Hsiang-Feng: I-Chen Lin
A-Ken: Chun-Hsiang He
A-Kai: Jui-Chia Chang
Hsin-Lei: Hsin-Yu Chung
Hsiao-Pai: Chih-Wei Lai
Wood (Mu Tou): I-Hung Lin
Hsiao-Yun: Fei-Li Kuo
Doris: Hua-Feng Hsu
Fu Pu Mei Li: Che-Li Yi
Fu Pu Kan Chiu: Pei Tsun Feng Ching
Chen, Cheng-Chieh: Tai Pao
Lee, Fang-Hua: Hsiu-Ying Cheng
King Kong: King Kong
Simon: Han-Chiang Liu
Hsiao-Hsiao: Pei-Ting Yang
Tom: Lung-Chieh Chiu

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 06/29/2004 to 07/29/2004, 9:00pm, Monday to Friday, on TVBS-G

Official Web Site -
1. TVBS: http://www.tvbs.com.tw/TVBS_G/t_g_a/love/

Related Newspaper Reporting -

Idol Drama – It Started with a Kiss (E Tsuo Chu Chih Wen / 惡作劇之吻)

2006-02-05T15:13:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Hsiang-Chin Yuan (starred by I-Chen Lin) is a naïve, happy high school girl. After seeing Chih-Shu Chiang (starred by Yuan-Chang Cheng), the representative for freshmen, giving a speech, Hsiang-Chin unknowingly fell in love with him. After secretly admiring, she decided to confess to him in school, but was turned down by him. Because of her carelessness, she became the topic which everyone was teasing about. However, another bad thing happened right after Hsiang-Chin was rejected by Chih-Shu. Her new house was attacked by an earthquake and collapsed!

Hsiang-Chin and her dad (starred by Tsung-Sheng Tang) were about to live in the street. Luckily, Uncle A-Li (starred by Yung-Cheng Chang), a good friend of her dad in middle school, generously gave them a hand, inviting them to live with him. Hsiang-Chin didn’t know friendly Uncle A-Li is Chih-Shu’s dad! Those two people started a whole new life under the same roof…...

There is nothing which can get Chih-Shu, who is called Taiwan’s Number One, in trouble. Everything is under the control of him. However, the presence of Hsiang-Chin is like an uncontrolled tornado. She screws up his life. The bravery and silliness of Hsiang-Chin encourage him to think about his life and future. The love from Hsiang-Chin is also percolating into his heart……

(Translated from GTV. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Cast -
Chiang, Chih-Shu: Yuan-Chang Cheng
Yuan, Hsiang-Chin: I-Chen Lin
Chin, Yuan-Feng: Tung-Cheng Wang
Pei, Tze-Yu: Wei-Ning Hsu
A-Li: Yung-Cheng Chang
A-Li’s wife: Yung-Hua Chao
A-Tsai: Tsung-Sheng Tang
Chiang, Yu-Shu: Po-Han Chang
Wang, Hao-Chien: Wei-Teng Wang
Tu, Chien-Chung: Chih-Wei Lai
Liu, Ya-Nung: Jung-Chia Liu
Lin, Chun-Mei: Pei-Ting Yang
A-Heng: Wen-Heng Wu
Cockroach: Ti-Chun Wang
Kung, Ling-Yang: Po-Cheng Chen
Wen, Chen-Kuai: Tsai-Ying Yao
Yang, Ta-Hsin: Red Capsule

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 09/25/2005 to 02/12/2006, 9:00 to 10:30pm, Sundays, on CTV

Official Web Site -
1. CTV: http://www.ctv.com.tw/event/2005/kiss/
2. GTV: http://www.gtv.com.tw/Program/S051420051001U/

Related Newspaper Reporting -
1. "Although it still lost Prince Turns to Frog, the first episode of It Started with a Kiss got a more-than-3 viewing rate. It won the other idol drams broadcast on FTV and CTS in the same period of time." – NTUA 09/29/2005
2. "Yuan-Chang Cheng and I-Chen Lin are the best screen couples voted by BBS." - The Great Daily News 01/08/2006
3. "GTV brought Korean soap operas into Taiwan five years ago. Now, its self-produced idol dramas, such as 'It Started with a Kiss', 'The Outsiders', and 'KO One', are going to be exported to Japan, Southeast Asia, and China from April of this year. It even attempts to fight back to Korea. Korean TV stations are interesed in 'It Started with a Kiss' after reading the screenplay." - (Apple Daily Taiwan 01/11/2006)
4. "It Started with a Kiss was the number one in viewing rate before Lunar new Year. I-Chen Lin went back to her grandma’s home in E-Land but was recognized by housewives in a temple." - Liberty Times 02/05/2005
5. "The last second episode of It Started with a Kiss gained a more-than-6% viewing rate. Not only was it the number one among the idol dramas being played, but also it was number 4 among all the TV shows played on Sunday." - MOL 02/08/2006
6. "Last week, 'It Started with a Kiss' got a more-than-6% viewing rate and a 10.81% among the ages from 15 to 24." - China Times 02/09/2006

Pop Music - November’s Chopin (Jay Chou / Chieh-Lun Chou)

2006-02-05T12:57:00.000+08:00

Release Company: Alfa Music

Released Date: 11/01/2005

Tracks:
01. Yeh Chu (Night)
02. Lan Se Feng Pao (Blue Storm)
03. Fa Ju Hsueh (Snowy Hair)
04. Hei Se Mao Yi (Black Sweater)
05. Sze Mien Chu Ke (Besieged on All Sides)
06. Feng (Maple)
07. Lang Man Shou Chi (Romantic Cell Phone)
08. Ni Lin (Reversed Scales)
09. Mai Ya Tang (Malt Sugar)
10. Shan Hu Hai (Coral Ocean)
11. Piao Yi (Float)
12. Yi Lu Hsiang Pei (All the Way to North)
VCD:
01. Night MV
02. Snowy Hair MV
03. All the Way to North MV

Introduction to Album:
It’s somewhat late this year, but more feelings…

Jay Chou’s 2005 newest Mandarin album “November’s Chopin”

§Romantic, classical elements compose new music poems§
Every summer in the past, everyone seemed to be used to listening to Jay’s music; however, in the summer of 2005, Jay didn’t have his own new album released just as usual. This wasn’t an absence; instead, he wanted to improve his music production more! It’s released a little bit late, but includes more feelings! The sixth album of the Asian super star, Jay Chou, is scheduled to be released in November 1 when it’s full of fall atmosphere. Although it’s come out later than before, people still can smell out the romantic and classical elements hidden inside Jay. People can feel more detailed feelings he puts in this album. You’ll discover a different side of Jay in November’s Chopin!

Since Jay was learning classical music, he has admired Frederic Chopin, a musical genius. This musician revealed his excellent talent in music when he was little, and composed 21 night pieces in total. We can say that night is his most poetry-like masterpiece. In this album, every song is like a poem, a musical work having an image. There is a strong feeling of literature in this album. It just matches Jay, who likes to call himself a “poet.” Therefore, when the music company wanted to title this album “Novemebr’s Chopin,”Jay agreed on it right away! There is nobody but Jay who can be called “musical poet” in the Chinese music industry!

“Yeh Hui Mei” is the gift that Jay presented for his mom, whereas “November’s Chopin” represents the honor that Jay presents for his idol!

This album includes four fast songs, three medium-fast songs, and five love songs, the music genre accepted widely by the public. This is the first time including two song that Jay created for the movie “Initial D”, “Float” and “All the Way to North”, in the bonus tracks of this album. Among the six albums of Jay, 12 songs in this album is the maximum. There is a VCD attached with the album. The VCD has three music videos, Night, Snowy Hair, and All the Way to North, respectively, and a table calendar whose pictures were filmed in Venice. With this visual enjoyment, his fans should be satisfied with this album and desire to have one! What’s more, Jay’s partner, Wen-Shan Fang, also worked with Jay, making this album to a higher level! Wen-Shan put several poem sentences in the songs composed by Jay. While listening to this album, you’ll feel like reading poetry!

Luxurious poet outfit, luxurious setting for picture taking

In order to have romantic feeling, Jay especially chose Venice where he took pictures for this album. The background of shooting is the luxurious castle where the downfallen nobles lived. The delicate portraits hung inside are lifelike as if we were placed in Harry Potter’s world! The place where we took the pictures is the Piazza San Marco. In order to avoid a large crowd, Jay and the crew especially got up very early and captured the beautiful view at the empty piazza at 6 o’clock in the morning. The piano in pictures was sent from Milan, which is 5-hour away by boat. He worked so hard just because he wanted to present his fans a unique visual effect. On the other hand, designing his own outfit and style for the previous several albums, he selected “luxurious poet” as the center of this album. In risk of carrying the overweighed suitcases, he brought more than 20 suits not only for himself, but also for the other characters in the music videos. He expected to play an excellent Chopin role. There is nothing but appreciation of his hard-working that we can do!

(Translated from Alfa Music. Without permission, do not plagiarize any content above.)

Idol Drama - Green Forest (Lu Kuang Sen Lin / 綠光森林)

2006-02-05T12:53:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Sophie (Fei Su) grew up in a musical family. She is a happy, ambitious, and naive girl.

Shan Lo grew up in Sophie’s family. Her dad was the driver of the Sus. Her mom left home when she was a little child, and she is never gotten any messages about her mom since then. Shan Lo is envious of Sophie and hopes she can become the kind of Sophie.

Shan Lo’s dad died of drinking and driving and her mom left home, so Sophie’s parents adopted her and named her Susan (Shan Su), becoming Sophie’s older sister. Growing up in a driver family, Susan feels shamed of her lower social status, so she hopes to become someone like Sophie. She believes that she will be happy and blessed once she becomes Sophie. With this kind of thinking, Susan turns to like having everything which Sophie has. Sophie has known the thought which Susan has since she was little, but she always views Susan as her biological sister and not to tell others that Susan is an adopted child, which her mom told her to do. Besides, Sophie also tells herself not to keep this kind of thing in mind. She thinks that the reason Susan does this way is she grew up in a poor family.

Susan, Sophie, and Fang Yuan, who grew up with Susan and Sophie, went to Green Forest Primary School, a school without any walls. However, because of moving, they left that primary school and went to Spencer Music School. Although Sophie loves freedom, she still needed to go to this school with high walls. Spencer School provides a strict education. One of its rules is that students will be whipped on their palms if they forget to bring pieces of music notes. One day, young William of the founder of the school, old William, came over for auditing a class from Austria. Sophie didn’t know who he is and lent him her notes because she thought he didn’t bring them. She was punished. William couldn’t see Sophie get punished for him, so he grabbed Sophie’s hand and ran out of the classroom together. They skipped the class and got lost in the Green Forest. Surprisingly, they saw a green light, of which they had heard. In the green light was there an old lady. The old lady told William that he would meet a girl he loved a lot after growing up. He had to believe in that girl, otherwise that girl would lose everything for him, including her own life. The old lady also told William and Sophie that time in a love world was still. They apparently understood this saying. This saying stayed in their hearts. William took out the family emblem of the Spencers to Sophie. He told her that he would protect her forever. This was the commitment he gave Sophie. Sophie put this commitment in her mind. When Sophie asked William his name, he told her, “William.” However, when William asked Sophie her name, she was naughtily told him that she was the princess of Prince William. She didn’t tell William her name.

On the day of William’s going back to Austria, he wanted to go back to Spencer School and say goodbye to that cute girl. On the same day, Fang Yuan was going abroad learning music. Sophie was in a rush finding Fang Yuan and missed a chance to see William again. William was looking for Sophie on campus and ran into Susan at a hallway. Susan saw William’s unique disposition. She thought of her dream which is to get rid of her lower status and become an upper class. While thinking f this, she lied to William that the girl he was looking for was… Susan. William believed in it. He though the name of the girl was Susan.

After growing up, Susan became the art director of Spencer School. Sophie came back from the Austrian branch of Spencer School and wanted to be a teacher of Green Forest Primary School. Fang Yuan became a world-known violinist “Owen.” He was invited by Spencer School to attend a concert held to greet their new executive. After the death of old William, William became the new executive. In order to take over Spencer School and look for the girl “Susan,” William decided to go back to Taiwan.

William, Sophie, Susan, and Owen met each other at Owen’s concert. Owen met Sophie, who he had fallen in love with since he was a child and wanted to protect. William was happy to find the girl, “Susan.” He could make his commitment come true. Sophie didn’t know that Owen is Fang Yuan, with who she fell in love, and that Susan’s boyfriend, William, was the boy who made a commitment to her. Susan didn’t dare to admit to her lie and became William’s “Susan.” Therefore, although these four people met each other again, the relationships between them were different from what they had expected.

As the new executive, William was facing a new decision made by the board of the investors of the Spencer Institute, which was closing Green Forest primary school. Green Forest Primary School belonged to the Spencer Institute. He decided to save Green Forest Primary School for the sake of the educational spirit of the principal of Green Forest Primary School and the memory about his childhood. Brian, one conservative investor of the Spencer Institute, rejected his idea and had two commitments with him. First, if Green Forest Primary School couldn’t win a music competition, they would close the nursery in the Green Forest town. Second, either of them would need to give up their position when Spencer School, which Brian represented for, or Green Forest Primary School, which William represented for, lost the competition. A gambling developed on Spencer School and Green Forest Primary School.

Sophie has a strong relationship with Green Forest Primary School. In order to protect people’s living and the land, and the most important memory in her childhood as well, Sophie took responsibility for leading the school to win the competition. Owen joined her and battled with everyone. They just wanted to preserve everything, like all the inerasable feelings and memory in their heart, in this town. On the other hand, Brian asked Susan, a judge-in-chief of the competition, to give a fake score in order to win the game. This plan was heard by William’s mom and Owen. The pressure from Brian and the mom of the guy Susan loved went to Susan. Susan didn’t like Green Forest Primary School because that is the school where “Shan Lo” used to go. She was also afraid of losing William. She was hesitant of what to do.

Green Forest Primary School won the game. All things went more complicated while Susan was trying to protect her own love and happiness. Susan was going to get engaged with William. Sophie became the third person in the love relationship between William and Susan without being aware of it. Owen noticed Sophie’s feeling and, although he loved Sophie, could not let William keep taking Susan as Sophie. He went to tell William and Sophie the truth. Each of them was the person whom they had been looking for and waiting for. William realized that he made a big mistake. He followed the commitment he needed to follow and ignored the true feeling in his heart. He wanted to get Sophie back, but Sophie didn’t want to destroy the engagement of William and Susan, the wonderful memory William had with Susan, and the happiness of which Susan had dreamed. She decided to give up and missed the chance that she could stay with William again.

At a barbeque held by Green Forest Primary School, Sophie and William admitted to each other. Sophie was about to get happiness. The prince and princess were about to live happily forever. However, they didn’t know there were a lot of difficulties waiting for them. No matter how their future will be, William and Sophie always believe that they will see the green light of happiness as long as they believe!

(Translated from SETTV. Without permission, do not plagiarize ant content above.)

Cast -
William Spencer: William Li
Sophie: Pin-Yen Liu (member of Sweety)
Susan: Chih-Ai Sung
Owen: Ching-Tien Juan
Brian: Yu-Fan Chen
William’s mom: Hsiu-Chun Lin
Allen: Hsiu-Chih Liang
Fiona: Wei-Chun Feng
Hsieh, Yu-Wei: Ke-Wei Lin
Sun, Ta-Chieh: Kido (member of K One)
Lan, Tze-Yun: Juo-Pai Huang
Director of Student Affair: Hsueh-Liang Pu
Pao Ma: Yu-Fang Chen
He, Li-Hsiang: Kun-Chun Yao
He, Shih-Yu: Li-Chun Tsai
Fan, Tsung-Pei: Tsung-Pei Fan

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 10/23/2005 to 02/05/2006 (15 episodes), 9:30 to 11:00pm, Sundays, on TTV

Official Web Site -
1. TTV: http://www.ttv.com.tw/drama/2005/GreenForest/index.htm
2. SETTV: http://www.settv.com.tw/metro/m098/

Related Newspaper Reporting -
1. “Green Forest is getting a higher rating over every episode. More than 5000 Owen scarves were sold due to the cold weather. More than 3000 crystal balls were sold due to Christmas.” – Eastday (China) 01/25/2006
2. "Ma Wu Tu Exploration Forest, located in Kuo Hsi, Hsin Chu, became popular because of the 'Green Forest'. About 1,800 people squeezed to it for looking for the 'Green Forest Primary School' during the holidays of Lunar New Year." - World Journal (USA) 02/11/2006

Pop Music - J-game (Jolin Tsai / I-Lin Tsai)

2006-02-03T09:47:00.000+08:00

Release Company: SONY BMG

Released Date: 04/25/2005

Tracks:
01. Intro Hsu Chu (Introduction) – Welcome to the J-Game
02. Yeh Man Yu His (J-Game)
03. Hsu Yuan Chih Te Hsi La Kung Chu (Greek Princess by Wishing Pool)
04. Tien Kung (Sky)
05. Cheng I Chih Yen Pi I Chih Yen (Turn a Blind Eye)
06. Fan Fu Chi Hao (Repetitive Mark)
07. Suan Tien (Sour Sweet)
08. OH! OH!
09. Tu Chan Shen Hua (Monopolize Legend)
10. Chui Sha Chiu Pi Te (Kill Cupid)
11. Hao Hsiang Ni (Miss You Very Much)

Introduction to Album:
The biggest album of 2005. J-game CD comes with the lyric and three sets of Jolin’s beautiful postcards.
10 powerful and motivating songs. 10 adventure settings of reality and imagination.
Let’s join “J-GAME” music game in 2005
Create Jisco dancing
Combine spirit of “Hip-hop,” “Electronic,” “Old school,” and “Disco”

New music style. Jisco brings up new fashion.
Golden producer Chung-Ming Hsieh + Golden Melody genius Leehom Wang + Golden Melody winner A-Tia + Rookie Wesley
create J-GAME together. Waiting for you to join!

　　Although “Magic” and “Castle” albums obtained many compliments from the market and had an incredible sale, Jolin and her music company were not satisfied with these. Instead, they continuously thought of how to innovate, creating a new music style. As a result, while preparing for this new album, we particularly invited Leehom Wang and Wesley to make the songs for Jolin. Meanwhile, Chung-Ming Hsieh, Chih-Ping Wang, A-Tia, and Chia-Yu Chou cooperated for this album, too. We hoped that, with this new work team and a different music style from previous ones, Jolin would be up-graded and evolved. She could bring unprecedented visual enjoyment!

Three PINs, Three music elements, consist of J-game
Evolving, upgrading, and molting, Jolin becomes more glamorous and self-confident

　　Starting over with firmer confidence and creativity, we proposed three refined music and visual concepts, which are three self-created English games, including Jisco-Game, Jissing-Game, and Jancy-Game, standing for three different styles of music in this album.

Create her own game, create her own role, Jisco-Game
Initiate engine of limbs, enjoy extreme speed of music, either Disco or Hip Hop
Among opening one eye and closing the other, OH OH! It’s either wild or gentle

　　“Jisco-Game” represents a dancing song with a feeling of extreme speed. Jisco was created by the spiritual combination of Hip-hop, electronics, old school, and retro Disco. From the beginning of the first song “J-Game”, it reveals a volatile composing and gives a strong feeling of fantastic rhythm shifts. In “OH! OH!” and “Turn a Blind Eye”, Jolin irritates your every single nerve with her cute-flippant vocal.

Create her own game, create her own role, Jissing-Game
Looking for repetitive marks of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy happiness in the love sky
Password: Missing You

　　“Jissing-Game” originates from “Missing”, showing the feelings of missing, grief, and growing-up in the world of love, as well as the courage of facing problems. “Sky” composed by Wesley of Awaking Band evolves the piano playing into a vigorous chapter as if rainbow appeared in the sky after a shower of rain. This song will touch people’s heart by means of Jolin’s steady and plentiful emotion of sound and become a classic.

Create her own game, create her own role, Jancy-Game
Paint your fantasy and imagination, monopoly a unique legend
Pray to Cupid by a Greek wishing pool, release plentiful colors of Fancy

　　“Jancy-Game” releases a variety of fantasy and imagination of Fancy. It illustrates lots of music emotions with the unique composition and cute rhythm. “Greek Princess by Wishing Pool” is a sweet music chapter with the exotic flavor that Jolin used to have. “Kill Cupid” reveals warmth and wildness included in Jloin’s vocal and is full of power as well.

　　The music genius, Leehom Wang, for the first time, produces “Monopoly Legend” for Jolin, which is a masterpiece you can’t miss. It perfectly combines Chinese classical music with modern music notes. We are like shuttling between the past and the present, hearing an Eastern and Western chapter simultaneously. Jolin interprets a new love myth with her soft, expecting, and refined vocal.

10 songs of a music trip, 10 games you’ll experience in person, witness Jolin’s growing up

　　“Game” is the center of this album. We hope to extend Jolin’s attitudes towards life, such as “creative adventures” and “daring to try new stuff”, into her music. The all-around music styles, including an imaginary world, medium-fast love songs, and dancing songs, creates Jolin’s kingdom of music ad games. In this kingdom are there adventures, excitements, happiness, sadness, and maturity. Those are the rules of thumb which represent life, friendships, and love relationships so as to persevere and keep moving on.

(Translated from SONY BMG. Without permission, do not plagiarize the content above.)

Second Version of Album:

Idol Drama - Devil Beside You (E Mo Tsai Shen Pien / 惡魔在身邊)

2006-01-21T11:10:00.000+08:00

Story of Drama -
Yueh Chi has secretly admired Yuan-I, the leader of the baseball team. After being encouraged by her girlfriends, she decided to confess to him; however, because of the nervousness, she passes her love letter to a freshman, Meng Chiang, by mistake! Her nightmare starts.

Yueh Chi feels embarrassed and runs away without realizing her love letter has been lost already. Meng Chiang threatens Chi-Yueh to be his “servant”. Yueh Chi becomes Meng Chiang’s toy. Usually, she needs to take notes for Meng Chiang and has to meet his needs if necessary. After been encouraged by Yuan-I, Yueh Chi decided to get rid of the devil, Meng Chiang. However, nobody has predicted this. Yueh Chi’s love letter is posted on a bulletin board!

Humiliated Yueh Chi makes a dash for Meng Chiang. Meng Chiang says that he has never been not able to get things he wants. Looking at Meng Chiang, an uncomfortable feeling emerges out of her mind… When everything is not going well with Yueh Chi, her mom, Hsueh-Wei, finally meets her soul mate. The future father of Yueh Chi is not anyone but Meng Chiang’s father, Yu-Hui Chiang! The worse is that Meng Chiang becomes a member of the baseball club after people are “Cheated” by his glamorous smile. On the other hand, Yueh Chi is the manager of the baseball club.

Yueh Chi is so naïve that she believes that she and Yuan-I can be lovers after joining the baseball club. However, she does not have any chance to stay alone with Yuan-I under the interruption of her brother, Meng Chiang. Moreover, Yueh Chi is Meng Chiang’s “Legal servant!” Besides Yueh Chi, there’s one more person who is unhappy. She is a super fan of Meng Chiang, Li-Hsiang. This is endangering Yueh Chi’s life.

On the other hand, Yuan-I finds he also somewhat cares about Yueh Chi. After getting the encouragement from Ching-Tze and Hsiao-Tsai, Yuan-I decided to confess to Yueh Chi, but he sees the sence that he never wants to see, which is the kissing of that “dangerous pair of a sister and brother.” When Yueh Chi thinks there’s no any hope left, God gives her a big surprise – Yuan-I invites her to a concert! Yueh Chi tells herself, “I can’t screw it up this time!”

Yuan-I sees the argument between Yueh Chi and Meng Chiang on the day of the concert. He knows there’s a misunderstanding between Yueh Chi and himself. Looking at that dangerous sister and brother, Yuan-I kindly tells Chi-Yueh the truth and makes sure of his feeling. Yuan-I will be a loser in this complicated love affair…

(Translated from ETTV. Without permission, do not copy any content above.)

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 06/26/2005 to 09/25/2005, 22:00 to 23:30, Sundays, on CTV

Cast -
Chiang, Meng: Chun-Hsiang He
Chi, Yueh: Cheng-Lin Yang
Shang, Yuan-I: Chuan-I Wang
Hsin, Li-Hsiang: Hsiao-Fan Fan
Chiang, Yu-Hui: Tu-Lin He
Huang, Hsueh-Wei: Wei-Ju Ke
Yu, Yang-Ping: Yuki
Ching-Tze: Lin Pei
Hsiao-Tsai: Hsiao-Yun Fu
Kuo, Kai: Chun-Hao Yuan
Liu, Wei-Ti: Kai-Ti Wang
Yuan, Chuan-Jang: Shao-Tsung Tseng
Tien, Sze-Sheng: Tsung-Tien Wu
Chui-Ming: Chien-Ming Wang
Chiang Nai Nai (Grandma): Chi Tang
Yuan, Wei-Chin: Ting-Li Mong

Official Website -
1. CTV: http://www.chinatv.com.tw/event/2005/devil/
2. ETTV: http://www.ettoday.com/ettv_drama/events/devil/

Related Newspaper Reporting -
1. "Although it lost 'Prince Turns to Frog', the first episode of 'Devil Beside You' still got a good rating, 4.5, among 15 to 24 year-old people. This is the highest rating of the idol dramas on CTV." - Sina HK 06/28/2005
2. "'Devil Beside You' keeps getting good comments and gets a high viewing rate. It includes many romantic and funny parts. The audience can't stop watching it now." - Qingdaonews 07/04/2005

Pop Music - My Intuition (Rainie Yang / Cheng-Lin Yang)

2006-01-21T10:25:00.000+08:00

Release Company: Sony BMG

Released Date: 09/09/2005

Tracks:
01. Kuai Pu Kuai (Be Good Or Not)
02. Ai Mei (Intuition)
03. Li Hsiang Ching Jen (Perfect Lover)
04. Chih Hsiang Ai Ni (Only Wanna Love You)
05. Tan Yen Pi (Single Eyelids)
06. Hsi Kuan (Habit)
07. Pu Chien (Not See)
08. Ai Ching Te Yen Se (Color of Love)
09. True Blue
10. Hsia I Tze Wei Hsiao (The Next Smile)
11. VCD – featured ending of “Devil Beside You”

Introduction to Album:
‧Ambiguous age, perseverant heart.
‧In spite of devils surrounding her all the time, she still move forward, never give up.
‧So do her business, love, dream, and life.

　　She got her debut very early, so she is still in the early 20s after 5 years. Girls at this age have several experiences about ambiguity; they get hurt, for example, from dating but still look forward to the next perfect date. She finally got plenty of attention after working hard for several years. However, she hoped more that her mom could feel pride of her and be at ease. Growing up in a single-parent family, Rainie is premature. Don’t just see her carelessness and naughtiness. In fact, she always knows where she shall go next. Also, she is trying to face misunderstanding about her with the greatest courage and sincerity. Rainie would follow her own dream rather than immerse herself in too much emotion.

　　A lot of people like Rainie because of her role, Chi-Yueh, who resembles herself 100%, in the idol drama “Devil Beside You.” The theme song “Intuition” was spreading over every corner, and people were curious about who the singer of that song was. It’s about time to get Rainie ready for her first personal album “Rainie Yang – My Intuition.” A stubborn angel is coming down on September 9!

‧ Rainie is unleashing the mystery of Intuition on September 9. The beauty of youth is stopping here.

　　Although this album is not Rainie’s rookie album, this is her first time singing out her copious feelings about life and love by herself alone, indeed. Since the debut in 2000, she has been working hard from singing and acting to hosting. We can understand her insistence and heart at every corner in Taiwan. Although she is getting more popular, this stubborn angel has never given up her dream, which is “Live for herself and sing out for herself.” With the highest rating of “Devil Beside You” this summer, Chi-Yueh, starred by Rainie, was loved by people, and the ending song “My Intuition”, sung by Rainie, was also loved by many young girls. The chorus of the song describes the hesitance and contradictory when a young guy and girl do not know they are just friends or lovers.

‧Recording this album for three months. Finally surpassed devil after two times of felling disappointed!
‧Excellent singing. Finding her own voice. To be a real singer!

　　She started recording tis album last September. The producer, Chung-Ming Hsueh spent three months looking for the characteristics of her voice and localizing them. The pressure from the search for her characteristics broke her down. She cried twice in a recording studio. However, “Stubborn angel’s voice” was born afterwards. “Intuition” was the song recorded for the longest time, but it ended up to be successful and well-known. This made Rainie cry one more time! “Intuition” which Rainie was most pride of is the first song which will be promoted for this album. This song was the first song recorded in the studio, but the last song which was memorable, done and collected into the album. Rainie said that “Intuition” was very “evil” because it had been hard to sing it well. At first, people were exploring where her special vocal was. Then, her voice performance was localized. However, the recording process was not in the continuum. Due to the discontinuing, she even flew to Japan to do some shopping in order to get rid of her bottleneck. After coming back to Taiwan, everything went implemented! Rainie was excited and cheerful after learning that “Intuition” would be the first promoted song. “I finally won the devil!” She thought. “I want to challenge having a concert now!”

　　Rainie has got a great achievement in acting, commercials, and hosting during the time when she was not a singer. Nevertheless, there was always a sound talking to her in her mind; that is, to be a remarkable singer! She dreamed of this all the time. She even made a commitment with her mom, which was to have a concert as a singer! Of course, this goal was not easy to accomplish. When Rainie talked about this ambition with the supervisors of Sony BMG, nobody took it seriously. Conversely, she did not feel depressed after seeing people’s response. She listened to music and practiced as soon as having free time. Practice step by step, every day! Gradually, Rainie asked her manager to reject the invitations unrelated to singing and concentrated on recording this album. People started to find her resolution and perseverance! During recording this album, Rainie turned down three invitations of dramas and two TV programs. Nearly 10 million dollars were gone! She didn’t regret that she had turned them down. Instead, she feels delighted while hearing people’s compliment on her album. She said that that was happier than making money!

　　Rainie intended to put all her talent in this album. She wanted to prove that she does not only have a good face. There are a lot of things inside her that she wants to share with people. Many people do not know she also has a sensitive writing skill like a poet in addition to talking, singing, acting, and dancing. You can see her creative notes in the EP and album! The following is cited from her short poem for “Intuition.”
”Ambiguous love is most worth recalling. Understanding everything is the beginning of breaking up instead.
But emotion or love is not controlled by myself… Luckily… heart… can understand this.” – Rainie’s personal note.

(Translated from Sony BMG. Without permission, do not copy any content above.)

Second Version of Album:

Includes one CD and one VCD.
Tracks of VCD:
1. My Intuition (featuring scenes from 'Besides the Devil') / VCD
2. Tan Yen Pi (Jingle of Dee Jay MP3) / VCD
3. Li Hsiang Ching Jen (starring with Chun-Hsiang He) / VCD
4. Pu Chien (featuring scenes from concert) / VCD
5. Chih Hsiang Ai Ni (featuring scenes from commercial '7-11 Golden Micky') / VCD

Pop Music - Pandora (Angela Chang / Shao-Han Chang)

2006-01-20T14:28:00.000+08:00

Release Compnay: Linfair Records

Released Date: 01/06/2006

Tracks:
1. Yin Hsing Te Chih Pang (Invisible Wings)
2. Pan Tuo La (Pandora)
3. Hsiang Shui Pai He (Perfume Lily)
4. Tsui Chin (Recently)
5. Chen Te (Real)
6. Ching Tien Tung Ti (Amazing)
7. Pao Hu Se (Protection Color)
8. Kou Tai Te Tien Kung (Pocket's Sky)
9. Ai Ching Lu Cheng (Love Trip)
10. Hsi Huan Ni Mei Tao Li (Like Uou without Reason)
11. Yung Chou (Daytime Forever)

Introduction to Album:
The newest album of Angela, Shao-Han Chang, “Pandora” 2006.
Strongly recommend the magical pentad.

Strongly promote: Pandora / a super producer, Wei Chen, and a naughty lyricist, Kuang-Chung Yu + fantastic, adventurous MV + “La La Dancing” filled with girl power + the apparel especially designed by Lung-Hao Kao, learning fashion design in France + the cutest “chameleon” company. They are all in this song, Pandora”, with an electronic rock’n’roll style.

Strongly promote: Real / Lung-Hsien Lin and Chun-Ting Chen co-produce. Deep White made another romantic song only for Angela after “Yelling.” With a tearing lyric, fans voted for it as the most suitable for karaoke.
Strongly promote: Invisible Wings / A brand-new national love song in 2006 written and composed by Ya-Chuan Wang after “Fable” and “Can’t Guess.” This warm folk song brings the earliest hope and most stable encouragement. The commercial jingle of “I Do Golden.” The ending song of “Eh Sha Shih Chi Sui” of GTV.

Strongly promote: Perfume Lily / Angela leads the pack in sweet electronic style. Produced and composed by Wei Chen. Tien-Lung Lee created this sweet, medium-fast song after “True Love Adventure” and “Aurora”. The commercial jingle of OLAY in China and Hong Kong.

Strongly promote: Pocket’s Sky / Classical + slow rock + romantic. Chun-Ting Chen produced. A-Kun, a member of the Don Gin Band, made a song for Angela at the first time. The beginning song of “Eh Sha Shih Chi Sui” of GTV.

”Fable” and “Aurora” made Angela become a hot star in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. The invitations to have a performance made her extremely busy in 2005. However, singing is Angela’s favorite. She insists on releasing a new album every year and expects herself to have more excellent performances in music. This time, there are some more breakthrough and fresh ideas in the music in and the proposal about this album. Get ready to take an adventure with Angela!

◎ “11 whole new songs, playing in music world, Pandora’s child-like magical amusement”
From “A new sound of Asia” to “Hearing light of sound,” Angela is going to present the new music element full of magical and fantastic joy in2006.
【Modern electronic rock’n’roll music, child-like Pandora’s joy】
With direct and powerful sound and energy, Angela has an impressive, dramatic sound. She created a whole-new music world in this album, as if opening Pandora’s box, and will lead everyone to play in a child-like, magical, adventurous, amazing, spectacular, lovely… music world.

”Pandora” is a modern electronic song. Angela has a direct sound performance and this song is full of child-like music element. Produced by Wei Chen and written by Kuang-Chung Yu, it portrays that love resembles Pandora’s box, which you need to rip up the package of the box and find a true love after utilizing curiosity and graciousness.

【A warm folk song, national love song in 2006 – Invisible Wings】
Ya-Chun Wang made “Invisible Wings” for Angela after “Fable” and “Can’t Guess”. She has a strong feeling about Angela’s clear voice. One day, at a cold night, she was singing this song spontaneously. She thought it would be great to besung by Angela. She started writing the melody of that song and put a lyric with it. Both of the melody and the lyric bring a hope and power for 2006. During recording this song, Angela cried to the music. You can hear the power which calms your heart down from Angela’s voice.

【Fans’ favorite song after “Can’t Guess” -- Real】
After “Yelling,” Deep White created this romantic, tearing song for Angela. This is fans’ favorite. What is more, “Perfume Lily” is a sweet, medium-fast song made by Tien-Lung Lee after “True Love Adventure” and “Aurora.”

On the other hand, “Pocket’s Sky” is made by A-Kun of the Don Gin Band. This was his first time making a song for Angela. There’re several more songs in this album which are composed or played by him, such as “Invisible Wings,” “Real,” Pocket’s Sky,” and “Love Trip.”

Lung-Hsuan Lin also made the two new songs for Angela, “Real” and “Love Trip,” after “Over The Rainbow.”

◎”Dramatic + Game-like new fashion”
The clothes designed Lung-Hao Kao of kaos attracts lots of attention. The designer, Ms. Kao, thought it’s novel after listening to this album. She planned to use “children’s fashion” as a center. The “Chameleon” clothes right emerged out of her head to made Angela look cute and sexy. After a while, Angela in that yellow clothes looked more girly. The chameleon scurf , 180 cm high and 5 kg weight, was hand-made by Mrs. Le. She knitted it with over 50 different colors of wool.

The designer also made a parachute uniform with more than 30-layer pink yarn to make butts shake cool. The white Latin pants are trendy and childish, making Angela dance terrifically. Ms. Kao also made several clothes of this album, like pure white wings. These wings combine silk and yarn. She used her hands to make some wrinkles on the wings.

In addition to the support from Ms. Kao, another designer, Hsiao-Yin She, picked up the colors to match the “Chameleon” topic. The music company assigned her the topic “Children’s fun + magic + colorful.” In order to achieve this task, she looked for everywhere; however, when she showed some surprising clothes, the feather boots, the chameleon earrings and necklace made by herself, and the latern skirt sewed with hundreds of golden buttons, Angela fell in love with all of them right away. She smiled and seemed that she finally succeeded.

◎”One million dollar MV + Golden Melody director producing a new visual world”
【Ultra-realistic, fantastic music video, a million dollars created Pandora】
Followed by “Fable” and “Mama Mama” MV, “Pandora” MV was filmed by Chung-Ping Huang, a Golden Melody winner. In this MV, the director slit a big iron flower with a laser to emphasize the mysterious feeling of the music video. He even sewed a 100 cm chameleon doll by his own hands. Later on, with a 3D animation, this doll was acting with Angela in the music video. You can see fantasy, ultra-reality, and magic in this video. Angela also tried to challenge with dancing. She learned “La La Dance” from Miracle. This dancing is cute and powerful. It made Angela grow interest in dancing, and she even wants to become a dancing expert now.

【Magical music video, magical special effects steal people’s eyeballs 】
In the “Invisible Wings” music video, besides putting on a pair of white wings, she also got to develop her acting to be an angel, seeing this unstable, cruel, and unfriendly world. Then, she sang “Invisible Wings” to bring people a hope and warm. She hoped everyone had a pair of invisible wings and had courage to step forward for their dream. While filming this video, the director wanted to hang Angela in the air at first; however, unexpectedly, it started to rain. The director came up with another substitute. He had Angela stand on a camcorder stage, put a frame around the stage, and lifted her up. Although everything looks wonderful in the screen, Angela was shivering due to the cold or fear!? In the video, Angela was an angel with magical tricks. She could move a cup with her eye sight. She could stop an earthquake shaking with one hand rising. Of course, those tricks were made by the special effects.

【Sweet music video, self-create tap dancing, compete dancing with a dancer 】
In the first promoted song “Pandora”, “La La Dance” grew Angela’s interest in dancing. She even asked the music company to have more physical performance for this album. Therefore, the dancing teacher designed some extra dancing for Angela after her request. Because “La La Dance” focuses on upper body and butts, the teacher, Miracle, self-created an alternative tap dance for “Perfume Lily” music video. He also asked a dancer to compete with Angela in the video. However, this arrangement gave the director an idea, which was that Angela was on the roof, an imaginary world, and adding a cute chameleon in the video. This chameleon danced with Angela when she was happy, and accompanied with her looking at stars on the roof when she was sad.

【An album filled with children’s fun, suitable for 1-100 years old + Grammy’s design nominee Ching-Yang Hsiao + an illustrator from Japan 】
Ching-Yang Hsiao, called Hsiao Da Hsia, was invited for this album. He is the first Chinese person nominated in album designing by Grammy. Although he is not good at pop design, he was excited and prudent about designing this album after accepting the invitation of designing for this popular female singer. He also proposed an idea of children’s fun, combined fashion, magic, and drawing, wanted to attract attention from 1 to 100 year-old people. IAMKEI from Japan was also invited to design some cute chameleon pictures and settings filled with children’s fun. They both joined to put magical power to “Pandora.”

◎”A popular commercial artist. Angela is popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. The best money making machine in 2006.”
Angela is so hot that she has gotten lots of commercial and drama invitations. This year, she even becomes the spokesman of OLAY in China and Hong Kong. Via the CF on the Internet, “Perfume Lily” was heard ahead in those two areas, and over a million people clicked the link in a month.

Angela is heading to all possible developments. She slates to shoot a soap opera every year. She is the most popular artist in Asia in singing, soap operas, commercials, and so on. This year, she even extends her territory to South Korea. She was invited to be in a live band TV program, “Kim Yoon A’s Musicwave”, becoming the first Chinese singer being on SBS channel.

There’re still lots of songs and commercials left. Getting commercial invitations the most, she flew to Shanghai to shoot a CF “Digit Entertainment” for the largest named brand “Lenovo China” in China! As one of the sponsors of the Olympics 2008, “Lenovo China” bought the golden 7:30 periods on CCTV with more than 100 million NT dollars to broadcast this CF and the new song “Recently”. It connected Angela with the Olympics ahead of time. 1.3 billion people in China got to see Angela at the same time!

Apart from the famous international named brand “Lenovo Vhina”, another online game in China “Joyxy” invited Angela to be their spokesman again. In the game, you can hear another new song of Angela, “Ching Tien Tung Ti”.

Last year, Angela helped “I Do Golden” get a good sale. This year, the company invited her to be their spokesman again. They even have “Chameleon” peripheral products in order to fit the main topic of this album. The company especially liked “Invisible Wings” after listening to the whole album. They thought it’s a very sentimental song. They also expected this popular singer would have a good sale, too!

(Translated from Linfair Records. Without permission, do not copy any content above.)

Pop Music - 8 Dimensions (Jay Chou / Chieh-Lun Chou)

2006-01-20T14:22:00.000+08:00

Release Company: ALFAmusic

Released Date: 07/19/2002

Tracks:
1. Ban Shou Ren (the Orcs)
2. Ban Dao Tie He (Iron Box of An Island)
3. An Hao (Secret Signal)
4. Long Quan (Dragon Fist)
5. Huei Cha Do Wei Ki (Where is the Train Going)
6. Fen Lie (Split)
7. Ye Ye Pao De Cha (Grandfather's Tea)
8. Hui Dao Guo Qu (Return to the Past)
9. Mi Lan De Xiao Tie Jiang (Blacksmith of Milan)
10. Zui Hou De Zhan Yi (the Last Battle)

Introduction to Album:
☆Credited by Golden Melody Award, Approved by all people

A music genius winning lots of awards in the Golden Meloday Award--- Jay Chou, broke Twiwanese music record getting several big awards this year. Those incredible achievements approve Jay's talent in music and, undoubtedly, bring a bright hope for the music entertainment which has been hurt by piracy. With those particular honor, all media and fans are expecting eagerly what Jay will surprise them in the third album!

☆Unlimited extending, Creativity shown up "8 Dimensions"

In July of 2002, Jay showed his amazing music imaginations again, trying to extend his range of imaginations. He has also pushed Mandarin music level to a higher one unknowingly! The new album "8 Dimensions" refers to Jay's birthday, Jan 18, 68 (the year by Taiwan's calculation). He can do everything he wants without any limits in Western 8 musical scales. He always surprises people a lot by his innovative music. In addition, he likes to do things differently from others, making people enjoy the imaginary world in a fixed "frame of 8 dimensions". While you are listening to these melodies, you can also enjoy the spectacular and prudential lyrics by *Uen-Shan Fang. It feels like you are enjoying the eighth art, movies!

☆Imagination widening, Enter a dimension of games

Roaming in the world of "8 Dimensions", you can enjoy energy emiting from 8 directions!

"the Orcs" unveils the mystery of this album. Jay sang by a rigid tempo to tell a story that human beings were greedy and depraved enough to be an orc. "Iron Box of An Island" describes a book named "Iron Box of An Island" filled with memories of lovers. It is so good that people can listen to this song repeatedly. After listening to it from top to toe several times, you will find out Jay has become more good at love songs. "Secret Signal" was the first time that the company's employee wrote the lyrics after asking for Jay. Therefore, "Secret Signal" is a very special song which is commemorable. People called this song an easily-spreading smooth song and anticipated it will be popular in KTVs! Now we jump to "Dragon Fist" full of Chinese style. Jay turned to an Eastern dragon all of a sudden, somtimes juming across the Yellow River, sometimes climbing to the summit of Mount Taishan. It seems to stir the rock music in Mandarin world by drumming as "Palace Style". "Where is the Train Going" was the first time Jay sang in Taiwanese! Uen-Shan Fang used unique Taiwanese words and mixed them with Jay's Western music style. When Taiwanese words met Western music, it produced an incredibly comfortable feeling. In "Split", you can see two parts of Jay split by his voice. This is Jay's confession from the bottom of his heart. "Grandfather's Tea" stands for the Zen of a grandfather by means of a common drink, "tea". This song illustrates a granfather is telling his grandson a story. When tea color is getting light and the music is starting, all fame and benefits are gone at the same time. "Return to the Past" was lyricized by his buddy, *Geng-Hung Liu. Geng-Hung drew out feelings of loneness when it is silent at midnight. "Blacksmith of Milan" is crammed with an exotic style. It will bring you into an East European fairy tales world. These notes tell you a story that blacksmiths work hard because they want to have a guitar. The last song --- the Last Battle, describing a friendship in the armed forces by means of majestic melodies, is a great one Jay gave to Geng-Hung as a present. They do be bosom friends, needless to say. This song seems a perfect period after listening to all other songs!

☆MVs comparing favorably with movies, Album photos are innovative and bold

After the last album "Fantasy" got a great selling, how to push the third album to surpass "Fantasy" was a very important job for our company and made the staff get stuck for a while! Therefore, this time we boldly used X-ray technology combined with an average photography to design the photos in this album. It makes people not only see the outside of Jay, but also the inside. The entire visual image in this album is more interesting and colorful. It has subverted the stereotype that people are fearful of X-ray photos.

Besides extraordinary photos, the album has fantastic music videos. The first promoted song breaks in in full fury! "the Last Battle" is a slow song which describes a friendship. Jay went to the boundary of northern Thailand to make this music video for seven days. Jay and his buddy, Geng-Hung Liu, acted as blood brothers who grew up together. During a certain mission, one of them died due to a war. The other was so sad and irritated. He started a revenge plan for his buddy. Such a touching plot with Beijing string orchestra deepens feelings of sadness. This music video compares favorably with a high-scale movie and achieved the dream that Jay wanted to serve in the armed forces!

☆Magic of 8 musical scales, Charm of 8 dimensions

Juggling scales is Jay's potential nature. But he is not full of himself because of his natural gift. Instead, he cautiously makes one and one good songs. He deeply believes that people's support is a driving force of his creativities. Open your eyes to watch the shininess Jay emits!

Of course, the shock to "8 Dimensions" isn't only these above. The marvel it hides will also roll in from all directions! So, please be careful!

(Translated from ALFAmusic. Without permission, do not copy any content above.)

Pop Music - Fantasy (Jay Chou / Chieh-Lun Chou)

2006-01-20T14:15:00.000+08:00

Released Company: ALFAmusic

Released Date: 09/20/2001

Tracks:
1. Ai Zai Xi Yuan Qian (Love Before the Century)
2. Ba, Wo Hui Lai Le (Dad, I'm Back)
3. Jian Dan Ai (Simple Love)
4. Ren Zhe (Ninja)
5. Kai Bu Liao Kou (Can't Open Mouth)
6. Shanghai 1943
7. Dui Bu Qi (Sorry)
8. Wei Lian Gu Bao (William Castle)
9. Shuang Jie Gun (Nunchakus)
10. An Jing (Silence)

Introduction to Album:
This time, Jay breakthroughes his previous music level and his creativity is more mature. He correctly put his fantastic imagination and personal characteristics into his songs. Listening to Jay's music leads you to an imaginary amusement land; listening to Jay's music pushes you to enjoy more surprises than the last album. Now, please buckle up and come into Jay Chou's "fantasy music world" with us!

Jay's second album, Fantasy, thoroughly reflects Jay's plentiful thinking. His unique imagination is the main drving force of this album. Just look at the title of several tracks, such as "Dad, I'm Back", "", "Ninja", "Love Before the Century", "Shanghai 1943", and "William Castle". People's curiosity will be evoked unknowingly due to these special titles. We can easily know Jay's hard work on this album because of a variety of styles. Jay not only reached this hardship of conquering himself, but also made it wonderful!

Composing out of the edge, Lyricizing by a fixed triangle

As for the production cast of "Fantasy", needless to say, Jay Chou, king of R&B, was in charge of composition. Besides slow R&B songs, such as "Can't Open Mouth" with touching emotion, "Simple Love" with a clear and fast melody, green tea commercial's background music "Sorry", and "Silence" which can open the audience's heart, Jay extended his fantasy world by putting Hip-hop, Rock, faster Rap, and ethnical music. For example, "Nunchakus" has Bruce Lee's swift jumps. "Ninja" includes exciting feelings of playing computer games. "Love Before the Century" leads us back to luscious legend. "William Castle" emits a mysterious atmosphere of vampires. "Shanghai 1943" re-dispalys the olded era in Shanghai. On the other hand, it's worth mentioning that Jay Chou majored cello in high school. Not a lot of people knew this. He showed his cello playing in "Dad, I'm Back" except for his talent in playing piano. According to the above, people should covet for this album. However, you need to know that these are only part of this masterpiece.

In lyrics, this time we still maitain "the fixed triangle" of last one, which is comprised of Vivian Shiu, *Uen-Shan Fang and Jay Chou. Vivian Shiu's writing is pure and direct. Uen-Shan Fang, the new generation's lyricist, has fresh and creative ideas shown in his lines. Jay Chou ikes to use teens language. Looking through Vivian's words brings us smell of childhood. Looking through Fang's lyrics brings us inexhaustible surprises and upgrades our art disposition. Looking through Jay's youth language resonates teens. This stout "fixed triangle" not only creidts Jay's music, but also gives you amazing, stimulating effects when you are listening to this album.

Shining, various fashion style, playing many characters in music videos

A "ninja" often gives people mystery feelings. Ninjas' missions are too sacred to be invaded. They can sacrifice themselves to achieve missions. Such a strong vision of a pro killer shows in this fantastic album making an interesting comparison. You can see Jay tried to put on modified ninja clothong in the album. To meet every song's demand, Jay became the character in each music video of the songs. It'll fully satisfy people's vision. Therefore, the music videos may be another bursting point besides music itself.

Keep challenging music's possibilities, keep surpassing his probabilities

The new Jay in 2001 is using his power to overcome Taiwan's music world. He always tells himeself to surpass himeself. In order to give his fans the most excellent works, he tries changes and new elements. All we just ned to do is expect his "Fantasy" music magic.

Welcome to Jay's Fantasy world.

(Translated from ALFAmusic. Without permission, do not copy any content above.)

Pop Music - Jay (Jay Chou / Chieh-Lun Chou)

2006-01-20T14:08:00.000+08:00

Released Company: ALFAmusic

Released Date: 11/01/2000

Tracks:
1. Ke Ai Nu Ren (Adorable Woman)
2. Wa Mei Zu Yi (Perfectionism)
3. Xing Qing (Starry Mood)
4. Niang Zi (Wife)
5. Dou Niu (Bullfight)
6. He Sei You Mo (Black Humor)
7. Yi Si Tan Bao (Istanbul)
8. Yia Di An Na Lao Ban Jiu (Indian Old Turtledove)
9. Long Juan Feng (Tornado)
10. Fan Fang Xiang De Zhong (Counter Clockwise)

Introduction to Album:
It makes people think he is an ABC, America Born Chinese, growing up in a foreign country by his parents when you listen to his music at the first time. After a while, you'll surprisingly find there's a new music style on Taiwanese market. It is Jay Chou.

For strangers, he is shy and introverted. For friends, he is cute after getting familiar with him. He is like our neighbor, who is sometimes shy and doesn't talk a lot; however, he would give you lots of ideas without making any stop when you are talking to him about music. Creating songs is part of his life, which runs all the time. He can come up with melodies no matter where he is. As long as there is a piano or a guitar beside him, he can make a popular song for the public. At the age of 18, Jay made “Roof”, “Three Nights Three Days” and “You're Happier Than Before” for Jacky Wu (*Wu, Tzung-Shian), “Snail” for Valen Shiu (*Shiu, Ru-Iun), “Open Love” for Alexander Wong (Wang, Lee-Hom), and “Are You Asleep, Sister” for Vivian Shiu (*Shiu, Ruo-Shiuan), etc. Jay has been working on composing, making, and lyricizing songs as a music producer these years. Those are prospective work. He has Generation E’s characteristics. One time talking with him, he said that there was no difference between making music and voice, a guitar, and a keyboard, all of them just occupying a sound track. What he cares is “life power” with music itself and unlimited creativity. With unlimited creativity, music style can be various making people not get tired of it. The music he wants to make is the music other people haven’t made yet, easy on the ear, and excellent.

You need to do something more creative especially when the public has evolved to be excellent at listening to music. His music is imaginary, surprising, and comfortable. You can picture happiness getting rid of boundaries of space and time. Jay is the new power in Taiwanese music industry. Follow him! Get Started to another new music kingdom!

Not need to learn music in Western countries. Do more excellent work than those people studying in the Western. This is Jay Chou.

The album, “Jay”, is filled up with Jay’s high skills on making music. The track one, “Adorable Woman”, was lyricized by Vivian Shiu and composed by Jay Chou. It’s still easy on the ear although it doesn’t include the elements of a ballad. “Perfectionism” is a new and fresh music style in which Jay played piano with high skills. Another track “Wife” is a Western R&B but becomes a whole new music style has Jay’s personal style. There are R&Bs and new Hip-Hops in this album. However, they become a newly ancient English style with classical baroque background and band. The more particular part is that he even tried to put Spanish string music into the songs in the album. Surprisingly, it sounded as really as a movie background. This kind of music hasn’t appeared in Taiwan before. Nobody can anticipate what the new trend of music is. It is good music only when you create good music resonating audience. This is Jay Chou.

Vivian Shiu devoting her debut in music video to her buddy, Jay
The music video of the track one, “Adorable Woman”, was directed by Sheng Kuang. The actress was an artist named Vivian Shiu, who has never acted in others’ music videos before. She has known Jay for several years. They cooperated several times before. This time, Vivian even made time to write three lyrics in the album. She agreed with Jay to be an actress in the music video while they were making songs. The director arranged an imaginary scenario that people may figure out what was going on at the end of the music video. While watching this video, people can understand a girl Jay wanted to describe as beautiful as Vivian Shiu. “You’re so adorable that I get blush. You’re so gentle that I want to care for you. You’re so transparent touching me. You’re so bad driving me crazy.”

During the time they were making the video, Vivian stated cutely that she had helped Jay change some lines in a lyric and faxed it to him when she was in Japan. However, Jay had been playing computer games at the time and hadn’t noticed the fax. That had made her mad at him. “Istanbul” was created by Vivian while she really went to Istanbul. They can do a good job on music because they have cooperated for a long time after all. Therefore, for the reason that they banded together to make this album, this album would give music aficionados whole new enjoyment and feelings on eyes and ears.

(Translated form ALFAmusic. Without permission, do not copy the content above.)

Idol Drama - Prince Turns to Frog (Wang Tze Pien Ching Wa / 王子變青蛙)

2006-01-14T12:29:00.000+08:00

This so-called idol drama (a Taiwanese term, which is a soap opera starred by hunks and hot chicks. Those actors and actresses are so handsome and beautiful that people think they're just idols.) broke a new record of viewing rate in Taiwan in 2005. It inspired me to introduce excellent Taiwanese entertain ment to the world. This is my first work. I hope this blog will get a lot of support from different countries whose residents are into Taiwanese entertainment industry. Please join me and discuss with everyone!!

Story of Drama -
A girl viewing marrying a rich person as her ultimate goal of life.
A cruel prince weighing value of life with career achievement.
An accident creates the crossing of the prince and the girl in their lives.
Losing memory, the prince transforms to a troublesome frog.
The girl thinks she finds a person smuggling from nowhere.
Treating him as a slave, hitting him, taking advantage of him in every single possible ways.
But doesn't know
The one next to her is whom she's been dreamed of marry, super rich man.
A story of love and fairy tale, Prince Turns to Frog

A fairy tale reversing before, Prince Turns to Frog...

Beginning of fairy tale
Tien-Yu desires the fairy tale, Frog Prince, for a touching feeling when facing a prince; however, she also thinks that it would be extremely disgusting to kiss a frog even though she just needs to do that in her dream...... Having influenced by the stepmother, Chin-Chih, since she was little, and , with the liability from the father who's passed away, Tien-Yu realized very early the importance of money. "Maintaining a family needs money-saving, making money needs dirty tricks." At this moment, nonetheless, the most important thing for Tien-Yu is attending the concert of her biological mother who's dead and just got her twisted reputation back. She needs to wear the most luxurious dress of the town. This dress is shown in the window of the Sze Meng Chiao clothes store, but Tien-Yu cannot afford it. Chun-Hao is the new general manager of the Senwell hotel corporate. The ability brought along with the birth enables Chun-Hao make assertive decisions. He thinks Yun-Hsi, an orphan growing up in his family, would be his wife. As for Tze-Chien, who grew up with Chun-Hao and Yun-Hsi, Chun-Hao doesn't like his attitude towards work. He is too easy-going and cares about nothing. Take Shun-Ming Tang, the boss of the Kuan Mei Hotel, for example, Chun-Hao hoped Tze-Chien to deal with that hotel, not to make Shun-Ming Tang ruin their hotel's fame so that he can get his own hotel and the land back. Shun-Ming Tang ended up to intend to jump down from the top of their hotel after the negotiation with Tze-Chien. At last, Chun-Hao had to take good care of this suicide accident and even drive to the Kuan Mei fisher town later. Surprisingly, Yun-Hsi doesn't agree on the wedding with Chun-Hao. Simultaneously, Tze-Chien is silent, listening to Yun-Hsi releasing what's inside her mind. He realized that the resistance inside Yun-Hsi is just temporary. What she wants is that Chun-Hao could undertand her heart more. However, Tze-Chien is the one who truly understands her heart. He's never owned up to this. He wants to suppress it forever but also hopes Yun-Hsi will accept him sometime......

Bumping into 100% cruel prince
In order to get the bounty from the Culture Ritual to buy the most beautiful dress in the Sze Meng Chiao, Tien-Yu does all she can do, dragging Cheng-Che, carrying a divine chair on the shoulders into the ocean; however, Heaven doesn't grant her wish. Her leg is jerking! Can't move! She is about to be drowned to death! Yesterday, while Chun-Hao was proposing to Yun-Hsi on a hot ballon, the ring dropped into the ocean by accident. He is on a speedboat alone seeing someone need a favor. Of course, he jumps into the ocean to save someone without the second thought. He didn't expect the person he saves is Tien-Yu. She is wearing the ring he lost. Tien-Yu found this ring on the beach. She thought it's just a fake ring made of glass. She's wearing it for fun. After wearing, she forgets to take it off her finger. While the two people are disputing fro the ring, both of them fall down to the ocean. Seeing Tien-Yu unconscious in the sea water, Chun-Hao has no way but saves her again. Unexpectedly, Tien-Yu takes the CPR as a real kiss. She doesn't know the identity of Chun-Hao. She doesn't know he is the prince of whom she's been dreaming, not to mention the name of Jiun-Hao. She only knows that the guy standing right in front of her is a lecher who just stole her first kiss.

Miracle of concert AND tragedy of engagement party
Chun-Hao faces the inquiry about the Kuan Mei case from the vice general manager, Ming-Han Chang, as soon as he gets back to the hotel. But he always has a good way with this kind of stuff. Moreover, the following day is his engagement day with Yun-Hsi. He appears forgiving for ridiculous argument with Ming-Han Chang. Right now, the engagement party of Senwell's general manager is what people are busy with. Tze-Chien taking charge of public relations and marketing also takes a lot of responsibility for this party. But his good friend, Hua-Shun Tung, doesn't think so. Hua-Shun Tung was a gangster. He was encouraged by Tze-Chien and decided to restart his life. He takes Tze-Chien as his brother. He is making a plan under the table. At night of the day, Yun-Hsi finds an invitation card to a concert in Chun-Hao's car. Reading the card, Chun-Hao realizes that it's true that Tien-Yu is really gonna attend a concert. After Yun-Hsi's recommendation, Chun-Hao has his personal assistant, Ta-Wei, take Tien-Yu to buy a dress suitable to a music concert. Before Chun-Hao left the Kuan Mei Hotel, Shun-Ming Tang pleased him to give him one more chance of time to pay the money back to the Senwell. The cold attitude of Chun-Hao drove him nuts, and now he wants to hurt Chun-Hao. However, Shun-Ming Tang is not the person who hurts Chun-Hao. It's a taxi, and the driver is nobody but Hua-Shun Tung. Shun-Ming Tang sees someone drive Chun-Hao's body away, but, after struggling a while, he decides not to say anything and goes back to the Kuan Mei fisher town. The concert successfully ends. Tien-Yu doesn't bring the medal given for her mother back home; instead, she appreciates her stepmother, Chin-Chih, in front of the people. This behavior touches Chin-Chih a lot when she hears the appreciation on the phone, so she drives their pick-up truck, takes Cheng-Che, and goes to pick Tien-Yu up back home from the concert. Without expectation of this, Tien-Yu is very amazed and delighted. She drives the car with Chin-Chih and Cheng-Che. All of a sudden, she bumps Chun-Hao running out from a road side. Earlier, after Hua-Shun Tung bumped him, he was put in the back of the taxi. After awakening, he fought with Hua-Shun Tung in the taxi. The taxi hit the fence and dropped into the ocean. Thought of being dead, Jiun-Hao is still alive. Going back to the coast, waving to the car for help, he is bumped by Tian-Yu now.

A story of love and fairy tale is starting...

(Translated from TTV. Without permission, do not copy all the content above.)

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 06/05/2005 - 10/16/2005 (20 episodes), 9:30 - 11:00pm, Sundays, on TTV
Singapore: 09/15/2005, 7:30pm, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, on U Channel
China: 09/26/2005 on CETV
Hong Kong: 02/12/2006 -, 10:00pm, on TVB.

Cast -
Director: Jiun-Jie Liu, Ming-Chang Chen
Producer: Yu-Shan Huang
Screenplay: Tsai-Jiuan Lo

Shan, Chun-Hao: Ming Dao ( a member of 183 Club)
Yeh, Tien-Yu: Chiao-En Chen (a member of 7 Flowers)
Hsu, Tze-Chien: Shao-Wei Wang (a member of 183 Club and 5566)
Fan, Yun-Hsi : Hung-Chiao Chao (a member of 7 Flowers)
Chang, Ming-Han: Gino (a member of K One)
Chen, Chin-Chih: Chuan Chen
Yeh, Cheng-Che: Anthony
Lee, Ta-Wei: Yu-Jung Huang (a member of 183 Club)
Tang, Shun-Ming: Shun Chao
Tung, Hua-Shun: Lung-Chieh Chiu
Su, Li-Hsin: Li-Hsin Su
Shan, Yao-Jung (Chun-Hao's Dad): Chung-Yueh Yun
Chiang, Tsai-Yueh (Chun-Hao's Mom): Tai-Ling Lee
Lee, Tung-Luo (police officer): Po-Jen Cheng
Chef: Wei-Hsun Na
A-Sheng: Pei-Wei Hu
Wu, Yueh-Chiao & Feng-Chiao: Man-Yin Lu
Gary: Hao Yang

Official Website -
1. SETTV: http://www.settv.com.tw/metro/m095/
2. TTV: http://www.ttv.com.tw/drama/2005/wawawa/index.htm

Related Newspaper Coverng -
1. "On July 22, 'Prince Turns to Frog' broke the record of 'Meteor Garden' with the average rating 7.09 and the highest rating 8.05." - YNTV 08/25/2005
2. "The final episode of 'Prince Turns to Frog' has a 6.93 viewing rate, occupies 25.82% of the market, equals to 3.02 million people watching, one fourth of the Taiwanese watching." - Medianews On Line 10/18/2005
3. "'Prince' built a new record of viewing rate, 11.35, among students on July 7. It also broke the record of the viewing rate on single episode, 6.97, on September 4." - TaipeiToday 10/19/2005
4. "Now, hundreds of people visit the 'Money Coming (Chien Lai Yeh)' grocery store in Pei Men on holidays." - Liberty Times 11/07/2005
5. "'Prince Turns to Frog' is No. 2 in the viewing rate of all the dramas in 2005 annual ranking. Annually average rating is 5.84." - Apple Daily 12/28/2005
6. "'Prince Turns to Frog' used to be No. 1 in viewing rates nationwide for one month straight. Its soundtrack was also sold very well." - ETtoday 01/03/2006
7. "What is the No. 1 in the history of idol dramas in Taiwan? 'Meteor Garden?' No! It's 'Prince Turns to Frog.' Its rating is more than 8! The postings about this drama on the Internet are more than 200,000! Hong Kong is gonna play it this year. People in China are asking to watch it soon, too." - Chiao En Fanclub (http://tw.club.yahoo.com/clubs/jn-1979-4-4/) 01/13/2006
8. "The idol drama which used to build several new records, 'Prince Turns to Frog,' now is on Hong Kong TV and causes a big sensation in Hong Kong. 'Prince Turns to Frog' even occupied Number One in the HK Yahoo's search chart." - MOL 02/14/2006