[Jolin Tsai] Let's PLAY with Queen Jolin in her 17th thread!

Linoa62 · #1 8th November 2014, 04:13 PM

Why red and green? Well, Christmas is coming in a month and a half and this thread is going to stick for a while so... XD

♥ Let's PLAY with Queen Jolin in her 17th thread! ♥

♥ Short introduction ♥

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Jolin Tsai (蔡依林 Cài Yīlín) is a Golden Melody Award winning Taiwanese Mandopop singer. She is one of the most successful and popular singers in the Mandarin music market.

♥ Discography ♥

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♥ Buy now: new album 呸 PLAY November 15th 2014 ♥

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♥ Subbed videos JOLIN 1019 -> PLAY ♥

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♥ Links ♥

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Linoa62 · #2 8th November 2014, 04:27 PM

Rare enough to be mentioned, a testimony from an English-speaking guy who lives in Taiwan lol

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I live in Taiwan now, and honestly I can't remember the last time a comeback was so big as this. I've heard this (= PLAY) on the radio, on TV, on the TV on the underground, news reports, clubs, radio, literally everywhere. People are stopping what they're doing to look and listen, It makes me feel this is going to be such a solidifying era for her as an artist. Evolving from cheesy pop in general to MPop to the great artist we've had since "Myself" - I think this is really the era where she's going to crown herself as the Queen of Mando Pop, dare I say Asia? Realistically in terms of long term female artists theres only Namie in Japan still really making impact?

Maemi · #3 8th November 2014, 04:40 PM

Yay, a new thread finally ^.^

Surreal17 · #4 8th November 2014, 05:26 PM

Finally new thread!! I love the intro pic

I'm glad that things are going so well for Jolin's carrer.

Linoa62 · #5 9th November 2014, 11:20 AM

PLAY tracklist and info (bold: tracks confirmed to be ballads):
1. PLAY我呸 PLAY
2. 第三人稱 Third Party
3. 美杜莎 Medusa
4. 第二性 The Second Sex
5. 不一樣又怎麼樣 It's Not The Same So What
6. 唇語 Lip Language
7. 電話皇后 Phony Queen
8. 草草了事 Get Through Carelessly
9. Miss Trouble
10. 自愛自受*

*Can't figure out a translation for that one... It's about self-respect or something?

So what we know at the moment:
第二性 The Second Sex: written and composed by Cheer Chen who got inspired by Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex in English) by Simone de Beauvoir. It seems that the lyrics are homophones with Jolin's name (1 & 0 aka yi & ling). It's an uptempo song according to the description.
Miss Trouble: co-composed by Jolin, lyrics by Ge Dawei.
不一樣又怎麼樣 It's Not The Same So What: lyrics by Albert Leung, music by Machoboy. The song is about marriage, basically it's saying that gender, ethnicity and class don't matter as long as there is love. The song conveys "positive energy".
自愛自受: lyrics by Shiren Cheung, music by William Wei.
第三人稱 Third Party: lyrics by Tom Wang, music by JJ Lin (Mosaic)
美杜莎 Medusa: lyrics by Yan Yunnong (Black-haired beautiful girl, The Great Artist, Journey)
唇語 Lip Language: a ballad. Lyrics by Liang Jinxing and music by Huang Sheng-Feng (both created Nothing left to say).

No info yet about tracks 8 & 10 but I think they will be ballads.

Irish_Ayu_Fan · #6 9th November 2014, 01:11 PM

When should we expect an announcement about the world tour?

I need to know if she's gonna play in London again!

Linoa62 · #7 9th November 2014, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Irish_Ayu_Fan

When should we expect an announcement about the world tour?

I need to know if she's gonna play in London again!

It's way too soon lol The album hasn't even been released yet. And they don't announce all dates at once, especially not the overseas ones.
We only know at the moment that the upcoming World Tour will start in 2015.

Surreal17 · #8 9th November 2014, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Linoa62

PLAY tracklist and info:
1. PLAY我呸 PLAY
2. 第三人稱 Third Party
3. 美杜莎 Medusa
4. 第二性 The Second Sex
5. 不一樣又怎麼樣 It's Not The Same So What
6. 唇語 Lip Language
7. 電話皇后 Phony Queen
8. 草草了事 Get Through Carelessly
9. Miss Trouble
10. 自愛自受*

*Can't figure out a translation for that one... It's about self-respect or something?

So what we know at the moment:
第二性 The Second Sex: written and composed by Cheer Chen who got inspired by Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex in English) by Simone de Beauvoir. It seems that the lyrics are homophones with Jolin's name (1 & 0 aka yi & ling). It's an uptempo song according to the description.
Miss Trouble: co-composed by Jolin, lyrics by Ge Dawei.
不一樣又怎麼樣 It's Not The Same So What: lyrics by Albert Leung, music by Machoboy. The song is about marriage, basically it's saying that gender, ethnicity and class don't matter as long as there is love. The song conveys "positive energy".
自愛自受: lyrics by Shiren Cheung, music by William Wei.
第三人稱 Third Party: lyrics by Tom Wang, music by JJ Lin (Mosaic)
美杜莎 Medusa: lyrics by Yan Yunnong (Black-haired beautiful girl, The Great Artist, Journey)
唇語 Lip Language: a ballad. Lyrics by Liang Jinxing and music by Huang Sheng-Feng (both created Nothing left to say).

This is probably going to be interesting. Cheer Chen is amazing

inthezone · #9 9th November 2014, 10:01 PM

I was worried they'd put Journey and that other digital single on it lol, glad it's all new songs.

Linoa62 · #10 10th November 2014, 11:04 AM

The Third Person And I (aka Third Party) lyric video:

Surreal17 · #11 10th November 2014, 02:55 PM

The new ballad is nice. Is it me or Jolin's voice sounds thicker?

Linoa62 · #12 10th November 2014, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Surreal17

The new ballad is nice. Is it me or Jolin's voice sounds thicker?

For PLAY she took among other things some singing/opera classes to know how to use her voice. So that's possible lol

By the way Jolin is singing "opera style" in the bridge of Miss Trouble, with a whispering sexy voice in Lip Language and with anger in Medusa.

Tom Punks · #13 10th November 2014, 03:34 PM

I like the arrangement for Third Party but I really don't like the melody and her vocals sound really unpolished and hard to listen to.

I guess that's OK though since I never really like her ballads but mannn I heard the opening and got so excited lol.

Linoa62 · #14 10th November 2014, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Punks

I like the arrangement for Third Party but I really don't like the melody and her vocals sound really unpolished and hard to listen to. I guess that's OK though since I never really like her ballads but mannn I heard the opening and got so excited lol.

These are actually the reasons why it became an instant favorite for me

The melody and the way she's singing~

But wow you have a "good ear". I can never tell melody and arrangement apart, for me it's just a whole.

http://www.ettoday.net/news/20141110/424305.htm
Namie is in Taiwan and according to this article she's there to film an MV for PLAY o_O

pommy48 · #15 10th November 2014, 04:36 PM

I tried to put my bias for not liking her ballads aside

But nah, this song does nothing for me...but good that she's learning how to properly sing.
She sounds "thicker" probably cause she's not just using her throat to sing

JackieRos · #16 10th November 2014, 04:46 PM

From Jolin Jeneration FB:

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http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimene...0005846-260404
WOW! According to several articles Namie Amuro is right now in Taiwan because
she's going to film an MV with Jolin tomorrow for PLAY o_O
http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimene...0005846-260404
http://www.ettoday.net/news/20141110/424305.htm
http://udn.com/NEWS/BREAKINGNEWS/BRE.../9057522.shtml
http://news.ltn.com.tw/n…/entertainm...ngnews/1153979

WHAT WHAT!! My two queens in a video!!!!!!!
Hopefully it will be something like Hide and Seek.

Linoa62 · #17 10th November 2014, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JackieRos

From Jolin Jeneration FB:

WHAT WHAT!! My two queens in a video!!!!!!!
Hopefully it will be something like Hide and Seek.

Wow that was fast! I just posted that a few minutes ago lol

Surreal17 · #18 10th November 2014, 05:03 PM

Wow..this is unexpected! I wonder if this is 100% true.

Linoa62 · #19 10th November 2014, 05:38 PM

Her agent didn't deny and just said basically "no comment"... Since they denied quite fast for the G-Dragon rumor, this might be true in the end.

pommy48 · #20 10th November 2014, 05:44 PM

And since Namie's still doing her tour, she must be there for important reasons!

What MV could she make a cameo in? o_O