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Thanks for answering!
It will be great to see Namie on the DVD <3
Wow, didn't even know she has a sister haha
Min Wen is 2 years older than Jolin if I'm not mistaken ! She's married with 2 kids, a boy and a girl called Jett and Jade respectively (their Chinese names have not been disclosed).
Jolin performed her song Accompany with me at her sister's wedding in 2010.
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Ugh, I got unsubbed again so I'm going to spam some photos again to keep this thread active




It was at a Chanel event yesterday in Taipei for Code Coco watch and Gallery jewelry. Jolin's sister also attended.
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New album coming on December 12th called å·æ•…事的人 Story Thief !
Title song of the same name will be revealed on November 21st. -
Fiiiinally, can't wait to watch that DVD. Hope it's an upgrade from the Myself one, I don't like that recording (the show is amazing, I'm talking about the filming). Also, why is Jolin so perfectionist with the PLAY DVD when she wasn't with Myself? Or the perfectionism is there, in her perspective? I'm not trying to be shady, I'm genuinely curious. Cause I saw some other recordings in old mpop stuff, even things from TV, and the way they film it is always the same: distant, awkward and trembling. Did that change in the last years? Cause it's a real waste to have good shows and performances being filmed so badly ):
Maybe she didn't really have a say in it ? She seems to have a lot more freedom since PLAY. Rumor also has it that Warner complied with her demands this time because they don't want her to leave for Universal.
By the way, not 100% confirmed yet, but PWT DVD will be released on December 29th, and PWT BD on January 18th. The concert will be a mix of the 8 Taipei dates, and will feature I'm Not Yours' performance with Namie Amuro.
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Is she releasing anything soon wtf
PLAY World Tour DVD/BD in December, release by Warner Taiwan.
By the way, rumor has it that Warner doesn't want Jolin to leave, and that would be why they put up with Jolin's perfectionism for PWT DVD/BD, and worked a lot on it.
Her agent confirmed that there were talks with Warner. So Jolin might stay at Warner's after all...
Another "warm-up single" from the upcoming album is also supposed to be released at the end of the year, but still no info about it.
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Have you tried listening to Amber An? I'm not going to lie and say she's anywhere near Jolin or Elva's level but she is a pop as you can get and has some good upbeat songs. Like this one with Show:
The pop stuff, especially dance pop, is so hit or miss with a lot of it being real shitty. I like the ballads and the indie scene so i still check for cpop, just not as much as i used to.
For someone somewhat recent, I think Shiny is nothing amazing but decent enough. Ignore the bad dancing in the second mv tho lol. She kinda has a UK dance music sound if you're into that.
Thank you !! I'll give them a try !
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Well I think its similar to actors who want to write and direct their own movies. Its ambitious and I respect their ambition. But more often than not it doesn't work out.
There's also a selfish side to this in that I like stability when it comes to mandopop, a lot of the singers I like are releasing albums less and less regularly and now Jolin has added herself to that list.
She had 10 albums in her first decade in the industry, and now it looks like she's going to have only 3 by the end of this decade. For someone like her who is one a certifiable pop star, I think its a horrible waste of her talent.
I am not saying she needs to stay the same artist forever or just make cookie cutter songs to fill out albums every year. I just think these big labels know his to make albums and bring the right teams together.
Jolin can still use her status to influence decisions around song choices and MVs. But having deadlines to meet and people who know what they are doing speeding things up behind the scenes would be a good thing IMO.
Everyone can only agree on the lack of releases... C-Pop has been really boring for me for the past year.
I'm thinking of looking into other artists, but where to start ? I'm mostly into the kind of pop music that Jolin releases and aside from Elva Hsiao not a lot of C-Pop singers are offering this it seems.
And to be honest thank God for life & work because I don't really have the time to think about the fact that Jolin has not released a new album in 3 years... The wait is less hard this way.
Thank you for answering by the way !
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I know you're a big fan of hers but what do you think about the situation? Do you think it's the right decision to do the whole album with her own team? And is that team good enough to deliver on all those areas you mentioned?
She seems to know how to surround herself with skilled people, but was it the right thing to do for her... I don't know, even if I'm not surprised by this decision. It was a natural evolution of her career. Marketing, MVs... were the obvious next steps.
I'm not worried about the music part, or about quality to be honest. I'm just "going with the flow", I'm more in a "wait & see" state of mind at the moment. I'm not asking myself questions at all.

I'm curious about what others are thinking though, including you. You seem to think -according to your posts- that it's a pretty ambitious move for her to produce everything "on her own" ?
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Let's be honest, people like Ashin are super busy and are not the people you turn to if you want to get something out quicker.
It also sounds like a weird way to make an album, I thought she would have a bit more input than just asking others to write lyrics for her and then blaming for them delays lol. Could be a sign of bigger problems with the album.
Maybe that's the way she's always done it, but maybe she also needs a good producer who's going to help push things along more without ruining the quality.
That's what he said recently to media when asked about it, that he was quite busy at the moment.
IIRC, Jolin started to turn to "people" for lyrics because she wasn't getting any matching what she wanted to convey.
But she did not blame them, she just said that:
â–º she was taking things with philosophy
â–º good things come to those who wait
â–º she was not actually in a hurry and did not like to be rushed.
Actually it's the second time she's producing an album with her own label (but the first time entirely, as in music + marketing + MV and so on).
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i literally just checked your site like 5 minutes ago to see what's happening with the album and saw the postponement news

I wanted to believe in a release this year til the end but it was predictable...

About the upcoming single, it seems that it won't be upbeat, and according to Jolin it will make us want "more".
I'm still looking forward a lot to the DVD !! I'm hoping for a BD release as well to be honest.
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She was wearing this at BAZAAR Charity Night yesterday in Beijing

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So... PLAY World Tour DVD release for November, new single coming before the end of the year, album release now postponed to 2018...
She's still stuck because of lyrics: she asked people -including Ashin from Mayday- to write lyrics, but they still haven't handed their works.
2 songs have been recorded at the moment.
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aMEI has recorded a new album!
She wants to release it this year for it to be eligible for the 2018 GMA (October / November 2017 according to some articles).
Oh, and she decided instead of using the first dates in Taipei for Utopia World Tour DVD to use the ones from August 2017 in Kaohsiung.
So a DVD/BD release is coming as well.
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8 songs have been recorded!
The new album will be released at the end of this year (November according to some articles).
Elva's new single has been described as a "warm-up" for the new album, so I guess that means it will be in it?
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Hardwell has released an "international version" for We Are One (Jolin's version was for Asia only).
About the new album:
► July 20th: Jolin has 8 songs out of 10 (only one has been recorded as of August 4th), but she's stuck because of lyrics. She asked Ashin from Mayday to write lyrics for her, but he hasn’t handed any work yet.
Hardwell is coming to Taiwan in November for some kind of EDM Festival, so there are rumors going on that Jolin might make an appearance to perform We Are One with him on stage.
Jolin's new album is still expected to be released at the end of this year...
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Precisely. I'm curious if this is indicative of the rest of the album or more experimental. What do you think?
Jolin said she was not restricting herself to any style, so I think -and hope- we'll get to hear a variety of styles and not just We Are One 10 or 11 times in a row lol
I just don't want her to go the "Namie Amuro route" and start to sing a lot in English...
By the way it's been revealed today that the whole album (music, photoshoots, MVs, marketing and so on) will be produced independently by her own company, Eternal Music. She's leaving Warner and is signing with Universal, but from what I get they'll just release her albums and nothing else.
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I like it. That's exactly the kind of "catchy" and "light" song I needed at the moment...
Lyrics are minimalist but well, that's what you get most of the time with EDM songs in English, so I'm not really surprised.
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New album scheduled for December according to reports!
Jolin said during an event that in the end it will be released this year. -
Latest news:
New song for charity: 讓愛傳出去/Rang Ai Chuan Chuqu/Let Love Spread Out. It's a cover of one of 慈濟 Tzu Chi Foundation‘s songs.
Jolin spent several days in the studio and recorded two versions, a light one and a warm one. Jolin’s mother chose the latter. She said “very touching, very moving!†when she heard it.
Since her mother is also her biggest support, this song is also a Mother’s Day gift for her.
Official lyric video
A Music Video made of family pictures sent by people on DaAi TV (Tzu Chi Foundation channel basically) official Facebook aired on that channel for Mother’s Day Eve -May 13th- in Taiwan.
https://www.facebook.com/DaAiTV/videos/10155304497026202/
A new single -an upbeat one- will be released in June.
Play World Tour DVD editing has been completed (no release date yet).
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Elva's new album will have 10 songs! She and her staff are still working on the lyrics and arrangements. Recording will start soon for a release set before the end of the year.
Source: http://www.chinatimes.com/cn/newspapers/20170409000421-260112
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PLAY World Tour DVD (& BD?) coming!!
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Album release in 2017 more and more unlikely to happen.What Jolin said yesterday during a SHISEIDO event (nothing about the DVD release btw):â–º It would be a bit rushed to release the new album in the second half of this year. There are MVs and choreographies to think about, Jolin is still trying different styles music-wise, she asks us to give her a little more timeâ–º 1 or 2 songs will be recorded soonâ–º Last Thursday she recorded a new song for charity (release tentatively scheduled for May).
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But where's the other countries? Better not be a world tour like Twins, which is HK, China and USA...
They never reveal all dates at once, that's why I wrote "at the moment".
G.E.M's last World Tour, X.X.X live, had dates in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, and the UK.






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https://open.spotify.com/artist/6noxsCszBEEK04kCehugOp