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I have created a Google Doc for requests. Please use it from now on. It'll be easier for you guys to make requests and also I always forget who makes which request. Here's the Doc.

 

C-Pop Artist Of The Week

 

July 7 - July 13: JJ Lin (林俊傑)

*Requested by MangoKiwi*

 

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JJ Lin (林俊傑) is a popular Singaporean Mandopop singer, songwriter and actor under Warner Music Taiwan. Prior to his debut he wrote songs for other artists such as A-Mei and Cyndi Wang. Lin made his debut in 2003 under Ocean Butterflies with the album, Music Voyager. His big breakthrough came with his second album, Second Heaven, which included the smash hit "Jiangnan". He then cemented his place with the release of his fourth album, Cao Cao, which sold over 1 million copies throughout Asia. - generasia

 

Featured Songs

 

孏䏿œƒ Never Learn
 
故事細膩 Romantic Mystery
 

黑暗騎士 The Dark Knight

 

記得 Remember

 

Other Songs

 

 You N Me
 Practice Love
 Little Dimples feat. Charlene Choi
 Hundred Days
 Dear Friend
 Afraid
 She Says

 

Previous AOTW Threads

 

 

June 30 - July 6: S.H.E

*Special* First Half of 2014

June 16 - June 22: Kimberley Chen (陳芳語)

June 9 - June 15: Sa Dingding (è¨é¡¶é¡¶)

June 2 - June 8: Khalil Fong (方大åŒ)

May 26 - June 1: Hedgehog (刺猬)

May 19 - May 25: Wang Dawen (王大文)

May 12 - May 18: Dominique Tsai (蔡詩蕓)

May 5 - May 11: Show Luo (羅志祥)

Apr. 28 - May 4: Carrchy (å¡å¥‡ç¤¾)

Apr. 14 - Apr. 20: Seven Sense (七朵组åˆ)

Apr. 7 - Apr. 13: A-Lin (黃麗玲)

Mar. 31 - Apr. 6: G.E.M. (鄧紫棋)

Mar. 24 - Mar. 30: Mayday (五月天)

Mar. 17 - Mar. 23: Utopia (ä¸–å¤–æ¡ƒæºæ¨‚團)

Mar. 10 – Mar. 16: Jolin Tsai (è”¡ä¾æž—)

Mar. 3 – Mar. 9: Frandé (法蘭黛樂團)

Feb. 24 – Mar. 2: Jane Zhang (å¼ é“颖)

Feb. 17 – Feb. 23: Unfamiliar Friends Party (ä¸ç†Ÿçš„æœ‹å‹æ´¾å¯¹)

Feb. 10 – Feb. 16: Vanness Wu (å³å»ºè±ª)

Feb. 3 – Feb. 9: Queen Wei (é­å¦‚昀)

Jan. 27 – Feb. 2: Waa Wei (é­å¦‚è±)

Jan. 20 – Jan. 26: Fiona Sit (薛凱çª)

Jan. 13 – Jan. 19: Jane Huang (黃美ç)

Jan. 6 – Jan. 12: The Girl And The Robots (女孩與機器人)

Dec. 30 – Jan. 5: Mag Lam (林欣彤)

Dec. 23 – Dec. 29: AM444

*Special* New Artists Of 2013

Nov. 25 – Dec. 1: Lala Hsu (å¾ä½³ç‘©)

Nov. 18 – Nov. 24: SingerSen (歌者森)

Nov. 11–Nov.  17 : Yu Fei Men (与éžé—¨)

Nov 4th   – Nov 10th – Isabelle Huang (黄龄)

October 28 – November 3rd – The White Eyes (白目樂隊)

October 21-27th – R.Chord (è¬å’Œå¼¦)

 

 

 

 

Shameless Promotions Section

 

[NEW] ~Listen To A Song A Day~

 

New thread that will be posted weekly to go along with the AOTW. Seven songs will be recommended from members of the Chinese Translations team and also myself. A review will be given and some of us will also give our thoughts on songs the others have chosen. So you'll get plenty of recs and various opinions on songs to help introduce you to more cpop. And more cpop is always a good thing. Listen To A Song A Day

 

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JJ is someone that i have checked out before but could never really get into. He's pretty popular and has won a bunch of awards. Recently he won Best Mandarin Male Singer Award at the 25th Golden Melody Awards so it seemed like a good a time to pick him from the request list and feature him for an AOTW thread. For this request, I listened to Stories Untold and Lost N Found. I also listened to a bunch of random songs suggested to me by the people in the chinese/taiwanese fanturd.

 

My thoughts of him are better this time around. Before i thought he was pretty boring and didn't bother looking into him more. But after doing this I think he definitely has some good songs and it wasn't very hard to pick an album's worth for this list. I think most of the songs on this list is a ballad. His voice fits with that genre and it is easily his strength from what i've heard. There's a lot of feeling and emotion that goes into some of those songs which is what separates a good ballad from a boring one. 

 

That voice that i just said good things about can also be irritating though. He can sound really whiny which can ruin songs for people and me too sometimes. It wasn't a big enough thing to bother me but I did notice it. He also has a lot of dull songs. For every emotional slow song there was a boring one that didn't do anything for me. It's why i feel that mixing up the genres is so important for albums but he really is ballad heavy. And when I said he is ballad heavy, i meant it. So if you like ballads check him out, if not then I don't think i can recommend him to you. 

 

So many requests. I'm trying to go a bunch in a row so they don't sit there for too long. Some of these are artists that I also listen to but i'll try to feature a personal recommendation one that's not a requested artist soon. I don't know when. But if you want more recs, there's a new thing that just started called Listen To A Song A Day. It's where the chinese translations team picks and reviews a songs they recommend. It's a good thread go to along with this if you're new to cpop or want to expand your cpop library because it will be better at introducing you to a variety of songs from people with different tastes. So it's not just my tastes, though I am involved in that too. But yea, check it out. I'll put this in the shameless promotions section too just because. Does JJ have an official thread here? idek i should check before i post this...
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Yes!  :ahmagah:

Haha, like every artist he isn't for everyone :) But I'm super glad that you've come to enjoy him a little more! Ballads are definitely his strong suit, I find that most of his less interesting songs tend to be when he tries the more pop-ish songs. So for people who are more into that...yeah, JJ may not be an artist you'd like. 

 

I also found it funny that his "She Says" album were all songs he had originally written for other female artist xD would actually love to hear how these other artist would have performed them...

 

 

 

I like your sig ^^

 

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Yes!  :ahmagah:

Haha, like every artist he isn't for everyone :) But I'm super glad that you've come to enjoy him a little more! Ballads are definitely his strong suit, I find that most of his less interesting songs tend to be when he tries the more pop-ish songs. So for people who are more into that...yeah, JJ may not be an artist you'd like. 

 

I also found it funny that his "She Says" album were all songs he had originally written for other female artist xD would actually love to hear how these other artist would have performed them...

 

 

 

I like your sig ^^

 

A-Lin did a cover medley at Golden Melody one time and did She Says. I didn't know who JJ was at the time and i rewatched that video a lot so i kind of prefer her singing it. 

 

And thank you!  :)

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A-Lin did a cover medley at Golden Melody one time and did She Says. I didn't know who JJ was at the time and i rewatched that video a lot so i kind of prefer her singing it. 

 

And thank you!  :)

Just watched it! hm...so used to JJ that I prefer his xD would actually like to hear them do a duet though O_O I think that would be pretty cool. Not sure how their voices would mix though

 

welcome ^^

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I LOVE him, then again, I'm a sucker for ballads and he has loads of them as you said :hurr: I understand his voice might not be for everyone but I don't mind it :smile:

Here's one of his recent performances :chu:

 

Maybe you should include some of your fav lives of the artists if you have any, it's always nice to see how good they are live :)

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I LOVE him, then again, I'm a sucker for ballads and he has loads of them as you said :hurr: I understand his voice might not be for everyone but I don't mind it :smile:

Here's one of his recent performances :chu:

 

Maybe you should include some of your fav lives of the artists if you have any, it's always nice to see how good they are live :)

Another JJ fan xD 

 

He's nice live ^^

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He's a talented guy and he only started getting real recognition in the last few years, which is ironic because I thought his earlier albums had much better and more enjoyable songs overall but I think my views dont align with golden melody critics lol. Even so hes written a lot of great songs and made some great music throughout his whole career.

 

I'd put him in the top 3 mandarin male singers, only behind Jay and Leehom.

 

All my fave songs of his are from his earlier albums though, his last few albums only have 1 or 2 songs that I can enjoy. Also, I think hes got a lot of good songs that aren't ballads.

 

My fave songs would be Mummy, No.89757, River South, Books, Killer and Waiting For Love, Mermaid, Tale of the Red Cliff, Little Dimples and Evolutionism.

 

It's worth noting for newer listeners that JJ is fluent in English (actually his English is better than his Mandarin) and he released a few English songs with his albums too like Cries In A Distance and Still Moving Under Gunfire which can be good ways to get to know him if you dont speak Mandarin. Also I found a interview in english from his small american tour a few years back. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/w_apa/showarticle.aspx?articleID=15264&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

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JJ sounds amazing live, I was fortunate that he came back to Australia for another concert because I missed out on the 2010 one  :rlytearpls:  :ahmagah:

 

TBH, I love his first 2 albums more than the recent ones.  I still listen to Mermaid and River South  :ahmagah:

 

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He's a talented guy and he only started getting real recognition in the last few years, which is ironic because I thought his earlier albums had much better and more enjoyable songs overall but I think my views dont align with golden melody critics lol. Even so hes written a lot of great songs and made some great music throughout his whole career.

 

I'd put him in the top 3 mandarin male singers, only behind Jay and Leehom.

 

All my fave songs of his are from his earlier albums though, his last few albums only have 1 or 2 songs that I can enjoy. Also, I think hes got a lot of good songs that aren't ballads.

 

My fave songs would be Mummy, No.89757, River South, Books, Killer and Waiting For Love, Mermaid, Tale of the Red Cliff, Little Dimples and Evolutionism.

 

It's worth noting for newer listeners that JJ is fluent in English (actually his English is better than his Mandarin) and he released a few English songs with his albums too like Cries In A Distance and Still Moving Under Gunfire which can be good ways to get to know him if you dont speak Mandarin. Also I found a interview in english from his small american tour a few years back. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/w_apa/showarticle.aspx?articleID=15264&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

 

I think he's always been pretty popular, but i agree, his recent albums after sixology haven't been my favorite, he's had some good songs in the recent ones but not great albums. But i still love to hear him sing. 

 

I think Golden Melody gave it to him because it was long overdue for him to be "recognized" by the judging panel. Stories Untold is not a very strong album but everyone has been waiting for him to win so this was finally the year. But it doesn't make the win any less deserved. Just like how Jay Chou was finally given best male singer in 2009 and 2011 for Capricorn and The Era which are far from his best work..

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I think he's always been pretty popular, but i agree, his recent albums after sixology haven't been my favorite, he's had some good songs in the recent ones but not great albums. But i still love to hear him sing.

 

I think Golden Melody gave it to him because it was long overdue for him to be "recognized" by the judging panel. Stories Untold is not a very strong album but everyone has been waiting for him to win so this was finally the year. But it doesn't make the win any less deserved. Just like how Jay Chou was finally given best male singer in 2009 and 2011 for Capricorn and The Era which are far from his best work..

Yeah I agree that's why he was recognised but I disagree with it being awarded for that reason. Imo that's what lifetime achievement awards are for. The best singer award in golden melody should be for the singer who released the best music that year and for a judging panel that act so snobby I would have thought they'd follow their own criteria. Again, this is coming from a JJ fan, so I am happy he won but he didnt deserve it for that years work. Same goes for Jay.

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I think he's always been pretty popular, but i agree, his recent albums after sixology haven't been my favorite, he's had some good songs in the recent ones but not great albums. But i still love to hear him sing.

 

I think Golden Melody gave it to him because it was long overdue for him to be "recognized" by the judging panel. Stories Untold is not a very strong album but everyone has been waiting for him to win so this was finally the year. But it doesn't make the win any less deserved. Just like how Jay Chou was finally given best male singer in 2009 and 2011 for Capricorn and The Era which are far from his best work..

Agree that Stories Untold was definitely not a strong album from him. Though You n Me is a cute pop song and Later to do has probably become in my top ten JJ songs, all the others were rather lackluster.

 

Disagree that his albums after sixology weren't great. Never Learn gave JJ a new sound, oddly nostalgic but still fresh. I liked that he was experimenting with the experience he had traveling through Europe. Just take out the We Together song and I can listen to that album on repeat. And 100 Days album has a lot of really great songs, so I would say that Stories Untold is just an anomaly of a relatively bad release.

 

And yes! His win was long overdue. Just wish he could have won when releasing a better album...:\

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A-Lin did a cover medley at Golden Melody one time and did She Says. I didn't know who JJ was at the time and i rewatched that video a lot so i kind of prefer her singing it. 

 

 

OMG, I am forever in love with her performance! All my favourites (for that year) in one hit. I've watched it well over 100 times  :lol: .

 

I am a big fan of JJ Lin and I have been for a about 4 years now. I agree with some of his recent albums not reaching extreme heights with every track, but there are some that I love and are up there with my favourites. å¥¹èªª, ä¸€åƒå¹´å¾Œè¨˜å¾—我 , åç§’çš„è¡å‹•, å­¸ä¸æœƒ, é‚£äº›ä½ å¾ˆå†’險的夢 and ä¸å­˜åœ¨çš„æƒ…人 are amongst them. I also really like æ±Ÿå— and 害怕. The only English song that I like is probably 'One Shot'.

 

I was lucky enough to get a signed CD from him <3. But I want to see him live in concert so badly.

 

Here is a recent performance of å®³æ€•!

 

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