On March 7, 2003, Jolin Tsai made a heavy blow to the Chinese music scene with the album "Look at My 72 Changes", and completely started his own music career.
▲ Poke the cover to listen to Jolin Tsai's "Look at My 72 Changes" full album
Now look back at this 17-year-old album. To paraphrase Jay Chou's words: songs from more than ten years ago are still popular. Jolin Tsai is still keen to reinterpret "Say I Love You" in major performances. This song opened the prelude to the "Watch Me 72 Changes" album.
Speaking of Jay, the success of this "Look at Me 72 Changes" album is naturally closely related to his wonderful creation and chorus. It is worth mentioning that among the songs included in this album, Jaylen took the lead in the creation of three songs, namely "Say I Love You", "Prague Square" and "Chivalry". Among them, the word "Chivalry", Written by Jolin Tsai himself, "Knight" has therefore become a unified name for Jolin fans.
and Jay’s chorus of "Prague Square" and "Chivalry" are also the most popular hit songs in this album. In those days, the "weird" tunes of these two songs became the most popular among thousands of fans as soon as they were released. Love. After the release of
"Watch My 72 Changes", there were 350,000 sales in Taiwan alone, making Jolin Tsai the highest-selling female singer at the time. Moreover, this album is also the work of Jolin Tsai's return after experiencing contract disputes, snow storage and other incidents, which is of great significance to her.
and now exploring the success of this album can not only be attributed to the song itself, but also inseparable from Jolin's new look at the time.
Before this album, Jolin Tsai, who is known as the "boy killer", was slightly fattened by a baby. Even if she was called a little queen, she seemed a little lack of confidence. However, after the launch of "Look at My 72 Changes", Jolin's overall look is reborn. From cover visuals, promotional posters to MV, there are more than a dozen sets of gorgeous costumes, any detail can make fans feel earth-shaking stunning.
▲The official MV of "Look at My 72 Changes" Z7z
put on Chinese clothes Jolin, under the attempts of various styles, began to deliberately conquer "sing and dance", the song "Watch Me 72 Changes" can be said that she became a "dance girl" "The important prototype before. "Little Queen" also instantly upgraded more than one grade because of the perfect fit of music and styling. Not only was this album nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Album, Best Female Singer (first nominated for "Queen of Song"), and most importantly Yes, she has truly become a well-known diva singer, and the diva camp, starting from this album, has a place for Jolin Tsai.
But Jolin Tsai did not turn a path to the black. In the album "Say I Love You", Jolin still made a perfect transition between the "pure" impression before the transformation and the dance style. In
MV, she danced lightly with boys and girls on the basketball court. That year, all campuses spread the song virally. As far as this work alone is concerned, Jolin Tsai is still the "boy killer". However, starting from the second song in "Look at My 72 Changes", she has stepped into the footsteps of "into the city". Therefore, people who still remembered the girl Jolin Tsai at the beginning can also find the girl Jolin that she knows and loves in this album.
▲ "Say I Love You" official MV
And that little baby fat girl singer, how can he become a queen in just two years? All the answers can be found in the album "Watch Me 72 Changes".
mentioned earlier that the title of this album of the same name "Look at Me 72 Changes" opened Jolin Tsai's "sing and jump" career, in fact, for the entire Chinese music scene, these songs also have a really important influence.
At that time, the Chinese music scene was full of flowers. Jay Chou, JJ Lin, Stefanie Sun, and Jingru Leong were all able to play. Internet songs such as "Mouse Love Rice" and "Two Butterflies" also captured the major rankings of popular music. Under such attack, Jolin Tsai began to play dance music. Xiao Yaxuan is the only artist of the same type as her.
Elva Hsiao launched "The Main Song of Love" a year earlier, and Jolin Tsai's "Watch My 72 Changes" followed one after another. The two actresses competed in this way and opened a new chapter in the Chinese music scene. It’s hard to say which of these two queens was better in those years, but what is certain is that Jolin Tsai’s "Look at My 72 Changes""Itself has a more complete concept. The word "change" shows my determination to transform and also set an example for many female singers at the time: it turns out that an album can be "played" in this way.
Jolin Tsai used an album to directly announce the transformation. The songs in it, almost the capital tells the story of life at that time. This is the best blueprint for singers of the same period and later, especially for singers who want to take the dance music route. , Put today, also has reference value. Later in the Chinese music scene, many outstanding singers and dance music works have indeed emerged one after another. Jolin Tsai, who has a very early layout, never admits defeat. Her later dance music works are still one of the best.
In this way, Jolin Tsai became a "dance girl", "big artist", "Bah Sister"... In her music path, "Watch My 72 Changes" was the most important pedal, and no one had thought of it at that time. This album can burst out such a huge power. However, this rapid burst of success also directly prompted Jolin's particularly hard-working singing and dancing singer journey . Later, she fainted from exhaustion due to dancing. For a fashionable girl in her 20s, It's still too bitter, so naturally there is a bit of sadness in it-
her transformation at that time brought a more painful new beginning. After more than ten years of experience, now I think of it, it is really thorny . Even though I worked hard for 72 changes, Jolin Tsai, as well as us as fans, look back, can't tell how Jolin has made this long road step by step.
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