Some time ago, Shenzhen Sun held an online concert, which evoked warm memories of a generation as soon as he opened his mouth. 240 million people watched it. This is a carnival in front of his mobile phone in the epidemic environment.
4-year-old Stefanie Sun shows her paintings to fans on the other end of the screen. The epidemic makes people feel depressed and anxious, and she makes everyone treat themselves and others gently.
Stefanie Sun's smile is warm and bright, as if it can heal everything.
In Vanity Fair, this kind of smile is not common.
With Wang Xinling becoming popular again in "Sister Lang 3", some netizens called out to the program team, "Can Stefanie Sun be invited too? She is also our youth."
Looking back over the years, Stefanie Sun's life trajectory has become dull. She rarely shows up. The millennium with a hundred flowers blooming has long gone, and she seems to not want to chase the times.
When Stefanie Sun claimed to be a "unpopular singer", her good girlfriend Jolin Tsai changed from a little girl who sang love songs to a singer who thinks about social issues and has the power of women.
Over the years, Jolin Tsai has been speaking out for the disadvantaged groups in society.
She went from being a obedient girl to Jolin Tsai who only pleased her. She no longer showed her "desperate Sanniang" personality label as hard as she used to back then. All the darkness in her heart has gone away.
She no longer wants to be a perfect person, perfect and pale.
All of this has nothing to do with Jay Chou anymore.
The millennium has long passed, Stefanie Sun has become a "unpopular singer", and Jolin Tsai no longer rewinds.
Jolin Tsai, who was crazy about manicures, was a thirty years ago.
As long as she appears in public, her nails will never repeat it. When she was young, Jolin Tsai always shouted: "I want to become beautiful."
When she was young, Jolin Tsai
Because Jolin Tsai was considered not perfect at that time, she was short, had a baby fat, and had a weird and bold look...
In 1999, Jolin Tsai signed a contract with Universal Records, and the company positioned her as a "boy killer" and made her debut.
is very lucky. Once the first album "Jolin 1019" was released, it won the 7th Singapore Golden Melody Award "Best Newcomer Gold Award" with a total sales of 400,000 copies, and became famous quickly.
Not very lucky, after becoming popular, Jolin Tsai heard not words of praise, but various slander.
media said that she has a sausage mouth, dark skin and rustic temperament. Jolin Tsai is considered by many people to be a "fast consumer product" in the music industry and will soon become out of date.
In order to become beautiful, Jolin Tsai was determined to lose weight. She only ate boiled vegetables for three meals a day, and sometimes chose to diet, but in the end she lost only 70 kilograms, so her menstruation stopped for a year.
Jolin Tsai, who lost weight, was not happy and was not treated preferentially.
During that period, everyone was swearing her typhoon was imitating Xu Huaiyu , without her own style.
When she got home, she hid in the room and cried: "At that time, I thought, I might not be able to sing again in the future."
In the same year, Stefanie Sun also released her first album "Stefanie Sun", among which "Hidden " became a classic song sung by everyone.
"I fell in love with a person who made me desperately
I thought this was the world I was pursuing"
This song has been covered by many singers, among which the God of Songs Zhang Xueyou version is widely circulated.
To this day, people can still remember the classic scenes in the MV of "Dark" where Stefanie Sun was wearing a white top and blue jeans. She sat in the wheat field and sometimes played the piano and sometimes looked into the distance, "I miss the simple and beautiful little happiness in the past."
It was an era of shining stars. The unique Stefanie Sun captured the ears of a large number of listeners in his own way and entered the hearts of many people.The girl on the cover of the album
has neat short hair, wearing a white vest, without makeup, and a little confused look mixed with her eyes.
Warner Records wrote this passage to describe Stefanie Sun, a newcomer in the music scene:
"She is Stefanie Sun, just like what we think is an ordinary girl. The only special thing is that there has never been a 22-year-old girl singing like her."
In Taipei New Year's Eve, Stefanie Sun sang "Happy New Year" with Jolin Tsai and Leehom Wang . At that time, they were young and ignorant, and their faces were full of collagen.
Jolin Tsai was so nervous that she wrote the English lyrics into small pieces of paper, put them in the palm of her hand, and the song was sang to the end, and the two girls held hands and walked towards the audience under the stage.
On the stage, Stefanie Sun was accidentally sprained to her ankle by her high heels. Jolin Tsai, who was standing beside her, immediately picked up her shoes and helped her put them on. The two girls hugged their shoulders and continued walking forward.
has been around for many years.
This year, Jolin Tsai was 21 years old and Stefanie Sun was 23 years old.
This year, Stefanie Sun won the Best Newcomer Award at the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Jay Chou, who was shortlisted with
but failed to win the award, stood aside. He had a little lonely expression and could not have imagined that his era of kings would come soon.
Soon, the record company tailored the second album " The Happiness I Want ", which is still touching.
In that era, what judged a singer's ability was not the traffic and the number of fans, but the originality of music and singing strength.
Her voice was neither anxious nor slow, like a cup of pure warm water, gradually entering the listener's heart in a plain and comfortable manner, making people feel a sense of relief.
This year, Jay Chou, who was shortlisted for the Best Newcomer Award with Stefanie Sun, met Jolin Tsai.
On the variety show "I Guess I Guess I Guess Guess", host Wu Zongxian intends to match the pair of golden boys and jade girls. Two newcomers in the music scene staged a couple's short drama to kiss. That scene became the highest viewing moment of the year for this variety show.
Wu Zongxian said: "Jolin is a good girl, which is more suitable for us Jelin."
At that time, Jay Chou had released his album of the same name "JAY", and he became very popular with his talent.
But the baseball cap that seemed to have grown on the head could not be taken off.
He was used to covering his eyes with a hat and did not dare to look at people's face when speaking, which made Jolin Tsai unable to see his appearance at all. It was not until the next day when she saw a photo in the newspaper that she realized that Jay Chou was a single-eyed boy.
After participating in the program, a reporter asked Jolin Tsai what kind of boy she liked. She said, "Single eyelids, she looks like a personality."
The two got closer and closer, and Jolin Tsai invited Jay Chou as a guest in the concert.
In order to practice the songs she collaborated on the day of the concert with her, Jay Chou interrupted the ongoing publicity activities and flew back to Taiwan immediately despite her physical illness.
When Jolin Tsai's career encountered a bottleneck, Jay Chou composed the song for her transformation and comeback work " Chivalrous Spirit ": "I hope to put Hip Hoph on her, and she will become less weak."
" The Knights Show your spirit
So the powerful knight holds until the end
The proud princess goes home
Getting ready again”
In 2003, Jay Chou invited her to develop at Alfa Records Company, become a fellow student, and as a producer, he carefully created the album " Watch Me 72 Change ".
This album completely broke the previous impression of Jolin Tsai. Her musical style has changed. She is no longer a "boy killer", but a lively girl with good singing and dancing.
"Goodbye the ugly duckling goodbye. I want to change my heart and turn my head and be able to overcome nature. Dreams are near before my eyes."
These words have become Jolin Tsai's life judgment for more than ten years.
That was the era of gods fighting.
In 2002, Asia Weekly used long reports to analyze the "Shenzhenzi phenomenon", and the streets were full of Stefanie Sun's billboards.
In her singing, the young girl's desperate efforts, impulse and stubbornness are thrilling.
"What I miss is the urge to love you after the quarrel..."
That year, in Taiwan, Jay Chou and Stefanie Sun accounted for nearly 40%. The two of them shone together, supporting half of the Chinese music scene.
At that time, there was a grand occasion of "Men have Jay Chou, and women have Stefanie Sun". The music industry senior Na Ying looked at the handsome man and beautiful woman and felt very beautiful in her heart. She couldn't help but say to the media: "I think you two are quite suitable. You two are in love."
Na Ying might not know that Jay Chou was dating with Jolin Tsai at that time.
At that time, the music industry always said that Jolin Tsai was not as good as Stefanie Sun, dancing was not as good as Elva Hsiao , and love songs were not as good as Jingru Liang .
With Jay Chou's help, Jolin Tsai has made a qualitative improvement and finally ranked four little queens with them. She said, "Thanks to Jay Chou's help, I wrote some songs for me."
In those years, "Saying Love You", "Rewind", " Prague Square " were all songs written by Jay Chou for Jolin Tsai. The media said, "This is the power of love."
The two were photographed by reporters many times. Once, after watching the movie in winter, Jay Chou naturally put his denim jacket on Jolin Tsai. When facing the camera's inquiry, he always avoided talking.
Everyone hopes that the "double J love" will come true. She is the princess in the castle, and he is the knight, but fairy tales are just fairy tales after all.
In 2004, Jay Chou met his gentle sister Patty Hou , "She has the temperament of a classic Chinese girl."
A year later, the reporter took a photo of Jay Chou and Patty Hou traveling in Japan, and he generously disclosed his relationship: "This is a new beginning." After
, Jay Chou called Jolin Tsai a classmate, and the media began to slander her again: "With Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai is nothing."
In 2006, Jolin Tsai cried at the concert, and was singing the song "Rewind" written to her by Jay Chou.
"Finally I see it, love can't come back
And you always understand it too late
Finally, I opened it
crying and begging me to stay."
After the concert, someone asked her why she cried, and Jolin Tsai replied: "It's not because of who wrote the song, but I was under too much pressure a while ago." Whether
is related to him is no longer important.
In the same year, Stefanie Sun became the first female singer to sing in Taipei Dome Stadium . From "Meeting" to "I Miss" and " Start to Understand ", it has accompanied many people's youth, which is the exclusive memory of Stefanie Sun.
A reporter asked Fai Wong : Who do you think can be your successor and become the Chinese queen?
Fai Wong said: "Shenzi Sun, but we are of different types, I don't know if it counts."
This is enough to show how strong Stefanie Sun was at that time. She had her own place in the star-studded Chinese music scene.
Stefanie Sun released 7 consecutive albums after becoming popular in her first album.
She remembered that she was empty at that time, without any emotion, and did not know how to be happy.
In the end, Stefanie Sun decided to temporarily withdraw from this circle.
When Stefanie Sun temporarily retired to find life, her friend Jolin Tsai began her transformation.
She worked hard to learn various dances, pole dance , ribbon dance and pommel horse ......Train for 14 hours a day, learning difficult movements almost crazy, with wounds on all limbs and waist.
She also felt pain, but she still insisted on "self-abuse". So she had " Dancer ". At the "Only My Only" concert in Taipei in 2007, Jolin Tsai performed a 10-minute ring and a saddle horse before the official start.
For this concert, she gave her pain and tears.
But the outside world still refuses to let go of this tough girl. Jolin Tsai's performance caused a group of ridicule on the Internet. Various spoof words and expressions were flying all over the sky, and was ridiculed by black fans as "Gymnast."
When he was most helpless, Jolin Tsai wrote this sentence:
" To be honest, I have been stabbed for a long time and saying it is absolutely fine. It is a lie to say that there is no wound. I don’t know where the huge ability comes from. I really don’t know. Just like you want to test the limit of my collapse, I am also testing my limit." ”
verbs around, Jolin Tsai developed the ability to lock up all the bad sounds. She was very proud of her strong willpower.
Those who cannot be killed make her stronger and stronger.
Jolin Tsai knew that she was not a genius and was also called a "local talent" in her early debut. She has always believed that hard work will succeed.
Taiwan senior agent Qiu Xiuzhu once said: "When Jolin Tsai first debuted, she was not the first in terms of figure, dancing, and singing. She was not the first in terms of singing, but she did her best today."
She personally opened up a new world for herself.
Every concert by Jolin Tsai is almost an audio-visual feast, and it will never make fans feel repetitive.
She said: "For a new concert, the music can be not re-edited, and the dance can be not re-danced. Just hold a concert like this, but I don't want to."
Faced with the ridicule and despise in the spotlight, her way of dealing with it is to make herself better and better.
In 2011, Stefanie Sun, 33, released the album "It's Time", showing her long hair style for the first time, and she was wearing a black gauze, which was very feminine. She said:
"I hope this look will let everyone know that Stefanie Sun still has a lot of space and possibilities."
This is her 11th year of debut, and Stefanie Sun is still singing.
In the same year, she got married.
husband Nadim is a completely outsider and an ordinary employee of a company. After 5 years of love, the two got married in Singapore .
Stefanie Sun refused any media access, which surprised many people even more: Jolin Tsai attended as a bridesmaid and was also the only star invited to attend.
Only now people realize that Stefanie Sun and Jolin Tsai have been in love with each other for many years.
From left to right: Nadim, Stefanie Sun, Jolin Tsai
Stefanie Sun, who was married, has only released two albums so far, and is almost semi-retired and lives seriously.
She became more and more low-key, and she was never afraid that she would be forgotten by the outside world.
Stefanie Sun and Nadim have been married for 11 years, with both children and children. She cares about her husband and children, learns to cook, draw, travel, and occasionally returns to sing, and hardly shows up in public.
In her own words, she was busy for the first ten years of her acting career, and lived her own life willfully in the last ten years.
In 2012, Stefanie Sun returned to sing after giving birth, and her first time returning to the stage was to appear as a guest at Jay Chou's World Tour of Taipei Dome of "Ferris Wheel".
At the scene, Jay Chou recalled the past and said that the Best Newcomer Award at the 12th Golden Melody Awards was snatched away by Stefanie Sun, and he had been worried about it for 12 years.
Jay Chou values love and friendship. When Stefanie Sun suffered a first Waterloo in her singing career, he pulled her up from the abyss.
The two met at the award ceremony at that time. What is surprising is that Stefanie Sun, who has always spoken with strength, has been dislodged many times when singing. After the event ended, everyone sighed, saying that the so-called queen is nothing but this, and some even began to attack her appearance.
Jay Chou immediately stood up to clarify the facts for Stefanie Sun: "We debuted and grew up together. I know every song and strength of her. Stefanie only makes mistakes after catching a cold. I hope fans must be rational."
This kind of friendship is the mutual appreciation between the same passers-by.
Stefanie Sun didn't care so much about this. After sighing, she said: "This world is very big, it is impossible for everyone to follow the same trend and listen to a song."
Stefanie Sun's "Hey Jude" Audio: 0:0004:41
When female singers of the same era returned to their families, Jolin Tsai is still active in the front line of the music industry.
Her musical works are no longer limited to love, and are increasingly showing diverse connotations, including images and social thinking.
In the winter of 2018, Jolin Tsai released her solo music album "UGLY BEAUTY". She returned to her inner level, constantly reflecting on herself, and reviewing all the appearance criticisms she has suffered over the past twenty years. On the cover of the album
, Jolin Tsai wore a huge lip model with exaggerated looks to fight back the fact that she was disliked by her big mouth. She wanted to break the secular view of beauty and ugliness.
In the MV of the song " Strange Beauty ", the scene is a court, with Jolin Tsai playing the role of the judge and the prisoner alone, and the whole process is full of irony.
The year of the trial was held in 1980, which was the year when Jolin Tsai was born.
She was sentenced repeatedly for not meeting the public aesthetics. She was kidnapped for plastic surgery by a doctor holding a precise ruler to measure the distance between the corners of her eyes.
Because her body shape is not perfect, it is a sin to not eat boiled vegetables.
She mustered up the courage to reproduce the shape of the "local concert", which is the material that directly promotes the formation of the "spring culture" phenomenon.
It was not until this time that the public realized that this thin girl had silently endured so much pressure over the years, "It turns out that she knew everything, those insulting and insulting words."
The song "Strange Beautiful" written by Wu Qingfeng is inspired by Jolin Tsai's criticism of her in the years since her debut. She bravely faced these naked rhetoric and refused any hypocritical embrace.
"I can't see my beauty, you are blind
praise face but turned around and spit
Who has the courage to say that is absolutely
True me and false I look at this me today"
between the lines is Jolin Tsai's resoluteness to fight back on public opinion, and also to get rid of the confidence to recognize and expect from the outside world. Jolin Tsai is so beautiful like
.
Over the years, she has been fighting against the world.
Some people say that Jolin Tsai had plastic surgery and looked like Ruby Lin . She simply invited Ruby Lin to shoot the MV in "So What's Different".
is Ruby Lin before, and small S is behind.
In 2020, Jolin Tsai held a concert in Kaohsiung , and the finale guest invited Xiao S.
The two of them are bold in style and hot in their clothes. They show off their good figures when they appear on the same stage. They cooperate very well, and even sing to the touching place, hugging and kissing each other on the stage, causing the audience to scream frequently.After the concert of
, Jolin Tsai said, "Thanks to the irreplaceable super international superstar Xiao S, I will be popular again for your blessings."
Then, Xiao S posted a message to respond: "Thanks to the irreplaceable super singing and dancing, I will be popular again for your blessings."
Jolin Tsai and S
Over the years, Jolin Tsai has been speaking out for the disadvantaged groups in society.
In 2019, " Rose Boy " won the "Song of the Year" award in the Taiwan Golden Melody Award.
"Who puts whose soul into whose body?
Who turns whose body
becomes imprisoned"
The lyrics and music of this work were completed by Jolin Tsai and Ashin , based on a real event.
Taiwanese boy Ye Yongzhi has been very gentle since childhood and is very good at caring about his mother. The neighbors all envied Ye’s mother.
When he was in the third grade of elementary school, the teacher found Ye’s mother and said that Ye Yongzhi only likes games that girls play and suggested going to a psychologist.
The psychiatrist said to Ye’s mother: “Your child is normal, and the abnormal ones are those who look at him.”
Ye Yongzhi suffered from campus violence because of his feminine personality. His pants were taken off by his classmates and humiliated. The road from the classroom to the toilet became the deepest fear of his short life.
On April 20, 2000, Ye Yongzhi fainted on the floor of the toilet. His mouth and nose bleeding continued, and he was finally sent to the hospital for emergency treatment ineffective.
He was only 15 years old and left the world in spring in this way.
After Jolin Tsai learned of this story, she created the song "Rose Boy". After the first draft was completed, she invited her friend Ashin to help write the lyrics, hoping that this song can bring some hope and strength to the minority groups in this society.
There are always whispers in troubled times. You don’t need to be sorry when you are born without guilt. This song is a ray of sunshine shining into the abyss.
At the concert, Jolin Tsai invited Ye Yongzhi's mother to the scene and told everyone the story of the boy. Jolin Tsai said:
"Thank you, Mother Ye, including myself, I have been looking for recognition since I was a child. We are taught what is normal, but we are rarely taught to be tolerant. Accepting and starting with accepting yourself. Maybe something special happens around you does not mean you are very strange. When you have a partner to talk to, it means you start to accept yourself. Maybe you find yourself different. Please be more tolerant. Maybe it is really different, but so what."
Jolin Tsai knows that under any circumstances, she may become a minority, so she must have empathy to love the people around her. "Love is to look at imperfect people with a perfect perspective."
019 Golden Melody Award, when Eason Chan announced that Jolin Tsai's "Ugly Beauty" won the album of the year, Jolin Tsai showed a confident smile.
is no longer ridiculed and questioned when "Dancer" won the award. This time when she won the award, applause came from the audience. Jolin Tsai said: "If you are not 40 years old, I will tell you that 40 years old really feels damn good!"
's eyes are firm and bright, and he no longer fears anything.
She went from being a obedient girl to Jolin Tsai who only pleased her, and all the darkness in her heart was gone.
2-year-old Jolin Tsai looks very loose. She will no longer show her "desperate three-niang" personality label as hard as she used to back then.
"I have been performing talent in the past 20 years. I used to be very busy and tend to be tight, but after a whole year of rest, it seems that I don't have to perform talent in the performance. "
She no longer wants to be a perfect person, perfect and pale.
Jolin Tsai has been single until now, Stefanie Sun has been worried about it until now, and she always keeps in touch with her friends.
In 2015, Jolin Tsai held a concert in Singapore. She sang "Meeting" and confessed to Stefanie Sun in public: "It is the most beautiful accident that I met you."
The accident between Jolin Tsai and Stefanie Sun was from the high heels walking on Taipei New Year's Eve 21 years ago. This walk has become so beautiful that it is today.
001 Taipei New Year's Eve 21-year-old Jolin Tsai and 23-year-old Stefanie Sun
They are walking two completely different paths. Stefanie Sun is now ridiculed as a "unpopular singer", and Jolin Tsai accepts her imperfection.
When life is no longer young and there are too many complex and profound emotions in your eyes, you will realize that fate is helpless and has nowhere to escape. You might as well accept the fact that you are a mortal.
