has never stopped working hard for more than 20 years since her debut. She was questioned and ridiculed along the way, mixed with sweat and tears, and walked forward step by step.
She is the Chinese music queen who was once given the greatest malice but was also given the highest honor.
Her growth is full of inspiration, and her experience fully confirms that as long as you work hard, the "ugly duckling" can also become a "beautiful swan".
This generation of queen who is named "Asian dancer" is Jolin Tsai !
1. She was at her peak when she debuted, but she was questioned all the way
On September 15, 1980, in Taiwan, China, a cute little girl was born, and her parents named her Cai Yiling . Later it was renamed "Jolin Tsai"!
When I was a child, Jolin Tsai was introverted and was very shy.
often stared at her eyes and sucked her fingers, not crying or making a fuss. It can be said to be obedient and exaggerated. This "obedient" manifestation made the mother once think that she was a "mentally retarded" child.
Fortunately, she was very smart. In the kindergarten stage, her mother sent her to a Japanese school for study, and soon Jolin Tsai mastered the mathematical knowledge of the first and second grades.
After going to elementary school, Jolin Tsai's grades were basically in the top three. Only once did she only get tenth place due to negligence. As a result, my mother beat her up. After
was beaten, Jolin Tsai's ranking was no longer lower than the top three.
It was not until after high school that Jolin Tsai began to show "rebellion in her youth." However, Jolin Tsai, who is naturally "honest", did not worry too much about her parents. Even if she was naughty, she knew it would depend on her parents' expressions.
Jolin Tsai's first stop performing was at the welcome party held by the Reyin Club in her second year of high school. She sang Cranberry's "Zombie". Seeing the warm applause from the audience, Jolin Tsai knew that she should perform well. This performance aroused Jolin Tsai's desire to sing.
Later, the school held a dance party, and Jolin Tsai once again sang, and this time the applause and cheers from the audience made her unforgettable for a long time. It was also from this moment that she began to like the stage and liked the performance.
1998, 19-year-old Jolin Tsai participated in the "Freshman Position Battle" music competition held by MTV music station under the recommendation of the school.
Jolin Tsai chose the signature tracks of Maria Carey and Whitney Houston . Even if it is put to this kind of work, few people probably dare to use it for competitions.
And Jolin Tsai seems to be born for singing, without any experience and professional training. With her courage to sing and show off and rich body movements on the stage, she stood out among the three thousand contestants and won the championship of this music competition!
's excellent performance this time made Universal Records look at her.
1999, Universal Records officially signed Jolin Tsai and listed her as a key newcomer of the year for training.
Then, Universal Records Company formulated a half-year training plan for Jolin Tsai, conducting comprehensive training on dance, language, stage performance abilities, etc., and even go to Ireland , New York and other places from time to time to watch foreigners' performances, observe and learn their stage performance styles.
In the same year, Jolin Tsai released her first EP "Jolin 1019". Although this album was not popular, it also generated 400,000 sales, ranking among the Best Newcomer Award.
But for the first time, the young Jolin Tsai was still so scared that she could not face the camera, and even the promotional photos were only taken on the side. However, she knew how to study hard and quickly overcame her fear!
It was at its peak when it debuted. After becoming famous, Jolin Tsai suffered a lot in her studies and career. Because the two have to be balanced, they often have to rush to inform after class, and the homework is basically completed in the spare time on the road or before going on stage.
often works until the early morning, and sometimes, after work, I even go to school with my schoolbag on my back, and I don’t even have time to sleep.
At that time, the two identities of students and singers were constantly switching, making Jolin Tsai so tired that she couldn't breathe.
It is precisely this hard journey that makes Jolin Tsai cherish the hard-earned affirmation and support. She took every step very carefully and cautiously!
Even though he was careful along the way and pursued perfection in his performance, Jolin Tsai, who became famous at a young age, seemed to have never stopped being "blacked".
In 2001, Jolin Tsai was directly listed as the "Top Ten Bad Singers".
musician Lin Weizhe criticized her, "I'm obviously very young, and I deliberately pretend to sing emotionally. It's too much. It's obviously abusing everyone's ears!"
Jolin Tsai once said that she cared about others' evaluations of her. Any rumors and criticism would cause her to be very hurtful and would make her frown.
But in the fast-paced entertainment circle, she could only hold back her tears, maintain an optimistic attitude, and keep climbing on the music road.
agency is even more unlikely to take care of her emotions. As a popular singer created, the greatest value is to keep making money.
At that time, Jolin Tsai's agency, Loud Music, required her to release an album every six months.
For an agency, making money quickly is the first priority. As for the singer's vision, it is not within the company's consideration.
blindly pursues speed, which is the biggest consumption for singers!
Good music must require plenty of time and cost.
Jolin Tsai pursues artisticization, while the broker company pursues commercialization. The two concepts invisibly conflict.
2. Get rid of the clouds and successfully get rid of the transformation
In 2002, Jolin Tsai terminated the contract with the brokerage company one-sidedly. And this contract dispute almost ruined her singing career.
All her announcements were stopped, and even all her performances could not be broadcast normally.
In order to give back to the fans, she will hold the DV and sing and record, so that fans can watch her performance in this way. This situation really makes people feel heartbroken for her!
After being hidden, Jolin Tsai focused on her studies, but she did not give up her singing career.
A year later, she cleared the clouds and set off again!
In 2002, Jolin Tsai once again rushed to the peak of the music scene with her fifth album " Watch Me 72 Changes ".
This album has transformed Jolin Tsai into a "singing singer" and began to transform into a sexy, hot and dancing route in terms of image. It can be said that the transformation was very successful!
This album is also a highlight of Jolin Tsai's career in the music industry. Many songs have become classics in the public's memory.
Career blossomed again, and controversy followed.
Volkswagen began to implicitly mock her appearance, with a small face, a big mouth, mediocre appearance, and a fat figure.
began to deny her performance and singing, questioning that she relied on scandals and hype to gain popularity.
The reason why "Watch Me 72 Change" became popular is because of Jay Chou . Everyone knows that Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou have a scandal, and there are three songs in this album written by Jay Chou.
So, many people say that she made this album popular with Jay Chou.
Jolin Tsai cares very much about other people's comments, and often this statement is a huge blow to her.
She will regard these malicious comments as "a mirror". Through continuous efforts, she will make herself in the mirror more perfect and make the public more like it.
She had no other way, she could only make herself constantly improve. When netizens called her fat and ugly duckling, she worked hard to lose weight, insisted on fitness and running every day, and dieted until she only ate water and boiled vegetables.
was questioned for not being able to perform singing skills, so she insisted on practicing breath, pronunciation (pitch), and even practicing pronunciation word by word under rapid exercise.
In order to practice dance, she suffered even more torture. The flexibility of the dance allowed her to endure all kinds of pain every day. Even if she was so painful that she could not stand, she had to grit her teeth and practice over and over again. The reason why she could easily control all kinds of dances was completely inseparable from her crazy training.
For the acting career, Jolin Tsai always pursues perfection, and she likes to put herself in the group where "stupid birds fly first". She can sing a song thousands of times, and she can practice a dance for hundreds of hours.
It is Jolin Tsai's tenacity and perseverance that has made such amazing works as "Dancer". This album won the Best Mandarin Female Singer Award at the 18th Golden Melody Awards. Jolin Tsai also became the Asian queen singer
. This award is a great comfort to Jolin Tsai, and her efforts eventually rewarded her.
Standing on the stage of receiving the award, she choked and said, "I always thought I was a singer who was not respected. No matter how I did, I would be questioned and scolded. Whenever I saw and heard these, I would be very sad. But I want to thank those who looked down on me, and I have always worked hard."
She did not disappoint herself and her fans, and she exchanged her efforts for a satisfactory answer.
Faced with such a report card, Jolin Tsai did not have the slightest pride, but instead worked harder.
She thinks that artist is just her job and the most difficult profession. Singer is a noble profession. It shouldn’t be just a model, it shouldn’t be able to just sing, so there is still a long way to go.
"This industry is easy to succeed, but it is easier to "reduce fever". Trying hard is not to maintain its own popularity. Just don't let them down when fans need you. Until one day, fans no longer need me."
3. She is not a genius, she is a place
0 The success of a record is of course gratifying. " Watch Me Seventy Two Changes to " set a sales miracle of over one million in Asia, and stood firm in the position of the popular little queen of Chinese albums. Jolin Tsai is even more careless. To this end, she went to New York to study performance and other related courses, and learned the "voice and expression" course with the teacher who once taught Julia Roberts .
When recording the album "Castle", it attracted much attention from fans, and the record companies all looked forward to this new album to achieve another sales success. Therefore, the producers were all facing a great enemy, and their nerves were extremely tense when recording, and almost every song was required to sing Jolin Tsai many times.
During that time, Jolin Tsai often spent all night in the recording studio, and finally sang until she lost confidence and suspected that she could not sing.
The worst thing is that because of the excessive pressure, Jolin Tsai couldn't eat and needed sleeping pills to sleep. She even found out that she had mild depression at one point.
But for Jolin Tsai, the less confident he is, the more crazy he asks himself not to stop.
Her crazy spirit was praised by the media as: "Jolin is not a genius, Jolin is a local talent."
Jolin Tsai is not a genius, but a "local talent". This brand new word seems to be another kind of appreciation for Jolin Tsai, and it is also Jolin Tsai's persistence that has redefined the meaning of "working".
people always have inexplicable admiration and admiration for geniuses, and turn a blind eye to hard work but always feel that their hard work is always not favored!
Her crazy efforts should be appreciated. She does not get everything easily like a genius. All her efforts should be seen by the world and her fans.
It was only in his twenties that I practiced flexibility. Practicing , one-line horse, , it hurts even if I think about it, but Jolin Tsai survived with tears. When promoting "Dancer", I received more than 600 notices throughout the year without a day off. I practice dancing until my waist injury is injured. When the mother saw her daughter working so hard, she could only shed tears secretly.
Learn gymnastics skills at no foundation. The body is covered with scars, the legs are blue and purple, and the feet are often sprained, the pain is unbearable, the toes are worn out, and blood and sweat are intertwined, which cannot stop Jolin Tsai's persistence.
is often a few minutes of performance on the stage, and Jolin Tsai often spends one or two months practicing.
such desperate efforts are not only a great test of physical fitness, but also under tremendous psychological pressure.
Because of the extreme pressure, Jolin Tsai was in a trance, and her tense state made her collapse and cry every day.
Dance Until late at night, she was injured all over, and reaching the critical point of her body was just a trivial matter. What’s important is that she will always be dissatisfied with herself.
She said she was very frustrated when someone told her what problems she had. Because she didn't correct these problems first, and even discovered them first.
In terms of art, Jolin Tsai has been constantly breaking through the limits of artists and challenging gymnastics movements. The ring and pommel horse are comparable to Olympic champions.
Senior said that Jolin Tsai never called him tired, and her colleague said that Jolin Tsai was a lunatic because no matter how difficult it was, she would do it as long as she could present a beautiful performance and do her best.
It is precisely because of her pursuit that professional athletes such as rings, pommel horses, and rhythmic gymnastics have been brought to the stage by her. She surprises the audience at every stage of performance.
However, even so, Jolin Tsai will still be hacked and sarcastic.
split , the character "Yima" she practiced hard, is called "Lin Culture" by the Internet. Many of her action performances have been edited into indecent animations.
Various sarcastic and insulting words followed, and her "local talent" efforts were for a while and were blackened by the exaggerated Internet.
Hearing this, Jolin Tsai burst into tears silently, but she never refuted a sentence positively, but just continued to work hard secretly.
4. Conquering everyone with hard work
No matter what kind of challenge it is or how difficult it is, Jolin Tsai will definitely do her best. Even if she is injured all over her body, she feels "worthy" when she thinks that fans like it.
has no talent, nor is it a genius. It all depends on acquired efforts and persistence, and uses "crazy efforts" to make up for her shortcomings, which makes her turn from 0 to 100 points.
Some people say that Jolin Tsai made an indelible contribution to the development of Chinese dance music .
Jolin Tsai, this weak little girl, successfully repelled all doubts with her efforts and persistence.
Taiwan senior agent Qiu Xiuzhu commented on her:
"When I first debuted, I was not the first in terms of figure, I was not the first in terms of dancing, and I was not the first in terms of singing. I was not the first in terms of nowhere, but today I did the best."
And some artists who have been shouting claim that they must make the name of singing and dancing, but none of them persisted, and there were no outstanding works.
Only Jolin Tsai does not forget her original aspiration, persists from beginning to end, and constantly breaks through and creates amazing things!
For so many years, Jolin Tsai has been fighting with him, constantly demanding his own progress, abandoning all external interference, and persevering in creating miracles after miracles.
Some artists of the same period can only rely on variety shows to maintain their popularity.
. Jolin Tsai, who has been popular for many years, never participates in variety shows. Many people misunderstand her because she never tells the inspirational stories behind her through the show.
Because, Jolin Tsai thinks that it is really good to do the music and performance well! Instead of being not good at talking and having to distract yourself from doing some meaningless variety shows, it is better to concentrate on the music.
Faced with everyone's doubts, Jolin Tsai said: "The three words Jolin Tsai are very controversial. There are as many people who like me as they hate me. Now I turn off all the bad sounds, arm myself fully, and stand in front of you with strength."
From pursuing the affirmation of the outside world to fearless and easy facing everything, Jolin Tsai only wants to be a better self. She never pleases the public or shows off her feelings. She just wants to be herself well while bringing higher quality music.
Since 2014, Jolin Tsai spoke through music, turned her attention to the various aspects of society, spoke for women, advocated equal rights pioneers, and called for harmony and beauty through music. This spirit is really admirable!
At this time, Jolin Tsai is no longer the little Y-head who can only cry silently. She has become the queen who is not afraid of everything.
After experiencing thousands of sails, Jolin Tsai used her own efforts to not only fight back against the people who once laughed at her, but also conquered everyone with her strength!
Looking back now, Jolin Tsai has become a youthful memory of a generation!
Maybe she will still cry, maybe she is still not good at talking. But she was no longer afraid of those scattered words.
Because she is open and honest, she gives herself strong confidence with hard work and perseverance.
has been in the industry for 21 years. She still adheres to the attitude of "working hard can never stop" and is still the "crazy" Jolin Tsai. This spirit is worth learning from by everyone.
Work hard is not a ups and downs, exciting process, but a boring and ordinary cycle. Only when you can withstand the tempering and endure loneliness like Jolin Tsai can you counterattack from an ugly duckling into a white swan.
Just like Jolin Tsai once said: "I don't have eighteen martial arts skills, and I can't do anything. I only have one skill, work hard and work hard."
Yes, for Jolin Tsai, she just relies on her strength as a belief in walking the world, regards hard work as a weapon, overcomes all obstacles for her, and finally makes her shine!
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