Jay Chou Essay

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When people talked about the king of the pop, Michael Jackson may be the first answer jump up from their mind. However, if it’s in China this person could be the Chinese version of king of the pop, that is Jay Chou. In the circle of entertainment, they never lack of beauty and genius, but Jay Chou may be the fewer who only depends on talented to hold on this circle for many years. Back to 2000 nobody will believe this boy who have speak with a lisp can represent an era. What is his inspiration? Who had support him for all his achievements? Well, family may be the first feature influenced Jay Chou. As a gifted child if you do not have a great guide to lead you, your talent may finally have faded. For Jay Chou, his mother Huimei Ye may be one lightning his …show more content…
When he had his first song Yan Lei Zhi Dao (tears known) and recommended to Andy Lau (a famous singer, actor in China.) was refused by the reason that Fang’s lyrics were not match Chou’s song. Then he also writes a song Shuang Jie Gun (Nun Chucks) was also refused by the singer. After those failures he insist and continue to do himself. Shuang Jie Gun was kind of his turning point, even was refused by other singer, he still thinks it’s a good song and put it in his second album Fan Te Xi (some of his fans think the name was referring to the English word fantasy). The song Shuang Jie Gun in that year was on fire, not only bringing Chou up also bring a trend of learning nun chucks. When this hot win blow to America, people may think about the Kong Fu star. Actually, this song was not only about nun chucks but also some other Kong Fu in China. From the third line of the lyrics, he was writing as a son of a Kong Fu master, so he was influenced by what he sees and hears. Then he lists some famous Kong Fu skills, like iron palm, Spear of Yang (Spear of Yang was created by a woman, and her family was all work for the army in

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