After a few days...I finally finished the con report. Although I'm not entirely sure if everythings correct. I think i have a few song order mixed up and stuff.
I got there at 6:30, and there was the whole NO CAMERAS, NO
WATER, NO FOOD (they didn’t even let you bring in your own water bottles…cheap
butts D: )And I was waiting in line for buying concert goods and stuff.
Apparently reading around some forums, the US Customs
computers crashed, so they couldn’t get the goods to the venue in time. The
goods were in the US a week before the concert, but because of crashing
computers, they couldn’t get them to the concert in time. *sigh* They’ll be
available Jan 5th, and $20 for shipping, which is a little
ridiculous, but my college is close enough that I can just go there to pick up
my stuff. I think they REALLY jacked up the prices for some things tho =____=’
I got to my seat and was pretty happy about where I sat XD
But I was a little annoyed, because it was 7:30, but it didn’t start until 8.
[Don’t have pictures uploaded yet, will do so later XD]
First song was黃金甲. All the dancers were dressed up
like his outfit in ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ He had like ten bajillion feathers
in the back of his costume, and his hair was really….high up. He looked like a rooster LOL. It was gross XD.
Two members of NQMM were on stage too; they played the electric guitar :D
The second song he had a slight costume change. i.e. he took
off the giant feather jacket of doom.
Now he’s wearing a nice black leather jacket. But his hair’s still gross
XD
The third song was 不能说的秘密. He went to go change and came
back wearing a pink jacket XD
Fourth song he didn’t go change; he sang 退後.
Fifth song he went to change, and there were CLOWNS THAT
CAME OOOOOUT XDDDDD He sang 聽媽媽的話
And next is the infamous cowboy song XD It was cute. I guess
I kinda like it now. Oh. No wardrobe change. They had the dancers in the back
doing square dancing.
And then he disappeared and reappeared with the pianooooo~ and I was super really OMGGGGG happy because
the piano was on my side of the stage XD (oh and he changed again…into a sorta
shiny black suit)
(btw, I found this picture link XD http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/maikole/Jay%20Chou/IMG_4072.jpg
) I guess even Jay can’t concentrate on lyrics and playing at the same time(I know
it’s pretty hard for me….)
The first song he played was 黑色幽默.
And then he talked a little about how the next song was usually played on the
guitar, and not the piano, but he always likes trying new things and change
things, so he wanted to try this song on the piano.
So the eighth song was 夜曲. It sounded absolutely
awesome. I didn’t realize it wasn’t played on the piano usually until he
started playing it. Haha. This is probably my favorite song off Nov Chopin, so
it made me happy :D
Ninth Song was 安靜.
And then Jay disappeared, and there was this little story
playing on the screen. SO SILLY. So YuHao of NQMM is on the screen, and he’s
watching clips of Jay dancing with the..er…’big’ lady from the cowboy song
music video. And he goes on and on about ‘why is it always you, jay, that takes
away my love’ and like…how when he composes something, jay does it better, and
all this stuff about ‘well so what if you can do this and that?’（for
example, the nunchucks and they have a mock battle on the screen where jay
punches YH away, and he’s like flailing XD ） And at the end he’s like “Big
lady”‘你等着。 我会尝你回来的.
And so, YH rises up onto the stage….PLAYING PIANO….DUNDUNDUUUUN
IT’S THE PIANO BATTLE SCENE FROM THE MOVIE ‘SECRET’.
Jay comes up too….YH has a black piano and is wearing black, and jay has a
white piano, but he’s still wearing the black outfit from earlier. And then the
pianos go back down, but they come back up and have a rapping battle XD it’s
cute.
After that they go backstage, and they set up for a Er Hu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu )
player. It’s kinda funny bc from where I’m sitting I can see the guy behind her
constantly putting up pages of her music, and then taking it down again to put
up the next few sheets, and he’s like kneeling and pressing his chest to his
knees so people can’t see him…poor guy XD. (yup she was on our side of the
stage :D )
The lady finished playing, and then Jay comes out with his
dancers….the girls are in a really skimpy red thing…and the guys are wearing
white. And holding HUGE FANS XD. Jay’s
in a nice white outfit complete with hat :D. They’re these huge white fluffy
Las Vegas-esque fans :D Jay sang 千里之外.
And then there’s this dancing portion(like in the MV, using the music from 紅模仿),
and Jay disappears. The pretty red girls come out to the audience (there was one that danced about 3 rows down from me) and
start dancing….a few of them that go to the front rows start dancing with
random men. HAHAHAHAHA. They’re really quite skinny >< But then again
with their whole midriff showing, they can’t exactly be pudgy =_=’
And then Jay appeared again, still wearing the white outfit.
He sang 菊花台.
And then dancers appeared! And they did 本草綱目.
There’s that one part of the song where there’s that boooing~~ booing~~ noise,
and in the MV the little kids are hopping around like evil spirit things. Jay
does it too XD It’s so cute. And Jay danced very nicely. :) not a lot because
of his back problem, but he did well XD and he did some breakdancing too :D
And THEN. The dancers left, and two other dancers dressed up
like santa claus(but totally too skinny XD ) come out and jay does some
pop-lock-ing with them :D
Then, the guest singers, which should come as no surprise as
being NQMM, come out and they sing two songs. THEY’RE ALL SO WONDERFUL AND CUTE
AND HOT AND GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Even lara. Haha . If I could ‘have’ her, whereas
the guys would be my boyfriend XD, she’d be my sister :D. They’re really
awesome…They sang two songs ^^ And now I need to go find all the NQMM songs
there are. Gwah I love all of them XD.
Lara said some things about how it made her really happy
that all of us were spending xmas eve with them and jay chou and how it makes
her happy to see so many of us there because LA is her hometown and such. The
other three looked a little lost when she started talking, because she was
speaking in English XD but gwah they’re all so <3.
I need to find some Nan Quan Ma Ma songs…..anybody got some
for me? XD I know they only have like four albums…
Then Jay Chou came back out and sang 迷迭香.
And then he disappeared again, and this time appeared with
like ten bajillion other people, i.e. like6 other people. Two guitarists(one of
whom was one of the members of NQMM) a pianist(nqmm) another singer(nqmm)
First off, they sang “Silent Night” in Chinese. Then Jay
sang 青花瓷.
And then LOL. jay introduced themembers of nqmm again, and was kinda mean about
the last one….he was like…he can’t really play an instrument…or sing all THAT
well…but he tries very hard. HAHA SO MEAN XD
And so they do a remix version of 忍者(or
maybe it’s 雙截棍? Gwah I can’t remember…I need to check over my vids XD
). They were saying how a lot of people know the song of course, but it hasn’t
really been played/sang/done to its full potential during concerts, and people
don’t completely appreciate/enjoy/get? The song kinda thing. The guitarist nqmm
tried a certain version, and then Jay was like do you like that version or the
original? And everyone was like “the original!!!’ haha poor guy. And then of
course jay does a remix his way and everyone loves it XD. I didn’t care either
way ( I thought both of them were weird honestly) but it was cool hearing it.
AND THEN. He was like “what do you guys want to hear?” and
of course we yell out like 230593804598 things XD. And then these two girls walk up to the stage with this huge bouquet
of flowers. And Jay’s like “eh? 有两个拉美”(hot
girls)[I don’t think I have the right ‘la’ ] and they gave him the bouquet and
shook hands with him. GWAAAAAAAH. *is ridiculously jealous * and so he asked them what they wanted to hear, and they
chose this really old song…that was dedicated to all the moms in the audience
and stuff. And he said something about like “and for those people who aren’t
mothers…” and I couldn’t catch it, but it was apparently funny. Haha. But omg.
So they started singing it, and all of a sudden Jay’s like “That mom looks like
she knows it, do you know it?” and she really did…the singing member of nqmm
gave her the mike and she sang the song.
I was like woooow~. He really is a very filial son <3 That was a really
cool part of the show tho :D
And then they sang 陽光宅男(with all the members of NQMM) and
HOMG HE CAME DOWN THE STAIRS. A;SLKHA;SLDKFJA;KJF. When he was coming down
people were FREAKING OUT. And I of course freaked out too XD. He came down the
stairs on the side of the stage closet to me, and I was like
A;SLDGKHA;SDKFJA;LKJF.(yes I did run XD ) I was two feet from jay Chou…I have a
blurry picture to prove it. HOMG. Aaaaaaah love him <3 I wished I had touched
him LOL but it’s okay.
And that was supposed to be the end, and some people
actually started to leave….HELLO IT’S CALLED ENCORES!!!!!
He did霍元甲 and開不了口(?) I’m not sure about kai bu liao
ko because I KNOW for sure he did that one because he had the audience sing
along, but I don’t remember if it was an encore song or not.
And then he disappeared, and people thought it was really
over, because the lights turned on, but I DIDN’T LEAVE XD. I was like. Pft.
He’s not done. He usually does at least five encore songs before really
finishing. And they haven’t started taking down the equipment yet. But nope. He CAME BACK.
It was awesome; he played 髮如雪 on the Gu Zheng~ Aaah Jay
you’re so cool <3
Oh and somewhere in here the blackhaired member(I think the
one who plays guitar? Gah I need to learn their names..i only know yu hao and lara XD oh well. 50% done XD ) and lara
sang a duet of wu ding, which sounded awesome and made me like the song again…I
actually kinda dislike that song…not really sure why.
I think I’m missing an encore song, but I can’t place what
it would be….
Oh and I can’t remember which songs this happened in…but he
had nunchucks and he threw them into the audience when he was done. HOMG. And
he threw his fan from 霍元甲 I believe(he did this really cool twirling thing with
it before he threw it…gah wished I had caught it on cam) and in one of the
earlier songs he was playing with a Chinese yo yo(very weird btw..the yoyo was
neon pink and the rope for it was neon green. But I guess it had to look
flashy/noticeable under the concert lights) and he threw the pink yoyo into the
audience at the end of the song. and at the very end of the con(don’t remember
if this was b4 encores or not)HE THREW HIS FREAKING JACKET INTO THE AUDIENCE. OHA;SLDFNAS;GLASKDHV;ANSLDGIAHS;LDFKA;NASDH
That jacket. Oh my. But it’s okay :D I’m really happy.
Personal thoughts:
I’m a little sad that Jay couldn’t go all out on this
concert. For one thing, the stage isn’t that big, and there isn’t much he can
work with. For another thing, he was sick :( His voice sounded a little
nasally, but he tried his best :)
Being my first Jay concert, I can’t really say if it was “bad” in any way, but
I was a little surprised and sad that he didn’t sing 我不配. And
the concert was too short I thought. But I don’t think it was entirely his
fault; encores for Jay usually go on for a while, but he probably just wasn’t
up to it because he was sick and didn’t want to strain himself too much.
I remember this one song, he tried to breakdance(tried to do a freeze like this
one http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/51189164_3cc8f04821_o.jpg)
, and kiinda did it, but I guess his back
wasn’t up to it, so he stopped. This concert was worth the trekking and the
figuring out busses and the walking and the plane ride that sucked and the
MONEY. IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH ALL THE MONEY SPENT ON IT. I WILL NEVER. EVER.
REGRET. THIS. EVER.
Notes to self: Next time….get the super VIP seating. HAR HAR
HAR XD. [he threw everything into the first 7 rows or so]
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