♥ Friday, November 16, 2007
All right I changed my blog skin!
This time it's the wonderful Jolin but unfortunately that bloody blogger bar on the top of the blog can't be removed so the top part of her face in the purple dress is well cut off. By the way I hate orange (along with red and yellow) like anything but this is prolly the best Jolin blog skins available.
Anyway this post is going to be about Jolin in general so I'll just be defending her all the way.
1) People say... Jolin is a poser!
Yeah, everyone says that Jolin copies Ayumi, Madonna, Kylie Minogue and what have you but I think everyone forgot one important point --- she's merely drawing ideas from them.
I mean, the only thing that I think that she really really really copied was Ayumi's nails but besides that, I don't really see how she is a poser.
Her latest album, Agent J, is something that the aforementioned 3 very wonderful performers had not done yet. Dancing Diva, anyone? She is basically also doing her own style; and that is dance music.
One very absurd thing that I've discovered is that people think Jolin's copying Ayumi's videos, and they display it by 3 songs/videos. 许愿池的希腊少女 (The Greek Girl by the Wishing Pond), 柠檬草的味道 (The Smell of the Lemon Grass) and 野蛮游戏 (J-Game).
(a) So people said Jolin's MV for TGGBTWP is copied from one of Ayumi's MVs... Er, which one? Honestly, the only vague resemblance to any of Ayumi's MVs in this song is my name's WOMEN? Even so, Jolin perceives the nightgown dance in a totally different style. Therefore... copy? Copy what? Zzz
(b) The sparks scene in TSOTLG is similar to the MV of Ayumi's HANABI ~episode II~. Okay, this one is a little tricky but I actually thought that Jolin was copying Ayumi as well when I saw the PICTURES. BUT, watching the videos for both songs, I can only come up with one conclusion --- it's total BS. Ayumi's so called sparks are actually fireworks, and Jolin's those sparks that children play in the mooncake festival.
(c) Prolly the most absurd comparison, I've read reviews that say that J-Game is copying Ayumi cos "Ayumi released an album with the word 'Game' in it". Hello? Firstly, Ayumi's is GAME, not Game. Next, she NEVER released an album called GAME/Game... GAME was a song from her MY STORY album. So... much BS again.
Although I can tell from Jolin's songs that she draws inspiration from many wonderful singers, she does put her dash of magic into it. The worst thing ever to say about her is that the era where Jay Chou wrote and composed songs for her was the best, and she's a flop now. Cos that's not true. If anything, I personally feel that the songs Jay did for her were just okay... good ones only have like 5?
And about Jolin's G-Nai/sharper nose... She does look different but the media is all pulchritude anyway.
SO... zzz please stop bashing Jolin cos I don't think she deserves all that... So yeah.
Listened to music @ 10:54 PM
