A Long Journey fights for Olympics, Jay Chou: clear pronunciation

Jay Chou's newly written song "A Long Journey", which has recently been the point of focus, was suddenly broadcasted for the first time on radio yesterday night as the announcement for Olympics song went into countdown stage, this surprised fans, they fought to spread it around the net.

When Jay Chou found out yesterday that "A Long Journey" was already broadcasted on Beijing Music Radio FM 97.4, he was taken back a bit: "Oh! It's been broadcasted?" Then he expressed: "I'm very happy, I hope everyone likes it." Recently he has been asked about the song style and contents of "A Long Journey" many times by the curious, seeing as the selected song will be announced at the end of April, it was not unreasonable for Jay Chou to be nervous, he said frankly: "Of course I hope it is selected."

"A Long Journey", which combines Jay Chou and old partner Vincent Fang's creative abilities, mixes rock and Chinese style, also added in is a Beijing opera singing part, Jay Chou expressed that he wanted foreigners to hear a different Eastern music, thus he added a lot of Chinese style elements, some people who heard it online for the first time thought the tempo was too slow, this actually embodies Jay Chou's creative intentions, he said: "The melody is a bit simple, it's because I hope it can slide off everyone's tongue, plus it matches the topic of the Olympics, and shows off a grand atmosphere, it keeps as much of my flavour as possible."

Originally he was worried about the problem of pronunciation, people online have praised him, to this, in the press conference a few days ago, Jay Chou said: "I did try my best to sing it, I tried my best to focus on pronouncing clearly." As to the rumour that's been circulating online that this song will be recorded into the new album, JVR Music denied this: "This is a song he especially wrote for the Olympics, it's not suitable to be placed in the new album." But no matter whether it is selected at the end of the month, Jay Chou has already expressed that he wants to sing "A Long Journey" for the first time in his Beijing concert on the 1st of May for the fans.

source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/A-Long-Journey-fights-for-Olympics-Jay-Chou-clear-pronunciation-talk526573.html