There is a talk show star in Taiwan Province, Wu Zongxian, who once hosted a program called Super Newcomer King, and found some new people in the entertainment circle through this program. Jay Chou has the opportunity to participate in this program. In order to get Wu Zongxian's attention, he wrote a very strange "menu song". Wu Zongxian found that he was a plastic talent, so he just signed him with the then lyricist Fang Gang. This is 1998. The following year, Wu Zongxian and Jay Chou signed another singer contract. At that time, Jay Chou signed a contract with Alpha Records in Wu Zongxian, which was small, while Wu Zongxian was busy with other affairs. At first, this company had no specific business. Later, Wu Zongxian handed over the company to his friend Yang Junrong, the general manager of Alpha Records, to help him manage it. Yang Junrong recalled in an interview: "The first time I met Jay was on July 1 2000, when he was sleeping in a record company. He was very thin. I watched him wander around the office every day, wearing a cap and not talking much. The speech was also very simple:' good, bad, yes, no'. I just took over the company and didn't know much about it. Once I asked him,' Did Zong Xian tell you about making records?' He said,' Brother Xian said that I would play the movie after I finished writing 10 songs.' I asked him how many songs he had written. He said he wrote a song. So he found a recorded demo from his mess and played it to me. This song is his first single "Lovely Woman". Four minutes later, I told him to do it right away, and it will be released in June+10, 65438. Then I called Wu Zongxian:' What are you waiting for such a singer!' "In June 2000, Jay Chou's first record was published, and Alpha became a big company. The above content comes from the Internet, which is a simple description of Jay Chou's debut and a relatively real version. For example, he 1999 wrote nunchakus, when Jay was just a composer. He thought that such avant-garde songs could only be accepted by May, who was very popular at that time, but when he showed it to A-mei, the answer was "unacceptable". Another example is that he told Wu Zongxian the idea of making an album. Wu Zongxian asked him to write 50 songs a week, and then he chose 65,438+00 songs for his album, which Jay did. However, it is undeniable that Jay Chou's first album "Jay's Same Name" was officially released in 20001October 3 165438+. Students who often visit CD video stores may know that this kind of genuine CD is now sold in 55 yuan. If you are a huge J fan, don't hesitate to bite your teeth and take it off:) Get to the point, tell me about the music of this album: If you listen to this album five years ago now, what is your first feeling? I think many people will answer: fresh and natural. This feeling is objective, because from the phonological point of view, it was recorded with -6dB (the recording level did not exceed -6dB). After that, the recording of pop music developed towards 0db, which made pop music sound louder, brighter and more exciting. Another important reason is that the arrangement of this album is very simple. Except the guitar, all other arrangement elements are made of Midi. Of course, this does not affect the popularity of the album. The spread of a "Star Love" to this day is testimony. As one of the title songs, this song has fresh lyrics and catchy melody, and the artistic conception created by the song is full of faint flowers like first love, which has always been unforgettable. Besides, "Lovely Woman", as Jay's first song, is self-evident. The melody of the song is smooth and refined, but the harmonic exaggeration at the climax is ingenious, which also fully shows Jay's personality. Although not as catchy as Xing Qing, as a typical R&; B song can be called Jay R &；; The perfect start of B's style positioning. Lady, this song is really weird. The tune is strange, the rhythm is strange, the chorus is strange, the singing is strange, and the lyrics are more funny. But what I like is this weirdness, which is the product of the fusion of two people-Jay and Fang Gang. This is also an R &；; B music, and into the rap content, also laid the foundation for Jay's later work style. And the lyrics of this song have the charm of China's Tang poetry. It can be said that Jay and Wenshan tried this style before Answer Straight and Hair Like Snow. Black humor, a perfect blues love song. Melancholy and helpless piano accompaniment, heavy and desperate drums and Jay's heartbreaking singing style make me feel that this song is an unparalleled glory even compared with Jay's later works. Jay wrote this song himself. I think the water quality is quite high, which is different from Jay's other masterpiece Tianya. The KEY value of this song is quite high, but it is also a song that Jay shows his range and singing skills. Indian turtledove, if this lady is weird, then this song is completely funny. The personalities of Jay and Fang Zhouzi are displayed here, and others dare not think, write or sing. One more thing, Jay Chou's song arrangement added scratch elements for the first time, which was just a small experiment by Jing Yao, a famous arranger in Taiwan, and laid the foundation for the classical arrangement of Dragon Boxing in the future. The most stream-of-consciousness work in the first album, The Clock in the Opposite Direction, seems to have been forgotten. This is also a typical word of Fang Fenghua, which organizes some seemingly irrelevant things and gives them charm, appropriateness and naturalness. The melody of the song is strange and full of tension, and Jay's deep voice is full of atmosphere. The highlight of this song is the 20-second rap of song 2: 16-2:36, which is definitely the fastest rap in Jay's works. Those who like to rap can challenge:) Other tracks on the album, such as a tornado with beautiful melody, perfectionism full of confidence and domineering, bullfighting, the pioneering work of Jay-style rap, and romantic and warm Istanbul. The whole album was like a refreshing spring, which nourished the declining Chinese music scene at that time. The level of 10 tracks on the album is relatively average, but each has its own characteristics. This album is R & among Jay's six albums. B style is the purest, so after this album, people are used to positioning Jay in R &；; B singer. In fact, from the recent album, Jay is far from being a pure R &；; B has drifted away, but this is not a bad thing. The quality level of the album remains to be tested. One is sales: the album sold 654.38+0.6 million within two months after its release (it was not released in the mainland at first), which is a disaster for Jay now. However, considering the depression of the music scene at that time, Jay Chou was a rookie after all, and the album was expensive at that time, and people's awareness of authenticity was not strong, so this short-term sales statistics made Jay and Alpha happy. Secondly, and most importantly, it is the Taiwan Golden Melody Award that every Chinese singer dreams of. There are many song awards, big and small, every year, but the Golden Melody Award, as the Grammy of Chinese music, is the most authoritative, professional and influential ceremony. More than four months after the release of the album, Jay Chou's "Lovely Woman" was nominated for best composition in the 12 Golden Melody Award, Fan Shang's "Lady" was nominated for best lyrics, Jay was nominated for best pop album, and Jay was nominated for best album producer and best newcomer. At the final award ceremony in May, Jay Chou's Jay Chou unexpectedly won the Best Pop Album Award, while the Best Newcomer Award was narrowly lost to Stephanie. As written on the cover of the first album, "Jay, your ambition for music is so great that you can't even see it!" "Similarly, Jay has successfully taken the first step to dominate the Chinese music scene, but a greater subversion of the Chinese music scene has begun to brew in Jay's heart.