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The poster of Jay Chow's newest album "Capricorn", due to be released on October 9.

Jay Chou to Release New Album "Capricorn"

Asian pop sensation Jay Chou's new album "Capricorn", named after his constellation, will be released across the Asia on October 9.

Pre-orders of the album are permitted from September 24, and those interested will receive a free Rubik's Cube.

The album's hit song "Fragrant Rice" is due to premiere worldwide on September 22 on Sina.com.

Both the lyrics and music of the song have been composed by Jay Chow. He uses simple words to create imaginative worlds through a combination of hip hop and folk music.

Influenced by TV reports of natural disasters, Jay said the song tries to convey the philosophy "to be content with what you have".



The Rubik's Cube that will be given to people who pre-order the album.


Jay Chou's new song "Fragrant Rice" premiere broadcast on the 22nd of September on Hit Fm (Source: Hitoradio; translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com)

Heavenly king Jay Chou has grown up! His latest song "Fragrant Rice" will have its worldwide premiere broadcast on the 22nd of September on "Only Want to Listen to Music Hit Fm Web", DJs who have heard the song expressed: "It's a very sincere song, it's worth recommending!" Jay Chou expressed that this song made him go back to the roots in terms of writing, he used the most simplest lyrics and music to convey the meaning of encouragement, in order for the song to be even closer to his original meaning, Jay Chou wrote the lyrics and melody for this song, this made his long term work partner smile and say: "He's fishing past the line again!" Having seen his good friends Will Liu and Devon Song both getting married, Jay Chou, who has a successful career, expressed that he didn't have any thoughts on getting married until 35, he's sticking to his original plan, he also smiled and answered: "I'll see how they get along now they've gotten married, then I'll think more about this question."

Even though he's good at writing music, but Jay Chou's ability to write lyrics are not bad at all, Jay Chou uses simple words to create imaginative worlds, in terms of melody he's also been very courageous, he's combined hip hop and folk music, the beginning folk guitar is especially pleasing for the ears. Jay Chou's also played around in arrangement, he added in cricket sounds at the beginning, and the beginning verse he sings: "If you have too many complaints towards this world, you won't dare to continue walking forward when you fall down, why must people be so weak, depraved..." He was questioning with a lot of power, it was like he was trying to force people to be aware, and ask themselves if they've long since replaced gratefulness of complaining, the idea the song is trying to convey is "to be content with what you have", Jay Chou expressed, the origin of the creation song was from when he watch a report on TV about a natural disaster, add to the fact that a lot of friends by his side are in difficult times, he was even more determined to have "Fragrant Rice" as the first plugged song, he expressed modestly: "I'm 30 after all, I want to give back to society while I still have some influence."

In this song, Jay Chou started from his experiences when he was young, he took everyone back to the country with fun lyrics, reliving the laughter from running in the fields and picking fruits, the carefree childhood, memories like these, Jay Chou said when he was young he really envied children living in the country, at that time there was a mango tree in front of his house, when he was practising the piano, he could see the neighbours climbing over the wall to steal some fruit, that was an interesting experience. He was naughty was he was young, he once caught a Mosquito fish in the gully but accidentally fell in, when he got back his mother teased him saying he only fell in because his head was too big and heavy, all these childhood memories and regrets have become Jay Chou's writing inspiration for this song.

Jay Chou, who is busy doing the post production for his album, has recently fallen in love with magic, besides showing off some tricks at Devon's wedding, he expressed his interest in magic is not below that of music, in order to learn more focused magic tricks, Jay Chou will go to San Chong with his two assistants to buy props, usually after work, even if it's early in the morning he'll go online to search about it, he'll practise on his own, when he meets masters of magic, he won't care about his identity as a heavenly king and will ask questions unashamed, when talking about the reason for such passion, Jay Chou smiled and replied: "Music and magic are both classified as a mysterious language!" Before he once did a trick with a red hearts card in front of Jiang Hui, he amazingly took away one heart from the card, he didn't forget to joke with romance and asked Jiang Hui: "You've taken something away from me!" Jinag Hui replied: "What?" Jay Chou smiled and said: "Because you've taken away my heart!" It made Jiang Hui so happy. Jay Chou stressed that not only can you increase your chances of meeting the opposite sex by learning magic but even if it's the same sex you can use it as an excuse to get closer.

"Fragrant Rice" lyrics
Composer: Jay Chou
Lyricist: Jay Chou

If you have too many complaints towards this world
When you fall down you don't dare to continue walking forward
Why must people be so weak, depraved
I ask you to turn on the TV and see
How many people bravely try hard to continue walking for their life
Shouldn't we be content with what we have?
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it

I still remember you said your home was the only castle, you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, the dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape, the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start

Don't be so easy to give up, it's just like I say
For dreams you can't achieve, switch it for another and it'll be fine
Put some colour into your life, firstly paint the colour you like on love
Come on and smile, merit and fame aren't the goals
Let yourself be happy, this is what you call meaning
The paper airplane from my childhood, it's finally flown back to my hand now
That so called happiness, running barefoot in the fields chasing crickets and getting tired
Picking fruits without permission and getting scared from being stung by bees, who's sniggering?
I lean on the scarecrow while being blown by the wind while singing while sleeping
Oh oh, if the sunshine sprinkles on the road then I won't be afraid of being broken-hearted
You should cherish everything even if you don't possess it

I still remember you said your home was the only castle, you continue to run with the fragrance of the rice and the flowing river
Smiling, dreams when you were young, I know
Don't cry, let the fireflies lead you to escape, the eternal dependence of the folk song in the country
Just go home
Go back to the happiness at the very start

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Jay Chou's new album Capricorn, appears as a joker (Translated by: jaychoustudio.com; Source: CNA)

Singer Jay Chou will be releasing his new album "Capricorn" on the 9th of October, besides echoing his own star sign, it also shows his beloved magic, he appeared as a modern "smoky joker" look, mother Chou was amused looking at him, when he had free time she went up to take pictures with him.

Jay Chou, who has been concentrating on practising magic recently, created a new star sign with a tone and creativeness "Mo Jie Zuo", this is a mysterious star sign experts can't understand, sometimes it's the card Jack, sometimes it'll turn into the Joker, it transforms into different shapes and song styles; the poster for the new album especially used the idea of a card with the magician and joker facing opposite each other.

The record company expressed, as soon as the black Joker of spades was revealed, a lot of people thought it was very fascinating, it's a symbol of Jay Chou's limitless variety in his music, sometimes he's like a magician, he gives people a mysterious impression; sometimes the stuff he writes is very imaginative, like how a joker is funny.

Jay Chou has also written a "magic" song in his new album, there's also a song about the "joker", the two songs even reveal the exciting interaction between the magician and the joker, it's very dramatic.

He's taken 20 sets of pictures for his new album's pre-order events, he brings about a gorgeous and retro atmosphere, among them, in order to become a joker, he dusted himself and appeared as the "smoky joker", the audience were surprised.