Jay Chou: 24th Golden Melody Awards

First off, let me get this out of the way:

Jay was nominated for Best Male Singer and Best Album for the 24th GMAs but no, he did not win in either category.
But I get the feeling that this does not bother him much as he has already won so many GMAs in the past 13 years, about 15 or so, I think.
His focus is now on The Rooftop and what he will achieve with that and we are all super looking forward to the movie's imminent release.

However, even though His Royal DIAOness came away empty-handed this year, he still managed to leave his stamp on the show in his own DIAO way, as I will proceed to show. ;)


Whilst everyone else arrived in a normal car, Mr Chou just had to turn up in....a covered van!

Thankfully, his outfit this year was a vast improvement over last year's and I was terribly relieved to see him in proper fitting pants which showed off his trim figure wonderfully. Not to mention that low-cut top which gave us a good view of his toned upper chest complete with a hint of pecs cleavage! *faints*

Omg...this is my fave shot of him, strolling down the red carpet! SOOOO SHUAI!!!!! (Chinese for handsome!)

 Jay with his music arranger, Huang Yuxun, who was nominated for A Larger Cello but did not win.

See what I mean about PECS CLEAVAGE??

Vid of his red carpet walk and interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOo3wul3ucM&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5AEyk31seq1urPfSYTshDT&index=1


Then came the ceremony proper and this was where Jay certainly shone and made an impression, with his utterly cool impromptu performance on the piano!
As we all know, he had been busily travelling all over China to promote his new movie the past week and had only just returned to Taipei from Shanghai on Friday afternoon.
He had not had time to rehearse and was not planning on performing for the GMAs.
However, Matilda Tao (the host) was not letting him get off that easily and at the opening of the show, she charmingly asked that he join her on stage....and Jay was sporting enough to play along!
With a casual shrug of his right shoulder and an insouciant glance at the camera as he sauntered up to the stage (that part kills me!) where a grand piano was wheeled out for him. He went on to entertain with his renditions of not just his own songs but other artistes' too, along with snippets from Chopin, Liszt and Super Mario game music to suit Matilda's scenarios at the end.
He was such a natural and so cool....I'm still awestruck. :)

Here's the vid of this awesome performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcSKhORAllQ&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5AEyk31seq1urPfSYTshDT

 

Beautiful from any angle! And it seems like all the guys are going socks-less now. :)

His next attention-grabbing segment was when he co-presented with Jolin Tsai for the Best Male Singer award.
As is well known, the fans and media lurve to speculate on the Double-J connection and this was always going to be a highlight of this event.
Knowing all that, however, the two of them still graciously did their job and there was amusing banter amidst Matilda's repeated urging for them to hug each other...lol!
Jay mischievously asked Jolin if she had been working out and she replied that she had and also commented that he was looking pretty good too.
Lol at the part where she asked him to reveal more of his chest and Jay responded with a Chinese term of annoyance! ;)
Jay said it was good for ladies to work out too so that she would not get too breathless whilst singing and dancing. He also quipped that if her ' friend' (sly reference to her beau, model Vivian Dawson) was not able to take her to the gym, she could use his (Jay's)....lol!
Till the end of the presentation, Matilda was continuing her 'Bao bao' (hugs) request but I'm glad to say, Jay did not cave in to pressure and quickly made his exit, leaving Jolin to walk after him.
It was no surprise to me that he would not have done so as he is not the hugging and touchy-feely type and would have been doubly on his guard, especially where Ms Tsai was concerned. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQol_I78uSM&list=PLbHLPahX3mJ5AEyk31seq1urPfSYTshDT


And with that, I shall now look forward to The Rooftop!

Cheers!