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'Answer of Love' Promotion in Chongqin Morning Post
在重慶晨報宣傳愛的回答
2007.7.29
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English Translation R: Reporter W: Winnie Three years silence & be Zhu Ying Tai in musical
R: During the past three years, we just heard the song ‘The Promise’. What did you do actually? W: I kept working. Last year I had two concerts in Taipei. Besides, I joined a new records company and it took time for adjustment. I also took part in a musical called ‘Butterfly Lovers’ for more than a year. For the latest album ‘The Answer of Love’, I had prepared it for about eight to nine months. I went everywhere for performance.
R: It seems that the song ‘The Answer of Love’ continues the style of sadness. W: This song brings the feeling of sourness. You think it’s sad at the very beginning, but in fact it’s touching. This album is back to the basic that without gimmick. The way of singing is not so exciting. Actually it’s easy fade out in the market, but perhaps it will bring us surprise.
R: Do you love musical? W: I love it very well. I acted Zhu Ying Tai in the ‘Butterfly Lovers’, in the ancient costume. I had appearance of a man and a woman, and I had to cry that made me tired. I really cried even in rehearsal, so many workmates called me water tap. Musical is totally different from being a singer. You have to act, to say, to perform other than just sing. I think I’m so tiny after working with the people in musical. They are keen on dedicating for arts but the returns are so little.
Famous song ‘Understanding’ comes from the pain of Jonathan Lee
R: When we’re talking about Winnie Hsin, the MV of ‘Understanding’ comes out.Your crying… W: The tone of the MV was too sad. Now when I watch it again, I will ask who is she? Whey I cried so severely? I think it’s horrible, but everyone think it’s so genuine.
R: Was it because it’s your true feeling? W: My pain had come to an end before ‘Understanding’, but this song made me to recall such old pain. I can’t ask to quit singing this song because it’s so popular. Fortunately it’s okay to sing this song now, as time goes by. In fact I sing the love story of Jonathan Lee. At that time I joined Rock Records but he was resigned after releasing an album called ‘Travelling’. I kept waiting and waiting and after a year, he finished the song ‘Understanding’. This song brought the feeling of sorrow as he experienced such feeling in person. However, everybody said it’s my story during doing the promotion. Jonathan changed many lives of women, like Sarah Chen, Sandy Lam, Karen Mok, Li Du, Fish Leong… his lyrics are so powerful. Perhaps nowadays many young people can’t sing the right feeling of his lyrics.
R: After that, you’re being positioned as ‘The Queen of healing’. W: It’s hard to avoid such name. I cried even reading the lyrics during recording. I think the lyrics were too great that I can’t get out of my true feeling. So at the beginning I didn’t sing this song with my very true feeling. Later Jonathan said it’s hard to write you a good song but if I sing it like this, it’s hard to move me and everybody. So I put my true feeling into the song and I had recorded it for almost a month. You have to sing seriously, otherwise people will know.
Searching for change
R: You have intentionally searched for changes after the album ‘Every Woman’. W: The song in the movie ‘Green Snake’ was my first time for change. It waswritten by James Wong. I remembered when I went to Hong Kong for recording, he said, ‘Winnie, I tell you. You have to sing like a snake.’ I shocked. That song was very Middle-East. I sang a little part in my The Promise Concert. This song was a track in the movie and didn’t included in any albums. So not many people know about it. After the album ‘Every Woman’, Joanthan wanted to change my style intentionally. The result was quite good and people saw my happy side. However, I was a sad woman in the eyes of the people in China.
R: In the songs Winnie Hsin always meet bad guys and women. W: So far so good. Like it’s different for ‘Scent’ and ‘Understanding’. ‘Scent’ is congee and dish, ‘Understanding’ is Si-juan hotpot, and ‘Women shouldn’t be hard on women’ is the strategy made by marketing department. They thought that such kind of matters always happened, so a song about triangle love affair was produced.
R: You said you had to quit singing before. What made you have such thought? W: About 7 to 8 years ago, after releasing the album of ‘Why?’, the market was notgood. At that time I really wanted to give up as I was very tired. But I still had contract to fulfil, so I couldn’t quit. When I lost confidence, I prefer to listen to my songs. It doesn’t mean that how great my songs are, but they can let me to remember the days I’ve gone through.
Little boyfriend make her so tired
R: You put her real feeling into your songs. W: Right. I can’t help putting my own feeling into my songs. So I get into the songs very easily everytime I sing. Definitely they ‘re related to some of my experience. If I don’t have feeling, then I won’t choose the song.
R: Have you got the answer of love? W: No. It’s hard to find the right person.
R: Do you sometimes think of your ex-boyfriend? W: My friends always said that why I’m still so naïve! I’m very brave in front of love. We met on 1999 and broke up on 2002. In these 3 years, most of our friends opposed me. They warned that this kind of love is temporary, but I didn’t believe itin a positive way. After several times, you must learn from lesson. I think I can’t have a boyfriend younger than me more than 10 years.
R: Why did the relationship break up? W: Because of him, I tasted the sweetness of love that I ever had. His energy opened up a new world. However when times went by, I found that I needed to play many roles: mother, elder sister, lover and so on. It’s very tiring. If your man don’t have heart to do everything, then it would be worse. You can’t see his progression, so I think the distance between us became larger and larger, and the man didn’t care about it. I liked a moth darting into a flame in the past, but now I remind myself to slow down, wait and see the the guy.
R: In fact he was your 15 years younger fan. W: Yes. At that time he was an university student and majored in biology. I suggested to end up our relationship. He’s free but I’m so sad. In fact I had suggested to break up for 3 times. For the third time, it was because he was in love with my friend’s friend.
Remembering Leslie Cheung
R: Your ‘Endless Embrace’ with Leslie Cheung is still popular in KTV. W: Oh, really? If Gor-gor was still here, we could played in the musical ‘Midnight Voice’ together. I sang the ‘Endless Embrace’ in my concert alone last year and I remembered his promise: ‘I will come to see you in your concert.’ Unfortunately my concert was too late…
R: You were very well with him. W: We sang ‘Endless Embrace’ and ‘Eye Passes’ together. I was his guest in his 28concerts in Hong Kong. He’s very nice and doesn’t like a pop star. He liked an elder brother and always took care of people. He drove me to have dinner when I was in Hong Kong. It’s incredible. I didn’t believe it when I was at his car at the first time. One time he came to Taiwan and we were at the entrance of a hotel. I said I wanted to go to the shop opposite to buy eye shadow. He was pleased to go with me. When I was searching the color, he went straight into the shop, picked up one of them and asked, ‘are you looking for this?’ I surprised that he knew my choice but he was so experienced in this area. He was so attentive.
R: Have you had loved him? W: No. I know him so well. He asked for recording together for the song ‘Endless Embrace’. But his eyes were too beautiful and he was too handsome that I thought I couldn’t sing. Later on I asked him to leave for a while for me to sing first. He blamed me ‘Why you sing so well!’ after listening to my singing.
R: What do you feel when these memories appear? W: I think he’s still by my side. I cried when I sang his song ‘When love’s gone’ in his memorial concert. On that day he passed away, I remembered I came back home about eight. I received my sister’s call and she told me ‘Leslie Cheung was dead.’ I thought she’s kidding. She told me to switch on the TV. I began to lose control when I gazed at the TV. Why he finished his lives in such method? You know that he cared of his appearance very much. It didn’t like his way, but he used to do thing surprisingly. After that I heard many rumours and don’t know how true they were.
Her beautiful long legs
Many male reporters came to see her beautiful legs. Winnie smiled, ‘Thank you for your support, but don’t call me auntie.’ During interview, I told Winnie that many people cried when listening to her classic ‘Understanding’. She also gave me a smile and said, ‘Some people cried because their emotion hide deeply, but some of them maybe still young.’
Chinese Original
沉寂三年音樂劇中扮演祝英台
記者：《承諾》之後，樂壇少聞辛曉琪的聲音。這三年裏在忙些什麼呢？
辛曉琪：我沒閒著，去年在台北舉行了兩場演唱會。一方面忙於轉換公司，要稍微謹慎一點，所以需要時間琢磨琢磨，其中大半年時間出演音樂劇《梁祝》，而新專輯《愛的回答》做了大概八九個月，其他的時間也用來到處去演出。
記者：《愛的回答》似乎仍然是以前悲傷的曲風。
辛曉琪：《愛的回答》感覺是酸酸的，乍聽很悲，其實是恰到好處的觸動。這張唱片回歸到純粹的音樂，沒有花哨的東西，唱法也沒有那麼濃重，很容易在市場裏被淹沒，但說不準也會爆發出來。
記者：很喜歡音樂劇？
辛曉琪：是很喜歡，在《梁祝》裏我出演祝英臺，古裝扮相，要一會變男變女，還要在劇中哭泣，好累。大家都叫我水龍頭，連綵排都真哭。音樂劇給我的感覺跟做歌手完全不同，不光是唱，還有身段，臺詞，表演什麼的。而且，跟演音樂劇的人接觸後，發現自己很渺小，因為專業的音樂劇演員對藝術奉獻那麼執著，但得到的回報卻那麼少。
名曲《領悟》來自李宗盛切膚之痛
記者：提起辛曉琪，總會想起《領悟》，MV中你哭得好厲害……
辛曉琪：那MV拍得太悲了。我現在看看電視上那個，天哪，那是誰啊，我怎麼哭得這麼慘。每次看到我都覺得恐怖，但大家都覺得很真實。
記者：這首歌唱的是自己的感情吧？
辛曉琪：我的愛情傷痛，早在《領悟》出來前就已經結束，但這首歌又逼我再次走進痛苦，把舊傷揪出來。沒辦法，《領悟》紅了就一定要唱，每唱必哭，不過現在好了，因為時間過太久了，還OK，其實唱的是李宗盛的感情故事。
那時我去了滾石，他發行了唱片《遠行》之後就出走了。我等啊等啊，等了一年，才等到他寫的《領悟》，因為有那麼切身的痛，才寫出來多麼痛的領悟來吧。可以前做宣傳，卻都說是我的愛情故事。
李宗盛改變了太多女人的一生，陳淑樺、林憶蓮、莫文蔚、李度、梁靜茹……他的詞真是非常厲害，現在年輕小朋友大概都唱不出來了吧。
記者：那以後，你也就一直被定位成「療傷歌后」。
辛曉琪：這是沒辦法的事，錄《領悟》的時候，我看到歌詞就哭起來。心想天哪，這歌詞太厲害了，我不能進入這圈套。所以，對於這首歌我不敢很用心去唱，害怕感情完全赤裸裸地攤開了，所以剛開始就無所謂地亂唱，後來李宗盛就說：「哇噻，你怎麼亂唱，好不容易給你寫一首歌，你這樣唱是沒辦法打動我，也無法打動別人，還是好好唱吧！」錄了一個多月，這首歌一定得用心，如果你隨便的話很容易被人聽出來。
尋求轉型不願再當苦情女歌手
記者：從《每個女人》的唱片發行之後，聽得出來你在刻意地轉型。
辛曉琪：《青蛇》電影的主題曲應該算我首次轉型，黃霑寫的。記得我到香港錄歌的時候，黃霑說：「小琪，我告訴你，你這首歌要唱得像蛇一樣。」我一聽傻了眼，不過音樂是很中東的味道。後來演唱會也做了這一段，但這只是電影裏的插曲，專輯也沒有收錄進去，所以，遺憾許多人不知道。《每個女人》之後，李宗盛也刻意為我轉型，在台灣效果還好，大家看到了我比較開朗的一面，但在內地，我被看作是一個苦情女歌手。
記者：歌裏的辛曉琪總會遇到一個負心的男人，奪情的女子，受傷的是自己。
辛曉琪：還好啦，比如《味道》跟《領悟》就完全不一樣，打個比方，《領悟》是麻辣火鍋，《味道》就是清粥小菜，《女人何苦為難女人》完全是公司的企劃導向，他們覺得太多這樣的事情在身邊發生，那就做一首三角戀關係的歌。
記者：記得你曾冒出過一句「老娘不唱了」，什麼讓你覺得如此難熬？
辛曉琪：大概是七八年前，是在專輯《怎麼》的前後，唱片市場不好，我那時真的不想唱了，覺得很累。但有約在身，又不能不唱，後來還是熬過來了。當我沒有信心時，就聽自己以前的歌，並不是說自己唱得有多好，而是聽自己走過來的歲月和心聲，重拾信心。
苦戀三年粉絲小男友讓我好累
記者：應該說你的每首歌都投入了自己的感情在裏面吧？
辛曉琪：是的，我沒辦法不把生活的感覺融進歌裏，因為每次唱歌我都很投入，一定是跟自己的某些經歷有關，選歌的時候，沒有感覺的東西就不會用。
記者：現在的愛情有回答了嗎？
辛曉琪：現在感情空窗呵，找人很難。
記者：還會偶爾想起那段甜蜜的姐弟戀嗎？
辛曉琪：我的朋友們總說我，為什麼你這麼老了，還那麼天真？我說，愛情面前，我永遠是敢死隊。我們是1999年認識，2002年分開的。在一起三年時間裏，幾乎所有朋友都持反對意見，警告我這樣的愛情只是暫時的，但我當時卻很樂觀地反駁。經過前幾次的教訓，讓我覺得今後再也不能和一個小你很多的男人談戀愛，十歲之內我還能接受。
記者：當時如此堅決，為什麼後來會分手？
辛曉琪：那段愛情的最開始，我體會到的是從未有過的甜蜜。他的活力打開了全新的世界，但時間一長，你就會發現，自己什麼角色都要扮演：媽媽、姐姐、愛人等等，真的很累。而且如果你遇到一個做什麼事都只有5分鐘熱度的男人，那就更不幸了。你沒法看到他的進步和成長，就感覺兩人的差距越來越大，可對方卻完全沒有自省。以前談戀愛，幾乎什麼都不想，飛蛾撲火般投入，現在即使有來電的感覺，我也會提醒自己腳步放慢一點，等著看看對方的反應再說。
記者：其實他就是小你15歲的歌迷。
辛曉琪：嗯，他是我的歌迷，當時他還是一個在籍大學生，修的是生物學。分手是我提出的。他很逍遙了，我很難過。我其實前後有3次要跟小男友分手，在最後一次，他竟然看上我朋友的朋友，想當劈腿族。
憶張國榮他開著跑車帶我吃飯
記者：你和張國榮的《深情相擁》仍是KTV的熱點歌呢。
辛曉琪：是嗎？如果哥哥還在，我想我們真的可以一起拍《夜半歌聲》的音樂劇。記得去年台北演唱會上，我獨自唱《深情相擁》，想起哥哥以前說的話：「以後要是你開演唱會，一句話的事情，我一定來捧場。」沒想到，我開演唱會的速度太慢了……
記者：你和張國榮的私交很好嘛。
辛曉琪：我們合作過《眉來眼去》，《深情相擁》，他在香港的28場演唱會，每場我都是嘉賓，他是一個很平易近人，完全沒有架子而且很豪氣的巨星。就像大哥哥一樣體貼，照顧人。我到香港去，他就會開著跑車帶我去吃飯，這是讓我覺得不可思議的事情，記得我第一次坐在他跑車上還偷偷捏自己的大腿，想這怎麼可能？
有一次他到台灣來，我們走在飯店樓下，剛好隔壁有一家化粧店，我說我要去買眼影，他很樂意陪我一起去，當我還在找我要的顏色，他一個箭步衝上去，拿出一款對我說：「你是不是要這個？」我想他怎麼會知道呢？他一副不屑的表情，他對這個很在行。他是個很細心的人。
記者：你為張國榮動過芳心？
辛曉琪：沒有沒有，我很了解他啦。錄《深情相擁》的時候，他要求說我們要一起錄，但我看見他的眼睛，你知道那種深情，很電人，他太俊了，我感覺自己完全不會唱歌了。後來我說，「你可以出去一下嗎？讓我先唱好不好？」當他第一次聽到我唱，就冒了一句「罵人」的話，也是他常常說的話：「他媽你唱得真棒！」他就是這樣的一個人。
記者：現在想起來是什麼樣的感受？
辛曉琪：我一直都認為他在我的身邊，沒有離開我。在他的追掉會上，我唱起《當愛已成往事》，泣不成聲。記得他去世那天，好像是傍晚8點鐘的時候，我剛回家，還沒有打開電視，我先接到姐姐的電話說：「張國榮死了。」我說你胡說八道什麼，然後她說：「你趕緊開電視。」我開始整個人發抖，當我看到電視畫面，呆住了，心想怎麼可能的事情，用那樣的方式結束生命，你知道他是多麼在意自己的外表。真是要命，這個樣子不像他，但弄得驚天動地也是他的風格，後來聽到很多傳聞，可我不知道到底哪段是真的哪段是假的？
她有雙漂亮修長的腿
見到辛曉琪，我開始明白女人的美應該是像鑽石一樣隨著時間而愈發光芒，很多人說辛曉琪的臉蛋生得不怎麼樣，但是她卻擁有很漂亮修長的美腿。坐在面前的辛曉琪這雙腿真是美極了，與林志玲為了拍廣告用5萬塊錢保養出來的腿並無區別。很多男記者恭維她說：「姐姐，我們來看的就是你的腿！」辛曉琪豁達地笑說：「謝謝弟弟們捧場，不要叫我阿姨就好了。」
記得，大學時期的一場失敗戀愛，我頗有些少年強說愁的姿態，硬生生地唱《領悟》把自己給唱哭了。隨著初戀的漸行漸遠，我開始聽很多不同的人唱《領悟》，直到那天我又在現場聽辛曉琪唱起《領悟》。很多在場的記者悄悄抹淚，原來，陪我們在愛情喜悅與痛苦中掙扎感動的一直是辛曉琪的歌聲。在採訪中，我告訴辛曉琪，她唱起《領悟》的時候，在場很多人都哭了，辛曉琪笑著說：「哭出來的人有的是感情藏得很深，有的應該是還沒有長大吧。」不管是怎樣的心情和狀態，現在我靜靜地聽著這首歌，並且讓它在今夜一直重復……
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