You feel they are sincere when they tell u how impressed they are with Asia and some of its artises.
One in particular had caught frontman and vocalist Brett Anderson’s ey at the MAA.
“There was this guy with a fight scene, the one with the drums,“ he says, with his trademark sunglasses perched on his nose.
“It was so exciting,“ Anderson continues. “Like something out of West Side Story.“
“It first had the rap thing which was quite cool. Who’s that?“
You tell him it wad Taiwanese R&B singer-songwriter Jay Chou, the island’s best-selling artiste last year. Anderson nods......
You could say that Jay’s energetic, exotic performance of his hot, Dragon’s Fist has put him on the western map.
Backstage, US rock quintet Matchox Twenty gave his “rapper-drummer thing“ the thumbs up.
Bristish boyband Blue also admitted that among the Asian artistes, it was Taiwan’s R&B prince who left the deepest impression.
Duncan James raved: “He can sing, rap, dance, do all the gongfu stuff and the drums, Very talented boy.“
Blue is “up for“ collaborating with Jay, “but he’d probably kick our asses!“
