Sunday, June 11
While the whole world is on World Cup fever now, there's another major event bustling in Taiwan that just ended not too long ago: 第17届台湾金曲奖, The major award ceremony in the Mandrian pop scene! Since I am quite free, let me bring you on a brief picture walkthrough!
Karen Mok looks super x 3 GLAM in this golden dress on the Red Carpet! She was going to give out the award for Best Male Singer again this year! Haa she gave out this award last year too and was partly responsible for the blunder involving Lee Hom.
Golden Melody Hosts, 小S & 陶子, on the Red Carpet. Super hot mummies, and their hosting skills are still the best, so it's great to see them hosting together!
Miss Cutsey Pop Princess Rainee Yang, showing one can be chio and cute at the same time! With her black oriental dress and black gloves, an element of cheena mystery was added onto her tonight! Dun miss her 35-carat diamond necklace too...
陈绮贞 & her bf 钟成虎. Oh I didn't know that her bf was also the producer of her album 《华丽的冒险》, which had many wonderful media reviews and which I loved a lot too.
3 male powerhouse singers, 陈奕迅、张学友、庾澄庆, posing together! Eason perfomed with Yanzi, belting out previous golden hits in the ceremony, while Jacky sang a medley of Teresa Teng's songs. Wow!
Sidetrack Update: Yanzi didn't perform to her standard. I read that she only had 3 hours of sleep because she reached Taipei at only 4am on the day of the Awards. This is due to her losing her luggage which was fortunately found in HK. Plus the fact that her appearance at this Awards was very last minute and she still has ongoing concerts in China, she hardly has time to memorize song lyrics by other male singers. Thus, she should be pardoned for her less than optimal performance.
As for some of the winners...
最佳国语女演唱人奖: 蔡健雅 《双栖动物》
Congratulations to Tanya Chua!!! She deserves this award for the album for which she performed really well! Penny Dai and Cheer Chan should be the other stronger competitors here, so I'm really glad that Tanya managed to garner it coz in S'pore, Tanya hardly receives any recognition. Tanya never really expected to win, so she was really stunned dio!
Tanya: "我妈妈今天拿到了母亲节她的礼物，这是献给你的." And Tanya's mum was there too, brimming with pride and joy!
最佳国语男演唱人奖: 王力宏 《盖世英雄》
Lee Hom, congratz!!! He did well in this album too, and he was highly expected to win. This year, he didn't go up the stage mistakenly like he did last year, but I thought he talked a lot of crap in his thanksgiving speech at the end.
Before the award was given out, I was most amused at the part when 小S & 陶子 presented a video clip, popping fun at various people for last year's Male Singer blunder by putting the blame from Karen Mok unto Jay Chow, unto Machi, and even unto the audience. What a great way to ease the tension!
最佳国语流行音乐演唱专辑奖: 陶喆 《太平盛世》
No pictures coz David Tao wasn't there. His dad received the award on David's behalf, where David already prepared several speeches for his various nominated awards, so his dad just read out the right speech accordingly.
For more pictures, come come here: http://ent.163.com/special/00031TN9/goldensong.html
