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I am very busy " is Taiwanese singer Jay Chou released the eighth Mandarin album, with a total sales volume of 120,000. It is also the first solo album released by Jay Chou in Jay's music, and the previous album " Fantasy ". In the album, Jay Chou strives to break through while retaining his own style. The main song of the American cowboy style, "The Cowboy is very busy", the male inspirational song "Sunshine Otaku", and the sweet and sweet "Sweet" all reflect this. The Chinese style songs that must be included in each album are reaching a new level. The song " Blue and White Porcelain" quickly became popular after its launch, becoming the classic song after "Lake Snow" and "Chrysanthemum Table". In 2014, the American comedy film " Interview" used "Cowboy is very busy" as the background music of the film. The song " Blue and White Porcelain" won many awards in 2008 Taiwan 19th Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, such as best annual song award, best lyricist award, and best composer award.

The Era is the tenth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 18 May 2010 by Sony Music Taiwan. The album was nominated for six Golden Melody Awards and won for Best Mandarin Male Singer, Bes Mandarin album, and Best Musical Arrangement for "Free Tutorial Video". The tracks, "Superman Can't Fly", "Rain Falls All Night", and "The Era", are listed at number 2, number 10, and number 39 respectively on the 2010's Hit FM Top 100 Singles of the Year chart. Fade Away is a Chinese style song in this album.

According to Hang Lei's paper The Research for Vincent Chinoiserie Style Lyrics, I find it gave me a direction to analyze Vincent lyrics which is the rhyme or phonology. Vincent chooses the rhyme according to the content expressed by the song and the emotion of the burst, and in order to cope with the changes in the content and emotion of the story, the rhyme was changed accordingly. The use of soft rhyme with vowel final makes Vincent's "Chinese style" lyrics overall feeling is warm and beautiful, this is because he chose soft, stretch, melodious Yinsheng rhyme in 27 lyrics. Because the rhyming words have a small mouth opening, the loudness of the pronunciation is soft or subtle, and some of the rhymes are “narrow rhymes”, so these rhymes have a sad color or a soft or feminine mood. Expressing the warmth and beauty of love and the sadness of the homesickness of the wanderer (Hang, 2016). However, in its three lyrics of promoting tradition, opposing war and publicizing personality, Vincent mainly uses H passionate rhyme. This kind of rhyme has a low tongue, a large mouth opening, a relatively loud sound, and a relatively large volume. The clearer colors are suitable for the expression of a variety of emotions, but their timbre is more suitable for expressing masculine, heroic, atmospheric, unrestrained emotions(Hang,2016).