The Jane Zhang disco music in 2010

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On February 2, 2010 is the release date of the album “Believe in Jane” (我相信) produced by ShowCityTimes and distributed by Universal Music label. In this work, the Dolphin Princess bets, for the first time, on tracks with a considerably faster rhythm than those published in previous years.

Believe in Jane

This is the case of “Hot” (热), written for her by Michael Jay, Jennifer Merle Karr and Johnny Pedersen, “I Do“, also composed by a trio of US authors who go by the name of Pete Barringer, Fran Balke and Gerig Watts and “Happy” (快活) written by Aadia (阿弟仔) who wrote 5 songs for “Believe in Jane” and produced the whole album.

Jane Zhang disco music: Can’t Do It

Also by Aadia is the track #8 entitled “Can’t Do It” (辦不到) aka “No Way“, a piece that winks both electronic music, disco music and rap/hip-hop with a little bit of j-pop instrumental influences. The song is overwhelming and is composed to be sung by Jane along with another voice. The “Da Mouth” (大嘴巴) are chosen.

“Da Mouth”

The “Da Mouth” were a band formed in 2007 and winner of two Golden Melody Awards. The group, considered as the asian “Black Eyed Peas“, officially is Taiwanese but its members are among their different origins: MC 40 is half Canadian and the other half Taiwanese, the male voice, Harry (張懷秋) is Korean-Taiwanese-American, DJ Chung Hua (宗華) is of Japanese origin but was born in Taiwan, and the female voice of the group, Senda Aisa (愛紗) is Japanese.

The band records the piece and then let it listen to Jane who is very impressed by the sound and agrees to interpret it with them, making some small changes. The choice is such a great success that immediately after was entrusted to Lai Wei Kang (赖伟康), well-known Taiwanese director, the MV production in which fans can enjoy a Jane in a fresh and unedited “dance version”.

Official MV

And precisely to provide an “edgy” cut to the dance part of this MV, Jane addresses two famous choreographers / dancers for the realization of the dance steps: Tucker Barkley and Nick DeMoura.

Tucker is the choreographer of some famous Britney Spears music videos: “Til the World Ends“, “Hold it Against Me” and “Circus“.

Instead Nick was the dancer and choreographer of “My World Tour” by Justin Bieber and later also oversaw the choreography, also for Bieber, of the “Believe Tour“. In addition it was also choreographer for Ne-Yo and the Pussycat Dolls.

So Jane promptly flies to the States during the Chinese New Year holidays to work with the two artists to prepare the dancing part of the new video clip.

2010: the year of the 6 Music Awards

To crown the great success obtained, “Can’t Do It” won in 2010 the title “Annual most popular choral song” at the X edition of the “Global Chinese Songs Chart” (全球华语歌曲排行榜). In that year the popular event saw Jane take the stage 6 times to collect an award !

In fact, the release of “Believe in Jane” confirmed even more the great success achieved till that time by the Dolphin Princess, to which therefore, in 2010 were also awarded as “Best female singer“, “Best album“, “Most popular female singer” and “Annual outstanding singer“. Finally, Jane also won the “Top Song of the Year” award for “If This is Love” (如果这就是爱情).

2010 Best Asian Artist

But moreover, the album was released simultaneously for whole Asia and in its wake Jane was invited to participate in the 7th edition of Asia Song Festival held on October 22nd in Seoul and also in the following concert for the G20 Summit and held also in Seoul on October 23rd.

Jane represented China at the popular Korean festival and was awarded her the prestigious “Best Asian Artist” prize. Here she’s performing in one of the songs on stage in front of 40,000 viewers and on TV stations all over the world: “To Be Loved“.

In this other video, the entry of Jane Zhang at the press conference for the G20 Concert in Seoul held on October 22, 2010 at the Sheraton Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul.

Live version together with Reno Wang

In addition to the official video we present this very nice version of “Can’t Do It” performed live together with Reno Wang (王铮亮), a Jane’s lifelong friend as well as a composer and singer produced by Jane Zhang herself. The occasion was a special music television broadcast on July 16 of that year aired by Guangdong Satellite TV (广东卫视).

Enjoy the show !

Lyrics

“Can’t Do It” Lyrics:

Yo~ Ah~
Since DJ Aisa to the mouth
Harry秋 in the house
And DJ 宗华 in the house
Four ~ 0~ you know i’m in the house
Here’s my girl Jane yeah~
Hit it
我办不到 你办不到
干脆不要 干脆就拉拉拉拉 倒
说到做到 即日生效
今天起Ah Ah Ah Ah OUT
知不知道 胡说八道
控制不了 有时候需要手铐
你的胡闹 跟我不同
好像齿轮合不好
爱情的力量难道没魔法
改变我和你的落差
爱情的信仰已经被绑架
改变不了就别装
我办不到 我办不到
你办不到 你办不到
干脆不要 干脆就拉拉拉拉 倒
说到做到 即日生效
今天起Ah Ah Ah Ah OUT
中了邪的抓狂 犯了冲的磁场
我们都眼睁睁看着鬼打墙
试了一次作罢 试了两次作罢
是不是我们这次就认了吧
爱情的力量难道没魔法
改变我和你的落差
爱情的信仰已经被绑架
改变不了就别装
我办不到 我办不到
你办不到 你办不到
干脆不要 干脆就拉拉拉拉 倒
鬼吼鬼叫 鬼吼鬼叫
干脆微笑 干脆微笑
干脆说Ah Ah Ah Ah OUT
说吧 我们其实都是一样
不想让步也不想马虎
爱情不是赌注
YOU WIN I WIN
那谁要输 有什么好处
这么巧 老鼠遇见猫
瞬间击倒来不及读秒
我们到底关系绝妙还是颠倒
我们到底办得到还是办不到
受罪 何必在一起狼狈
A A 哪天要崩溃
的确 不对就应该消灭
A A 爱完美
我办不到 我办不到
你办不到 你办不到
干脆不要 干脆就拉拉拉拉 倒
鬼吼鬼叫 鬼吼鬼叫
干脆微笑 干脆微笑
干脆说Ah Ah Ah Ah OUT

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