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The Princess and Me: A Love Story
There are many signs you can point to that demonstrate that someone is a exceptional musical talent: recording-breaking selling CDs, fame, fortune, adoring fans, etc. But, perhaps what is more significant testament that a musician is more gifted than one can imagine is when that artist has universal appeal. This is when that person’s music is so special and touches your heart so deeply that it transcends national and cultural boundaries or barriers of language, time zones, etc. My Princess, Zhou Bichang, is just such a person and it is because she is such a happens-only-once-in-a-generation talent, that I am here writing to you today.
To begin with, I am also the last person on the planet who should have been attracted to the music of a young, Chinese pop singer like Bibi. First of all, I am an American who spends as much or more time in Brasil than he does in China. As a consequence, I used to listen to almost nothing but Bossa Nova from Brasil - 90 per cent of it in Portuguese rather than in English – and Portuguese is a language I speak an understand much better than Chinese. Secondly, I had been spending years travelling in China – back and forth for writing assignments of one kind or another – and for most of that time I had been rather unimpressed with Chinese popular music.
What I had heard for years was uninspired techno-pop, at least that is what I thought at the time. Processed music that had all the appeal of processed food - trotted out in a seemingly endless parade of CDs that all seemed to be clones of one another. All of the female artists had the same re-touched, porcelain-looking faces and the male artists all had the same spiked hair with mirrored sunglasses-look. The music of these female artists of the time imitated the sound and melodic rhythm patterns of ancient Chinese stringed instruments like the sanxian or yehu – but they were digitally remixed to the point where there was absolutely no natural quality left in the voice you were hearing.
So, if you had told me ten years ago that I would someday think that a popular Chinese female vocalist had the most beautiful voice I had ever heard in my life I would have said you were beyond crazy.
Well,you have to be careful with a word like “crazy” - because you never know when you might do something that falls into that category. In my case, I can only repeat the line of Kevin Costner’s character from the opening scene of his famous 1989 film “Field of Dreams.”
“But until I heard The Voice...l'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.” “The Voice,” of course, was the Princess, and it was the most incredible sound I had heard in 30 years.
I noticed her for the first time several months after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I, for some reason I still cannot remember, decided to watch one of the dozens of You Tube postings of the Chinese music video, 北京欢迎你(“Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni” or “Beijing Welcomes You”). Someone had sent me an *.mp3 file of the song months before, but it was not of very good quality and since it was audio onlyyou could not see who any of the artists performing actually were. As you all know, the video had been produced for the 100-day countdown leading up to the 8 August 2008 Olympic Games and featured 100 of the most famous Mandarin Chinese musical artists from mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. Each artist sings two or three lines before handing off to the next singer in the rotation and each artist is filmed with some famous location within China as the background for their appearance.
The first chorus features “Big Brother” Jackie Chan on top of a mountain overlooking the Great Wall. After Jackie’s cameo I turned away- and was only half-listening as I had the video playing on one computer screen while I was working on another. But, when I heard one of these 100 vocalists sing the first two lines of the next verse after this first chorus I froze. I paused the video and ran it back. I could not believe what I was hearing and seeing.
It was the Princess, of course. A very short sample of her voice, to be sure, but there was a texture and a depth to it – what I can only describe as “multi-layered” – that very few vocalists are blessed with. Additionally, this was an artist had her own style – the thick, black glasses, short hair (which is now longer after an image makeover that she went through earlier this year) and a sporty type of dress. I had never seen such an incredible combination of vocal finesse and style.
At that precise moment I literally felt like I had been struck by lightning. For a few seconds it was as though time stood still. The clocks stopped moving, the Earth stopped rotating and everything else in the world disappeared from my sight as her voice and visual image were buried deep inside of me – as though someone had shot an arrow through my heart. This is the beginning of this love story. From that moment on I was in love with her and her music and will be as long as I am alive.
This began a year and a half long search for me to discover who the Princess was. Where did she come from, how did she become so famous, what was her professional history as an artist, what kind of music had she recorded in the past, etc. Many times in this process I stopped and said to myself “well, this is fascinating person and hers is an incredibly compelling story, but someone else should be writing about her and not me. This is someone else’s job,” I kept telling myself.
But as much as I tried to shove her out of my head and stop thinking about her I just could not. Something – some force, some higher power, some heavenly authority– kept telling me to get back into this story. “You have not done enough – you have to keep learning more about her.” The Voice would not allow me for one minute not to think about her or her music. Like Kevin Costner’s character, The Voice kept telling me to press on – to “go the distance” - and keep working at writing stories that would make the world outside of China know about the Princess.
I began to listen to as much of her music as I could find. This was not so easy to do because I live in Kiev, Ukraine - where her CDs are not anything you would ever find in a music shop. I do not believe in downloading music for free because that is really stealing from her. So, I had friends send me copies of her CDs, I ordered them on-line, I purchased them in Singapore and in Beijing, I downloaded live concert performances and her music videos from You Tube – all until I had just about every piece of music she had ever recorded.
And what music it was. I will never forget how beautiful so many of her songs felt to me the first time I heard them – and how beautiful they continue to sound to me to this day. Please understand this as well - I am a man of music. I have played it all my life and for manyyears I performed in musical groups on weekends. I had so much musical equipment that I used to play and operate every weekend that the basement of my parent’s home back in America today looks like a museum of 20th century electronic pianos and other keyboards. I have played for/with many talented vocalists, so I can appreciate the intricate details, chord patterns, arrangements and the studio production of her music more than perhaps many other people.
But, having said that - when I listened to her music I could not just sit there and dispassionately analyse it by picking out the notes and key changes. It was if a fountain of magic water had opened up and poured all over me. I felt all of the love that is the soul of her music washing over me and my world just changed forever.
Her music moved me so much that I cried like I have never cried in my life. Not once at a movie or from hearing any other music ever did I cry as hard as this. I could not control myself. Every time I heard that angelic voice of hers - if I was sitting in my office or in a hotel room on travel or at home sitting in my living room I just broke down and cried over and over. I then asked Chinese friends of mine to translate her lyrics for me for many of her songs and when I read the words and could understand the songs better I cried even harder. Even to this day I find my eyes watering and my heart trembling as I listen to her music.
In the middle of all of this, one of my Chinese friends sent me some phrases from an ancient verse that I am told many school children in your country are taught at a young age -
“You could not see my tears cause I am in the water.“ the fish said to the water. “But I could feel your tears because you are in me,“ answered the water. So, I wondered if I – as the fish – could make the rest of the world – the water – feel the wondrous quality of her music.
This meant that the next step was going to my editors at some of the magazines I write for and asking their permission to do a story on the Princess – and hopefully not have them think I was completely crazy. I must have done an incredibly good job of convincing them that she was the story of the century, because they all said yes. You know about the articles that have been published in China, and two profiles of her are going to be published very soon in the US – after which I am sure the world is really going to want to know more about her.
The final step after this was talking to her management agency in Beijing and also hoping they did not think I was crazy as well. They were – to my relief – very understanding and have done their best to be helpful to me. In many respects, I could not have asked for more wonderful people to deal with and they have given me more access to her than I could have ever hoped for.
To continue the story, after about 18 months – and untold hours of research later - on 24 July 2010 I found myself at Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium to see her live in concert. It was two days before her 25th birthday and I was not only going to attend her concert, but I was going to the after-party to meet her in person. I was a nervous wreck at the thought of meeting her.
Since this day was two days before her 25th birthday I wanted to present her with something very special. I had spent months ordering and buying different gifts for her – some of which I left at her management agency’s office in Beijing when I met with them in May. The rest of these gifts – the expensive ones – were in a big box I had carefully wrapped with “Happy Birthday” gift packaging paper that I had purchased in London the week before I flew to Beijing.
As the concert was ending I ran for a taxi and flew like a mad person back to the hotel where the after-party was taking place. I took a shower, put on one of the six, new Ralph Lauren shirts I had just purchased when I was in the US because I knew that I was going to meet her (I could not decide which one I wanted to wear when I met her, so I ended up buying a whole pile of new shirts) and one of my nicest blue blazers. I felt like my heart was beating 1000 times more rapidly than normal when she arrived the party- and even faster when I met her in person and handed her this wrapped box of gifts.
Once again, time stood still for me and I still cannot remember much about meeting her. She is so overwhelmingly beautiful in person that it is impossible for me to describe this to you. God obviously decided to reach down and create one of the most gorgeous girls ever born and then gave her a perfect voice in addition. I was so blinded that all I can remember is that I said “hello Princess,” kissed her hand, told her how incredible her concert performance had been and handed her this box.
About a month later we were in Beijing together in a private room in a very nice restaurant – one of those places that combines the wonders of Chinese cooking with western-style interior décor. I had brought a bottle of my favourite Spanish red wine with me and we had a long two-hour discussion that was assisted by a very close colleague of mine who is a superb translator.
The Princess was her typical, low-key self. She dressed simply in a t-shirt, blue sports pants and sport shoes. She wore her signature thick-framed glasses and part of the time was busily playing with her new Apple iPhone 4G.(This was a real one, not one of the countless imitations you see being sold all over China.) She was soft-spoken, elegant, down-to-earth. And, as you would expect, she was once again the most beautiful sight I had ever experienced in my life.
I had arrived before her and was in the private room and was an even worse nervous wreck than the last time I had met her. When she walked in she just said “oh, hi Reuben” and I heard her voice I felt an electric shock go through by body. The most beautiful woman in the world with the most incredible voice had just said my name, which is not something that happens to me every day, and I will remember this moment forever.
Much of the time when we talked the Princess spoke in English, but sometimes reverted back to Chinese for interpretation. She is a lovely person to speak to and the type of individual you would love to spend an entire evening of cocktails, dinner by candlelight and listening to music with. Anyone who is able to spend time with her is so incredibly lucky and that is how I feel now. I am the luckiest, most blessed person in the world for having had the chance to talk with her and I hope I will so again in the future. But, all of us are so lucky to receive the gift of her music, which I am predicting will someday be listened to not just in Asia, but all over the world.
I have to say something about myself again, if you will permit me. I am not a celebrity-seeking journalist. I only talk to people who I think are genuinely wonderfully gifted individuals. Believe me when I say that I would not cross to the other side of the street to interview a Brittney Spears or Lindsey Lohan or one of these countless other celebrities who are more famous for the time they spend in court or in drug and alcohol rehab than they are for their performances – no matter how much money I was being paid. But, I flew thousands of miles to spend time with the Princess and I would do it again in a minute – even though I have lost money in the process. I do this because she is the most special person I know and there is nothing I would not do for her.
The famous American writer Mark Twain had a number of sayings of which I am fond. One of them is ”always do the right thing – it will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” The “right thing” at this point in my life is try and do whatever I can to make the rest of the world aware of how wonderful the Princess is and I will not rest until she is a star in some Hollywood film. I continue to write about her in the English-speaking part of our world and work to find opportunities for her to break into the western entertainment market.
Believe me, this effort does continue to astonish my American and European friends. They all wonder why I would spend so much time and so much effort on this Chinese musical artist. “Is it worth it,” they all ask me. Well,yes it is because it is the right thing to do, and until someone else steps forward who is a better writer than me and loves her more than me it seems it is now my responsibility to make sure that her name is known all over the world and not just here in China.
As far as the love story is concerned - it has no end. It is a special kind of love because it asks nothing from her, it expects nothing from her, it only exists to show how the unimaginable power of her music can touch the lives of people that no one could have thought possible. My love for her is living proof of how many lives she has touched and how deeply she has touched them. It will never end, and as long as I am alive she will have the most special place in my heart. In the end, I can only be grateful that her music has found me. I would be a much poorer person if I did not know her.
The placards around the concert hall at the 24 July concert all said “ you are the a gift from God.” She is indeed a gift, but more than just that. In a world that has gone mad. In a world where I see countless numbers of young people going off to war – many of who do not return. In a world where there seems no end to violence, destruction, hatred and prejudice. In a world where people seem to think up more reasons to separate themselves from one another than reasons why they should be together. In this world my Princess is like a beautiful flower blooming in the middle of a desert. In this world she really is a gift from God, and every day I ask for God’s blessing on her and her family.
I thank all of you for taking the time to read this long story. And if you see the Princess please give her my love and say to her for me “wo ai ni.” I hope to see all of you someday at one of her performances, and I ask that you always remember what a special person she is.
Most affectionately,
Reuben F. Johnson
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公主和我：一个爱的故事）The Princess and Me: A Love Story
你可以举出很多的事项来证明某个人具有独特的音乐才华：破纪录的CD销售，名声，财富，狂热的歌迷，等等。但是，我想可能最给力的证据，能证明一个音乐人超出人们想像的天赋异秉是他的作品具有普世的魅力。当这种情况出现时也就是说这个人的音乐是如此的特别，它可以跨越国别和文化以及语言的障碍，不受时区的限制，等等，而深深地触碰你的内心。我的公主，周笔畅，今天我写这封信给你们就是想说她就是这样一位音乐人，因为她是如此的绝世无双。
首先我要说，我本应该是这个星球上最不可能被像笔笔这样一个年轻的，中国流行歌手吸引的人了。首先，我是一个美国人，在巴西待过的时间跟在中国差不多，或者稍多一点。因此，我过去听得最多的就是来自巴西的巴萨诺瓦音乐，这种音乐百分之九十的都是葡萄牙语而不是英语，我的葡萄牙语可比我的中文在说和理解方面要好得多了。其次，我曾用了几年的时间在中国旅行，来来回回为了这样或那样的工作任务，但那时候大部分时间我对华语流行乐都不感冒。那几年我听到的都是没有灵性的流水线音乐，至少那时候我就是这么认为的。批量处理的音乐如同批量处理的食物一模一样，遛马一般排列的CD如同永无止尽的阅兵阵容，他们看起来都是彼此之间的克隆。所有的女艺人都顶着再造的，瓷娃娃般的面孔，而男艺人们都是刺猬头太阳镜的扮相。那时候这些女艺人们的音乐曲风都在模仿古代中国弦乐器的声音和旋律模式，例如三弦或椰胡，但是他们都是经过电子混音的你听到的声音里面已经完全没有本真的质感。所以，如果十年前你告诉我，我此生从未听到过最美的声音，它来自一位华语流行乐女艺人的声音的时候，我会以为你彻彻底底的疯了。
好吧，你得小心像“疯狂”这样的一个词，因为你永远不会知道什么时候你干些什么事情就背上了这样的标签。就我来说，我最大的本事就只能重复1989年电影《梦幻之地》开场白中凯文科斯特纳所饰演角色的台词。直到我听到这个声音。。。此前我从未做过什么疯狂的事情。“声音”，是的，就是我的公主的声音，它是我三十来年听到的最美妙最不可思议的声音。
我第一次注意到她是08年北京奥运会之后的几个月，我仍然想不起来是因为什么原因，我在Yutube上看了几十个《北京欢迎你》这首歌的视频中的一个。几个月前有人传了这首歌的MP3格式给我，但是由于音质不好再加上由于是音频你不能看到到底是谁在表演.大家都知道，这首歌是为北京奥运会开幕倒计时100天制作的，共有100多位著名的来自中国大陆，台湾，新加坡，香港，日本和韩国的华语音乐人参与录制每位艺人演唱两到三句然后由下一位接棒继续演唱，每一位演唱者出镜时都以中国一处著名的景点作为背景。
第一号领唱人物是“大哥”成龙，他站在高山之巅俯瞰长城。成龙的镜头结束后我就转开身了，我就半听着声音，当我在另一台电脑上忙活的时候这台电脑放着视频。但是，第一轮结束后当我听到这一百位艺人中的其中一个声音唱第二部分的头两句时，我呆住了！！！我暂停了播放倒了回去，我不敢相信我所看到的和听到的。
毋庸置疑，是我的公主。只有非常短的一段声音，但是这个声音却充满了内容和深度。我只能形容为“多层次的”---这样的声音真是上苍所赐，稀世少有啊。此外，这位艺人有她自己的风格---短发，厚实的黑框眼镜，运动型装束。我从来没有见过这样一种不可思议的声音和风格的奇妙组合。在那一时刻我真的觉得我已经被雷电击中。有那么几秒时间如同静止一般。钟停止走动，地球停止转动。世上一切的事物都在我眼前消失了只有她的声音和动态画面深深地埋藏在我心中--就好像有人用箭射中了我的心。这只是故事的开始，从那一刻起，我就爱上了她的声音和她这个人，我会一直爱他只要我还活着。
我开始了长达一年半之久的搜寻到底公主是怎样一个人呢。她来自哪里，怎样成名的，她从艺的职业生涯是怎样的呢，她之前录制过什么样的歌呢，等等。很多次，在这样的追寻中我停下来跟我自己说：“这是一个多么棒的人啊，这是一个多么不可思议引人入胜的故事啊，但是记录关于她的故事的人应该是其他的人而不应该是我，这是别人的活。”我一直这样跟自己说。但是我越是想把她从我脑子里赶出去越是停止不了想她，就是忍不住。某种东西---某种力量，某种更高的能量，冥冥之中---一直告诉我回到故事之中。“你做的还不够，你还地更多的去了解她。”这样的声音驱使着我时时刻刻都在想着她和她的音乐。就像电影中凯文科斯特纳所饰演角色那样，一个声音一直对我说，加油，去“超越距离”-继续写关于她的故事让中国之外的人能够认识我的公主。
我开始听所有我能找到的她的音乐。这不是件容易的事情，因为我生活在乌克兰的基辅，在那你在音像店里根本不可能买到她的CD。我不买免费下载的帐，因为那就是从她那儿窃取我让朋友给我寄她CD的刻录本，我网购，从新加坡和北京买回来。我在Yutube上下载她的现场演唱会和视频，直到我拥有她所有的音乐音像记录。这就是音乐吧。我用不会忘记当我第一次听到她的那些歌曲时，对我来说他们是那么美，多么美啊这些时日他们一直在我脑海中响起。请你们也理解这一点，我是一个爱好音乐的人。我一直在玩音乐，我曾多年在周末参加乐队表演。我有很多乐器，过去常常每个周末都要摆弄他们。在美国我父母地下仓库就像是一个20世纪电子钢琴和其他键盘的展览馆。我为很多有才华的艺人演奏过，所以，我比其他人更能体会到那些复杂的细节，和旋模式，以及她的音乐在录音室制作的过程和安排。
但是，正如我之前所说的。当我听她的音乐时我不会只是坐在那儿毫无激情的找找变调和音符进行分析。它就像有魔力的喷泉水一样灌注于我洒遍周身。我感到她音乐的灵魂即是那满满的爱洗礼了我，我的世界永远的改变了。她的音乐太让我感动了，我此生从来没有这样哭泣过。没有一次不管是看一部电影或是听其他的音乐都没有听她的音乐哭的这么厉害。我无法自控。每一次听到她如同天使般的声音————不论我是坐在办公室或者旅途中饭店房间里亦或是坐在家里的客厅里，我都不可抑制地崩溃然后一直一直哭泣。之后我要求我的中国朋友帮我翻译她很多歌曲的歌词，当我明白歌词的意思之后我哭的更厉害了。即使是今日，听到她的歌我发现自己还是会眼睛湿润，心灵颤抖。在这期间，我的一个中国朋友给了我一些古代诗句的片段，在中国很多学校的学生告诉我在中国年少时都会学这首诗：“你看不见我的眼泪因为我在水里”鱼对水说“但是我可以感觉到你在流泪因为你在我心中。”水回答道。所以，我想如果我作为鱼这个角色，我愿意让剩下来的世界--水，感受到她的音乐中妙不可言的质感。
接下来我找到我所服务的杂志的这些个编辑们，请求他们允许发表一个关于公主的故事。希望没让他们觉得我是真的疯了。在劝服他们相信公主是这个世纪的故事我做得很棒，因为他们都点头通过了。你们应该知道这个文章它已经在中国出版了，还有两个关于她的介绍不久也将在美国出版。我相信在此之后世界将真正开始了更多地了解她。最后在跟她北京的经纪公司交流之后，同时也希望他们不要认为我疯了。让我宽慰的是，他们非常善解人意并尽他们最大的努力帮助我。从很多方面来说，我接触到的人真是太棒了不能要求更多了，他们给我更多的机会接近她，远远超过我的期望。
继续说我的故事， 18个月之后，在无数个小时的研究之后， 2010年7月24日我来到北京首都体育馆来看她的演唱会。这是她25岁生日的前两天，我不仅仅是来看演唱会的，我还要参加答谢宴见她本人。想到要看到她了我就变成了一个紧张的傻蛋。在她生日前两天我已经想好了要送她一个特别的礼物。我花了好几个月给她订购不同的礼物--其中的一些在我五月份见到她公司的人时留在她北京经济公司的办公室了。其他的礼物---其中最贵重的--放在一个大盒子里，我小心地写着“生日快乐”的字样，用礼品纸包着，那是我飞到北京前一周在伦敦买的。
当演唱会结束后，我跳进一辆出租就像个疯子一样赶回酒店，在那要举行庆功宴。我洗了个澡，穿上六件新的拉尔夫劳伦的衬衫中的一件，这都是因为知道我要跟她见面后在美国新买的（我无法决定到底穿哪一件去见她，所以我只好买了一堆）并穿上了我最好的蓝西装。当她到达庆功宴现场时我感觉我的心跳比平常快1000倍，当我面对面见到她并送上我的礼物盒时我的心跳的更快了。再次的，时间静止了我想不起太多见到她时的场景。她本人美的不可方物，我无法用语言跟你们描述。上帝显然决定在此停下并创造有史以来最漂亮的女生之一，然后给了她一个完美的声音，此外，我是如此的呆，我只记得我说“你好公主”，亲吻了她的手，告诉她在演唱会上令人难以置信的表现，然后把这个盒子递给了她。
大概一个月后，我们一起在北京一个非常好的餐馆的包厢里吃饭，这个地方融合了中式的烹饪技术和西方的内部装潢。我带来了最喜欢的西班牙红酒，在一个亲密的工作伙伴的极好的陪同翻译下我们坐在一起聊了两个小时。公主是最本色的自己，非常的低调。她简简单单地穿着T恤，蓝色运动裤和运动鞋。戴着她标志性的黑框眼镜，大部分时候都在忙着玩她的苹果四代机（这是真的苹果四代而不是你们所看到的那些大街小巷的无尽仿品）她轻声细语，典雅，朴实。而且，正如你所料，她再次成为我生命中最美丽的风景。
我比她先到，在包厢等她的时候我比上次见她更加紧张。当她走进来的时候，只是说：“你好，鲁本”当听到她的声音时，那温柔的一刀让我通体一震。这个世界上拥有最美妙声音的最美丽的女人刚刚叫了我的名字，这对我来说可不是天天能有的啊，我会永远记住这一刻的。大部分时候，公主说英语，但有时也说中文让翻译。她真是个可爱的人儿，是那种你愿意花整个鸡尾酒晚会的时间与之吃烛光晚餐听音乐的类型。我现在真觉得谁能够与她共渡美好时光真是一件极其幸运的事情。我是全世界最幸运，最受上天宠爱的人，让我有机会与她交谈，希望在不久的将来还有这样的机会。但话说回来，我们大家都是这么幸运能收到这份她的音乐大礼，我可以预言，她的音乐终有一天不仅仅在亚洲流行，而是在全世界被聆听。
如果你们不讨厌的话，我还想再说说我自己。我不是一个追名逐利的记者。我只与我认为精彩的有才华的个体交流。相信我，我之所以这么说是因为无论你给我多少钱，我也不愿意到另一边的街上去采访布兰妮斯皮尔斯或是林赛罗翰，或是其他数不尽的名人之一，他们在法庭上和戒毒戒酒康复上花的时间比他们演出的时间还要多。但是，我飞到千里之外陪伴我的公主，这件事下一分钟我也愿意再做一次。即使在这个过程中我损耗了金钱。我之所以这么做是因为她是我认识的最独特的那么一个人，我愿意为她做任何事情。美国著名作家马克吐温的很多段子我很喜欢。其中有一句是“永远做正确的事情” 。这将会使满足一些人，让其他人震惊：在我生命中现在最“正确的事”，是尽我所能，让世界上其他地方的人们知道这么美妙的公主，我不会停下脚步，直到她成为好莱坞电影中的那样的明星。我将继续在世界上英语国家的这一部分为她服务，为她找机会打进西方娱乐市场。
相信我，我的这种努力确实震惊了我的美国和欧洲的朋友。他们都奇怪为什么我会花这么多时间和这么多工夫在这个中国音乐人身上。 “这样做值得吗？”他们都在问我。嗯，没错，这是正确的事情，除非有比我更好的比我更爱她的写手出现，而现在看来这是我的责任，我要确保她的名字享誉世界而不仅仅是在中国。
至于爱的故事-它没有结束。它是一种特殊的爱，因为它不求回报，不求馈赠，它的存在只是告诉人们她音乐中那不可想像的魔力能够感动到那么多的生命而在此之前人们并不认为会有这样的事情发生。我对她的爱就是明证，证明她深深地感动了如此多的生命。它永远不会结束，只要我还活着，她在我心中永远占据着最特别的地方。最后，我只能感谢她已经用她的音乐找到了我。如果没有遇见你公主，我将是多么贫瘠的一个人啊。
7月24日演唱会场内的海报说“你是神的礼物”，确实，她真的是一个礼物。
但远远不止于此。在这个疯狂的世界中。在这个世界中我看到无数的年轻人走向战场而寥寥无几的生还。在这个世界上可以看到无尽的暴力，破坏，仇恨和偏见。在这个世界上，人们似乎想尽了理由互相分离而不是思考他们为什么会相聚。在这个世界上，我的公主就像是一朵美丽的盛放的花朵开在沙漠的中央。在这样的一个世界，她真的是来自上帝的礼物，我每日祈祷愿上帝保佑她和她的家人。
感谢你们所有的人花时间看这个长长的故事。
如果你们看到公主请转达我的爱并代我说“我爱你”希望某日在她演出完之后能够看见你们大家，我请求你们要一直记住她真的是一个很特别的人。
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