周杰伦的个性害羞又腼腆，追女生的方式喜欢“打暗号”，他帮师妹芮恩量身订做唱片广告，自编自演一套追女生的剧情，展现杰伦式的“黑色幽默”！
芮恩是阿尔发唱片的新女声，经过周杰伦的强力背书，芮恩还没有正式出片，已经受到各界的瞩目。周杰伦先是带着芮恩合拍《暗号》的MV，他在手机广告之中，也找来芮恩一起演出，师兄妹先是“打暗号”，再来“大头贴”。
周杰伦的演唱会将于十二日移师香港开唱，在红磡一连演唱五场，目前他除了积极在为演唱会准备之外，投入很多时间在芮恩的专辑上面。
周杰伦帮芮恩写了一首《白色羽毛》，而芮恩的唱片广告，周杰伦也来帮忙。周杰伦在广告片中，担任广告创意、造型设计，还自编自演热情站台。周杰伦在广告片中，上演追女生的剧情，内容是他带着学弟、朋友共三个男生，在一家咖啡厅里看到芮恩，三个男生一直窃窃私语讨论，但是都不敢有所行动，等到最后离开时看清楚芮恩的长相，而且听到芮恩的歌之后，周杰伦才突然觉得芮恩很不错。周杰伦说：“这支广告是酷中带了一点神秘的调性，很能够把芮恩的特色表现出来。”
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01.
天王身价的周董向所有喜欢音乐的朋友们打暗号,友情跨刀现身拍广告推荐小师妹芮恩Ruien,在新人芮恩发片前为她注入一剂强心针;从一开始芮恩进入阿尔发唱片录音起,就受到大师兄的提拔,宠爱,不但邀请她当”暗号”MV女主角,拍Panasonic GD68手机广告之外,周杰伦更对这位小师妹的音乐赞赏有嘉,主动为她量身打造一首歌曲;发片近在眉梢时,杰伦还特别在百忙之中站出来,一下飞机就赶到拍摄现场,自编自演,自己设计一出广告,以周杰伦的方式向大家”打暗号”,推荐芮恩Ruien最新国语专辑.
周杰伦说这支广告是以酷中带了一点神秘的调性,把芮恩的音乐特色表现来,内容叙述周杰伦带着学弟,朋友三人在一家咖啡厅,看到了芮恩对她议论纷纷,不过三人不敢有所行动,离开时才回头小声说:”不错喔!”;时下唱片圈新人辈出,周杰伦平常也很注意国语歌坛的动向,尤其是像芮恩这样有特色的艺人, 和他一样唱歌咬字不清的,反而可以把人声变成一种乐器演奏,听起来更有味道;而芮恩专辑里丰富的音乐性,也让杰伦赞赏,特别为他写了一首融合中国风+日本风的歌”白色羽毛”推荐给大家.
许多人唱抒情歌,R&B,摇滚歌曲,芮恩的嗓音唱起来少了激情嘶吼的浮动,却多了一股音律流畅,咬字不清,恣意放纵的特色就成了运转音符的最大助力,让人听起来清新舒服,比起一般歌手来说,杰伦觉得芮恩的爆发力来自自然,不做作的嗓音,芮恩可以表现这么多种截然不同的曲风,也让杰伦十分欣赏,看好她未来的表现,大力提拔她,希望能为乐坛注入一股新潮流.
芮恩很感谢大师兄鼎力相助,拍MV,广告几次的相处合作以后,她觉得这位大师兄不但人很亲切,很会带人,还很喜欢帮人家做设计,从穿着,服装,化妆,发型给芮恩许多建议,连这次拍广告两位演员的造型服装,也是出自杰伦的意见,有机会的话杰伦还想发挥他的创意,帮芮恩从头到脚打扮一下.
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01.
2003年12月10日
连载：就爱这样的周杰伦 出版社：中国旅游出版社 作者：曾小歌
周杰伦常常出席师妹芮恩的记者会，拉抬师妹声势。他对师妹芮恩不错，又写歌又帮她拍了推荐广告片，芮恩为了在今年有一次跟歌迷有相见欢的活动，拚命练舞。
他为了疼爱师妹芮恩，连专用的舞蹈老师阿宏，都因为芮恩签唱会要练舞，让他提早从美国回来帮芮恩排舞。
周杰伦唱歌的特色一向是咬字不清，没想到师妹芮恩也是一样，因此他为同样「咬字不清」的芮恩设计了一款广告，内容是周杰伦带著学弟、朋友三人在一家咖啡厅，看到了芮恩对她议论纷纷，不过三人不敢有所行动，离开时才回头小声说：「不错喔！」
而芮恩觉得师兄周杰伦不但人很亲切，还喜欢帮人家做设计，从穿著、服装、化妆到发型，给了芮恩许多建议，连这次广告中的造型服装，也是他的意见。有机会的话，周杰伦想发挥他的创意，帮芮恩从头到脚打扮一下。
周杰伦即使是得了肠胃炎，还会抱病为师妹「芮恩」的记者会站台，他帮她写歌、拍MV、拍广告，帮到最後，很多杰伦迷都在网路上骂芮恩「离周杰伦远一点！」、「给我小心点」，芮恩很委屈的说，「其实杰伦只是把我当妹妹，我跟他一点都不来电。他也不是我喜欢的型，我喜欢像金城武这样的男人，杰伦太臭屁了。我不会和你们抢杰伦的！」
芮恩趁周杰伦在香港举办演唱会之便，举行自己的第一张个人专辑发表会，周杰伦果然也在彩排的百忙中来为芮恩站台。台上周杰伦为师妹挂保证，台下两人斗嘴，问周杰伦会不会担心跟芮恩传绯闻，周杰伦说：「看也知道不会。」
原来周杰伦嫌芮恩胖，上镜不好看，常常念她不要吃太多；写给她唱的歌「白色羽毛」，也常说「我写的真好听」而不是「芮恩唱得真好听」，芮恩则不假辞色反击「我最讨厌臭屁的人」，两人你来我往不时斗嘴，周杰伦会用从蔡依林那儿学来的英文，糗她国语说不标准：芮恩则批评周杰伦「谁说英文这样说」，碰在一起，他们还真会斗嘴哩！
周杰伦还有一个小师妹ReiEu（黎安），他对她也很好。
当蔡依林频频否认和周杰伦谈恋爱，只表示是「好朋友」时；另一头周杰伦则与小师妹ReiEu（黎安）完成「暗号」ＭＶ，两人彻夜拍片玩扑克牌「大老二」提神，体贴的周杰伦还变魔术给师妹看，感情好的很自然。两人的「新关系」在萤光幕前曝光後，歌迷反应很好，不似蔡依林到处挨骂，相关人员都觉得：「好奇怪」。
周杰伦新歌「暗号」，同时也是他代言手机产品的主题曲。不过歌迷关注的，却是一直说自己个性很「怕生」，碰到不认识女生会觉得很困窘的周杰伦，竟然初次和一个漂亮美眉合拍ＭＶ，而且两人眉目传情，用手机传简讯，演得好自然。原来这个廿一岁、来自新加坡的女生ReiEu，是阿尔发总经理杨俊嵘刚发掘的新人，首度让她和爱将周杰伦一起合作。
当天从凌晨一点半，拍摄到隔天的清晨四点，大家都累垮了，只有周杰伦还兴致勃勃的找 ReiEu和工作人员，一起玩大老二。周杰伦玩的起劲，其他人则是狐疑：「周董」哪会怕生，很帮小师妹入镜。而看ReiEu长的有点像港星李彩桦，可是仔细看，她圆润的双颊和发型，也有像蔡依林呢！
至於新人游艾迪，也是周杰伦的小师妹。
游艾迪出唱片，在主打歌「Girl Power」里，作曲人挂的是「诗人」，其实就是周杰伦。这是周杰伦在替众多歌手写歌作曲以来第一次用笔名。
周杰伦帮蔡依林写歌时，用本名作曲；周杰伦帮游艾迪写歌时，为什麽要化名「诗人」？周杰伦的答覆是：「因为我想让大家真正注意到游艾迪的歌声！」
杰伦是不是对师妹们都很体贴呢？
对师妹好，是没错的。给师妹机会，就等於给自己机会啊！他不是老想交一个女朋友吗？师妹们都很漂亮，能进能退、可攻可守，万一都没搞头，说不定师妹们被感动，会介绍一个比自己更适合的美眉给他呢！
Source: Sina
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01.
23 January 2003
IS newbie singer Lu Rui En an ‘all natural’ girl as her record company touts her to be?
Well, she appeared to be – at first.
Dressed in casual gear for her press conference to launch her debut album, the Singaporean wore minimal makeup and looked like any trendy youngster plucked off the street.
‘This is how I usually dress. I like comfy and baggy clothes,’ she said.
Grimacing, the 21-year-old added: ‘I can never ever have a sexy image because I don’t like to wear tight clothing. I will not be able to tahan (Malay for take it)!’
But when it came to fielding media queries, being ‘natural’ with her responses was a big no-go for Rui En.
Or maybe it was her manager.
At the barest hint of anything controversial, she would cut in and try to answer on Rui En’s behalf.
Like when we asked Rui En if she felt any frustration while in Taiwan because of her limited Mandarin.
Before Rui En could reply, her manager said rather defensively: ‘She wasn’t like, frustrated. It was more awkward than anything.’
Or when we asked how it was like for Rui En to work with Taiwanese singer Jay Chou (he wrote her a song and she appeared in his music video).
‘Oh, we are just like siblings,’ said Rui En, glancing at her manager, and trying to explain.
‘I see him only as a brother and we like to kid around,’ she added, as her manager nodded.
MORE INTERRUPTIONS
An attempt to find out more about Rui En’s upcoming Channel 5 drama, Chemistry, was also nipped in the bud by the ever-so-protective minder.
In Chemistry, Rui En is paired up with newcomer Howard Cheung, and their characters are supposed to fall in love after some initial misunderstandings.
We tried to ask if there were any awkward scenes.
And, expectedly, the manager decided to reply on her behalf: ‘Why don’t you go and watch the show?’
When Rui En admitted that she did have a kissing scene, her manager cut in with: ‘It was just a resuscitation scene!’
But Rui En corrected her: ‘Yes, there was a resuscitation scene, but there was also a kissing scene.
‘The resuscitation scene was awkward because we really had to kiss, and we didn’t do it very naturally because we were nervous.’
It was probably her most ‘natural’ comment throughout the interview.
It would be nice to talk to Rui En again – that is, if she can speak for herself.
Rui En’s self-titled album is out in stores now.
Source: The New Paper
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01, The New Paper.
22 January 2003
HOMEGROWN R&B newcomer Lu Rui En wants to set the record straight.
If her slurry singing sounds suspiciously like that of labelmate Jay Chou, it’s not a case of her being a copycat.
‘It sounds this way because I’m more accustomed to speaking in English,’ Lu, a 21-year-old business school undergraduate at NTU, said in Mandarin during a press conference and mini-showcase at Embassy club yesterday.
‘My Mandarin was unbelievably lan before I was discovered,’ says the former Raffles Junior College student, using the Mandarin colloquialism for ‘atrocious’.
Talent-spotted by Hype Records in 2001 after appearing in a SingTel TV commercial, she went on to do a cameo appearance in Channel 8 drama serial No Problem, last year.
But it was all because of Chou’s concert here in February last year that Lu got her big break.
Mr R.J. Yang, a Taiwanese director from the record label Alpha, was in Hype’s office when he chanced upon her demo tape. He heard it and was impressed.
A month later, she was signed up.
Soon, she was appearing alongside Chou for a mobile phone ad in Taiwan and, more recently, as a love interest in his music video for Secret Code.
He also penned the track White Feather for her debut CD, Rui En Vol.01 Album, which was released last month.
It has sold 50,000 copies in Taiwan and 3,000 here so far.
She performed White Feather during Chou’s sold-out shows as a guest earlier this month at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Though she thanks Chou for opening doors for her, she said that being associated with the Taiwanese R&B superstar puts her under ‘tremendous pressure’.
Some of Chou’s fanatical fans in Taiwan had told her to ‘lay off’ their idol.
More at ease now, she will be playing an uncouth and boyish radio DJ-love counsellor in the upcoming Channel 5 urban romance drama, Chemistry.
Of her acting role, a source close to her said yesterday: ‘The part fits her because Lu’s like that – a bit of a tomboy with no pretence. What you see is what you get.’
Rui ∑n vol. 01 Album is out in the stores.
Source: The Straits Times
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01, The Straits Times.
20 January 2003
Showtime & Lifestyle
How does a newbie make a bang in Taiwan?
Try snuggling up to a popular teenybopper. Or copying one.
Failing that, break up everyone’s favourite screen couple.
It’s not a path to popularity, though.
Singaporean artistes Celest Chong, Rui En and Michelle Saram were swamped with hate mail when they ventured into Taiwan.
But, guess what? They picked up thousands of fans, too.
CHANG MAY CHOON reports
Stay away from Jay
ChouSinger Rui En, better known as the SingTel girl who sprinted across Shenton Way in the TV commercial, is also in Taipei.
She was issued a fierce warning by fanatical fans of R&B prince Jay Chou to ‘stay away from Jay, or else …’.
The singing newbie first incurred their wrath when she cosied up to Jay in his music video, fuelling speculations that they are an item.
They have signed up with the same record label, Alfa Music, in Taiwan.
Jay’s jealous fans immediately bombarded Rui En’s online message board with nasty notes like ‘You better watch your step’.
In her defence, the 22-year-old business undergrad from Nanyang Technological University clarified that she and Jay are ‘like brother and sister’.
She said: ‘Actually Jay treats me like a sister. There’s no chemistry between us.’
MISUNDERSTANDING
Now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, many fans of Jay are keen to support Rui En as well, said Mr Tan, who is her manager as well.
He told The New Paper: ‘Many fans got to know Rui En through Jay, which is good because he has such a big fan base.
‘Initially, they scolded her because they thought she’s Jay girlfriend. But now they acknowledge that she’s a good singer.’
He added that nearly 40,000 copies of her debut album have flown off the shelves in Taiwan since December.
This is ‘very encouraging for a newcomer’, he added.
Source: The New Paper
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01, The New Paper.
2003/01/16
頂著周杰倫師妹的光環，來自新加坡的新人芮恩，帶著她的第一張專輯『芮恩RuiΣn同名專輯』來到銀河與大家見面囉！雖然是個幸運兒，一出道就有師兄護航，不過，芮恩自己的認真與努力也是不容忽視的。當芮恩踏入銀河時，就一直保持著甜美的笑容，讓人覺得很親切與誠懇；而看見她努力的在白紙上留下滿滿的給銀河朋友的話，就覺得她是個對於每個小細節都很認真的新人，不禁讓人想要為她鼓鼓掌！
芮恩首張專輯取名為『芮恩RuiΣn同名專輯』，因為從她散發出來的特殊氣息與與眾不同的風格，歌曲的編寫與填詞的風格，一切都是依照芮恩RuiΣn的個性、思考模式、行事風格。詞曲作者們對芮恩的想法與解讀，為她量身訂作十首屬於芮恩RuiΣn的歌曲，歌曲在RuiΣn特殊獨特的唱腔詮釋下，她的聲音自然純在而不矯情造作，特殊的嗓音與歌唱方式，讓人很舒服而忘卻壓力；她的聲音，是現今歌壇中少見而少有的，RuiΣn式的唱腔很獨特，很令人驚訝，讓我們靜靜的循著她的歌聲起伏，盤旋在RuiΣn的歌曲世界中徜徉，是一種難得的享受與幸福，讓人有別於一般且不一樣的感覺。
很多人一定都很羨慕芮恩，不僅出唱片，還是小天王周杰倫的同門師妹，這是怎樣的一個過程，才有這樣的機會？還是大學生的她，要跟大家聊聊她學校的生活，看看台灣與新加坡的學生有什麼不同點？個性愛好和平，卻又是很有主見的芮恩，在感情上遇到問題時，是用什麼樣的方式去解決？這一張『芮恩RuiΣn同名專輯』，是由台灣、新加坡兩地的創作者聯合打造，因此專輯中有許多不同類型的曲風。在這集銀河面對面節目裡，芮恩除了要讓大家更認識她之外，也要跟大家一起分享她這一張專輯，還要在節目中透露她與師兄周杰倫的關係唷！想要更了解這一個來自新加坡的幸運新人芮恩的朋友們，趕快按下play鈕，收聽節目吧！
Source: iwant-radio
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01.
10 January 2003
VOL.01 ALBUM
Lu Rui En
YES, she’s that girl from the SingTel commercial and in Jay Chou’s MTV.
But does she sound as good as she looks?
You bet – raw on the vocals, but a good attempt for a first album consisting of a R&B tempo-ridden repertoire.
- Desmond Ng
Source: The New Paper
Categorised in Rui ∑n vol. 01, The New Paper.