Will Lin: "I Will Jump Into the Ocean if Eason Does Not Win a Taiwan Golden Melody Award Next Year!"

Having won Best Album at this year's Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, Eason Chan will release a brand new Mandarin album, Fifth Floor's Happiness (上五樓的快活), at the end of September. For the album, Eason purchased an expensive single lens digital camera and took on the role of photographer, taking over a thousand photos. However, most of those images were of producer Will Lin (林暐哲) and his company cried "useless" [for the upcoming album]. Elsewhere, as the album production was coming to an end, Eason handed over a song, For You (給你), written by himself. Unexpectedly the song beat out good friends Tanya Chua and Mavis Fan's works to become the first plug of the album. Producer Will Lin states, "If Eason does not win a Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Male Artist or Best Composer next year, I will absolutely jump into the ocean (我一定去跳海)!"

It took Eason ten years to finally build up the courage to ask to work with Will Lin. When asking his record company, they immediately said 'yes' and set up for the two to meet. When meeting, the two were extremely polite towards each other and after exchange phone numbers, the two became good friends.

Due to time restraints Crowd Lu was not able to give Eason a song, so Eason submitted his own song, For You (給你). Will Lin and his production team were surprised by the natural but easygoing nature of the song. Eason used the piano to write a pleasant blessing, used notes to write a poetic sentiment, and the song brings a sense of hope for more love which translates into feeling all the happiness that exists on earth. Eason invited Francis Lee (李焯雄) to write underlying sadness but positive, meaningful and encouraging lyrics to this song. And because of the meaning in the song, it was chosen to be the frist plug.

Source: msn taiwan 09.07.2009