[minivicki]

Wilber Pan's concert has 5 Cue Prompter On Stand-By; Worried that he'll forget lyrics
Source: China Times
Translation by minivicki @ http://asianfanatics.net/



Wilber Pan might look strong and healthy but he actually has injuries all over, and he can't remember his song lyrics, not even the ones that he wrote himself. It seems like he's going to be able to challenge senior Emil Chau Wakin (Zhou Hua Jian) for the title of "King of Forgetting Lyrics"! Emil Chau set a highest record of needing 6 cue prompters for his concert and its been confirmed that Wilber, who is 20 years younger than him will be requiring 5 cue prompters for his concert at Taipei Arena. One of them will be set up on the 2nd floor to prevent him from forgetting his lyrics when he moves up on stage.

Wilber claims that he has a pretty good memory normally. He can clearly remember which year he had which love rumors but memorizing lyrics is his greatest problem. "Dance For Two (雙人舞) filmed the MV in Korea and I had to repeat the lyrics twenty to thirty times. For public performances I've sang it around twenty times too. But I still can't remember the lyrics till now." When going on shows in Hong Kong and singing this song, he had to mumble over a few lines even and when he himself saw the shows, he couldn't help exclaiming "Its ridiculous"!

The lyrics for "Happy Idol (快樂崇拜)" was written by him and he has sang that song for many years. Yet he has never sang it right before. "I'll keep memorizing the song backstage and I'll be able to sing. Once I step on stage though, I would have forgotten them all."
Seeing how forgetful Wilber is, the music company has already given up on getting him to memorize the lyrics and has encouraged him to stock up on Gingko which is good for the brain. They automatically prepared 5 cue prompters to use and the big screen at the performance venue will also have the song lyrics shown. Wilber laughed and say "There's so many cue prompters. I'm not afraid of forgetting lyrics anymore."

As his left knee injury is still not healed till now, he has been drinking a lot of chinese medicinal soup to help heal. The doctors have advised him to stop dancing but he can't do it and has stopped visiting them. He terms himseflt as the entertainment circle's version of NBA star Allen Iverson who still continued to passionately play basketball after his injury. Wilber even claimed that his "Metal Pan" who isn't scared of injuries.

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I didn't know Wilber's memory was so bad
And he seriously shouldn't ignore the doctor's advice.
Hope that after this concert, he'll pay more attention to the knee injury!!

[mzkarenn]

aww hes so cute. ppl wont notice if he messes up tho it shud part of his creativity haha

[Rachi]

lol i love how his fans probably know all his songs w/o effort and it takes him 30 times runthrough to remember it. that's just ridiculous.

[doraemon♡JAY]

well to be fair, heaps of his songs are rap and they have much more lyrics than a standard song.. like 快乐崇拜.. its pretty fast and i can JUST barely understand the lyrics

good luck to his concert! wish i could go

[peacex]

probably he just cant give up his career, so he just gotta ignore those doctors.

[jojoye]

haha love him ...
maybe next time he will have cue prompter when filming drama so he won't NG alot

[tammiest]

LOL, Will's so funny. I think he can be excused for forgetting the lyrics to at least half his songs-- they're just soo fast and complicated.

But... he should really know the words to some of his other ones Like Pas De Deux [Dance For Two]-- hope he doesn't forget the chorus to that one, LOL!

I wish I could see him in concert! *sighs*

Thanks for the translation, minivicki!

[uncchristine99]

haha, I'm not really surprised about him needing song prompters. After all, we've all seen his Miss No Good bloopers, right? He has a very extensive discography as well... I guess I would want artists to have their own songs memorized but when you've had a career as long and full as his... I guess you gotta give something.

[seprienna]

well i knew wilber has a poor memory from the behind-scenes of miss no good.he got the talent,its just he keep on forgetting the lines and stuff.