Spotting an unopened box, containing a concert, Live in Hong Kong, by Jay Chou, a pop artist that I had never heard of......I returned it to the folding card table....The 14 year-old, tending her table of goodies, exclaimed: "WHAT! you don't know who Jay Chou is? I looked at her, blankly, and mentioned that he was "pretty".......She said, "Take it....it's free...to you.....you must take it!".....So....I took the beautifully packaged set home and placed a disk into my computer.......Although I was not very impressed with this standard, commercial teen-pop idol, i did think of the universality of naive' popular tastes.....in a few years, no one will even remember Jay Chou....But, for now, Chinese Idolmakers will make much ado about him, spawning hundreds of replicants and devotees....then, I'll sell this "rare" box of stuff to an ageing Chinese woman who remembers his sexy performance, decades before......
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