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Mandopop star Jay Chou on April 2 debuted the music video for his new song, I Do, which unveiled his marriage proposal in 2014 to his girlfriend, now his wife, Taiwanese-Australian model-actress Hannah Quinlivan.<\/p>\n
The video shows Quinlivan seated at a table, smiling and applauding as she watches a man propose to his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Similar scenes unfold at other tables, until the dancers, performing as suitors, turn around to reveal the words “WILL”, “YOU”, “MARRY” and “ME” on their backs.<\/p>\n
At the piano, Chou serenades her before presenting a ring and going down on one knee. As she says yes, fireworks go off overhead. The couple embrace to the cheers of the crowd.<\/p>\n
The video concludes with Chou and Quinlivan, in wedding attire, travelling by horse-drawn carriage to a castle. Family and friends, including Chou’s mother Yeh\u00a0Hui-mei, celebrate with the bridal couple.<\/p>\n
Chou, 47, and Quinlivan, 32, now have three children aged three to 10.<\/p>\n
The Taiwanese singer had previewed the music video earlier in a post on Instagram on April 1.<\/p>\n
“I’ve woven moments from our wedding celebration 10 years ago into it, and quietly tucked in the proposal I carefully planned back then,” he wrote. “After all this time, I finally get to share this piece of my life with you.”<\/p>\n
Chou said at a press conference in Taipei on March 24 that he had spared no effort in planning the proposal, going so far as to rent an ancient castle in Britain. He constructed a restaurant setting, and arranged for dancers and extras to take part.<\/p>\n
Every detail was choreographed, with the extras playing restaurant waiters to ensure the proposal was flawless.<\/p>\n
Unaware of the plan, Quinlivan, exhausted from the long journey, initially did not want to have dinner. Chou quipped, at the press conference, that the entire production would have been a wash if she had not shown up.<\/p>\n
I Do is one of the 13 tracks on Chou’s new album, Children of the Sun, which was released on digital platforms on March 25. The physical release will follow on April 10.<\/p>\n
On the day Chou dropped his album, the number of people discovering him on Spotify for the first time tripled, according to a press statementby the streaming platform. His streams have doubled in the past five years, with a rise in catalogue plays three weeks before his latest album drop.<\/p>\n
According to Spotify, Gen Z \u2013<\/span> born\u00a0between 1997 and 2012 \u2013<\/span> now makes up 48 per cent of his listenership. They share his tracks at a rate 30 per cent higher than his long-time fans.<\/p>\n