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...Entertainment: Tricia Chen Vietnam: Under the Wheels
...Entertainment: Tricia Chen Vietnam: Under the Wheels
Ascendant pop star Tricia Chen is questioning her choice of a career as she stands in five centimeters of water surrounded by eight professional dancers and a Stonehenge-like grouping of Styrofoam pillars. It is 10 p.m., and she, along with 35 crew members, cameramen, dancers and friends, is in a cavernous Hong Kong studio shooting her second music video of the day. The session soured three hours earlier when her manager introduced her to a local journalist by calling her "fat. I keep telling her to lose weight." Now, with her self-esteem riding lower than her leather pants...
...Sorry, Tricia, that isn't necessarily your call. Fans along the Pearl River Delta are notoriously rigid?they want idols they can simultaneously worship and relate to. This limits individuality and restricts creative latitude. Besides, Chen is already dragging baggage. Some fans accuse her of riding her brother's coattails. Others snipe that, at 167 centimeters and 48 kilograms, she is overweight for a Canto artist. She combats the negative buzz by watching what she eats?"Apples are good," she says?and by trying to stop her brother from hyping her songs when he is making public appearances. More than...
...Hong Kong's Mid-Levels when Chen observed that her brother's life looked "kinda fun." During a radio interview the next day, Edison was asked if either of his two sisters (eldest sister Olivia is a marketing manager in Hong Kong) wanted to be artists. He responded that Tricia did, and the media spread the news. Paparazzi started chasing her. Not long after, Albert Yeung, chairman of Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG) and arguably the most powerful man in Hong Kong's entertainment scene, offered Chen a recording and management contract while the two chatted backstage at one of Edison...