Jasmine Yen shares inspiration behind debut album ‘tbh’

E. Kristhoff Cagape

&ldquo;This album really encouraged me not to be afraid to explore different emotions and not to be afraid to put out what I love to do.&rdquo;These were the words of Hong Kong-raised singer-songwriter Jasmine Yen when asked to describe the inspiration behind her first album tbh.<img src="https://ent-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/1694318298131.jpeg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> In an interview with <a href="http://push.abs-cbn.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PUSH</a>, the 19-year old artist shared that her first record paved the way for her to become more vocal about her emotions.&ldquo;This album is called tbh which means &lsquo;to be honest&rsquo; and growing up I always have been very shy and it&#39;s just hard for me to express myself sometimes, and so that led me into songwriting at the age of 7,&rdquo; she relayed.<iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CvU8w2qPXiI/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3xXLo5F2TI_Cz31ts1FuSbl1Kk_dtAgeBgrRDvM4p_eSvqluAJY-Ve-Kw#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A471951.2000000477%2C%22ls%22%3A471555.10000014305%2C%22le%22%3A471914.10000014305%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="457" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>&ldquo;You know, music has always been really precious and personal to me so I had never really shared that publicly and so for the first time it&#39;s like coming out of my shell and taking a stand like, &lsquo;This is my music. This is who I am.&rsquo; And I hope listeners can also feel inspired and encouraged to be their most confident selves,&rdquo; the singer continued.On her songwriting process, Jasmine relayed that she usually wears her heart on her sleeve while at the same time she also pens songs inspired by different characters.&ldquo;For me there&#39;s always been two ways that I write. Obviously sometimes it&rsquo;s difficult for me to say what I want to say and a lot of my personal feelings or thoughts I would just write that in music. But on the other hand, I also really love to create stories,&rdquo; she said.Embodying different characters is not only evident in her songwriting because it&#39;s also something that she enjoys doing when performing on stage. &nbsp;&ldquo;I think that&#39;s something that I really am passionate about so I love to become different characters and not just in songwriting but also on stage, you get to become a different character because usually I&rsquo;m really shy. And so when I go on stage, I&rsquo;m able to become a different person and a different persona and I think it&#39;s just really cool for me to explore that,&rdquo; the singer explained.For the second&nbsp;single off her debut album, Jasmine chose the title track &ldquo;tbh.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&#39;s very dance pop and I think this song best represents strong women and my idol is Beyonc&eacute;. I worship her, so although I listen to different genres, the artists I&#39;m most inspired by are women that really represent women empowerment so I thought that song really represented that the most,&rdquo; she said on why she picked the song as her second single.<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/poxadqR4vVM" title="Jasmine Yen 甄濟如 - tbh (Official Dance Video)" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Following the release of her debut album, Jasmine hopes to go on tour and stage shows.&ldquo;I would totally come to the Philippines and have a concert there and have a performance. I think it is such a great way to connect to people, to share the love, to share the energy together so any opportunity for me to perform I would be so honored to do it,&rdquo; she said.Jasmine released tbh&nbsp;on September 1 following the announcement of her signing to RCA Records Greater China, a division of Sony Music Entertainment (SME). The album contains 8 songs, written in part or entirely by Jasmine.Jasmine is the daughter of Hong Kong actor and martial artist Donnie Yen and model Cecilia Wang.

In an interview with <a href="http://push.abs-cbn.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PUSH</a>, the 19-year old artist shared that her first record paved the way for her to become more vocal about her emotions.&ldquo;This album is called tbh which means &lsquo;to be honest&rsquo; and growing up I always have been very shy and it&#39;s just hard for me to express myself sometimes, and so that led me into songwriting at the age of 7,&rdquo; she relayed.<iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/CvU8w2qPXiI/embed/?cr=1&v=14&wp=540&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&rp=%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3xXLo5F2TI_Cz31ts1FuSbl1Kk_dtAgeBgrRDvM4p_eSvqluAJY-Ve-Kw#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A471951.2000000477%2C%22ls%22%3A471555.10000014305%2C%22le%22%3A471914.10000014305%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="457" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>&ldquo;You know, music has always been really precious and personal to me so I had never really shared that publicly and so for the first time it&#39;s like coming out of my shell and taking a stand like, &lsquo;This is my music. This is who I am.&rsquo; And I hope listeners can also feel inspired and encouraged to be their most confident selves,&rdquo; the singer continued.On her songwriting process, Jasmine relayed that she usually wears her heart on her sleeve while at the same time she also pens songs inspired by different characters.&ldquo;For me there&#39;s always been two ways that I write. Obviously sometimes it&rsquo;s difficult for me to say what I want to say and a lot of my personal feelings or thoughts I would just write that in music. But on the other hand, I also really love to create stories,&rdquo; she said.Embodying different characters is not only evident in her songwriting because it&#39;s also something that she enjoys doing when performing on stage. &nbsp;&ldquo;I think that&#39;s something that I really am passionate about so I love to become different characters and not just in songwriting but also on stage, you get to become a different character because usually I&rsquo;m really shy. And so when I go on stage, I&rsquo;m able to become a different person and a different persona and I think it&#39;s just really cool for me to explore that,&rdquo; the singer explained.For the second&nbsp;single off her debut album, Jasmine chose the title track &ldquo;tbh.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&#39;s very dance pop and I think this song best represents strong women and my idol is Beyonc&eacute;. I worship her, so although I listen to different genres, the artists I&#39;m most inspired by are women that really represent women empowerment so I thought that song really represented that the most,&rdquo; she said on why she picked the song as her second single.<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/poxadqR4vVM" title="Jasmine Yen 甄濟如 - tbh (Official Dance Video)" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Following the release of her debut album, Jasmine hopes to go on tour and stage shows.&ldquo;I would totally come to the Philippines and have a concert there and have a performance. I think it is such a great way to connect to people, to share the love, to share the energy together so any opportunity for me to perform I would be so honored to do it,&rdquo; she said.Jasmine released tbh&nbsp;on September 1 following the announcement of her signing to RCA Records Greater China, a division of Sony Music Entertainment (SME). The album contains 8 songs, written in part or entirely by Jasmine.Jasmine is the daughter of Hong Kong actor and martial artist Donnie Yen and model Cecilia Wang.

&ldquo;This album really encouraged me not to be afraid to explore different emotions and not to be afraid to put out what I love to do.&rdquo;These were the words of Hong Kong-raised singer-songwriter Jasmine Yen when asked to describe the inspiration behind her first album tbh.<img src="https://ent-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/1694318298131.jpeg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">

Singer-songwriter Jasmine Yen released her debut album 'tbh' on September 1.

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