G.E.M.’s (鄧紫棋) image with the media is spiraling down. Although the talented singer-songwriter continues to hold successful concerts across the world, the Hong Kong, Chinese, and Taiwanese media have been make negative reports about her, stirring up old rumors and slamming her and her team for being disrespectful to the media. The 24-year-old’s relations with the Hong Kong media started to worsen in November 2014, when her manager Chang Tan (張丹) offended the Hong Kong reporters with his arrogant attitude at a press conference for her X.X.X. tour. In April 2015, her manager had a row with the production team of I Am a Singer 2 <我是歌手2>, leading to G.E.M. being dismissed from the Chinese singing competition last minute. Her popularity in China declined as a result, and her image also took a toll with the Chinese media. In addition, her producer Lupo Groinig criticized the Hong Kong media for having no integrity while doing an interview with an American media outlet. G.E.M. has just completed her X.X.X. World Tour, which played 73 shows across cities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Her last show in London, however, was rumored to have performed poorly in the ticket box offices sales. It was said that fans who had purchased a bundle resold the tickets for a much cheaper price, and sometimes for free. Her agency denied the rumors, claiming that someone is intentionally smearing them. But despite negative rumors, G.E.M. continues her reign as a successful touring artist. Recently, it was announced that G.E.M. would be holding a concert in Studio City Macau. Her manager, Chang Tan, is acquaintances with Lawrence Ho (何猷龍), the CEO of Melco International. Lawrence Ho is the eldest son of gambling tycoon Stanley Ho (何鴻燊). G.E.M. and Stanley Ho’s daughter, Laurinda Ho (何超蓮), are also close friends. Chang Tan’s Background Chang’s father, Zhang Renqiang (張仁強), was a businessman from Beijing. He once worked for Stanley Ho, and established his own estate company in Macau. After graduating from the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, Chang returned to Hong Kong and invested in a slot machine business with his older brother and Lawrence Ho. After selling the business to Melco International in 2004, Chang established his own record label Hummingbird Music, with G.E.M. as his only recording artist. Creds: ihktv
There seem to be a lot of negative news about her, the media can be scary if it's true, that's why you have to make nice with the media or they can make any celebrity look like shit. Phoenix I heard you might had went to her concert awhile back, did you went?
EvilTofu - Hiya ~ Yes I did attend, She was really good live to be honest,she kept thanking lupo, spoke in mando majority of the times , bit of canto and saying "Lundun" lol ~~~ Regarding this ticket business, I'm not surprised, on the fb page, there were people actually selling other tickets for cheaper price. Well some tried to sell for exortionate prices but meh, Our seat tickets was like £128, and then somebody advertised the seats behind us for like £30 ~ like really??!! ~ should have waited last minute to buy ours if we knew.... The arena was pretty big, and there were quite a lot of empty seats to begin with (maybe we just got there too early ) but eventually it did fill up. I was quite surprised at the variety in audience apart from the 'youngsters' , there was like parents with their kids under 10's and the uncles to the grannies generation. Proper mix and match.
the whole entire friggin story is "manager this, manager that." So it's a fight between her manager and it affected GEM negatively?
