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Luo Da-you wants Taiwanese people to get some guts. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

Actress Suzanne Hsiao (蕭淑慎) has had a rough time lately, having wrecked her new Mazda on Saturday night in Taipei. According to reports, she apparently fled the scene after the crash, triggering some speculation that she had been driving drunk. It was later revealed, though, that when she finally did report to the police an hour after the accident, her blood-alcohol test registered 0.0. But the crash was bad enough, coming on the heels of having outed her friends Little S (小S) and Big S (大S) for being too cheap to buy clothes from her store in Ximending a few weeks ago and then slashing her wrists in grief over the whole episode.

There appears to have been some truth to the clothes-borrowing affair, though, at least if Next Magazine (壹週刊) reports are anything to go by. The weekly quotes an anonymous store manager, also in Ximending, as saying she doesn't like to lend clothes to Little S because she returns them dirty. "She sweats a lot, it stinks. Before, when she returned clothes, the armpits were soaked. We had to get the clothes dry-cleaned. It was bad for business," reads the quote.

Jolin was awarded the best female singer award at the Hit FM music awards last weekend. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES

Hit FM hosted the Hito Pop Music Awards at the Taipei County Government plaza last weekend, marking another in the constant schedule of Mando-pop awards ceremonies. In this round, the big winners were Mayday (五月天) for best band, Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) for best female singer and Jay Chou (周杰倫) for best male singer -- none of which comes as any great surprise. The only hotly contested award, according to the Liberty Times (自由時報) was the audience vote for favorite singing group, which was eventually taken by boy band 5566,

squeezing ahead of another boy band Energy.

5566 was also in the news over the past week when the group's fans were reportedly upset over the design of the cover of a special edition of their unimaginatively titled second album, 2nd Album. The design is a complete rip-off of the cover of Japanese boy band Smap's album Lion Heart and this, according to the Apple Daily (蘋果日報) has fans up in arms.

Jolin was on Hit FM earlier this week to promote her new album and to field a round of personal questions from repor-ters. The singer has a reputation for cute, juvenile looks, but shocked some into realizing that she's an adult now when she said, jokingly, that her main criterion in choosing a man was his skills in bed. She backtracked, though, and said her criteria were actually the more boring compatible personalities and intimacy.

Mando-pop godfather Luo Da-you (羅大佑) was tracked down last week by The Great Daily News (大成報) and when asked what he thought of the DPP and KMT election anthems, he said he didn't want to hear them, and added that they probably didn't have any guts (沒種). The accusation was an echo of comments he made back in 1996 when he blasted China and the KMT and tried to exhort Taiwanese people to have some guts in the face of belligerent China. Eight years on, Luo is set to play 12 concerts in China later this year.

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