China Entertainment 1997

"Dear listeners, good morning, everyone. This is the music program "Popular" on FM·404 radio channel. I am the host David."

"Hello everyone, I am the host Shasha."

"Hey, Sasha."

"What's wrong, Brother Wei?"

"Blessed are the ears of you and the audience today. The popular king Cao Xuan has just released the first new song of his new album, "The Wind Rises."

"(⊙o⊙)Wow, I like Cao Xuan's songs the most. I'm really looking forward to it."

"I'm also looking forward to it. Cao Xuan has continued to produce great works in the past two years. He is also a frequent guest on our "Popular Listening" on-demand list and is deeply loved by the listeners of our program."

"Oh, I can't wait, and my friends in the audience must be impatient too. Brother Wei, let's play some songs."

"Okay, please enjoy Cao Xuan's new song "The Wind Rises"."

In an instant, through the unlimited signal, all the radios listening to the program began to play a soft and lyrical piano prelude.

Ten seconds later, Cao Xuan's magnetic and slightly ethereal singing voice came from the radio.

"Stop and go along the way

Follow the traces of youth drifting

The moment before stepping out of the station

A little hesitant

I can't help but laugh at this cowardice of being close to home.

Still unavoidable

And Lanling’s sky

Still so warm

The wind blew once upon a time

…”

The song "The Wind Rises" talks about memories of youth. The lyrics and melody all carry a touch of sadness and melancholy, like a refreshing wind blowing past my face.

It's light, but has an indescribable emotional appeal.

Many people who heard the song paid part of their attention, raised their heads and listened carefully to the song.

At the end of the soothing and gentle verse, Cao Xuan's tone rose and he sang the chorus in a high note.

“I once had a hard time extricating myself from the size of the world

I also indulged in it and talked in my sleep.

No truth or falsehood, no struggle, no fear of jokes

I once turned my youth into her

I also had summer popping up at my fingertips

Just go with whatever your heart brings you

………”

If it was the melancholy of the wind before, then the chorus sings about how despite the vicissitudes of time, it still maintains the confident look of a young man in the world.

In the past, wherever my heart went, I walked wherever I wanted.

Now it is desolate, but the original intention is still there.

The lyrics of "The Wind Rises" contain too many emotions and metaphors, and everyone can hear a different perspective from this song.

Some people think it is a reminiscence of youth. The protagonist has seen complicated things in the world, but is still young. Some people think it is the regret of the protagonist's past vicissitudes. Each version of the original cover is also different to a certain extent.

Cao Xuan's version puts aside some singing techniques and focuses more on emotional expression. The whole song sounds simple, pure, positive and bright, with a youthful air.

The ethereal and clear singing voice, accompanied by extremely beautiful and artistic lyrics, engraved this song in the ears of the audience in just a few minutes.

The first reaction of many people after listening to it was to listen to it again. They impatiently called and started requesting songs. In a short period of time, "The Wind Rises" began to become popular.

………

As the first song to hit the charts, Cao Xuan, Wei Xixi and Warner discussed it several times and finally decided to release "The Wind Rises".

The album "Bright Stars" has 10 excellent songs, and the song "Ten Years" must be the bottom song. There are 9 songs left, and "The Wind Rises" can compete for the finale.

Both lyrics and music are excellent, and many of the techniques are even pioneering and leading compared to today. Cao Xuan personally feels that "The Wind Rises" is expected to compete with "Ten Years" at the current stage.

It stands to reason that such a great song should be released later, as was the case with the previous two albums.

First play "Autumn Never Comes Back" and "Did I Tell You", which are slightly inferior to build momentum, and then play second and third hit songs such as "Dusk" and "Love Because of Love" to expand the impact. The first title song and the other two songs take center stage.

If we follow the previous plan, "The Wind Rises" will either sit on the album, or it will be the last song in the promotion period.

However, Cao Xuan considered that in August and September, there will be a fight between gods and goddesses. There will be countless good songs and so many people will be watching. The step-by-step approach is too slow and the publicity effect may not be good.

It's better to do the opposite, first play Wang Zhao to shock the whole audience, and then slowly play other songs to consolidate the popularity and influence.

Therefore, "The Wind Rises" shouldered a heavy responsibility and became the pioneer of "Stars Bright".

And this song did not live up to the trust of Cao Xuan and others. After it appeared on the radio and TV charts, it quickly aroused widespread reactions among fans and the media.

The lyrics of "The Wind Rises" are so well written. There are many good lines in the whole song, such as——

[Through the years, different faces appear, and your smile breaks into you unpreparedly]

[I finally gave her my youth back, along with the summer that popped out of my fingertips]

[Seeing you again, smiling sweetly in the cool morning light]

The poem-like language is very poignant for those young people who are sentimental and writing new lyrics, especially those who like literature and art, and they have praised this lyrics to the sky.

At the same time, they also began to criticize other singers' singing habits, including many of Cao Xuan's works. They felt that Cao Xuan was a waste of talent by writing those songs.

We should write more songs with style and connotation such as "Light Chaser", "Dusk", "Not a Hero" and "The Wind Rises".

This statement caused dissatisfaction among many other Cao Xuan fans.

It's all about listening to songs, so why is there an internal chain of discrimination? You like to listen to your "The Wind Rises", and I like to listen to mine to listen to "Ten Thousand Reasons". We are both fans, so why do you ignore me?

The two sides soon started to argue, and the main battlefield was the Tianya Forum.

The other party thinks that the other party is vulgar and a lowly person, while the other party thinks that the other party is putting on airs and pretending to be a cultured person.

There was also a group of people trying to stop the fight, saying that Cao Xuan is not a singer with a single style. He has a wide range of creations. It can be seen from his previous albums that there are both popular "popular songs" and high-quality high-quality products, all for the sake of betterment. of covered fans.

This statement is also the current view of many people on Cao Xuan's creative philosophy, including some music critics.

Previous works have proven that Cao Xuan can write high-quality songs, but in order to better expand his influence and gain fans, he consciously "lowered the standard" and came up with some more "vulgar" songs, just for those who appreciate the music. Ordinary people with low power, specially used to boost album sales.

Some more radical music critics feel that Cao Xuan's approach is too utilitarian.

This is not the approach of a musician with a dream, but more like a music businessman.

However, there are also many music critics who support Cao Xuan and believe that it is a very smart approach for him to reasonably allocate the quality of songs to each album and take care of most of his fans.

And after all, the pop music world is facing the public. Cao Xuan did this to spread the influence of the Chinese music world as much as possible, so he cannot be criticized harshly.

Besides, having both connotation and popularity is not a big deal, it is hard to come by.

Even if Cao Xuan is a genius, it is impossible for Capital Capital to write such a song...

The latter statement is more recognized by the public and the outside world. Even many media feel that some people are a bit unreasonable. Not everyone of the world's pop king Jackson is a classic. Why should you demand so much from Cao Xuan? How much money can you give to others?

Cao Xuan also noticed the internal fighting among the fans, and even went to Tianya to see it, ready to see that something was wrong and come to break up the fight.

Unexpectedly, he came late. The two groups of fans were shouting loudly, but a group of Xie Feng fans came out from nowhere to fan the flames.

It's a good thing. Cao Xuan's fans, who were still divided at first, united in an instant, unanimously spoke out, and gave Xie Feng's fans a beating on the Tianya Forum.

Several representative accounts of both parties even said——

How we quarrel and fight is our internal business, and it is not the turn of outsiders to watch the fun.

What do we say about Cao Xuan's fans? It belongs to discussion and supervision. Outsiders can make suggestions. If you attack Cao Xuan, don't blame them for being bullied by more people.

Cao Xuan was very pleased. He came to interact with the fans, but the fans didn't believe him and were ridiculed severely.

It wasn't until Cao Xuan contacted the Tianya moderator and confirmed his identity that the enthusiastic fans and fans overwhelmed the Tianya Forum's server.

This was not the first time that the Tianya server crashed, but it was the most famous one. Many newspapers reported on the event the next day.

Cao Xuan also became the first big-name star to make a public appearance in Tianya, and instantly became a celebrity on Tianya Forum.

Tianya Forum specially gave his account a small logo, which has been marked as an anti-counterfeiting mark.

Afterwards, Cao Xuan also abided by the agreement. After the server was restored, he selectively answered several fans' questions on the Tianya post.

In this era before the rise of blogs, Weibo and live broadcasts, it is the first time for netizens to communicate with celebrities face-to-face in the mainland entertainment industry. It is so rare.

Tianya Forum instantly became famous on the Internet. The number of new user groups and online time increased sharply. Everyone wanted to see if they could catch Cao Xuan again.

Cao Xuan was wondering if he could ask Tianya Community for endorsement fees or something.

Even Brother Xiao Ma was jealous and said that if Cao Xuan wanted to interact, he could use QQ. He now had tens of millions of friends on his list.

However, this also reminded Xiao Ma that he is currently preparing to develop and launch Penguin’s blog in advance, which will be QQ Space in the future.

Cao Xuan is very supportive of him. This will be the bulk of QQ's future profits. All kinds of fancy virtual value-added services have made Penguin a lot of money, and it has also allowed Xiao Ma to start his tireless road of selling skins.

At the same time as Tianya was in turmoil, "The Wind Rises" quickly gained a large number of fans with its continuous exposure and super high quality.

Coupled with the support of Cao Xuan's own fans, the song began to quickly top the charts.

On the second day after the new song was released, it reached eighth place on the major charts, and on the third day it broke into the top three.

In the early morning of September 27, after "The Wind Rises" stayed in the runner-up position for two days, it finally overturned "Courage", which had dominated the list for more than a month, and officially reached the top.

Of course, "Courage", as the most popular song in the original world in 2000, was not someone to be trifled with, and they quickly began to counterattack.

The two songs started to compete at the top of the list until September 29, when Cao Xuan released his second chart-topping song - "Secret Fragrance".

I've been a little busy at home these two days, so there may be some deviation in the update time, but it will all be in the morning. I will try to post it together at 8 o'clock in the morning. Don't worry if I can't post it, just be patient and wait.

I will not ask for leave (if I ask for leave, I will explain it in a separate chapter in advance)

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