China Entertainment 2000

"Please don't block the road, please don't block the road. Thank you. Please cooperate..."

The Emperor's bodyguards tried their best to protect Xie Tingfeng and Faye Wong, but the swarming reporters and paparazzi still made it almost impossible for them to move forward.

Questions about Zhou Yi were thrown out one after another. Xie Tingfeng was told by the company not to mention Zhou Yi easily outside. Even if he did mention it, it would be in a show-off manner. Xie Tingfeng's good mood was completely ruined and he turned black.

Damn, do these reporters know any sense?

"Don't you guys have a holiday on October 1? Are you still squatting here looking for news about us?"

Xie Tingfeng's Mandarin-sounding voice made Faye Wong, who was walking side by side with him, lower her head and smile. She glanced at the man who obviously didn't suppress his pride and refuted it, and just held his hand tightly. He didn't stop him.

"Afei, it is said that your new album, which will be released in October, will also be released in Japan. How high do you think you expect the sales of your album to be? Can you beat Zhou Yi?"

“First of all, I need to make it clear that neither I nor Zhou Yi are competing to release albums or singles in Japan.

"On the contrary, if he can succeed in the Japanese music scene, it will be a good thing for the entire Chinese music scene."

Faye Wong, who has experienced big storms, is obviously more calm than her young boyfriend. When talking and laughing, she will lead the topic along the lines of "we are all Chinese".

The reporter, who was not very keen on this, still wanted to ask for a big news, but the two men had already returned to the car under the escort of their bodyguards - the Ferrari's engine roared, and they drove away.

"Damn! These guys are on the street!"

Glancing at the reporter who could no longer see anyone in the rearview mirror, Xie Tingfeng couldn't help but cursed when his date was interrupted.

Isn’t it just to release an English song? You have to come to him for this.

Seeing this, Faye Wong couldn't help but smile and said, "What? Are you angry? Because of that Zhou Yi?"

"No, it's his ability to sell in Japan. What I'm angry about is the news that those people who went to the streets and couldn't find Zhou Yi people only came to find us."

Although Xie Tingfeng, who was comforted by his girlfriend, was still stubborn, he still had to admit that he was really impressed by Zhou Yi's music.

It can no longer be explained by marketing or luck to reach the top of the Japanese Oricon weekly rankings with absolutely no foundation.

He also listened to the English song and could not speak without conscience.

"I heard that this song was just written after he chatted with the two male protagonists of "Rush Hour 2". I have to say that this person is indeed talented and knows the songwriting habits in the United States very well."

As someone who is very familiar with European and American music, when Faye Wong heard the song "The Lazy Song", if it weren't for Zhou Yi's long-standing reputation and style, the first thing that came to her mind was that it was written by an American singer. s song.

Especially the lyrics.

Since domestic cultural inheritance has never been cut off or erased for thousands of years, the emphasis on lyric culture has become one of the reasons why a number of big-name lyricists cannot write catchy English songs.

Even Hong Kong lyricists or ABC who are completely Westernized will not work because their writing habits are still in a Chinese context, such as Wang Leehom, JJ Lin, and Tao Zhe.

However, this song by Zhou Yi completely escapes the trouble of writing an English song in a Chinese context. Whether it is the articulation habits or the splicing, sentence segmentation and expression of English words, it is truly an authentic English context.

This seems incredible to Faye Wong.

What surprised her even more was that this song's use of reggae elements was even more sophisticated than Luo Dayou's "Zhi Hu Zhe Ye" released in 1982.

One sentence evaluation: Genius.

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"Absolute genius."

Taiwan, the scene of a certain program.

When Li Zongsheng, who was accompanying Zhou Huajian on the guest show, was asked about his evaluation of Zhou Yi's English single, he directly gave him the highest evaluation in his career, and did not hesitate to praise: "When Huajian told me that Zhou Yi has When the song took the number one spot in Japan, I didn’t pay much attention to it.

"But when I listened to this song, I immediately went to Luo Dayou and played the song to him.

“I told him, this kid only turned 20 in December this year, but he is already more proficient in using reggae elements than you are.

"He originally wanted to refute me, but after listening to the song, he said with emotion that life is scary.

"You may not know what the concept of Zhouyi's song is.

"Let's put it this way, judging from this song alone, even in the United States, where the pop music industry is extremely developed, I think Zhou Yi's talent can be said to exceed 99% of American musicians."

As soon as this statement came out, the whole audience was in an uproar!

You must know that Li Zongsheng himself published a comment on the domestic music scene not long ago. In that music review article, the only musicians Li Zongsheng was more optimistic about and used as examples were Zhou Yi and Jay Chou——

"Whether it's Jay Chou's "Lady" and "Nunchaku" or Zhou Yi's "Hua Tian Cuo", "Susan Said", and "East Wind Break", these are their masterpieces that combine Chinese and Western musical elements."

This is his evaluation of these two people.

As for domestic R\u0026B representatives, Tao Zhe and Li Zongsheng’s evaluation is pure R\u0026B.

Pure and authentic.

To put it bluntly, there are insufficient localized elements, and the combination of Chinese and Western elements is not as good as the two weeks of The Book of Changes and Jay Chou.

His famous quote in this music review article, "You can find a thousand more people like Tao Zhe in Seattle." Although it was originally intended to praise Tao Zhe for keeping up with the pace of the world music scene, it actually fully demonstrated that In his heart, he is actually very aware of the gap between the Chinese music scene and the world music scene——

Even top domestic musicians like Tao Zhe are not ranked high in the United States.

But now, Li Zongsheng actually bluntly said that Zhou Yi can surpass 99% of American musicians?

If you calculate this, doesn't it mean that Zhou Yi is far more than Tao Zhe?

Tao Zhe's fans were originally very dissatisfied with Li Zongsheng's original article. As soon as this remark came out, Li Zongsheng was even criticized verbally and written by many Tao Zhe fans——

However, the Rolling Stone veteran who thought he was going to fight a public relations war actually found that he didn't seem to have to do anything at all. Some noisy Tao Zhe fans were directly silenced by Zhou Yi fans——

"What's your sales volume?"

"How many Golden Melody Awards have you won?"

"Have the songs you wrote ever been sold in the Chinese market?"

The most deadly thing is to open it up close to the face.

For some reasons, Japan is actually more like a so-called holy land to some people in Taiwan.

But now, the holy land in their eyes is being insulted by the Chinese Zhou Yi - whoever looks at the bright first sight has to be silent.

It’s not that no one has doubted whether this song was ghostwritten, but as soon as the doubts were raised, many parties came out with a bloody thumbs-up——

First, because Zhou Yi’s past two albums and one EP were all written by himself;

The second reason is that the lyrics style of the song "The lazy song" is actually very Zhouyi.

The relaxed and freehand gesture and the lyrics, which are far more explicit and coquettish than the song "Hate the Dream of Red Mansions", are clearly written by Zhou Yi himself.

"Apart from Zhou Yi, I think no one can write such coquettish lyrics and sing them seriously."

"Chinese words really limit his performance in this aspect. English words are really difficult for many people to understand but are more willing to listen to them. I suggest Zhou Yi use more!"

"There was a song as sultry as Dream of Red Mansions, but it disappeared from the second album. I have reason to suspect that the Chinese version of "The Lazy Song" was originally a song that Zhou Yi originally planned to put on the album, but it was canceled by the company After that, it was changed into English that many people can’t read or understand…”

After finding the shadow of the once sultry Zhou Yi on this English single, people in the early days of the Internet began to discuss whether Zhou Yi could write something more exciting.

"...Actually, there is really no Chinese version of "The Lazy Song", and this song has nothing to do with my song "Hate the Dream of Red Mansions"."

On October 4, when Zhou Yi walked out of the CCTV building, reporters who had been squatting outside for a long time gathered around him. Sa Beining, who was unexpectedly pushed to the corner, was dumbfounded and was faithfully recorded by cameras and cameras. everything.

Zhou Yi, who was looking upright, smiled and joked: "Journalists, please don't spread rumors, otherwise be careful with my lawyer's warning. My senior is here, and he is the host of a legal program. I don't think you want to be on "Today's Statement" either. "Become material, right?"