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Li Jiang is also 40 years old this year. As a reporter, she has been working hard in the industry for more than 20 years before she became the ace reporter of "Asia Weekly".

When she got the job of interviewing Zhou Yi, she was actually quite happy at first.

but now……

Let's put it this way, she has interviewed many celebrities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even outside countries from Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, but she has never interviewed anyone as... honest as Zhou Yi.

You really mean what you said.

"Ayi, you are really the most confident artist I have ever interviewed."

Since Qian Jiang, as the manager, has no objection, Li Jiang will no longer dwell on this matter: "Then let's talk about your music.

"We all know that your music style is very unconstrained, especially songs like "East Wind Breaks", "Hua Tian Cuo", "By the Plum Blossoms", and "West Chamber", which sound very different from other songs in the domestic music scene. , with strong traditional Chinese elements.

"The likes of Jay Chou's "The Lady" and "Dao Ma Dan" he wrote for Coco Lee also fall into this category. Do you think he is imitating you?"

"No, this is actually a comprehensive reuse of R\u0026B elements and Hiphop elements, but with a Chinese-style packaging."

Zhou Yi shook his head: "Actually, Tao Zhe and others have already tried to play this way, but it may be said that these songs have drawn a clearer range based on this.

"In this way, if new musicians in the future want to understand this type of music and want to create this type of music, they will not have to walk in the dark, and they can have a reference for style..."

Li Jiang, who thought Zhou Yi would be very proud in his music, was surprised to find that the child was not as arrogant as the outside world had speculated when talking about music, let alone the "arrogance" when talking about sales.

His broad vision is surprising, and he has a very clear understanding of the Chinese music scene, the Asian music scene, and even the European and American music scene.

This is especially true in terms of character.

Like a sincere big boy, he communicates everything with her sincerely.

Just, very tutored.

This is Li Jiang's highest evaluation of a young man.

"What about your family? You know, there are a lot of rumors about your family background. What do you think about this?"

"Get the newspaper and read it."

Zhou Yi wanted to laugh when he mentioned this: "If my family has that kind of background, why should I be involved in the entertainment industry? Isn't it tiring?

"My parents are a very ordinary traditional Chinese family, with a strict father and a loving mother. When I was in school, I was often beaten by my father for falling in love, not doing homework, skipping classes and other things."

Um?

fall in love?

Li Jiang's eyes twitched vaguely several times: As expected of you.

"It stands to reason that your grades are so good because you calmed down after being disciplined by your parents?"

"No, it's because I always get first place in exams. As time goes by, my parents don't care much about me. As long as I don't go astray, they will follow me."

Zhou Yi rarely had a real smile on his brows when he talked about the past.

When he was a student, especially when he was in elementary school, even if he skipped a grade, he still experienced the psychology of Conan God Pill in elementary school.

"Have you ever thought about writing a song for your parents one day?"

“My third album has songs that I sang to my parents.”

——? !

Li Jiang raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard this answer: "Have you already written the songs for the third album?"

Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head: "That's not true. I won't spoil the details. You will know when the album is released, Sister Li."

Two families, two pairs of parents, two growth paths, two lives.

This is the foundation of his third major.

In addition, a Hidden Soundtrack (hidden song) will be left behind the last song of the album to surprise fans——

This can be regarded as a little easter egg in the era of physical albums.

The so-called hidden songs refer to songs that are not included in the album's promotional tracks.

For example, a physical album has ten song names written on the playlist. Fans bought it and listened to it. After listening to the tenth song, they thought there would be no more songs behind it, but they actually heard the eleventh song that was not written on the album list. Song, this is the hidden song.

Generally speaking, this kind of hidden songs are either just surprises for fans, and their style has nothing to do with the theme of the album;

Or as a supplement to the main concept of the album.

When the streaming media era comes in the future, many music websites will directly expose the hidden songs carefully prepared by the singer in the album track list, allowing fans to see directly after purchasing the album that there is actually another song after the theoretical last song, which is lost. That sense of surprise that “there’s actually a song behind”.

After the long interview, Stefanie Sun, who came to watch, finally couldn't hold it back. After watching the people from "Asia Weekly" leave, she bumped the man's arm with her shoulder: "What do you mean by a confidential third degree? Why are there still others?" About uncle and aunt?”

"It's precisely because of my parents' tutoring that I don't grow crooked, so I can fall in love normally."

Zhou Yi raised his elbow and lightly touched Stefanie Sun's shoulder, turned his head and said with a smile: "What, is there something wrong with this logic?"

"...???"

Stefanie Sun gave him a look of disdain, but did not push him away: "Are you in a normal relationship?"

"Me on the album, thank you."

"You can tell the difference quite clearly."

"That is."

Zhou Yi, who yawned, looked up at the time and suddenly remembered something: "That's wrong, aren't you rehearsing at CCTV?"

"You're ahead of me. I didn't go to rehearse in the morning." Stefanie Sun rolled her eyes angrily and pushed away Zhou Yi's elbow on her shoulder.

"Stop making such expressions and your smile will look better."

Zhou Yi also walked out of the interview room happily: "I think the plan you mentioned is feasible, so you have to smile at me, you know, so that I can find inspiration."

"Inspiration? Like?"

"The dimples when you smile are pretty."

"...Do I have dimples?"

Stefanie Sun, whose language system was suddenly a little disordered, blinked at a crazy rate. She bared her teeth and gave a fake smile, then put her hand on the side of her cheek and poked it tentatively: "Why didn't I know? Is this a dimple?"

"How else would you call it a dimple?"

Zhou Yi hummed the tune of "Little Dimple" intermittently, and when he was done, he did not forget to remind him: "The kite you brought home last time when we were filming "Wind-Blowed Summer", I brought it out for use, and it just happened to be placed next to you." Used as props in relevant MV plots.

"Thank you for taking away the kite with its broken tail last time. If it had been given to the props team, it would have been recycled long ago, and the new kite wouldn't be able to interact with it."

"Wind-Blowed Summer" is from the album "Kite", and the love token between the male and female protagonists in the plot is a kite;

In "Dimple", two people who are in love can sweetly build a kite together;

As a result, in "Fairy Tale", the kite was repaired and the people were gone.

A kite, throughout the love affair.

cry! Everyone is crying!

And just when Zhou Yi and Stefanie Sun were still discussing how to write a MV plot that would make it more tragic, another news from the music industry affected them both again——

On December 3, some Taiwanese media revealed that Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai were traveling to Japan together, and their suspected love affair was exposed.

In media interviews, Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou said surprisingly the same thing: they just happened to meet in Japan.

As the only man among Taiwan's younger generation of male singers who can closely follow Zhou Yi, Jay Chou's popularity has not been low after the sales of "Fantasy" exploded——

"Previously, the relationship between Warner Bros. twins was suspected to be exposed. Now, the relationship between the two stars of Warner Bros. is suspected to be exposed?" 》.

"I don't know. Don't ask me. I'm not in Taiwan."

As people who have a good relationship with Jay Chou, Zhou Yi and Stefanie Sun were naturally asked about this matter by the reporter who was squatting when they arrived at the CCTV building. The two people shook their heads and waved in front of the camera in unison, with a synchronization rate of 100%. .

After sneaking into the CCTV building, the curious Stefanie Sun quietly grabbed Zhou Yi and whispered into his ear: "Are they really talking? Wasn't Jay Chou still chasing Vivian Hsu before?"

"We're definitely not talking about it now. It's more of a hype, but we might not be able to tell in the future."

Zhou Yi, who had come to sing for the first review, shrugged his shoulders, with a rather inappropriate tone in his tone.

However, he soon stopped teasing and became extremely serious in an instant.

"Xiao Zhou..."

"..."

Zhou Yi, who never expected that he could actually pass the first assessment of a chorus song, was notified that he could sing solo. Zhou Yi was a little confused, and then he talked to the leaders of CCTV about his opinions on solo singing under the recommendation of others.

Zang Tianshuo's program was taken down, and a singing spot became available, which was directly given to Zhou Yi without any assessment.

Zhou Yi was also very flattered, and his relationship with the host became much closer.

"Xiao Zhou, I heard that you plan to enter the European and American markets next year?"

"Test the water, test the water..."

The three parties had a great conversation.

Stefanie Sun, who was still working hard to prepare the song "Networked with the World", soon saw Zhou Yi walking towards her with a stern voice——

"Didn't you go to participate in the program review?"

"What program review? I have now upgraded to a solo performer in the Spring Festival Gala."

Zhou Yi raised his right thumb and pointed at himself: "Do you understand the value of solo singing in the Spring Festival Gala?"

"You? Solo?"

Stefanie Sun, who had recently gained a lot of knowledge about the Spring Festival Gala, immediately opened her mouth and looked at him in surprise: "The sales of your English single have exploded? No, I haven't heard of it either."

As someone who often abducts Zhou Yi to be lazy, Stefanie Sun may care more about his English single performance than Zhou Yi himself——

It was released on Monday, November 26th, and the first-day sales were summarized on November 28th: ​​more than 23,000 copies.

Because of the pre-order volume, this sales volume is within Warner and Zhou Jianhui's personal expectations.

But compared with Zhouyi's original performance in China and Japan, the increase in the next three days was too ordinary, and could even be said to be lower than expected.

In order not to cause unnecessary psychological pressure to Zhou Yi, Stefanie Sun stopped paying attention to the North American results of "The Lazy Song" from December 2.

"I would have forgotten if you didn't tell me. Today is Monday the 3rd, exactly one week has passed."

After knowing that there were only more than 20,000 sales on the first day, Zhou Yi simply chose to turn a blind eye and not worry about the English single. Zhou Yi slapped his forehead and was about to call Qian Jiang, but the latter beat him to it. Got a call——

"It's so good! It's so good! Ayi! Your single is so good! Focusing on the DVD market is really effective!"

ps: Three updates!

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Introduction:

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