China Entertainment 2000

February 14, 2002, the third day of the Lunar New Year.

While Ning Hao was already launching his final charge for the dream in his heart, Zhou Yi, who was wrapped in a big flower sleeping jacket in his hometown, had already packed his hands and went out to have a meal with his parents.

Don't ask why you are wearing this, just ask that it is standard during the Chinese New Year in rural areas of Jiangxi.

During the Chinese New Year, three types of banquets, including wedding banquets, housewarming banquets, and birthday banquets, can be said to be endless at the beginning of the first year.

Before I became famous, I would go back to my hometown with my parents to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Basically, the banquet could last from the third to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.

Now that he has become a leader in the new generation of Chinese music, that is even more remarkable - the banquet arrangements have been arranged directly to the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to eat at his own home on the first day of the Lunar New Year and the second day of the Lunar New Year was the day when his mother went back to her parents' home to pay New Year's greetings, Zhou Yi even suspected that the family would not need to open the fire to cook from the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Of course, for Zhou Yi, even wearing a large flowered sleeping jacket, it is still difficult to hide his outstanding heroic appearance - looking at the crowd, he is the most handsome boy.

Several times at the wedding banquet, he almost sang "Happy Breakup" when delivering blessings, all because he knew the outcome of these newlyweds' futile marriages in the future.

After eating and drinking for several days in a row, a party invitation from his high school classmates finally rescued him from the same dishes.

"Happy breakup, I wish you happiness and you can find a better one~

"Three tips, there are only five cards left."

In the KTV box, high school buddies who have gathered in their hometown county every year since graduating from high school gathered together. Zhou Yi, who was wearing an off-white turtleneck sweater, threw off his three belts and two belts, stretched out his waist comfortably, and said proudly: "Don't say I didn't say it."

"Fifty k to crush him to death."

While other students were still crying and howling in the background, the man at the lower table hesitated for a long time. Finally, he decided to bet on Zhou Yi's hand and threw down the hole card he had hidden at the end: "What song did you just sing? I haven't heard of it. Yes, it sounds pretty good. A new song from the new album?"

"No, the song in Liang Jingru's new album is called "Happy Breakup". It probably hasn't been sold in the mainland yet. Her new album was only released in Taiwan a week ago."

On February 7, 2019, Liang Jingru, a member of Rolling Stone Records, released a new album "Sunrise, I Like". Although the album's first-week sales are not as phenomenal as last year's Stefanie Sun and Elva Hsiao, it can still be regarded as keeping up with the pace of the top two——

With Stefanie Sun and Elva Hsiao both releasing hit songs, one week after the release of "Sunrise, I Like", the two songs in the album——

"I Like" and "Happy Breakup" have appeared on the new song charts of major radio stations in Taiwan.

As Rene Liu's focus has obviously shifted to the field of film and television dramas, Jingru Leung, who has once again contributed two classic love songs, is likely to become the new first sister of Rolling Stone.

Leaving aside the fact that her 1999 debut album was dropped due to lack of publicity due to natural disasters, from 2000 to now, in terms of song popularity alone, she is indeed qualified to compete with the one who has firmly established herself as the first Viking sister. Elva Hsiao and Stefanie Sun, who is charging towards the position of Warner's first sister, compete with each other.

"Loving You Doesn't Last Two or Three Days" and "Courage" in 2000;

"Unconditionally For You" in 2001;

"I Like" and "Happy Breakup" in 2002.

With five hit songs in three years, Rolling Stone Records, which is on the decline, once again helped Liang Jingru deliver a perfect answer this year, proving that she still has power.

The demand rate of the new song "Happy Breakup" on major radio stations and KTVs can be said to have soared. In the marketing department analysis white papers of major record companies, it is fully qualified to compare with the hit song "Courage" at the beginning of the millennium.

There are even some good people who have given Rolling Stone a bit of a tragic atmosphere: single-handedly fighting against the existence of Zhou Yi, Warner + Viking + Foremost.

Among the four young female singers in Taiwan who are currently the most popular and have the most popular songs, Xiaosun, Liang, and Zhang, Liang Jingru is the only one who has not asked Zhou Yi to invite her to sing a song.

Rolling stone, hard!

"Ayi, Fu Mao also wants to invite me to sing, but it's not Angela Chang, but Fan Weiqi. Do you want to accept it?"

February 19, the eighth day of the first lunar month.

After attending various class reunions, Zhou Yi finally had time to stay at home and play CS. He received a call from Qianjiang, who had already started work. However, he was immediately confused by his words: "Weiqi Fan?"

"The Fan Weiqi who was nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer with you in 2000 is from Fu Mao and a good friend of Angela Chang." Qian Jiang reminded Zhou Yi, who thought he had forgotten this person.

"Well……"

Zhou Yi, who was shot to death by accident, said, "Just say I'm not free. After all, I'm very busy now."

"...What are you doing now?" Qian Jiang heard the gunfire and had every reason to suspect that he was not busy at all.

"Oh, I'm looking for gunshot material for the MV of the new song."

"???"

Do you still need to find materials for this thing?

"I have initially shortlisted the candidates for the MV director. Do you need to come to the company to take a look at their work? After all, it is related to your new album."

"……Fine."

After reluctantly saying goodbye to his family, Zhou Yi took a car to Changbei Airport in Nanchang on the 20th and flew directly to the imperial capital.

Then, on the 21st, when he came to the Warner Building, he saw Ning Hao’s name and works on the list of candidate directors for the MV?

"This guy graduated from the Department of Photography at Nortel and won the Best Director Award at the Imperial College Student Film Festival. He shot a lot of MVs last year, including Tu Honggang's "Let Go"..."

Seeing that Zhou Yi seemed to be more interested in this person, Qian Jiang dutifully stated the information about Ning Hao and also showed the sample works he sent.

"Looks pretty good, it's just him."

Zhou Yi, who was somewhat curious to see whether Ning Hao and Jiang Wen, who were just starting out, would quarrel on the set, rubbed his chin, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and made his decision.

It's fun, who doesn't like watching it?

"By the way, Ayi, have you finished writing all the songs in your third volume? Including the hidden songs."

"It's done, here."

Zhou Yi handed a copy of the plan he had just bound to Qian Jiang, who took it and opened it. The concept of the album that came into view made him, now a father, look a little solemn.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yi got up and poured himself a glass of water, smiled and lowered his head to take a sip.

In his third major, he used time travel, parallel time and space, characters in dramas and other forms of expression to compose an album that shows the differences between people growing up in different family education and social environments.

The first song: "Can you feel my world".

This song was actually written by Leehom Wang in 2003 to accuse his former company of severely controlling and interfering with him. As a result, because the lyrics were too indictive of a controlling and perverted family, Wang Leehom had to come forward to clarify the reality of his family. very happy.

Of course, in Zhouyi, this song has become a genuine accusation against parents.

Zhou Yi, who has an Italian-Italian background, becomes a member of an Italian mafia family in this song. His parents are gangsters who are extremely controlling and perverted. The completely distorted family education also gradually pushed Zhou Yi to the point where his psychology is close to abnormality. Music can still support oneself after listening to music;

The second song: "Ghost".

One of Tao Zhe's most in-depth works.

The lyrics of this song originally accuse the human heart of being a ghost. In the synopsis of Zhou Yi's MV, this song becomes the sinister human heart that Zhou Yi, who grew up in a twisted family, encountered after entering the gang world. At the same time, it also takes into account the song's exposure of the dark side of society's hearts.

In the end, these "ghosts" in society, together with his parents in the family, forced Zhou Yi's unhealthy psychology to collapse and completely distorted it, turning him into a "ghost" at the end of the song.

The third song: "Killer".

JJ Lin's dark and experimental work is also the pinnacle.

Of course, because the original MV was obviously too bloody, Zhou Yi also modified the plot——

Taking over the meaning of the previous song, Zhou Yi, who became a "ghost", became a killer in the mafia family world.

With his psychology completely distorted, he met a sunny girl who he liked while playing the piano. The time he spent with her was his comfort after every mission.

But at this time, the girl left him because she wanted to live a quiet life. Zhou Yi, who had become psychologically distorted, even killed her in order to keep her and stay with him forever.

After the foreshadowing of the previous two songs, a twisted killer has taken shape.

Song 4: "In the Name of the Father"

The pinnacle of Italian gangsters in Chinese.

After succeeding The Killer, Zhou Yi, whose status has risen rapidly, can no longer rely on music to obtain psychological comfort, so he sincerely entered the church——

As his mood gradually calmed down, he even considered quitting the world and even got married. However, due to the murder of his parents, wife, daughter and other family members one after another, he came back and gradually assumed the position of godfather.

It's just that this time, after he became the godfather, he was left with endless annoyance and loneliness in his heart. He even recalled his childhood.

At the end of the plot of the MV, after Zhou Yi, who has become the godfather, walks into the manor alone, the close-up of the camera shows the TV - the TV screen without any picture is flashing with a snowflake texture.

Thus, the first chapter consisting of four songs of this dark wind is completed: a life unfolding due to the distortion of family education and social environment.

Then the second chapter begins:

The fifth song: "Mom and Dad"

Li Ronghao is the pinnacle of writing about family love, and his simple yet penetrating lyrics make this a song that cannot be avoided when talking about Chinese family songs.

The opening scene of the MV was a TV set with the same flashing snowflake texture. Zhou Yi, who was watching a movie at home, got up and took a picture of the TV set. After a scene similar to "In the Name of the Father" popped up on the TV screen, he received a call from his mother at home saying that something had happened to his father.

The lyrics of the entire song and the MV basically reproduce the process of raising and getting along with children in a normal Chinese-style family.

As the last song on side A, it is in sharp contrast to the first song, which represents a twisted family.

The sixth song: "Cheers"

One of Mayday's masterpieces.

Continuing from the previous song, as a person who grew up in a normal family and social environment, Zhou Yi, who has graduated from college for several years, attended a class reunion.

There are also many flashbacks to scenes from college, which just shows that Stefanie Sun and him are college classmates, and there is material linkage with "Windswept Summer". At the end of the MV, Stefanie Sun, as his girlfriend, comes to pick up the drunk man. He came home.

The seventh song: "Little Dimple"

Taking over the previous MV, the MV for this song features Zhou Yi and Stefanie spreading sugar, visiting temples to pray for blessings, watching costume TV series, etc.

The eighth song: "Today you are going to marry me"

Taking over from the previous sweet song, this one goes a step further. Zhou Yi and Stefanie Sun, who have moved into their wedding room, have begun to prepare for their wedding. They have even started trying on wedding dresses and even selected a church.

The ninth song: "Fairy Tale"

In a sweet atmosphere, Stefanie Sun's nose started to bleed during a kiss. At first, neither of them took it seriously, and went to the hospital for a checkup in a very relaxed mood.

Until the arrival of the big knife...

In the end, Zhou Yi, wearing a white suit, played the piano alone in a holy church, imagining that he and Stefanie Sun were having a normal wedding, and the audience was full of relatives and friends sitting to congratulate the two.

Song 10: "Mr. Lonely"

One of the pinnacle masterpieces of song king Cao Ge.

In the synopsis of the MV, it is said that "I don't care", but in fact, since the death of Stefanie Sun, Zhou Yi has not been able to get out of the heart-breaking sadness from beginning to end.

It interprets a person's loneliness from now on with a strong heartbreak.

Finally, there is the Easter egg that is a hidden song in the album - the eleventh song: "Fireworks Easily Cold".

The MV of this song echoes the scripts and costume TV dramas that Zhou Yi and Stefanie watched together in the den. The male protagonist Zhou Yi made a movie "Fireworks Easy to Cold" based on "Luoyang Jialan Ji" that Stefanie Sun loved during her lifetime.

It not only continues the sad foundation of "Mr. Lonely", but also inherits the general style that has been passed down since "Flower Field".

Two families, two Zhouyi, two social growth environments, two lives - something happened to the girlfriend (wife) and her parents.

Although the reasons for the accident are very different, they are consistent with the background of the two families.

Finally, a man who rose to power by killing others began to carry an endless cycle of sin;

A person who stepped out of the shadows by self-regulation, benefited from a good education and growing environment, and did not cross the line even if his grief was greater than his heart. He also relied on "Fireworks Easily Cold" to become a well-known singer, gradually walked out of the psychological shadow, and actively Embrace a new life.

"The concept of your third major is... family education and social environment?"

After reading the entire plan, Qian Jiang was deeply worried about whether Zhou Yi's game would be too risky.

According to his experience, if the album concept is like this, the sales volume will generally not be very good.

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Zhou Yi, who was leaning on his desk, smiled and held the cup and blew: "Sales will not be bad."

Just kidding, side B is full of hit songs except for "Mr. Lonely", which ends with a high level of difficulty (showing off skills), and "Fairy Tale" is the king of kings.

If the sales volume could be any worse, he might as well jump into the Yellow River and die.

Moreover, as the biggest award in the domestic music scene, at next year's Golden Melody Awards, Jay Chou's "Octave Space" copied "Fantasy" in terms of production concept, and no one was nominated for the award;

Tao Zhe's "Black Willow" will also be disliked by the Golden Melody Awards for its innuendo.

And this is precisely the best time for him to rely on this concept album to sweep the Golden Melody Awards and fight for the title of god.

Whether it's a deep song responsible for the concept or a breadth song responsible for the song market, he has it all in this album.

Under this concept, even songs such as "Fairy Tale" in the album, which have always been criticized by many so-called "elites", have a corresponding conceptual touch.

They are no longer just separate songs of bitterness or sweetness, but are endowed with a contrasting meaning of life.

"Then what are the names of your three albums? "Second Life"? "Parallel Universe"? "The Man in the Drama"?" Qian Jiang, who did not see the title of the album, asked curiously: "Or some other name?"