China Entertainment 2000

"It seems like you put a lot of pressure on them, Xiao Zhou."

As the "captain" of China this time, Wu Bixia, who was born in 1975, looked at those people who were several years older than herself with a smile and joked.

Han Hong 1971, Sun Nan and Zhou Xiaoou 1969;

Mo Wenwei 1970, Qu Ying 1971, Sun Yue 1972.

The entire Chinese singer team is composed of Zhou Hui who was born in 1977 and Zhou Yi who was born in 1981. They are younger than her in age, but with her excellent strength and achievements in the field of art, she still surpassed Sun Yue and became the leader of the group. "Captain"——

Because Zhou Yi has now joined the Music Association, she is more or less half of her own. Wu Bixia's attitude towards him is obviously more cordial compared to others.

Zhou Yi is responsible for the external face, while she is responsible for the inner face.

In a sense, it can be regarded as a dual-person system.

"Sister Wu, I'm actually very nervous too."

Zhou Yi lowered his head slightly, with no strange expression on his face. He tactfully included himself in the nervous ranks and joked: "I still need to learn more from you, Sister Wu, in this aspect."

Wu Bixia is currently a top talent with her own nickname in the field of singers, nicknamed "Oriental Nightingale".

Because of her actual height of less than 1.5 meters, Wu Bixia was despised and persuaded to quit by many people when she first embarked on this path. But now she has become the "Oriental Nightingale" who can represent the government and perform artistic performances on various international occasions. ".

The effort and diligence involved are not enough to be appreciated by outsiders.

Zhou Yi has always respected this kind of national team seniors with tenacity and super strength.

Although she knew that this was just a polite comment, Wu Bixia still couldn't hide her smile when she heard what Zhou Yi said: "When I performed abroad, after the people in those countries knew that I was from China, many people would blurt out your Name - Yi Chou, Spike.

"In all these years, you are the first to have such a high-profile singer abroad."

She still understands the simple truth of being carried in a sedan chair, especially since it is fact and not fabricated.

"Sister Wu, you're welcome."

"I'm not being polite, look who's here?"

"?"

Zhou Yi slowly typed a question mark, then turned to look where Wu Bixia was looking, and a beautiful figure wearing a lady's suit came into view——

There is a hint of smile in her bright eyes, her shoulder-length short hair is slightly curled, and paired with a tan hand-tailored women's suit, the whole person looks chic and capable.

Samsung little princess, Li Yinxin.

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Wu Bixia on the side stood up from her seat with a smile, and chose to leave on the pretext of having something to do. Others, such as Sun Nan, Han Hong, Sun Yue and others, all looked at the two of them strangely, then chose not to see them and turned around to do their own things.

"How did you come?"

Li Yinxin shrugged and threw her handbag casually on her seat: "The senior management of KBS gave me tickets at the dinner party before. I happened to be bored at home and have nothing to do. Why don't I come and watch your performance. "

"Then you are really more unnecessary at home than I thought." Zhou Yi pursed his lips noncommittally.

"Each other."

Li Yinxin was not angry. After knowing him for the past few days, she had already become immune to Zhou Yi's cold and venomous tongue. She could even retaliate with reciprocal sanctions: "You will also have such a day in the future, when you grow up."

"You mean I haven't grown up yet?"

"Isn't it, little brother?"

Li Yinxin, who was sitting on the chair with her legs crossed, spread her right arm on the back of the chair, turned slightly sideways and looked at him, raised two fingers of her right hand and shook it: "I'm two years older than you. "

Zhou Yi laughed out loud, and after passing his lips several times with the tip of his tongue, just as he was about to speak, the staff's shouts came from behind, interrupting his spell reading——

"I hope you have a good performance tonight, otherwise, I may publicly say in the media that you let me down."

Li Yinxin poked her lips in the direction of the stage playfully: "Others will be afraid of you and jealous of you, but I won't."

"I hope you can understand Chinese."

Zhou Yi, who turned his back to her and walked away, left his last words and the middle finger gesture expressing contempt.

Singers from both China and South Korea were surprised by the friendship between the two.

Due to previous follow-up reports by Korean media, the news that the relationship between Zhou Yi and Li Yinxin is okay can be said to be flying all over the news circles in China and South Korea. It is actually difficult for many people to believe it before seeing it with their own eyes. These two can still be friends.

After all, she is a daughter of a wealthy family and a commoner by birth.

But that doesn't seem to be the case now, and the relationship between them is clearly not bad.

Returning to the team, Zhou Yi, who started to follow Wu Bixia through the process, also ignored those curious eyes and confirmed the performance plan of his two songs, as well as the number of performers, props, etc. to the staff of KBS TV station.

For a party of this level, although no one will change the songs before the start, the procedures must still be followed.

"For the song "Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs," the band staff finally decided to use our own people from the second rehearsal to avoid stage accidents caused by poor communication with the Koreans."

After completing all the confirmation procedures, Qian Jiang also came over to report to Zhou Yi. The latter immediately raised his eyes and looked at the three figures mixed in with the musicians and backup dancers waiting to come on stage as background——

Phil band.

A band that Warner just signed this year.

Of course, they are not yet the top band that reached their peak after their debut. In order to save his face, when he learned that Zhou Yi, in addition to his new song "Young China", would also sing the old song "Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs" at the Sino-Korean Song Contest, Chen Zeshan directly stuffed these three people over.

The euphemistic saying is that it will be more convenient for your own people to use it. The Koreans don't know if there will be any problems.

Originally, Zhou Yi had not decided which old song to use. He tried many songs that could create atmosphere, such as the rock version of "Beside the Plum" and "Jing Wu Men".

But in the end, after considering the specific effects of the rehearsal scene, he chose "Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs" as an old song to create atmosphere at the beginning.

The three members of Feier's band played guitar, bass and drums respectively in this song, and he himself was the lead singer and part-time guitar.

To be honest, if it hadn't happened this time, Zhou Yi wouldn't have noticed that Feier Band had actually signed with Warner.

After everything was arranged, Zhou Yi found his seat at the guest table according to his name and sat down. Not far away, diagonally across from him, was the Korean dance queen Lee Jung Hyun, who is currently very popular.

The latter obviously noticed him, smiled and nodded.

In the audience, Li Yinxin, who came to watch Zhou Yi's performance out of envy and "jealousy", saw the curtain of this China-Korean Song Concert being opened by four hosts - to be honest, if it weren't for seeing the translation of Zhou Yi's song She poked herself, it was really unlikely that she would come here.

In her opinion, this group of singers is just like that, even Li Zhenxian, who is known as the "old enemy of Zhouyi".

Li Zhenxian's popular songs such as "Wow" and "Ali Ali" are too noisy in her opinion. It's okay if she listens to it a few times or more, but if she listens to it more, she will feel unusually noisy and irritable.

I don’t know why this kind of electronic dance music has become so popular. This is something Li Yinxin is very puzzled by.

What puzzles her even more is that the female singer Sun Yue from China is still learning this style of music - she still hasn't learned the essence.

However, it was not only her who couldn't bear to look at him, but also Zhou Yi.

When Li Zhenxian and Sun Yue, two so-called representatives of Chinese and Korean female singers in singing and dancing, came on stage to perform together, he almost failed to manage his expression well——

It's not that Sun Yue performed poorly, but that she really doesn't go with electronic dance music.

How should I put it, Zhou Yi was not very impressed by her performance in "Wow", a duet with Lee Jung Hyun - it made him feel like Naying was twisting her waist while dancing and singing "Easy" at a KTV?

The young Li Zhenxian is jumping up and down, as lively as a girl;

In 1972, Sun Yue was already over 30 years old. At her age, she could only twist her waist on the stage, but the twist was still relatively stiff, which put her at a disadvantage in terms of appearance and made her smile a little embarrassed.

The only thing that can be praised is the sound pressure. Sun Yue still showed her ability as one of the mainland's singing kings. When she realized that she was trying to cover up Li Zhenxian's voice during the chorus, she immediately stopped singing.

It can only be said that there is no hope.

If Li Zhenxian and Sun Yue are asked to sing "Wish You Peace" together, Li Zhenxian will also be exposed in an ugly way.

In Zhou Yi's opinion, Sun Yue is really not suitable for this kind of singing and dancing.

As the so-called goddaughter of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, this woman actually found herself unable to compete with Jeon Jin and Na Young at the end of the last century, so she took a different approach and started learning Korean dance music style. Halfway through, she switched to singing and dancing, preparing to overtake as a singing and dancing singer.

As a result, the popularity is still getting worse year by year.

In the end, she found that the comfort zone that suited her was still the same as before.

If it weren't for the reputation of China-South Korea Friendship Ambassador and the goddaughter of the former South Korean president, it would be difficult to say that Sun Yue would be able to appear at the China-South Korea Song Concert - Naying was forced to withdraw, and Han Hong retreated to the "second line".

At this period, Sun Yue still had the ambition to fight for the last time.

It’s a pity that in the end, the mud couldn’t support the wall——

Naying later retired from the entertainment industry for many years due to relationship problems, but after her return, she was still able to regain her crown as a queen with the quality of her songs;

Han Hong directly made herself the undoubted number one sister in the mainland in the next two years.

Only Sun Yue had been hyping her up for a long time without even making a single profit - she was called the goddaughter of the former president of South Korea, but in the end she couldn't even speak Korean, and finally retired in despair.

"Have you not arrived at Zhouyi yet?"

In the audience, Li Yinxin watched as China and South Korea sang one after another, such as Han Hong singing "That Sea", Sun Nan singing "Rescue" and singing the theme song of "My Sassy Girl", etc., frowning Frowning slightly, he turned to ask his personal bodyguard.

"Hurry up, miss, he's the winner."

“…….”

As the most popular singer at this year's party, Zhou Yi's program was nailed down to the second and third songs from the bottom.

In fact, he could stand directly on the stage after singing without leaving, because the final chorus was Chinese and Korean singers singing "Friendship Is Everlasting" together.

However, I don’t know whether Han Fang did it intentionally or accidentally, but the program sequence of Zhouyi happened to be arranged after Sun Nan.

After Sun Nan and Shin Seung-hun from South Korea finished singing the Sassy Girl theme song "I Believe", the host began to introduce Zhou Yi who appeared next——

"Next, let us welcome Zhou Yi, a young singer from China..."

Backstage, Zhan Wenting, who was so nervous that she began to take deep breaths, tightly held the bass in her hand. Originally the lead singer of the band, she picked up the bass tonight; next to her, there was a guitar belonging to the band Feier. Ah Qin's hands were also shaking a little.

"Don't be nervous, just relax and follow the feeling of our rehearsal."

Chen Jianning, the leader and keyboard player of Feier Band, behaved quite calmly, and even had the intention to enlighten his two teammates. Tonight, he'll be on stage playing drums.

"Can……"

The three of them were communicating with each other, and Zhou Yi, who had changed into a long windbreaker, had already appeared in front of them——

"Brother Yi."

"Brother Yi..."

Even though all three of them are older than Zhou Yi, only Chen Jianning, who is ten years older than Zhou Yi, has the right not to call him brother.

After all, he was already a senior music producer in the industry before he founded the Phil Band.

"come on."

Zhou Yi, who saw these three people, didn't say much. He just smiled and encouraged: "Just follow the feeling during the rehearsal."

"Um."

Facing the "amiability" of this true god of the company, Aqin and Zhan Wenting looked at each other, suppressed the complicated thoughts in their hearts, and nodded heavily.

One minute later, after the host finished his introduction, the lights at the entire China-Korean Song Concert dimmed.

The next second, an alarm like a siren sounded at the scene——

What followed was the flashing and rotating red "warning line" lights at the venue!

"???"

In the audience, Li Yinxin, who had reviewed the song "Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs" early on, had a bit of surprise in his eyebrows——

what happened?

Does the original song have this opening?

Specially adapted?

"You are too tired from crying, you are hurt too deeply, and you love too stupidly.

"You're crying like the end is coming~"

When a beam of bright light hit the center of the stage, the siren stopped immediately. Zhou Yizheng, wearing a long purple and black windbreaker, stood alone in the center of the stage, with an electric guitar hanging on his body and holding a microphone tripod with one hand. Snapping his fingers with a bit of jazzy arrogance——

The more soothing piano prelude was accompanied by the man's crooning monologue-style singing. Under the white light, Zhou Yi seemed to be a somewhat naughty and childish gentleman——

"OH~, Yeah~~"

As the finger snapping ended, Zhou Yi, who had just finished singing the first verse of the lyrics, continued to snap his fingers with his left hand, and his whole body seemed to be immersed in some kind of slow jazz rhythm and twisted his body gently, like a bewitching king, bewitching everyone off the stage. The fans screamed!

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi!! Zhou Yi!!!"

"..."

In response to the sudden burst of screams and cheers from the audience, Zhou Yi's mouth curled up, and his left hand, snapping his fingers, slowly pointed to the stand facing him, and the direction of that finger happened to be Li The area where Yin Xin sits——

"So if you listen to slow songs, very slow songs, your heart will be cut like a knife.

"Should we change our rhythm~

"OH~Yeah~~"

Obviously the title of the song is "Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs", but the beginning of this solo song with a bit of jazzy arrangement was so slow that all the audience's eyes lit up——

Then, the singing stopped and the fingers snapped, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

In just a few blinks, the red siren sounded again, and the flashing warning lights instantly turned the venue into a "blood red"——

The light of the flashing light ball kept falling on Zhou Yi, who was dragging the microphone tripod with one hand and walking back. It felt as if he had broken the law by singing a slow song just now and he was about to surrender.

Until, he suddenly dropped the tripod at his feet!

This was like a signal that a carnival was about to begin. The addition of background instrument scratches, which are common in rock backgrounds, made the whole audience shake up——

Chen Jianning, who was sitting next to the drum kit, moved the drums, and the violent beating of the drums directly began to challenge the eardrums of the audience; in an instant, the rhythmic and venting guitar and bass joined together, directly A sharp contrast to the previous slow jazz!

The extremely popular pop rock style exploded in an instant. At this moment, it directly conquered the audience's sight and hearing with its extremely contrasting performance. Many people who did not understand the lyrics were shaking left and right along with the passionate guitar drum beat of the song. Shake right!

"You are too tired from crying, you are hurt too deeply, and you love too stupidly.

“You’re crying like the end is coming!

"Oh~oh!"

It's still the same aria, but at this moment Zhou Yi's singing has a particularly rock-like texture. His body movements are no longer limited to snapping his fingers. Instead, he strums the strings directly after singing this section, and the electric guitar swells. Sweeping away the haze in the audience’s hearts——

“Stop asking who is right and who is wrong

"Who is right and who is wrong and who owes whom!"

Zhou Yi, who was hanging an electric guitar, jumped forward and raised his hand to point to the audience area directly in front: "Anyway, I was wrong and I lost. Anyway, I am happy with myself!!"

And it was this jump that ignited the enthusiasm of the audience for the first time in a long time!

Li Yinxin, who was also shaking her head and body to the rhythm, looked at the shining free figure on the stage, smiling very happily!

This song is exactly what she feels, what she wants to express to her parents and family——

Stop asking her who is right and who is wrong when she is scolded by netizens, and don’t ask her who owes whom in this family.

She doesn't want to think about anything now, she doesn't want to do anything, she just wants to let herself go——

No matter if you make a mistake or lose, not many people in this world care about whether they are happy or not. No matter whether they are parents or brothers and sisters, they have all become slaves of interests.

Since no one is accompanying her, she should accompany herself, because happiness is the most important thing!

As the song goes: It’s time to change your life.

She also wanted to change her life.

Looking at the man on the stage who was freely displaying the charm of pop rock, Li Yinxin saw for the first time what the true charm of freedom was like - the man named Zhou Yi was displaying that charming freedom wantonly!