China Entertainment 2000

"This is not called a new trick, this is called a traditional art."

Regarding Qian Jiang's strangeness, Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head after hanging up the phone: "These are all leftovers from the American music scene in the last century, but our country has not evolved to this version yet. Otherwise, what do you think Madonna will do?" The top female singer in the world in the last century."

Although there is no doubt about her strength, she is the most slippery in the political correctness trend.

It is absolutely impossible for a Chinese singer in the United States to stand up if he does not hold high the banner of political correctness and label his personality. Even if he is cheating, he must add this layer of buffs to fight political correctness with political correctness. .

After all, the Western media community has always been strictly guarded and smeared against the mysterious visitors from Dongda University.

Even though he won two Grammys and had a golden body to protect him, he still couldn't stop those idiots from talking nonsense.

A typical example is Elva Hsiao's "Because of You".

Since the lyrics and composition column was written about Zhou Yi, and some people also dug up the cp relationship between the two in the Chinese area since Zhou Yi debuted, after Elva Hsiao’s sales on the first day were finally surpassed by Utada Hikaru by more than three times. , a lot of media people published their disappointment and disparagement of Zhou Yi in columns of newspapers and magazines.

The speed was obviously impatient and non-stop.

The Washington Post immediately published an article on the 18th by a reporter who claimed to be a fan of Zhou Yi - "The propaganda machine from China will eventually fail."

The main perspective of the entire article is from the American music scene, which has been criticized before. It analyzes Zhouyi's failure to start this time as strongly as ever, and finally reaches a conclusion: Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, and Zhouyi is about to be finished.

Don't ask why you are so impatient after only one day has passed. The question is that professional music critics must dare to make accurate judgments.

In fact, it is a miracle that this group of people can endure it for one day. It is because they have been beaten by Zhouyi in the past two years. Otherwise, Gaolu would have started to pessimize one month before the sale.

The special music editor and rock critic of the American "Village Voice" magazine who once went against the trend and gave his lowest personal rating of D after the release of Zhou Yi's second English album is considered to be the most popular rock music critic in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. RC Robert Christgau, one of the important popular culture critics, even shouted victory in the Los Angeles Times——

"Shame on the Grammys!" Spike’s new song sucks and no one cares about it! 》

"Facts have proven that my original judgment was absolutely correct. Spike just lacked awe for music, and he was not even a qualified musician.

"In my opinion, he should hang out with those politicians, because their hype methods are the same, they all like to hold high the banner to suppress others. This is how he got the Grammy. Now he still wants to do the same, Push a lover of your own.

"I'm very happy. Fortunately, although justice is late, it has not disappeared. In my opinion, Spike's new song is an empty and boring moan. No one cares about it, which is the fate he deserves..."

It was clearly Elva Hsiao who sang, but without exception, everyone who jumped out pointed their finger at Zhou Yi, a songwriter, and criticized him in the print media.

The British "The Times", "The Guardian", "The Sun", the German "Bild", etc., and even many journalists from France, Italy and other countries all went out at the same time——

Many European and American Zhouyi fans were forced to start a one-on-one battlefield on the Internet, awakening the mode of verbal battles with Confucian scholars. The core point is one: This is all your brainless embarrassment, just like the European and American media It’s like they have been mindlessly embarrassing China.

"We need freedom of speech! We need cultural equality! The dogs under these politicians have betrayed the foundation of our country and the spirit of music that shines like gold!"

"If you let Spike be suppressed, what are you afraid of?!"

"The European and American music scene is huge, why can't there be room for Spike?"

"..."

Elva Hsiao, who never expected that her record performance would trigger such a riot of public opinion, was a little panicked.

She said she didn't care how many copies she sold before, but she was just pretending. In fact, she was more worried than anyone else. If Zhou Yi hadn't anticipated this situation and vaccinated her, she might have sunk like Tao Zhe.

"This can't continue like this, even if I sleep four hours a day, I have to go to more offline concerts."

It is true that with the help of EMI and post-independence Warner, public opinion will not be one-sided, but Elva Hsiao still showed the desperate spirit in her bones——

When it comes to hard work, who hasn’t worked hard?

She was tortured by her teacher Yao Qian every day. If she didn't work hard, she would not get the chance to publish films or even jump to the top.

It’s just that she thinks this is the most basic thing, so she doesn’t do marketing at all.

You know, this is the time for the Sino-Japanese Song Contest——

And Zhou Yi is the most famous man in China at this Sino-Japanese singing competition. There are countless pairs of eyes in Japan staring at him.

At this juncture, if she really loses to Utada Hikaru, then Zhou Yi may really lose a lot of the advantages and reputation she gained in the early stage because of her.

She couldn't accept it.

……………………

"I can't accept that? This is nonsense."

Japan, Tokyo.

Because of the jet lag, the airport, which was already early morning after landing, was now brightly lit. Countless fans and reporters with guns and cannons were all blocking the cordon, waiting for the man to appear——

When Zhou Yi, who was wearing a black patterned shirt, took off his sunglasses and walked out of the airport, everyone surrounding the scene suddenly fell into a riot!

A reporter asked an extremely proud question - whether Zhou Yi could not accept that the new song he wrote was lost to the queen of Japanese music, Utada Hikaru.

"Honestly, she poses no threat to me at all."

Zhou Yi, who has always loved to tell the truth, was holding a bag full of gifts that Japanese fans loved to throw at him. He dismissed this comment: "Utada is obviously immersed in his own music world and can't extricate himself. He feels that his musical expression , extremely skilled.

"But in fact, I think she has not found her own positioning with this album. There is no doubt that it is an extremely failed album."

Laxatives, I’m in Japan, I just got off the plane——

As soon as he got off the plane, Zhou Yi was asked about the album's hot topics and made a sharp comment. His unabashed and non-tai chi voice made the fans who were willing to come to the airport to pick him up in the middle of the night scream again and again!

After not seeing each other for such a long time, it is obvious that Zhou Yi is still the Zhou Yi who is unwilling to bow his head, the Zhou Yi that they are fans of and dares to challenge the hegemony of European and American music.

"But Zhou Yijun, the first-day sales of Hikaru Utada's album have already been released. The sales volume exceeded 13,000 copies in five hours, and the sales volume in 24 hours reached 37,000 copies. It was listed on the weekly list of the top 200 albums on the B list.

"And the songs you wrote didn't help Miss Elva achieve 10,000 copies on the first day—"

Before the reporter finished speaking, Zhou Yi raised his hand and interrupted the next words. The latter sneered: "I still said the same thing, the results are not good because we were suppressed. But it doesn't matter, it's Mr. Jin Jin It will shine, no one can cover the sky with one hand all the time.

"Utada's manager said their target is 200,000 copies, but I don't think her actual sales of this album will exceed 100,000 copies, but Elva can."

——? !

disdain!

This is naked contempt!

In the music world, unless we really miss each other, we usually show respect when asked about album sales, even if we are enemies.

What Zhou Yi said was a bit disrespectful.

However, considering this man's usual personality, it is not surprising that he would speak freely to the media after holding back his anger. Not only was there no Japanese at the scene who expressed confusion, but everyone's eyes, including the fans, were shining - —

The difference is that fans think giegie is good-looking, while reporters think giegie is good-looking.

The character Zhou Yi has shaped for many years has made his degree of tolerance by the public in this regard skyrocketing.

Even China, which has never paid much attention to foreign news, has triggered a wave of craze——

"The Book of Changes vs. Hikaru Utada!" 》

"Chinese King VS Japanese Queen!" 》

"In the European and American music scene, the fateful showdown between Chinese and Japanese musical geniuses in the early 21st century! 》

"The Showdown of the Twins of the Century!" 》

"..."

Elva Hsiao, who sang, was ignored again and again, and was only mentioned in the corner of the draft as a singer.

The "China-Japan Song Festival", which was originally just one of the political tasks, has attracted a lot of attention. Many singers who did not choose to come because of the impact regretted that their thighs were almost broken——

"Grass!"

If I had known that this Sino-Japanese Song Festival would attract so much attention, they would have to go to anything.

As a young singer of this year, the time management master who represented Taiwan and went to Tokyo, Japan with the Chinese delegation was almost smiling——

He is not afraid of this, and as a result, among the younger generation of singers, apart from Zhou Yi, he is the only one who can be named at this China-Japan Song Festival.

Yes, the time management guru is also here, and he is also the representative of young singers in Taiwan.

During this period, he became popular in both the Mainland and Taiwan. After the restrictions on idol dramas were relaxed, they were introduced to the Mainland one after another.

Because of Zhou Jielun, the relationship between him and Zhou Yi is considered okay.

Therefore, he who had been waiting immediately called Zhou Yi to welcome him to Tokyo and sent an invitation to the party.

On the 20th, Zhou Yi, who was alone in the hotel to adjust to the jet lag, officially joined the team gathering as the last member of this exchange group. He also met veteran singers such as Lin Yilian and Cai Guoqing.

Of course, there is also a former top Chinese: Fei Xiang.

Yes, the organizer of this China-Japan Song Festival, who attaches great importance to this year's China-Japan Song Festival, directly invited this person back from the United States. The original intention was to guarantee that Yi would not come that week. After all, if Zhou Yi really doesn't come, Fei Xiang is an international person anyway, so he won't lose his status too much.

"Welcome, Zhou Yi, I have read your news and listened to your songs a lot in the United States."

Fei Xiang, who is over 40 years old, has obviously aged, but still maintains his figure and face, and his voice is full of energy: "Last night, my family shared with me your talk show in the United States, too Wonderful.”

"Thanks for the compliment, Uncle Fei."

The corners of Zhou Yi's lips raised slightly: "I did that show just for fun, I can't take it seriously."

"It's become popular all over the United States just for fun. If you are serious, I don't dare to think about it." Fei Xiang laughed and explained to the confused eyes of the people around him -

"You don't know, Zhou Yi's talk show ratings directly created the highest peak in the history of American talk shows. Not only the first show, but also the highest peak in the replay period was raised by him, just in the two days he came to Japan.

"This show and the ending song sung by Elva are directly increasing in the discussion of the United States. This episode of "The Conan Show and the Spike Show" has even been spread to the Internet in countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and more than 99% of the reviews are praises..."

As a Chinese who is doing well in Broadway, Fei Xiang is obviously well-informed, but that comes from his mouth. , it was a bit jaw-dropping--

Especially a time management guru who was very excited after Zhou Yi came.

As we all know, Zhou Yi and Jay Chou have a life-long friendship, and he and Jay Chou have a strong brotherly relationship.

So rounding it off, Zhou Yi is also his elder brother.

He thought Zhou Yi was awesome, but he didn't expect that just doing a talk show could become popular in the Western world...

What's more, he didn't expect that when Xiao Yaxuan's song was criticized in the print media, it actually began to turn around with this talk show video that was widely circulated on the Internet--

In the Apple Music Store, the sales of "Because of You" officially began to grow explosively after word-of-mouth accumulation;

In offline audio and video stores, because of the popularity of this issue of "The Spike Show", Xiao Yaxuan, as the least well-known "amateur" singer, also reaped the most benefits from the popularity--

The sales of the physical disc of "Elva" began to soar!