Perfect Life

To some extent, everything in this world is easy to rest on its laurels.

Without external stimuli, all evolution and progress will be difficult.

In terms of culture and art, it is precisely because of hundreds of years of ethnic wars, foreign invasions, and cultural collisions between life and death of various ethnic groups that the prosperous Tang Dynasty’s colorful poems came about. It is precisely because of capitalism The emergence and development of Germination, because of the emergence of a large number of citizens, led to the European Renaissance.

There is no shortage of geniuses in any era, but without that little bit of external stimulation and change, countless geniuses will be wiped out in the slow evolution of stagnation and unknown.

Take the domestic music scene in that time and space that Li Qian once experienced.

In the past, people thought it sounded good when they heard the Sunrise in the East, and they also thought it was beautiful when they watched mine warfare and tunnel warfare, but later, Teresa Teng's voice came, and the young people wore flared pants and sunglasses. , everyone saw "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean" on TV, saw "Shanghai Bund", saw "Huo Yuanjia", and then heard a lot of urban love songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan. After the comprehensive capture of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, a singer named Fan Linlin appeared in the domestic music circle. She used her northwest style to sweep away the softness of Hong Kong and Taiwan accents. Therefore, there was a person named Gu Jianfen who founded it under extremely difficult conditions. A vocal music training center was established, and since then, another unrestrained voice has been added to the Chinese music scene.

Looking back thirty years later, without the voices of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers back then, who would dare to say that domestic popular music can also develop to the level of a hundred flowers blooming in the 21st century?

And in this time and space where Li Qian is now, after more than half a year of careful observation. To be honest, compared with the same era, the economy of this time and space is much more developed than the time and space he experienced in 1995 and 1996. However, I don’t know if it is because of the lack of Hong Kong and Taiwan music stimulation of the same culture. s reason. In the 95 years of this time and space, the mainstream of the domestic pop music scene is still folk songs and ballads. Even the urban love songs that should have become increasingly prosperous with economic development and urban prosperity are hardly successful.

Although the government does not restrict the introduction of foreign music records by various record companies, it only needs to pass the censorship. It can be sold on the domestic shelves, but various domestic propaganda channels, including radio, television, newspapers, magazines, etc., are all in the hands of the government, and they obviously will not promote foreign music.

Strong publicity is lacking. Although there are still people who listen to foreign music, to be honest, in the whole society, these people are too few, but a drop in the ocean, it is impossible to affect anything at all.

Therefore, in such a large environment, Chinese music follows its own inherent tones. Going forward step by step slowly, although some gratifying changes will occasionally be made, it is easy to be submerged in the huge inertial trend of the whole society. to annihilate into oblivion.

Perhaps... Li Qian once imagined that if there is no himself and no one else to bring some stimulation and changes to the domestic music scene, maybe he really has to wait until the arrival of the Internet age, with the great convenience of communication, with the foreign countries. With the invasion of culture, will the Chinese music scene in China really be forced by fans to make some changes?

he does not know. There is no way to guess.

At least now in 1995 and 1996, apparently. Although the computer technology in this time and space seems to be much more developed than the original time and space, the process of Internetization is also much faster. But it is clear that there are still many years to go before reaching the level of Internet access for all people.

But unfortunately, Li Qian came.

As early as when Liao Liao's five songs were very popular, Li Qian couldn't help thinking that maybe, whether intentionally or not, these outstanding works he brought from another time and space would act as a catalyst. effect?

Fortunately, Liao Liao is red!

Whether it is the light rock love songs of "Perseverance" and "Wild Flowers", or the Chinese style of "Unfinished Love", or the pure northwest-style folk songs of "Hometown I Love", they have won the domestic fans of this time and space. 's approval.

So, Li Qian resolutely signed a producer contract with Huage Records.

He would rather bring out a song like "Farewell", a song that the girls from Wuxingwusu can't help but put out for them, and also push the fast song to this time and this era.

He worked hard to make those five girls into national idols in the domestic music scene in this time and space!

If these works from that other time and space can really become the stimulant that promotes the accelerated evolution of the current domestic music scene, then, even if it is inevitable that there will be a lot of voices from various aspects, Li Qian is also not afraid.

As a musician, as a person who loves music, he is eager to see and want to know that when faced with such a mature and commercial music invasion that suddenly came, these outstanding musicians in the domestic music scene are currently What kind of music works will the musicians and quasi-musicians come up with to fight under the stimulation!

Perhaps, this is the greatest significance of his rebirth to this time and space, isn't it?

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On the first day of 1996, the famous popular singer Liao Liao paid a low-key visit to Li Qian's parents in Jinan House. Under the warm reception of Li's father and Li's mother, he stayed at home for a lunch. Before leaving, He also signed and took a photo for the dozen or so children who were waiting in the community downstairs, and then sat on the back seat of Li Qian's bicycle and left Shengshi Garden Community.

And this incident is almost unknown except that it had a certain influence in the Shengshi Garden community and several nearby schools.

But when Liao Liao followed Li Qian to visit Li's father and Li's mother in a low-key manner, and then stayed at home for lunch, something that was destined to shake the domestic music scene, and even destined to be recorded in the history of domestic music, appeared. .

On this morning, I don’t know how many people—students in their teens, young people in their twenties, and, of course, many middle-aged people in their thirties and forties—take a break during the New Year’s Day holiday. when. They went to the video store they usually go to, took out their wallets, and bought a box of albums called "Sister and Sister Stand Up".

Although more than ten hours ago, they still knew nothing about the song and the person who sang it.

but. Here they come.

Some people will ask, is there any album of Wuxingwusu? This is easy to find.

Some people will also ask, is there a song "Sister and Sister Stand Up" stand up? This is also easy to do.

But some people will ask, is there a song "Farewell"? It's the one sung by five girls, do you know which album it's on?

At first, most salespeople are a little confused. But they soon learned that everyone was asking about the same album!

In the two days when the album "Sister and Sister Stand Up" was just released nationwide, distribution companies all over the country were desperately dispatching goods to various stores, because according to the rules, if it could not be sold or not sold well. As long as the package is not opened, it can be returned within a month, and the usual habit is to sell it first and then give it money, so although countless audio-visual stores do not like this album that has been distributed in large quantities, most of them still accept it.

However, apart from taking out a copy and putting it on the shelves, the rest are thrown into the warehouse, and many stores are even unwilling to open a box for the test broadcast - they have to pay for unpacking.

And in fact. Wuxingwusu's new album has neither the foundation of the past fame, nor the support of die-hard fans, and even did not have any publicity work at that time. The only thing that can be regarded as propaganda is that a large number of promotional posters are printed and sent to various video stores for free, and most of them are directly stuffed into the warehouse by the video store. Therefore, before the New Year's Eve song on Dragon Star TV was broadcast, this album was indeed sold very little.

On December 26, the album was officially released nationwide. In just two or three days, Huage Music has sold more than 1.6 million copies all over the country—according to the sales results estimated by the publicity department. In total, they have produced up to 2 million cassettes of tapes and 400,000 cassettes of CDs, and hope to basically sell out within a year.

only. Considering that Liao Liao's album was out of stock during the sale, which affected the final sales performance, Huage Records finally decided to adopt a sales strategy of selling most of the goods and letting each store sell it slowly.

It turned out that this strategy helped them a lot!

The New Year's Day holiday is a national holiday, but it is the busiest and best time for the service industry. No one is stupid enough to close the store on this day, and the same is true for audio-visual stores.

So, when the video store opened, when the first person came in to ask, when the second person came in to ask, when many people started to ask, from the ordinary salesperson to the boss, everyone was quickly alerted.

As a result, the tapes and CDs that had been thrown into the warehouse waiting to be returned were quickly taken out.

At the same time, almost all the audio and video stores on the street noticed something abnormal, so almost all audio and video stores began to put the same tape and the same CD into the players!

On this day, from the snowy northeast to the drizzling Lingnan, from Jishuntianfu, the capital of the country, to Nankun Mingfu, the city of colorful clouds, "Seven out of ten men are stupid, eight are stupid, nine are bad, and there are others. One of the cutest" voices sang all over the streets and alleys in the north and south of the river.

It can be said that as long as you take to the streets on this day, whether it is a prosperous metropolis or a small county town that is a little behind, basically, you will definitely be directly brainwashed by this song.

On this day, several staff members sent by Huage Records returned to the company after completing the street investigation, and almost unanimously believed that the company should immediately increase the sales forecast rating for this album. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

It was also on this day that the Wuxingwusu group, who was stranded in Songjiang Prefecture after receiving an invitation from the Dragon Star TV Variety Channel after participating in the recording of the New Year's Eve song party, was discovered by fans who were buying the album when they went out to inquire about the album's sales. , and soon caused a blockade and onlookers, which once led to the paralysis of traffic on the street they went to. In the end, it was the police who appeared in time to rescue the few girls who were terrified.

When the national sales data came out more than 20 days later, after the approval of the National Recording Industry Association, it was confirmed that the sales of the album "Sister and Sister Stand Up" on this day was as high as 174,391!

Based on the sales volume on this day alone, "Sister and Sister Stand Up" can already be directly airborne in the domestic music circle and ranked 17th in the history of weekly album sales!

It is precisely because of this day that, after many years, 1996 is called the first year of idols in the domestic music circle!

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This is the first update!

I want to work hard for a third watch, can you guys give me some encouragement and cheer up? (To be continued)