Perfect Life

Perhaps after many years, when Li Qian's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, even if there is no need for deliberate publicity, many people are eager to know who he is and eager to pay attention to all the information related to him. Some people and media will begin to count the glory that Li Qian had created when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, but at least now, even if his nine works are simultaneously on the Voice of China's golden song on-demand list. Ten is useless.

The media will not give him additional attention and coverage because of this, and fans will not even notice that their favorite singer is actually made famous by the work of a man named Li Qian. .

Is it unfair?

It's not fair!

But, that's the rule.

Moreover, this is not just the pop music world, nor is it just a rule in the entertainment industry. This rule applies to the world and to everything.

For example, in the time and space where Li Qian once lived, the fans who later talked about the most were the combination of Jay Chou, Fang Wenshan, and Wang Fei Linxi. In fact, the latter two are indeed the three of the Chinese music scene. Two of the most well-known lyricists in the industry in four decades of development.

But they are just an example.

And even when the two of them are really known to the public and gradually become widely known, they have already written several works in several years, and many of their works have already become popular. Only gradually came to the public - for example, there are many fans who like Jay Chou's works, and there are also many who know Fang Wenshan, but. Know who is the lyricist for the songs "In the Name of the Father" and "Chapter Seven of the Night". how many?

Another example. Lin Junjie's song "South of the Yangtze River" became popular all over the country. At that time, the influence of his song was no worse than that of Jay Chou's Chinese style, and the media also covered it with numerous articles. At that time, there must have been many fans who were amazed by the ancient lyrics of the song "Jiangnan" after listening to it, but they knew that the lyricist of this song was Lin Qiuli. there's a few? It goes without saying that the media will go after Lin Junjie, but the lyricist who will report on this song at that time is called Lin Qiuli, and will seriously evaluate the popularity of this song is inseparable from Lin Qiuli's ancient lyric writing, right?

No.

For another example, even around 2000, domestic movie fans are already very familiar with the names and faces of Ge You, Tony Leung, Jiang Wen, Gong Li, etc., and even Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Li An, etc. A lot of big directors have also made a fuss, but. Do you know who the screenwriter of the movie "Heroes" is? So, what about the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine"? Otherwise. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"?

Obviously, no one is going to pay attention to this.

The media must be circling around those big directors and famous actors all day long. They would rather report the gossip and gossip of the stars than pay attention to who the screenwriter of a famous movie is.

And ordinary viewers... please, when watching a movie, when the main film is finished, they will carefully read all the credits and credits on the subtitles. How many?

It's like a concert, and the spotlight will only run after that person.

As for the other staff, whether you are the director, the accompaniment, or the dancer, I'm sorry, you are all just green leaves, just to set off the big red flower in the center of the stage more perfectly. Take the money, get the job done, and leave! Want to be the protagonist of a concert? No way!

The simplest principle is that very few concerts choose to be held during the day, because only at night, it is pitch black everywhere. At this time, when all the lights are concentrated on one person, he will really shine. .

So, we illustrate that the stars live in the spotlight.

It's cruel, but that's the reality.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter who ordinary fans don't know who Lin Qiuli is, but almost all practitioners in the pop music world know that the song "Jiangnan" is the work of Lin Qiuli.

Just like the current Li Qian, even all the fans who like Liao Liao, plus all the fans who like the combination of Wuxing Wusu, plus all the fans who like the song "Half Pot Yarn", no one knows Li Qian. It doesn't matter who it is. Because the bosses, general managers, music directors of major record companies, as well as many singers and producers, they will never ignore the shock of Li Qian bringing these nine songs on the list at the same time, and they will never go Ignore the immeasurable musical energy that this seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy possesses!

The era of female singers has come?

Stop it!

Do you think that if you change to a male singer to sing "Perseverance", you won't be popular?

Do you think that with Liu Mingliang's singing skills, if the song "Farewell" falls into his hands, he will sing worse than the girls in the Wuxingwusu group?

As for "Night on the Outskirts of Moscow"... Come on, that style is simply Xinfu Zhao's favorite!

The so-called "the era of female singers has come", the media's analysis is straightforward, fans see the clouds and mountains and fog, and they don't realize it when they are in a trance, but in the eyes of real big names in the circle, right This statement is nothing but a laugh--

This is just the most normal works to become singers!

Therefore, if Li Qian chooses to debut at this time, he has really paved all the way for himself, whether as a producer, as a producer, or even as a singer, as long as he is willing, almost all records in the country The company, even the three giants of Sony, Huage and Cinda, will welcome him with open arms without hesitation!

There is no need to say it in a low-key manner, as long as he is willing, if he is behind the scenes, even in the three giants, he will be at least a music deputy director level, and if it is other companies, he may even be directly airborne. Music director, and Even if he chooses to be a singer, he can definitely get the most generous artist contract that various companies can come up with.

Any industry is full of the fiercest competition for resources, and for now, Li Qian has become the most precious and sought-after resource in the domestic music scene.

but……

Obviously. up until now. Through the company's trial and error again and again. He never had the slightest intention to make a debut.

Although after Liao Liao became popular, Changsheng Records had been invited repeatedly by Liao Liao, but he did not even attend Liao Liao's million-selling celebration. He also called on behalf of the company immediately and tried to invite him to Shuntian Mansion. Several high-level officials of Huage were eagerly looking forward to meeting him, but in the face of such attention... Li Qian Still indifferent, he declined.

"I still have to go to school. The final exam is coming soon, don't dare to delay the class!"

He said so.

Everyone knows that this guy seems to be preparing to go to school honestly, at least in the last six months, don't expect him to come to Shuntianfu and join the real operation of the pop music scene. .

Some people are disappointed, some people are dissatisfied, some people even have opinions on Li Qian because of this, some people laugh at him, some people despise him. But there are also people who secretly breathe a sigh of relief...

Of course, major record companies are desperate for talents like Li Qian. After all, he has shot three times. Every time I am amazed and amazed, I am amazed! His achievements are placed there, and he is so powerful that even conceited musicians have to face it. However, he is unwilling to debut, or in other words, even if he is willing to debut, it must be a company that can grab him That's it, then, will other record companies watch it?

Obviously not.

It's the same sentence, at any time, in any time and place, anywhere, there is never a saying that you can't play without someone!

After 20 years of great development in the domestic music scene, whether it is because of the love of music or because of fame and fortune, there are countless musicians who have entered it one after another.

With the success of Li's Chinese style such as "Unfinished Love", "Half Pot Yarn" and "Ice Candied Gourd", all major record companies know that this is a good way. Then, if Li Qian doesn't make a move, other musicians will play Don't turn to Chinese style?

With the popularity of "Perseverance", "Wild Flowers" and "Cheers, Friends", some people may shout that the spring of rock and roll is coming, and of course some people think that this so-called light rock is not worthy of being called rock at all. , However, a real expert in the industry will soon be able to judge, is it really the spring of rock and roll?

wrong!

It's the spring of urban love songs!

The so-called rock, the so-called light rock, are actually only the external manifestations of those songs. Their real core, what really touches people, is actually singing the love outlook and outlook on life of the current urban men and women.

, light rock can? Is it possible to have another style?

Maybe big-name singers want to test the water and be as cautious as He Runqing is trying Chinese style, but among the newcomers and those second-tier and third-tier singers who are anxious to get ahead, there are some people who have no worries at all. As long as the record company dares to make it, they will immediately. You can charge in front and hope to become popular overnight with this wind!

Also, even if many people don't believe it in advance, with the popularity of the songs "Happy Baby", "Sister and Sister Stand Up" and "Loveless Front Alliance", it is the same as the judgment of urban love songs. How could the big coffees not see the arrival of the era of fast songs? Even drawing inferences from one fact, there are many people with broad vision who will begin to understand in just a few days: In fact, it is not only the era of fast songs that is coming, but also the era of idols who want to sell their faces!

A lot of times, that's how it is!

A circle, a country, a nation, in the absence of external stimulation, will always move forward slowly according to its own set pace, and even if it clearly discovers a new direction, it will try to explore and hesitate. , but once you beat it, when the stimulus is so strong that it is completely unacceptable, then the outbreak begins.

And now, it is clear that Li Qian's nine songs are on the list at the same time, which plays exactly such a role.

A seventeen-year-old young man, in just half a year, has successively won the popularity of the previously unknown combination of Liao Liao and Wuxing Wusu, and has largely saved He Runqing's downward trend. A piece of cake.

However, at the same time, nine songs are on the list!

Do the other lyricists, songwriters, producers and big-name singers who have been in the music scene for many years add up to only one place in the top ten of the golden song on demand list?

How empathetic is this?

So, no one needs to do any mobilization. And in fact. There will never be any fools who stand up and shout out such inconspicuous fool slogans as "Down with Li Qian" and "Reject Li Qian from entering the music world". For Li Qian, a young genius who was born suddenly in the second half of 1995, the entire pop music world is generally a kind of surprise with a certain feeling of dissatisfaction, but for Li Qian, everyone is not exclusive. It's just not convinced that he stole the limelight and the market!

So, at the beginning of the 1996 Chinese calendar, before the Lunar New Year, the second album of Wuxing Wusu continued to sell well. Under the background of seemingly great prosperity, the entire domestic music scene suddenly fell into an atmosphere that was very quiet, so quiet that it was vaguely disturbing, but vaguely expected.

Compared with the past, only some people studied Li Qian's light rock and Chinese style. Now, almost the entire domestic music scene is working hard to study the fourteen songs he released before.

Putting aside the two works of "Farewell" and "Night in the Suburbs of Moscow", which are either natural or full of exotic flavors, it is easy for everyone to analyze and understand that Li Qian's current works on the market can be roughly divided into four. kind.

One is urban love songs, including three songs by Liao Liao and the song "Love Birds" by Wuxingwusu.

One is youthful songs, mainly those three works by Wuxingwusu.

One is Chinese style. This Liao Liao has one, and He Runqing has one. Wuxingwusu also has a song.

And the last one is folk ballads, which include the folk ballads represented by "The Hometown I'm Loving", and the nursery rhymes of "Let's Swing the Sculls"—in the final analysis, they are all classified as folk ballads.

So, you see, isn't the result coming out?

It goes without saying that there are too many masters in the domestic music circle who are good at this. In fact, Li Qian's two ballad works, whether they are the folk songs of "The Hometown I Love Love", or "Let's Swing Double". The nursery rhymes of "Paddles" are all excellent works, but they are hardly original.

Although it doesn't mean that anyone can write works of that level, but according to the past works, the whole music circle is slamming, and it is qualified to break his wrist with him in folk songs, and at least he can make up two people number.

Then, Chinese style, this is not uncommon to put it plainly, or that truth, dare to say that it may not be possible to write well, but as long as you study hard and try more... You know, this is China!

Also, urban love songs, not to mention this, you know, at least in the past ten years, there are not one or two producers and singers who have tried this way, although they have not been able to occupy the music scene. The mainstream, but in fact, the tributary is also the mainstream, and there has been a successful female singer of Zhou Ai's level!

In a word, the domestic music scene is above this category, and it is not that there is no talent!

Finally, um, the song of youth.

Well, I have to admit that although it has been twenty years since the domestic music scene started, there is really no precedent for the real success of Kuaige. Before the album "Sister and Sister Stand Up" became a big hit, even There are a lot of people who look down on this kind of fast-paced work. The traditional concept is that the classical composition method is more artistic and charming... Because at that time, the mainstream in this market was folk songs and folk songs!

However, it is not impossible!

Not at home, but not abroad?

The domestic pop music scene started late, but the popular music in Europe and the United States has been developed for decades, especially like the United States, it is simply a paradise for fast songs - we still can't master the tricks of fast songs. But with so many talents and so many popular fast songs in the United States, can you still learn?

It's really not good, can we buy someone else's arrangement and fill in the Chinese lyrics?

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At this time in mid-January 1996, what ordinary people saw was the big sale of the album "Sister and Sister Stand Up", but in the eyes of interested industry insiders, it was the entire Shuntian Prefecture, Even the entire Chinese music circle is surging undercurrents, and various big and small record companies are making frequent moves.

Meetings, all kinds of big and small meetings at various record companies, seemed to pop up all of a sudden overnight.

Symposium, various record companies during the period before the Spring Festival. Started to frequently gather musicians who usually maintain a relatively close cooperative relationship. Everyone sits together. Although it is impossible to speak freely, the top musicians in this circle sit together with the top managers. When the best music and the best brain touch, Li Qian is basically put out. His works have been dismantled to the extent that you can see the flesh and the flesh as well as the skin!

Then... visit!

Before the Spring Festival, it was the time when the industry moved with each other, but this year, the actions of various companies have been much larger, according to the gossip in the circle. Some relatively big-name musicians have received a large number of invitations for song appointments at a high price - the only difference from the past is that many of them were not paid too much attention originally, but they are better at writing ancient lyrics, or writing about urban areas. Musicians of love songs have all received greater attention, and they have also received a higher invitation price!

Before the outside world is aware of it, the wind direction is slowly changing.

The entire Chinese music scene can be called sharpening the knife!

Of course, no one would think that this was aimed at Li Qian or something. That is really too much to praise Li Qian, no matter how powerful he is. It's just a big boy who has only just appeared for half a year and only made a dozen songs! However, with the new album of Wuxingwusu selling well, one thing everyone understands is that this market seems to be heating up!

Everyone sharpened their knives one after another, with only one purpose, that is, to follow the passages that Li Qian had opened up, hurry in and make a fortune!

And in this case -

In the director's office of Sony (China) Records headquarters, Xie Mingyuan nodded slowly.

"Are you sure that the project for Wuxing Wusu's next album has already started?" He asked while holding the phone.

On the phone, a voice said: "Sure! Absolutely certain! Mr. Xie, this is the news that I spent a lot of effort to get from an old friend, and it is absolutely reliable! And according to my friend, it is even in Huage at present. Inside the record, there are definitely no more than five people who know the news! They should not want the girls from Wuxingwusu to have conflicts with the company. After all, they are now Huage's cash cows. It’s been 300,000 shows, and it is said that they had a pretty good relationship with that Li Qian when they were making an album in Jinan! Therefore, it is said that within Huage, the project for their next album was under the name of I'm doing it in the name of collecting songs for new singers in the company."

Xie Mingyuan nodded, "Judging from the current situation, they have sold 5 million copies of this album, so it shouldn't be a big problem! ... 15%, it hurts everyone to change it! It is estimated that Lao Huang and the others are too. I feel that since the road has come out, even if they are away from Li Qian, the quality of their next album will not be as good as this one, but as long as they follow this road, if the standard is not too far off, they can take advantage of their current situation. The stock is so strong that it can sell several million copies, so there is absolutely no need to continue to give Li Qian so much!"

On the other end of the phone, the man smiled and said, "He Runqing took a piece of "Half Pot Yarn" from there, and it was a success. Hasn't he been collecting Chinese styles in the circle recently? To put it bluntly, as long as there are alternatives , no one is stupid enough to send them to the door to recognize the slaughter!"

Xie Mingyuan smiled when he heard the words, nodded, and said, "That's okay, that's it, I know, thank you!"

After two more polite words, he hung up the phone, but immediately frowned and thought hard.

After a few minutes, he got up and paced slowly in his office, looking preoccupied with making up his mind. During the period, an assistant came in and asked him to sign the documents. He signed his name in his hand, but he still looked absent-minded.

It wasn't until dozens of minutes later that he finally let out a sigh of relief.

He tapped his finger lightly on the piece of paper on the desk with the name, address and phone number written on it, and he said to himself: "Forget it, let's endure it! It's not time yet!"

After a pause, he raised his hand and pursed his hair, suddenly laughed, and continued to mutter to himself: "Young man, although I am very anxious, I wish I could pull you over now, but, your character... I at least I'll have to wait until you figure out that you're not that indispensable and irreplaceable~www.wuxiaspot.com~ before I can talk to you!"

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the information on the card again, and said with a smile, "However, I believe it won't take long, half a year? Or a year?"

With a smile, he stood up, and instantly returned to his usual majestic appearance.

Pressing the call button to the outside world, he slowly said to the outside assistant: "Take a breath with Zou Wenhuai and say that if it is convenient, I want to see Zhou Ai this afternoon. Also, don't forget If you say something like this to him, just say it's what I said - the domestic music scene is so chaotic now, the two of them are **** partners, they can't be so idle anymore!" (To be continued..)

ps: Well, you read that right, this is a 6,000-word chapter! In order to let everyone see it cool and smooth, we will continue to chapter!

Oh, by the way, I didn't mean to use this update to top two updates. Although the number of words is enough for two chapters, today's third update is only the first update!

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