The King of Crossover Entertainment

The campus singer competition jointly organized by Penguin Entertainment and Shanghai Conservatory of Music has been held for five sessions. In the previous sessions, Penguin Entertainment was in its initial development stage and did not attract much attention. But now that Penguin Entertainment has become the leading entertainment company in China, the attention of various activities and competitions held by it has risen accordingly.

The finals will be held from October 18th to November 18th, lasting for one month.

Only users who have registered a Penguin Music account for more than three months have the right to vote, and can choose to vote for three songs they like.

At twelve o'clock noon that day, countless listeners were waiting in front of their mobile phones and computers.

Chen Cheng was one of them.

He is a music agent of Zhanlan Music Group. Listening to songs is secondary. The main purpose is to discover some good singers.

Because Penguin Entertainment will only give one formal contract and two to five trial contracts for each campus singer competition.

Zhanlan Music can always pick up leaks from it. Although it is not at the level of first-tier singers, it is always among the top second-tier singers.

Chen Cheng put on his professional headphones. As a music agent, he not only has to do his job well, but also has to discover new talents with potential.

"Listen to it as soon as possible and send out invitations as soon as possible."

There are two lists on the final song interface. The left one is ranked according to the comprehensive score of the preliminary round, and the right one is ranked according to the current number of votes.

In just a few minutes, the number of votes exceeded 1,000.

"Crying Pain", a very difficult song, the highest note is the high note 5 of the E key.

"As expected of a comprehensive score of 9.5 in the preliminary round, the singing is better than some professional singers."

To be honest, the top 20 in the comprehensive score of the preliminary round have excellent singing skills and a high degree of completion of the song.

But...

I always feel that something is missing.

Yes, emotion.

Their emotional expression in the song singing is not in place, either whining without illness or being pretentious.

Singing is the art of emotion. Having "sound" but no "emotion" is just a show of sound rather than singing art. "Singing emotion" is the soul of singing art.

Having "emotion" but no "voice" is just pretentiousness. Without the means of conveying "emotion" and without artistic techniques, it is not real art.

In the art of singing, emotional expression is the most important thing.

Emotional expression in singing art comes from the singer's experience of real life. Only by fully analyzing and understanding the work and accurately using various means of expression can the content and emotion of the work be deeply reflected.

It's not without gain. After listening to the first 20 songs, Chen Cheng thinks that there are two good ones, Zhao Xuan, who ranked first in the comprehensive score of the preliminaries, and Liang Xixi, who ranked 11th. Their final songs are currently ranked first and 96th in votes.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the champion of this campus singer competition is Zhao Xuan."

The champion can get a direct contract from Penguin Entertainment, which is generally not available in other companies. Liang Xixi can give it a try.

Chen Cheng sent a message to his friend at the Magic City Conservatory of Music through WeChat, trying to get Liang Xixi's contact information.

"There are more than 500 songs..."

Chen Cheng rubbed his temples. This year's workload has increased several times.

So he changed his strategy and listened to the remaining songs randomly.

"Ah..."

Three hours later, Chen Cheng yawned and checked his progress. He had only listened to half of the songs.

Because some songs can be judged whether they are sung well or not by just listening to a few sentences, so you can directly cut to the next song.

Just when he was about to take off his headphones to rest for a while, the prelude of a song had already begun.

"Huh..."

The Chinese drums were rarely used, and the rhythm was very exciting.

Chen Cheng clicked pause and took a look at the introduction.

"Original song "Dragon Fist", the comprehensive score of the preliminaries is 6.8?"

The expectation value was reduced a lot, and the comprehensive score of the preliminaries is still of reference value.

However, it was different to see that Wu Zhongyu participated in the arrangement. He is the director of the Composition Department of the Magic City Conservatory of Music and one of the famous arrangers in China.

Chen Cheng straightened his headphones and clicked play.

After the overwhelming momentum of the Chinese drums, a few crisp and melodious chimes were added, and then the most trendy hip-hop DJs and electric guitars were played.

An interesting prelude, integrating Chinese and Western instruments.

"The northeast with Dunhuang as the center

The coastline of this nation is like a bow

The Great Wall is like a dream waiting to be shot for five thousand years

I use my arms to pull apart the weight of this entire land

What does the wind from the Mongolian Plateau write about

Do Chinese characters understand the same skin color and face

Cross the Yellow River to the east and climb to the top of Mount Tai

I lead the north wind to the west and tan into bronze..."

Very high-level words, just a few sentences, it encompasses Chinese culture.

With a single-track Guzheng solo, Chen Cheng's legs shook unconsciously.

"Longing for blood connection

Infinite millions of brothers

I unsealed the world and emptied the Yangtze River water

People are in the transformation of the ancient riverbed

I opened the sky with my right fist and turned into a dragon

Move the mountains and rivers again to fill the cracks

Adjust the time and space of the sunrise in the east

Return to the primeval world to dominate and manipulate..."

The chorus sounded.

Chen Cheng felt as if the blood in his veins was burning, and the national sentiment engraved in his bones was aroused.

Although the world is united, we still need a hundred cultures to flourish in order to make life more colorful.

Chinese culture is broad and profound, with a long history and rich heritage, and its charm should be shown to the world.

I have been in the industry for ten years.

I have listened to countless songs, and it has been a long time since I was moved to tears and excited by a song.

The song "Dragon Fist" has a high degree of fit with the arrangement, and it is also a very excellent pure music alone.

The arrangement is too strong.

The paragraphs of the lyrics, as well as the punctuation and flow when singing are also very wonderful.

It can be said that the lyrics, music, arrangement, production, and singing are all perfect.

Chen Cheng suddenly felt his face "slap".

It was sloppy.

He was willing to call this Yunfeng and this song "Dragon Fist" the strongest in this campus singer competition.

The champion in his mind.

But why is the comprehensive score of the preliminary round so low?

"No, we must find a way to sign this Yunfeng."

The original singer who is good at singing, lyrics, and music has a broad development prospect.

Chen Cheng continued to ask friends at the Magic City Conservatory of Music for help to get Yunfeng's contact information, while notifying the company's senior management of this matter.

The Blue Music Group is ranked in the middle of the Chinese music industry, and it needs a newcomer with strength and ability to break through.

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Modu Conservatory of Music, dormitory building, room 404.

Xia Dachuan held a mobile phone and sighed: "Why are there only 108 votes? I have canvassed for votes in the WeChat chat groups of elementary, middle and high school classes."

Li Junyi said: "Not only classmates, I even canvassed relatives, and the same is true for my girlfriend."

Xiao Tianpeng said: "There is a problem with this competition system and rules. There are too many songs in the finals, and each person only has three votes. 90% of people will not listen to all the songs before voting."

Yunfeng was typing calmly.

He tried hard, and the rest is up to fate.

Besides, this is only the first day.

He opened the WeChat circle and posted the first 20,000 words of the novel "Cat's Eye".

Since it is written as an essay, there is no need to be so particular. Besides, it is not a novel with millions of words. If the chapters are too short, it will reduce the appeal of such a short story.

Yunfeng still retains the original flavor of the novel "Cat's Eye". He only modified some people, place names, and events that appeared on Earth but not on the blue planet in the novel. These have little impact on the story itself.

After posting, it was already 11:30 in the evening.

This happened to be the peak time for browsing Weibo. How can you sleep if you lie in bed and don't play with your mobile phone for an hour or so.

"Zhu Xian" is generally not updated at night, so many fans stare at the cross-border king's Weibo to see if the essay story has been released.

Finally.

A few days after the short preview was released on Weibo, the main text came.

20,000 words, an experienced reader can read ten lines at a glance and finish it quickly, while a novice reader has to read every word and sentence, which takes a lot of time.

Xue Jiayi is a novice reader.

Zhu Xian has 20,000 words updated every day, and sometimes she can't finish reading it in a day.

"Ah..."

When Xue Jiayi just started reading Cat's Eye, her roommate Su Feiyan screamed on the bed.

"Feiyan, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Jiayi asked hurriedly.

The other two roommates also looked at Su Feiyan's bed with concern.

Su Feiyan replied tremblingly: "I... I'm reading the essay story posted by the cross-border king on the WeChat circle, it's... a little scary."

"No way, Feiyan, how scary can an essay story be?"

"Who is the cross-border king?"

The other two roommates have not watched Zhu Xian and are not fans.

Xue Jiayi's hands trembled, and she said, "No, no way, is Cat's Eye really scary? Then I won't watch it."

Su Feiyan's bed was next to Xue Jiayi's, and she crawled over and said, "It's scary, but it's also good to watch. Jiayi, let's watch it together, and we won't be so scared."

Xue Jiayi opened the quilt and let her in, saying, "Okay."

However...

The screams turned from one to two, and finally to four.