The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 469 Coach, I want to learn this

Judging from his tone, Qian Jiang obviously didn't want Zhou Yi to get involved in this matter.

It’s not that I don’t want to contribute to the country.

If it was just about singing, Qian Jiang would be happy for Zhou Yi to take on the task. Anyway, this kid never knew what nervousness was. He was a well-known big-hearted player since his debut. The bigger the venue, the better his performance.

Attending a grand event like the Olympics would also help him to gain recognition.

But this time, the organizing committee chose Zhou Yi because of his creative ability and external influence.

Among all the people in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, besides Chenglong, Zhou Yi is the only one who has great influence and fame abroad.

Let Chenglong, who is already 49 years old this year, go on stage to perform a set of military boxing?

Or should I go up and sing "The Great Wall Will Never Fall"?
Obviously neither works.

This was not part of the plan of director Zhang Yimou.

“You are young, so you may not know much about the Olympics.

"Since we are the host country of the next 08 Olympic Games, they will give us about 8 minutes at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games next year to welcome the world and showcase ourselves.

"Zhang Yimou is the chief director of the Athens Olympics Eight Minutes. After he finished filming Heroes, he got in touch with the organizing committee and has already started planning the content of the Olympic exhibition..."

We must ensure that China's style and charm are displayed within just 8 minutes, giving the world a glimpse of it, while also demonstrating our own cultural confidence and expressing China's attitude of welcoming visitors from all over the world on the international stage.

This is quite difficult.

Initially, Zhang Yimou, his team and leaders considered Liu Huan, but because the results were not good, they were still waiting to see whether he could be selected. This was until Zhou Yi became famous in Europe and the United States in the past two months.

In terms of fame abroad, Zhou Yi's face is definitely much more famous than Liu Huan's.

In terms of creative talent - at least after the pleasant collaboration on "Hero", Zhang Yimou admires Zhou Yi from the bottom of his heart.

"He thinks that inviting you here can help to make up for the problem that the songs are not representative enough. To put it bluntly, I suspect that he asked you to come here just to let you write a song. If you don't handle this kind of composition well, you will be easily attacked..."

Zhou Yi has already come to this point. There is no need to take this gamble. The risk is too great.

At least that's what Qian Jiang thinks.

Unless Zhang Yimou invited Zhou Yi in purely because of his fame abroad and simply wanted him to sing.

But this possibility is very small.

As far as he knows, Zhang Yimou has only tentatively decided on "Jasmine Flower" as the opening song, and is still testing the effect. The second song, which is the main theme, has not been decided yet because no one feels right.

Under such circumstances, it was difficult for Qian Jiang not to prepare for the worst and consider Zhou Yi's future reputation.

"This meeting is difficult to arrange. You can meet them at that time. If the momentum is not right, then..."

Qian Jiang used his experience in the underworld for most of his life to come up with a comprehensive way for Zhou Yi to withdraw as a backup plan. Once he found something wrong, he could immediately start this set of rhetoric -

Sun Yanzi on the side listened so seriously that he almost took out a pen to take notes, but Zhou Yi himself listened but it went in one ear and out the other.

It was not until the call was hung up that Sun Yanzi, who had been a little nervous when listening to Qian Jiang's description of the national atmosphere, noticed Zhou Yi's extremely relaxed attitude. He could not help but look at him in surprise for several times: "Aren't you nervous?"

"Why should I be nervous? I am just a singer after all. If the public wants to criticize me, they should criticize Zhang Yimou, the chief director."

Zhou Yi turned his chair and spread his hands: "If you really want me to do it, I will just make sure I don't make any mistakes."

Sun Yanzi looked as if he had seen a ghost: "Why do I feel like it's easy for you to not make mistakes? This is the Olympics."

In 2003, the Olympic Games still had considerable influence around the world.

Sun Yanzi put herself in the shoes of others. If Singapore hosted the Olympic Games one day, she would go on stage as a representative singer to sing for the country...

hiss……

She felt suffocated just thinking about the scene.

"is it hard?"

Zhou Yi took another bite of the apple and obviously didn't take it seriously at all.

If you want Chinese songs, my door is always open and I can play them directly;
If Zhang Yimou wants to go international and wants a large number of foreigners to understand what these eight minutes express at the first time, he can also sing an English song - change Taylor Swift's future song "Welcome to New York" to "Welcome to Beijing Jing".

Anyway, the emotions of hope, prosperity, expectation, enthusiasm, hospitality, etc. depicted in Taylor Swift's song can be applied to many cities in the world, as long as the name of New York is changed.

Moreover, if he remembered correctly, at the end of the eight minutes of the Athens Olympics next year, Zhang Yimou had no choice but to choose to repeat "Jasmine Flower" twice, and the little girl who went on stage last to repeat "Jasmine Flower" shouted out the English words: Welcome to Beijing.

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with his singing of "Welcome to Beijing Jing".

He sang Welcome to Beijing in front of foreign friends on the eight-minute stage in Athens, surrounded by Chinese elements performing around him, which somewhat expressed the concept of warm hospitality and welcoming everyone to travel to China, instead of just meaningless Jasmine songs.

We can sing a chorus to welcome you, but even foreigners can't understand it, so it can only be used as background music. After all, Athens 8 Minutes is a platform for foreigners all over the world, and English songs are definitely more conducive to spreading around the world.

Considering the passionate and brainwash melody of "Welcome to New York" and the fact that it was held at the Athens Olympics, Zhou Yi himself actually preferred to sing this song in the external stage.

Not only can it effectively utilize his fame abroad and spread the song at a faster speed, but it can also let the city "Beijing" in the song penetrate into the ears of every foreign listener with the brainwashing melody of the song, and promote the city to the greatest extent;

Let more international friends know where the next Olympic Games will be held and, through this English song, establish a good first impression of "Beijing", a city they have never met.

When the event started in 08 and the local people were promoting the event, he took the lead in singing "Welcome You".

In this way, both domestic and foreign markets will flourish. Of course, this is only the most ideal state.

If the chief director Zhang Yimou did not adopt it, he would not care. After all, he was destined to be criticized for the poor arrangement of the program in Athens Eight Minutes, and he was just a young singer responsible for singing.

For Zhou Yi, what he really needs to pay attention to is his hometown in 08, which is the real focus of everyone's attention, rather than Athens in 04.

"Hoo, hoo!"

He was thinking about something in his mind. Seeing him in a daze, Sun Yanzi subconsciously raised his hand and waved in front of his eyes twice: "What are you thinking about? So absorbed? Are you nervous?"

“I want to retire.”

"?"

Sun Yanzi's heart moved when he heard this, and he pricked up his ears the next second, and asked calmly: "How old are you and you're thinking about retirement?"

"This is called avoiding 30 years of detours. You know nothing."

Zhou Yi checked the time and closed the webpage. He stood up from his chair, stretched his waist and walked out of the study room: "We have to enjoy life."

"Hehe, this is the first time I agree with what you said."

When a lazy guy meets another lazy guy, there is no need to say much.

Sun Yanzi followed with a smile: "By the way, Zhou Yi, can you lend me the gym at your home?"

"What do you want to do?"

"Didn't I accept Stephen Chow's Kung Fu? Just by listening to the title, you know it's a Kung Fu movie. I plan to train myself first, you know."

As he spoke, Sun Yanzi also made a boxing stance, and occasionally punched twice as he walked forward, saying confidently: "The company's gym is too far away, and I don't want to go to the gym near my home. Who knows if I will get SARS.

"Among the three of us, only your house has a gym, so we can only come to your house to exercise."

As a man who often chooses to exercise when he has free time, the largest functional area in Zhou Yi's home is the fitness area, which is equipped with all kinds of fitness equipment.

"Just you? Still exercising?"

Zhou Yi stopped and half turned around, looking up and down at Sun Yanzi, who had become much rounder due to the "hard work" in the past few years. Although he didn't say it out loud, his eyes had already said it all.

"I'm very strong, okay."

Pinching his arms that had gained some weight recently, Sun Yanzi proudly did a dumbbell curl.

As they were walking out of the study, they ran into Cheng Hao who was still reading documents in the living room. Cheng Hao was attracted by Sun Yanzi's actions and was a little surprised: "What do you mean by very strong?"

"She wants to prove that she is a seasoned fitness veteran. Do you think she will be one?" Zhou Yi smiled and lowered his eyes.

"It's hard to say."

Cheng Hao closed the document in his hand, put it on the coffee table, and smiled.

"I'll prove it to you."

Determined to fight for himself, Sun Yanzi stepped into the fitness area, and after a quick glance, his eyes first fell on the dumbbell rack that looked very heavy...

Ok……

Then her eyes fell on the horizontal bar next to the gantry, which had only one movable horizontal bar.

It's it!
"Watch it, don't blink."

Under the gaze of Zhou Yi and Cheng Hao, Sun Yanzi walked to the horizontal bar, blew into his palms, clapped his hands, and then jumped up -

"Hey!"

After the movements with their own dubbing, Sun Yanzi grabbed the horizontal bar with both hands and easily did ten pull-ups that were fairly up to the standard for college students, and then landed steadily.

Before she could even open her mouth, Cheng Hao, who looked genuinely surprised rather than flattering, was the first to praise her in surprise: "You're amazing, Yan Zi, you can do ten so easily."

"That is."

Sun Yanzi, who was waiting to be praised, immediately smiled, raised his chin slightly and gave Zhou Yi a proud look.

Accepting the provocation, Zhou Yi chuckled, stretched his body twice, and then stood on tiptoe to hold the horizontal bar. He looked up at the two women who were looking at him, and raised the corner of his mouth with a hint of playfulness: "Are you sure that's called a pull-up?"

"Well, otherwise—"

Under Sun Yanzi's almost dazed gaze, Zhou Yi did a standard pull-up but did not get down from the spot. Instead, he swung his body and raised the horizontal bar with both hands in an almost climbing manner to his front teeth, which was three levels higher than before!

"clang!"

The sound of metal colliding was particularly crisp in this empty fitness area. After climbing up twice effortlessly, Zhou Yi's entire height rose a lot!

"I—he—isn't—this shouldn't be…."

Facing the man who landed easily, Sun Yanzi looked incredulous.

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows at her proudly.

“…Coach, I want to learn this!”

(End of this chapter)