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

Chapter 528 Chinese Music in 2003
"Why don't you dare to fight with Zhou Yi?"

After being humiliated once again, Sun Yanzi slapped his thigh in anger at the makeup artist who "did not help" and "stood by" and pointed at the door where the man disappeared, indignant.

"At least your English name is Judy, you are here to help the country! I am a Singaporean and I know more about Chinese history than you do!"

Makeup artist Judy: “…”

Is there a possibility that she is Judy, not Zhu Di?
What's more, her original name was Wang Chunfang, which has nothing to do with Zhu Di.

"boss."

Seeing that Sun Yanzi was still rambling, Judy raised her hand to interrupt her: "Why don't you accuse him to his face? You are an international friend."

"..."

Sun Yanzi's cheeks gradually bulged, and the look he gave the makeup artist gradually became dangerous.

"I'm going to kick you out of my team! Watch me!"

The two women were laughing and fighting in the dressing room.

Outside, after giving Sun Yanzi a good lesson and letting her distinguish who is the big queen and the small queen, Zhou Yi, feeling refreshed, met the reporters who had not left after the conference as soon as she walked out of the press conference site.

The next time was the performance time of Sun Yanzi's new album. Originally, some of them wanted to leave early, but after Zhou Yi appeared on the scene as a guest singer, all the reporters stayed without exception.

"Zhou Yi Zhou Yi! What's your estimate of the sales of Yanz's new album?"

"Zhou Yi, what do you think of Xu Huixin?"

"Zhou Yi, the sales of Jie Lun's latest album "Ye Huimei" are very encouraging, and the title song "Sunny Day" is extremely popular. Do you think he will pose a threat to your position in the domestic music scene?"

"What do you think of Zhe Tao being booed off the stage in the United States?"

"Zhou Yi, will you release a new Chinese album this year?"

"..."

Those who knew him were the guest today, while those who didn’t thought he was the protagonist today. There were so many microphones that they almost formed a wreath around him.

"Yanzi's album will definitely be a big hit. Is there anything to predict?"

Zhou Yi raised his hand and took the microphones of several well-known media reporters such as CCTV, Sohu, Sina, Phoenix TV, etc., with a smile on his face: "Ms. Xu is indeed an amazing newcomer. She also won the Newcomer Award, but Yan Zi just won the Golden Melody Award. I think this comparison is completely flattering Miss Xu.

"Please show some mercy and give the newcomers in the Chinese music scene some breathing space..."

"..."

hiss……

Why does this sound weird?

It seems like you are helping Universal Music's Hsu Hui-xin out of trouble, but it also seems like you are not.

Are you causing trouble again?

“I’ve also listened to Jaylen’s new album, it’s very strong, no doubt about it.

"As for my new album, it will be out in the second half of this year. I don't know Tao's situation in the United States yet, after all, I just came back from Japan. But he is an excellent musician, I believe he will get through this difficult time..."

One second he was secretly mentioning Universal Music, which gave people endless reverie, and the next second he started to speak honestly and in a proper manner. Zhou Yi's performance of jumping back and forth on the bottom line of the reporters' crazy desire to stir up trouble made them somewhat uncomfortable.

In fact, when it comes to Jay Chou, Zhou Yi is really sincere.

Jay Chou, who was at the peak of his personal creation, directly collaborated with Fang Wenshan on a song called "Tears of Parting" based on "The Romance of the Western Chamber: Farewell at the Long Pavilion" after "Dong Feng Po" was taken away by him. The title of the song was adapted from the line "Who is drunk in the frosty forest at dawn? It's always the tears of parting" in "Farewell at the Long Pavilion";
After "In the Name of the Father" was gone, Zhou Yi was familiar with the new song "New York Subway" that replaced it.

However, compared to the demo he heard in his previous life, this new song "New York Subway" is more mature, has a more complete musical structure, and the lyrics have been more profoundly modified.

However, it was precisely because of this song "New York Subway" that another "war" between fans of the two weeks was triggered -

Zhou Yi's fans were the first to criticize Jay Chou for following Zhou Yi's example of writing Western gangster-style crime stories, except that Zhou Yi wrote about the godfather of the mafia, while Jay Chou wrote about the low-level gangsters in New York.

Jay Chou's fans refuted this statement, saying that Jay Chou is not like Zhou Yi who only has eyes for the upper class like gangster godfathers. What he writes about are the real struggle experiences of the lower-class Chinese in New York.

"Zhou Yi's focus has gradually moved away from the grassroots, but Jie Lun has not!"

"Fuck you!"

The two sides each held their own views, and the argument spread from Taiwan to the mainland, and they were fighting fiercely on the Internet.

Especially those who are responsible for reviewing the music aesthetics, they came over like a cat smelling fish, constantly interpreting everything the two songs wanted to express -

“If Zhou Yi’s “In the Name of the Father” is about revenge, repentance, a last resort, the alienation of people by social and family environments, and the lonely road of the Godfather;
"Then Jaylen's New York Subway is about the unique repression and violence of the Chinese gangsters at the bottom of the American gang, as well as the vigorous vitality that grows tenaciously in the cracks of the rocks..."

The new issue of "Contemporary Music" will naturally not miss this hot topic. While writing the review of Sun Yanzi's new album, it also did not forget to send out a comparative evaluation of Jay Chou's "Ye Huimei" -

"When many singers' songs are still about love, I am very pleased that the new generation of leaders in the Chinese music scene are not satisfied with the comfort zone of love. It is rumored that Zhou Yi's new album "Return to Zang" will be filmed in war areas. I am looking forward to it..."

As for the most popular songs in this album, "Sunny Day" and "Tears of Separation", they both entered the top five of the music charts in various places, which was once the dominance of Zhou Yi's songs. "Sunny Day" was especially popular among college students.

Of course, this was before today.

After Sun Yanzi's new album "Unfinished" was released, five songs, "Meeting", "One Like Summer and One Like Autumn", "Sha Po Lang", "Magic", and "I'm Not Sad", directly entered the top 20 of radio stations around the country...

The momentum of dominating the list is so terrifying that people can't help but exclaim!
Among them, the three songs "Meeting", "I'm Not Sad" and "One Is Like Summer and the Other Is Like Autumn" all entered the top ten of the radio chart.

"Meeting" ranks the highest, and is basically always among the top five, and is closely matched with "Sunny Day" and "Spring Mud", a hit song from Yu Chengqing's new album "Harlem Paradise".

"There are so many good songs in the music industry this year."

Qian Jiang looked at the market research report made by Chen Zeshan himself and handed it to Zhou Yi who came in: "It's a bit outrageous. Yanzi's album may not be able to be suppressed."

"This year should be the last period of explosive growth for the music industry, but it's not to say that it can't be suppressed. This year, I think only Xiao Yaxuan's album can compete with Yanzi's album."

"Meeting" is too powerful, and the two songs he gave to Elva Hsiao may not be able to beat it. After all, these two are now the only female singers in the same echelon.

It’s too popular.

As it turns out, Qian Jiang was not the only one who saw this.

On August 8, three days after Sun Yanzi’s album was released, people suddenly realized that the good songs so far this year... seem to be a bit too many?

Yu Chengqing, who became a huge hit with "Love Is Not a Choice" in 01, made a comeback this year. Since the release of his album in June, his song "Spring Mud" has been sung everywhere, and his popularity is likely to return to its peak.

Wang Xinling, who became a huge hit in Taiwan with the album "When You", also entered the mainland in August. As soon as her album was released, she quickly captured the hearts of many boys and girls.

"Running" by Yu Quan and Huang Zheng, "Hidden Fragrance" by Sha Baoliang, and "Li Bai" by Zhou Yi;
Zhang Shaohan's "Lost Beauty", Cai Yilin's "Say I Love You" and "Look at My 72 Transformations";
Joey Yung's "Girl with Wings", Twins' "Next Stop Queen", and Leung Hon Man's "Seven Friends";
"Freeze" by Lin Junjie, "Song of Farewell" by Shin Band, "Ten Years" by Chen Yixun;
Xu Huixin's "Sunny on July 7th" and "Season of Loneliness", a new song from the collection of The Best of Zhe Tao;
Of course, there is also Jay Chou's "Sunny Day".

Add to that the album that Sun Yanzi released three days ago, and SHE's new album title song "Half Sugarism" which was released a day ago and became an instant hit...

Although the song "You're So Cruel" that Chen Xiaochun used to promote his new album in advance has caused controversy over plagiarism, it is also very popular in KTV.

And these are just the songs that became popular as of August 2003, 8.

“Why does it feel like the competition this year is more intense than in previous years?”

"Yeah, 00, 01, and 02 don't have so many songs that can be hummed at random."

“Is this the catfish effect brought about by Zhou Yi?”

"Don't forget, Zhou Yi himself hasn't released an album yet, and Wang Lihong hasn't released an album either..."

"Fuck!"

When faced with a surge in good songs, music audiences are the most sensitive.

Just looking at the singers competing for rankings on the charts, except for Yu Chengqing, they are all singers of the younger generation. This is enough to show that the Chinese music scene has already completed a generational change - the competition is even more intense than before.

In previous years, so many popular songs would have taken a year or even more than one to two years to produce, but now only more than half a year has passed.

The car-under-the-car god of war, Adu, was like a meteor, and by August this year, his popularity had dropped significantly...

This would have been unbelievable before.

The endless stream of good songs directly knocked this god of war who dared to compete with Zhou Yi last year down from the position of challenger - the one who replaced him and charged towards Zhou Yi was Jay Chou who came with "Sunny Day".

The national sales exceeded one million in 25 days. This is the value of Jay Chou’s new album "Ye Huimei".

"The throne of male singers is firmly held by Zhou Yi. What about female singers? Sun Yanzi? Or Xiao Yaxuan?"

"Why can't it be Cai Yilin? Is the popularity of the Double J romance any less than that of the Gemini couple?"

"Let's see if Sun Yanzi can take the throne with this album. It seems that the title song was not written by Jay Chou. If this can be put on the list, then she will be one level higher than Cai Yilin. Cai Yilin's hit songs are all tailor-made for her by Jay Chou. If she doesn't sing other people's songs to the same degree of popularity, it means that she lacks singing quotient."

"Bullshit! Was "Watch Me Transform 72 Times" written by Jay Chou?"

"You fucking Cai Yi fans, get out of here! Didn't Seventy-Two Transformations buy a foreign song and write the lyrics for it? Do you really think we don't know?"

"That's right, if you want to play English songs, then the song "Good Time" sung by Yanzi should also be included. I'm telling you..."

"..."

Since she became popular, Cai Yilin's fans have been tortured by her experiences, so they have always been invincible in online quarrels. Unfortunately, this time they met the more crystallized Zhou Yi fans and Gemini fans, and they were rarely beaten...

After the curtain of the twilight of the gods was drawn, "Meeting" soared into the sky with unrivaled momentum. In just one week, it spread throughout the streets and alleys, and its popularity even exceeded any of Sun Yanzi's previous masterpieces...

"If Zhou Yi is the emperor, then Sun Yanzi is the queen. This result is very reasonable!"

Gemini fans who never expected to find something to eat at this juncture were all starry-

Don’t say you rely on Zhou Yi. "Meeting" was specially sung by Warner for Sun Yanzi. It was given by the Queen’s family!

(End of this chapter)