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

Chapter 602: Evil Nemesis Yi
The reason why Sun Yanzi said this is purely because this year's Spring Festival Gala was somewhat ahead of its time in defining "lip-syncing".

In previous years’ Spring Festival Galas, there were also bold directors who offered real singing and promoted it as a selling point, but the final result... can only be described as disappointing.

Except for a few singers like Zhou Yi, other big-name pop singers had more or less minor accidents. Many big-name actors and singers were even embarrassed on stage, which directly reduced the originally beautiful audio and video effects.

Therefore, during the preparations for this year's Spring Festival Gala, many reporters wanted to know whether the live singing mode would be adopted this year, but the staff and publicity personnel interviewed did not dare to make any promises easily and could only laugh it off.

There has always been a big disagreement within CCTV about whether to sing live.

Finally, in order to pursue the best live effect and to avoid various situations that occurred in previous Spring Festival Galas, Yuan Dewang, the chief director of this year's Spring Festival Gala, after comprehensive consideration, finally chose lip-syncing.

Of course, as a veteran, he still knows how to make amends for himself.

So, three days ago, Yuan Dewang made a shocking statement in an interview with the media: "There is a qualitative difference between real singing and lip-syncing, which is undeniable.

“But I think that those who sing by lip-syncing to recordings in evening shows are actually singing live. Because the sound is recorded in advance, the artistic effect of broadcasting will make the audience feel better.

"This is not lip-syncing. The concept of lip-syncing is that someone else sings for you and you create the image. This is called lip-syncing.

"Concert-type programs are not allowed to play recorded dialogues, but this is not a concert..."

The implication is self-evident: I won’t be singing live with the mic this year!

The Spring Festival Gala is not a concert. It is a super large gala that people all over the country are paying attention to. Why do you care whether I lip sync or not or whether I play a recording?

What if the lip-syncing caused a broadcast accident? Wouldn’t all the preparations and efforts of the entire Taiwanese people over such a long period of time be wasted?
You journalists are always praising yourself when you get paid to write articles, but you don’t really believe in your own praise, do you? Do you really think these big names in the entertainment industry are so powerful?

If they were really strong, there wouldn't have been so many big names making fools of themselves on the Spring Festival Gala.

It is precisely because of this that Jay Chou, the man who was voted into the Spring Festival Gala by the Internet, became the first person who was determined to record lip syncing in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

The reason is simple. The main reason is that he has always been criticized for his slurred singing and his haters call him a stutterer.

It's not a big deal to stutter normally, but if you still stutter on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, it seems a bit confusing.

Compared to Jay Chou, who will completely shut off his mic on the Spring Festival Gala stage, Sun Yanzi's treatment is slightly better. She is only asked to half-open her mic, and background music will be played, but the volume of her microphone will be slightly turned down.

The only thing that is not restricted is the Book of Changes.

As the face of mainland pop music, Zhou Yi is a latecomer, but with his strong skills and the ability to never fail in important occasions, after withstanding several tests in the China-Korea Song Festival and the Spring Festival Gala, he became what the program crew said was the bottom line of pursuing real singing.

Don’t ask. If you want to know, we are singing live. If you don’t believe me, look at Zhou Yi. People even sang two songs live.

"That's why we say the bottom line is slipping step by step. Now evening parties have to lip-sync for effects. I'm afraid that concerts will also have to lip-sync for effects like Hong Kong and Taiwan in the future."

After staying in Shangrao for a few more days, Zhou Yi got together with his parents, relatives, friends and classmates. After Laba Festival, Qian Jiang took Zhou Yi back to the capital on the 31st. When they talked about the Spring Festival Gala on the way, they couldn't help complaining.

Zhou Yi, who was reading a newspaper, was happy: "Don't tell me, it's not impossible."

Ten shots of E6 highlights, paying tribute to the legendary big buffalo!
In the future, many mainland passers-by will be angry about Wu Yuetian's lip-syncing at her concert. In fact, it is only because the famous first-line singers in the mainland singing circle still have some persistence in their concerts.

After all, at that time, many first-line singers were reported to have lip-synced at parties, but those who could hold concerts would choose to sing normally as singers whenever they had concerts or fan meetings.

When Xue Zhiqian had a high fever and couldn't sing anymore, not only did he get his tickets refunded, he even got his air tickets and hotel rooms refunded; Xu Song, Wang Sulong and others' main selling point was that if my singing skills are not good enough, it won't work, anyway, I will sing my song to the fullest at the concert and you can scold me if you want, and if I forget the lyrics, I will just make them up on the spot.

There is no need to talk much about Zhang Jie's concerts. Even Zhang Wei, a professional lip-syncer at evening parties, will choose to sing live when he is a guest at a concert or at a fan meeting. The eternal god of the Chinese music scene will not hesitate to spend a lot of money at the concert;
In comparison, Wu Yuetian's fans who bought tickets seem to be somewhat taken advantage of.

As for the singers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and the United States that many colonists praise all the time -

In fact, the trend of singers lip-syncing had already spread from Japan and the United States to Hong Kong and Taiwan as early as the 1970s and 1980s, and then from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland.

That’s right, it’s the Japanese music scene where lip-syncing is never allowed and is considered illegal in Japan.

As for the American music scene, which is regarded as the world's number one music scene by American braggarts, the lip-syncing celebrities are even more heavyweight than each other.

"This topic is too sensitive. If a reporter asks you about it, just pretend you didn't hear it. With your current status, it's best not to touch it. You can just sing it live anyway." After listing all the sensitive issues in the entertainment industry that he had identified in the latest issue and handing them over to Zhou Yi, Qian Jiang warned: "Now everyone is focusing on your new song. I have to say that the ratings of Happy Camp are really terrible. The few lines of your improvised ballad have already been spread."

His popularity had already exploded because of the tearful incident. After the show was broadcast on Saturday, Zhou Yi's impromptu performance of "Gardenia Blossoms" attracted enough attention.

Many people even contacted Qian Jiang as soon as possible, wanting to try to buy this song that was not even a semi-finished product - to be precise, they wanted Zhou Yi to finish writing it and then sell it to them.

Many folk music audiences were also delighted after this song came out, and instantly thought of the news secretly leaked by many insiders who watched the recording before "Base Camp" was broadcast.

As we all know, the last man who boasted that he was a promoter of folk songs was forced to go abroad to avoid the limelight by Zhou Yi, and he has not returned yet.

If Zhou Yi takes action, then it may not be impossible for my folk song group to change its leader.

It’s not like the person in charge can be replaced, it’s just a matter of handing over a dragon head stick.

"Folk song? Well, I don't have any plans for that at the moment."

After arriving in the imperial capital, Zhou Yi, who was surrounded by reporters and had to be interviewed, smiled and joked: "It is well known that I will never look forward to the expectations of my fans."

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Qian Jiang almost failed to control his expression, and looked as if he had seen a ghost, while the reporters' eyes lit up.

"What do you mean? You have no intention of releasing a folk song?"

“Schrödinger’s idea.”

"...Then Zhou Yi, what do you think about the rumors that you feel you have been wronged?"

"Grievance? I never suffer grievance. If I have a grudge, I will take revenge on the spot."

"Jiang Wen said you are not a human being. May I ask if you two have broken up?"

"Oh, it's okay. He deserved it. I'll drive a Ferrari to his house later."

"???"

January 2004, 1, New Year’s Day, a very auspicious day.

On the first day Zhou Yi returned to the capital, he did not go to the Warner Building or CCTV to report. Instead, he showed up at the entrance of the court in a swaggering manner.

He was present as a witness.

Yuan Li, a former Xinhua News Agency reporter, was found to have colluded with the Wall Street Journal, received money to smear Zhou Yi's reputation, and was also found to have changed his nationality;

Although Xu Qingliang, a well-known editor of Southern Weekly, did not receive any money, he was also sued by Warner. Not only was there a huge team of lawyers, but the court was also Zhou Yi's home court.

The judge is an old alumnus who graduated from the Law School of Peking University.

In this small piece of land in the imperial capital, when Zhou Yi was right, rich, and had connections, the public intellectuals who had been rampant on the Internet for two or three years were really panicked this time.

Their eloquence, which they were so proud of, had no effect on Zhou Yi at all, and the so-called banner of freedom of speech could not even be raised in front of Zhou Yi.

"They have their freedom of speech, and I also have the freedom to exercise my personal rights. I am not restricting them, I am just teaching them a lesson..."

At the entrance of the court, facing the reporters who were waiting for him, Zhou Yi, who was wearing a burgundy windbreaker, tilted his head and grinned, saying, "I can never reconcile with evil."

(End of this chapter)