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Chapter 635 Everyone is discussing my songs
Because of Zhou Yi's presence, this first China-Japan Friendship Concert, which was truly restarted, had many more big names than Zhou Yi had expected.

Among the older generation, in addition to the legendary Japanese musician Shinji Tamura who promoted the restart of the China-Japan Song Festival, people such as the original singer of "The Straw Hat Song" Joe Yamanaka, one of the living fossils of the Japanese industry, Zhou Yi's acquaintance, and Miyuki Nakajima, who celebrates her 30th anniversary of debut this year, all came to the scene.

Compared with these three, Kimura Takuya and Kimura Shizuka, Akina Nakamori, the V6 group and others can be considered "young" people.

As for the younger generation, since Utada Hikaru did not return and Ayumi Hamasaki's arrogance at the China-Japan Music Festival last year made this the most popular queen of the Japanese music scene. This year, the list was not shortlisted. Instead, singers who debuted after the millennium, such as Mika Nakashima, were selected as representatives of new singers.

This lineup is obviously very different from the 2004 China-Japan Music Festival lineup that Zhou Yi remembers. There are a lot more real popular celebrities and idols.

According to what Qian Jiang told him, this was the strongest lineup that the Japanese music scene could send out after knowing that the big devil Zhou Yi would be coming.

If you want sentiment, you have sentiment; if you want popularity, you have popularity.

Fortunately, the most powerful young queen of Japanese music, Utada Hikaru, is in the United States and cannot come over. Otherwise, judging from the fact that Zhou Yi beat her to a pulp, a meeting between the two would be a bit murderous...

"Welcome, Zhou Yijun."

As the promoter and founder of the China-Japan Song Festival, Tamura Shinji was the first to come forward with a very kind smile.

"Hello, Mr. Tanimura. I have heard a lot about you."

In front of this respectable old man, Zhou Yi's attitude was truly elegant and easy-going, and his smile came from the heart.

As one of the veteran musicians in the Japanese music scene, Shinji Tamura, who was born in 1948, is almost 60 this year. His peak period may be unfamiliar to many people in China, but many fans who have experienced the peak period of Hong Kong music in China should not be too unfamiliar with his songs.

Singers such as Deng Lijun, Tan Yonglin, Zhang Guorong, Zhang Xueyou, Chen Huixian, Mei Yanfang and many others have covered his songs. The most popular Chinese cover song is "Distant Her" sung by Zhang Xueyou.

Moreover, the most commendable thing is that this old man is one of the few "pro-Chinese" people in the Japanese literary and art circles.

It's not the kind that bets on both sides, but the kind that runs towards the Chinese from the beginning.

In 1981, he was able to hold a concert at the Workers' Stadium through approval, becoming the first Japanese artist to hold a concert in China and in the capital.

When he passed away on October 2023, 10, the official evaluation was that he was an old friend. The diplomatic side expressed condolences and sympathy to his relatives, and also affirmed his efforts and achievements in building a bridge of communication between the music circles of China and Japan.

The gold content can be imagined.

After Mr. Tamura Shinji, I'm really not familiar with the guy Zhou Yi who sang the Straw Hat Song. After all, he really didn't have any feeling for this song.

Miyuki Nakajima and Akina Nakamori are old acquaintances. The latter even bought the copyright of his songs when she was the guest of honor at the Golden Melody Awards, such as "Fairy Tale" and "The Wind Rises" -

There's no way. The song "Riding on the Silver Dragon's Back" is so popular in Japan that Zhou Yi himself doesn't even know how many singers have covered his songs in Japan. All he knows is that the copyright system in Japan is strictly controlled, and he collects a lot of copyright adaptation fees here.

The Japanese version of "The Wind Rises" also became popular again because of Zhou Yi's fame, and was strongly promoted after Akina Nakamori joined Universal Music, and even entered the top three of the Oricon charts.

And it is precisely because of Akina Nakamori's resurgence that the rights to cover Zhou Yi's songs have become even more popular - especially his English songs.

People like Kimura Takuya and his wife, the V6 group, etc. all come here to make good relationships.

The former's popularity in Japan has indeed dropped significantly due to their marriage. Kimura Takuya is fine, but Kudo Shizuka, who changed her name to Kimura Shizuka, is a singer, and her popularity has plummeted since she made a comeback after her marriage.

As for the latter, V6 itself is a super popular idol boy group of Japan's Johnny's, and they dream of making friends with a producer like Zhou Yi.

Although Zhou Yi was only familiar with one person in the boy band—Ultraman Tiga's human form, Daiko, and Nagano Hiroshi, nicknamed the Car Accident Hero.

As for other young singers like Mika Nakashima, Zhou Yi would just nod and greet them. After all, they were not relatives of the familiar Miyuki Nakashima.

"Hey, hello, Zhou Yi-kun."

In Japan, where the status of seniors and juniors is clearly defined, as a junior among juniors, even though she was very familiar with Zhou Yi, Nagasawa Masami still had to greet Zhou Yi at the end: "How is my English? I haven't seen you for a few months. Has my English improved?"

Last year, Toho Princess Masami Nagasawa, who once again boosted her popularity in Japan with her starring role in "Robot Race" and supporting roles in the Godzilla series of movies, also showed off her English skills after a intensive study.

She also reaped the benefits of Zhou Yi's "Qilixiang" MV, attracting a large number of Zhou Yi's Japanese fans to support her. Of course, the same is true for Yui Aragaki, who has left the modeling industry and joined the acting group after becoming popular.

However, compared to Toho behind Nagasawa Masami, the agency behind Aragaki Yui obviously cannot send her to this China-Japan Song Festival, and can only wait for the opportunity at the next one.

After all, according to gossip, Zhou Yi will participate in two sessions.

This is the case in Japan. If she can take part in Zhou Yi's English MV, she will be able to show off in the United States and receive more resources in Japan. It will be a hundred benefits for her.

Of course, if possible, she also wants to sing a cover - a cover of Zhou Yi's songs.

"I'll tell you a secret. You may not know this, but tonight many singers will choose to cover your songs to pay tribute to you~"

Standing on tiptoe, Nagasawa Masami whispered in Zhou Yi's ear and told him a secret that was not really a secret.

Zhou Yi came to Japan late and was the only one who had few rehearsals - he did not even see the early rehearsals of many Japanese singers.

"Tribute to me?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows without comment, but didn't take it too seriously.

The Japanese music scene has its own system after all. At most, he can just cover the Japanese versions of his songs that are popular in Japan.

After returning to the Chinese singers area and saying hello, Zhou Yi sat next to Luo Zhixiang because they were both young people. At this moment, the future time management master looked envious: "Hey Zhou Yi, are you familiar with them all?"

He quite likes Japanese actresses such as Masami Nagasawa, Shizuka Kudo and Akina Nakamori, especially Shizuka Kudo, but unfortunately she is just an acquaintance to him. "You ask me, aren't you from Avex?"

"I'm from Avex, and she's not from Avex, although I met her a few times at some events during my training in Japan..."

Sitting in his seat, chatting with him casually, Zhou Yi could only rely on this method to relieve his boredom as he had no interest in the opening of the party.

Avex Records has two top Chinese-speaking artists - Wang Xinling and Luo Zhixiang.

This is probably one of the reasons why Luo Zhixiang was able to perform at this year's China-Japan Song Festival. He was promoted by Avex's parent company in Japan.

If Wang Xinling hadn't been busy filming, Gao Di would have been squeezed in.

However, seeing Luo Zhixiang's enthusiastic look, Zhou Yi thought about it and decided to hold back and not ask why he was thinking about Shizuka Kodo since she's already married and her husband is still Takuya Kimura.

After all, he is a man over 40 who can still challenge his limits during the day and at night. Putting aside other things, his kidneys are really good.

"By the way, Zhou Yi, I'm having a party after the party. Do you want to come? Cai Yilin and the others will be there, as well as some Japanese actresses."

"I would like to, but unfortunately I don't have enough time. I have to rush back to the United States."

Zhou Yi smiled, raised his hand and applauded the show on stage, and refused outright: "The Oscars are at the end of the month, and I have to make an English album afterwards, so I don't have much time to play."

Although he also likes to play, he is obviously not on the same path as this master of time management - unless he is the only man at this so-called rave party and all the others are women.

Don’t play with men!

"That's a shame."

Luo Zhixiang smacked his lips, obviously feeling it was a pity.

The two were chatting, and when the prelude of a new show sounded on the stage, Zhou Yi's tone suddenly paused -

Ok?
"Happy Worship"?
Looking up, the Japanese super popular idol boy group V6 stood in a row, and everyone made a fixed pose, causing the Japanese fans in the audience to scream——

This was a new Japanese version of the song that he had never heard before.

As he could guess about 6% to % of the meaning from the subtitles, Zhou Yi was a little surprised: Is Squirtle so willing to buy the copyright for V?
When the dance was over, V6, who stayed on the stage to be interviewed by the host, mentioned Zhou Yi several times.

"Yes, Zhou Yijun is actually our idol. Our adaptation of this song is like paying tribute to him in person..."

Hiroshi Nagano, who played Daiko in Ultraman Tiga, bowed slightly in the direction of Zhou Yi in the audience and said, "Thank you very much, Zhou Yi, for giving us this opportunity."

After that, Kimura Takuya and his wife took the stage one after another. In addition to singing one of their representative works, they also sang the Japanese versions of Zhou Yi's "Jiangnan" and "Fireworks Are Easy to Cool". The camera was once again given to Zhou Yi in the audience -

The fake smile boy is online.jpg.

Anyway, he collects copyright fees every year, but I have never heard of it.

After that, there was no need to say much about Nakajima Miyuki. She sang "Riding on the Back of the Silver Dragon" directly, and when she sang the second half, she switched to the Chinese version of "The First Dream", which amazed the audience.

Qiao Shanzhong, the original singer of "The Straw Hat Song", sang a Japanese adaptation of "Goodbye" after singing the Straw Hat Song...

After singing some of her past representative works, Akina Nakamori sang the Japanese version of "The Wind Rises".

Mika Nakashima and Masami Nagasawa sang the Japanese versions of Zhou Yi's "Dong Feng Po" and "Qilixiang" respectively.

Correspondingly, singers from the Chinese side, such as Cai Guoqing and Chen Ming, also put on kimonos and sang the Japanese songs of the other side's singers. Even the song sung by Luo Zhixiang on stage had a Japanese rap.

The Sino-Japanese Exchange Singing Contest perfectly reflects the significance of communication——

It’s just that the amount of “I Ching” in this communication is a bit high.

The Japanese songs chosen by the Chinese side are mostly old-school songs, and the singers are not restricted to one person;
On the Japanese side, eight out of the ten songs are adapted from Zhou Yi's songs, and the rest are other popular hits...

He himself is a little confused——

No, is this his fan meeting or a China-Japan fan meeting?

"It's normal that you have so many songs. It's not easy to have your original songs. Do you still want them to choose those popular covers of Hong Kong music?"

Qian Jiang said calmly, "You have to know that many popular songs in the past were actually Japanese songs with new lyrics. We can't ask them to select these songs and perform them again when they select the popular songs. Who would be so proud of that?"

Zhouyi: "..."

Hiss, that seems to make some sense.

Apart from anything else, the two artists, Mr. Shinji Tanimura and Miyuki Nakajima, who are on stage right now, have directly occupied more than 100 songs in the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene in the past.

In the past, 55 songs of Tamura Shinji have been covered by the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene, while 71 songs of Nakajima Miyuki have been covered. Together, these two have had a total of 126 songs covered.

That is to say, Koji Tamaki, whose songs have been covered the most, didn't come, otherwise the number would be even more unsightly...

(End of this chapter)