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

Chapter 705 You are plagiarizing!
"Fuck you!"

"Son of a bitch!"

"Spike will never be bigger than Eminem!"

"I'm going to your mother!"

"Spike is the greatest singer of this era!"

The streets and campuses in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, etc. were filled with quarrels with serious opposing positions.

Especially among the younger junior and senior high school students, there were even several small, unknown group fights between Zhou Yi and Eminem's fans.

As we all know, young people are always hot-blooded and impulsive, and they can easily get along with others, especially in such a free and fertile soil as the American campus.

Both sides are relying on fabricated negative information on the Internet and in the media to confront each other fiercely, and both sides believe the negative information about their opponents to be true - especially those photoshopped pictures that spread extremely quickly and widely.

Of course, if the initial Photoshop Wars and Table Wars were only caused by fans' spontaneous confrontation, then their external dissemination could not be separated from the two giants who had been watching the battlefield from behind:

Warner Music, Universal Music.

Edgar Jr., the current head of Warner Records, is paying special attention to it.

As we all know, in addition to his mentor Dr. Dre, Eminem's mentor was also a big shot in the record industry - legendary American producer and co-founder of Interscope Records Jimmy Iovine.

And this New Interscope Records is a subsidiary of Universal.

For Edgar Jr., this battle was a fight to settle both new and old grudges - because it was not just a fight between Zhou Yi and Eminem, but also a war between him and the top executives of Universal Music who had once kicked him out.

He was once kicked out of Universal Music, and now he wants to prove to the industry and the world that Universal was wrong.

To this end, he once again showed his true colors as a prodigal son: he did not hesitate to stop any recent projects within the company that might affect the distribution of Zhouyi's publicity resources, and all the manpower was fully dedicated to Zhouyi alone.

In other words, Warner Records currently has no top-tier singers other than Linkin Park, otherwise people's hearts would be shaken because of Edgar Jr.'s actions.

As for whether Linkin Park has any objections...

Currently, the team itself has some problems. The internal conflicts have not been resolved, there is no time for publicity, and even the original album plan has been shelved. It is completely meaningless.

Like her boss, there is also Rihanna in Warner who is extremely looking forward to the performance of Zhou Yi's album "Listen/Future Sounds".

She collaborated with Zhou Yi on the song "boom boom pow" in this album. In a way, she thought that Zhou Yi had done enough - even beyond the scope.

A world-famous superstar personally promoted her just because of her vocal characteristics. This is the starting point that many people dream of.

If this song "boom boom pow" has a chance to become popular, then she will have had a perfect start with the help of Zhou Yi.

However, what she did not expect was that, on the eve of the release of "Listen/Future Sounds", Zhou Yi's Chinese album "Return to the Tibetan" released last year actually broke the language barrier in the United States and had a certain degree of discussion among fans in the English-speaking area.

It even led to a slight increase in the physical sales of "Gui Zang" in the United States.

The reason is still because of two men - Justinian Baker and Garen Montoya.

Justinian Baker, male, 20 years old, is an Eminem fan who tries every means to make his idol surpass Zhou Yi in status.

In the comment battle with Zhou Yi's fans, this young man, who was already well versed in status, prestige and other rhetoric, soon discovered a loophole on the morning of November 11 - a loophole that could cause Zhou Yi to be crushed by Eminem in terms of status.

"When it comes to judging the status of singers of an era, it is ultimately up to the significance of the era - as the old saying goes, poets of an era must always care about the era."

Feeling that he had found a point of attack, Justinian Baker excitedly wrote a post on his personal blog titled "Immature Spike and Mature Eminem". The role model he used was the first single released by his idol Eminem - "Mosh" (Settlement).

"Apart from the first single that mocked the controversial Michael Jackson, this song "Mosh" is undoubtedly the symbol of Eminem's entry into the ranks of great singers. In this song, he scolded George W. Bush and accused him of starting the Iraq War.

"This is a song about war, and it fully reflects Eminem's extremely sensitive concern for the times.

“Did Spike? No, he didn’t.

"Spike's albums are all about eating, drinking, having fun, love, family, and friendship, but they lack the concern for the times that is needed to become a great singer..."

Baker, who is only 20 years old and majored in sociology in college, directly listed the shortcomings of Zhou Yi's past two albums, "The Attitude Show" and "Forever Young".

Yes, as an album it is already very good, but compared to my idol Eminem's concern for the times, it is clearly a step behind.

Because this was a breakthrough point, this blog post was quickly used as a weapon by extreme fan groups to attack Zhou Yi's fans, and they also made sarcastic remarks such as "your idol has no vision".

Garen Montoya, who is also only 20 years old this year, is an active fan of Zhou Yi. He has posted articles on his blog several times to argue with Baker. Naturally, he is also one of the first fans to be ridiculed this time.

At first he couldn't find any rebuttal points, so he could only type to say that it didn't matter at all -

Read the error-free version at 69shuba! 6=9+shu_ba is the first to publish this novel.

It was not until the afternoon of the 14th that he met a Chinese fan who was also a fan of Zhouyi during his Chinese class.

Although he didn't know why a Chinese person had to take Chinese classes, when the other person found out about this, he immediately recommended "Gui Zang" to him and told him from a Chinese perspective that the concept of the Zhouyi Chinese album had been written a long time ago. Then he realized -

So it's not that Spike doesn't care about the times, but that he had already finished writing it with his advanced vision? !

What else can I say?
Just be awesome and that’s it!
After decisively deleting his previous blog post defending Zhou Yi by saying that concern for the times is not important, Garen, with a changed face, turned around and directly criticized his old enemy Beck: "Open your dog eyes and take a closer look! Spike expressed his concern for the times in his Chinese album last year!"

what?
You said you don’t know Chinese and don’t listen to Chinese songs, so why doesn’t Spike sing English songs?
That's not his problem, it's your problem!
“Spike is Chinese. If he wants to accurately express his concerns about the times, then his mother tongue is the most appropriate. What’s the problem?
"Still praising Eminem, but Eminem is half a year behind Spike!

"Maybe Eminem saw how Spike wrote this song on his Native Language album last year, and he got inspiration from it, so he wrote this song. Otherwise, why didn't he write it last year? Why didn't he sing it? Why didn't he release it?
“Do we have to wait until this year to publish it?

“Isn’t that just crossing the river by feeling Spike’s way?!

"Besides, looking at Eminem's appearance, I would believe you if you said he had the mania of killing his mother and wife, how can he care about the times?!
"Isn't this just a rip-off of Spike's album concept from last year?!"

"???
"Who the fuck are you looking down on?!"

"Fuck you!"

"Son of a bitch!"

"........."

11 month 15 day.

At the moment when both albums were released, the concept of "plagiarism", which was originally only debated in a small circle of die-hard fans, was suddenly followed up and reported by many media outlets, catching Universal Music, Eminem and others off guard.

what?
Did I plagiarize?
What did I copy?

How did I copy the album concept?
Was the song about your mother's war concept patented by Spike and no one else can sing it?!

Even though I take drugs, fight, and swear, I still care about the times. Is that a problem?!

(End of this chapter)