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

Chapter 808: Not a Perfect Day

In terms of true division of labor and cooperation, Zhou Yi was right, he is truly the producer.

Sun Yanzi’s role is actually the album’s music director.

As a studio album, Zhou Yi's role as producer is the core of a conceptual album, while Sun Yanzi's first attempt as music director is responsible for the overall musical direction and style of the album, and participates in song selection, arrangement adjustment and communication with the producer.

It’s just that these two responsibilities are often mixed together.

The album "Perfect First Day" is the first time that Sun Yanzi served as the music director of an album. It is also the first time in her career that she participated in the overall musical direction and style positioning of the album.

Therefore, it is normal for her to feel reluctant about the songs she has chosen.

I want this, and I want that too.

It’s the first time, I want everything, I have no experience and I can’t make a choice.

The final result was that the album style became chaotic and meaningless, and it also lost a lot of elements needed by the commercial market, causing the sales of the album "A Perfect Day" to plummet, and its market performance was a cliff-like drop compared to the previous album.

In terms of commercial performance, the only popular single is "The First Day".

The only song that can be considered to be somewhat popular is "Tears Become Poems".

The reason why it is possible is because Zhou Yi is not sure whether this song has become popular. After all, in his impression, this song is actually a very unpopular song in Sun Yanzi's popular playlist. Theoretically, it should not be sung widely.

However, after learning from his mistakes, Sun Yanzi delivered a perfect answer in 07.

It was the album that brought her popularity and commercial success back to the peak: "Against the Light".

"You'll regret cutting so many songs, Zhou Yi!"

Seeing that reason wasn't working and Sun Yanzi was powerless, he could only talk about the pros and cons, hoping that his words could convince Zhou Yi not to chop blindly.

At least you have to leave half the space.

"There are some songs that must be included in this album, such as Lin Yifeng's songs. He wrote "Meeting" for me last year. Do you think I can refuse his songs this year?

"There are also some written by me and my teacher..."

The music industry is not about fighting and killing, it's about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

"But some songs must be removed." Zhou Yi retreated to advance and revealed his true purpose.

People always like to compromise.

If you said at the beginning that you wanted to cut half of the songs on the album's candidate playlist, then Sun Yanzi's ambition to be a music director for the first time would definitely make her object immediately.

But if you first say you want to cut 80%, and then suggest taking a step back and keeping half of them, Sun Yanzi will feel that she has made a profit - only half of the songs were cut because of her insistence, and her work was finally recognized by Zhou Yi, so it was not in vain.

The psychological feelings of the two are completely different.

"I—it's not impossible..."

After humming for a while, Sun Yanzi squeezed out a mosquito-like hum and finally realized what was going on. Then he interrupted the topic in a pretentious and fierce tone: "Go to sleep, or your brain will short-circuit."

"That's what you said."

"I said."

After hanging up the phone, Sun Yanzi threw the phone onto the pillow, and then fell directly onto it.

After swinging his legs in the air excitedly for several times, Sun Yanzi suddenly realized something and sat cross-legged on the bed. He stroked his hair back with his left hand while biting his right thumb nail and began to review.

wrong--

Is my choice really that bad?

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New York, inside the hotel.

Zhou Yi, who came to attend the event, yawned tiredly, turned off the sound of his mobile phone, put it on the bedside, unbuttoned his bathrobe and lay down on the bed.

To be honest, Sun Yanzi's vision as a music director for the first time cannot be said to be bad. It's just that he wants it all and is embarrassed to do so.

In Zhou Yi's opinion, the album "A Perfect Day" can actually be cut by eight songs - or even nine songs, and it would be enough to keep just one song, "The First Day".

But that would be too much of a blow to Sun Yanzi, who was taking on the lead role for the first time, so Zhou Yi decided to cut out the half that really couldn't be integrated, and at the same time adjust the order of the album and add space for two songs -

Increase the number of songs on this album from 10 to 12.

First song on Side A: "Invisible Man".

Li Sisong was the producer of the song, and it is a song that fits Sun Yanzi's voice very well. Because he is his mentor, this song was retained and adjusted to the first song position.

Judging from the meaning of the lyrics and the MV, this song is about the heroine who deeply loves the hero, but the hero has to choose to leave for personal reasons——

Although her friends are saying this, the heroine still waits for the hero to come back to her, and even hopes that she can turn into an invisible person and stay by his side when he needs her.

Ok……

Why do I have a strange sense of déjà vu...

Second song on side A: "Tears Become Poetry".

Li Weisong served as the producer of the song, and Lin Xi wrote the lyrics. Because of his mentorship, this song was retained.

The meaning of the song is just as the name suggests: tears become poetry.

After the previous song about silently persevering and preferring to become an invisible person, this song "Tears Become Poems" is more like an analysis of the inner heart, a song telling of sadness.

Even an invisible person who stands firm silently knows in his heart that he is crying.

From this, the third song on side A is derived: "Rainy Day".

A representative work of Nan Quan Mama band.

The lyrics use concise words to deeply describe the inequality in love——

Because as long as the person who is loved makes a little response to the person who loves him, the other person will be very satisfied. The person who is loved does not need to apologize at all, and does not need to apologize to the person who loves him. He just needs to give him a warm hug or a thoughtful greeting, and all the waiting and efforts will be worth it.

It sounds humble, but it fits the tone set by the previous two songs very well. You can even say that this song is a small summary of the previous two songs.

The fourth song on side A: "Raining All Night Long".

This is a show-off piece by Jay Chou, combining skit-style arrangement with unique R&B to create an innovative Chinese-style song.

The invisible man sat by the window with tears in his eyes on a rainy day, listening to the sound of raindrops hitting the roof outside the window, looking at himself in the mirror, and a time-travel love story based on himself began in his mind.

It’s just that in this time-travel story that she wrote herself, she longed for a good process and a good ending.

The title of the song "Raining All Night" echoes the previous song, creating a visual and auditory feeling that time passes normally in the album.

At the same time, it also points out the concept of time in the album——

It rained all night.

This is the beginning of the fifth song on Side A: "The Next Dawn".

Guo Jing's representative work.

In the tranquil musical atmosphere, a sad chant is told.

The delicate emotional description in the lyrics fully interprets the singer's hope——

The invisible man was crying sadly. It rained outside the window all night. He waited until the next dawn to wait for the man of his heart to come back.

"Wait till the next morning, let's go for a walk to the place where we held hands and admired the flowers last time, okay?

“Some snow will melt on its own.
"Your shoulders are my open-minded paradise~"

This is an inquiry, but also a question and answer to oneself.

Here comes the end of Side A——

The sixth song: "It will be sunny tomorrow".

Sun Yanzi composed the music himself, Xu Shizhen wrote the lyrics, a very warm song, a song that was not kicked out by Zhou Yi. It is placed at the end of Side A, and also paves the way for the change of emotions——

It rained, and it rained all night, just like her mood. But it didn't matter, she would wait for the next morning, and it would be sunny tomorrow. The sunny day meant that the silent protection of the invisible person whose tears turned into poems finally reaped the fruits of her labor. On the sunny day, she waited for her boyfriend to wake up and return.

Therefore, the six songs on Side A complete a closed loop in time, space and even story.

Now that everyone is happy, the new beginning is a completely different new day——

First song on side B: "First Day".

This is the most outstanding masterpiece in Sun Yanzi's original album, full of positive, sunny and happy atmosphere.

The sky cleared up and a new day arrived.

Sun Yanzi, who has been waiting for the man to come back after coming to his senses, is full of liveliness in this song.

Here, the second song on side B: "No If".

The original song is the best-selling song "Stay By My Side" by Japanese singer Thelma Aoyama, which was released in 2008. It is the Guinness World Record song with the highest number of downloaded Japanese telephone ringtones as of 08, and is also the highest-selling single on the Japanese Oricon chart in 2008.

After rewriting the lyrics, the song was renamed "No Ifs" and became one of Fish Leong's representative works, a nine-time consecutive championship song.

The lively style of the music is full of a sense of freedom and passion - it also tells the fact that there are no ifs and no fantasies in love.

Sun Yanzi, who has truly broken free from the shackles of the invisible man, finally understands that love should not be all about sadness. Touching, happy and sweet are the feelings that so many people desire to be favored by love.

That is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world.

That’s why there is the third song on the B side: “Honey Honey”.

The sweet little song in Sun Yanzi's original album is also a rare purely sweet song in her entire career.

At first glance, it is the scene that a girl who is in a sweet love yearns for, longs for, and even describes.

So, the fourth song on side B: "Liang Shanbo and Juliet".

A representative work written by Cao Ge, an R&B song with extremely clever and exquisite arrangement, and also a duet song between a man and a woman.

After many years, Zhou Yi appeared on stage again to sing with Sun Yanzi.

Placing this song fourth on side B is also to echo the fourth song on side A, "Raining All Night".

The fourth song on side A, "Raining All Night", tells a time-travel love story, but due to the tone, this song is not sweet, it is a fantasy that the invisible man has not escaped from his predicament;

On the B side, the fourth song "Liang Shanbo and Juliet" is also a time-travel love story, but the overall tone is so sweet.

You can understand that "The Butterfly Lovers" is actually the love story that was not mentioned in "It Rained All Night", but the invisible man had not tasted the sweetness at that time and could not finish writing this story.

And now, Sun Yanzi has completed it——

The author separated the tragic stories from different times and spaces in the East and the West, blended the two tragic characters together with metaphors, removed the tragedy and wrote about the joy.

This is a love song that comes from the heart.

So, the fifth song on side B: "Love Song".

One of Fish Leong's representative works.

The flow of time, the changes in love, and the memories and emotions left after the baptism of years.

In today's impetuous love, love songs that can calm and move people are rare.

At this point, Sun Yanzi seemed to have passed the sweet honeymoon period and entered a cycle of quarreling, apologies, quarreling, apologies, warming feelings, and deepening family ties.

No matter how passionate love is, it will eventually return to ordinary.

After understanding everything, Sun Yanzi looked back and realized that he had lived a perfect life.

In other words, a perfect day.

Sixth song on side B: "Perfect Day".

The song of the same name in Sun Yanzi's original album is also a song that points to the theme. Zhou Yi put it at the end, also to point to the theme.

This is the "perfect day" that Sun Yanzi longs for, and it is also the perfect life that Sun Yanzi wants.

A big house with big French windows, sunlight hitting the floor and warming the quilt;
With the fastest internet, guitar, pets, friends and everything in between, the audience can hear a lovely and unique Sun Yanzi who is daydreaming.

It was as if all the songs above were her imagination before this——

It was as if she had experienced it all, and now she was just narrating a perfect day in a calm tone.

It sounds like a daydream, but it also echoes the theme of the entire album -

One day is a lifetime;
A lifetime is just one day.

Starting from the first song "Invisible Man" on Side A, judging from the apparent concept of time, this album really seems to have only been one day -

The invisible person with low self-esteem cried because of her boyfriend's departure. It was raining outside the window. She fantasized about her love while sobbing, but after dawn she welcomed her own sunny day and started a new day.

In this new day, she became cheerful, optimistic, happy, sweet, free and easy, independent and sober.

If you are a realistic pessimist, then you will think this is a daydream, a daydream carefully compiled by Sun Yanzi, in which Sun Yanzi tells you what qualities you need to have in order to live a good day (life);

But if you are a dreamy optimist, then you will think that this is the perfect day (life) that Sun Yanzi has experienced, and Sun Yanzi is describing what qualities one must possess to live a happy life.

Therefore, these twelve songs constitute Sun Yanzi's seventh personal album: "A Perfect Day".

As a producer, Zhou Yi was in charge of 6 songs, Li Sisong and Li Weisong were responsible for one song each, and Sun Yanzi composed one song himself. There were only 3 songs left that were collected from outside.

This is the album with the highest amount of Yi's music among all the studio albums currently on the market, except for Zhou Yi's own album.

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"What? You said you don't want these songs anymore?"

March 3, Singapore.

Li Sisong, who was still drinking tea in the school office, received a return from a student and almost made his glasses fall off in shock.

The two songs he composed, "Dream Never Falls" and "Another Face", were returned. This was the first time that a young lady got into a bridal sedan.

This is very wrong.

“Well, the songs ‘Invisible Man’ and ‘Tears Become Poems’ that you and Weisong produced are still there. I think these two songs are more suitable for the theme of my new album.”

With one hand clenched into a fist, Sun Yanzi's eyes were determined as if he was about to salute in the next second.

However, the next sentence from teacher Li Sisong instantly broke her plan:

"Isn't Zhou Yi a bit too overbearing? We two brothers are your teachers and have watched you grow up."

"No, teacher, this is not Zhou Yi's business. I am the music director."

Sun Yanzi waved his hands repeatedly, baring his big teeth and approaching the teacher to act cute, and his fists fell on the teacher's shoulders like a massage: "Zhou Yi didn't want to change, but I scolded him back. I scolded him very harshly and hung up on him."

"Oh?"

Li Sisong took a sip of tea and spat out the tea leaves in his mouth, not even bothering to lift his eyelids: "How did you curse? Tell me about it."

"..."

Sun Yanzi drew circles with his fingers unconsciously and twisted his neck subconsciously: "Well, the scolding is really too ugly, I'd better not say it."

Li Sisong finally raised his eyes and glanced at his most proud student——

The latter met the gaze and shrank his head.

Then, perhaps because he felt a little guilty about doing this, he straightened his back and stared at the object.

At this moment, Li Sisong inexplicably had the illusion that the good daughter he had raised with great difficulty was kidnapped by a yellow-haired man on a motorcycle.

The elbow is bent outward, the girl can't be kept when she grows up...

Damn it, I want to see what you are up to, Zhou Yi.

Today is not a perfect day for Li Sisong.

(End of this chapter)