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

Chapter 839 It’s not the general’s fault!

"I know what you all want to ask. Of course I hope to win the best album and producer award. Now I feel like I only have one song with good lyrics."

It was a rare opportunity for Zhou Yi to appear in public on the news in Taiwan. As soon as he walked out of the community gate, he was surrounded by reporters who asked him what he thought about the Golden Melody Awards Organizing Committee, which was at the center of controversy.

"You only won the Best Lyrics Award at this year's Golden Melody Awards, which is the lowest in your Golden Melody Awards career. Are you disappointed?"

"No, why should I be disappointed?"

At the gate of the community, Zhou Yi, who was blocked by the door, signaled the bodyguard team not to move, and accepted the interview without any sadness: "You should know that many award ceremonies are a, how to say, actually a game, I think we should just treat it as a game.

"Is it okay if you don't get the trophy?

"Do you think your music career is over just because you didn't win the trophy?
"Does not winning the trophy mean you have to deny all the achievements you've made in the past year?"

He asked three questions in a row, each one more powerful than the last, shocking the reporters who came up to him to ask questions.

"Why do you care so much about this trophy? It will alienate your efforts.

“Nowadays, many music award ceremonies are moving towards a competitive direction, which is reflected in the fact that everyone seems to attach great importance to the number of trophies.

“If I lose the election, not only will I be under pressure, but I may also face pressure and even slander from you media people who are eager to watch the fun.

"It's even more obvious at award ceremonies like the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. If you don't win an award, there are a lot of reports that you've run out of ideas. Do you think this is reasonable?
"The music rating is not like playing a game with a numerical quantification, but when too many people talk about it, musicians are often affected by it during the creative process, which in turn affects their personal creative mentality. This is a typical example of alienation of effort."

Reporters: "..."

Is this an attack on the Golden Melody Awards?

But why do they sound like they are cursing the media in a sarcastic way?
Is this reasonable?

You've won enough trophies and now you're standing on the moral high ground and pointing fingers at others, right?

Someone was dissatisfied: "Zhou Yi, are you trying to justify yourself?"

"Sophistry? In Europe, America, and even around the world, are there more award ceremonies that I didn't attend or that I attended?"

Zhou Yi glanced at the man, then glanced down at the badge on his chest: "I didn't go to either the Brit Awards or the American Music Awards. If I cared more about the trophy, would I not go?"

"..."

Niang Xipi!
What you said makes a lot of fucking sense!
Zhou Yi walked away leisurely, leaving behind a group of reporters who were excited but didn't know how to refute him for the time being, scratching their heads on the spot.

As a favorite for the Golden Melody Awards every year and the former favorite of the Golden Melody Awards, why is Zhou Yi having a worse time at the Golden Melody Awards every year?
After the 16th Golden Melody Awards, Zhou Yi, who only won the Best Lyrics Award, once again appeared at the center of Taiwan's entertainment news, with more exposure than everyone else.

Some people guessed that Warner’s marketing funds expired and were not renewed, while others thought that Zhou Yi was criticized for speaking too much.

Angry fans even put up banners to protest, saying:

Die-hard fans on Tamkang raised banners of protest against the Golden Melody Awards;

A passerby next to Sun Moon Lake held up a slogan "Justice will prevail" and cursed the organizing committee.

Here, the front pages of major newspapers were bought by fans who raised money to angrily denounce the Taiwanese music scene as a hopeless case;
Over there, rotten eggs were thrown at the doorstep of an organizing committee member, who was denounced for abusing his power for personal gain and wanting to ruin the Chinese music scene.

In addition, there were fans from other groups who came to help cause trouble. The chaos in the entire Taiwanese entertainment industry made countless old gangsters burst into tears. The vibrant scene of all things flourishing in the past was still before their eyes.

"It's not me. I don't know. It has nothing to do with me."

At the small group gathering, Zhou Yi directly denied three things in a row and waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that these things really had nothing to do with him.

He would not resort to such extreme means to win the Golden Melody Awards.

Besides, he could guess the fundamental reason why his trophies were getting fewer and fewer every year, but he just didn't want to say it publicly.

"Piggy is having a party in a week, do you want to come, Ayi?"

Although Jay Chou and Cai Yilin have drifted apart due to the unkind press conference, there is apparently no crack in his friendship with Master Luo, who even enthusiastically helped him to extend an invitation to Zhou Yi.

"No thanks, go and have fun by yourself. I was born to be a hard worker. In a couple of days I will have to fly around Europe and America to start promoting my new album."

Zhou Yi, who was lying comfortably on the sofa in the KTV, shook his head: "After the English album is released, I have to go to Japan to hold a concert and participate in the Sino-Japanese Song Festival. I am very busy, unlike you."

"Get lost, I'm busy too. I have a movie coming out this year. Have you read the Initial D manga? It's from Japan, and I'll be the male lead."

Jay Chou kicked him on the calf with a smile, and the anchor Hou next to him couldn't help but pull her boyfriend's clothes twice when she saw this.

Sun Yanzi, Xiao Yaxuan, and Zhang Shaohan formed the Dahai group and were still singing karaoke, while Liu Genhong, his girlfriend, and Wen Lan were still reliving their life-threatening friendship.

Unlike Jay Chou, Fang Wenshan, who was quietly eating peanuts, was not very interested in what Zhou Yi said about the development of Europe and the United States. He wanted to know more about how the lyrics of Chinese and ancient styles in Zhou Yi's mind were usually arranged and combined, and what books he read.

Although he has no academic qualifications and only graduated from a vocational high school, Fang Wenshan has a true love for Chinese-style lyrics.

Zhou Yi also recommended a few books to this person. He is now searching the Internet on his mobile phone, but the web pages are loading too slowly.

There's nothing I can do, this is how it is these days.

After Nokia dominated the global market, most of its new mobile phones were equipped with simple Internet access functions. And people like them who were not short of money used models that were simpler to use for Internet access.

Although Jay Chou and others are endorsing other mobile phones, the personal mobile phones they use in private are still Nokia, Samsung or Motorola.

Zhou Yi is the only Nokia spokesperson and there is no need for any changes in front of or behind the scenes.

"I really think they went too far this time. They revealed so many upsets. Aren't they afraid of losing their credibility?"

Although she won the title of Queen of Singing for the second time, Sun Yanzi was not very happy in her heart.

She felt that the heavyweight Golden Melody Award seemed to be much lighter now.

"Just throw it away. You'll be killed sooner or later."

Zhou Yi didn't care.

In fact, due to the various manipulations of the Golden Melody Awards, it has basically lost its leading position in the Chinese music awards ceremony since 09. For the mainland's rising talent show singers and online singers, the Golden Melody Awards really don't matter, and they don't pursue these things. The huge market in the mainland is enough for them to make a living.

Although the album did not sell well, the speed of development of the Internet and film and television dramas in the mainland was too fast.

Internet singers are busy making money by performing at various places. Golden Melody Awards? You can give it or not, but aren’t mainland Chinese Music Charts, Top Charts and other charts also awards?
Even Jay Chou, whose popularity has completely declined in the past 10 years, has gradually been overshadowed by the popularity of the songs of the Big Three on the mainland Internet. The Golden Melody Awards has naturally returned to the status of a simple provincial award.

Master Luo held many handshake meetings in Taiwan to show off his core abilities. He sold 80,000 records, which made him a champion in the Taiwanese music scene at the time, surpassing Jay Chou, Wang Lihong and others. He even caused a controversy over buying charts.

Just say that if you were an internet singer or a talent show singer in mainland China who could make money by performing in various cities, would you care about the Golden Melody Awards?

Don't think that people who have been influenced by the Taiwanese music scene have high musical literacy and look down on the mainland Internet music scene. Taiwanese audiences are still flocking to mainland songs like Seaweed Dance, which are extremely popular in Taiwan.

As the mainland film and television market grows stronger, even the Golden Horse Awards have gradually become a byword and are no longer authoritative, not to mention the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, which is declining even faster in the music market.

Market size determines everything.

June 2005, 6, Children's Day.

Taiwan's United Daily News also published an article on the C page titled "The Golden Melody Awards will be over if they continue like this." Reporter, editor-in-chief, and current affairs commentator Shao Zhenbang has a sharp point of view, and in his article he directly points to the core of the problem:

"The defeat of Zhou Yi was not the general's fault.

"The Golden Melody Awards are on a path of no return..."

In this article, Shao Zhenbang clearly and concisely lists the trophies Zhou Yi has won at the Golden Melody Awards since his debut:

The 12th Golden Melody Awards:

Zhou Yi ranked fourth out of six nominations, while Jay Chou, who debuted as a new artist, did not win any prizes;

The 13th Golden Melody Awards:

Zhou Yi was nominated for eleven awards in five categories, and won three of them. Among the younger generation, only Jay Chou snatched the Best Producer award from him.

The 14th Golden Melody Awards:

Zhouyi's "Lianshan" topped the list.

They won five awards: Best Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement, Best Producer, and Best Album, as well as a Team Award and a Best Video, a total of six awards. Wang Lihong, Jay Chou and others won nothing, but from the younger generation, Chen Yixin snatched away the Best Singer award.

Just looking at the first three Golden Melody Awards that Zhou Yi participated in since his debut, he is undoubtedly a child of destiny and the favorite son of the Golden Melody Awards. He won a total of 13 trophies in three Golden Melody Awards. Although he never won the Best Male Singer, he can be said to be the first person in history.

After all, Zhou Yi’s biggest label has always been a singer-songwriter.

"Logically speaking, Zhou Yi should have continued to be a favorite at the Golden Melody Awards, but everything changed after the release of the album Gui Zang.

“Music should not be influenced by political bias. The Golden Melody Awards made this mistake once before with Zhe Tao’s Black Tangerines. But when Zhou Yi’s Return to the Tibetan Plateau came out, the Golden Melody Awards made the same mistake again.

"The 15th Golden Melody Awards:

"Zhou Yi's "Gui Zang" won the Best Composition and Arrangement Award for the song "Blue and White Porcelain" because of the sensitive issue of forever remembering and admiring great men, and "The End of the War" won the Best Video Award for the team.

"Wang Leehom won the Best Producer award for his song "Incredible", while Jay Chou won the Best Album award for his song "Ye Huimei".

"Jay Chou and Wang Lihong, a pair of creative talents shrouded in the shadow of the Zhouyi era, finally got their wish at this year's Golden Melody Awards and won what they consider to be the most valuable award.

"It all seemed perfect, but it was also the beginning of the Golden Melody Awards' prejudice against Zhou Yi..."

As expected, the 16th Golden Melody Awards:

Zhou Yi received four individual nominations, plus one for Best Arrangement of "Silk Road" by Sun Yanzi, for a total of five nominations, but in the end he only won Best Lyricist.

"Luo Dayou won the Best Arranger Award, Wang Leehom did not participate, and Jay Chou did not win anything - in my opinion, the Golden Melody Awards chose a collective upset to confuse the audience in order to cover up their political bias against Zhou Yi.

"Looking at Zhou Yi's Golden Melody Awards history, we can see that he began to plummet in the Golden Melody Awards judging system after the release of his album "Gui Zang" in memory of the great man.

“Before the release of “Return to the Void”, Zhou Yi won 13 trophies in the first three Golden Melody Awards, setting a historical record;
"After the release of 'Return to the Void', Zhou Yi only won four trophies including the Best Video Award at the next two Golden Melody Awards.

"There is no doubt that the album "Gui Zang" is a watershed. To put it in an extreme way, the trophies that Zhou Yi and his team won in the next two Golden Melody Awards were won despite huge political prejudice. This is not a sign of exhaustion of talent, but rather a sign of great talent.

“His talent was so great that the Golden Melody Awards officials had to consider the impact and gave him the trophy despite huge political bias.

“The quality of “Return to the Void” needs no further explanation. Take “Hush” as an example.

"Although this album was criticized for being too commercial, it was also Zhou Yi's work to save the market. He did not treat it perfunctorily. Instead, he successfully stabilized the market confidence of the album with its extremely high market share. The influence was so great that the Golden Melody Awards Organizing Committee, which had been promoting the theme of this year as anti-piracy, had to give it a Best Lyricist award..."

After six years of debut, he participated in five Golden Melody Awards and won a total of 17 Golden Melody Awards trophies as an individual and as a team. Even without looking at overseas achievements, he is undoubtedly the number one in the history of the Golden Melody Awards.

Such a person who is the first in the history of Golden Melody Awards was oppressed and discriminated against because of political prejudice.

“This is wrong and it damages the credibility of the Golden Melody Awards.

"If this continues, the one who will kill the Golden Melody Awards will not be anyone else, but our Taiwanese music scene itself!"

Shao Zhenbang wrote with sincerity and the items he listed were well-reasoned and well-founded.

Although it was only published on the C page of the United Daily News, there is no doubt that because Zhou Yi was already in the whirlpool of public opinion, this article was quickly reprinted by various parties.

There's no way, what you said does make sense.

The quality of the album "Gui Zang" has been well-known in the industry, and its commercial performance is obvious to all, but in the end it did not win the Golden Melody Awards due to political factors. Instead, it made Wang Lihong and Jay Chou the winners of that year.

Since "Gui Zang", not only did this year's Golden Melody Awards only give Zhou Yi one award, but even the initial nominations hit a new low.

Do you dare to say there is no trick?!
A passerby who was just listening to Zhouyi songs finally realized——

From this perspective, Zhou Yi was persecuted by political prejudice!

It's not that Jiang Lang has run out of ideas at all!
It’s not the general’s fault!

(End of this chapter)