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

Chapter 848 Parade Designated Song
"It's sad that with all the recent criticisms against me, there are even quite a few fans who have turned against me by burning T-shirts and smashing CDs."

Zhou Yi, who had sung four rock songs in a row, was panting heavily. He adjusted the wires and the dangling guitar behind him with one hand, and plugged the microphone back into the tripod with the other hand: "It's you who let me know that I did nothing wrong, and it's you who made me sure that I was on the right path—"

"Spike!"

"Spike!!"

"Spike!!!"

"Spike!!!!"

Before he could finish his words, the hoarse roars of support from the audience rose one after another, interrupting the gratitude that had already welled up in Zhou Yi's throat.

From the beginning, which was disorganized, irregular, and rhythmless, to the neat and uniform after nearly 60 seconds, Zhou Yi, who was interrupted to thank, did not speak again. He crossed his hands on the microphone and looked around the audience with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.

Be it joy or relief.

At the very least, this group of people does provide him with unconditional support and is the capital he relies on to run rampant in the United States.

"When I was planning to make this new album, my company and friends in the circle actually told me that doing so would most likely be a thankless task. Because in recent years, concept albums of this style..."

Zhou Yi paused for a moment, his tongue brushing across the corners of his dry lips. “In fact, due to well-known reasons, their sales are obvious to all. But I still insisted on doing it.”

This is not him trying to be pitiful, but the real reality.

Even though the Black Eyed Peas won their first B-chart No. 06 single by opposing the Iraq War, their global album performance was only mediocre. The group's album sales really exploded after .

Madonna is even more of a no-brainer. She had a great time cosplaying Che Guevara, but the album's market performance was a mess. Even without Zhou Yi, it would still be a failure.

Not to mention Ma Laowu, who was not yet nicknamed the wedding singer - at that time, they were still the most eye-catching new force in the rock circle, and were expected by countless rock fans. But the criticism brought them commercial failure.

If the transformation had not been successful in time, it would have been a question whether Ma Laowu could continue to exist.

As for Green Day, their album sales are actually not doing well anymore.

There is no need to say more about rock bands like Guns N' Roses and Nirvana. All they have left is their reputation. At this time, their reputation is still not very good, because the two sides really had a fight, and this fight was particularly abstract.

Since each of them had all the five poisons, it made people wonder if these people were so high that their brains were damaged.

After all, all of them are good at flying leaves - oh no, it has reached the level of abstraction where "only flying leaves and not sucking indiscriminately" can win the final victory in the competition.

Nirvana publicly staged real looting on the award ceremony stage;

Guns N' Roses was singing anti-war and calling for peace at a concert, and the next second the lead singer jumped off the stage and personally cut open the head of the person who was secretly filming...

With the help of this abstract situation, his fame and album sales naturally plummeted.

The abstract expressions of the rock music generation in the 1980s and 1990s inevitably influenced the development of rock music. Adult lyricism, R&B, hip-hop and other genres began to become popular, and anti-war, a theme widely used in rock music, was shelved.

With the development of the times, you will find that whether it is Linkin Park under Warner or Republic under Universal, or other bands, they have often been criticized for lacking excellent golden age concept albums, being too popular, etc. since their debut.

The main reason is that the company doesn't dare to take the risk - if an album like that comes out and fails, it will be a disaster.

Zhou Yi's album definitely has flaws, and they are not small, which is why I said before that all the flaws were covered up by him. After all, it is not all rock music, but a commercial album that is more in line with the new era commercial market. In short, it is also popular.

But even so, if he hadn't had the success of his previous albums and the shares of Warner Records, Edgar Jr. would probably have had to personally suppress his desire to release this album.

The last top star who tried to add hardcore depth to a pop album was Madonna, and the one before that was Michael Jackson, and then everyone else failed.

"But your performance has proved to me, to America, and to the world..."

Zhou Yi pointed his index fingers at the audience and smiled: "It's all worth it."

Just as he said, Edgar Jr. and others really didn't understand why Zhou Yi had to release this kind of album.

Wouldn't it be better to just do something new and make a lot of money like the first three pictures? Why take the risk?

But Zhou Yi just shut everyone up with one sentence: "That's what I want to do."

There is no other reason, I just don't like it. Now I have the confidence and capital, I want to talk nonsense. "Spike's "Monster" sales myth swept the world, fans were crazy and controversial!"

"Spike's album sparks a cultural war: progressives' praise vs conservatives' boycott!"

“From sales miracle to political storm: Spike’s double-sided controversy!”

《Superhero in the real world! Phoenix Spike sounds the alarm for public opinion!》

"..."

After the Boston music festival ended, Zhou Yi's revealing conversation was uploaded to a new video website called YouTube.

This website is not as famous as MSN. It is just a small video website that was established not long ago. It is very friendly to video shooters to record their lives. I heard that it was created by a Chinese.

After returning home, Evan Frank edited the footage he had filmed with a handheld DV and uploaded it. Due to the length of the footage, he deliberately divided it into several parts. In order to attract attention, he used several sensational titles based on the trend to deceive clicks.

In other words, it cannot be said to be a lie. After all, he really admires Spike for daring to wade into such muddy water.

“I have to say, I am indeed a bit of a fan of him.”

After personally experiencing Spike's music festival performance, Evan Frank, who returned to campus the next day, vividly recounted his experience to his fellow enthusiasts: "The newspaper said that Spike's "21 Guns" is the new century's "Give Peace a Chance", which makes sense to me."

"That's right. I heard that the student organizations of Harvard and MIT next door are planning to use "21 Guns" as their parade song."

Although these two are not in Boston, like Boston University, these two prestigious universities are also in Massachusetts, so information flows quite quickly.

"Not only that. I heard from Mary that students from Columbia University in Manhattan are also organizing a parade and are planning to use "21 Guns" as the designated song..."

Evan Frank was stunned when he heard this.

"Give Peace a Chance" is the first solo single released by John Lennon, the lead singer of The Beatles, in 1969. It is also an anti-war rock song opposing the Vietnam War.

Once released, this song quickly gained influence in the American music scene and became a must-have song for Americans' marches against the Vietnam War.

On October 1969, 10, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington, the capital of the United States, and sang the song loudly to express their protest against the US government.

More than 30 years have passed, and such a scene has not appeared in the United States for a long time.

The Iraq War has already awakened many people's anti-war sentiment and called for peace. Now Zhou Yi's song has become popular again and is used as a protest song for several university student groups to organize marches...

"how many people?"

"I'm not sure about Columbia University, but I heard that nearly 21 students from Harvard and MIT will join. I heard that there will be about people from our school? I didn't ask for the details, but they are practicing the song ' Guns' every day now..."

Compared to other songs of the same type, the line "One, 21 guns!" in "21 Guns" is indeed very suitable for parades. It has a rhythmic and powerful feeling when shouted or sung.

"It is said that the student organization of Columbia University has also invited Spike to lead the singing."

"???"

Zhou Yi had a lot of questions in his mind: "Me? Lead singer?"

"You don't know, this time you have almost become a god among the vast majority of college students in the United States, and your prestige is simply incomparably high." Qian Jiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and explained the reason.

These days, it's very hard to find a good role model who doesn't smoke, smoke, gamble, or indulge in all the five vices.

At least that's the case in the American music scene.

Zhou Yi happened to fill this gap and was far ahead of others in this track, with no rivals.

"Not only Columbia University, but also student organizations of Ivy League universities in Massachusetts, such as Harvard, MIT, and Boston University, are planning to join together to hold a parade. They have also invited you and plan to recreate the grand occasion of John Lennon."

The global album sales volume is over 6.7 million, although it is not as good as John Lennon in the past, that is also due to the influence of the times.

Moreover, because of the Internet, the influence of Zhouyi can reach ordinary people's homes at an extremely fast speed, which is exactly what John Lennon lacks.

(End of this chapter)