1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Before recording the show, Zhou Yan first put on some simple makeup and then roughly checked the script of the show.

After checking the script, Nomura Hide took Zhou Yan into the studio to check the process and look at the movements.

Although the format of their program is nothing special, the studio layout is very good.

First of all, the place is big enough. The stage area alone is larger than the studios of many programs. In addition, there is an audience area that is about the same size as some large livehouses. Secondly, the layout is very detailed and there are enough camera positions. It seems that the TV station really attaches great importance to this program.

After explaining the positioning to Zhou Yan, Nomura Hide asked with a smile, "Do you want to explain it again?"

Zhou Yan waved his hand, "No need, the movement is quite simple."

Because he didn't have an opening show, there was a movement setting when he went on stage, and the host guided him on how to move afterwards, so the overall movement setting was very simple.

Zhou Yan has a good memory, so he doesn’t need to listen to it again.

Nomura Hide nodded and said nothing more. He had relatively more contact with Zhou Yan and knew him well. He knew that Zhou Yan had a good memory.

Afterwards, Zhou Yan went to the lounge at the back to wait.

More than half an hour later, the program officially began recording. He appeared in the studio again and found that the audience area was already full of people.

As soon as Zhou Yan appeared, applause broke out, and at the same time, "Memories of the Forbidden City" was played. The magnificent music made Zhou Yan feel that he was not on a show, but in court.

He smiled and waved to the audience, then walked straight to the center of the four hosts, while the translator stood to the side and back, trying not to affect the picture.

Taking the microphone, Zhou Yan greeted with a smile, "Hello everyone, I am Zhou Yan."

After greeting the audience, Zhou Yan shook hands with several hosts one by one.

There are four hosts, three men and one woman. Hide Nomura is the oldest, and the other three are young.

According to Nomura Shu, apart from that girl, the other two male hosts are relatively popular young hosts in Japan, and the host lineup of their show is top-notch.

It’s just that Zhou Yan doesn’t usually pay attention to Japanese TV programs, so he doesn’t know these hosts.

After shaking hands, Nomura smiled and said, "Welcome Zhou Yan to Music River. Actually, when we first planned this program, we invited Zhou Yan, hoping that he could come to our program, but he was too busy, so he never came. This time, just in time for the release of Time Traveler in Japan, we finally invited him to the scene."

Zhou Yan came to participate in the show, of course, to promote the movie, so Nomura Shu naturally helped actively with the promotion. Before Zhou Yan came up just now, he had already mentioned the name of the movie.

Nomura Hide led everyone in welcoming Zhou Yan again, and then he continued, "We have also learned some information about the new movie. I heard that this movie has broken the box office record for Chinese domestic films?"

Before Zhou Yan could say anything, the female host Ikeda Mihui at the side excitedly said, "I heard that the box office exceeded 80 million RMB, which is a remarkable achievement."

The male host Yamashita Jun, who was standing to Zhou Yan's right, smiled and said, "Zhou Yan is a record breaker, it's not surprising for him to break any record."

After being praised by them, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "We are lucky this time. The domestic holiday season has performed very well."

Praise has more weight when it comes from others. Nomura Hide and others certainly know this, so Zhou Yan is responsible for being humble and they are responsible for praising.

The division of labor among the four hosts is also very clear. Nomura Hide is responsible for raising topics and guiding the rhythm of the conversation, while the female host Ikeda Mie is responsible for supporting the show and providing enough emotional value.

The other two male hosts, Jun Yamashita and Ken Matsumoto, kept a close eye on the conversation and cooperated with Shu Nomura to control the rhythm to prevent the atmosphere from becoming dull.

Sometimes when Nomura Hide forgets a question, Matsumoto Ken and others will remind him indirectly.

Zhou Yan chatted with them for a while and agreed with what Nomura Hide said about their hosting lineup being very good.

The most commendable thing is that all four hosts are quite knowledgeable about music.

But they won't show off. Some people, like Ken Matsumoto, even seem to play the "clown". No matter whether they are talking about music or movies, they always ask some silly questions.

Although the questions he asked were rather silly, their entry points were all very good. Whether it was Zhou Yan or Nomura Hide, they followed up his silly questions with a very good rhythm.

The audience heard what they wanted to hear and got a chance to perform. The most important thing is that when watching the show, the audience will develop a sense of superiority over him.

The previous warm-up chat basically revolved around the movie and the music in it.

Then they moved on to the next part. Nomura Hide pointed to the piano that had been prepared nearby and said with a smile, "When everyone came in, you should have seen that piano, right? That's right, this piano is prepared for Zhou Yanjun. The soundtrack of his new movie "Time Traveler" is very beautiful. We are fortunate to invite him to play a few songs for us today."

After hearing what Nomura Hide said, the audience couldn't help but shout.

In fact, Zhou Yan didn't need to play any song. Just sitting in front of the piano was enough to drive his fans crazy.

Zhou Yan's piano level is very average, not to mention compared with professional pianists. Anyone who has learned piano seriously since elementary school will be better than him.

He couldn't play some of the difficult pieces he composed unless they were simplified.

But in the eyes of his fans, especially female fans, he is a world-class pianist.

Of course, most ordinary music fans don’t actually know many pianists. The ones they know, like Liszt, Beethoven, and Chopin, have long passed away.

Among the living pianists, they only recognize Zhou Yan, a "half-baked" one.

In fact, in recent years, there are many Japanese pianists who are active internationally, such as Noriko Ogawa, Michie Koyama, Mitsuko Uchida, and the recently emerging Yukio Yokoyama.

However, except for Mitsuko Uchida who is a little more famous, ordinary people know very little about the others.

Moreover, in the eyes of some people, Zhou Yan's piano level may be better than that of Mitsuko Uchida because Zhou Yan has works.

The others were playing previous pieces, and for someone who didn't study classical music, there wasn't much difference between the pieces they played.

When Zhou Yan walked to the piano and sat down, the applause and cheers became louder.

Zhou Yan said into the microphone, "Next, I will play three songs, two of which you may have heard before, and one of which is my first public performance in Neon. I hope you will like it."

After the translator finished translating, Zhou Yan took a deep breath and raised his hand to play.

The first song he played was "How Long Will I Love You", which was not a surprise to the audience, because most of the audience who came to the scene today had already heard this song and were very familiar with the melody.

Of course, it was the first time they heard a piano solo, and the key point was that Zhou Yan played it for them personally.

For many people, just seeing Zhou Yan play the piano is enough to make them very happy. Zhou Yan is not only the number one most handsome foreign star voted for, but also the number one foreign man that Japanese women most want to marry.

Due to time constraints, Zhou Yan did not play this piece of music in its entirety, but quickly moved on to the second piece of music, "All of Me".

Just like the previous song, everyone has basically heard this song "all of me", and some people at the scene couldn't help but sing along softly.

The choruses of the first two songs are very catchy. Many people listen to them every day and can't help but sing them out when they hear the melody.

The second piece of music ended quickly and Zhou Yan began to play the third piece.

There are many songs in "Time Traveler". Zhou Yan's third choice is "A Thousand Years", because Kelly Chen has already released a complete version of this song. However, this song has not been publicly released in Japan, and basically no one has heard of it.

Not to mention music fans in Japan, even music fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan have not heard this song yet.

Compared with the previous two songs, this song seems a little more lively, and Zhou Yan deliberately played it in a particularly lively way. The whole song sounds like a lively little girl who can't suppress her inner love and is skipping along the beach.

When hearing this song, many audience members' eyes lit up.

This was the third original song from the movie "Time Traveler" that they had heard, and not a single song disappointed them, with each one more surprising than the last.

Originally, because of the two songs released previously, many people had already made up their minds to go to the cinema to watch this movie. Now that the third song is out, I'm afraid that more fans will go to the cinema just to listen to the songs.

Zhou Yan had just finished playing three songs when Ikeda Mihui started clapping wildly. Zhou Yan even saw tears in her eyes.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh that the Japanese hosts were really good at what they did, and tears came easily.

Moreover, Ikeda Mie was very good at knowing when to stop. She didn't cry loudly, but just let the tears roll in her eyes, so that people wouldn't think she was acting.

"It's so beautiful. Just listening to these three songs, many scenes have emerged in my mind. I really can't wait to go to the cinema to watch the movie." Matsumoto Ken sighed.

Nomura asked with a smile, "Will the third piece be made into a song like the first two pieces?"

"In fact, this song has already been made into a song, sung by a Chinese singer, but it has not been released publicly yet. After the movie is released in Japan, the song will also be released here." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

"What's the name of this song?"

"a thousands years, the lyrics of this song are the same as the other two, very straightforward, it's a pity that I can't sing well, otherwise I could sing it for you."

When Zhou Yan said this, the audience started to make a noise.

"Sing it!"

"Don't be modest, you must sing very well."

"Even if it doesn't sound good, we don't mind."

"Please sing it to us."

……

Although Zhou Yan didn't understand Japanese, he knew what they were talking about. They were just urging him to sing.

But no matter how they urged him, Zhou Yan would not sing. He believed that if he sang today, his singing video would be often used to criticize his corpse in the future.

This type of video is likely to be more popular than videos of him performing seriously, after all, it is rare.

Nomura Hideya knew that Zhou Yan definitely couldn't sing, so he changed the subject at the right time, "I heard that this movie has a lot of soundtracks?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "There are a total of twenty-six songs."

"Is it twenty-six sections, or twenty-six different songs?" asked Nomura Hide.

"Twenty-six different ones." Zhou Yan replied.

"Wow!"

Zhou Yan's answer immediately caused a burst of wows at the scene.

Although no one knows how many soundtracks a normal movie should have, it was still surprising to hear twenty-six different songs.

The soundtracks of other people's movies may be a collection of existing songs, but the soundtracks of Zhou Yan's movies are all new songs.

The most important thing is that Zhou Yan likes to make music into songs. Aren't there four ready-made songs? In addition to the three songs Zhou Yan just played, there is also the song that Mariah Carey is about to release.

If all these twenty-six pieces were made into songs, it would be too terrible.

Nomura Shu seemed to know what the audience was thinking, and he asked, "Will all these pieces be made into songs?"

Zhou Yan shook his head and said, "No."

"Oh." Nomura Hide nodded. Fortunately, the answer was not too outrageous.

Nomura Shu couldn't even imagine what kind of sensation these 26 songs would cause if they were made into a complete set. This number could be reduced to make three albums.

If these songs were of the same quality as "All of Me" and "How Long Will I Love You", and were sung by internationally renowned pop singers, what kind of impact would it have on the international pop music scene?

I'm afraid that in the next few years, the songs everyone will listen to will be those written by Zhou Yan.

"So how many songs do you plan to make?" Nomura Hide asked.

Zhou Yan thought for a moment and said, "About a dozen songs, definitely less than 20 in the short term."

Shu Nomura opened his mouth. Less than twenty songs...this answer was outrageous enough.

While Nomura Shu was stunned, the audience became excited.

"Did you hear that? Zhou Yanjun said there will be more than a dozen songs to be released."

“It’s nearly twenty.”

"So happy."

"I hope it can be released in one album. If it is released one by one as singles, it will be too troublesome to buy them."

"That would be interesting. We can then guess which singer is singing."

"Are there some songs that haven't been decided on who will sing them? Can we vote?"

“Yes, vote!”

"Doesn't Akina Nakamori have two songs to release, also composed by Zhou Yanjun? Maybe they can be put together to make two albums."

"Yeah, I almost forgot Akina has two new songs."

……

Nomura Shu was very experienced after all, so he was stunned for less than a second, and quickly adjusted his expression and said with a smile, "With so many songs, we music fans are so happy." (End of this chapter)