Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 252 The brightest star in the night sky

"Tough Man with Tenderness, Wenhao Powell Welfare Home Shows Love"

"Full of sincerity, Wen Hao plays and sings the unpublished work "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" for the children in the orphanage"

"The Golden Grand Prix will begin tomorrow night, and Wenhao will compete in two categories to ensure ratings."

"Guy's interview frequently featured famous quotes, and Powell's response made the audience laugh."

"Liu Xiang missed the Golden Grand Prix for the first time, Robles expressed regret in the interview"

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As time went by, various reports about the Magic City Golden Grand Prix began to occupy the news pages.

In fact, as early as September 9, when Wen Haoshang was still flying in the air, the first round of press conferences had already begun. The first to appear at that time was Asia's "second brother" Shi Dongpeng in the 25-meter hurdles, and Russian pole vault "Queen" Isinbayeva.

The focus of the press conference on the second day was Dairon Rowe, who set a personal best of 12 seconds at the World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart and was ranked as the "fourth fastest in history" with Alan Johnson and Roger Kingdom. Perth.

In order to prevent Robles from being too "lonely", Liu Xiang, who was practicing self-cultivation, also made a special appearance at the press conference, and the three of them were interviewed together with Alan Johnson.

As for the third day, this afternoon's press conference was even more lively. Since all participating athletes have arrived in Shanghai, as long as they are athletes with the title of "world champion" in a broad sense, they will basically attend the press conference and be interviewed.

Two-time men's 400-meter world championship champion Varina, two-time women's 400-meter world championship champion Janna Pittman, Athens Olympic women's 200-meter champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and so on.

And these people are basically the invitees to the cruise ship banquet on the evening of the 27th.

However, all the reports and popularity combined cannot compare to Wen Hao's "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" video that is going viral on the Internet.

Wen Hao wrote the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" a long time ago. Its studio version was also released at the same time as "Chasing Dreams", but it has never been published.

Mainly, he is not in a hurry. After all, the original authors of this song, Escape Plan Band, were released in 2011.

In addition, for the music career line, he mainly focused on the European and American markets, so he kept putting it off, planning to wait until a relatively suitable time to take it out.

The song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" itself is directional. The original starting point is the longing for the ex-girlfriend, and the second is the feeling of the friends in life gradually drifting away.

But this song is good because its lyrics are not obsessed with the emotions between men and women, but project a moving tranquil mood and romantic feelings from a broader perspective, allowing people to hear the thoughts about dreams and ideals. Perseverance and following are reminiscent of the self that has gradually drifted away from the dream as it grows up.

And in an environment like a welfare home, especially for those disabled children who have various physical defects but still retain "a transparent heart", it gives this song another layer of meaning. new meaning.

The video of the performance and singing of "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" was first published not by the media who were following and filming at the scene, but by Wen Hao's personal YouTube account, which is also the source of the most popular video on the Internet.

Yes, you are not mistaken.

At this point in time in 2007, China's Internet "wall" had not yet been fully established. Chinese netizens could still freely browse mainstream overseas social media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. If this timeline is not affected by Wen Hao's rebirth, it will not be until the summer of 2009 that the door to China of these overseas mainstream social media will be suddenly closed, and Google will have to wait until 2010 to withdraw from the Chinese market.

While there is still some time, Wen Hao is also ready to take advantage of the rapid development of the global Internet industry and take advantage of the fact that Chinese netizens can browse freely at this time to operate his overseas social media accounts.

I have to say that Wen Hao’s fans are indeed very awesome.

Currently, YouTube does not support Simplified Chinese. Even the official version of Traditional Chinese will not be available in Hong Kong and Baodao until next month. The Simplified Chinese version for the mainland will not be available until the opening of the North Olympic Games next year. .

But even in this situation, Wen Hao's fans also showed strong fighting power. When the American fans were still sleeping soundly at night, they played and sang Wen Hao's "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" within two hours. The video reached 100 million views.

But after all, it is a Chinese song, and it is not an official MV, so the playback potential is still very limited.

In comparison, the MV views of Wen Ho's earliest English single "We Are Young" have now reached 8700 million, while the MV views of "Shape Of You" and "Viva La Vida" are 8100 million and 6900 million respectively. Ten thousand.

Judging from the current increase in video playback, "We Are Young" or "Shape Of You" is very likely to become the first video on YouTube to exceed 100 million views.

Therefore, in the United States, the topic of "Whether Wen Hao can become the first Chinese singer to be nominated for or even win the Grammy music trophy" is now being discussed heatedly.

The nomination list of previous Grammy Awards is usually announced in November, and the awards are held in February of the following year.

Before Wenhao, there were actually many Chinese/Chinese musicians who had been nominated for Grammy Awards. For example, Yo-Yo Ma won the 1985th "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance Award" in 27, and the 2002th "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance Award" in 44. Tanton won the "Movie Original Music Album" and Tang Muhai won the "Best Instrumental Concerto Award".

But the “comprehensive category” that attracts the most attention: Best Record of the Year, Best Album of the Year, Best Single of the Year, Best Newcomer Award, as well as pop, rock and other awards, there has never been a Chinese/Chinese Musicians have been nominated.

From the current point of view, it is already a high probability that Wenhao will be nominated for "Best Single of the Year" and "Best Newcomer of the Year" among the four major comprehensive awards.

In addition to Wen Hao, the American pianist Lang Lang also has a good chance of receiving a Grammy nomination. He collaborated with the conductor Essen Bach to publish "Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 1 and 4", which was released in May 07. It topped the US Billboard Classical Music Chart in its first week.

However, the Grammy nomination will still take some time after all. Although Wenhao has heard about the discussions in the United States, his mind is still focused on the last few games of this season.

After the afternoon press conference, Wen Hao checked into the designated hotel for the Golden Grand Prix. Although he had his own house in Modu, it was a rule that all participating athletes must check into the designated hotel the day before the competition and could not be violated.

After taking a short rest in the hotel, Wen Hao, who had washed and changed, went to the Huangpu River as scheduled to attend the cruise dinner that night.

The process is not much different from last year. Although Liu Xiang will not participate in the competition this time, it is still no problem to have a meal with athletes from all over the world. It was just a joke to let Wen Hao be the "host" of the dinner.

Not only was Wen Hao not angry about this, but he was also happy about it.

The only difference from last year is probably that Magic City no longer invites singers to hold post-game concerts this year. The concert of Kuaiman Supergirl is just a co-branded concert with the Golden Grand Prix. With the status of Brother Chun and Liangying, Not yet qualified to attend the cruise dinner.

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