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Chapter 322 Let’s do Chinese style!

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Wei's vote count exceeded one million, and the upward momentum has not stopped, and the SMS voting has increased very rapidly.

The song "Marshmallow" just now, the combination of handsome guy and sweet song, did attract a large number of female audiences to vote. At least in terms of appearance, Zhang Wei was completely defeated.

But Jay Chou’s songs have never become popular because of his appearance.

Jay Chou's appearance, even if you don't say he's ugly, is definitely not handsome. His status as the top man in the Chinese music scene is earned purely through his talent.

Now when Zhang Wei sings the song "Confession Balloon", the difference in appearance can be ignored.

"Zhang Wei's votes have surpassed!" As the director's voice echoed around, the program planner slumped in his chair.

"Marshmallow" is the sharpest weapon he can find, but it can't defeat Zhang Wei. The planner is really helpless.

Hu Li consoled him from the side, "It's not your fault. Zhang Wei's song Confession Balloon is so great. If you sang any other song, you would still lose."

"But Zhang Wei has already made it into the top three, and I can't explain to my boss." The planner shook his head helplessly.

"At most they'll just criticize you a few words! It's impossible for them to actually fire you." Hu Li glanced at the SMS voting data and continued, "Besides, the ratings of our show should be pretty good. From this perspective, we are successful."

At the same time, the planning leader, who is also the program producer, was indeed sulking in front of the TV, cursing the planner's incompetence in his mind.

But the producer actually knew that the planners had tried their best. When the song "Marshmallow" appeared, even he thought Wei Chen was sure to win. Who would have thought that Zhang Wei would come up with a divine song "Confession Balloon".

What the producer found most unacceptable was that Zhang Wei successfully entered the top three of the competition.

In any competition, the top three places represent a qualitative change compared to the fourth place, not to mention that these are the top three places for which the organizer has not yet signed a contract.

After a moment, the producer reluctantly picked up the phone and dialed the number of the lawyer in charge of the legal department.

Perhaps because it was late, the phone rang for quite a while before Lawyer Guan picked up the phone.

"Lawyer Guan, do you have any way to get Zhang Wei's contract done?" the producer asked.

"Well, there is a way." Lawyer Guan stopped talking and didn't say anything else.

The producer sensed that Attorney Guan had something to hide, so he said, "I'm alone here, so it's convenient for me to talk."

After a moment's silence, Lawyer Guan spoke up: "From a legal perspective, we can find a way to force Zhang Wei to sign the contract, but the means are a bit dirty. If it gets out, it will affect the company's image."

As Lawyer Guan spoke, he briefly introduced the solution he had thought of.

After listening to him, the producer was silent for a few seconds, then said, "What you said is not a big problem. Anyway, there is no shortage of cases of big stores bullying customers in the entertainment industry. Let's do it according to your method! By the way, let Zhang Wei, a troublemaker, understand that in this industry, radio and television is the grandfather and capital is the father!"

……

There were no unexpected incidents this week, and the program team did not do anything weird. The three contestants were all quietly preparing for the next game.

With only three players left, the rules were changed once again.

First, there will be three rounds of singing. After each round, the person with the highest off-site SMS vote will get one point, and the on-site judges will also cast a point based on the contestant's performance.

That is to say, in every round of singing, there will be one person who will not get any points.

After three rounds of singing, the cumulative scores are calculated. The two people with the low scores will have a round of PK first, and the winner will then have a PK with the person with the high score. Then, based on the number of off-site SMS votes, the winner will enter the top two.

The remaining two losers will compete in the final PK, which will still be determined by the number of SMS votes. The winner will advance and the loser will be eliminated.

This is equivalent to the first three rounds of competition. First, there is a qualifying round. After the rankings are determined, the first place is equivalent to the winner group, and then there is a double-elimination round.

This competition system is not specifically targeted at Zhang Wei. As long as the voting relies on off-site text message voting, Zhang Wei's chances of winning are the greatest.

Although I have the advantage, Zhang Wei doesn't think he will definitely win the championship. The remaining two opponents are not only very strong, but also extremely talented. One has a rogue voice and the other is born with a clip-like voice. These characteristics alone are enough to gain a place in the Chinese music scene.

Before the game, the three players did not communicate much. At this point in the game, they began to keep secrets from each other and no one would reveal their moves to the opponent in advance.

……

On the day of the competition, the first thing to be done was a three-round singing points competition.

Su Xing, who was the first to perform, sang his best English song, Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca".

Ordinary people may not be familiar with the name Ricky Martin, but veteran football fans must know him.

He sang the theme song of the 1998 World Cup in France, "Circle of Life", which is also the song "GOGOGO, so tired, so tired". Sixteen years later, he also sang the theme song of the Brazil World Cup, "Vida".

Being able to sing the World Cup theme song is enough to prove that this guy was also popular all over the world at that time. And this song "Livin' La Vida Loca" is a song released by Ricky Martin in 1999. This song is similar to "Circle of Life" and is also a Latin style song filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

The next person to come on stage was Mr. Chen, who sang a song called "White Birch Forest" by Pu Shu. There is no need for special introduction to the singer Pu Shu and the song "White Birch Forest", as everyone knows them.

I can only say that Chen Sheng is very skilled in song selection. As a recognized voice rogue, songs like "Birch Forest" which are more melancholy and emotionally strong are really suitable for him. His voice can easily sing out the deep affection and sadness of the song, and can move the audience involuntarily.

Obviously, the two did not hide their strengths and showed what they were best at in the first song in the hope of getting off to a good start.

“These two have shown their full strength, so I have to use my ultimate moves too!” Zhang Wei took a deep breath and stood on the stage.

At the same time, the name of the song he was going to sing appeared on the big screen: Fireworks fade away easily.

As the guitar prelude sounded, Zhang Wei began to sing: "The sound of prosperity has escaped into the monastery, which has tormented the world. The dream is cold and I have been tossing around for a lifetime. How many debts of love have I owed..."

The melody at the beginning seems ordinary, and the lyrics seem a bit unreal. It is not as happy as "Livin'La Vida Loca" at the beginning, nor is it as melancholy as "Birch Forest". In short, it is not as good as the previous two songs in terms of mobilizing emotions. However, as Zhang Wei sings, the piano and drums also join in, and the song comes to the chorus, and the melody begins to become gentle.

"The rain falls, the grass and trees grow thick in my old hometown. I heard that you are always alone. The mottled city gate is entrenched with old tree roots, and the echo on the stone slab is, wait a little longer..."

Hearing this, the expressions of the three judges on the scene changed at the same time. They looked so surprised, as if they had seen a ghost.

"How is this possible!" Hu Li in the backstage also exclaimed. He looked at Zhang Wei in the broadcast screen with an incredible expression on his face.

"What's wrong again?" the director asked subconsciously.

"This is actually a Chinese style song!" Hu Li's voice seemed to tremble a little.

"I can also hear that this is a Chinese style song, but so what! Chinese style is quite popular these days. What's so strange about Zhang Wei composing an original Chinese style song? Is there any need to make such a fuss?" said the director with some disdain.

"Chinese style is not strange, but this song uses guitar, piano and drums! This is incredible!" Hu Li said.

……

In the 2000s, when people mentioned Chinese style, there was only one name that came to mind, and that was Jay Chou.

Before Jay Chou's Chinese style, there were Chinese style songs, but they were all classical music styles. After Jay Chou's "Dong Feng Po", a new form of Chinese style emerged, and then with the arrival of more Jay Chou's Chinese style songs, Chinese style became the most popular genre in the Chinese music scene at that time, and many first-line singers would try this style.

As early as 2000, when Jay Chou released his first album, there was a song called "Niang Zi", which was considered to be Jay Chou's most original Chinese-style song. The subsequent "Nunchucks" and "Dragon Fist" were considered to be an evolution of Jay Chou's Chinese-style, but people paid more attention to the rap in it rather than the Chinese-style melody.

It was not until the appearance of "Dong Feng Po" that the entire Chinese music scene was shocked, and a purely Chinese style of pop music emerged.

At the beginning, many people thought that "Dong Feng Po" was just an accident and there was only one song of this type. But soon, the emergence of a series of Chinese-style songs such as "Fa Ru Xue", "Qian Li Wai", "Ju Hua Tai", "Qing Hua Ci" and "Lanting Xu" made the music industry recognize Zhou's new Chinese-style music style.

In that era, the characteristic of Chinese style was to use modern music to sing with a classical flavor.

The music style is more traditional oriental performance, with some oriental instruments added, and the tune is gentle and circular.

The lyrics also tend to introduce traditional Chinese culture, use ancient Chinese allusions, tell ancient Chinese stories, or simply use ancient poetry.

However, what many people did not expect was that Jay Chou made another bold breakthrough in his own Chinese style creation, that is, "Fireworks Cool Down".

For ordinary listeners, the first time they hear "Fireworks Cool Down Easy", they may feel it is rather ordinary, and may even feel that this song is far inferior to "Dong Feng Po" and "Blue and White Porcelain".

But for professional musicians, when they heard the song "Fireworks Cool Easily", they would really kneel down and worship it.

Many people think that Jay Chou's best Chinese style song is the pioneering song "Dong Feng Po", and many people think that the culmination of "Blue and White Porcelain" is the best Chinese style song of Jay Chou. But from a musical perspective, "Fireworks Are Cold" is the pinnacle of Jay Chou's Chinese style.

The song "Dong Feng Po" obviously uses the erhu and pipa. The erhu part with its melodious tone is regarded as the essence of the song.

The song "Blue and White Porcelain" also obviously uses the guzheng and flute. The unique classical charm of the guzheng and the crisp and melodious sound of the flute can instantly bring the audience into the Chinese style artistic conception.

However, in the song "Fireworks Fade Easily", the main instruments used are guitar, piano, and drum set, with violin as an auxiliary. No Chinese instruments are used, all of them are Western instruments.

But no one would say that "Fireworks Cool Easily" is not a Chinese style song. Even many music novices can tell that it is a Chinese style song.

Using Western musical instruments to interpret the texture of Chinese style is enough to make many musicians kneel down in worship.

You can imagine playing Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" with instruments such as the guzheng, pipa, erhu, flute, suona, and chimes.

It is certainly not difficult to play it completely, but the difficult part is to play it with the texture of a Western symphony, which is simply impossible.

To speak more professionally, it is recorded in "The Book of Zhou" that the five tones are gong, shang, jue, wei and yu. These are the five tones of ancient Chinese traditional music. Various ancient Chinese musical instruments also correspond to these five tones.

These five notes correspond to the five notes of "Do-Re-Mi-So-La" in the current musical notation, and the notes "Fa" and "Xi" are not included.

In ancient China, these two notes were respectively called "bianwei" and "biangong" and rarely appeared in ancient music.

Therefore, in previous Chinese-style songs, "fa" and "xi" were rarely used or even not used at all. If you used these two notes, you would violate the sound of traditional Chinese instruments, and the performance would lose the flavor of Chinese style. This is the so-called music theory.

However, in "Fireworks Cool Down Easily", the sound "xi" is used extensively.

Jay Chou's amazing thing is that music theory has no effect on him. What seems to be against music theory becomes a powerful tool for music creation in Jay Chou's hands.

That's why we say that "Fireworks Cool Down" is Jay Chou's pinnacle of Chinese style. He used traditional Western instruments to perfectly interpret the tonality and texture of Chinese style. He clearly violated the music theory of traditional Chinese music, but he was able to create a pure Chinese style song.

This is quite similar to the feeling of a swordsman abandoning his sword in a martial arts novel. When swordsmanship is practiced to the extreme, anything can be used as a sword. This is the so-called simplicity.

So in terms of music, Jay Chou is really like the peerless master in martial arts novels. In his eyes, all the unique martial arts skills from various schools have returned to their original simplicity.

The lyrics written by Vincent Fang are also incomparable. If you carefully savor the lyrics of "Fireworks Cool Down Easily", you will find that it is not a poem or a story, but a state of mind. You can't touch it or explain it clearly, but you can feel it.

Therefore, the song "Fireworks Cool Easily", both in terms of lyrics and music, is of the level of a divine song. The composer would have to kneel down and worship it when he hears the music, and the lyricist would also have to kneel down and worship it when he sees the lyrics.

The only thing that was disappointing and something I could find fault with was probably Jay Chou's singing.

To be honest, when Jay Chou recorded this song, his voice was really bad.

If you haven't heard other talented singers' covers, you may not have this feeling, but if you hear other talented singers' covers, after comparison, you will find that Jay Chou still has obvious shortcomings in terms of tone.

Another thing that Jay Chou has always been criticized for is his unclear pronunciation. If you listen to this song for the first time and don't check the lyrics, you can't hear what he is singing.

There's really nothing we can do about it, Jay Chou is just like this. If one day he sings the lyrics clearly, it might not have that flavor anymore.

(End of this chapter)