One person's entertainment

Chapter 63, New Album Can’t Stop

"Where in the world can you not see yellow faces? Bright red blood is flowing among 1.3 billion people. You say this is my anger, I say this is my attitude. We Chinese are the only ones who are brave enough to move forward regardless of our own safety..."

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"In the ancient East, there was a dragon, and its name was Huaxia. In the ancient East, there was a group of people, and they were all descendants of the dragon..."

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All you can hear is Shen Lingyou's powerful and soul-stirring voice floating in the recording studio.

"Yellow Man", "After five thousand years it's finally my turn to take the stage" sings out the youthful vigor and ambition, and also sings out the confidence and dominance of the Chinese people in the new era. The fresh flute sound and rap passages add a free and easy chivalrous spirit to the whole song. It is a main theme song full of youthful atmosphere.

"Descendants of the Dragon" is a new version of an old song, but many new elements have been added to the song. The description of modern Chinese wars in the lyrics has been replaced by the experience of mainlanders living in Hong Kong, giving the song another meaning.

Huo Wenxi was deeply impressed by Shen Lingyou's talent. These two songs were perfect for celebrating the return of Hong Kong, and she also believed that this was the last king of the Chinese music scene in the 20th century.

Wu Xianliang, who had long regarded Shen Lingyou as a role model, had red eyes. It was the first time that his blood seemed to boil when listening to the song.

Shen Lingyou tried singing once, and after getting into the mood, he started recording.

Three hours later, I finished singing "Yellow Man".

It’s getting late, so “Descendants of the Dragon” will have to wait until tomorrow.

"Brother Shen, are there any Chinese elements in the music of these two songs?" Wu Xianliang couldn't wait to ask when he saw Shen Lingyou coming out of the recording studio. He had this question when he was making the accompaniment tape.

"Well, let's try something new. It seems to work well." Shen Lingyou nodded with a smile.

"I've never seen so many Chinese elements added to a pop song. This is a completely new style of music!" Wu Xianliang exclaimed.

"Innovation! Hmm... this can be used as a selling point for promotion." Huo Wenxi has a keen sense of smell.

The concept of "Chinese-style music" was first proposed in the early 1980s. It is an art form that is based on Chinese culture and oriental culture and adapts to modern music and has its own unique charm and character.

In the original time and space, Jay Chou's song "Dong Feng Po" was a watershed in Chinese-style music and laid the standard for Chinese-style pop songs.

Chinese style is, first of all, "Chinese", and it also has to "become a trend", and Chinese style pop songs can be summarized as having "three ancients and three new" characteristics, namely ancient poetry, ancient culture, ancient melodies, new singing methods, new arrangements, and new concepts. The two songs "Yellow Man" and "Descendants of the Dragon" can be said to barely meet the requirements.

Shen Lingyou was not trying to promote Chinese-style songs, it was just a coincidence.

If he really wanted to promote Chinese-style songs, he would not have chosen these two, but would have chosen more representative ones.

Songs like "Dong Feng Po", "Hua Tian Cuo", "Susan Said", "Qingming Rain", "Jiangnan" and "Thousand Years of Tears" are more suitable and can make the Chinese style of pop songs popular.

After the recording was finished and they left the Blue Ocean Recording Studio, Shen Lingyou and Huo Wenxi started chatting again on the way.

"I plan to release a new album in May. I have already selected ten songs. I just need some time to arrange the music. I'll give you a phone number. It's the director who helped me shoot the music video before. His name is Zhang Wei. He is quite capable and has his own small filming team. See if you can sign him to the company."

"Okay, I have some connections in Hong Kong. If you need me, I can contact them."

"No rush. After July 7st, I will release a Cantonese album, and I will be able to use your connections then."

“You speak Cantonese?”

"I like Cantonese songs very much. Wong Ka Kui has always been my idol. I can listen to Cantonese songs."

"I can understand it. It's much better than my Mandarin."

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Shen Lingyou believes that the new album cannot be stopped. If you want to maintain the popularity for a long time and continue to increase your popularity, the sea of ​​songs strategy is the best choice.

He also made corresponding music plans:
1. The remaining four songs will be on the charts and get special opportunity rewards;

2. Strive to attend the Hong Kong Return Gala;

3. Release a Cantonese album;
4. Find a Japanese lyricist to write the lyrics for the album "Shen Ling You" and release a Japanese version;

5. Appeared on the 1998 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

So, this year, I will release three albums as a whole.

The name of this new album is “Spark” and its theme is “Inspiration”.

The title song is "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", three hit songs are "Unknown Person", "Change Myself" and "I Believe", and the remaining six songs are "Stubborn", "Snail", "Fly Higher", "Light", "Battlefield of Youth" and "Life is More Than Just the Present".

This time, he endorses his own company!

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1997 is destined to be an extraordinary year.

In the Chinese entertainment industry, there’s a lot of thunder but little rain.

The most explosive entertainment news at the moment is the "Silver Media Incident" that broke out in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

At first, there were only some suggestive reports in the street tabloids that "some female stars were traveling abroad under the guise of performing on stage, but were actually accompanying tourists". Later, the reports became more and more bizarre, with the location clearly identified as Brunei, and names were mentioned. A large number of first- and second-tier female stars were involved, and the whole city was in an uproar in a short time.

Some denied the rumor, some swore an oath, and all the female stars tried to clear themselves of the charge. The rumor spread around and finally reached the "No. 1 God" in the world, Ye Zimei, and finally came to nothing.

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong media has been notoriously bold and daring to write anything. Their level of fabrication is world-renowned.

The good news is that domestic media don’t know how to do this yet.

The bad news is that domestic media have strong learning ability.

Shen Lingyou believes in “mind your own business and not worry about other people’s problems”. He does morning exercises every day, buys the latest music newspapers and magazines, and checks the rankings of his songs on major music charts.

The saying “Let the bullets fly for a while” seems to be beginning to come true.

The ranking of the song "Compendium of Materia Medica" rose one level every day, and soon entered the top ten.

However, there is always someone stronger than you.

The title song "Ren Xiaoyao" of Ren Xianqi's new album released after the Spring Festival broke through the siege at lightning speed and entered the top three positions in one fell swoop!

The emotion of collapse in the song brought tears to the fans' eyes, and it also expressed the fact that Xiao Chong could not write a hit song and could not renew his contract with Luoshi: "Let me be sad, let me regret, I hate that you don't understand, heaven."

It’s Saturday, March 3th.

Early in the morning, I saw that "Ren Xiaoyao" topped the list and "Compendium of Materia Medica" was temporarily in second place.

"Is it possible..."

Shen Lingyou had a bad feeling.

(End of this chapter)