Chinese entertainment, from radio love songs to superstars

Chapter 85, Come on!
Yanjing, Warner Music Division.

"I have received confirmed information. Shen Lang's new album is named "Lang". It will be in the form of five new songs + five old songs. It will be released simultaneously across Asia on September 9st."

The speaker was Chen Zeshan, currently the vice president of Warner's domestic department, who was assigned by Zhou Jianhui to be in charge of mainland singers.

He is also a powerful figure.

In the original time and space, he was known as "the last big boss in the record industry" and had served as a senior executive in the Chinese-speaking region of many international record companies including Midas Touch, Universal Music, EMI, and Warner Music.

The famous "Tianhou Palace" was created in Warner. In its heyday, it had best-selling female singers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, such as Zhang Huimei, Cai Yilin, Stefanie Sun, Sammi Cheng, Na Ying, and Elva Hsiao. Later, singers such as JJ Lin, Jam Hsiao, Kris Wu, Wilber Pan, and Li Ronghao were successively recruited to join Warner.

The Golden Melody Awards have an unwritten "newcomer curse". The career development of singers who win the Newcomer Award is generally not smooth, and it is even more difficult for them to become the king and queen of singing. However, under the leadership of Chen Zeshan, Stefanie Sun and JJ Lin won three "Best Mandarin Male/Female Singer" trophies respectively, breaking the Golden Melody Awards newcomer curse.

The strength and ability are evident.

At this time, sitting opposite Chen Zeshan was Na Ying, the top female star of Warner in mainland China. She said indifferently, "September is September."

Chen Zeshan adjusted the frame of his glasses and said slowly, "Many media have said that once his new album is released, it will sweep the Chinese entertainment industry and defeat all the kings and queens."

Na Ying was very dissatisfied and said angrily, "Bullshit! This is simply alarmist! It's okay to hit newcomers of the same period, but are the kings and queens really soft persimmons? I just don't believe this, don't change the release date!"

Chen Zeshan opened his mouth and closed it again. He completely understood what the character "tiger" meant.

But Na Ying was right in saying one thing: the king and queen of pop are not pushovers.

What's more, this album is Na Ying's first album after joining Warner. He and Na Ying's manager spent more than two months using Warner's international resources to collect songs across Asia.

During this period, we collected nearly 500 songs. After repeated careful selection, we finally selected 10 best of the best.

In terms of lyrics, well-known creative talents from the mainland, Hong Kong and Formosa Province have joined forces.

These 10 songs brought out Na Ying's full potential.

In addition to retaining her original high-pitched shouting singing style, she also tried soft rock and the romantic expression of breathy voice and the difficult singing method of switching between true and false voices, adding appropriate techniques to the album and making it more listenable.

In addition, at the 7rd CCTV·MTV Music Festival on July 1, she once again won the "Mainland's Most Popular Female Singer of the Year Award", and her popularity and fame in the mainland are far ahead.

So Na Ying's album is not afraid of any singer's album.

Come on then!

It's time for the media to shut up.

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At the same time, in an apartment in Yanjing.

Shen Lang was working hard at his desk.

Behind him, Gao Yuanyuan was lying on the bed, her chin supported by her hands, her two long white legs swaying.

The fan in the room was whirring, trying to drive away the summer heat.

Suddenly, Shen Lang felt a warm sensation on his back. Gao Yuanyuan hugged him from behind.

Gao Yuanyuan rested her chin on his shoulder, looked at the paper on the desk, and said, "Aren't you finished yet?"

Shen Lang was writing the theme song and ending song for "Love Across Time and Space". Post-production was currently in the final stages. He looked up at the pretty face so close to him and said, "If you keep doing this, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it."

Gao Yuanyuan's eyes were filled with laughter as she asked in a tender voice, "Where am I?"

Shen Lang put down the pen in his hand, stood up and hugged her by the waist.

Gao Yuanyuan begged for mercy: "Hey, please put me down. I won't disturb you from writing songs."

Shen Lang ignored him and walked towards the bed.

He gently put her on the bed, leaned over and kissed her.

After a long time, Gao Yuanyuan lay on the bed, feeling sore and weak all over, and she couldn't move a finger.

Seeing that she was sticky after exercise, Shen Lang took her to take a shower.

In a blink of an eye, the pleasant sound of water came from the bathroom.

This is what it’s like for young people in their twenties when they’re in love, they have endless energy.

until evening.

Gao Yuanyuan, who had been completely subdued, took a stool and sat next to Shen Lang, lying on the table and watching quietly, not daring to do anything provocative to avoid triggering another sweaty battle.

"'A word of heartache is treasured for ten thousand years, and a vow should last longer than forever. If it were not for the vicissitudes of life, how could true love emerge?' This sentence is really well written. The love between Xianxian and Zhu Yunwen transcends time and space, and love lasts for ten thousand years at first sight." Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help but sigh.

Two songs written by Shen Lang for "Love Across Time and Space".

A theme song, using the original time and space theme song of this drama "Too Much".

The ending song is the theme song "A Glimpse of a Thousand Years" from the original time-space TV series "The Fairy From the Other World".

"In fact, when I saw the script, I wanted to change the ending so that Xianxian returned to the modern era alone, while Zhu Yunwen died in the fire."

"If you change it like this, you will definitely be scolded by the audience."

Gao Yuanyuan knew without a doubt that this tragic ending would cause criticism from the audience.

Shen Lang laughed and said, "If you want to scold someone, you should scold the screenwriter instead of me."

Gao Yuanyuan sneered: "You are letting the screenwriter take the blame."

Shen Lang shrugged and said, "Isn't it not changed? Then I thought, forget it, the MV of "Fairy Tale" has already been changed once, there is no point in changing it again, I should give some sweetness and then change it again.

Gao Yuanyuan smiled with her eyes curved, and said, "Eh... I despise you on behalf of the audience, you spend all day thinking about how to trick people into tears." After a pause, she continued, "The sweet treat you're talking about, is it the script that Director Ning gave me?"

Shen Lang did not answer, but asked: "Have you seen it? What do you think?"

Gao Yuanyuan pursed her lips and said, "I can't say for sure. I feel like campus-themed movies don't have a huge audience in the mainland. Didn't our movie 17-Year-Old Bicycle fail miserably?"

Shen Lang smiled slightly and said, "Just treat it as training for Director Ning. There are no movies to shoot in the second half of the year anyway."

He had a chat with Fang Wanhua a while ago.

Then a cooperation was reached, and Julang Film and Television and Shenghua Film and Television jointly invested in the script of "The Sky of Eighteen Years Old".

Starring him and Gao Yuanyuan, and directed by Ning Hao.

The drama received a very good response when it was broadcast in its original time and space, and gained good reputation and ratings, becoming all the rage for a while.

Shen Lang adopts the strategy of performing in the entertainment industry.

The more you perform, the more exposure you get, and the more your popularity increases, the more opportunities you will get.

If possible, he doesn't even mind doubling up on other roles.

Don't say anything unprofessional.

At most, Wu Mangda was filming six or seven dramas at the same time. As soon as one crew finished filming, he would be picked up by another crew and then start filming again.

There is also Andy Lau, whose highest record is making 16 movies in one year. During the year of "God of Gamblers", he often had to run around three or four crews in a day.

As long as you manage your time well and play each role well, there is no such thing as unprofessionalism.

(End of this chapter)