I really don't want to be the top streamer anymore

Chapter 257 Xu Kong is a cheater
"I really don't know why Xinxin suddenly ignored me."

"Director Xu, you must help me!"

Xu Kong drank water calmly while listening to Yan Jiaheng complaining to him.

Of course, he had actually heard the conversation between the two that night.

At this time, I can only say that I am helpless to help.

The main reason is that it is unlikely that he would confess that he was with Shang Yuxin at that time.

And for some reason, Yan Jiaheng just recognized him. He had always taken the initiative to ask him for help before.

Perhaps it was because Shang Yuxin and Xu Kong had always had a good relationship, which seemed very good to outsiders.

Moreover, as soon as Shang Yuxin came to the company, she ran to the post-editing and production room of "Sweet Honey".

In this case, although no one knows the specific relationship between the two, it is certain that they are close.

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As time passed, the Spring Festival holiday ended and more people returned to Beijing.

The most obvious thing is that the traffic volume has increased.

In addition, the people who returned to work at Fengge headquarters also made the company building lively.

But as for Xu Kong’s words, he actually didn’t feel much.

After all, most of the time, I still stay in the editing room or my own personal studio.

It is obvious that the number of newcomers in Fengge is increasing.

When Xu Kong first came, he could still see one or two familiar faces from time to time. Although they were not so-called superstars, some second- and third-tier actors under Fengge were still relatively common.

Nowadays, there are almost no elderly people.

Of course, Fengge has too many artists under its banner, and most of them stay on the set filming all year round.

It is normal not to see you in the company during normal hours.

Xu Kong currently doesn’t have much energy to pay attention to the specific situation.

Since Song Fuquan already knew about it, there was no need for him to worry too much about an artist under his company.

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"The current situation is somewhat special. Your song 'Blue and White Porcelain' has caused chaos in the entire Chinese music scene..."

Zhu Yu shared her analysis.

Although it has been quite a while since the Spring Festival Gala.

But Xu Kong's song "Blue and White Porcelain" and the so-called Chinese style of songs have completely begun to plunge the entire Chinese music scene into a terrifying atmosphere of research and discussion.

It’s true, although less than half a month has passed, some songwriters have indeed begun to try to create what Xu Kong called the Chinese style.

There are quite a lot of finished songs released, but compared with Xu Kong's "Blue and White Porcelain", the level of completion of the lyrics, music and arrangement is not on the same level.

It's more like a similar experimental work.

Moreover, the whole song has some similar styles to "Blue and White Porcelain".

There is no other way. In the absence of other reference cases, the first thing people naturally consider is to compare it with Xu Kong's "Blue and White Porcelain".

The second is whether the requirements of the so-called “three ancients and three new” are met.

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"The main public opinion now is still about the Chinese style you talked about on the Spring Festival Gala. Many people think that you just happened to write a song."

“But many people do not agree with those standards of Chinese style.”

Zhu Yu doesn't think this is a big public opinion crisis.

But the discussion was indeed quite lively.

What people said the most was that if Xu Kong wrote another Chinese-style song, it probably wouldn't be able to reach his previous so-called standards.

"I see."

Xu Kong indeed hasn't had much time to pay attention to the online public opinions recently.

However, at this time, the colleagues or so-called music critics on the Internet are simply questioning whether the Chinese style is really a new type of song.

Or is it that Xu Kong himself just made up the style of the song based on an inspired work called "Blue and White Porcelain".

There is no way, mainly because the name Huaxiafeng really can't help but attract attention.

But before the Spring Festival Gala was broadcast, no one had even heard of such a statement, and there were very few or even no similar music styles.

Xu Kong suddenly dropped such a big bomb that it would be impossible for everyone to accept it in a short period of time.

Moreover, there were almost no trailers or experimental works released before, making it difficult for people to feel whether a new pop music genre has really emerged, or whether Xu Kong just gave a relatively uncommon new song to himself and forcibly gave it a name, such as "Huaxia Style", to deliberately attract attention.

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However, from the very beginning, Xu Kong did not think that just relying on the song "Blue and White Porcelain" would allow the public to completely recognize the existence of "Chinese style".

So he wasn't too worried at this moment.

"Sister Yu, isn't Singer going to be broadcast again soon?"

"You can spread the news now. I will sing a new Chinese-style song in the latest episode of the show."

Xu Kong thought about it and felt that it was no big deal to release the news in advance.

So he took the initiative to speak up.

"Singing on the show 'Singer'?"

Zhu Yu didn't expect that Xu Kong would have such an idea.

But now for Xu Kong, the best response is actually to come up with a new Chinese-style song.

"Singer" is indeed a good stage choice.

The main reason was that the broadcast time of "Singer" last year was relatively late. Wu Youxue only returned to Mango TV in the second half of the year, was promoted, and had a lot of things accumulated.

In the past, the Spring Festival came earlier and was celebrated in January.

So before "Singer" was finished, as the Spring Festival approached, Wu Youxue decisively suspended the program.

The time for resuming broadcasting was changed to after returning from the Chinese New Year.

This is obviously a wiser choice.

Whether it is the Spring Festival Gala or because of the Spring Festival holiday, even if "Singer" insists on being broadcast, the effect is estimated to be not very good.

More importantly, even if he doesn’t appear on the official Spring Festival Gala, he still receives invitations from various local and satellite TV stations.

The guests on the "Singer" program will receive a lot of invitations to varying degrees.

This is the case with Xu Kong. Although he eventually went to the official Spring Festival Gala, in fact, Mango TV and some other local TV stations had sent him invitations.

And it's much earlier than the Spring Festival Gala.

There is no way around it. Throughout the whole of last year, Xu Kong was indeed the artist whose popularity and fame grew the fastest. In addition, given Xu Kong's identity as a songwriter and singer, it is normal for him to become a popular talent that everyone is vying for.

However, the attention paid to the local TV stations’ Spring Festival Gala is definitely not that high. Even the broadcast time has to be staggered by the official one, and on New Year’s Eve, the official TV station’s Spring Festival Gala is still broadcast.

So Xu Kong almost refused at that time, thinking that there was no need to participate.

As for the program team of "Singer", Wu Youxue was also very decisive.

Instead of going through the trouble of coordinating schedules, it would be better to just suspend the show for a while.

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Zhu Yu was also very efficient and coordinated the specific promotion and release time with "Singer".

Soon after the official Weibo of "Singer" announced the resumption of broadcasting, Xu Kong's personal Weibo was also updated at the same time. When reposting the news of the resumption of "Singer", he directly announced that he would sing a new song in the next episode, and it would be the most discussed "China style" song recently.

As expected, this news caused a sensation among netizens online.

Even the fact that Xu Kong plans to sing a new Chinese-style song has attracted more discussion than the fact that "Singer" will resume broadcasting.

What people have been talking about the most recently is nothing more than the so-called Chinese style from Xu Kong's perspective. This is just what he came up with based on his own song "Blue and White Porcelain". Strictly speaking, it is just a simple song and cannot support a so-called new type and style of pop songs.

In fact, such discussions have already appeared frequently after the Spring Festival Gala ended.

Everyone also knows that the best way for Xu Kong to prove himself is to release a new song.

But perhaps it was because Xu Kong not only had no plans to release new songs, but also had almost no specific responses.

Under this premise, Xu Kong's black fans, or the so-called musicians who wrote ancient style songs before, as well as various black fans with complex elements, continued to lead the trend even more unscrupulously.

Some people even said that it was almost impossible for Xu Kong to write another song like "Blue and White Porcelain".

At this moment, with "Singer" rebroadcasting, Xu Kong seemed to be just giving a normal preview of the program he would participate in.

This completely broke the original trend of public opinion.

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"I finally waited for it. I was wondering with Xu Kong's personality, how could he not have any reaction at all?"

"Huaxia style is indeed a new style of contemporary pop music that is worth studying. In fact, even if there is only one song "Blue and White Porcelain", Xu Kong's identity as the founder cannot be escaped. It's just that except for Xu Kong, other musicians started too late, so it's normal to have no clue."

“I don’t think that even if Xu Kong really wrote a new Chinese style song, it would be able to reach the level of “Blue and White Porcelain”, and it might not even meet the three ancient and three new standards he mentioned.”

The various discussions on the Internet show no sign of stopping.

On the contrary, because of Xu Kong's proactive announcement of the new song, the situation seems to be getting more and more intense.

There is no way around it. The issue of Chinese style has become the most discussed topic in the entire Chinese music scene since the end of the Spring Festival Gala.

There were many so-called professional songwriters and singers who came out to speak.

The number of people who have been secretly watching is almost countless.

Xu Kong had only explained what Chinese style was when chatting with the host on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

There was almost no response afterwards.

This leads to a constant discussion and collision of different viewpoints, or the rampant spread of internet trolls and scammers.

Strictly speaking, in this era, such large-scale music discussions are still quite rare.

But since the real master Xu Kong refused to come forward, no one could convince anyone else.

In the end, it turned into a war of words with completely different purposes.

Therefore, the attention to the rebroadcast of "Singer" is expected to be unprecedentedly high.

Even many songwriters, producers, and even professional singers in the circle will pay close attention to this episode, or to Xu Kong's new Chinese-style song.

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"You mean, even Xu Kong himself can't write a new Chinese-style song?"

At this moment, Jiying Media, the company with the largest number of singers and the largest scale of music industry, has paid the most attention to Hua Xia Feng in this period of time.

Xu Yaqin has been paying close attention to relevant news during this period.

It’s especially true that there are so many songs claiming to be Chinese style, many of which are written by independent musicians.

It can be said that the popularity is not low. Even some songs that up-loaders in the music section of Bilibili have tried to write themselves often have three to four million views.

Although the quality of the song itself has not received much recognition, we can still see some potential in it.

She also took this opportunity to discover several new talents with creative talent.

There are also some so-called Chinese-style song clips on short video platforms, which are more popular, but in fact they are suspected of being tricky.

Some of them aren’t even complete songwriting pieces.

At most, it's an imitation of "Blue and White Porcelain", and it's a weird imitation at that. The melody is not sophisticated and the lyrics are even more incomprehensible.

But because of communication reasons, it can become popular.

Strictly speaking, these people are not without commercial value.

But Jiying Media is such a big company, and it is not an MCN internet celebrity agency, so there is really no need to have much contact with it.

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Guo Min shook his head.

"It's not that Xu Kong can't write Chinese style songs anymore. What I mean is that even for Xu Kong himself, it would be too difficult to come up with another Chinese style song of the quality of "Blue and White Porcelain"."

“I personally think it’s almost unrealistic.”

As a lyricist and composer who has been writing pop songs for most of his life, Guo Min certainly has his own basis for judgment.

It was because I didn’t do enough research before.

But with the popularity of "Blue and White Porcelain", Guo Min also tried to write it himself, and at the same time communicated with some friends in the circle.

They all confirmed one thing, that is, the Chinese style that Xu Kong mentioned, although the inspiration for the creation may have appeared in his mind very early.

But the song "Blue and White Porcelain" is most likely an inspired work that is difficult to replicate or reproduce.

The key point is that he had almost no experimental works before, but he suddenly came up with such a highly completed song. It is really hard not to think so.

Even if Xu Kong is really a genius, when he came up with a new style of composition, the first finished song he wrote would be almost at the pinnacle of that genre, right?
Yes, it is the peak level.

After this period of research and discussion on the so-called Chinese style, and after starting to try my own creation.

Guo Min shares the same idea with many songwriters in the industry. Even though there will continue to be many Chinese-style songs in the future, the quality of "Blue and White Porcelain" is definitely a representative work and leader of this genre.

How did Xu Kong do it?

The only explanation is that the article is a natural creation and can be mastered by a skilled hand.

After hearing Guo Min's words, Xu Yaqin breathed a sigh of relief. There was no way. Now it was indeed impossible for them and Xu Kong to be in the same camp anymore.

Guo Min's speculation is indeed logical, and Xu Kong is not a so-called genius.

But he would never have thought that Xu Kong was a cheater...

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(End of this chapter)