Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 96 What is Cultural Invasion? (Subscription Request)

“The company does have plans to enter the Korean market, and your suggestion is very good.

Fahrenheit can add Korean songs to their new album."

Lu Shiyu thought about it carefully and agreed to the idea of ​​adding a Korean version to the album.

"No, I mean to make two versions. The Korean version will only be released in Korea, and the Chinese-speaking regions will still use the Chinese version."

When Wu Zhuo saw that Lu Shiyu had misunderstood, he immediately explained.

Fahrenheit is a Chinese band, but there are Korean songs in the albums released in China. What does this mean?
Help Koreans open up the Chinese market?

Wu Chao’s goal is not to let the Korean wave sweep across China, but to export the Chinese wave to Korea.

Cultural invasion means making one's own country's written language popular in other countries and becoming a popular trend.

It is true that singing songs in Korean can make you popular in China and make money, but this is just digging your own grave!

Wu Zhuo wants to make money, but he is not so shameless.

But making two versions is different.

This will not only allow Chinese fans to have their own top boy band, but also provide an opportunity to export Chinese characters to Korea.

For example, the Korean version of Fahrenheit's new album has a total of thirteen songs.

Among them, ten are Chinese versions and the other three are Korean.

Only these three Korean songs can attract Koreans.

They’ll buy the whole album.

What do you do after buying an album? You have to listen to it!
You can't just listen to three songs out of more than ten in an album, right?

Fans are a group of people who will often do anything for their idols.

Just like many fans of Korean groups in China in later generations learned Korean in order to be able to sing their idols' songs.

As long as Fahrenheit can have a certain number of fans in Korea.

There will definitely be some among them who will learn Chinese just to understand the meaning of Chinese songs or be able to sing them. Even if only one out of a hundred people learns Chinese, it will be a great victory for Chinese culture.

Because this means that Chinese culture has been implanted into the mind of a foreigner...

"You're very thoughtful!"

Lu Shiyu looked at Wu Zhuo seriously.

The term cultural invasion has not been mentioned in recent years.

But that doesn’t mean no one doesn’t understand this pattern.

As early as the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong achieved cultural invasion.

Under the bombardment of Hong Kong films, countless people in the surrounding Asian countries yearn for Hong Kong.

……

The review of Wu Zhuo's personal album is simple. Lu Shiyu is now Wu Zhuo's direct supervisor. Once he makes the decision, the album can start production directly.

But some songs of Fahrenheit are different.

Fahrenheit is a group.

Moreover, this group is not directly affiliated with Huayan, but with Komi. Komi is involved in the publicity and promotion of this group.

Therefore, the song selection for Fahrenheit's albums was not decided by one person.

This requires calling on Komi's people and several members of Fahrenheit to discuss together.

Yes, several members of Fahrenheit are eligible to participate in the selection of songs.

Whether it is a Chinese music group or a Korean group.

Before the new album songs begin production, members and all the behind-the-scenes team members will hold meetings to discuss the process.

For group members, especially now when each member of a group like Fahrenheit is quite popular, the opinion of each member is very important.

If all members think that the song is not suitable and cannot be included in the group's album.

Then even if the song is written by a big-name creator, it will be useless.

Of course, this doesn't usually happen.

In Fahrenheit, apart from Wu Zhuo, only Wang Dadong has some understanding of whether a song is good or not. The other two know nothing at all.

They usually choose to listen to the company, or to the opinions of Wu Zhuo, who is more professional...

……

In order not to delay Wu Zhuo from starting the production of his new personal album as soon as possible, Huayan organized a meeting the next morning and called K-Mi CEO Feng Jiarui, Fahrenheit manager Chen Huiying and several members of Fahrenheit to Huayan.

"Huozhuo, you've been very popular lately..."

"Yeah! Every time I open my computer and look at the forum posts, your name is everywhere!"

In the conference room where HIM was holding a meeting, as soon as Wu Chao sat down, Calvin Chen and Jiro Wang came over.

Both of them had envy in their eyes.

Especially Calvin Chen, at least Jiro Wang has Datong Wang to support him. Although his current popularity lags behind Nick Cheung and Wu Zun, it is not much inferior.

Only Calvin Chen is not loved by his father and mother. Recently, some people have started saying online that he is not qualified to join Fahrenheit.

In terms of film and television, Wu Zhuo really can't help Chen Yiru now, as he doesn't have many resources in this area.

He could help with the songs though.

But it just so happens that Chen Yiru’s singing is just average. He might be okay as a supporting actor in a group, but if he were to sing alone, that would be completely suicidal.

Therefore, he could only pat him on the shoulder and said, "The only thing I can do for you is to make the group more popular."

"Huozhuo! Have you become more capable? You actually want to be my brother?"

Hearing Wu Zhuo calling himself "brother", Calvin Chen hugged Wu Zhuo tightly and threatened him with bared teeth.

"I also think he should know how powerful we brothers are."

As soon as Wang Dongcheng disagreed with something, he took off his coat and showed off his muscles in front of Wu Zhuo.

Glancing at his muscles, Wu Zhuo couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Why was Aaron so fond of Jiro Wang in his previous life?

Wu Zhuo suspected that the reason must be that this guy showed off his muscles every day.

Although in his previous life, there have always been rumors that Aaron likes thin people.

But when a muscular man shows off his muscles and good body in front of him every day.

He probably has it even if he has no interest in muscular men.

"Okay, stop making trouble!"

Wu Zun was much more stable. He patted Calvin Chen and Jiro Wang, then looked at Wu Chao:
"Do you know why the company called us together in such a hurry?"

Wu Zhuo did not hide it, "Regarding the new album, the company plans to start producing the new album in advance."

"Aren't you supposed to prepare your solo album first? Why are you suddenly preparing a new group album?"

Jiro Wang put on his coat, pinched his muscles narcissistically, and looked confused.

“It will definitely be some time before the group album is released.

This time, we mainly selected the songs for the album, and then started vocal practice and dance training in advance."

After a pause, Wu Zhuo continued: "In addition, you may have to add another task later, which is to learn Korean!"

"Learn Korean? For what?"

When they heard that they had to learn Korean, everyone was stunned.

"There are Korean songs in the new album, so you don't have to learn them. However, you may have to be my backup dancers when the time comes."

If the other three members of Fahrenheit don't know Korean, then obviously, they will become Wu Chao's backup dancers.

Because all the lyrics will be sung by Wu Chao alone.

However, this situation is actually not easy to happen.

It is definitely impossible to make the other three members of Fahrenheit speak Korean fluently in just a few months.

But it's actually quite easy to let them each just take on a few lines of the lyrics.

(End of this chapter)