After offending capital, my songs became more and more popular.

Chapter 104 The whole world is speaking Chinese! A fifty-year-old woman guards the nation's border!
"The carrying pole is wide, the bench is long, I want to tie the carrying pole to the bench~"

"The bench refuses to let the carrying pole be tied to it, but the carrying pole insists on being tied to the bench!"

"Why won't the carrying pole be tied to the bench? Is the carrying pole wider or the bench longer?"

"Brother and brother sit in front of the slope, a goose lies on the slope, and a river flows below the slope."

"My brother said, 'A wide river~'"

My little brother said, "A white goose~"

"Is it the goose crossing the river or the river carrying the goose?"

……

Rare characters and tonal patterns—this ingenious and exaggerated creative angle has only been seen recently by singers in the Chinese entertainment industry, apart from Shen Ming'en, in the Olympic theme song "Beijing Welcomes You."

That song uses the pronunciation of "Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zhi, Yu," which also contains the profound cultural heritage of the Chinese language. It is a treasure left by my country's long history and something we should be very proud of.

And if they knew that "Beijing Welcomes You" was also written by Shen Ming'en...

That chin of hers is truly astonishing.

The song "Chinese Language" has a unique perspective and a light, pop melody. It doesn't continue the grand and majestic style of previous revolutionary songs, but no one can say that there is no "national pride" in this song.

Listen to Shen Ming'en's lead vocals in section A!

Beef noodles and cheongsams—our country's cuisine and clothing are now praised all over the world. The "Made in China" products exported from Yiwu Small Commodities City are known worldwide. In the past, we had to practice various English pronunciations and grammars that were not our native language in order to communicate with them. Now, as our country's strength grows stronger and we gradually raise our heads on the international stage, communication between the two sides is no longer just about us needing to know English; it's about them needing to know Chinese!

They need to come and learn our language!

Is Chinese difficult?

nonsense!

The Foreign Affairs College in the US once classified our language as a Category 4 language in terms of difficulty. Chinese characters are not only numerous and complex in form, with multiple pronunciations and meanings, but also have different tones and tongue sounds. The vast number of idioms, proverbs, allegorical sayings, and various ancient poems and literary works are profound and extensive. Not to mention the unique dialects of various regions and ethnic groups in our country.

Does that mean they won't study?
Do not!
Even if it's difficult, they have to learn!

If you're doing business with Chinese people and you can't speak a word of Chinese, where does your sincerity come from?!

Shen Ming'en's lyrics in "Chinese" are down-to-earth and can evoke imagination and resonance in everyone with a light and humorous melody. When that tongue twister is played again, the audience's enthusiasm is also raised to the highest point.

At that very moment...

"Dong dong dong..."

As the drumbeats fell powerfully, the camera focused on Shen Ming'en, who sang as he played:
……

"The whole world is learning Chinese!"

"Confucius's words are becoming increasingly international!"

"The whole world is speaking Chinese!"

"What we said!"

"Make the world take things seriously and listen!"

……

"Oh!!!"

The dense and exceptionally rhythmic drumbeats, combined with Shen Ming'en's chorus, elevated the overall feel and quality of the song to a whole new level. Many audience members couldn't help but get goosebumps, and many unconsciously cheered along!

[It sounds great!]

The chat in the adjacent online live stream was also scrolling wildly:
You know what, the chorus of this song is strangely catchy!

I memorized it all after listening to it just once!

Wow, when I think about it, I can actually sing along! What the hell is this catchy song?!

[Haha... It's not hard to imagine that this song will probably become a hit everywhere again!]

……

The chorus is always where the essence and culmination of a song are gathered. Many impatient people don't even have the patience to listen to the song from the beginning; they skip directly to the chorus. Many music apps also specifically highlight the chorus.

It can be said that, in the eyes of the general public, the chorus plays a "decisive" role in the entire song.

If Shen Ming'en's song "Chinese" is just a tongue twister, a rhythmic pronunciation, and a touch of national pride, then at most the audience will find the song interesting and the angle unique, but they won't be particularly impressed by it.

But it can begin the moment you hear the chorus...

It all started when I got "brainwashed" by those few lines of the chorus!
Everyone remembered this song vividly!

It's not just about remembering...

Looking back, they can even sing the chorus of the song!
I only listened to it once, and it was awful!

Historically, only the songs by that couple who sang "Above the Moon" could be this catchy!
A pop song that encompasses national pride and the exquisite beauty of the Chinese language, with such an attractive and catchy chorus, that even laymen have a feeling that this song is bound to be a hit!
At that time...

As the camera pans across the newly upgraded "Red Song Season" of the "Chinese Music Show Center" program, you'll notice that the expressions on the faces of each of the revamped guests are somewhat strange...

It's not just gloomy and gloomy, it's even...

I'm also a little insecure!

No exaggeration!

Faced with Shen Ming'en's unique and exquisitely crafted "Chinese Language," a song with unparalleled recognizability and memorability, what kind of creator could not feel ashamed of their own work?
Some people...

He's just so talented!

He may not show off normally, and you may have opinions about him, but as long as he stands on the stage, no one's brilliance can match his, and everyone else can only look up to him!

Shen Mingen continued his usual act of "whipping the corpse"!
……

"Susanna in New York opened a Zen-style lounge bar~"

"Wolfgang from Berlin, playing the erhu with an electric guitar~"

"Skin of all colors, all colors..."

"..."

"There was a little boy named Xiao Du, who went to the market to buy vinegar and cloth."

"Bought cloth, bought vinegar, then turned around and saw an eagle catching a rabbit!"

"Put down the cloth, add the vinegar, and go chase the eagle and the rabbit!"

"The eagle took flight, the rabbit escaped, vinegar was spilled, and the cloth got wet."

"The mouth talks about the legs, the legs talk about the mouth, the mouth talks about the legs, always running errands~"

"Legs talk the talk, all talk and no action."

"Moving your legs without using your mouth is like not having legs and a mouth at all!"

"Is it the mouth that talks about the legs, or the legs that talk about the mouth?"

……

"Wow!!!"

"Fuck!"

"it is good!"

"Clap clap clap..."

"Shen Ming'en, you little brat!"

Wow, that's amazing!

He sang long, long tongue twisters, and the audience was totally hyped up!

The tongue twisters he recited were ones many people had heard in their childhood, the kind passed down from adults in their families. Hearing these tongue twisters evokes a sense of familiarity for many, and when he sang them so fluently and without hesitation, people feel admiration and instinctively cheer and applaud.

It's like a comedian reciting the names of dishes on stage. They've shown you their excellent stage skills, so you have to give them some feedback, right?

Moreover, the "admiration" he felt at that moment was genuine!

To be honest, the tongue twisters Shen Ming'en found weren't really that difficult...

Chinese language and culture are profound and extensive, and there are all sorts of tongue twisters with "hellish difficulty" levels. Not to mention those well-known ones such as "red carp, green carp and donkey", "lama and mute", "dead persimmon tree and forty-four stone lions", "black fertilizer will turn gray", "eat grapes without spitting out grape skins", "eight hundred soldiers rush to the north slope"... any one of these can make foreigners learning Chinese cry.

There are even some new kinds of tongue twisters now, like the ones on the pesticide label next door:
"Yao needs to take her medicine. She wants Yao to get it. Yao says, 'Take a bite of Yao's medicine.' Yao says, 'I don't want Yao's medicine. I only want Yao's medicine.' Yao doesn't want Yao to take her medicine. So, does Yao want to take her medicine, or does she want to take Yao's medicine...?"

"Lan takes Luna's blue buff, it's hard for Luna to take the blue buff, it's even harder not to take the blue buff, Luna blocks Lan from taking the blue buff, it's hard not to have blue buff, it's hard to take blue buff, it's hard for Luna to take the blue buff, it's even harder for Lan to take the blue buff..."

If you showed these to a foreigner in a Chinese class, would they just slap you in the face?

Overall, the tongue twisters quoted by Shen Ming'en in "Chinese" were not particularly difficult. Logically, even if he sang long passages of them, they shouldn't have excited the audience this much. So what was the reason for this?

Because he wasn't just singing, he was also playing the drums!
As mentioned earlier, playing drums while singing is inherently difficult, and it's easy to forget the lyrics, miss words, or even mispronounce words.

Shen Ming'en was quite something; not only did he sing while playing the drums, but he also sang tongue twisters while playing the drums. Not only did he keep the drumbeats right, but he also recited long passages of tongue twisters word for word!

Just say it!
How could the audience not react to him!
Someone in the adjacent online live stream commented:
[Looks like Shen Mingen held back in the last episode!] [If you take the tongue twisters in this song as rap, it's a complete game-changer!]

[Pfft... Sparrow food, so Emperor Ming En still gave the production team some face!]

What a pity, the production team is being shameless!

[Hahaha... I'm dying of laughter. Shen Ming'en is probably going to beat the game again. Some people's schemes are going to fail again~]

……

"The whole world is learning Chinese!"

"Confucius's words are becoming increasingly international!"

"The whole world is learning Chinese!"

"What we said!"

"Make the world take things seriously and listen!"

……

Because the chorus was so catchy, Shen Ming'en noticed that some people were singing along when he sang it the second time. So, at the end of the third time, he simply shouted "Come on together!" and the whole audience sang those lyrics together!
A song performed for the first time was so popular that it got the whole audience singing along by the end. That tells you how popular it was.

No one expected that Shen Ming'en, who could easily beat those guests before the upgrade of "Chinese Music Show Center", would still be completely crushed by him after the high-quality guests in the upgraded "Red Song Season"!
and so……

Is this "Chinese Music Promotion Center" just an empty upgrade?

Ah ha ha……

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

High on the platform, Hajiling roared furiously to the sky!

She wanted to scream, and she already was screaming. She was going to scream and fight Shen Ming'en at the same time. She wanted to "die together" with Shen Ming'en!

It's never going to end!
Damn you!
It never ends!
Why is Shen Ming'en so damn weird?!

Why is it that no matter what I do, I can't stop him?!

So, talent really does triumph over capital?!

Is it really true that his talent is so outrageously high that even capital can't do anything about him?!
What the hell is this?!
This is just too damn weird!
Seriously, he's the meta-defining champion, ridiculously strong (T0), and nobody can take him down?!
"Haha... Ahahaha..."

Not far away, Director Niu was also laughing wildly. All he could think was that the value of the phrase "Emperor Ming'en is unparalleled throughout the ages" was still rising higher and higher!
What the hell is this upgraded program...?

Even if you upgrade your armor, so what if you're the God of War Xing Tian?!

The armor they're wearing is the pinnacle of the armor world, the ultimate imperial armor, you know?

What the hell do you have to fight against this Thunder Yatarion who wears imperial armor but dyes it all red?

Do you deserve it?!

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Amidst the interplay of "howling" and "laughter," the first episode of the revamped and upgraded "Red Song Season" from "Chinese Music Music Center" came to a close.

As expected, the voting results showed that Emperor Ming'en, a "legacy" from the previous era of the program, still dominated the current generation, taking the top spot in both online and offline voting.

The production team, out of consideration for face and to give an explanation to the investors behind the scenes, ultimately ranked Shen Ming'en's "Chinese Language" second, while the work of the tenor singer, the veteran Yue Huochuan, ranked first.

That being said, the veteran was not very happy, because anyone with eyes and ears could see who was in first place. Under these circumstances, ranking him in first place was not a compliment to him, but rather an insult.

It is said that after the performance that day, the veteran artist locked himself in his room, racking his brains to carefully refine the next piece, vowing to make up for it!
In contrast, the other singers seemed much more "socially savvy." After Shen Ming'en's performance, they all came up to congratulate him. Liu Guangsheng, a singer who transitioned to stand-up comedy, even said that his "puns" were truly ashamed in the face of Shen Ming'en's "tongue twisters"...

Shen Ming'en wasn't the type to be ungrateful. Since everyone greeted him with a smile, regardless of their ulterior motives, he followed the rule of not hitting a smiling face and waved in agreement.

For a moment, the production team was all smiles, while it seemed as if they had isolated the senior actor Yue Huochuan, making him appear as if he lacked social skills...

In the entertainment industry, a bunch of actors rely on the audience. Whoever the audience likes has a high status. Don't give me that "seniority-based" nonsense. If you're washed up and nobody cares about you anymore, if you've lost your voice and your talent has run dry, what do you have to compare with the up-and-coming talent "Shen Taibai"?

If you can't beat them, just admit it and don't act like a big bad wolf.

On the day the performance ended, Shen Ming'en and his song "Chinese Language" once again led the "Chinese Music Music Center Red Song Season" program and all the performances of this show to dominate major social media platforms such as Douyin, Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, etc.!
"#Shen Ming'en's 'Chinese Language'!"

"#The whole world is speaking Chinese, and what we say makes the world listen seriously!"

"#Tongue twisters and tonal patterns—is this all the value of being a spokesperson for revolutionary songs?!#"

……

For Shen Mingen, a frequent visitor to trending topics, it's become commonplace for him to trend after a show's recording ends; viewers and fans are already used to it...

However, this episode is different. After all, this episode of "Chinese Music Center" has been upgraded to "Red Song Season", which invited a group of top-level creators in the Chinese entertainment industry. They are all good at writing mainstream works and each of them has some skills. They are not comparable to the group of fatheads like Zheng Yun and Ji Cheng in the past.

Therefore, viewers initially thought that Shen Ming'en's spotlight would be stolen by someone else in this episode, and that he might be both restrained and eliminated.

The results of it?
As a result, even among such a group of "gods", Shen Ming'en still stood out as expected, still outshone everyone, and still suppressed the world with the invincible posture of a king!
The comments section was incredibly lively, everyone was saying:
Those Chinese entertainment industry capitalists have really gotten ripped off this time, hahaha...

[We've tried every possible method, racked our brains, but we just can't get rid of Shen Ming'en!]

[You wouldn't believe it, would you? My little pigeon stands out even among a group of people singing patriotic songs!]

[Nothing more to say, Ming'en, fly bravely, Ji Shuai will always be with you!]

Just do it!

[Tsk... Things aren't going so smoothly over next door with Yao Shuli.]

[Giao, bro, you're on the "Singer Challenge" too?]

[You've really made me furious! People who don't know any better would think there aren't any decent singers left in the Chinese entertainment industry!]

[It's like a Grammy vs. Yonghui Supermarket showdown, with sphenoid sinus resonance and sputum cavity resonance performing a high-low contrast on the same stage, like mullet roe, abstract and embarrassing...]

……

The comments section was supposed to be filled with people watching the drama unfold, but for some reason, the conversation suddenly veered off-topic, with some people discussing Yao Shuli's latest addition to the show, the newly launched and upgraded "Peak Singer Challenge" program on Hunan TV...

Well, this is a long story, the child has no mother.

The Chinese entertainment industry has recently seen the phenomenal success of the hit music variety show "Chinese Music Awards," which has even overshadowed Hunan TV's former flagship program, "The Peak Singer Challenge." This week, Shen Ming'en's performance of "Chinese Language" and the other professional singers' patriotic songs on the show were a true battle of the titans. Logically, their show should have been completely crushed by "Chinese Music Awards"...

But what can you do when the production team knows how to create something special?
As mentioned before, this show invited several powerful singers from Europe and America, all of whom are Grammy-level and have heavenly voices. Apart from Na Ying and Yao Shuli, there isn't a single one from the Chinese entertainment industry who can compete. They even imitated "Chinese Music Center" by using live streaming. During the recording, the singers either sang off-key or stumbled over their words. They were also making a mess of things by using phlegm resonance and performing some kind of shamanistic dance. They were completely outshone by the Western singers!

In a variety show "battle," Chinese singers were almost completely crushed, with only Yao Shuli and Na Ying struggling to hold on. However, they were not in a good position in the rankings, ranking fourth and fifth respectively, while the top three were all Western singers...

A bunch of pretentious writers who are used to relying on audio editing to fix things have finally suffered the consequences and learned what it means to be "shameful".

Although both shows garnered immense popularity and discussion on trending topics, the reception of "The Singer Challenge" and "Chinese Music Center" was quite different. "Chinese Music Center" was filled with national pride, with the five-star red flag fluttering in the wind; while "The Singer Challenge" was like a desperate moment of being invaded by foreign powers in the late Qing Dynasty, with viewers criticizing it relentlessly.

While criticizing the production team, some people also started making memes online...

The phrases "a fifty-year-old woman guarding the national gate" and "Yehenara, her surname, her life against foreigners" have gradually become more and more popular.

Because of the intense frustration over there, the popularity of this show skyrocketed, and it's almost catching up with Shen Ming'en's "Chinese Language"...

Perhaps it's because both variety shows are trending high on the charts. The show next door, "The Peak Singer Challenge," is being overwhelmed by foreigners, and it's exactly the time to "call for reinforcements." With such a talented and outstanding singer like Shen Ming'en right in front of them, how could the audience not see him?!
Therefore, in a short time, countless people flocked to Shen Ming'en's comment section to leave frantic comments:
[Alas, the nation is in peril, I am panicked, I must return quickly, drive out the foreigners, and save the country! — Yehenara]

Even if you don't care about Yingzi, please help those people out of respect for Yao Shuli, bro! They're practically broken!

[It feels like there's no one else in the Chinese entertainment industry who's any real talent; they're all just shills...]

Of course, not everyone asked him for help; there were also some trolls jumping around in the middle. Someone said:
[Shen Ming'en's presence wouldn't have made a difference; he's a songwriter, while the other person is a vocalist—they're not comparable.]

Shen Mingen has always become famous for his "talent". Everyone's biggest expectation for him is his latest work in each episode. The concept of "Peak Singer Challenge" is different from that of "Chinese Music Center". This show requires the ultimate singing skills. No matter how well you write, if you can't sing well or the stage effect is average, you will be eliminated.

Unfortunately, such comments were met with direct and harsh criticism from fans!

You're saying Shen Mingen has no singing ability?

[Ah, for details please see "A Young China's Manifesto"!]

You haven't heard of "Wanjiang," have you?

[Is he cross-dressing as a jailer here?]

Looking at the entire Chinese entertainment industry, you can't say Shen Ming'en has no singing ability!

Some fans even brought out live videos of works such as "Ode to Young China", "Wanjiang", and "Me and My Motherland"!

Bel canto, Peking opera style, pop, Cantonese—tell me, is there anything that Hajime can't handle?

You say his singing skills are bad?
Who can do it?
That's the resonance in the sputum cavity?

What a joke!
For a while...

The calls to "invite Shen Mingen to the 'Singer Challenge'" are growing louder.

Just as such sentiments were building to a fever pitch, Shen Mingen's post instantly ignited the entire scene, like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pan!
Shen Ming'en: "I am Shen Ming'en, a Chinese singer, and I volunteer!"

……

(End of this chapter)