HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 425 [425] Qi Yuan Wants to Be Half of the Rock and Roll Scene?
On this day, Qi Yuan's fans across the country went wild.

It's been over a year, over a year! Warner Music and Qi Yuan, do you know how we've been doing for the past year? You finally remembered to release a Chinese album?
Although Qi Yuan's fifth Chinese album, "Wish for Rain in the Empty Mountains," is scheduled for release on November 11th, a month from now, the release date is now confirmed, which makes fans across the country very happy.

This time, Warner Music focused its promotional efforts on regions including mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia for Qi Yuan's new album.

Qi Yuan's Taiwanese fans were outraged and angrily denounced certain people online for their inhumane behavior.

They've really lost all sense of shame by not allowing Warner Music to promote Chi Yuan's new album in Taiwan.

However, Taiwanese fans can still obtain information about Qi Yuan's new album through online channels.

There was even a website created by fans over there.

In short, on this day, Chinese people and fans in many Asian countries and regions saw Qi Yuan's album cover and album introduction.

Qi Yuan and Warner's aesthetic sense remains consistently excellent.

Qi Yuan wishes that the cover design of each of his albums is of the highest standard in the industry.

The little girl in ancient costume on the album cover of "As You Wish" is Da Tiantian. Every now and then, people on Tianya (a Chinese online forum) post asking where that little girl went and what she looks like now.

This is proof that the album cover has resonated deeply with people.

The cover of "Wishing for Rain in the Empty Mountains" is very artistic, but Qi Yuan's face is not shown.

Now everyone in the country remembers his face, so he doesn't need to appear on album covers anymore.

He stood on a wooden boat, holding an oar in both hands. The water below the boat was gray, like seawater or dark clouds.

On the farthest horizon, a golden light dyed half the sky red.

The album cover seems to be telling everyone that Qi Yuan's journey is not over, and he is still heading towards the distance.

This echoes the pop-rock songs on side B of the album.

The album's description mentions that it contains 14 new songs.

It touches upon themes such as innocent romance, reconciliation with life, an uncompromising attitude, and a sublime spiritual world.

This time, Qi Yuan not only retained the elements he had played before, such as Chinese style and pop, but also tried rock in half of the album.

The release of this information immediately attracted widespread attention and discussion both within and outside the Chinese music scene.

Countless fans and casual listeners are eagerly anticipating Qi Yuan's new album.

People in the rock music scene have some reservations.

In their opinion, Qi Yuan's buttocks were too straight, and his name was on them, which was not very rock and roll.

How can we not criticize rock music?
Furthermore, Qi Yuan's personality is incompatible with the rock music scene!

In their eyes, Qi Yuan was too rich; he had never even lived in a basement in Beijing before becoming a global superstar.

Smoking, drinking, sleeping, indulging in debauchery... Qi Yuan has never done any of these things.

Releasing two albums in a year is incredibly disciplined.

In the rock music scene, Qi Yuan is an outlier among outliers; they don't accept Qi Yuan's rock music.

Qi Yuan didn't care whether they accepted it or not.

To be honest, apart from Cui Jian, who pioneered the genre, most of the rest of the mainland rock scene are not very good.

Most of them are not good at singing, not good-looking, not good at composing, not good at writing lyrics, and they often have bad news about them.

99% of their works are not even one-tenth the quality of Wang Feng's.

Wang Feng is a formally trained professional.

The worst part is that they still had the nerve to look down on Wang Feng, which is ridiculous. The funniest thing is that when they got to the event and met Wang Feng in person, they all abandoned their rock and roll spirit and started fawning over him.

Wang Feng's greatest contribution in his previous life was bringing rock music to the masses, making rock music accepted by people all over the country. His works were of high quality and his creative ability was very strong.

Before him, most of the rock music in mainland China was just for the enjoyment of a small circle.

The title "half of the rock scene" was initially used to mock Wang Feng, but gradually, people accepted the title and believed that Wang Feng really did support half of the rock scene.

Qi Yuan used half an album to play rock this time, which can be considered as stealing a wave of Wang Feng's luck.

Wang Feng: "Are you being polite?"

You think you can dominate half of the rock scene?

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After his new album sparked heated discussions across the country, Zhang Hao called Qi Yuan to discuss work-related matters.

The crew of "Hero" has now moved to Hengdian, Zhejiang Province for filming.

This was Zhang Yingmou's deliberate arrangement. Scenes unrelated to Qi Yuan from Guangxi and Inner Mongolia were all filmed later, in order to finish filming Qi Yuan's scenes as soon as possible and let Qi Yuan's filming wrap up.

Around early November, Qi Yuan will be able to completely wrap up filming, which is why Warner Music officially announced that Qi Yuan's new album will be released on November 11.

Zhang Hao said with lingering fear, "What happened in the United States last month had a huge impact. Fortunately, we published the English major in the first half of the year. If we had published it in the second half of the year, the situation would have been very unfavorable for us!"
Jackie Chan was also lucky; this happened only after "Rush Hour 2" had exhausted its box office potential in North America, otherwise he would have been devastated.

After the success of Qi Yuan's English EP last year, Warner Music suggested that Qi Yuan should polish his first English album and not rush to release it in the first half of the year, but rather wait until the second half of the year for a more stable release.

Qi Yuan's attitude was firm; he insisted on issuing English majors first in the first half of the year.

As a result, something happened in those two buildings on September 11.

The entire nation is gripped by fear, and few people care about music anymore; this impact will last for months.

Mariah Carey was the most unlucky one. Her new album "Glitter" was first released in Japan on August 18 and topped the album sales charts in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries.

As for why a Western singer would release her new album in Japan first, it's because her albums sold very well in Japan, and for three years she was the best-selling non-Japanese artist in Japan.

She and her new label, Virgin Records, really know how to pick their timing; coincidentally, they chose to release the album in the United States on September 11th.

As expected, the pop diva's new album only reached number seven on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its first week.

Viking's huge marketing budget went down the drain.

Even a top female pop star in the West releasing an album at this time is met with such reactions.

If Qi Yuan's first English album is also released in the second half of the year, the consequences will be unimaginable; it might even be a complete flop.

Sometimes Zhang Hao couldn't help but wonder if Qi Yuan really had some kind of luck about him.

Qi Yuan always manages to precisely avoid every major pitfall.

Sometimes, one can even use a pit to turn misfortune into good fortune.

Earlier this year, Qi Yuan offended the Grammys, and Zhang Hao was mentally prepared for Qi Yuan to be blacklisted and never win an award again.

As a result, China won the bid to host the Olympics, those two buildings collapsed, and relations between the East and the West eased and improved. Would the Grammys still dare to put Qi Yuan on the blacklist?

This luck is truly extraordinary!

Qi Yuan's response was: "Don't be superstitious! Maybe I was just lucky."

Qi Yuan could only explain it this way; what else could he say? He couldn't very well say that he had a cheat code, could he?

(End of this chapter)