HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 447 [447] Invited to the 02 Spring Festival Gala, will "Gong Xi Fa Cai" make its debut?

On December 29th, having achieved his goal of topping the charts in Hong Kong, Qi Yuan set off back to Beijing.

Qi Yuan will complete the production of eleven new songs in Beijing, and then go to the United States to shoot the music videos. The music video shooting should be after the new year.

The Spring Festival Gala production team invited Qi Yuan again in 02.

In fact, the production teams of 00 and 01 also invited Qi Yuan, but he was not available and not very interested.

He performed at the 99 Spring Festival Gala, singing "Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales." That year, the production team supported singers performing live.

Qi Yuan performed very well, without any problems.

However, Anita Mui had a mishap that year. She was in poor condition and sang very off-key, which caused quite a bit of controversy afterward.

In the two years that followed, 00 and 01, to prevent singers from making a mistake again, everyone lip-synced.

Xie Tingfeng, Li Wen, and Zhang Huimei, who appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in the past two years, were all lip-syncing performers.

The situation changed in the 02 Spring Festival Gala. Chen Yulu, the song and dance director of the 99 Gala, became the general director of the 02 Gala. She is a supporter of live singing, and she even announced that all the songs in the 02 Gala would be sung live.

It's unrealistic to expect all singers to sing live, but it would be great if some talented singers could sing live.

After careful consideration, Qi Yuan accepted the invitation from the 02 Spring Festival Gala directing team.

The news spread really fast.

After Qi Yuan landed at Beijing Airport, many reporters, including some foreign reporters, came to intercept him.

"Qi Yuan, Warner Music has spent millions of dollars to build the best recording studio in the country for you. Are you starting to prepare for your second English album?"

"It is said that the Spring Festival Gala production team has invited you. Will you appear on the Spring Festival Gala? Some media outlets have conducted surveys, and everyone hopes that you will appear on the Spring Festival Gala again."

"Why do you and Fan Binbin never have a happy ending in your film and television works? Some viewers have reported that you played Fan Binbin's dead ex-boyfriend in 'My Sassy Girl,' which tormented the audience once again."

……

Qi Yuan cleared his throat with a light cough and replied, "Since everyone wants to know, I'll answer that. I've finished writing all the songs for my second English album, and I'm back in Beijing this time to produce them. I might as well do a performance on the Spring Festival Gala."

Reporter: 'Fuck!'

"Appear on the Spring Festival Gala? You're the only one in all of China who dares to say something like that."

Other celebrities and singers consider it an honor to appear on the Spring Festival Gala. There is even a saying in the industry that a celebrity's career is incomplete if he has never appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, which is limited to the Spring Festival Galas before 08.

After 08, Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang gave the Spring Festival Gala a brief resurgence, but afterwards it completely fell apart.

If we really want to examine it strictly, the quality of the Spring Festival Gala has clearly declined since 95.

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[Breaking News! Qi Yuan reveals that her second English album is already in the works, and her recent trip back to Beijing was specifically for its production!]

[Qi Yuan: Appearing on the Spring Festival Gala was just a side thing!]

[The most anticipated Spring Festival Gala since 99?]

After the domestic media finished reporting, it was time for netizens and Qi Yuan's fans to celebrate.

"It's really true? Qi Yuan is really going to be on the Spring Festival Gala, that's wonderful!"

"The 99 drama 'Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales' was so amazing, it really made me crave more. I felt that the 00 and 01 dramas were a bit lacking. I hope Qi Yuan can maintain his consistent performance!"

"Holy crap! His second English album is coming out so soon? He just released his Chinese album not long ago, he's a workaholic in the music industry!"

“Zhou Jielun and Wang Lihong, come out and say something! Look at Qi Yuan, and look at yourselves! One album a year, and you're just taking care of yourselves!”

Chou Chieh-lun and Wang Leehom: "???"

They were caught in the crossfire even though they were lying in the sand?
They also wanted to know why Qi Yuan could be so successful, releasing two albums in a year without even breaking a sweat.

Other singers would have released a compilation album long ago to garner fans. For example, Princess Diana has released several compilation albums in recent years, which has drawn complaints from fans.

Musicians like Qi Yuan, who have never released a compilation album to make money and who put old songs in their new albums without taking up space for new songs, are definitely conscientious.

……

After returning to Beijing, Qi Yuan communicated with the Spring Festival Gala production team.

The production team wanted Qi Yuan to perform "Blue and White Porcelain" at the Spring Festival Gala.

This song is very popular, and it's a Chinese-style song, so it's perfect for the Spring Festival Gala stage.

If we bring Fan Xiaopang in as the female lead on stage, the combination of a handsome man and a beautiful woman will be perfect and will surely become the most popular program on the Spring Festival Gala in recent years.

Qi Yuan had a different opinion; he wanted to write a new song to perform on the Spring Festival Gala.

The production team was completely dumbfounded.

Like Qi Yuan, Sun Yanzi, who was invited to the 02 Spring Festival Gala, was also stunned.

Sun Yanzi, who came to Beijing for rehearsals, couldn't help but ask Zhang Hao, "How dare Brother Yuan bargain with the production team?"

She had to obediently follow the director team's arrangements, singing whatever songs they told her to sing, standing in whatever position, and taking a certain number of steps in any direction—all of these were pre-planned, and the singer herself couldn't change them arbitrarily.

Zhang Hao smiled and said, "He's different from you."

Qi Yuan's status is many times greater than Sun Yanzi's.

For Sun Yanzi, the Spring Festival Gala is even more important.

For Qi Yuan, it is the Spring Festival Gala that needs Qi Yuan more.

Qi Yuan's absence from the Spring Festival Gala does not diminish his status as the most famous, highest-ranking, and most popular artist in China.

With Qi Yuan's participation, the 02 Spring Festival Gala was very likely to achieve record-high ratings in recent years.

Moreover, Qi Yuan has always maintained a very upright stance since his debut, and his name is registered in certain departments. The Spring Festival Gala directing team must carefully consider his request and at least cannot directly reject it.

That's what they did too. They didn't refuse, but just asked Qi Yuan to record the new song so they could listen to it and compare it with "Blue and White Porcelain".

If it's not as good as "Blue and White Porcelain," they'll have someone persuade Qi Yuan to give up the idea of ​​changing the song.

To be honest, this was the first time the production team had encountered an artist like Qi Yuan.

When dealing with Qi Yuan, they felt that Qi Yuan was the one in charge.

Actually, Qi Yuan wanted to change the song not because "Blue and White Porcelain" was not good enough, but because he wanted a song that was more suitable for the Spring Festival Gala and more appropriate for the occasion.

This song is called "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity), a true must-have for Chinese New Year.

Years later, this song would be played in supermarkets large and small across the country every year as the year draws to a close.

The lyrics of this song are etched into the DNA of Chinese people. Whenever Chinese people hear this song while shopping in a supermarket, they know that there are not many days left until the Chinese New Year.

Qi Yuan used the top-notch recording studio that Warner Music had prepared for him and spent several days recording "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and handing it over to the directing team.

The core members of the directing team immediately gathered to listen to Qi Yuan's new song and discuss whether it could be featured on the Spring Festival Gala.

After listening, everyone fell silent.

Qi Yuan actually came up with a song that was more suitable for the Spring Festival Gala than "Blue and White Porcelain"?

At the end of 01, China successfully joined the WTO, and singing "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity) on the 02 Spring Festival Gala was really appropriate.

However, it would be a great pity to replace "Blue and White Porcelain" with "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (Wishing You Prosperity), as "Blue and White Porcelain" is also a fantastic song.

The meeting room was quiet for a long time before the chief director, Chen Yulu, made a very bold suggestion!

(End of this chapter)