China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 159 The music scene "The Wind Rises", the server of Tianya Forum also exploded

(Chapter name is wrong, there is no missing chapter, just ignore it)
"Dear listeners and friends, good morning everyone, this is the music program "You and I Listen to Pop" on FM·404 radio channel, and I am the host David."

"Hi everyone, I'm the host Sasha."

"Hey, Sasha."

"What's the matter, Brother Wei?"

"Blessed are the ears of you and the listeners today. The popular pop star Cao Xuan has just released the first song of his new album "The Wind Rises."

"(⊙o⊙) Wow, I like Cao Xuan's song the most, so looking forward to it."

"I'm also looking forward to it. In the past two years, Cao Xuan has produced many excellent works, and he is also a frequent guest on the on-demand list of our "Popular You and I Listen", and he is deeply loved by the audience of our program."

"Oh, I can't wait, the audience must be waiting too, Brother Wei, let's sing."

"Alright, please enjoy Cao Xuan's new song "The Wind Rises."

In an instant, through the infinite signal, all the radios listening to this program began to play a soft and lyrical piano prelude.

Ten seconds later, Cao Xuan's magnetic and ethereal singing came out from the radio.

"Stop and go along the way
Following the traces of juvenile drifting

Before stepping out of the station

a little hesitant

Can't help laughing at this near-nostalgic cowardice

still inevitable

And the sky of Lanling

still so warm

the wind blows
......"

The song "The Wind Rises" talks about youthful memories, and the lyrics and melody carry a touch of sadness and melancholy, like a refreshing wind blowing past.

Very light, but with an indescribable emotional appeal.

Many people who heard the song playing in their ears divided part of their attention, looked up and listened to the song carefully.

At the end of the soothing and gentle verse, Cao Xuan raised his pitch and sang the chorus with a high pitch.

"I was unable to extricate myself from the size of the world

also indulged in dream talk
Don't be true or false, don't struggle, don't be afraid of jokes
I once turned my youth into her

Once the fingertips popped up the midsummer
Whatever your heart desires, go with it

 …”

If it was the melancholy of the wind before, then the chorus sang the vicissitudes of the years, but still maintained the self-confidence of the youth in the world.

In the past, where the heart is, what the action is.

Now it is barren, but the original intention is still there.

The lyrics of "The Wind Rises" contain too many emotions and metaphors, and everyone can hear a different perspective from this song.

Some people think it is a memory of youth, the protagonist has seen complicated things in the world, but is still young, and some people think it is the regret of the protagonist's vicissitudes of life in the past, and the original version of the cover is also different to a certain extent.

Cao Xuan's version puts aside some singing skills and focuses more on emotional expression. The whole song sounds simple and pure, positive and bright, with a youthful air.

The ethereal and clear singing voice, accompanied by the extremely beautiful and artistic lyrics, engraved the song in the ears of the audience in just a few minutes.

Many people's first reaction after listening to it was to listen to it again, and impatient people called directly to order songs. In a short time, "The Wind Rises" became popular.

.........

As the first song to hit the charts, Cao Xuan discussed with Wei Xixi and Warner several times, and finally decided to release "The Wind Rises".

The album "Bright Stars" has 10 masterpieces, and the song "Ten Years" is definitely the bottom line. For the remaining 9 songs, "The Wind Rises" can compete for the finale.

The lyrics and music are excellent, and many techniques are even pioneering and leading compared to the present. Cao Xuan personally feels that "The Wind Rises" is expected to compete with "Ten Years" at the current stage.

Such a song Wang Zha, it stands to reason that it should be played later, and the same is true of the previous two albums.

First play "Autumn Is Not Coming Back" and "Did I Tell You" to create less momentum, and then play the second and third hit songs such as "Twilight" and "Because of Love" to expand the influence.The first title song and the remaining two sit in town.

If it goes according to the previous plan, "The Wind Rises" will either sit on the album, or it will be the last song in the promotion period.

However, Cao Xuan considered that in August and September, there would be countless good songs due to the fight between gods and gods, and so many people would watch it. The gradual progress is too slow, and I am afraid that the publicity effect will not be good.

It's better to do the opposite, first play Wang Zha to shock the audience, and then slowly play other songs to consolidate popularity and influence.

Therefore, "The Wind Rises" shouldered a great responsibility and became the vanguard of "Bright Stars".

And this song did not live up to the trust of Cao Xuan and others. After hitting the radio and TV charts, it quickly aroused widespread reactions among fans and the media.

The lyrics of "The Wind Rises" are so well written, there are many good lines in the whole song, such as——

【Turn over the different faces of the years, unprepared to prevent your smile from breaking into you】

[I finally returned my youth to her, together with the midsummer that popped out from my fingertips]

【Seeing you again, smiling sweetly in the cool morning light】

The poetic language is very poignant to those young people who are sentimental and writing new words, especially those who like literature and art, and they praise this lyrics to the sky.

At the same time, they also began to step on the singing customs of other singers, including many of Cao Xuan's works. They felt that Cao Xuan's writing those songs was a waste of talent.

It is necessary to write more songs with style and connotation such as "The Light Chaser", "Twilight", "Don't Say Heroes" and "The Wind Rises".

This statement caused dissatisfaction among many other Cao Xuan fans.

They are all listening to songs, why do they still have internal discrimination chains, you like to listen to your "The Wind Rises", and I like to listen to my "1 Reasons", they are also fans, why do you step on me.

The two sides soon began to argue, and the main battlefield was the Tianya Forum.

That party despises the other party for being vulgar and down-to-earth, while this party thinks the other party is putting on airs and pretending to be a cultural person.

There is also a group of persuasion in the middle, saying that Cao Xuan is not a singer with a single style, and has a wide range of creations. From the previous albums, it can be seen that there are not only popular "popular songs" but also high-quality boutiques, just for better covers fans.

This statement is also the current view of many people on Cao Xuan's creative philosophy, including some music critics.

Previous works have proved that Cao Xuan can write high-quality and good songs, but in order to better expand his own influence and harvest fans, he consciously "lowered the standard" and produced some "bad vulgar" songs, just for those music appreciation Ordinary people with low power are specially used to boost album sales.

Some more radical music critics felt that Cao Xuan's approach was too utilitarian.

It is not the practice of a dream musician, but more like a music businessman.

But there are also many music critics who support Cao Xuan, thinking that it is a very smart way for him to distribute the quality of songs reasonably for each album and take care of the vast majority of fans.

Moreover, the pop music scene is for the public after all, and Cao Xuan did this to spread the influence of the Chinese music scene as much as possible, so he cannot be harsh.

Besides, high-quality goods with both connotation and popularity are not Chinese cabbage, and they are hard to come by.

Even if Cao Xuan is a genius, it is impossible for him to write such a song...

The latter statement is more recognized by the public and the outside world. Even many media feel that some people are a little unreasonable. Not every pop king Jackson is a classic.

Cao Xuan also noticed the internal strife among the fans, and went to Tianya to watch it. He was going to see that the situation was wrong, and his deity came to persuade the fight.

In the end, he didn't think he was late. Originally, the two groups of fans were scolding loudly, but out of nowhere, a group of Xie Feng fans came to fan the flames.

This is a good thing, Cao Xuan's fans who were still divided in an instant unite, unanimously, and beat Xie Feng's fans on the Tianya forum.

Several representative accounts of the two parties even released the words——

How noisy and how to fight is our internal matter, and it is not up to outsiders to watch the fun.

What we say about Cao Xuan fans belongs to discussion and urging. Outsiders can give suggestions, but if we attack Cao Xuan, don't blame them for being too bully.

Cao Xuan was very pleased, the deity came to interact with the fans, but the fans didn't believe it, and they were ridiculed severely.

After Cao Xuan contacted the Tianya moderator and confirmed his identity, the enthusiastic fans and melon eaters directly blasted the Tianya forum server.

This wasn't the first time the Tianya server crashed, but it was the most famous one. Many paper media reported the event the next day.

Cao Xuan also became the first big-name celebrity to publicly appear on Tianya, and instantly became a celebrity on the Tianya forum,

Tianya Forum specially made a small logo for his account, which has been used as an anti-counterfeiting logo.

Afterwards Cao Xuan also abided by the agreement, and after the server was restored, he selectively answered several fans' questions on the Tianya post.

In this era when there were no blogs and no Weibo and live broadcasts, it was the first time in the mainland entertainment circle that netizens communicated with celebrities face to face, and it was so rare.

Tianya Forum became famous on the Internet in an instant, with new user groups and online time soaring. Everyone wanted to see if they could catch Cao Xuan again.

Cao Xuan wondered if he wanted to ask Tianya Community for endorsement fees or something.

Even Brother Xiao Ma was jealous, saying that Cao Xuan wanted to interact, so he could use QQ, and he now has tens of millions of friends on his list.

However, this also reminded Brother Xiaoma that he is planning to develop and launch Penguin's blog in advance, which is the future Qzone.

Cao Xuan is very supportive of him. This will be the biggest profit of QQ in the future. All kinds of fancy virtual value-added services have made Penguin a lot of money, and it has also allowed Xiao Ma to start his tireless road of selling skins.

At the same time as the Tianya turmoil, "The Wind Rises" quickly gained a large number of fans by virtue of its continuous exposure and super high quality.

Coupled with the support of Cao Xuan's own fans, the song began to smash the charts quickly.

On the second day after the new song was released, it reached the eighth place in the major charts, and broke into the top three on the third day.

In the early morning of September 9th, "The Wind Rises", after staying in the runner-up for two days, finally made a big effort to overthrow "Courage", which had dominated the chart for more than a month, and officially reached the top.

Of course, "Courage", as the most popular song in the original time and space in 2000, was not easy to provoke, and soon began to counterattack.

The two songs competed at the top of the chart until September 9, when Cao Xuan released his second chart-topping song - "Dark Fragrance".

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