China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 219 Jay Chou: Thank you Brother Xuan for writing me the song

Gaoshi, Taiwan
At the end of the awards ceremony, Cao Xuan and Zhou Jianhui went to thank the judges of the Golden Melody Awards Organizing Committee.

Apart from other things, there is a certain pressure on Cao Xuan to award so many awards. Cao Xuan thanked them for their fairness and recognition of "Bright Stars".

After all, he was a judge and an award winner, so he didn't have much to say. After thanking him politely, Cao Xuan participated in the celebration party held by Warner at a hotel in Gaoshi.

Boss Wu, who had reached a tacit understanding before, some friends of Cao Xuan in Taiwan, singers under Warner, and other artists who were interested in getting in touch with Cao Xuan all came to participate.

The lights were feasting, but Cao Xuan was always holding a glass of juice.

No one dared to have an opinion, because Cao Xuan had a very happy chat with Boss Wu next to him.

While chatting, Cao Xuan also called Xiao Zhou and Sun Yanzi over to meet Boss Wu.

After all, working hard in the entertainment industry in Taiwan Province, it is beneficial to get acquainted with Boss Wu.

In fact, even if Cao Xuan didn't intervene, Xiao Zhou got along well with Boss Wu later on.

"Slam Dunk" and the blockbuster film "Assassin's Tomb", which is expected to compete with "Fuji Spring Mountain Picture", are both produced by Boss Wu, and Xiao Zhou participated in it.

Don't think Xiao Zhou has always played the male lead, but in fact, the film resources are really not good. Most of them are eating with the capital of Taiwan Province. He rarely gets the film and television resources of the mainland and Xiangjiang.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Xiao Zhou's movies are not popular at the box office. If he is a box office panacea, let alone Hong Kong in the Mainland, even Hollywood will have to snatch him.

Fortunately, Xiao Zhou doesn't need to rely on film and television to make a living. Playing music is what he is best at.

But it's just music, and I haven't been able to make a new album...

Xiao Zhou set up a line in advance, Sun Yanzi was protected by Warner, and he was a Singaporean, so Cao Xuan was not worried about what would happen to Boss Wu.

The said cow is only a local cow in Taiwan province, out of this circle, that is, an ordinary businessman,
Otherwise, Boss Wu wouldn't be polite to Cao Xuan, it's just that Cao Xuan doesn't like him, he wants to benefit, so he can only cooperate normally.

This kind of banquet is usually a place for celebrities to make contacts, but Cao Xuan has never caught a cold.

I don't know if it's because he's watched too many TV dramas, and he always feels that this place is unlucky, and has an inexplicable illusion that something happened.

In contrast, he prefers to call a few friends who come over for a chat, find a small private room, and chat and eat casually.

So it seemed that the time was about the same, Cao Xuan and the people from Warner told him to call Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan, and they decisively left.

Fang Wenshan knew a small shop, and a few people drove there. The owner was a friend of Fang's, so he closed the door and only greeted them to save face.

"Mr. Cao, try our papaya milk, it's delicious."

Seeing big stars come to his store, the boss is very enthusiastic. He keeps putting all kinds of delicacies on the table, and strongly recommends the papaya milk in his store, which is also a popular drink in Gaoshi.

Cao Xuan loves to drink milk, but he has never tasted papaya milk. After one sip, it has a fruity aroma. Although he is not used to it, it is not difficult to drink.

He thinks he can do it at home later, those two must love to drink.

After all, papaya has the effect of breast enhancement and beauty, and no woman can refuse these four words.

Just like a man can't refuse strong (bu) body (shen) plus (zhuang) oil (yang)...

While eating, several people also started chatting, the host Cao Xuan asked Jay Chou: "Do you have any plans for a new album this year?"

"Yes, I'm selecting songs now, and there are still some songs that haven't been written yet, but the production should start almost next month, and it will be finished in September in the second half of the year."

"Then let's send it together again."

Cao Xuan calculated with his fingers that the album accompaniment and arrangement for "Chinese Style" has already started to be produced. As soon as his "Golden Fan Family" is finished, he will start recording songs immediately, and it will be released in August or September.

Last year, he and Xiao Zhou released albums back and forth, and this year they bumped into each other again. It's fate.

Jay Chou: "..."

Although the album is released at the same time, it does not have as much impact on both sides of the album as compared to the movie fighting at the same stage, but releasing the album together with Cao Xuan, the king of the world, is bound to be affected.

For example, last year's "Jay", at that time Taiwan's video stores and media resources gave priority to "Bright Stars", and the on-demand rate of radio and television was also completely suppressed.

Now that I think about it, Xiao Zhou still has some lingering fears. It is due to his fate, otherwise the album may disappear and find traces.

With his position in Alpha Records at the time, his first album was not good, so he could either work behind the scenes in a down-to-earth manner, or pack up and go north to vote for the big brother.

This time the album happened again, and he was thinking about whether he should move the release date of the album.

However, Cao Xuan is still very interested in Xiao Zhou's new album.

To be honest, although Jay Chou has a lot of good songs in his first album, they haven't made a big impact at this stage. Many of them are because he became popular later and then made those songs popular.

But the second album "Fantasy" has a greater influence, and it can be regarded as an official confirmation of his style.

In particular, the song "Nunchaku" was Jay Chou's first song that went out of the circle on a large scale, which made him really popular.

The new album's songs are basically composed by Fang Wenshan and Zhou Jielun, only two songs are written by Xu Ruoxuan, and now that they are both present, Cao Xuan can easily understand the situation of the new album.

In front of Cao Xuan, a well-recognized talent in the Chinese music scene, Xiao Zhou was not afraid of leaking, and even sang a few passages for Cao Xuan, asking him for advice.

I have to say that Xiao Zhou is really talented. The second album has 10 songs, including the combination of new metal + rap + Chinese style, classical pop, Japanese bang music + rap, pop, rhythm and blues, etc. .

It's no wonder that at the beginning, many older generations didn't recognize his music.

So groundbreaking and so westernized.

Chinese people have the most impressions of rap, such as Jinmen Allegro and Shulaibao. Even after 20 years, many people still cannot adapt to the rap hip-hop culture.

Xiao Zhou had a large number of rap songs in 2001, which is tantamount to "deviant".

That is to say, Xiao Zhou is talented and persevered. Coupled with the big weapon of Chinese style, the nationality is wildly popular, but even so, there are still people who are not interested in his music.

As a good big brother, Cao Xuan wanted to help Xiao Zhou, singing Chinese style earlier would be good for his career.

The most important thing is that it is impossible for Cao Xuan alone to carry forward the entire Chinese style genre, and there are not so many Chinese style songs for him to copy.

So he needs to absorb new blood, and everyone will work together to continue creating Chinese-style songs, inject blood into the Chinese-style genre, and expand his influence bit by bit until it becomes a creative trend or an unavoidable category in the music world.

As for the entire Chinese music scene, there is currently no more suitable candidate than Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan...

"Lun, remember the last time I said I wanted to write a song for you?"

"remember."

Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan looked at each other, a little excited.

In fact, the two of them can be regarded as proud personalities. Most people say they want to sing for them, and they don't say they sneer, but they won't be too happy.

Being talented is so capricious.

But Cao Xuan was different. The reputation of his works was all here, and it was hard to find a song. Warner wanted him to write a song for Sun Yanzi, and it took a long time for Cao Xuan to nod.

Jay Chou also quietly asked Sun Yanzi before, the name of the new song seems to be "Little Lucky".

Now, this song has been included in Sun Yanzi's third album by Warner, and it is regarded as the absolute title song, and it is also the focus of publicity.

After all, aside from Wei Wei and Liu Huan, this is the first time for Cao Xuan to write a song for the new generation of young singers, and it's a selling point when he speaks about it.

In fact, this statement is a bit imprecise. Cao Xuan’s first young singer/artist wrote a song for Hu Jing’s "Love’s Offering", but Warner didn’t know it, and didn’t care if it knew it.

Anyway, they want this gimmick, and Hu Jing doesn't sell albums, and she won't expose them.

Warner attaches great importance to "Little Lucky" and looks forward to Sun Yanzi's performance in last year's "Dark Sky" again.

He even started to make up stories, saying that Cao Xuan never wrote songs for others, it was an old friend who begged for a long time to save face, one day he met Sun Yanzi, and a certain action touched him inadvertently, Cao Dacai saw it from her. When it comes to the flash point, it's done in one stroke, and the new song is released.

Speaking of which, Cao Xuan actually wanted to write "Green Light" for Sun Yanzi, but he was not sure if it had already been written, so he gave the song "Little Lucky".

Thanks to "Little Lucky", if Cao Xuan saw the "green light" from Sun Yanzi, it would be a tragedy...

But from this point of view, rare things are precious, and Cao Xuan's songs have become a relatively rare resource in the music industry, even a singer-songwriter like Xiao Zhou can't take it lightly.

Cao Xuan didn't hide his thoughts, and he didn't care to hide it. He explained it directly to the two people.

He wants to stir up the concept of Chinese style and needs help. Xiao Zhou is the person he is most optimistic about, so he wants to help.

Now he gave Xiao Zhou two Chinese style songs, and Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan "learned" from them, tried to create by themselves, and carried forward the Chinese style together.

In fact, Xiao Zhou has always been regarded as an angry youth, which can be seen from his repeated public boycott of the Hallyu in the media.

In fact, Cao Xuan’s speech about Chinese style at the awards ceremony just now has already touched him deeply. Now the elder brother who admires him personally invites him to create a great cause together, and Xiao Zhou’s blood is boiling.

"Brother Xuan, don't worry, I've done it with you, what about Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, our Chinese music scene is the worst."

Fang Wenshan was relatively reticent and hadn't said much, but he also expressed his opinion at this time.

"I have always liked the Chinese style created by Brother Xuan. This is the music that truly belongs to our Chinese nation. Since Brother Xuan doesn't despise us unknown juniors, then count me in."

"Brothers."

Cao Xuan put down the papaya milk in his hand, asked the boss for a drink, and met Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan.

The three of them hated meeting each other late, and they were congenial, wishing they could burn the yellow paper on the spot and worship each other. They talked until midnight, and Cao Xuan was almost late to catch the plane back to the capital the next day.

Before leaving, Cao Xuan invited Xiao Zhou out and gave him the two songs he had written.

Xiao Zhou took out all his savings and borrowed some more, and scraped together 80 yuan, which he wanted to use as money to buy songs.

Cao Xuan didn't want it at first, but under Xiao Zhou's insistence, he only charged a friendly price - 40.

This price is already very fair. Warner received 35 yuan for Cao Xuan's "Little Lucky", and now Xiao Zhou has only charged 40 yuan for two songs, which is considered a guaranteed reserve price.

You know, someone from the outside world offered a maximum price of 50 yuan for a single song, but Cao Xuan ignored it.

So in the music world, Cao Xuan's songs cannot be measured by money, and if you get them, you will earn money.

After bidding farewell to the grateful Xiao Zhou, Cao Xuan boarded the connecting plane back to the capital.

By the way, I forgot to mention that the two songs Cao Xuan wrote for Xiao Zhou are "Chrysanthemum Terrace" and "Red Dust Inn".

The songwriters of these two songs in the original time and space are Fang Wenshan and Zhou Jielun...

ho... bah
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ps: I pushed this book and looked for it myself, but the book review area was discovered by the author, so give it a push

The title of the book is "China Entertainment Please Answer!" 1997", the protagonist is also surnamed Cao, as the director, he seems to be quite scumbag emotionally, known to push Mr. Zhou, the next one may be Yin Tao
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