China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 255 The sword points to Asia, and new songs are planned for the Spring Festival Gala
In November, Mr. C from Japan made his debut, officially started his career, and became the enlightenment of countless young people in East Asia.

In Taiwan Province, Xiao Zhou officially released his new album "Fantasy" on the day of Cao Xuan's birthday.

Many songs with very fantasy characteristics, once launched, quickly became popular in Taiwan Province, and the popularity was close to that of Cao Xuan's "Chinese Style".

The title songs such as "Nunchaku" and "Love in BC" also entered the mainland market directly because of the foreshadowing of "Chrysanthemum Terrace", which has attracted the attention of many people.

Especially "Nunchaku", with its very rhythmic melody and lyrics, is quite contagious, and soon became widely popular among young people, especially students.

"Use the nunchuck quickly, hehehe
Quickly use the nunchuck, hehehe

Those who practice martial arts must remember that the benevolent is invincible

Who is practicing Tai Chi?

......"

For a while, after Bruce Lee became popular, nunchucks became a must-have commodity in the small shop in front of the school again, and countless boys rushed to buy them.

"Nunchaku" went out of the circle on a large scale. After the foreshadowing of this song and "Chrysanthemum Terrace", Jay Chou became popular in the mainland and became a genuine representative of the new generation of singers.

But behind the explosion of popularity came widespread controversy.

The style of the song "Nunchaku" is a combination of rigidity and softness of rock and super fast version of Rap.

For many domestic fans, it is destined to be weird and unique.

The weird and unique here is not a derogatory term, but an objective neutral term, because everyone has never seen this style of Chinese music before, so many people instinctively resist and reject this style.

In fact, Chinese style also had a similar conceptual conflict at the beginning, but Chinese style contains a lot of traditional elements, which greatly alleviates this conceptual conflict.

So when Cao Xuan promoted the Chinese style before, although he also encountered resistance, overall it was smooth.

There are also a lot of Chinese elements in "Nunchaku", which is actually a kind of Chinese style in essence, but its style is too avant-garde and novel.

Young people may still accept it well, or even like it, but older people have fixed their own aesthetic style, and such songs are simply "deviant".

The biggest difference between Jay Chou and Cao Xuan's music.

Cao Xuan is a "referential" creation, without his own creative style and concept, he is essentially a "merchant singer".

What fans like to listen to, what he sings, at first it was a mouth-watering song, and later added a lot of high-quality songs, but the premise is also to have a certain degree of singing.

In short, Cao Xuan's songs have a strong commercial purpose.

Jay Chou, on the other hand, has his own creative ideas and musical pursuits. Even though some of them will compromise for some commercial purposes, his songs still maintain their own personality.

This is also destined that the birth of Jay Chou is often accompanied by greater controversy than Cao Xuan.

There are those who admire it, but there are also those who oppose it and even hate it!
But no matter what, Xiao Zhou Zhuan finally experienced what it means to be popular once, and Taiwan Province also unceremoniously compared him to Cao Xuan, intending to create a new pop king in Taiwan Province.

Not only Xiao Zhou, F4, Tao Zhe, and Wang Lihong are also the key targets of Taiwan Province.

Nowadays, Ren Xianqi's decline has been revealed, Xie Feng's career focus has gradually shifted to the film industry, and the Chinese pop music industry is almost dominated by Cao Xuan's family.

If Taiwan Province wants to compete for the right to speak in the Chinese music scene, it must promote newcomers to the top. If a single player can't beat Cao Xuan, they will form a group to besiege. Anyway, Cao Xuan can't be alone.

.........

The music scene in Taiwan Province was gearing up for Cao Xuan, but Cao Xuan himself didn't pay much attention to them, either they were ineffective, or they were not good enough.

In addition to Xiao Zhou who had to look a few more times, Cao Xuan focused more on the Asian music scene.

There is no other way, he is basically swaying the domestic market now, and if he wants to break through the shackles of the Greater China region with his next two albums, he can only work harder in other Asian countries.

Frankly speaking, Cao Xuan's previous songs were quite popular in Asia, and even landed at the top of music charts in several countries.

For example, last year's "Bright Stars", the highest ever won the third place in the Japanese Oricon weekly list, No. 11 in the monthly list, and the top [-] in the annual list.

Japan's Oricon Chart is the most well-known music chart in Japan. It counts the sales of albums or singles.

The results of "Bright Stars" are not very conspicuous, because Oricon only records the album's sales in Japan.

If other regions are also counted, "Bright Stars" has the confidence to compete with the top three of the Japanese Oricon annual list.

Especially the song "The Wind Rises", which has attracted a lot of attention in Japan.

"Stubborn", "Jiangnan" and "Blue Lotus", including the previous "Light Chaser" and "First Dream", are also liked by many Japanese fans.

This year, Sun Yanzi's "Little Lucky" and Cao Xuan's "Blue and White Porcelain" and "Dongfeng Po" also caused a certain amount of disturbance in Japan.

Therefore, Cao Xuan's style is quite similar to that of the Japanese music scene. Although his performance is not as good as those top local singers, he can still be called a first- and second-tier singer.

In contrast, the influence of Cao Xuan's songs in South Korea is not as good as in Japan.

It's not unpopular, but it's not as good as the favorite dance music of those Korean fans.

The most popular and popular songs in South Korea today are those songs with strong rhythm and full of dynamics. Most of the popular singers Lee Jung Hyun, Yoo Seung Joon, Ko Yutae, and various boy groups and girl groups follow this model.

As if you can't sing without dancing...

Later, the Korean wave invaded, and so-called singers and dancers began to emerge in China. The more famous ones are Cai Yilin, Master Luo, and Han Geng.

Even those singers who don't transform can basically dance twice, and [singing, dancing, rap] has become the basic skills of young singers.

In such an environment, it's not that there is no market for Cao Xuan's songs, but it will be difficult to overwhelm the mainstream.

Cao Xuan didn't care if he had to compete with this group of singers and dancers.

To be honest, looking at Japan in the Asian music scene, no matter in terms of sales or influence, it is currently dominated by Japanese singers, and the Hallyu has to be ranked behind Japan.
Even if these Korean singers became popular, they all went to Japan one by one, taking pride in their success in Japan.

The focus of Cao Xuan's promotion of the two albums this time is also mainly on Japan, and South Korea is just a side effect.

Girls’ Generation didn’t debut yet, and going to Korea is meaningless, except for one Lee Jung Hyun, Cao Xuan didn’t recognize all the Korean singers.

Japan is different. Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Mai Kuraki, Izumi Sakai, Namie Amuro, there are so many younger sisters and older sisters, everyone can exchange music.

What?Japanese male singer?
Who cares about male singers when listening to music...

.........

At the beginning of December, Baihua Recording Studio
Cao Xuan picked up the headphones and listened to the song he sang, nodded in satisfaction, and looked at Wei Xixi next to him.

"I think it's okay, what about you, Old Wei."

"no problem."

"Then get ready and let it out for the rankings."

Wei Xixi nodded, put the master tape in his carry-on bag and put it away.

After "Bright Stars" last time, he was recruited by Cao Xuan and became Fan Xing's queen music producer.

He is in charge of the production of Cao Xuan's album. Before Hu Jing recorded "Love's Support", he also produced along with him. Most of the opening and ending episodes of "Yan Shuangying" were also led by him.

Lao Wei's bar is also closed, and he calls 996 to Boss Cao every day.

There is no way, Mr. Cao is too generous. If he does a good job, he will almost have a bar a year.

Even the old Wei who had already decided to withdraw from the arena had no choice but to bow his high head to the capitalists under the huge sum of money.
Of course, he recently talked about a girlfriend who is going to get married, and saving money for the baby's milk powder is also an important reason...

"I'll leave it to you here, I'll withdraw first, and I still have an appointment."

Cao Xuan greeted, turned and left the recording studio, went out and saw two paparazzi who were in ambush, and greeted cheerfully.

The paparazzi smiled politely back, but when Cao Xuan drove away, he immediately followed him and called for support at the same time.

In the Beijing paparazzi world, Cao Xuan was already known to be difficult to deal with, and one or two groups of paparazzi would not be able to keep an eye on him.

People in the industry joked that Cao Xuan's anti-reconnaissance ability would give ordinary plain clothes a headache. If he was a criminal, his guarantee would be at the level of gangsters.

But today Cao Xuan didn't play peek-a-boo for them, and drove normally all the way, but the paparazzi behind him felt cold.

Cao Xuan is very famous, and many media or paparazzi directly sent people to guard him for a long time. After a long time, they basically have a grasp of Cao Xuan's behavior patterns.
In most cases, he will throw off the paparazzi, change cars, take detours, and get rid of the golden cicada's shell. It is hard to guard against, and ordinary people can't catch it at all.

Even if the paparazzi is not thrown away, as long as he realizes that someone is chasing him, Cao Xuan won't make any moves, it's a waste of effort.

Cao Xuan's anti-reconnaissance ability is already very good, not to mention that there is Zhu Jiang who is a professional reconnaissance force by his side, and other bodyguards also have relevant experience.

Therefore, even if Cao Xuan acted alone on the surface, in fact there were bodyguards accompanying him secretly, as long as the purpose was clearly aimed at Cao Xuan and caught one by one.

Under the double insurance, the paparazzi's stalking, lurking and sneaking shots are basically useless to Cao Xuan, unless it is an encounter or an accidental encounter.

It's not that Cao Xuan didn't get the trick, he and Hu Jing were photographed eating together, and Cao Xuan also served Hu Jing with food, but as long as it's not sensitive like kissing and hugging, it doesn't matter.

The same company, but also friends, what does it mean to have a meal together and help with a dish.

If it really doesn't work, Cao Xuan still has a trump card—spending money to keep his mouth shut.

No one can live with money these days, as long as the money is in place, everything else can be discussed, even if it is the kind of person who doesn't care about money and just wants to become famous, it's not like Cao Xuan doesn't have other hot news to exchange for.

However, someone as aboveboard as Cao Xuan today obviously had business to do, so there was nothing to reveal at all.

The two paparazzi were in a depressed mood, but they still followed. Anyway, it was news that could make a difference.

When we arrived at a restaurant in Xicheng District, Cao Xuan got off the car, and several people came out to greet him. The leader was a woman in her 30s. The two chatted at the door for a while before entering the restaurant together.

By the time the two parties met, the paparazzi had been professional, and the photo was taken.

The younger one looked at the camera and his eyes lit up: "Brother, we have encountered big news. This is Chen Yulu, the chief director of this year's Spring Festival Gala."

The old paparazzi sighed: "Let me ask you, based on Cao Xuan's current popularity and his performance in the past two years, do you think it's big news for him to be on the Spring Festival Gala?"

The young paparazzi thought for a while, then honestly shook his head: "It doesn't count, it's the big news that he won't be in the Spring Festival Gala this year."

"That's it. Before the chief director is selected, everyone knows that Zhao Binshan, Feng Gong, and Cao Xuan will definitely be on the Spring Festival Gala. There is no suspense at all."

The old paparazzi babbled a few words, looked at the photos in the camera: "But talk is better than nothing, it's still news, but I don't know if the higher authorities will allow it to be published."

When the paparazzi were discouraged, Cao Xuan and Chen Yulu ended their greetings and started to get down to business.

"According to the meaning of the program group this year, I still hope that you will release new songs. This is also the characteristic of you and the Spring Festival Gala. However, in terms of the theme of the new songs, we still hope to have some fixed topics."

Chen Yulu spoke in a general way, Cao Xuan understood it immediately, and proposed to write a composition.

In fact, he had already prepared in his heart for this, especially this year when the Chinese style is prevalent, he had long expected that the Spring Festival Gala might let the Chinese style be sung.

But unexpectedly, what Chen Yulu said next was completely opposite to what he thought.

"This year marks the [-]th anniversary. See if you can write a new song based on this theme."

Cao Xuan frowned: "Isn't this the Spring Festival Gala in 2002? Is it too late to use the theme of the [-]th anniversary?"

"not late."

The assistant director next to him opened the door: "The [-]th anniversary has passed, but we can imagine the [-]th or even the [-]th anniversary in the future, not necessarily in the past and the present, but also in the future."

"Yeah, we successfully bid for the Olympic Games this year, entered the World Cup, and just announced our entry into the WTO. The situation is very good, and there is a song to inspire people."

Cao Xuan knew it in his heart. There were not many songs like this in the Spring Festival Gala before, but they were relatively less popular. This time the director team approached him, hoping to come up with a song that not only fits the main theme but also attracts the attention of the public.

Seeing Cao Xuan frowned and thinking, Chen Yulu felt that he was under a lot of pressure, so she also expressed her relief.

"We also know that it's difficult, otherwise we wouldn't be looking for you, a talented creative person. If it doesn't work, we can change other themes, and we won't force others to make things difficult."

"The task handed over by the organization must be completed no matter how difficult it is."

Cao Xuan slammed loudly, then pondered for a while, and replied: "I happen to have a song in my new album, and the tune is quite suitable. If possible, changing the lyrics of the song should also meet your requirements.

In this way, I will make a demo first, listen to it, if it doesn’t work, I will think of other songs. "

Cao Xuan is full of ambition. This kind of task is pressure, but it is also motivation.

The higher-ups can ask Cao Xuan to write this kind of song, which shows that the higher-ups are very optimistic about Comrade Xiao Cao's position. This song must be written well. It must be positive and recognized and liked by the public.

"What's the name of the new song on your album?"

""Sea of ​​Stars"."

Cao Xuan said the name, and added in his heart, one of the propaganda songs for the centenary of the founding of the party 20 years later...

(End of this chapter)