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Chapter 336 The second English album, either Wang Zha or four two

The scandal between Cao Xuan and Avril Lavigne did not cause any disturbance in the country. It was mainly popular, and its influence was limited to the United States, and the country did not know who she was at all.

The hype in the domestic media also depends on the status of the coffee, especially the top streamer like Cao Xuan who is not short of scandals, and the bottom line must be above the second-tier or a hot newcomer.

In foreign countries, it is even raised two grades, both of which have to be first-line or queens.

There is no way, the influence of foreign artists in China is limited, the coffee position cannot be promoted, the popularity and traffic cannot be increased, and no one watches the news.

Therefore, even if you want to have an affair with Mr. Cao, you still have to queue up.

Domestic female artists are rolled up, and foreign female artists are even more rolled up.

Male artists also want to be involved, but Cao Daguan refuses to take jobs...

In August, after entering the summer vacation, all the relevant outdoor scenes of the crew of "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" have been filmed. Until mid-September, all the scenes were filmed around the film and television base in the suburbs of Beijing.

Cao Xuan can also free up some time to start preparations for the new English album.

"Yi Tian Shou Long Ji" finished filming in September, and before the end of the year, the new movie will start, and there will be about two months in between to concentrate on making a new album.

At the moment, some preparatory work has officially begun.

The billboard has been unable to win the championship for a long time, which made Cao Xuan feel a sigh of relief.

The second English album is also the first official studio album, so if I want to continue playing Wang Zha, I have to make a name for myself in the European and American music circles.

This album is in the same format as most of Cao Xuan's Chinese albums, with a total of ten songs, 5 high-quality songs, and 5 slightly ordinary songs.

This is also the law that Cao Xuan has gradually explored. 5 high-quality songs + 5 ordinary songs are the best combination.

Aside from keeping the ammunition depot, the most important thing is that the promotional resources and energy for each album are limited, and the 5 high-quality works can make full use of these resources as much as possible and achieve synchronous complementarity.

If there are 10 high-quality songs, they will be fierce, but in fact, the potential of some songs is wasted.

For example, "Bright Stars", each of the 10 songs in it is in the top three of the charts, or even the top song.

But releasing it all in one breath, although it formed an unparalleled crush on other singers, they also reached a certain degree of internal friction with each other.

Many songs are lower than the achievements of the original time and space in terms of popularity and achievements.

So from then on, Cao Xuan began to consciously carry out 5+5 collocation, the most effective and maximize the potential of the album.

Of course, Cao Xuan did not give up the idea of ​​making a god-level album composed of 10 high-quality songs, waste is waste, but the effect is indeed leveraged.

The reason why he has such a high status in the Chinese music scene is largely due to the prestige of "Bright Stars".

So Cao Xuan has always had a plan in mind, and when the time is right, he will also release a god-level English album like "Bright Stars", so that those European and American singers can see what is the power of hanging.

But now Cao Xuan has just gained a firm foothold in the European and American music circles, and his popularity and influence have initially taken shape, but he is not yet solid enough.

If you rush to make a big move, it is likely to waste mana and not achieve much results, and it will arouse the vigilance of the relevant record companies.

Warner is not the only one in the United States. Universal, EMI, Sony, and BMG are not good at it.

Even judging from the current scale, Universal is faintly the number one record company in the world, and Warner can only be ranked second.

If he jumps like this before he has a firm foothold, Cao Xuan is likely to face the joint suppression of major companies, and he will not do this kind of loss-making business.

So Cao Xuan plans to play steadily and step by step to become a top superstar in the international music scene.

When his popularity, qualifications, and influence have a certain scale, and he will not be easily suppressed by a few companies, then he will make more moves.

.........

Wei Xixi, deputy director of Fanxing Music Department, is Cao Xuan's royal music producer. He is now a well-known music producer in the industry, and his reputation is no worse than that of Zhang Yadong, Sanbao and others.

Even if it wasn't for the short time to become famous, and Cao Xuan suppressed a lot of light because he basically only served Cao Xuan, otherwise Zhang Yadong, the number one music producer in the mainland, would have changed hands long ago.

Wei Xixi also has a lot of airs in Fanxing. Except for Cao Xuan, no one is easy to ignore. Even the general manager Li Yan and his immediate boss Maning can't do anything about him.

Well, Hu Jing is an exception. Old Wei still understands the power of the wind beside the pillow...

The reason why Wei Xixi is so good in Fanxing is because he is good at arranging music, has cooperated many times, and cooperated with Cao Xuan tacitly. Cao Xuan has a lot of appreciation and trust in him.

With the boss protecting him, Wei Xixi naturally walked sideways in the company.

Cao Xuan even acquiesced that he can do nothing at ordinary times.

Fanxing has signed five new singers, and Dao Lang has even started to produce a single, but the deputy director Wei who is in charge of the production is simply supervising the production, and the other producers are undertook.

With such a work intensity, Lao Wei can still get a guaranteed seven-figure annual salary and a lot of bonuses every year.

The premise is that you must be able to help Cao Xuan arrange and produce the album well.

As long as the album arrangement is good, Cao Xuan will "spoil" Wei Xixi in everything, and do whatever he wants without asking, and the salary will be fully paid.

But if you can't do it well, Ma Liu pack up and leave.

Old Wei understood his own value very well, and he also understood why Cao Xuan could tolerate him being so presumptuous.

So it doesn't matter to him to be lazy at ordinary times, and even skip work secretly to run his own bar.

But as soon as he received the task of Cao Xuan's new album, his whole work attitude was completely different, with 200% concentration, working day and night, and striving for perfection.

Cao Xuan, who was still wearing a costume in the crew lounge of "The Legend of Heaven and Slaying the Dragon", listened to the demo brought by Wei Xixi, his brows sometimes frowned and sometimes stretched.

After listening to the song, he pondered for a while, and Cao Xuan gave his support advice: "Old Wei, my idea is that the melody of this song is more beautiful and softer, with the piano as the main accompaniment and the drum as an assistant..."

Wei Xixi immediately took out his notebook, and took notes with ease, fearing that he might miss a note, so he took out a specially bought recording pen.

As the musician who has worked with Cao Xuan for the longest time, he knows how talented the man in front of him is.

He is not only proficient in writing lyrics and composing music, but also has his own unique and outstanding insights into music arrangement. In most cases, it is Cao Xuan who guides him to complete the arrangement.

Wei Xixi has no doubts that if Cao Xuan has enough schedule, he can complete a series of tasks such as writing lyrics, composing, arranging, and mixing production by himself.

In fact, Cao Xuan did the same when he first debuted. Later, when the schedule got busy, it was Wei Xixi's turn.

Therefore, Lao Wei is proud of his talents to other people, but he can't be proud in front of Cao Xuan, not only because Cao Xuan is his boss, but also out of respect for Cao Xuan's talent and business ability.

What makes Lao Wei even more admired is that although Cao Xuan is talented, he is very low-key.

Obviously confident, he often lowered his profile to discuss research with him, asking for his own opinions. Although he might not accept them, he respected them very much. This moved Wei Xixi quite a bit.

It's not just Wei Xixi who has this idea, basically all the musicians who have come into contact with Cao Xuan feel that Cao Xuan is extremely humble in music.

In terms of acting, although he is not very high-profile, he has his own opinions.

After briefly chatting about his initial views on the demo, Cao Xuan left the demo and will listen to it often in the future, and then put forward more specific and detailed opinions based on the golden finger.

For this new album, the test of arrangement is acceptable, but the biggest test is singing skills.

Even though Cao Xuan has directly "upgraded", he still has a little headache for the difficulty of these songs.

The first song "Sugar".

Chinese name "Sweetheart", the American Maroon 2014 band launched lyrical rock in [-].

This song is also known as the wedding divine comedy, because the meaning of the lyrics and the MV is the accompaniment of the band going to the couple's wedding, so many wedding background music will use this song, which is almost equivalent to China's "Today Marry Me".

A few years ago, with the release of these two songs, one Chinese and one English, Cao Xuan might still be able to get more hits.

But now Boss Cao can't see these three melons and two dates, the main thing is to run for influence.

This song is still somewhat famous in China, except for the wedding, it is mainly due to the blessing of the game "Reverse War".

Basically, more than 70% of those who have heard this song are either at the wedding or in the game "Reverse War", and very few have heard it through other channels.

Cao Xuan personally likes this song better, so he has a lot of wool, but it is more difficult to sing this song.

The lead singer of the Maroon [-] band, Adam Levy, nicknamed [Sao Dang], has an excellent voice condition, and there are two small high notes at every turn, and as the name suggests, he sings very aggressively.

Cao Xuan is confident that he can swallow this song, but it may take some effort, and more importantly, he is hesitating whether to show it or not.

Don't show it, I feel soulless singing this song.

Let's show off, Cao Tianwang is more or less embarrassing.

The second song "The Nights".

The Chinese name "Those Nights" was created by Avicii. This Swedish singer nicknamed "A God" has been selected as one of the world's top [-] DJs for many times, ranking among the best and extremely talented.

This song was written by Avicii to his father. Some of the lyrics in it were said to him by his father when he was a child. It is very positive and full of feelings.

It is a pity that Ai Weiqi died young, and this song has become a song for many fans to commemorate him.

Cao Xuan was hesitant to copy the song for a while, but later he couldn't help but really liked it, so he couldn't hold back.

As for the composition part of the song about his father, Cao Xuan is not afraid of revealing his secrets. It is nothing more than cheering and life insights. Many fathers have similar educational speeches, and Comrade Cao also spoke.

Although the original words are not the case, the artistic processing of the lyrics is normal.

The third song "Believer".

Chinese name "Believers", the masterpiece of Menglong Band, the best rock song on Billboard in 2018, ranked in the top five singles charts for many weeks,
Although Cao Xuan didn't want to catch a sheep and pluck the wool, but Menglong's song was really popular.

The last song "Natural" by Magnum was only ranked eighth on the Billboard singles chart, but it was the song that attracted the most diehard fans to Cao Xuan.

The passionate melody and extremely violent singing can impress the fans as quickly as possible, set off the atmosphere of the scene, and make Cao Xuan, who is preparing to stick to a certain rock line in the early stage, have great enthusiasm for Menglong's songs.

The song "Believer" has a somewhat religious lyric, but it doesn't matter.

Even the so-called religious elements are far-fetched. The belief in the song title and lyrics is more about insisting on oneself and pursuing dreams bravely, so the religious elements in it are just rhetorical, and you can keep it or not.

The fourth song "The Phoenix"

The representative work of the boy band, launched in 2013, the chart score is not very strong, but the popularity is very wide, hardcore pop rock.

This song borrowed a lot of elements, and Cao Xuan had to collect certain copyrights in the later stage to avoid overturning.

In fact, Cao Xuan has been thinking about this song for a long time before deciding on it. Compared with the classic songs of bands such as Lincoln, Maroon [-], and Coldplay, the connotation of this song is a bit weaker, but it is better than enough.

And what Cao Xuan wanted was bombing, and the road of rock and roll was not easy, especially when he first became famous, so he chose this song to highlight the explosive melody.

Don't think that European and American fans just like deep songs, saliva songs are also very popular, and even more popular.

Just like when Cao Xuan released Chinese songs before, he always mixed a few high-quality songs with a hit song, for the sake of the market.

And don't underestimate this song. The connotation may be a little bit weak, but the melody is explosive enough and it is very difficult to sing.

Even if the original version of "Down with the Boys" often overturns, Cao Xuan is also under pressure, and is even ready to change songs at any time.

The fifth song "Free Loop".

The Chinese name is "Uncontrollable Notes" or "Free Cycle". It was released in 2005 and became well-known to Chinese fans because it was used as a Ford car commercial song in 2006.

It once became the most popular English CRBT in China, and it has lasted for a long time, and many people still love to listen to it more than ten years later.

This song has become popular all over the world, and it has landed on the charts of nearly half of the countries in the world, and the chart performance is excellent. It is one of the rare songs that has achieved a large-scale global popularity and has been widely successful.

Cao Xuan decided on this song early on, and even almost released it in the first EP. After several considerations, he changed to the second album and made it the first title song.

The above 5 songs are the high-quality songs of Cao Xuan's second album. It can be clearly seen that Cao Xuan has weakened the proportion of rock and increased the proportion of lyrical songs.

Although some of these lyrical songs are also of the rock genre, they are still more popular overall.

This is also Cao Xuan's choice. Although rock music can attract fans, it's not much less lyrical, and it's easier to achieve results and win awards. "You're beautiful" is the best example.

And compared to rock, Cao Xuan is personally better at the interpretation of lyrical songs.

Of course, on the other hand, most of the classic rock songs are from the last century, and there is really not much left for Cao Xuan to learn from, and it is not as convenient as lyrical pop songs.

Of course, Cao Xuan did not give up rock and roll, this time out of the 5 songs, there are two songs with a strong rock style.

In the future, the route of Cao Xuan's English songs [rock + lyric] will not change, but the proportion of the latter should be gradually increased.

Although Cao Xuan really wants to be the king of rock and roll, the reality is that the king of love songs or the king of lyric is more suitable for him.

But no matter what, the overall quality of this second album is still very impressive, not to mention the first song is Wang Zha, but at least four second-level, not inferior to the first EP.

Coupled with the previous accumulation, Cao Xuan is no longer an unknown person in Europe and the United States. Whether it is popularity or influence, he is comparable to the first-line in Europe and the United States. This will also have a great positive effect on the release of the next album.

Therefore, Cao Xuan is very confident in the results of the second album, and is also looking forward to the greater surprises it will bring to him...

　I just got a cold, and I have a headache when I choose songs...

　　
　
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