China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 457 Cao Xuan's Number One Japanese Fan Girl
December 12, 31 is coming to an end

Fengyun Studio joined forces with Penguin News, Netease, Sohu, and Sina, the three major portals, Tianya moderators + experts, Baidu Tieba bar owners + experts, and invited some print media and TV news media.

A total of more than 30 online and offline authoritative media have accumulated, and there are more than 200 well-known entertainment reporters, media professionals and Internet entertainment experts, and there are about 1000 random netizens as representatives of the public.

After half a month of collecting materials, taking inventory, and voting, everyone jointly launched a blockbuster special entertainment report in 2005 on related platforms——

"2005 China Entertainment Circle Billboard"

To put it bluntly, it is an annual inventory. In fact, similar news has been done before, but each platform does its own thing.

This year, a big overall plan has been coordinated by all parties, and many authoritative entertainment media have been combined to make a systematic and most authoritative inventory.

The list is diverse, including entertainment events, celebrity deaths, songs, movies, variety shows, emerging artists, and falling stars.

Of course, the word series [most] pays the most attention to traffic.

For example, [Best Film of the Year] is "New World", which has a good reputation at the box office.

And [Worst Movie of the Year] is without a doubt "The Promise", which is still in a storm of public opinion.

With a combined vote rate of 89%, Director Chen also defeated Liu Zhenwei of "The Great Sage of Love" and Mr. Xu of "Seven Swords" with a super absolute advantage, and was elected as the "Most Disappointing Director of the Year".

In the selection of "Best Singer of the Year", Cao Xuan won 68% of the media votes and 72% of the public votes, and was elected with a combined vote rate of 70%.

And in the selection of "Best Song of the Year", "Thousands of Miles Away" finally defeated Xiao Zhou's "Nocturne" and Cao Xuan's "Beautiful Myth" with 45% of the votes, and won the top spot again.

It's a pity that "Ordinary Road", although it was very popular this year, and even topped the list repeatedly in the first half of the year, because it was not released in 2005, it could not participate in the selection.

In addition, Cao Xuan, who has a movie box office of 3 million yuan, has also been successfully elected as [Best Actor of the Year] and [Most Popular Star of the Year] and other titles. The entire news page almost makes people unable to recognize the word "Cao".

But Xiao Zhou didn't get nothing. In the selection of the word "Most", he won the "Most Surprising Singer of the Year" and "Most Surprising Actor of the Year".

Needless to say, the former is a consolation prize. In fact, Xiao Zhou is stronger this year in terms of the exposure of the Chinese music scene, but Cao Xuan's base is too large to compete.

As for the latter, it was favored by the media and the audience because of the outstanding performance of "Initial D".

It is worth mentioning that one of the top three candidates for "The Most Surprising Actor of the Year" is Nishinomiya Niangniang Zengli.

Whether it was the first show at the Spring Festival Gala at the beginning of the year, or the female swordsman Ding Baiying in "Xiu Chun Knife 2", Zeng Damei has performed amazingly and has become a rising star this year.

If it weren't for Nishinomiya's daily life being too low-key, um, she seldom accepts interviews, doesn't participate in commercial activities and variety shows very much, and has too little exposure, otherwise she might be able to compete with some popular florets in popularity.

This set of special reports on the "2005 China Entertainment Industry Billboard" is comprehensive and detailed, and it can be used as information for future generations by the authors of China Entertainment.

Naturally, it also attracts a large number of melon-eating people who like entertainment and gossip, revisit the hot spots, and make up for the melons that have not been eaten by the way.

For this topic, it can be said that some people are happy and some are worried.

If you perform well, you are naturally happy that there will be another wave of exposure at the end of the year, and even this kind of authoritative inventory at the end of the year will help improve your status and facilitate better resources in the company and the industry.

It's hard to do poorly.

Needless to say, Director Chen continued to be incompetent and furious. International Zhang was named "Most Disappointing Actor of the Year" because of "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Chef Xie won the [Worst Actor of the Year] because of the poor reputation of the two films "The Promise" and "The Great Sage of Love" at the end of the year.

There are other winners of some negative awards, it's hard to be happy anyway, some artists directly fired.

But the more than 30 media outlets are definitely not afraid, and they are even happy to argue with each other. Another wave of material is in place, and with a few more, they can all wait for the annual leave.

Cao Xuan didn't care much about the clamor from the outside world.

For his level, this list has little positive effect on him, and it doesn't matter how many firsts he gets. On the contrary, there are negative comments, and maybe he will look at it a few more times.

At that time, it is better to collect some saddle addresses that are not cool, and keep the fire for domestic production...

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By January 2006, "The Promise" basically could not bring any threat to "Xiu Chun Knife 1".

After "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" took advantage of "The Promise" to soar at the box office, it slowly came to a bottleneck period.Box office growth slowed down significantly or even declined.

The industry estimate is 2 million, but Fanxing's internal speculation is only about 1.8 million. The reason is that the Spring Festival is approaching and "Fearless" will be released in late January.

I don't know if it's "Fearless"'s self-confidence, or because it wants to cooperate with the film's release in Europe and the United States. The film's mainland premiere time is just two days before the Spring Festival.

At the stage when the Spring Festival file has not yet been officially formed, the choice of "Fearless" is quite courageous.

However, this affects the box office of "Xiu Chun Knife 2" to a certain extent.

But Cao Xuan is not angry, and the impact will not be affected much. Compared with the box office of 800 million yuan, he hopes that more and more blockbuster movies like "Fearless" will be released around the Spring Festival, so as to have the impact of the Spring Festival.

In the original time and space, the Spring Festival file has been collectively referred to as the Lunar New Year file together with the New Year's Day file and the Christmas file.

It was Cheng Long who opened the Lunar New Year file, and Feng Xiaogang who brought the Lunar New Year file to its peak.

From 1998 to the first ten years of the 21st century, Feng Xiaogang's films have frequently performed well in the Lunar New Year film. Regardless of his character and style, from the box office performance, he is indeed the king of the Lunar New Year in the true sense.

During this period, it is not that there were no movies released during the Spring Festival, but they were all in twos and threes, and there were not many movies that had either formed a scale or become popular.

Until 2013, Master Xing's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was officially announced for the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Then the six-day Spring Festival stalls scored 5.26 million box office, with a total box office of 12.47 billion, which shocked the industry.

It is also the formation of the Spring Festival stalls.

Prior to this, among the movies released during the Spring Festival, the highest-grossing movie was also Xing Ye, "Yangtze River No. 2" in the early [-] million. As a result, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" raised the movie box office to the level of decimals in one go, and everyone saw it. The potential of the Spring Festival file.

Since then, the Spring Festival schedule has begun to take shape, and it has become more and more fierce every year, and finally became the best schedule in the mainland film market.

Cao Xuan has actually been eyeing the Spring Festival schedule for a long time, but the formation of the schedule is not something that can be done just by talking about it.

It took several years for the Lunar New Year file to flourish. The summer file was also cultivated by Cao Xuan from "When Men Are in Love". After three years, it barely called it hot.

Previously, Fanxing won three consecutive summer box office championships and became the king of summer movies, gradually laying a certain foundation in the hearts of movie fans and forming a brand effect.

Now is the time for consolidation and deepening. We can't let the country that has been won with great difficulty be left alone, and go to open up wasteland for the Spring Festival.

Therefore, Fanxing's current focus is still on the summer vacation, supplemented by the Lunar New Year.

However, it's not that Cao Xuan just doesn't care about the Spring Festival. He can slowly plan, occasionally arrange movies in the Spring Festival, and gradually expand the cultivation market. When the time is relatively ripe, he will make a big move and officially open up wasteland.

Speaking of "Fearless", this movie still has a close relationship with Cao Xuan. The film studio wanted to ask Cao Xuan to make a theme song, asking for 500 million yuan.

However, Cao Xuan was busy with his new album and was flying all over the world shooting the MV, so he had no time at all.

He could get rid of the wool and write Xiao Zhou's song and throw it to others to sing, but Yuan Shikong's song is too personal and Cao Xuan thinks it is unnecessary.

After going around and around, it was Xiao Zhou who came out and sang the song of the same name "Huo Yuanjia" with Fang Wenshan, "Hohohohoho, hohohohoho", and now it has begun to be released to create momentum for the movie.

At the same time, Cao Xuan's new album "Legend", which is about to be released after the Spring Festival, has also begun to release the first song to promote and hit the charts.

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Japan, Tokyo

With a sweet smile, Masami Nagasawa waved goodbye to the fans who were waiting at the door, and came to the commercial vehicle. She breathed a tired sigh and said to the driver and assistant with a smile.

"Wu Leixi (happy), I can sleep well today."

Cao Xuan came to Japan for the first time in early 2002. She was still a 15-year-old girl, but she was just a small model in a girly magazine, and she had played a few small roles.

Now four years have passed, the little loli back then has begun to show the demeanor of an otaku goddess, and she is a popular idol in Japan.

Maybe Cao Xuan himself didn't know that his fan meeting back then had greatly promoted the debut of the two nerd gods and goddesses. It was the first time for the two little lolitas to publicly face the media in large numbers, and they gained a certain amount of attention.

Perhaps these attentions are nothing to ordinary people, but Nagasawa Masami was a magazine model and a young actor at that time, and half of her foot was in the entertainment industry.

This time the fan meeting was unintentionally pushed by Cao Xuan, and he was immediately picked up by someone who cared, and got a supporting role in a movie in less than a month.

In 2003, he played the leading role in a movie for the first time, and won the "Best Newcomer" at the Japan Film Academy Award, which is known as the Oscar in Japan.

In the following two years, film appointments continued, and her reputation continued to expand. Known as Dongbao's sweetheart, she crazily harvested Japanese otaku fans with her pure and lovely image.

That's right, many people have the impression that Nagasawa Masami, who is lightly familiar with sex, actually made her debut by being pure and cute.

Later, Nagasawa Masami also went through various styles such as sexy goddess, fresh girlfriend, high-cold queen, kind big sister, and intellectual elegance, so she was also called the goddess of change by fans.

The related personal photos are very popular, and the sales volume has always been at the forefront among Japanese female artists.

It is precisely because of its popularity and high fan stickiness that Nagasawa Masami was also highly praised by Dongbao and focused on cultivation.

If you force a comparison, Nagasawa Masami is a bit like Liu Tianxian in China now.

The same backed by a big tree, has a certain influence, and is extremely popular, but she is not as popular as Liu Tianxian for the time being, and is more popular among young people, but she is also one of the most outstanding florets in the new generation of Japan .

The place of work is not far from the place where I live. In less than 10 minutes, I arrived at the place where Nagasawa Masami lives, a small apartment of about 60 square meters.

Although Japan's entertainment industry is developed, the money earned by artists is really not as good as that of the Chinese entertainment industry in later generations, especially newcomers like Nagasawa Masami, who are still very severely exploited.

Coupled with the terrible housing prices in Tokyo, Nagasawa Masami can only choose to live in a small apartment first, and then think about other things after saving enough money.

Saying goodbye to the driver and making an appointment for tomorrow, Nagasawa Masami bought some sushi snacks downstairs, and then returned to the apartment, lying on the tatami and not wanting to get up.

Don't think she is quite popular now, but the competition in the Japanese entertainment industry is fierce, and the shelf life of artists, especially idols, is too short.

Nagasawa Masami is not sure how long she can be popular, so she takes on jobs as much as possible to extend her career.

By the way, I also want to make more money. Even if it gets colder in the future, I still have some savings. After all, even if the artist industry is not as exaggerated as in later generations of China, they are still high-income people, and they can earn as much as they can.

Under such circumstances, Masami Nagasawa hardly has much rest time.

In the case of finishing work in the evening like today, apart from filming, there are only a dozen times throughout the year, so even though she is tired, Nagasawa Masami is still very happy to have a few more hours of entertainment time.

Opening a can of beer, Masami Nagasawa drank a few sips, then turned on the stereo in the apartment, and Cao Xuan's "Believer" sounded.

The explosive melody and high-pitched roar made Masami Nagasawa smile, shaking her body in the apartment with a beer.

Different from the pure and sweet image on the outside, Nagasawa Masami's personality is actually extroverted.

It was rumored that she was drunk and liked to share things that made people blush and heartbeat. Although it was unknown whether it was true or not, her nature was definitely not as well-behaved as she is now.

You know, in the movie "Peach Blossoms" that made Nagasawa Masami popular in 2011, there is a scene where the actor is directly rubbed, and there are many large-scale scenes in other works.

Well, you can go to station B to search, pay attention to your body...

All Nagasawa Masami fans know that her favorite singer is Cao Xuan.

Whether it is Chinese songs or English songs, as long as it is Cao Xuan's songs, she has heard them all, and bought the album for collection. Cao Xuan's related film and television works are often watched, and even Japanese entertainment reporters jokingly call her Cao. Xuan's first Japanese fan girl.

For this reason, it also caused dissatisfaction among a large number of Cao Xuan's Japanese female fans, who complained to the reporter and made a big news.

Nagasawa Masami readily complied with this, even a little proud of it.

The admiration accumulated when she was young, Cao Xuan's outstanding appearance, unparalleled talent aura and world-renowned superstar filter, plus Masami Nagasawa's preference for the kind of naughty men, made Masami Nagasawa very obsessed with Cao Xuan for a time .

When "New World" was released in Japan during the summer vacation, she even skipped a day off to support her idol's work.

It's a pity that when Cao Xuan and other creative teams came to Japan for publicity, she went to other places to film and was not in Tokyo, so she didn't meet up.

Fortunately, Nagasawa Masami heard that Cao Xuan had a female companion this time, so she did not accept the escort arranged by the local film company and Dongbao.

While Masami Nagasawa was a little relieved and longed for, she was also jealous for several days because of Cao Xuan's female companion.

A few days ago, there was an interview in Japan where artists talked about their New Year's wishes. In addition to some wishes about parents, friends and relatives, Nagasawa Masami also wanted to act in a play with Cao Xuan.

Nagasawa Masami heard that her own company, that is, Dongbao, might cooperate with Cao Xuan's company in a movie. I don't know if she has hope to play a role.

Soon the two cans of beer bottomed out, and after listening to several songs, Masami Nagasawa stopped dancing.

I have to work tomorrow, so I can't drink anymore.

Turning on the TV casually, wanting to watch a funny show, it was commercial, Nagasawa Masami went to the bathroom to take a shower, and after a few minutes she came out wrapped in a towel.

A chunky Japanese host is bluffing exaggeratedly on TV.

"This time, Cao Sang's new song "We Don't Talk Anymore" shows great sincerity.

Invited the Canadian queen Avril Lavigne to sing a chorus, and filmed MVs in Paris, London, Los Angeles and other cities. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time Cao Sang has filmed an MV with a woman other than her two queen heroines.

Once "We Don't Talk Anymore" was released, it landed at No. 14 on the US Billboard Singles Chart in the first week, and No. [-] on the UK music chart.

In Japan, because the album has not been officially released, it has not been included in the Oricon chart for the time being, but the data opportunities on other charts are bright.

After a year, Cao Sang released an English song again, and once again smashed all the bad voices with his talent, the peerless emperor of the Asian music scene is back..."

The host's passionate speech did not affect Nagasawa Masami much. She was more concerned about Cao Xuan's new song.

"It's all because I'm so busy these days, I didn't even know that O'Neill has released a new song."

Masami Nagasawa was very annoyed, the news on Cao Xuan in Japan was not particularly developed, and if it was real-time news, even a special search might be a bit laborious.

Although Cao Xuan himself has a blog, it is either in English or Chinese, which is not particularly friendly to Japanese fans.

Moreover, Cao Xuan doesn’t like to talk too much about work on blogs, especially English blogs, which are more about sharing interesting stories and writing small compositions, from weekly to monthly updates, even if he is a die-hard fan, he won’t be watching all the time.

After all, Nagasawa Masami is busy with work and cannot follow stars 24 hours a day.

She only knew that Cao Xuan had a movie that was being released, and she wanted to watch it when it was released in Japan, but she didn't know that Cao Xuan's new album had started to be promoted.

But she didn't feel upset for too long, she was ready to find a channel to listen to the song, even without her looking, the host Balabala took the initiative to release Cao Xuan's new song MV.

Cao Xuan has debuted for many years, and the accumulated songs are almost a hundred.

In addition to the songs without MVs, as well as many film and television theme songs and special MVs, there are almost 50 other MVs with heroines, all of which are played by Hu Jing and Zeng Li.

Only this time "We Don't Talk Anymore" made an exception, mainly because the song was sung by men and women.

It doesn't matter if it's just a duet and a chorus. "Beautiful Myth" is also a duet between him and Yao Beina, but it is more suitable to directly quote a clip from the movie "Myth" as the MV.

But this song "We Don't Talk Anymore" is different. The duet is a couple background, and the MV is also a couple direction. It is impossible for Cao Xuan to sing with Avril Lavigne, and then find Hu Jing or Zeng Li to perform in the MV. It is better not to shoot Woolen cloth.

Therefore, Cao Xuan was successfully won by Avril for the "first time" except for the East and West Palaces since his debut...

As a die-hard fan of Cao Xuan, Nagasawa Masami naturally understands what this "exception" means.

As a world-renowned singer, the world's pop king with album sales of several million or even over ten million, Cao Xuan's MV heroine has a lot of temptation for many popular Asian stars.

It is no exaggeration to say that many actresses in China, Japan, and South Korea have worked hard for it, and are even willing to pay some price.

Especially for female artists who are not well-known, they are likely to become famous in one battle, and become popular suddenly from a young star.

This is not without precedent. Sister Zhiling was the first to appear in front of the Taiwanese media from Zhang Guorong's MV heroine. Xiao Zhou's MV heroine always attracted a certain amount of attention.

With Cao Xuan's stature, playing the heroine of his MV will definitely cause a lot of exposure, and he may even go to Europe and the United States for a while, and he will be familiar without being famous.

But Cao Xuan didn't need people from outside, which made things more expensive than rare. If someone made an exception, the sensation caused would probably be enough to smear his face in Asia.

Frankly speaking, Masami Nagasawa never thought about whether she would one day be looked at differently by Cao Xuan and selected as the MV heroine.

Not only can you act with idols, but you can even get in touch with them further, and you can also gain a lot of attention, and show your face in Europe and America by the way.

Unexpectedly, her dream was preempted today.

Looking at Avril on TV, Nagasawa Masami gritted her teeth silently, she remembered this little guy.

However, although she was angry, Masami Nagasawa was quickly attracted by the melody and story of "We Don't Talk Anymore".

The setting of the MV is very simple, it is shown directly in split screen, with Cao Xuan on the left and Avril on the right.

According to the development of the story, it can be seen that the two are a couple who broke up. It seems that they have let go of that relationship, but every bit of life shows that both parties still miss each other.

Even the two parties have found a new partner, but it is still difficult to hide their love.

One night, looking at the photos taken before, the two wanted to contact each other with their mobile phones. The text message had been edited, but they still couldn't send it out.

For example, in the lyrics:

We don't talk anymore like we used to do
(We don't talk to each other anymore)

We don't love anymore
(we're not in love anymore)

Translated into Chinese is: Don't miss the green promise when you return, the rain will break and the clouds will sell, and the first love is always weak.

Four words, fate is over!

Compared with the story of the MV, the biggest highlight of this song is actually the melody, the rhythm is very interesting, and there is a lazy and leisure temperament in the brisk and joyful.

However, under this brisk melody, the lyrics are a little bit confused, corresponding to the entanglement between the two protagonists of the lyrics and the MV.

Especially in the chorus stage, Cao Xuan's high-pitched falsetto and Avril Lavigne's breathy singing gave the whole song a feeling of sweetness mixed with pain, which was a successful point.

And at the end of the song, the singing of the melody became free and easy again, which is also a letting go of the obsession with the last two protagonists of the MV.

Whether it's the story structure, the meaning of the lyrics, or the arrangement of the melody and beat, this song "We Don't Talk Anymore" has a great style.

In the current world pop music scene, there are a large number of sweet, surging, sad, or painful love song styles, which give the audience a refreshing feeling.

Although Nagasawa Masami personally prefers Cao Xuan's explosive rock, she doesn't reject this kind of fresh songs, and even appreciates them very much.

"Si Guoyi is indeed Asia's No. [-] Onisan, a talented man is so charming."

Staring at Cao Xuan's handsome face on TV, Nagasawa Masami's eyes were slightly blurred. After drinking two cans of beer before, she was a little thirsty again...

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ps: The easter egg chapter has already arranged songs, but it is under review

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