The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 416 Can I look back on my life?

The China threat theory, a topic that has been discussed over and over again in the Western media world, has set off a huge public opinion market at the beginning of the new century. This is one of the reasons why China's journey to join the WTO will be extremely difficult.

After the Asian financial crisis, China's overall economy still maintained a trend of rising against the trend, which made some Western media feel scared. The China threat theory was once again rampant. The method of preventing China from joining the WTO also failed after the lobbying group headed by Microsoft and Time Warner. .

And Zhou Yi happens to be affiliated with Warner Records, a subsidiary of Time Warner, and he is also Chinese.

This gave a lot of American media room to start to spread the heat - on the one hand, they secretly accused Time Warner of losing its dignity in order to make money, and insinuated that Warner Records was complicit. On the other hand, they also brought out what Zhou Yi did after coming to the United States. Target practice.

A clip from a talk show when Zhou Yi came to the United States to promote his first English album "Attitude Show" in July last year was once again uncovered by media people who are good at digging up old scores -

["...So what do you think about the criticism of you from the outside world? Many of them even expressed sympathy for you because they think you will be dissed by Eminem's songwriting and explode."

"My evaluation is: Save those unnecessary pities and sympathy, they are a bunch of trash who only follow the trend."

Zhou Yi, who was sitting on the red sofa with his legs crossed and dangling on his toes, rubbed his chin with his hand, chuckled and sneered mercilessly: "Everyone of them wants to go against me, but they only huddle behind the computer screen. Typing on the keyboard. If you have the guts, open the door and come out to fight me now.

"Otherwise, they can only watch me live a good time, hugging a hot beauty and shouting baby in her ear, and then listen to her singing Yeah at night."]

This was an interview Zhou Yi accepted on a program on HBO, a pay channel owned by Time Warner, last year. At that time, his arrogance that almost overflowed the screen caused a huge sensation in American public opinion.

Looking back now, Zhou Yi's new single "Enemy" this year is almost an expanded version of this passage——

"That is to say, I think he is extremely thoughtful. When he was promoting his first English album last year, he had already thought about what songs he would write in response and laid the foundation for it on the TV show.

“This is definitely not something an arrogant singer would do.

"Such a singer is too dangerous. He is like a poisonous snake from the East. He uses his arrogant and independent personality to attract the new generation of young people in the United States to follow and undermine our influence in the cultural field. He will have a negative impact on the American music scene. There will be great threats in the future...

"I think Spike's real purpose can be referred to the article "Young China" from the Republic of China era. He even adapted this article into a catchy song. His ambition is evident..."

An analysis of the Book of Changes published in the column of Vanity Fair, the most famous veteran lifestyle magazine in the United States, has caused considerable influence across the United States.

Even in China at home, there are still many people who don't like Zhou Yi, let alone the United States playing away games. After one report, Eminem's team, which had been beaten for half a month, finally found a new way of playing, and another voice gradually began to appear in the market -

Eminem was hailed as a hero against the invasion of Chinese singers.

Regardless of the truth of the matter, at least ask if you are confrontational - the song "Lose Yourself" is still in the top ten of the B-list. In the future, Gaolu will be the main force to block Zhou Yi.

As we all know, the United States always has an inexplicable filter for heroes who come from the streets, and Eminem happens to be from the streets.

"Eminem is at least a white man who grew up in the black community of Detroit, and he broke the monopoly of black people in the field of hip-hop. The template of Spike, the Son of God, has a smooth journey without any hardship, and even his family is happy. I do not like."

"One thing to say, Spike gives me money to hold the challenge. If I have the money, I will support Spike. Also, what's wrong with you having a happy family? You don't want others to have good parents, right?"

"Well, Eminem not only releases his own songs, he also discovers new talents for the American music scene. Isn't it Eminem who brought out the recently popular 50 Cent? It is said that he will release his number one song next month. Album.

"What did Spike do? He will only eat up our public opinion resources by himself and make money for himself..."

Hawaii, Mars home.

17-year-old Bruno Mars looked at the commotion on the Internet, then looked down at his winning single, and fell into deep thought.

To be fair, he doesn't have any idol filter for Zhou Yi, but he does listen to Zhou Yi's music, which is almost like a casual fan.

But I couldn’t hold it back and he won the prize.

A friend is already willing to offer him $500 for his spot, but Bruno is most confused about whether to sell it——

He had originally planned to go to Los Angeles to pursue his music dream. This opportunity to win the lottery was like pie in the sky for him. After all, this was an opportunity to contact Warner Records.

He didn't expect to meet Zhou Yi, a top celebrity, and sell his music dreams and talents to him, but he could still meet the person in charge of the Warner event.

What if?
What if he is spotted by Warner?
"Bruno, I say you should not sell, and then perform well in this challenge. Maybe you can be signed by Warner by then?"

The advice of his friend was still fresh in his mind. Faced with the temptation of increasing the price, after thinking about it for two full days, Bloom Mars finally decided to refuse.

It was decided that he was going to participate in this challenge, and then he would take a leave from school and go directly.

Anyway, he will graduate from high school this year. If he can get the opportunity to enter Warner, he can directly go to work at Warner after graduating from high school and strive for his music dream.

With this thought in mind, Bloom Mars made up his mind and stood up, picked up the phone at home, and dialed the number following the contact information on the single disc——

"Hey?"

………………… "Hello, Mr. Zhou Yi, I am Lang Kun, the channel director of CCTV's program "Art Life"."

June 1, afternoon.

After recording the preparation tape for this year's Spring Festival Gala, the atmosphere in the entire CCTV studio suddenly became much more relaxed.

Although the Spring Festival Gala is stressful, there is a backup tape as a back-up. If something unexpected happens at that time, it can be cut off directly. For the participating guests, it is a psychological comfort that is better than nothing.

Many celebrities who used the Spring Festival Gala to enrich their network were chatting in twos and threes. As the most outstanding person in the song category of this Spring Festival Gala, Zhou Yi met a host who currently has a very high status in CCTV after the show. people--

Zhu Jun.

One of the big-name victims of future Weibo essay slander.

Twenty years of hard work were lost in one fell swoop, and no one knew about winning the lawsuit.

This result is a bit funny for people like Zhu Jun.

After all, in the traditional impression of Chinese people, CCTV celebrities of this level should actually have enough ability to protect themselves, and they can still live freely and freely even if you don't see them.

It can only be said that there is a high probability that this person really has no background, and he is still unable to control public opinion, so that in the mobile Internet era, his wisdom was completely ruined by a simple essay.

"Hello, Zhou Yi."

Zhu Jun, who was waiting for Zhou Yi after the show with the members of the "Art of Life" director team, smiled and took the lead in extending his hand to him: "This is the first time we meet, I am Zhu Jun."

As one of the hosts of this Spring Festival Gala, Zhu Jun naturally participated in the recording of the preparation tape.

"Brother Zhu, Brother Lang."

Zhou Yi, who was somewhat surprised that he would be approached by this person, asked in confusion after shaking hands: "What are you two?"

"Is it convenient for us to chat, Zhou Yi?" As a veteran in the hosting industry, Zhu Jun spoke very measuredly, and his tone was just right, making people feel comfortable.

As the only host of "Art Life", Zhu Jun, who has used this program to elevate his influence to a higher level, can basically be said to be one of the faces of CCTV. And his purpose of bringing channel director Lang Kun to find Zhou Yi is also very simple——

Invite him to do a special.

A special about musicians.

The theme is also very clear - "Youth has his own youthful madness·Zhouyi".

"To be honest, I was quite surprised when the station gave me this task." Zhu Jun smiled kindly.

He really wasn't lying about this.

As one of CCTV's flagship programs, "Art of Life" has been among the best in CCTV in terms of ratings and positive reviews since its launch in 2000. Although there are also task-based topic selections, the director team has always had a high degree of freedom in topic selection.

Among those real task-oriented topics, Zhou Yi was the only star designated to do it.

How old is he?

"Huh? How old are you before you start looking back on your artistic life?"

Ten minutes later, Sun Yanzi, who had eaten snacks because he was hungry, saw Zhou Yi who had returned. His cheeks were bulging. He couldn't help but look surprised when he heard this, and there were still cake crumbs left in the corner of his mouth.

"You went through the back door again, right? I think it's wrong for the outside world to call you CCTV's son."

Under Yao Qian's discipline, Hsiao Hsiao was used to being hungry to stay in shape, but she was not as hungry as Sun Yanzi. Instead, she sat on the chair in the dressing room, crossed her legs, tilted her head and teased: "You should be CCTV’s godfather.”

"Go, go, what are you talking about? I'm an artist now. Please be respectful. Do you understand? It's so ugly to say that you are not a godfather."

Zhou Yi, who spoke insincerely, sat down comfortably and took the last plate of small cakes from Sun Yanzi's confused eyes, holding it in his arms: "I didn't expect that before I knew it, I would be able to look back. Life is here..."

no……

That, this, this is what I eat...

Sun Yanzi on the side hesitated to speak, especially after seeing Zhou Yi take a bite.

(End of this chapter)