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

Chapter 495: What era is it still listening to traditional records?

Kay West's test results were not ideal.

As a newly graduated dentist, his 27 years up to now cannot be said to be smooth sailing, but at least he can be called a high-level paraplegic.

The younger sister is a drug dealer, the younger brother is in jail, the father is dead and the mother is missing. This is obviously one of the most miserable families in a traditional white male family.

Not to mention the expensive student loans he took out to complete his studies.

I finally graduated and entered the dentist sequence of the American medical system through my diligence and hard work. However, I was reprimanded a few days ago because of core performance assessment issues.

Fortunately, the landlady was very nice to him. She gave him gentle comfort and became a light in his heart, which made his vacation time very good.

"West, don't take what happened that day to heart. Walker is just jealous that you are younger than him."

Tucson, Arizona.

After returning to work at the hospital after a vacation in Hawaii, Kay West received encouragement from his colleagues and also dissed his unscrupulous superiors.

Kai West, who had learned his lesson, just smiled and nodded. "By the way, Connie, last time you said there was a way to buy Spike's Chinese albums. Is that true? I asked about it when I went to Hawaii for vacation this time, and the record stores there didn't have any Chinese albums."

Just because Zhou Yi’s English album is popular doesn’t mean his Chinese album will be popular in the United States.

In the field of pop music, language barriers and limitations are still objective realities.

Unfortunately, Kay West is a studious person. He is willing to delve into studies, work, music, film and television.

As a new fan of Zhou Yi, he has been committed to collecting all of Zhou Yi's albums - including Chinese albums and EPs - with the idea of ​​collecting everything.

He knew that Zhou Yi was Chinese.

Unfortunately, Chinese songs are still a niche, and the music stores he could get in touch with either only had a small amount of stock, which had long been bought up by previous Zhou Yi fans; or they simply didn't have any stock at all.

"I told you to find someone to trade with online, but you didn't go. Warner replenishes its stock in batches each time, and the audio-visual channels must be replenished even more slowly." Hearing what Kay West said, his colleagues were somewhat speechless.

"I don't believe it. Who knows if it's a scam? The distance is so far. I won't pay first, and they won't ship first. The distance is too far and it's impossible for me to go to their city just to buy an album." Kay West, who has been cheated several times, is now full of resistance when he mentions buying second-hand or brand new items online.

The main reason is that no one has posted it on the local forum.

Beware of Internet Fraud—It’s Everyone’s Responsibility!
"Then you might as well download it online. You can find all of Spike's songs online now."

"No, the quality of the pirated audio sources online is too bad. My ears can't stand it, and Spike can't get paid."

"What? No, no, no, I'm talking about the genuine ones. The Apple Music Store has all of Spike's songs, and Apple even claims that the sound quality is CD-level."

Seeing Kai West shaking his head like a rattle, his colleague who was used to surfing the Internet pulled him to his desk and took out a white iPod from the drawer.

"Look, I bought all of these, and they're cheaper than buying an album. Buying a song individually costs 1.99, but I bought 17 songs at once for only 33.83 dollars. Isn't this cheaper than buying an album? I bought these 17 songs individually..."

On the iPod with a small screen, one song after another under Zhou Yi's name was reflected in Kay West's eyes as his colleagues introduced it.

Buy 10 songs for $19.9;

An album costs $0.1 more, or $20, which is much cheaper than physical albums on the market.

Although Kay West didn't understand why the extra $0.1 was so expensive, it didn't stop people from buying more cost-effective singles to compile their own album playlists - just like his colleague, who bought 17 of his favorite songs in one go and downloaded them to his iPod.

Comparing the price of the album on iPod, this is money well spent!
Colleagues who felt they had made a fortune turned into free tap water, and kept telling Kay West how comfortable the Apple Music Store model was.

Of course, the prerequisite for this is that you have to buy a genuine iPod. "This... can be called an album? Where is the gift?" Kai West was a little confused.

You can listen to physical albums over and over again, and if you don't want to listen to them anymore, you can sell them second-hand to make some money back. If you buy this thing, it will be ruined if the data is not cleared, right?

His colleagues scoffed at his confusion: "Why are you still listening to traditional records in this day and age?"

Not only are tapes and CDs difficult to carry, but even listening to music requires the use of large devices.

Nowadays, you can listen to all your songs in such a small iPod, and the genuine ones have CD-level sound quality. Isn’t it better than holding a tape recorder or a TV?
It just means that you can’t watch the MV.

But then again, if you want to watch the MV, why not just buy the physical version with the MV? The physical album hasn't been cancelled.

"..."

Kay West, who had always been wary of things on the Internet, was shaken.

Because he actually put on headphones and listened to high-quality MP3s.

Although for an audiophile like him, this song is still a certain distance away from the so-called perfect CD-level sound quality advertised, it is obviously up to the baseline, and Apple has obviously spent a lot of money.

Most importantly, he also found all the Chinese albums and songs under Zhou Yi's name in the Apple Music Store.

He tried listening to it and found that it really worked...

The words of his colleague immediately echoed in his ears——

What era is it now? Are you still listening to traditional records?

We all listened to electronic records!
After studying it for an afternoon, Kai West was successfully recommended. After work, he went straight to buy a new iPod endorsed by Zhou Yi, and went home to study it himself. As an experiment, he downloaded all the songs under the Zhou Yi special topic in one go.

Yes, the Book of Changes has special topics.

As the first top giant willing to license to Apple, Zhou Yi, who has made a great name for himself in the United States, was privately ridiculed by many people for his decision.

You should know that Madonna previously released fake audio sources to counter Internet piracy channels, teasing Internet piracy practitioners, making them mistakenly believe that it was a real song and began to spread it wantonly;
In order to combat Internet piracy, Eminem even released his physical album a week in advance.

In comparison, Zhou Yi's proactive embrace of Apple is more like a gesture of compromise with the Internet era. In this era when all big names still rely on physical records for their livelihood, it is normal for many people to spurn him.

Naturally, he also received the highest treatment that Apple could give.

While users need to search for songs by other singers in the music library, Apple directly opened a large banner on the homepage of the music store with a large Zhouyi poster hanging on it. When you click on it, there are two sections of Chinese songs and English songs, which are listed clearly, making paid downloads extremely convenient.

"God, this is so convenient. I have never used such a convenient way to buy albums in my life."

"Thank you Internet, thank you Apple, thank you Steve Jobs."

"...Steve Jobs is so annoying!"

"What does nihaosaoa mean? Is there an English word for this?"

"I mean it as a compliment. Spike taught Depp this when he was teaching him to speak Chinese. Depp even proudly mentioned it in an interview. If you look around, you'll know that Spike is a very sincere person..."

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(End of this chapter)