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

Chapter 501 Genius is just the threshold to meet him
"Well, as for this year's Golden Melody Awards, I personally find it rather boring. Because Zhou Yi's arrival is a bit of a dimensionality-reducing attack. His popularity is just too high. Do you understand what I mean?"

On August 8, on a local music program in Taiwan.

Professor Lai, who is known as a music expert, was a guest on the show. When he was interviewed by the host, he mentioned Zhou Yi and shook his head repeatedly: "Although his singing still has some flaws, his vocal talent is enough for the audience to ignore it.

“But relatively speaking, the production level of his albums is the best in this era. Just like the evaluation in the United States, the aesthetics of his albums are at least five years ahead of this era.

"I think everyone can see this from the MV. Zhou Yi's most outstanding aesthetic is concentrated on his various MV ideas. In comparison, other singers' MVs look like childish commercials.

“We often talk about audio-visual art. In fact, as a part of audio-visual art, pop music album MVs are often the carriers used by authors to express the ideas of songs. However, many people in the industry often choose to ignore this in order to achieve quick results.

"Our industry has been destroyed by the desire for quick success and instant benefits for a long time. Many people, including the four kings in the past, have forgotten how to make MVs as part of songs. They release three or four albums a year without any time to polish the details.

“But Zhou Yi is not.

"Even though he is busy with work, he still maintains a consistent expression in the MV, which is what I admire most about him."

The professor from the music department just sang praises for Zhou Yi, and then began to criticize Warner's registration of him for the Golden Melody Awards: "But, to be honest, as I said, Zhou Yi's current battlefield should be international, in the Grammy Awards, the Brit Awards and other world-class awards.

"The Golden Melody Awards is ultimately a regional Chinese award, and he shouldn't be focusing on Chinese awards..."

If we give it to them, then many domestic singers will not get the encouragement of trophies;

If they don’t give it to him, the Golden Melody Awards will be torn to pieces based on Zhou Yi’s skyrocketing popularity after his international success.

In the eyes of many stakeholders, the best solution is for Zhou Yi to directly withdraw from the Golden Melody Awards ceremony, just like the rivalry between Tam and Cheung in Hong Kong back then.

But Warner is very ignorant. Not only did it not withdraw, it even promoted Zhou Yi's participation in the Golden Melody Awards and continued to exert public pressure on the organizing committee. This is somewhat unethical.

As the Golden Melody Awards have become more prestigious and successfully become the most prestigious award ceremony in the country, more and more people have set their sights on this piece of fat meat.

How many people still hope to gild themselves with the Golden Melody Awards?

Not to mention winning an award, at least one can get nominated for a Golden Melody Award, which will raise one's status, and the price of commercial performances and endorsements can go up again - this is the case with this year's Golden Melody Awards.

In addition to Zhou Yi, Jay Chou, and Chen Yixun, there are a few more people who rely on personal connections to get nominated.

This was squeezed in even though Zhou Yi alone had 14 nominations.

This is a real conflict of interest.

"This Professor Lai who keeps flattering you on the show was invited by those interested parties. Damn these bastards."

Qian Jiang, who noticed the change in public opinion, couldn't help but swear, and a bunch of bastards started to use underhanded tactics.

"Ayi, let me give you a heads up. Don't say anything like you won't fight anymore and you want to focus on overseas."

Qian Jiang, who was afraid that Zhou Yi would be provoked by this provocation, advised righteously: "To survive in the entertainment industry, you have to compete! People who don't compete don't need to survive in this circle. I'm leaving my words here, this is the truth."

Even if you let Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng debut in this era, they will still have to fight each other at major award ceremonies.

This is a means of accumulating status in the music industry and is also a necessary path to improving qualifications.

The battle between Tan and Zhang was so brutal that even their fans were really confused. Why didn't Tan and Zhang come out and say they would withdraw from the fight?
Not only did he not express his intention not to fight, but he fought even harder.

It’s because I haven’t gained enough qualifications.

After they had gained enough experience and achieved success, their respective agents arranged for them to withdraw from the awards ceremony. Zhou Yi had only been in the industry for more than three years, and he hadn't even won a few trophies, but Qian Jiang saw it as a clear intention for him to withdraw from the domestic awards ceremony.

There is too much uncertainty in foreign awards, and as a Chinese, Zhou Yi is naturally at a disadvantage in winning awards. How could he not take advantage of the height of his fame to reap a few domestic trophies?

What if I don’t win many trophies abroad in the future, and the domestic awards are put on hold because I said I would withdraw and I’m too embarrassed to go back and participate again, causing the Zhouyi Hall of Fame to look empty? Wouldn’t that be a crime?

As a professional broker, Qian Jiang would not allow this to happen.

He wants both trophies and sales, neither of which can be missing.

"Just follow the arrangements."

Zhou Yi, who had no interest in flattery, naturally would not go against his agent. On the contrary, he was quite curious about what Qian Jiang would do.

“First, the simplest thing is that we must not fall into the self-justification trap.

"If you get caught up in the conversation of explaining why you're not going to present an award, then we've fallen into a trap."

Qian Jiang sneered: "Since they want to flatter you, why not just do something big? Isn't there something about Zhouyi Yanxuan on the Internet? Take advantage of it."

Because Zhou Yi has quite a lot of scandals, and they are not limited to China, he also rides foreign horses. Some people with ulterior motives even compiled a list on the forum, calling it "Zhou Yi Strict Selection".

All women who have been photographed having scandals with Zhou Yi will be included.

Because of its entertaining nature, this list that was circulated from Tianya Forum was also reported by various entertainment media over time, making the concept of "Zhouyi Yanxuan" deeply rooted in people's hearts.

"The concept of 'Zhou Yi Yan Xuan' was directly used in this year's Golden Melody Awards, and you were portrayed as a real big devil. But this time, you are no longer strictly selecting women, but singers."

The Golden Melody Awards and even the first man in the history of Chinese pop music to dominate domestic awards as a big devil, the likes of Xie Tingfeng and Jay Chou are all things of the past, and they are just stumbling blocks on Zhou Yi's growth path.

When Zhou Yi finished growing up after three years, the Chinese music scene welcomed a real big devil.

The so-called golden song list is nothing more than the fixed challengers every year.

In this way, the older generation of singers, including Zhang Xueyou, were demoted to the younger generation out of thin air, and the Golden Melody Awards' current credibility, which was gradually climbing to a high point, was directly used to endorse Zhou Yi's unique status.

What biweekly or not? It was the past, and it is now.

Holy cutting.

"The only problem with this is that there is currently a lack of a signature phrase that can spark public opinion, preferably one that can motivate fans."

Qian Jiang briefly explained his idea: "But there is no rush. After all, the award ceremony will start tomorrow night. Let's see how the awards go first. If you get a lot, then follow this idea to avoid them from morally blackmailing you afterwards. I will go back and think about what direction to promote you in.

"Ayi, what do you think?"

If the Golden Melody Awards makes trouble and doesn't give Zhou Yi too many awards, then Qian Jiang will have to start questioning his credibility. This is easy to deal with - first drag out those people with connections as sacrifices, and then pull out Tao Zhe as a positive example.

"Thoughts? Big devils are too tacky. The public has seen too many Dragon Quest stories. Let's change the taste."

Zhou Yi tapped the table with his right index finger, thinking of the sentence that had not appeared yet -

"Genius is but the threshold to him."

(End of this chapter)