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

Chapter 682: Five Cities Today, Ten Cities Tomorrow

"This is definitely hype."

As Zhou Yi's agent, Qian Jiang was the first person to receive the news from the United States. With just one glance, this experienced veteran saw the trick behind it.

He is so familiar.

Isn’t this how Zhou Yi used to create hype before his album was released?

As the only man whose global album sales can rival Zhou Yi in the past few years, if Zhou Yi hadn't suppressed his global sales of more than 20 million, he would probably be the real number one.

As a top star in the American entertainment industry, Eminem also has the image of a ruffian who curses everything.

"Let's hype it up. He needs to warm up and so do I. If we go head to head, we'll see who wins in the end."

After finishing the interview with Dongfeng TV, Zhou Yi smiled as he took off his suit jacket, rolled up the cuffs of his white shirt, and unbuttoned a few buttons: "With his personality of wanting to ride on the popularity of others, who knows, when the album is released, he might be scolded even more than me."

Ordinary American people probably can't understand the meaning of his album, but they can definitely understand the satire of Michael Jackson in Eminem's album.

If he remembered correctly, in the album "Encore", in order to take advantage of the popularity of Michael Jackson's lawsuit, Eminem spent a lot of space in the MV of a song to mock the pop king of the last century who was no longer at the peak of his career, and was boycotted and insulted by Michael Jackson's fans for this.

But even so, Eminem still relied on his own super high popularity and the quality of the album to achieve sales of more than 70 copies in the United States in the first week, and even achieved a terrifying sales record of 87 copies in the second week.

The sales volume in three weeks directly equals the performance of other singers in half a year or even a year.

This was the year 2004, a year when the physical record industry in the United States and even the world officially entered its decline.

For a white person to reach the top of the hip-hop field, it can only be said that he is very powerful.

Of course, despite the good results, the satire against Michael Jackson in the album still made Eminem overwhelmed in public opinion. At that time, he only needed to add fuel to the fire a little - he had been waiting for Eminem to take the bait.

Given this man's penchant for riding on the hype, Zhou Yi knew he would definitely target him when he started promoting his album this year, just like he would definitely not miss out on hyping up Eminem when he released his album.

In the eyes of European and American audiences and even the media, the two of them had long been tied together because of their previous series of battles.

To this end, he made sufficient preparations for his new album early on.

Michael Jackson, as a representative figure of funk music in the last century, became the king of funk albums. Although he has lost his glory after entering the 21st century, he still has a large audience for his songs. This group of people has the purchasing power for high-quality funk music and is completely worth attracting.

That's why he chose to include funk in his new album.

When both albums are released, the fans of Eminem and him will be 1vs1. But Eminem scolded Michael Jackson, but he not only did not scold him, but instead produced a fine funk song to win the hearts of the people. It is easy to lead the trend in this regard and unite Michael Jackson's fans to suppress Eminem.

It's about forming alliances and making coalitions.

The wisdom of our ancestors, boy.

Zhou Yi, who had his full map turned on, had no intention of preparing for battle like Qian Jiang did, and was even quite relaxed - he was very curious about how Eminem would feel when everyone's albums were released and he saw that there were still "abandoned" funk songs in his album.

Small opening does not count as opening.

"Oh, by the way, Ayi, the Warner Bros. Films you asked me to look into are currently building theaters all over the country. They don't seem to be planning to withdraw. Are you sure you want to continue to contact them?"

After finishing the business, Qian Jiang, who felt that paying attention to Warner movies was a waste of time, still told Zhou Yi his judgment.

Because there was no replacement when the family split up, his relationship with his acquaintances at Warner Bros. cannot be said to have started over again, but at least it can be said that they are still connected.

"Just keep in touch. Just pay the necessary expenses through my account."

Zhou Yi didn't pay much attention to it and casually gave a very reasonable reason: "Time Warner's management is old and confused, and its financial situation is getting worse and worse. Sooner or later, they will abandon the domestic Warner Cinema Line because it can make money and look good in the financial report, just like the global record business."

A company on the rise can allow large losses to appear in its financial statements, but a consortium on the decline cannot. Time Warner's sale of its global record business is proof that it is gradually unable to cope.

Qian Jiang understood this reason very well, after all, he was an eyewitness.

There are all kinds of infighting within Time Warner, between subsidiaries and between departments of subsidiaries. Sometimes he even doubts how Time Warner is still alive.

From Zhou Yi's perspective, after witnessing the chaos at the US headquarters, it is not a bad thing to prepare for a rainy day.

"Okay, I'll continue to help you follow up."

Qian Jiang is not a person who is short of money now: "Also, after returning to the capital, the guy named Han from the Central Film Studio wants to meet you, do you want to meet him?"

China Film Group?

Mountain eagle?
Zhou Yi looked at him in surprise: "He wants to see me? I don't think I have any business dealings with him?"

"He didn't say anything specific, he just asked. I think it should be about "Hero." Qian Jiang was also unsure and guessed.

After two years of delay, Hero finally agreed to release in the United States, distributed by Miramax, on August 2004, 8. This time was exactly when Zhou Yi was promoting his album in the United States.

"Maybe he wants to build a relationship with you and ask you to help promote it?" "He's quite attentive."

Zhou Yi chuckled and didn't care too much.

There may be many things about Zuoshandiao that make people despicable, but it must be said that in terms of promoting the development of Chinese commercial films, this man is worthy of his position.

"By the way, what happened between you and Yanzi? Did you have a fight? Why do I feel like she's been avoiding you lately? After the Golden Melody Awards?"

"Oh, it's not a big deal. She drank too much that night and got drunk. She stood on tiptoe and kissed me. After she sobered up, she stuttered."

——? !

Qian Jiang was stunned, then his eyes widened: "Ah?"

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"Ah what?! I'm serious!"

Taiwan, Sun Yanzi Apartment.

Sun Yanzi, who was curled up in bed with her head buried in the pillow, muttered like a spoiled child: "I don't know what happened myself. I just thought that the atmosphere was right, I drank a lot of wine, and I accidentally tripped and fell into his arms..."

“…Oh, what a coincidence.”

On the other end of the phone, Sun Yanzi was immediately furious at her bestie's emotionless tone.

"Okay, okay, I admit it. I just couldn't help it at the right time, and my foot just happened to slip."

"You slipped at the perfect time. Have you watched too many idol dramas?"

"I'm not telling you this so you can be sarcastic to me!!!"

Do we have to get to the bottom of this?!

Whenever Sun Yanzi thinks back to this incident, he feels as if there are two balls of fire burning on his face, and his ears are burning red.

"I don't dare to see him now. Every time I see him in the company, I will inexplicably think of the embarrassing moment I had when I got drunk that night."

It's a mistake to drink!
"You are so awesome. You can even get drunk with beer."

The bestie continued to read without any emotion: "Why don't you say that you are so bold? Alcohol makes cowards brave."

"You're the coward! I'm not a coward at all!"

Like a British shorthair cat whose tail was stepped on, Sun Yanzi instantly raised his head, leaned close to the phone and grinned.

"Let me ask you, what is Zhou Yi's reaction?"

The timely question from her bestie prevented a fight from starting. Sun Yanzi, whose attention was diverted instantly, lay back on the pillow, grumbling with drooping eyes: "He would also tease me, saying that if he had known earlier that he would have let me get drunk before filming the MV for "Fairy Tale", there wouldn't have been so many NGs."

"That looks okay."

"?"

"Are you stupid? Isn't he saying this to help you out? He's afraid that you'll be embarrassed, so he's taking the initiative to shoot the "Fairy Tale" MV?"

On the other end of the phone, the best friend was very disappointed: "Didn't you talk about the Thirty-Six Stratagems very well before? How come you don't know any of them now? Think about it, if Zhou Yi didn't care about you, with the speed at which his scandal was generated, would you still be shy about this forced kiss?
"If he didn't have feelings for you, he wouldn't have brought barbecue back for you the night Akina Nakamori went to the Golden Melody Awards."

"...It seems so - huh? No! What forced kiss! I just slipped accidentally! Slipped! Don't add to the plot without my permission!"

"Have you heard of the theory of ceding the city, Yan Zi?" The best friend ignored his stubbornness and offered some advice.

"what?"

"Today you will cede five cities, tomorrow you will cede ten cities, and then you will have a good night's sleep. You have now used the alcohol you drank that night to break through the safety boundary between you and Zhou Yi. What you need to do next is to increase the emotional weight in his heart step by step..."

Sun Yanzi scratched his head, and a hair stood up due to static electricity: "Isn't that "The Theory of Six Kingdoms"? "

"...That's not important. I didn't ask you to memorize the source, I asked you to learn it!"

The bestie gritted her teeth and said, "It's obvious that it's normal for a man of Zhou Yi's age to be unrepentant. What you need to do is to increase the proportion of yourself in his daily life, test him step by step, and make it impossible for him to leave you without any psychological burden like he treats other women..."

"Hiss...it seems to make sense."

Like Inspector Megure who is listening to the sleeping Mouri Kogoro solving a case, Sun Yanzi rubbed his chin with his index finger and thumb, nodded frequently, and from time to time there was a look of sudden enlightenment between his lively eyebrows.

(End of this chapter)