China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 356 New Album - Chinese Style (-in-)

After finally resting for a while, Lu Yuan felt a little uncomfortable.

Only three days passed.

He was busy again, but he stayed at home and was busy.

As a professional singer, how can you live without a music studio?

An underground area of ​​nearly 200 square meters was transformed by Lu Yuan into a comprehensive workshop, with all kinds of first-line music equipment and equipment.

Having nothing to do, Lu Yuan simply made out the demo for his fourth Chinese album.

According to the previous naming principles, the fourth Chinese album should be named "The Future Can Be Expected" or "The Journey is Coming".

This corresponds exactly to the saying, "The road is long and full of obstacles, but it will come soon if we keep going. If we keep going, we will have a bright future."

But fans have already guessed it.

How could Lu Yuan continue to follow this rule?

A name must be changed.

He, King Lu Tian, ​​doesn’t want to lose face?

The overall style of the fourth Chinese album is Chinese style.

Lu Yuan's choice of Chinese style was actually a bit selfish.

Although the domestic media praised him very highly, his family knew his own affairs.

Those English songs are not cultural exports.

The songs Lu Yuan sang were originally "King of Gu" from thousands of European and American fine songs, and the core was still Western.

Lu Yuan knew this, and knowledgeable media people also knew it. Everyone knew it, but no one mentioned it.

After all, cultural soft power does not correspond to a certain person, but to the comprehensive strength of a country.

Economics, politics, science and technology, culture and other fields never exist in isolation. They influence and penetrate each other.

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan and Korea, exquisite, the core behind them is the competition of comprehensive national strength.

In the 90s, Chinese people opened their eyes to see the world. At that time, it was the golden age of the Japanese and Korean economies. The gap in national income was not several times, but dozens of times.

Cultural unconfidence reflects economic problems.

That's why so many spiritual little days and sticks were born. With the development of the domestic economy, the number of Japanese and Korean groups has obviously decreased.

But there is still a lot of beauty.

After all, the gap in national power does exist objectively.

But the gap between the two sides is no longer as big as it was more than ten or twenty years ago.

The people at the bottom of America are also miserable and unhappy.

Why are gold medal lecturers so popular?

Why let a large number of Run people break the defense?

Because of curiosity.

Let others see a different America.

It turns out that America is not full of sweet air. The slums are even less dirty and messy than some rural areas in the country.

The air in Laomei is not necessarily all sweet, it may also smell like hemp leaves.

And Lu Yuan is just a person, a small person. He has no way to spread Hua all over the world unless he has a modifier.

Force everyone to listen to his songs.

However, taking a step back, there is still a way to save the country through curves.

He can't influence everyone, but he can influence his fans.

Just like the previous album "Keep Going", this album also sold more than two million copies in non-Chinese-speaking areas.

Excluding some overseas Chinese, there are at least hundreds of thousands of foreigners who bought this album.

Compared with his huge fan base, this number may be low, but the cumulative effect is that it affects one person after another.

However, this album has a shortcoming. The translation work will be very difficult, as difficult as a bald head.

Because this album focuses on poetry adaptations!

Poetry translation has always been a difficult and pain point in translation work.

To give the simplest example, take the name of the new album.

"Illuminating the Past and the Present" (album title) - [Today's people cannot see the ancient moon, but this month once illuminated the ancients] (subtitle).

How to translate this sentence to foreigners?

Literal translation?

Without context, how can foreigners understand the beauty and meaning?

How to translate faithfully and elegantly is also a technical job, no less than secondary creation.

Anyway, Lu Yuan felt he couldn't handle it, so he planned to leave the translation work to others.

Let the big guys in the translation industry have a headache.

The fourth album, "Looking at the Past and the Present", still has ten songs.

The first song "Young Chinese Story" is adapted from "Young Chinese Story" written by Liang Qichao and comes from the poetry and music culture program "Classic Chant and Spread" of CCTV Comprehensive Channel.

Er Shui is responsible for the arrangement and lyrics, Xu Song composes the music, and Zhang Jie sings.

The main theme of "Classic Chant and Spread" is to combine Chinese classical poetry with modern pop music, which is very consistent with the theme of "Looking at the Past and the Present".

In fact, popular songs adapted from ancient poems have always existed. Many of Teresa Teng’s classic songs are adapted from poems.

The second song in the album, "Qing Ping Diao", is a single collaborated with Teresa Teng.

The first version of "Qingping Diao" was derived from the second volume of Teresa Teng's ancient poetry album - "Spring Dreams and Autumn Clouds".

This album is the second part of the first ancient poetry album "A Touch of Love", which also contains twelve Tang poems and Song lyrics.

The poems had been selected and most of the songs had been composed, but before recording, Teresa Teng passed away thousands of miles away.

"Qingping Diao" is a song in "Spring Dreams and Autumn Clouds", taken from Li Bai's "Three Qingping Diao Ci".

"The clouds are like clothes, the flowers are like faces, the spring breeze is blowing on the threshold, and the dew is thick. If we hadn't seen it on the top of the jade mountain, we would have met under the moon on Yaotai..."

This song is also the only DEMO work left in Teresa Teng's second poetry album "Spring Dreams and Autumn Clouds".

Its copyright is now in the hands of Universal Music. With Lu Yuan's relationship with Universal Music, there is no obstacle to a collaboration that spans history.

The cross-century cooperation happens to reflect the album title "(A Bright Moon) Illuminating the Past and the Present".

The third song, "Do you know, do you know", a collaboration between Hu Xia and Yu Kewei, is adapted from Li Qingzhao's "Like a Dream: Last Night Rained and Winded Up".

This song is the theme song of "Do you know whether you should be red, fat, green and thin"? The drama is popular, and the song is also popular.

The fourth song "Once Upon a Time Slow" is adapted from the poem "Once Upon a Time Slow" by the contemporary painter, writer and poet Mu Xin.

"In the past, the sun became slower, cars, horses, and mail were all slower. There was only enough time to love one person in a lifetime..."

The original song comes from "Chinese Good Songs Season 2" and was composed by student Liu Huyi.

The fifth song "Splashing Ink" is from Zhou Huajian's album "Jianghu" released in 13. The lyrics of this song are very interesting.

The first half of the lyrics is almost an allusion.

"Grape wine, luminous cup

Li Baiyue, Zhang Liangzhui

Sima Xiangru, Shang Linyan

Huo Qubing, blood stained back

Moling Spring, Moling Rain

Take pictures of the tide in the empty city of Xiling,

Dongpo laughs, Chen Tuan sleeps..."

The first sentence comes from "Liangzhou Ci" by Wang Han of the Tang Dynasty. There is a luminous cup of grape wine. If you want to drink, you will be reminded to play the pipa immediately. Don't laugh while you are drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times.

The second sentence is taken from Li Bai's "Mo Make the Golden Zun Empty to the Moon" and "The Family of Liuhou" in Volume 55 of Historical Records.

Sima Xiangru and Huo Qubing are easy to understand, "Moling Spring, Baling Rain", the former refers to Empress Li.

The latter comes from Yuan Dynasty poet Zhang Yu's "Guoge Fengtai", "Who doesn't think about the long live forever, where are the ancient emperors?" The berry moss stone carvings look like this now, and there have been several autumn winds and rains in Baling.

Ge Feng Terrace is located in Peixian County, Suzhou Province. This poem talks about the change of dynasties and refers to Liu Bang.

The picture of the empty city in Xiling is taken from "Five Titles of Jinling: Stone City" by Liu Yuxi.

"The mountains surround the motherland, and the tide beats the empty city and returns lonely. In the old days on the east side of the Huaihe River, the moon comes late at night." All refer to the rise of dynasties and the changes in the world.

[Dongpo laughs, Chen Tuan sleeps], the first half of the sentence comes from Su Dongpo's "Niannujiao·Chibi Nostalgic" "My hometown is wandering, I am sentimental, I should laugh at me, I was born early, life is like a dream, a bottle returns the moon on the river".

Like a dream, it corresponds to Chen Tuan sleeping.

One song borrows dozens of allusions, and the lyricist Zhang Dachun is indeed awesome.

Unfortunately, this song is not very popular.

There are very few people listening to it, and its popularity is not high.

If it were his first album, Lu Yuan would definitely not put it in casually, but with his current celebrity status, putting a few songs that are not so popular in one album will not affect his status at all.

The sixth song "Su Muzhe" is adapted from Fan Zhongyan's "Su Muzhe Nostalgia".

The music was composed by Jin Zhiwen and sung by Zhang Xiaotang, a guzheng player from the China Opera and Dance Theater.

This song was released in 12 and was not popular at that time. It was not until or when short videos became popular that the song became popular.

The seventh song is "Phoenix Flying".

Liu Huan wrote the lyrics, composed the music, and sang, "Phoenix Flying" was originally the ending theme of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

However, now there is no trace of the crew of "The Legend of Zhen Huan". Director Zheng Xiaolong is filming a period drama.

The film and television copyright of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is in the hands of Xingchen Media.

The kind that presses the bottom of the box.

Not only "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but also the film and television rights of "Step by Step" are also owned by Xingchen Media, but Boss Lu is not planning to make a Qing palace drama.

Anyway, copyright is cheap to buy.

Just be idle.

The eighth song "Last Night's Book" is also from "The Legend of Classic Chant" and is adapted from Yue Fei's poem "Xiao Chong Mountain: Last Night the Cold Hibernation Can't Stop Crying".

Xu Song wrote the lyrics (adaptation part), Xu Song composed the music, and Xu Song sang.

The ninth song "Uncommon Words" was released in 90 by a young man born in the 17s. In 19, it became a hit on the short video platform.

The evaluation of this song also has a polarizing trend. Like the song "Su Muzhe", many people criticized the lyrics as just a deliberate overlapping of rhetoric.

But it cannot be denied that "Su Muzhe" and "Uncommon Words" are popular songs all over the country.

(PS: Back then, my nephew was still a primary school student and sang this song every day during winter vacation)

What's wrong with the drool?

There are so many works that can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people.

The tenth song "Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales" is the theme song of the large-scale documentary "Forbidden City".

Fang Wenshan wrote the lyrics, Wang Lihong composed the music, and Wang Lihong sang.

Boss Lu gathered the wool on his second brother's head again. Although the song "Floating to the North" he gathered last time was not sung by himself.

But it is also one of Wang Lihong’s masterpieces.

After selecting the track, Lu Yuan immediately started making the demo. Although he had the original song in his mind, he still had to put some thought into the arrangement.

He is not going to do the arrangement of this album all by himself.

no way.

not enough time.

Starting from mid-August, he will embark on the [On the Road] world tour. Even if he can occasionally find time, he will not be able to do it all.

Therefore, the arranger can only provide specific ideas, and leave the rest to others.

Xiao Ke, Zhou Zhihua (soundtrack arranger for the Fairy Sword game series and the Ancient Sword series), Zhang Yadong, Xu Song and others were among those invited.

Although the styles of these people are different, with Boss Lu as the mediator, the final product will not look different.

In fact, after Lu Yuan selected these ten songs, he probably anticipated what would happen after the album was released.

The evaluation of this album in the industry is definitely not bad.

But can it be a big hit on the sales side?

He couldn't be sure.

Even though there are quite a few hit songs in "The Past and the Present", he still has no bottom.

……

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three days later.

Yuan Tao rushed to the Magic City from Yanjing.

Since Shanda acquired Hurraywood, his life has not been easy either.

Shanda was very dissatisfied with the contract signed by Yuan Tao.

A contract opened on September 1st?

And it was only signed for three years.

Next year, the contract between Huayi Music and Lu Yuan will expire. With this contract in place, if Shanda wants to renew the contract, how can there be room for negotiation?

If Lu Yuan hadn't terminated the contract, Shanda would have sold Huayi Music's shares long ago.

Because Huayi Music is inconsistent with Shanda’s strategy.

Shanda's big entertainment strategy focuses on online, and digital music is the future. Traditional record companies like Huayi Music are not what Boss Chen loves.

What age is it?

Still playing physical records?

"Brother Tao, long time no see."

After the two met, Lu Yuan smiled and said hello.

"We haven't seen each other for a while."

Yuan Tao smiled happily and looked at the surrounding environment while walking.

Jiujiantang is not well-known in the outside world, but the owners of this community are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Environment, nothing to say.

It's private enough, but it's really expensive.

More than 80,000 per square meter.

A random villa costs 30 to 40 million.

The two walked around the community for a while, and Lu Yuan smiled and made a suggestion.

"Brother Tao, when the contract period is over, are you interested in joining Starlight Records?"

In the past few years, he and Yuan Tao have been working well together, and Starlight Records also needs a comprehensive helmsman.

"Are you poaching?"

"Yes." Lu Yuan chuckled and said calmly: "When the contract period ends, I plan to meet with Mr. Chen to discuss the acquisition."

"If everything goes well, I will promote the merger of Starlight Records and Huayi Music."

There are still three points left to break the boat. Even though Huayi Music doesn’t have any popular singers now, Huayi Music’s copyright library is still worth some money.

If you want to acquire Huayi Music, you will definitely not be able to negotiate without 6000-7000 million.

This is still the price after Lu Yuan's contract expires.

If it were now, without 100 million, Boss Chen of Shanda would not even look at it seriously.

"merge?"

Yuan Tao pondered for a moment and said: "If it is a merger, just give me the position of vice president."

As the record company with the strongest development momentum in the mainland, Starlight Records certainly has its own direct lineage.

Although Yuan Tao is senior, he directly takes over the leadership position, which will make Starlight Records' direct line members somewhat uncomfortable.

Therefore, Yuan Tao took the initiative to take a step back to avoid Lu Yuan's difficulty.

As for the question of whether the acquisition can be completed?

Yuan Tao was not worried at all.

To put it bluntly, Lu Yuan could complete the acquisition with just one endorsement fee.

Coca-Cola's sky-high $1200 million/year endorsement was hidden from outsiders, but not from his own family.

(End of this chapter)