You've passed the college entrance examination, but can't you make it in the entertainment

Normally, the first few songs of a concert will be fast-paced songs so that the venue can quickly heat up.

LeYan opened several concerts held in mainland China with some of the main fast songs from his second album, and basically the whole audience started dancing after the second song.

Many of the fans who came to Hong Kong to watch the concert had attended the domestic shows. It is not surprising that die-hard fans will fly all over the country and the world to follow their idols.

As soon as the show started, this group of fans noticed something different.

"The opening song has changed?"

"I was about to sing 'I'm Not Tired At All', what song is this?"

“Not only is the opening song different, the stage design is different too!”

In the mainland venue, the first to appear are a group of dancers with big wings. LeYan will appear later by performing a "resurrection" trick.

The dancers came out first at the opening of today's show, but they didn't have exaggerated big wings. Instead, they wore white masks.

The live music and dim lights, combined with the large number of masked dancers, created a concert atmosphere that was both charming and psychedelic, which was very much in line with the audience's mood - curiosity and excitement about the unknown.

Suddenly, the accompaniment changed its pitch significantly. More than half of the audience screamed loudly, while the remaining few looked puzzled.

"What are you yelling about?" Some fans couldn't help but ask the screaming strangers around them.

"You are a fan from the mainland, right? This song is what we have been listening to since we were young, it's called "Mask"! It's so unexpected that Le Yan actually opened the show with this song!!"

Soon, Le Yan appeared in the middle of the stage.

Not only did the stage design and opening song change, but his costumes also changed in the Hong Kong show.

This made many fans who were following Le Yan cry with excitement.

"Brother is so hardworking! He has made so many changes for Hong Kong. I love him so much for being so strong!"

"What, is this match different from the one in the mainland?"

"It's completely different. Le Yan really prepared carefully."

“Ahhhhhh, Le Yan, we love you!!”

The screams from the audience were endless, no longer distinguishing between fans from the mainland or Hong Kong.

But as soon as Le Yan opened his mouth, the screams at the scene stopped again.
“Is this the original song?”

"Yu Daping was practicing his accent backstage, wasn't he?!"

“Oh my god, Leyan’s Cantonese singing is authentic!”

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Yu Daping rubbed his ears.

The song "Mask" that Le Yan sang at the beginning of the show was a song he released more than 20 years ago. It is also one of his many representative songs and is very popular in Hong Kong.

The voice coming from the live speakers was different from his in timbre, but the singing style was very similar to his, so fans recognized him as the original singer.

Cantonese songs, especially old Cantonese songs, cannot be sung well just by speaking Cantonese, which is why he is worried about LeYan.

The Cantonese songs of earlier years had their own logic in voice intonation, vocal position and breath. Even many local young singers couldn't sing with that flavor, but LeYan's singing was surprisingly "similar" to his!
Before Yu Daping's shock had subsided, another Hong Kong singer sitting next to him also started exclaiming.

"He is so brave that he didn't change the accompaniment and used the original version."

Yu Daping's attention was just on Le Yan's singing voice and charm, and he automatically ignored the accompaniment. After being reminded by the people next to him, he found that Le Yan actually used the original accompaniment without making any changes.

Usually, in order to create differences and avoid comparisons, singers will make changes to the beat and rhythm when covering a song.

If the adaptation is good, it will become a new generation classic; if the adaptation is not good, it will be regarded as a tribute to the original singer.

In short, it must be different from the original version.

But today, LeYan seems to be aiming to be the original singer in every aspect, without making any changes from his voice to the background music.

Soon, Yu Daping's guess was confirmed.

Because the show sang three old Cantonese songs in a row at the beginning, Le Yan did not make any changes to the music and his singing style was very close to the original.

From a physiological point of view, Yu Daping felt very happy when he heard it!
These old songs in his memory were sung by Le Yan with a high degree of authenticity, which made him, an old Hong Konger, feel very comfortable.

But while applauding, Yu Daping also had a question mark in his mind.

What is the purpose of LeYan’s design?

The audience in the audience doesn't think as much as the professional singers do.

Whatever the original version or the adaptation, what matters most is that it sounds and looks beautiful to me.

Le Yan’s performance was very close to the original singer’s perfect performance, which made countless Hong Kong fans excited.

They have no sense of distance with Le Yan who is attending a public event in Hong Kong for the first time. It feels like Le Yan is very close to their lives!
Fans from other regions were also very excited.

LeYan is so good. Even though I can’t understand what he’s saying, he looks so cool. Look, these locals are going crazy with it!
After singing the opening few songs, LeYan started the first interactive session.

He first greeted everyone in Cantonese, then told a few jokes that only locals could understand, and mingled with local fans. It didn't look like he was performing a concert here for the first time.

In order to show his familiarity with all walks of life in Hong Kong, Le Yan also specially introduced his colleagues who came to the concert this time.

When the big screen showed the famous artists in Hong Kong, the local fans were even happier.
"Le Yan seems to be born and raised here. Could his profile be fake?"

"Is his hometown here?"

"With so many big stars coming to show their support, Le Yan's status in the industry is extraordinary!"

Le Yan took the initiative to send the tickets to the big stars. These artists thought that their mission tonight was just to watch the performance, but they didn't expect the staff to hand them the microphone.

These netizens of Le Yan all hope that Le Yan can spend more time in Hong Kong, so they naturally praised him and tried their best to show Hong Kong's enthusiasm and welcome to him.

The enthusiastic speeches of these big stars made the local fans even happier.

"I feel more and more that Le Yan and we are a family!"

"My brother often comes to Hong Kong for activities!"

"Come more often, don't let us miss you!!"

Le Yan shyly waved to the audience:

"I'll miss you too."

"Waaaaa——" the 'frog sounds' were heard again from the audience.

"I have a special feeling for Hong Kong. I often say that this is my blessed land. I like the culture and the pace of life here. Of course, more importantly," Le Yan stretched out his right hand and turned around, "I like you guys."

LeYan makes this speech once in every city, but sweet talk is his killer move, and everyone knows it.

The audience and guests were all confused by the love potion and cheered desperately.

"It's a pity that I have never released a Cantonese song. What I just sang were classic songs by other teachers, but I have written Cantonese songs. Please allow me to sing them for you."

The lights dimmed again, and Le Yan lowered his head to catch his breath. At the same time, a scene from the TV series "Sweet Honey" appeared on the big screen.

"No matter how cold or warm it is, I look back through so many autumns, and I have searched for it but it is lost, yet it is in my hand without me even waiting for it."

"I don't get it, I can't explain the gains and losses, the mistakes and omissions, I just heard and saw it and changed it, I don't know where to trace it"

The waves caused by "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" in Hong Kong are no less than those in the mainland, because it tells a local story of Hong Kong and depicts the mental journey of countless new Hong Kong people of the older generation who have come to Hong Kong from the mainland to work since the reform and opening up.

With the popularity of the TV series, the soundtrack "What Do You Want in Life" with its strong ancient flavor has been praised by countless people.

The magic of the song generally brings everyone back to the scenes of decades ago.

This song is an interlude composed by Le Yan for the TV series "Sweet Honey". In the TV series, the singer is a female singer, who interprets the emotions of the song from the perspective of the heroine Li Qiao.

But Le Yan's singing, combined with the big screen on the scene, brought the audience to the perspective of the male protagonist Li Xiaojun, a young man who also left his hometown, worked hard in Hong Kong for decades, and was unsatisfied in love and career.

"What do I want in life? I often decide to give up and have. I spend my whole life trying to find what I can't. I've already thrown it away."

"What do I want in life? I can never see through the confusion. I didn't expect that what I lost was everything I had."

All of a sudden, everyone realized that the white shirt Le Yan was wearing at the moment was the same one that Li Xiaojun often wore in the TV series.

At the same time, everyone realized that "What Do I Want in Life" seems to be more touching when sung by a boy?

Le Yan’s youthful voice expresses the emotion in the song to the extreme, that is, one is faced with a difficult situation but does not stop pursuing dreams and happiness. Isn’t this also the situation of Li Xiaojun, and also the situation of our ancestors and parents?

Moreover, Le Yan's singing style and tune did not distract everyone from the show at all. It seemed that "What Do I Want in Life" was a product produced decades ago in response to that special era.

"Le Yan really understands us well."

“One must understand that era and ourselves very well to write about the flavor of that era.”

After singing "What Do I Want in Life", Le Yan immediately continued with "Sweet Honey".

The appearance of the Mandarin song did not break the harmonious atmosphere. The audience was still fascinated and followed Le Yan into his anywhere door.

"Sweet honey, your smile is so sweet, just like flowers blooming in the spring breeze, blooming in the spring breeze"

At this moment, Yu Daping, the original singer of "Sweet Honey" in this era, finally understood Le Yan's good intentions.

If you want to integrate into a new environment, you must first integrate into their culture and history.

LeYan is proving to the fans in Hong Kong that they are really a family.

The family didn't say a word.

The ingenious design of LeYan's concert not only captured the hearts of all the audience, but also influenced the pens of Hong Kong media.

The impression that Hong Kong media leaves on Chinese people is that they have a 'high degree of freedom of speech'. To put it simply, they often make critical or even challenging remarks, and the headlines are even more disgusting, such as "The King of Pop is in a hurry to marry a young model with an attractive figure" and so on.

But this time, facing LeYan’s Hong Kong concert, all these media were lenient.

They reported more on the integration of LeYan and Hong Kong.

Le Yan doesn't look like an outsider at all. From every aspect, he looks like he was born here!
Just like Zhang Yan said, how easy is it to truly seize the Hong Kong market?

If it were really that simple, why would Hong Kong's entertainment industry be so 'closed' that it discourages mainland artists from entering?

But the ingenious designs at LeYan's concert slowly eroded the thin wall separating the two sides, allowing him to truly walk in.

Through "Sweet Honey", Le Yan became well-known to the public as an actor. Through this concert, everyone's perception of him is:

Le Yan is a young artist who is good at singing, dancing and acting.

Please note. There is no modifier before artist.

He is not the mainland artist Le Yan, but the artist Le Yan.

With this huge change of breaking the wall, LeYan has entered the lives of more Hong Kong locals.

Fans in Hong Kong have really been hungry for a long time, because the entertainment industry has a lack of young people. They have been eating simple meals for too many years and have attracted many people from young men to octogenarians.

Finally I can eat meat!
A week after the concert, LeYan topped the list of Hong Kong's new generation of young artists.

This list has been established for 15 years, and this is the first time that a mainland artist has appeared in the top five.

Half a month after the concert, due to the rapid growth of the fan base in Hong Kong, LeYan, which had already ended its activities in Hong Kong, officially announced that it would add three more shows in Hong Kong.

One month after the concert, Le Yan's second round of concerts in Hong Kong was held as scheduled. Due to the tight ticket sales, a large number of people could not get tickets and held demonstrations, accusing the ticketing platform of cheating behind the scenes. With the coordination and promotion of the government, Le Yan's concerts in Hong Kong were increased from three to seven.

Including the two concerts held last month, LeYan has held 9 concerts in Hong Kong in one year, which broke the record for the number of concerts held in Hong Kong in a single year.

Two months after his first concert in Hong Kong, LeYan completed all of his concert tours for the year.

The final concert was held in Kyoto, where more than 300 celebrities including company leaders, industry leaders, and socialites gathered at the closing ceremony.

At the end of the closing concert, a huge three-layer cake was pushed onto the stage with a candle with the number '2' on it.

"Today, I want to announce good news to everyone."

After three months of training, LeYan could face the 8 spectators in the Kyoto Stadium without blushing or getting nervous, and his whole state was no different from his private state.

When the audience heard that LeYan was going to announce the news, they cheered enthusiastically and waited for his announcement with anticipation.

Le Yan looked at the cake and said calmly:
"As of yesterday, my total number of fans on the Internet officially exceeded 2 million. This number has broken another record in the Chinese entertainment industry."

The audience was in an uproar.

The past three months have been the peak period for LeYan to break various records. He can hardly keep up with all the good news posted by the fan site in the super topic.

But the record of the whole network data
Everyone opened their phones and counted on their fingers:

There are more than 4600 million fans on Weibo, and the total number of fans on short video platforms such as Kaito is 7000 million. If we count some miscellaneous platforms, the total number of fans should not exceed 1 million. Where did the remaining 5 million come from?

"It's from the external network!" a fan reacted.

After being reminded, many fans brought ladders.

"Oh my god, LeYan has over 4200 million followers on Instagram!"

"I checked it out a few months ago and it was only 800 million. How come it has increased so fast?"

"This number of fans is 10 times higher than the second-ranked Chinese artist!"

"4200 million, all artists in Asia can be ranked at the top!"

At this time, another exclamation sounded from the audience:

"4200 million? Isn't this almost catching up with the number of fans in China?"

There will be some overlap in the number of fans on various domestic platforms. Looking at the highest platform, Weibo's 4600 is a reference number.

The domestic data rate is only 4600, while the external data rate is already 4200. Isn't this going to overtake the US soon?!

"In the future, I will devote some of my energy to activities abroad." Le Yan said firmly, "I will work hard to bring honor to the Chinese people. Everyone is waiting for my good news at home!" (End of this chapter)