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Han Feng, the main person in charge of CCTV's entertainment department, found Fan Wubing through Deputy Director Chen and exchanged questions about "The Same Song" with him.

From 1993 to 1994, the changes in the pop music scene have been obvious. Campus folk songs began to appear in a turbulent manner, bringing a great impact to people's entertainment life.

Currently, there are two relatively large forces in the domestic entertainment industry. One is the New Silk Road Entertainment Company founded by Fan Wubing, and the other is the major audio and video entertainment companies with Guangzhou as the base camp.

Guangdong has three special economic zones, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Shantou. It is not only a bridgehead in the national reform and opening up process, but also a frontier for the transmission of advanced Western productivity, concepts and culture.

As the capital of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou not only attracts a large number of industrial labor, but also attracts a large number of literary and artistic talents to develop due to its open literary and artistic thinking and strong economic strength, which has led to unprecedented prosperity in Guangdong's cultural industry and made it difficult for a city in Beijing to digest the phenomenon of cultural talents across the country. Because of the development of this new cultural base, more talents can get the opportunity to play their strengths, and to a certain extent, it has ensured the diversified development of the Chinese literary and artistic circles after the reform and opening up.

With policy openness and economic guarantees, Guangdong pop music quickly developed rapidly due to economic driving. The unique advantages of being adjacent to Hong Kong have given Guangdong pop music a good reference from the beginning, so that without taking too many detours, it has reached a relatively mature industrial height.

Guangdong Audio-Video, Pacific Audio-Video Company, China Record Company, Guangzhou Baiswan Audio-Video and other companies have successively launched their own star-making plans and soon launched singers such as Chen Ming, Gao Linsheng, Gan Ping, Mao Ning, Lin Yilun, Chen Shaohua, Huofeng and Li Jin, thus allowing Guangdong pop music to sing all over the country.

The way for Guangdong pop music to win at that time was that it learned from the signing mechanism and promotion methods of Hong Kong pop music. However, in terms of music, it was just like the Guangdong economy at that time. It was not only not limited to Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music styles, but even had stronger regional tolerance than Beijing pop music.

The combination of music and culture is also because the latter has a strong foundation for mainland China, and soon the mainland pop music, which started late, has a trend that surpassed the Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music at that time. Of course, the spread of these local original songs also benefited from the popularity of karaoke at that time.

Whether it is a professional karaoke cabaret or a private room in some small restaurants, in high-end or civilian singing equipment, countless people are in the combination of amateur singers and music lovers. Because of their strong sense of participation, pop music has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Hanfeng had met Fan Wubing before, but he had no close friends. This time, it was also for work. He wanted to share his views with this heavyweight original creator who is an unknown but has a transcendent status in the Chinese music scene.

After hearing Han Feng's compliment to him, Fan Wubing felt a little embarrassed.

He knows his own affairs, and he sang a little more karaoke in his previous life, so many classic songs can be used with ease. He is not a talented person, but a kind of person who has musical cells and feet.

"Fan is really sorry for Brother Han's praise, it's just a game." Fan Wubing said with a haha.

Han Feng thought to himself that this person was too unauthorized. If any of your random game works could occupy the commanding heights of the music industry, then we are all eating and drinking? But he naturally couldn't say such words.

Because Old Chen reminded him that Fan Wubing is not only the boss of New Silk Road Entertainment Company, but also the boss of many large companies. He is extremely valuable and has an unmatched position in the business world, not to mention that his father is now a powerful figure at the ministerial level. Such a person is not affordable to ordinary people.

Han Feng really had no intention of provoking Fan Wubing. He wanted to discuss with Fan Wubing about adding campus folk songs to the program "Same Song".

Although CCTV provides an audio-visual platform for the "Same Song" column, their role and status in the column are extremely limited. Basically, the song "Same Song" is decided by the New Silk Road Entertainment Company. The resources they possess are very scarce, that is, the right to dividends.

If they want to add their relationship to the show, they must communicate with Fan Wubing in this regard. Whether they succeed or not depends on how they are feeling here.

"Campus folk song--" Fan Wubing touched his chin after hearing Han Feng's words, and asked with a squinted eye, "This seems to be a bit in conflict with the company's entertainment direction, right? It's not that easy to arrange."

The rise of campus folk songs also has several representative works in China, such as Lao Lang's "You, the Deskmate", and Li Chunbo's "A Letter to Home", but the most popular song of the year is Li Chunbo's "Xiaofang".

The popularity of the song "Xiaofang" really made Fan Wubing feel a little emotional. Pop music is indeed a thing that keeps pace with the times and public needs.

Last year, "Xiaofang" became popular all over the country. Because of its popularity, urban folk songs emerged in the pop music scene, and then led to the campus folk songs. Li Chunbo, who was responsible for the lyrics and songs of "Xiaofang", became the most popular in the Chinese pop music scene.

Before 1992, Li Chunbo was a bass player in a small band, and his life was in a downturn, and no one cared about the songs he wrote. As soon as Li Chunbo came to Guangdong, he found musician Zhu Derong to help him produce "Xiaofang". After the production, he looked for record companies everywhere to publish, and several record companies were unwilling to publish because he sang amateur.

The reason why Li Chunbo was treated coldly was that this song was too different from the mainstream pop music at that time. The lyrics were colloquial and the pronunciation was not standard. The singing was rougher than the singers from the Conservatory of Music. It was normal for the distribution company at that time to have no confidence in "Xiaofang".

But a year later, "Xiaofang" began to be sung in every corner of China. In terms of awards, "Xiaofang" won the Golden Songs of the Four Major Rankings in Guangzhou, ranked first in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities for several weeks, ranking first in the cartridge sales rankings of "People's Daily" and CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space".

Han Feng’s meaning is to bring Li Chunbo to the stage of "The Same Song".

Fan Wubing has no big objection to this. After all, Li Chunbo has made both songs and is very popular. He wants to make money by doing the show himself. This popular singer is very beneficial to the box office to win over and participate. However, Han Feng's words will make him a little unacceptable.

"We think that whether it is campus folk songs or urban folk songs, these will be an important development direction in the music scene in the future, so we suggest that in the "Same Song" column, leave some space for folk songs to meet the needs of the audience." Han Feng said to Fan Wubing.

"The popularity of folk songs is especially accidental, and the audience is also selective." Fan Wubing frowned and said to Han Feng. "It can be imagined that the appearance of the song "Xiaofang" mainly caters to the mentality of educated youth who went to the countryside. Now these people are the main force in purchasing, but soon they will become history. The new era will be a revolutionary new music brought by new forms of entertainment media tools."

"For example?" Han Feng asked with a frown.

"For example, the European and American style blues, jazz will be popular, and no one will take on the banner of folk songs." Fan Wubing replied directly.

Fan Wubing's words are well-founded. For example, Li Chunbo, who has been popular for two years, began to fall into silence after singing the songs as an amateur singer. Some of the folk songs of other singers later were mostly humming songs with boring empty words, and some even needed to rely on children's voices to find gimmicks to attract audiences. This period was already destined to be the end of folk songs.

As for why Han Feng mentioned increasing the proportion of folk songs, Fan Wubing was unwilling to guess the reason. He subjectively believed that, perhaps he did not see the situation clearly? As the saying goes, "There is no flower and no style of music, but has long been dominated by the pop music scene.

"Then what reason do you think folk songs will decline?" Han Feng asked back with some disbelief.

Fan Wubing smiled and said, "Of course it is well-founded. Li Chunbo is not a professional singer-songwriter. Both of his songs are accidental, and the success of his style is also accidental. I heard that at that time, his behind-the-scenes driver made a lot of advertisements on TV, radio and newspapers in order to make him famous, and he put a lot of money in investment. If this condition no longer exists and he himself cannot create excellent works that can match his previous work, it is time for him to remain silent."

"So how long do you think he can still stick to the pop music scene?" Han Feng asked.

Fan Wubing tilted his head and thought about it for a while and said, "I think he can't become the third song anymore. Two songs are already his limit. So, the decline of folk songs will be in the middle of this year or next year."

"Then let's wait and see--" Han Feng was a little dissatisfied with Fan Wubing's words. He always felt that he had to survive more than a year to see if his words could be fulfilled?
Chapter completed!