Chapter 48 Taipei Thirteen
"How many people love the style of your legacy screen
How many people love you're the independent attitude of the world
Your eternal innocence, innocent expectations, and self-admiration..."
Chen Chong pushed open the door and saw Zhang Aijia standing in front of the window, holding a piece of paper in his hand, singing softly.
"Is this what you wrote?" Zhang Aijia heard the voice and looked back and saw that it was him. He raised the piece of paper in his hand and asked with a surprise smile: "Did you write the song to me yesterday?"
"That was written by me when I was in Hong Kong." Chen Chong walked over, cut off her thoughts mercilessly, and said with a smile: "And it's not for you."
"It's very well written." Zhang Aijia hugged his neck and said coquettishly: "Why don't you sing for me?"
"Because you can't sing it." Chen Chong put his arms around her waist and said, "This is for Cai Qin."
"Cai Qin?" Zhang Aijia leaned against him softly and said, "Cai Qin, who sang "The Song of Outing the Frontier"?"
"That's right. This is what I prepared for the Academy Awards and I plan to ask her to sing before the Best Actress Awards."
"Precise" Zhang Aijia made a grievance and said, "I can sing, why don't you invite me?"
"You sing, it seems like a glass of Coke." Chen Chong took the piece of paper with lyrics and music from her hand and said, "Tsai Qin sings, it seems like a glass of mellow wine. Who would drink Coke in a formal occasion?"
"Am I that bad?"
"I didn't say you were bad." Chen Chong explained with a smile: "It's just that the style is different. Your voice is clear and pure, and it has a comforting taste. It is suitable for singing softly when a party of three or five friends, and it is not suitable for performances in public."
"Okay, you can talk." Zhang Aijia has no famous pop song in this fashion. She also knows that she is not a professional singer and no longer entangles, saying, "What is the name of this song?"
"It was originally called "Love Letter to Filmmakers." Shen Chong blasted the paper and said, "But I want to change my name, which is more suitable for female stars, but I haven't thought about it yet."
"Love Letter to Filmmakers"..." Zhang Aijia read a few sentences, snatched the paper, looked at the lyrics for a while, and said, "This name is quite good, and the lyrics do not clearly state that it is written about female stars."
"I got a Best Actor, a Best Actress, a Best Film, and an Academy Awards theme song." Chen Chong said with some confusion: "So it's best to distinguish between the title of the song. "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" is too broad."
Zhang Aijia stood up straight, her eyes staring at him with bright eyes and asked, "Have you written four songs?"
"I only wrote three songs." Chen Chong pretended to be calm and calm, and said with a smile: "There is one song I plan to cover with an old song."
“Where are those three songs?”
"Apart from this, they are all in Cantonese, so I didn't bring it."
"You bad guy," Zhang Aijia pursed her lips, glared at him, and said, "You always hide things when you do things. Will you die if you take them out at once?"
"Okay, okay." Chen Chong's love aroused her frivolous expression, begged for surrender, hugged her and kissed her, and said, "Let's go, we'll go to the recording studio now, and we'll write it to you later, okay?"
"You finished talking to your grandfather?"
"It's over." Chen Chong picked up her suit top on the bed, put it on, and said, "I'll say it's soon. Look, it's just past ten o'clock now."
Zhang Aijia looked in the mirror and combed her hair while asking, "You said there is an old song cover. Which song is it?"
"When You See the Stars in the Sky."
"Why haven't I heard this song? Who sang it?"
"Mary Zhang." Chen Chong sat down at the head of the bed and said, "Miss Hong Kong in 1975, the day before I came to Taipei, the month issue, I married Bruce Lee's brother, Dr. Li Zhongchen of the Hong Kong Observatory. There was news in the newspaper."
"So it's her." Zhang Aijia packed up, stood up, and said, "I've seen her, but I didn't expect her to sing. When did she sing this song?"
"In 1976, the theme song of Jiayi TV series "Stars"." Chen Chong opened the door and walked out with her, saying as he walked: "She sang very ordinary and had no reputation, but this song was composed by Huang Zhan and written very well. I like it very much. Uncle Zhan has agreed to give me the copyright."
"Uncle Zhan is so generous. If it were me, I would definitely kill you one hundred thousand or eighty thousand." Zhang Aijia walked down the stairs and greeted Aunt Rong who was busy in the living room, and said, "This song was sung before the Best Actor.
"Yes."
"Then you will definitely invite a male singer to sing? Luo Wen or Guan Zhengjie?"
"It's not decided yet." Chen Chong took the lead, pushed open the gate, and said, "I want to try young people, such as Leslie Cheung."
"The one from Li's TV?"
Chen Chong nodded, opened the passenger door and asked her to go in and sit down, and then said, "I think he is very talented and talented, and is very worthy of training whether it is singing or acting."
"Look at your old-fashioned look." Zhang Aijia waited for him to get into the car and said, "Are you younger than him?"
"I am old and mentally old." Chen Chong laughed and started the car, saying, "Or why would you always look like a little woman in front of me?"
When Zhang Aijia heard this, she was stunned. Indeed, she was several years older than Chen Chong. Every time she was in front of him, she looked like a little girl, without the feeling of a sibling relationship. Not only her, but the people around her, if they had not been deliberately paying attention, they seemed to have ignored Chen Chong's age just over twenty.
After the car drove out of the villa area, Chen Chong asked, "How to get to the National Bin Hotel from here?"
“What are you going there to do?”
"Check two people to the studio together."
"who?"
"Tereson Teng." Shen Chong stopped at the fork in the road and said, "There is another Japanese man, Tau Imurautu JI, Tanimura Shinji."
Zhang Aijia pointed one of the roads, then automatically ignored Shinji Tanimura and asked, "What are you looking for Teresa Teng?"
"Please sing the theme song of the Golden Horse Awards."
"You have won the movie award, using Japanese songs as the theme song?" Zhang Aijia said suspiciously, "Do you want to take the opportunity to get close to Teresa Teng?"
"Don't be jealous." Chen Chong couldn't help laughing and said, "Teres Teng is Polygin's contracted singer, Polygin is my company. Do you think I need to borrow Japanese to get close to her?"
"You just gave her two million Hong Kong dollars a few days ago, which made everyone knows. Everyone is saying that you want to chase her." Zhang Aijia gave him a blank look and said, "I don't believe you don't have any ulterior motives."
"Don't use idioms randomly, I'm very pure." Chen Chong said righteously and sternly: "She is my singer. She has been humiliated and I won't find the place again. How can I take care of my younger brother in the future? Whoever meets me in the future will bow to me."
"You are full of nonsense. You are not a businessman, you are like a bandit in the Water Margin Village." Zhang Aijia asked with a smile: "Then what are you looking for a Japanese to do?"
"Please be a music producer." Chen Chong said seriously: "The current level of music industry in the Japanese is much higher than that in Hong Kong and Taiwan. I asked him to arrange the theme songs for the Academy Awards. You are an expert, so you should be clear that the simplified lyrics and music scores are just a skeleton. Whether it is good or not depends on the arrangement."
"That's right." Zhang Aijia agreed with him, signaled him to change lanes, and then asked: "This Japanese Gucun is very good at this level?"
"It's Shinji Tanimura." Shen Chong corrected her pronunciation and said, "A very powerful person, especially the theme song of the Academy Awards, is the best arranger."
"Why?"
Because I plagiarized his songs, Chen Chong complained in his heart, but said, "Because I created it with him."
"When did you know him?"
"After New Year's Day, I spent more than ten days in Japan before I met you." After Chen Chong finished speaking, he added: "He was writing a song for Yamaguchi Momoe at that time."
The song that Shen Chong chose as the theme song of the Academy Awards is Tanimura Shinji's immortal masterpiece "Star".
In 2010, Shen Chong was in Shanghai. By chance, he got a ticket to the opening ceremony of the World Expo. At the opening ceremony, Shinji Tanimura sang "Star" live. After listening to it, he liked it very much. After going back, he checked the Internet and found that he was ignorant. This is a super classic that has been sung for thirty years.
Tanimura Shinji was born in Osaka in 1948. Before Shen Chong traveled through time, he created more than 300 songs, released more than 60 albums, and held more than 30UU concerts. He is a household name in Japan and is also well-known in Asia.
He had a great impression of China. At the beginning of reform and opening up, he came to China to participate in music exchange activities, which had a great influence on Chinese pop music at that time. He was friends with many singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan. He had organized and participated in friendly music performances between China and Japan many times. In 2003, he held a "Support China to Extinguish P Concert" in Osaka and donated all the 15.34 million yen he raised to the Chinese Red Cross. In 2004, he also served as a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
The two songs that Tanimura Shinji are most well-known to the Chinese are two songs, one is the theme song "The Legend of the Wind and Flowers" sung for the cartoon "The Three Kingdoms" in 2019, and the other is "Star" created by him in 2019, inspired by the stars in the night of Heilongjiang in his fantasy.
Once "Star" was released, it immediately caused a sensation in the Asian music scene. It was not only popular in Japan, but also very popular in China. Singers from different eras such as Teresa Teng, Luo Wen, Alan Tam, Guan Zhengjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Feng Feifei, Han Baoyi, Gao Shengmei, Jiang Yuheng, Cheng Lin, Mao Ning, Liu Xijun, etc. have all covered this song in Cantonese or Mandarin.
In 19RU, Tanimura Shinji participated in the "Red and White Song Festival" of the Japanese Annual Song Awards. When he sang the song "Star", his ratings exceeded unprecedented. Since then, he has participated in the Red and White Song Festival for 15 consecutive years and has become the most representative veteran singer.
Chen Chong only knew that Shinji Tanimura created "Star" in 19RU, but he didn't know the specific time. So when he was in Japan, he went to visit him. After chatting, he realized that he had a prototype, but it had not been completed yet. So he took out his plagiarized guitar score with his face and discussed it with him. The final melody was determined in a few days.
Among all the Chinese cover versions of "Star", Teresa Teng sang the most outstanding version in 2019, which can be said to be completely inferior to Shinji Tanimura's own singing. Moreover, the Chinese lyrics filled in by Zheng Guojiang are also very consistent with Chen Chong's mood and thoughts, so he took them over and changed a few words as the theme song of the Golden Star Awards.
Chapter completed!