In a rented studio somewhere in Shanghai, MV director Kuang Shen is setting up the scene.
Kuang Shen is an advertising director and has experience in directing MVs before. He is best at capturing the beauty of women, so Fan Noxuan specially asked him to direct all MV shootings.
"You have to be careful when lighting here. The light is too hard. I want soft light. Light the candles and put on makeup. Is your makeup done?"
"Right away, director..."
"Hurry up, why are you lingering?"
"I'm sorry, director..."
Li He and Li Qin are putting on makeup. In fact, both of them have very good looks. They can appear without makeup, but their skin appears a bit dark in front of the camera, so they need to put on foundation.
The makeup artist is applying lipstick to Li Qin, a pink lipstick. Kuang Shen wants a pink and seductive feeling.
There is a scene in the MV where Li Qin traces his lips with his fingers and flicks them, making it look like a peach, asking people to take a bite.
Kuang Shen knows how to take pictures of women. He doesn't need to show off his legs to show off his figure. He can capture the image of a lovely woman with just a few shots.
Any boy who sees this MV will say it’s beautiful!
When filming the MV, Kuang Shen first shot Li Hyuk's part, including peeling apples and singing against the wall, which gave it a montage feel.
Li Qin's scenes were also shot alone, and the two of them did not interact in the MV. Li Qin is a lovely woman imagined by Li He.
While watching Li He filming, Li Qin got the lyrics of "Lovely Woman" and read them from beginning to end, exclaiming: "The lyrics are well written, very delicate, and have a delicate feeling of a girl."
"Yes, so I often say that Li Hyuk has a girlish heart, and there is a little princess living in his heart. Otherwise, how could he write such delicate and girlish lyrics," said Fan Noxuan.
"This has completely widened the gap. No wonder you are not worried at all about those songs that plagiarized the intro. They are indeed not on the same level." Li Qin felt relieved after reading the lyrics.
Under the same intro, some singers write "cute woman", such as Li Hyuk, while some singers write "'cute' woman", which will only make people feel scary. This is the gap.
Therefore, habitual plagiarism offenders are accustomed to waiting for the complete version of the song to be released before plagiarizing and stitching it together. Otherwise, it would be too low-level to even copy the song.
The reason why there are so many "Lovely Women" popping up in one prelude is mainly caused by the copyright issue of Fantasy Studio. QQ Music and Fantasy Studio signed a five-year exclusive digital copyright, so the plagiarized "
"Lovely Women" are all on other platforms.
Because other platforms were unwilling to let the popularity of "Lovely Woman" be exclusive to QQ Music, they released so many pirated copies. Even if they couldn't attract traffic, they would still ruin the pot of soup.
But they were a little anxious and plagiarized the complete song of "Lovely Woman" before it was released. In this way, when Li Hyuk's version comes out, the audience will know at a glance who is better and who is worse.
In a way, a bad thing turned into a good thing.
Again, don’t worry, after all, QQ Music does this kind of plagiarism itself, everyone is the same.
When the new copyright law comes out, we will come back to argue with these unscrupulous platforms.
The MV shooting went very smoothly and ended in the morning. Li Qin declined the invitation to lunch and rushed to announce a program.
In the afternoon program, Li Qin revealed some details about her cooperation with Li Hyuk in filming the MV.
"This MV shooting with Li He was a special experience, great." Li Qin said.
"Then have you heard Li Hyuk's new song?" the host asked.
Li Qin nodded and said, "Of course I heard it. I can only say that it sounds very nice."
"Wow, I'm so envious that you can hear it in advance. There are many versions of the prelude and continuation of "Lovely Woman" on the Internet. As far as I know, you also shot the "Lovely Woman" MV. Can you talk about Li Hyuk's "Lovely Woman"
"Is it better to listen to it or the ones on the Internet?" the host began to dig holes.
Of course Li Qin will not be fooled: "I haven't heard the ones on the Internet, so I don't know much about it, but "Lovely Woman" sung by Li Hyuk is very nice, so everyone can look forward to it."
When the show was aired, sharp-eyed netizens even took screenshots of Li Qin's disgusted expression when he heard various versions of "Lovely Woman" online, which instantly became a meme.
At the same time, it also makes everyone more curious about what Li Hyuk's "Lovely Woman" is like. I can't wait to listen to it.
This sense of expectation is getting stronger and stronger. Not only has the popularity of "Lovely Woman" not been ruined by plagiarism and piracy, it has actually become higher and higher.
Except for QQ Music, other platforms are furious. Why can’t the popularity go down?
In this way, what should they do if Li Hyuk's album is released without copyright?
But it doesn’t matter. There is another way. When your album comes out, all twelve songs will be plagiarized.
Listeners have a kind of inertia. Even if QQ Music has the exclusive copyright of Li Hyuk's songs, it will be difficult for NetEase Cloud users to turn to QQ Music.
So when NetEase Cloud releases a plagiarized song of the same name, most NetEase Cloud users will compromise and just listen to the pirated version! Unless they are particularly curious, they will go to a copyrighted platform to listen to the original song.
It is precisely based on this lazy behavior of users that major music platforms have launched so many plagiarized and pirated versions. No matter where you listen to the music, it will be the same no matter who you listen to.
However, it turns out that even if the exact same piece of music is placed in front of them, not everyone can learn it, such as this song "Lady".
When Fan Nuoxuan got the lyrics of "Lady", she thought Li He was going in the direction of ancient style. Xu Shangao also tried ancient style, but the response was not that great.
As a result, when Li Hyuk was singing, he discovered that he was rapping under the guise of ancient style. Isn't this nonsense?
"I said Li He, what kind of singing method are you doing? This word is written in an ancient style, so why does it turn into rap when you sing it?" Fan Noxuan asked when Li He came out of the recording studio.
"Isn't this good! There is a feeling of contrast. No one would have thought that this song is actually a Chinese-style rap song. It just wants this sense of difference." Li He said.
"If nothing else, boss, your song is quite good, but if you don't read the lyrics, I can't understand what you are singing." The sound engineer Lu Wen complained.
"You don't understand this. That's how it feels. Only when you don't understand can you read the lyrics, and then you realize that the lyrics are so well written." Li He said with a smile.
"Well written? I'm afraid the audience will beat you to death!" Fan Nuoxuan rolled her eyes cutely.
Li He clapped his hands and said, "You don't understand. What I want to do is not to follow the trend, but to create it. Everyone should learn my songs. This is my pop music."
"Anyway, I like "Heihei" the most in this album, and this song will be the second lead song."
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you..."
In the previous life, the album "Jay" was born out of nowhere, injecting a different sound into the music world. However, that year also saw the debut of an unpopular singer, Stefanie, who beat "Jay" to win the Best New Artist award with an album of the same name.
, there is a song "It's Dark" in it.
I don’t know what the time and space Stefanie is doing. Anyway, Li Hyuk used the song "It's Dark" for his own use. Now the songs that beat "Jay" are all in "Jay", so there is no rival.
In the first album, there are not only songs by Jay Chou and Stefanie, but also songs by Tao Jiji, the godfather of Chinese R&B in his previous life. Li Hyuk selected a few songs from King Jiji and put them in the first album to form a super big group.
Killer weapon.
If people in previous lives saw this album, they would probably faint. What kind of album is this?
Let's take a look at the tracks of this album. Needless to say, "Lovely Woman", "Tornado", "Star Sunny", and "Lady" have been revealed. Li Hyuk also retained "Indian Old Turtle Dove", "Reverse Clock"
", "Istanbul" three songs.
As for "Perfectionism", it will be released as a single between album releases.
Then I added "It's Dark", "Quicksand", "Love Is Very Simple", as well as "Snail" and "End of the World" by former Jay Jay PLUS to the album.
This lineup of songs can be called luxurious. Almost every song can be used as the title song of another singer's album, but Li Hyuk put them all in one album.
No wonder Fan Noxuan scolded Li He for being a prodigal several times after listening to the completed album.
Guns N' Roses, which had finished a round of commercial tour announcements, returned to the studio and listened to Li Hyuk's first album. The five girls followed Fan Noxuan and cursed Li Hyuk for being a prodigal.
It can be said that the album "Jay" is simply an album unprecedented in the Chinese music world, with a fusion of various styles.
The music style of the entire album is mainly R&B and New Hip-Hop, with the addition of classical Baroque string accompaniment and Band, forming a British retro style.
What's even more special is that the Spanish-style string music in the album's songs brings an artistic conception that's extremely close to that of a movie soundtrack.
Everyone is professional and has their own judgment. After listening to all twelve songs, Ye Zixin said to Li He: "If your album does not win the best album award at the Golden Melody Awards next year, then it will be a golden song."
Award for mistakes.”
Li Hyuk smiled. Based on the performance of the Golden Melody Awards in recent years, "Jay" really might not win. There is no other reason. Because he is from the mainland, so it is not correct!
This is also a bad thing about the Chinese music scene. The originally highly credible Golden Melody Awards took care of the so-called correctness, but there is a lack of other influential awards to replace it, leading to the absurd situation of good songs not being awarded.
The Golden Melody Awards even made a big mistake the year before last and awarded the Best Single of the Year award to a plagiarized and pirated song. At that time, public opinion was in an uproar, and the original creator was so angry that he wanted to sue the Golden Melody Awards.
Although the Golden Melody Awards later canceled the award and apologized, what happened happened, and its credibility was once again questioned.
Moreover, the ratings of the Golden Melody Awards Ceremony have been declining year after year. The winners are all the same old faces. The music world has not heard the voice of new blood for a long time.
This situation is not unique. Music review programs and magazines are gradually no longer paid attention to, music radio stations are no longer listened to, and major awards are gradually reducing their influence or even being discontinued.
The Chinese music industry is in an overall decline and can be said to have reached its lowest point.
In this kind of thing, you will either completely collapse and fall into the abyss without being able to recover, or you will rebound from the bottom and reach the top again.
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