218 Jay Chou: Thank you Brother Xuan for writing me the song
Gao City, Taiwan Province
After the award ceremony, Cao Xuan and Zhou Jianhui went to thank the judges of the Golden Melody Awards Organizing Committee.
Apart from anything else, there is a certain amount of pressure on them to award so many awards to Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan thanks them for their fairness and recognition of "Bright Stars".
After all, he was a judge and winner, so it was hard to say much. After giving a courtesy thank you, Cao Xuan attended the celebration party held by Warner in a hotel in Gaoshi.
Boss Wu, who had previously reached a tacit understanding, some of Cao Xuan's friends in Taiwan, singers from Warner Bros., and other artists who were interested in establishing a relationship with Cao Xuan all came to participate.
Despite the feasting and feasting, Cao Xuan always held a glass of juice.
No one dared to have any objections, because Cao Xuan and Boss Wu next to him were chatting happily.
While chatting, Cao Xuan also called Xiao Zhou and Sun Yanzi over to meet Boss Wu.
After all, working hard in Taiwan's entertainment industry, it is beneficial to become familiar with Boss Wu.
In fact, even if Cao Xuan didn't interfere, Xiao Zhou would still get along well with Boss Wu.
"Slam Dunk" and the big bad movie "The Tomb", which is expected to compete with "Fuji Spring Mountain", were both produced by Boss Wu and starred by Xiao Zhou.
Although Xiao Zhou has always played male protagonists, in fact, the film resources are not very good. Most of them are supported by Taiwanese capital. He rarely has access to film and television resources from the Mainland and Hong Kong.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Xiao Zhou's movies are not very popular at the box office. If he were a box office elixir, not to mention Hong Kong, even Hollywood would have to compete for him.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhou doesn't have to rely on movies and TV shows to make a living. Music is what he is best at.
But it’s music, and I haven’t been able to release a new album...
Xiao Zhou had set up a line in advance. Sun Yanzi was protected by Warner and he was a Singaporean. Cao Xuan was not worried about what Boss Wu would do.
This person said that the cattle are only local cattle in Taiwan Province. He is outside this circle and is an ordinary businessman.
Otherwise, Boss Wu wouldn't be polite to Cao Xuan. It's just that Cao Xuan doesn't like him. He wants benefits and can only cooperate normally.
This kind of banquet is usually a place for celebrities to make connections, but Cao Xuan never caught a cold.
I don’t know if it’s because he has watched too many TV series, but he always feels that this place is unlucky, and he has an inexplicable illusion that something is going on.
In contrast, he prefers to invite a few friends who can chat over, find a small private room, and chat and eat casually.
So seeing that it was almost time, Cao Xuan and Warner's people told Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan to get out of the way decisively.
Fang Wenshan knew a small shop, and several people drove there. The owner was a friend of Fang's, so he was so considerate that he closed the shop and only greeted a few of them.
"Mr. Cao, try the papaya milk we have here. It's delicious."
When he saw big stars coming to his store, the boss was very enthusiastic. He put all kinds of delicacies in the store on the table and highly recommended the papaya milk in his store, which is also a popular drink in Gaoshi.
Cao Xuan loves to drink milk, but he has never drank papaya milk. He took a sip and found that it had a fruity aroma. Although he was not used to it, it was not unpleasant to drink.
He thought he could do it at home later, as the two of them would definitely like to drink it.
After all, papaya has the effect of breast enlargement and beauty. No woman can refuse these four words.
Just like a man can't resist having his body (bu) forced (ejaculated) and added (zhuang) oiled (yang)...
While eating, several people also started chatting. The host Cao Xuan asked Jay Chou: "Do you have any plans for a new album this year?"
"Yes, I'm currently selecting songs, and there are still some songs that haven't been written yet, but production should start almost next month and be completed in September of the second half of the year."
"Then let's do it together again."
Cao Xuan counted on his fingers and found that the album accompaniment and arrangement of "Chinese Style" had already begun to be produced. As soon as the production of "Golden Pink Family" was completed, he immediately started recording songs and it would be released in August or September.
Last year, he and Xiao Zhou released albums at the same time, and they bumped into each other again this year. It was fate.
Jay Chou: "..."
Although the album was released at the same time, it would not have as big an impact on both sides of the album as a movie on the same schedule, but releasing an album with a king of Cao Xuan's magnitude is bound to still be affected.
For example, last year's "Jay" was released. At that time, video stores and media resources in Taiwan gave priority to "Bright Stars", and the on-demand rate of radio and television stations was also completely suppressed.
Now that I think about it, Xiao Zhou still has some lingering fears. He had to be brave, otherwise it would be possible for the album to be completely silenced and traced.
Given his status in Alpha Records at the time, and the results of his first album were not good, he either had to work hard behind the scenes, or pack up his baggage and move north to join Big Brother.
This time the album came up again, and he was considering whether he should move the album's release date.
However, Cao Xuan is still very interested in Xiao Zhou's new album.
To be honest, although Jay Chou's first album has a lot of good songs, they haven't had a big impact at this stage. Many of them were made famous later when he became popular.
But the second album "Fantasy" has a greater influence, and it can be regarded as officially confirming his style.
Especially the song "Nunchaku" was Jay Chou's first song to break out of the music industry on a large scale, which made him become famous in a real sense.
The songs in the new album were basically composed by Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou, with only two lyrics written by Xu Ruoxuan. Now that both of them were here, Cao Xuan easily learned about the new album.
In front of Cao Xuan, a recognized talent in the Chinese music scene, Xiao Zhou was not afraid of leaking the truth and even sang a few verses to Cao Xuan and asked him for advice.
I have to say that Xiao Zhou is really talented. The 10 songs in his second album include a combination of new metal + rap + Chinese style, classical pop, Japanese folk music + rap, pop, rhythm and blues and other styles and elements.
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It’s no wonder that at first, many older generations didn’t recognize his music.
It's so groundbreaking and very Western.
Chinese people’s most common impressions of rap are Jinmen Allegro and Shulaibao. Even 20 years later, there are still many people who cannot adapt to rap and hip-hop culture.
Xiao Zhou had a large number of rap songs in 2001, which were tantamount to "deviant".
That is to say, Xiao Zhou is talented and perseveres. Coupled with the Chinese style, which is a big killer, the national popularity is crazy, but even so, there are still people who are not interested in his music.
As a good big brother, Cao Xuan wanted to win over Xiao Zhou. It would be good for his career to sing Chinese style earlier.
The most important thing is that Cao Xuan alone cannot carry forward the entire Chinese style genre, and there are not so many Chinese style songs for him to copy.
Therefore, he needs to absorb fresh blood, and everyone should work together to continue to create Chinese-style songs, inject blood into the Chinese-style genre, and expand the influence bit by bit until it becomes a creative trend or a category that cannot be avoided in the music industry.
And in the entire Chinese music world, there is currently no more suitable candidate than Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan...
"Lun, do you remember the last time I said I wanted to write a song for you?"
"Remember."
Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan looked at each other, a little excited.
In fact, the two of them are quite proud. If most people say they want to sing for them, they would sneer at it, but they wouldn't be too happy either.
Talent is so willful.
But Cao Xuan was different. His reputation for his works was all there, and it was hard to find a song. Warner wanted him to write a song for Sun Yanzi, but it took a long time for Cao Xuan to nod.
Jay Chou also quietly asked Sun Yanzi before that the name of the new song seems to be "Little Lucky".
Now, this song has been included in Sun Yanzi's third album by Warner. It is regarded as the absolute title song and the focus of promotion.
After all, leaving Wei Wei and Liu Huan aside, this is the first time Cao Xuan has written a song for a new generation of young singers, and speaking out is a selling point.
In fact, this statement is a bit loose. The first young singer/artist that Cao Xuan wrote a song for was Hu Jing's "Love", but Warner didn't know about it, and he didn't care if he knew about it.
They want this gimmick anyway, and Hu Jing doesn't sell albums and won't expose them.
Warner attaches great importance to "Little Lucky" and hopes that Sun Yanzi will once again perform as well as last year's "It's Dark".
He even started to make up a story, saying that Cao Xuan never wrote songs for others, and it was an old friend who begged for a long time before giving him face. One day he met Sun Yanzi, and inadvertently he was moved by such and such actions. Cao Xuan, a great talent, saw from her
When it reaches its shining point, it’s all done in one stroke, and a new song is released.
Speaking of which, Cao Xuan actually wanted to write "Green Light" for Sun Yanzi, but he wasn't sure if it had been written yet, so he wrote "Little Lucky".
Thanks to "Little Luck", it would be a tragedy if Cao Xuan saw the "green light" from Sun Yanzi...
However, from this point of view, things are rare and valuable, and Cao Xuan's songs have become a relatively rare resource in the music world. Even singer-songwriters like Xiao Zhou cannot take them lightly.
Cao Xuan didn't hide his thoughts, and it didn't matter. He made it clear to the two of them straightforwardly.
He wanted to promote the concept of Chinese style and needed help. Xiao Zhou was his favorite person, so he wanted to help.
Now he gave Xiao Zhou two Chinese-style songs. Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan "learned" from them, tried to compose them themselves, and promoted the Chinese style together.
In fact, Xiao Zhou has always been considered an angry youth, which can be seen from his repeated public boycott of the Korean Wave in the media.
In fact, Cao Xuan's speech about Chinese style at the award ceremony just now touched him deeply. Now his eldest brother, whom he admires very much, personally invited him to create a great cause together, which made Xiao Zhou excited.
"Brother Xuan, don't worry, I'll do it with you. It's Europe, the United States, Japan and Korea, but our Chinese music scene is the most awesome."
Fang Wenshan was relatively reticent and had not spoken much, but he also expressed his opinion at this time.
"I have always liked the Chinese style created by Brother Xuan. This is the music that truly belongs to our Chinese nation. Since Brother Xuan doesn't dislike us unknown people, then he can count me in."
"Good brother."
Cao Xuan put down the papaya milk in his hand, asked the boss for a drink, and drank some with Xiao Zhou and Fang Wenshan.
The three of them met so late that they had the same ideals. They wanted to burn yellow paper on the spot and chatted until midnight. Cao Xuan was almost late to catch a flight back to the capital the next day.
Before leaving, Cao Xuan made an appointment with Xiao Zhou and gave him two songs he had written.
Xiao Zhou took out all his savings, borrowed some more, and scraped together 800,000 yuan, hoping to use it as money to buy the song.
Cao Xuan didn't want it at first, but at Xiao Zhou's insistence, he only accepted a friendly price of 400,000.
This price is already very fair. Cao Xuan's song "Little Lucky" cost Warner 350,000, and now the two songs only cost Xiao Zhou 400,000, which is considered a guaranteed minimum price.
You know, there were people outside who offered a maximum price of 500,000 yuan for a single song, but Cao Xuan ignored it.
Therefore, in the music world, Cao Xuan's songs cannot be measured by money. Once you get them, you will make money.
After bidding farewell to the grateful Xiao Zhou, Cao Xuan boarded the connecting plane back to the capital.
By the way, I forgot to mention that the two songs Cao Xuan wrote for Xiao Zhou were "Chrysanthemum Terrace" and "Red Dust Inn".
The songwriters of the two songs "Original Time and Space" are Fang Wenshan and Jay Chou...
Ho... bah
ps: I promoted this book and looked for it myself, but the author discovered it in the book review section and gave it a thumbs up.
The title of the book is "China Entertainment Please Reply! 1997". The main character is also named Cao. He is a director and seems to be quite bad at relationships. It is known that he pushed Mr. Zhou, and the next one may be Yin Tao.
