At this point, the three English songs have ended, and Zheng Qian has finally completed the task he had set out to discuss with Wan Feng.
These three songs were all shining works in previous lives.
"You Inspire Me" has been covered hundreds of times, and has been performed countless times by many choirs, and is regarded as a classic.
"Faded" is the most top-notch work by the electronic music god Alan Walker. It is one of the few works that has become popular all over the world.
Not to mention "You Are Not Alone", one of the masterpieces of the legendary Michael Jackson, has firmly occupied major charts around the world as soon as it was released. In addition to the huge fame and appeal of the singer himself, this
The song itself is of top quality worldwide.
Zheng Qian even thought that these three English songs could be used as the title songs of future English albums. Of course, in order to test the European and American music scene, he could only play these three trump cards.
He immediately sent the demos of these three songs to Wan Feng for Wan Feng, Asia's top music director, to appreciate them.
Soon, Wan Feng called. As usual, he was full of compliments and was very good at flattering: "Qianzi, there are ten buckets of talent in China, and you definitely have eight buckets! You are so talented! Even
The English songs are all so well written! It completely exceeded our expectations, especially one of them, "Faded", which is a very novel electronic music form and more attractive, and the others are definitely top-notch. To be honest, listening to "Faded"
It's time for "You Are Not Alone". Many people in our team almost cried when they heard it. The singing was so contagious. I never thought that you could sing such a gentle bass..."
You can feel Wan Feng's saliva flying through the phone screen. After praising him for five minutes, Zheng Qian replied with a smile: "As long as you are satisfied, I will try to write the rest of the songs in the shortest possible time."
Wan Feng quickly reassured Zheng Qian that quality is more important than speed, but when he thought about it carefully, Zheng Qian's works were all the best among the best, so he changed his tone and said: "Qianzi, since you have written three English songs
song, then I think we can communicate with the American company to see if we can try to release a single first and test the water in the American market, but you may need to squeeze out time and cooperate with the publicity work in advance..."
"That's okay, it's up to you." Zheng Qian nodded.
Singles were very popular in the United States in the last century and refer to a form of popular song or music release.
It is generally published to promote music albums that have been released or will be released.
To put it simply, it is the single record that leads to the new album. It only has one to three songs, which is even less than the number of songs in the EP album.
If the single disc is recognized by the market, it will be vigorously promoted and a full album will be released.
However, although Zheng Qian is somewhat interested in the U.S. market, he actually does not intend to deliberately develop in the U.S. market. He has not yet understood the game in China. If he jumps too far, he will easily slip into the waist.
Of course, if you can capture the American market with just a few English songs, you would be a fool not to pick peaches.
After all, the United States is the world's largest market and cannot be compared to China in all aspects. Moreover, in the current competition between the United States and Russia, China has not been noticed very much.
As long as Zheng Qian is of use value, capital will not care where Zheng Qian comes from, and a lot of hot money will flock to him.
When Wan Feng heard this, he was also satisfied.
Although Zheng Qian is not an artist under Universal Music, the close cooperation between the two parties can make all parties happy. As long as there is profit, even artists who are not from the company will support it.
Universal Music has no worries that Zheng Qian will rebel. After all, Universal is currently the largest record company in Asia and even the world. Cooperating with Universal means that it can cooperate with the global market. Their distribution channels are all over the world.
Zheng Qian can also sell albums all over the world with the help of such channels.
For Universal Music, strong cooperation may be able to revitalize the record market that has gradually become a stagnant water.
However, Zheng Qian knows that the rise of digital music is unstoppable and the record industry will die sooner or later and become history. But why is Zheng Qian willing to continue releasing records?
First, of course, because there is still profit to be made at this stage.
Secondly, the only one who can take the blame is Universal Music. Zheng Qian has always made a lot of money, and the copyright of all songs is firmly in his hands. In this case, in the coming digital wave, Zheng Qian can rely on these
You can still get a steady stream of income from the copyright of your songs.
Since someone is willing to help with publishing, why not?
Wan Feng promised Wan Feng that he would go to Hong Kong to record the songs and MV in person in a week. After taking the promotional photos, Zheng Qian continued to work hard and write down the remaining Chinese songs for the album one by one.
He already has very good target songs. By writing down these songs one by one, he can complete the content of the fourth album.
These Chinese songs are "Katyusha", "Where Has the Time Gone", "Exaggerated", and "Fireworks Easily Cold". These are all songs that have been exposed and can be regarded as new releases of old songs.
In addition to the "As Long as Ordinary" which was just recorded with Wei Yehong, and three English songs, the new album already has eight works.
Zheng Qian still needs to prepare seven more songs.
First of all, Zheng Qian took a look at the songs he had sung in the past. Among them, "Father", a song he once sung at a condolence performance for the troops, was also put on the album list. After all, Father's Day will be in more than a month, and Zheng Qian is ready to
This song was released on that day to promote the new album.
The remaining six songs, three of which are "Story of Time", "Birch Forest" and "Born Like Summer Flowers", are all folk songs and are very lyrical.
This album is basically different from the previous three albums which had too many high-pitched songs. It can be regarded as a small transformation for Zheng Qian.
However, the old position cannot be lost.
But high-pitched songs don’t come easily, so you can’t sing “Qinghai-Tibet Plateau”, right?
It took two days for Zheng Qian to finally decide on two of the songs.
The first song is "Big Fish". Zheng Qian likes the Chinese style in the song. Although it goes against the current popular elements and may not cause much splash in this era, Zheng Qian believes that it will still be popular many years later.
Someone remembers this song.
The second song is "Dear Traveler". This song is the Chinese version of the theme song "Forever" from the movie "Spirited Away". The lyrics are very good. When Zheng Qian sings this song, he will
Thinking of the scenery of my hometown.
Now, there is only one song left that can support the style and hope of the entire album.
And it has to be high-pitched.
Although he was familiar with many songs, Zheng Qian really couldn't set the tone for a while. Coupled with the long years of work, Zheng Qian finally felt a little tired and even began to hate the work of writing songs.
When a hobby becomes a profession, no matter how great your interest is, it cannot support the progress of your work.
At this time, CCTV heard that Zheng Qian wanted to participate in a travel program, so he made a special phone call and asked Zheng Qian if he was interested in going to Qinghai and filming a promotional video for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
As soon as Zheng Qian heard the word Qinghai-Tibet, an idea suddenly flashed across his face. When he realized what he was saying, he looked up at the sky speechlessly.
Is it really necessary to use "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" for the last song?
Of course he doesn't think this song is bad. After all, it is a god-level song and an insurmountable mountain in the field of Chinese songs.
He just felt it didn't fit the tone of the entire album.
Originally, Zheng Qian was planning to refuse, but who knew that the group leader Jiang Yunqiu personally called and asked Zheng Qian to go to Qinghai-Tibet to shoot a promotional video for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which the Propaganda Department would like to use.
Zheng Qian could refuse CCTV, but he could not refuse the regiment leader's order, not to mention that this was a task assigned by the Propaganda Department.
So Zheng Qian notified the assistant team, who packed their luggage and prepared many hand-held oxygen tanks. They looked like they had sacrificed their lives heroically, met with the director and staff of CCTV, and took a plane to Qinghai-Tibet.
Arriving at the Qinghai-Tibet Airport, everyone felt slightly breathless as soon as they got off the plane.
"I'm going to suffocate, oxygen tank!"
"Give me a bite! Wow, it feels so good!"
"So good? Give me a bite too!"
When director Chen Peng saw more and more people scrambling to share the oxygen bottles brought by the team, he immediately said angrily: "Why are everyone so pretentious? Teacher Zheng Qian can hold on, but you can't! Let's start now
, Unless altitude sickness occurs, no one is allowed to use oxygen bottles, and everyone must adapt to the next environment!"
When everyone heard this, they all looked at Zheng Qian.
I saw Zheng Qian smiling and doing stretching exercises in a normal manner, and it didn't look like he was lacking oxygen at all.
Everyone looked surprised. Could it be that Zheng Qian had been to Qinghai-Tibet before?
At this time, someone reacted, "Brother Qian is a professional singer, and he is a VIP among professional singers. He can sing high notes. It is said that he can hold his breath underwater for more than ten minutes. Can we compare with him?"
Seeing director Chen Peng's silence, someone immediately took a deep breath from the oxygen bottle.
Chen Peng was so angry that he was out of breath. Immediately, his big face turned red from holding back, "Oxygen bottle! Give me the oxygen bottle!"
"..."
Everyone was speechless.
What about others?
Everyone just feels that breathing is not smooth, but you are the first one to suffer from altitude sickness!
After Chen Peng rested for a while and recovered, he still insisted on saving oxygen bottles. After all, everyone was picked up and dropped off by cars, and they would not run around in a big way, so there was no need to waste oxygen bottles.
After all, a portable oxygen bottle costs 200 yuan. If you use it right after you get off the plane, won’t it be used up immediately after you start shooting?
Mao Miaorui did not save much. She had been to Qinghai-Tibet before and knew that she had altitude sickness, so when she arrived this time, her backpack was almost entirely filled with portable oxygen bottles and tubes were inserted into her nostrils. She had no difficulty breathing at all.
After everyone argued for a while, they walked out of the airport hall and took a bus sent by the local government to the guest house.
There was not much exchange of greetings. Everyone rested here for a night. The next day, under the guidance of the staff of the Railway Bureau, everyone took a bus to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway line that was just repaired this year.
Director Chen Peng was here to collect scenery. Zheng Qian cooperated with the entry and talked about some promotional broadcasts prepared by CCTV. The entire promotional video was said to be only about ten minutes, but it took more than an hour to shoot, and it was only a part of the promotional video.
Next, everyone went to Namtso Lake at an altitude of more than 4,800 meters, Nagqu at an altitude of 4,700 meters, and Damxung Zuoga Village at an altitude of 4,500 meters. Due to altitude sickness and the cold weather in spring, the filming process was abnormal.
hard.
By this time, the film crew basically had an oxygen bottle. There was no other way. If they didn't use it, they would be out of breath after taking only two steps. The work efficiency was too low.
After a whole day of shooting, with the strong cooperation of the local government, hard work, and railway workers, Zheng Qian finally completed the shooting of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway promotional video.
On the way back, Zheng Qian sat in the bus and listened to the joy of the local folks about the Qinghai-Tibet Railway being built at their doorstep. He felt that this time he came to Qinghai-Tibet, there was some spiritual gain.
He turned his head and looked at the thick clouds and mist on the horizon.
Zheng Qian suddenly felt a throbbing feeling at the boundless land and blue sky, as well as the flying eagles, and the endless railway like a giant dragon.
I got it!
He thought of it!
There is a song that is so apt that Zheng Qian feels numb all over, as if someone is guiding him here.
Just to write this song!
"sky Road!"
Zheng Qian blurted out.
Director Zhang Peng and local residents who were laughing and talking next to them about the Qinghai-Tibet Railway were startled by Zheng Qian's voice. They all turned around with surprised eyes.
Chen Peng was the first to ask: "Heavenly Road?"
He followed Zheng Qian's eyes and looked at the scenery outside the window. The eagle flew away, and when it passed over the snow-covered plateau, it seemed to be covered with rays of sunshine, dazzling.
On the ground, railways stretch across the distance, like giant dragons, climbing over mountains and ridges.
This scene shocked Chen Peng.
I am obsessed with work, but I have never noticed this scenery!
Others also came back to their senses and pondered the words "Tianlu".
For a moment, the entire carriage suddenly became quiet.
Not to mention the local residents, who looked puzzled. They had been accustomed to the scenery outside the window for decades, but they had never thought about what such a scenery meant to people who had never arrived here.
What.
Heavenly road?
At this time, Zheng Qian suddenly clapped his hands and sang acapella:
"That's a magical heavenly road
Send the warmth of the world to the frontier
From now on, the mountains are no longer high and the roads are no longer long.
Children of all ethnic groups gathered together..."
The singing voice was clear and translucent, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
Mao Miaorui's whole body went numb instantly, and she felt as if the Tianling Cap was about to be lifted up. She looked at Zheng Qian with a surprised look on her face.
The ventilation process can hardly be heard.
It sounds majestic, open, bright and heart-shaking!
"From now on, the mountains are no longer high and the roads are no longer long, and children of all ethnic groups gather together happily!"
A manager of the railway department who had been stationed in the local area for seven years muttered this sentence, which hit his heart. It was touching, and the meaning of the words was even more intriguing. He couldn't help but feel a slight soreness in his nose, and almost fell asleep.