When Han Zhou, or the Red Duck, got off the bus, there were many fans gathered outside the Lychee Terrace.
Screaming, waving, cheering.
Of course, compared to those fans who took leave, this scene was a small one.
The Red Duck also waved and greeted the fans.
After saying hello, the red-skinned duck entered the stage.
Everyone in the city knew that the red-skinned duck was coming today, so many people came to join in the fun.
Because it was normally supposed to be recorded a day later, many people who were recording the show today heard that the Red Ducks were coming a day early and gathered in the studio to watch.
Han Zhou was walking towards the lounge in front of the camera.
When they arrived at the lounge, Han Zhou spoke up: "If you say this is not a question arranged by the program team, I don't believe it."
The executive director laughed awkwardly: "No."
Han Zhou didn't believe this.
Soon, Han Zhou was surrounded by camera crews.
Someone is still interviewing Han Zhou: "Teacher Red Duck, since the release of "Once You", fans online have started to call you the Godfather of Resignation Cult, and called "Ordinary Road", "Blue Lotus" and "Once You" the Resignation Trilogy. What do you think about this?"
"How do you see it?" The red duck said, "Use your eyes."
Executive Director: “…”
Someone else asked: "Do you write these songs because you like to travel? Many people on the Internet speculate that you like self-driving tours."
Han Zhou: "I really want to live like this, but you guys in our industry know this, do you still need to ask me?"
Han Zhou continued to poke his heart: "You haven't had dinner at home in a few days?"
The director laughed awkwardly: "About ten days..."
After interviewing a group of people, another group of people came in.
The leader was a girl who looked very young.
It's not about the skin or the face.
It’s because the female singer walks in a bouncy manner.
And he looked around as if he had never seen a TV station before.
With a large conch shell.
Han Zhou waved: "Hello, Conch Girl!"
The Conch Girl waved her hand: "Hello, Mr. Roast Duck!"
It is hard to tell whether this singer is polite or not. If he is not polite, he would not call me teacher. If he is polite, why would he call me roast duck? Damn! My name is red-skinned duck!
Han Zhou: "You will be in the same group with me and give me questions?"
The Conch Girl laughed out loud: "It was a question from a netizen."
"The questions raised by netizens are for my opponent, that is, for you, the roast duck teacher, to raise questions, so I will raise questions for you!"
Red Duck: "Let's make a path!"
The Conch Girl was a little confused: "Draw a path?!"
Han Zhou understood that this little girl had hardly watched any TV dramas and lacked a childhood.
To draw a line, to draw means to gesture and to point.
"Hua ge dao" literally means to point to a clear path.
But this sentence is very unfriendly. It has the same meaning as "What are you looking at?", but the meaning is probably extended.
The person who said this does not mean to ask the opponent to show him a clear way, but to get out of the way, or to come over here and kill him.
The silly girl didn't know that she had exposed important information. After a moment of stunned silence, she took out three cards.
"After much thought, I came up with three questions. Teacher, I'm the one who's assigned you this week, so I came up with three questions. You have to choose one from the three."
Han Zhou raised an eyebrow, although no one could see it: "Oh? Let me see?"
The Conch Girl put down the three cards one by one.
Because we wanted to create a variety show feel, all three cards were covered.
How they edited it was their business. Han Zhou simply turned over one sheet, then another, and then another, and finally turned over all three sheets at once.
Write a song for your hometown
Write a song for your girlfriend
Write a song for your grandma
It can be said that it is very polite.
Of course, this is more polite to the Red Ducks. If an ordinary singer got the topic and found out that he had to write a new song, he would be completely devastated.
As for the topic you can write about, there are basically no restrictions.
But there are pitfalls behind it.
Obviously, if you are a married person, you cannot choose the second song, or you can choose the second song but write it from the perspective of the dating period, which can easily expose your identity.
Writing a song for grandma may seem insignificant, but it actually tests a person's life experience.
There is a world of difference between what a young person writes and what an old person writes.
The question about writing about your hometown should be made up.
After reading the topic, Han Zhou knew what he was going to write.
However, once this song is written, Han Zhou will not be able to come to this show in the next few episodes.
The current recording schedule of "Voice of Dark Gold" is one final, two semi-finals, and one resurrection match.
This means that the first eight episodes must be recorded in full.
Han Zhou had previously told them that he had signed a contract for twelve terms, but that was a lie. Han Zhou had only signed a contract for eleven terms.
Because Han Zhou was the only one who had signed the entire schedule, he could guess that there would be a resurrection match. In order to keep it secret, the director team asked Han Zhou to only say that he had signed for twelve rounds if he revealed it.
However, if you write a song for your hometown, you are basically writing about your entire identity and background.
It is much easier for netizens to guess.
In other words, the singer from this place happened to come to Lizhi TV during the recording of "The Voice of Dark Gold", which is basically a confirmation.
Han Zhou is determined not to reveal his face before the finals.
And now that we have the opportunity to sing this topic, it is a must!
Han Zhou raised his head and looked around: "Director, Director Wang!"
Wang Jietao was chatting with the director nearby. When he heard the shouting, he came over and asked, "What?"
Han Zhou: "Stop recording, let's chat."
Wang Jietao was puzzled: "Okay..."
The two of them arrived in the small room, and Han Zhou took off his red duck headgear: "I want to choose a song to sing for my hometown."
Wang Jietao: "Sure, the topics are here, you can choose any topic you want."
Han Zhou: "But after I sing a song for my hometown, it will become a huge hit."
Wang Jietao tilted his head: "Are you so sure?"
Han Zhou: "You don't know where my family is, do you? I will write a song for Shudu, and once this song comes out, Shudu's publicity agency will make it more popular than any other song this year."
You should know that An Lan is about to release an album.
However, when An Lan released her album, she promoted it through two major companies.
This song was written to promote Shudu.
Compared with Shudu’s propaganda departments and agencies, Mailang and Global China are not as good as they could be.
"If I write a song about my hometown with the same title, it will definitely trigger crazy publicity from the Shudu propaganda agency."
"But this way, my identity would be too easy to guess."
"So, if you sing this song, I won't come to record the seventh and eighth episodes."
Wang Jietao frowned and thought: "If Shudu really promotes this song vigorously, it means we have earned hundreds of millions of publicity fees."
"The question is, are you sure?"
Han Zhou nodded: "We will definitely promote it, just wait and see."
"The Shudu propaganda agency is omnipresent."
Wang Jietao: "Then shouldn't I be looking for a singer to record the seventh and eighth episodes? This is causing me trouble at the last minute."
Han Zhou: "You can also choose to let me continue to participate in the seventh and eighth episodes. Forget about the free publicity. I will write a song for my girlfriend."
Wang Jietao: "Do you have a girlfriend that you can officially announce?"
Han Zhou: "Haha, why don't I just write a bachelor love song?"
Wang Jietao rolled his eyes. He originally thought that this song could also be a big hit, but now it seems that the first option is more beneficial.
"Okay, let's redraft the contract. We'll forget about the seventh and eighth rounds, but for the semifinals and finals..."
"It's already that time." Han Zhou: "Even if people can barely guess it, it doesn't matter. As long as we suppress the news so that most of the audience don't know it, it will be fine."
Wang Jietao thought deeply and nodded: "Okay."
Han Zhou came out of the small room, returned to the camera, and chose "Write a song for your hometown."
The executive director also asked Red Duck: "Is it difficult to make this song in one day?"
Han Zhou nodded: "Yes, you have to find me a great piano teacher, a great guitar fingerstyle teacher, a wind instrument master, and a few children's chorus."
Executive Director: “…”
I asked you if it is difficult to write a song, not asking you to make it difficult for me.
I don’t want to work overtime!
You are worthy of being called the Godfather of Resignation. You make me want to quit.
What can the executive director do? He can only go and look for it honestly.
Fortunately, Jinling also has a music conservatory, and we found a master of wind instruments. As for piano and guitar performances, Lizhitai itself has them.
For the children’s chorus, we invited the provincial children’s choir. It’s easy to find people as it offers the opportunity to appear on TV.
Soon, Red Duck began writing songs.
And started communicating with instrument teachers.
By midnight, Han Zhou had finally finalized the complete lyrics and performance arrangement order.
Like the original version, guitar and piano are played throughout the song, while other instruments are introduced in the interlude and chorus.
Han Zhou also made some changes to the lyrics.
After all, there are still some differences between the two worlds.
For example, the tavern on Yulin Road does not exist, and Yulin does not even exist.
In order to find a rhyme, Han Zhou thought for a long time and finally chose Xilin Road.
Because it seems that an old classmate opened a pub there, so it's a good deal. Otherwise, the lyrics would be difficult to change. After all, it's impossible to create something out of nothing. By then, there would definitely be many folk song fans looking for the pub, but if they can't find it, it would be a bit boring.
In the morning, Han Zhou began to help the instrument teachers and the children in the choir adapt to their respective parts.
After all parts have been inspected, we are ready to start practicing.
Other singers have been taking turns using the venue for rehearsals.
Han Zhou could only wait.
We waited until four in the afternoon before we arrived at the rehearsal venue.
Han Zhou on the stage was rehearsing with a headgear on.
There were staff members filming in the audience.
Han Zhou sang it once and thought it was okay, but he felt that there were still some areas that needed to be adjusted. He said in front of the microphone: "Let's go through the openings for various instruments again."
"Thank you, teachers. Let's do it again."
Finish singing this time.
Offstage, the program director was very anxious.
Han Zhou squatted at the edge of the stage.
The director hurriedly said that the stage was about to be set up and the audience would be entering soon.
Han Zhou could only race against time : "Everyone, sing the chorus again, and then we'll see how you perform during the recording."
When Han Zhou just started the third round, the people who were setting up the venue had already entered.
I didn’t touch the main stage and started setting up other things.
As soon as Han Zhou shouted "over", a bunch of people came onto the stage carrying things.
Han Zhou had just led his people to the backstage through the passage when the audience had already entered.
When I arrived at the backstage singer's hall, there was only one familiar person with me, and that was Magic Cube.
All the others made it to the semi-finals.
Otherwise, they will be eliminated by revealing their identities.
Cube: "I just passed by the main stage and saw you were still rehearsing?"
"I heard a few lines of the song, it's pretty good!"
Han Zhou complained: "I can't help it. I wrote the song yesterday and just barely finished rehearsal."
Rubik's Cube: "The new guy is really ruthless!"
Han Zhou: "You've won two rounds, why are you still coming?"
The Rubik's Cube won both rounds. After Hope, Searchlight and Black Rose withdrew one after another, the Rubik's Cube won two consecutive games, and the wins were clean and decisive.
Cube: "Hey, I'll let the new guy feel the devastation too."
Han Zhou nodded: "I've been caught in the rain before, so when I see others getting caught in the rain, I tear up their umbrellas."
The Cube laughed awkwardly: "How can you say that? I can only say that I am giving them a deeper level of training!!!"
The two of them were sitting here chatting, and Mofang suddenly asked: "What do you think, should songs nowadays pursue overnight success or word of mouth?"
Han Zhou: "Why are you asking this suddenly?"
Mofang: "I heard a song called "My Skateboard Shoes" some time ago. It was written by a very good singer and sung for a group."
"This song became an overnight hit, but it is predictable that in a few years, few people will listen to or sing it, and even feel uncomfortable when mentioning it."
Han Zhou nodded: "Yeah, so what?"
Mofang: "If it is another song, it will not be as popular as "My Skateboard Shoes" when it is released, but it may continue to become popular in the future due to word of mouth, and it may be covered again after a period of time and suddenly become popular again."
"Which of the two would you rather choose?"
Han Zhou understood that this guy, Magic Cube, had keenly sensed that the era of traffic was different from before.
In the past, some people made catchy songs, and some people did things that were unconventional or sensational.
But, it was not so easy to make money doing these things in the past.
Now, the money earned from hit songs may not be as much as classic songs, but it’s faster than classic songs!
A classic song costs millions and takes a year to pay back, but it may make more and more money in the future.
But, a hit song can pay off in one day and make a fortune in a week.
The difference is that after making a lot of money in a week, the money can be used to produce more hit songs, and the cycle continues.
What does quality matter? Once the amount of money reaches a certain level, it is no longer a problem of the work, but a matter of capital.
It is obvious that Magic Cube is very smart and has seen through the nature of the big internet celebrities that will appear from now on and in the future.
In other words, Magic Cube is considering whether to transform from a traditional singer to a singer with internet celebrity characteristics.
Han Zhou: "Only children make choices, but I want them all."
Classic songs can also become extremely popular by taking advantage of the right time, place and people.
And in the future, there will continue to be people listening to this song.
The Rubik's Cube raised his middle finger: "If I could do this, I would still ask you. I just think that the current Internet is a bit weird."
Han Zhou: "What's wrong?"
Mofang: "I was scanning the charts the other day and found that a group had released a new song that had already sold over 600,000 copies, and the price was as high as five dollars!"
"But, with this kind of sales volume, it didn't make the hot song charts."
“It’s not even ranked high on the Rising Stars list.”
“It topped the new song chart.”
"How could this happen? Is it the music software that's doing this?"
"If I release a song and they tamper with it, won't it be impossible for me to make it to the charts?"
Han Zhou laughed awkwardly: "With your current work, you should be able to eat for the rest of your life. Why are you worrying about this?"
The Cube instantly became alert: "Do you know who I am?"
Han Zhou: "I don't know, but it sounds very old, and it seems to have many classic masterpieces."
rubik's cube:"……"
Why do nice words like these sound so harsh coming out of your mouth?
Soon, the recording began.
In the past few episodes, the guessing panel guessed several people, so they are very confident now.
The first group to perform is the Rubik's Cube.
After Rubik's Cube appeared, he met a singer wearing a dog-head mask.
As soon as the dog-headed man opened his mouth, Han Zhou knew who he was.
Chen Yin, Lu Jin’s former teammate in an idol group in South Korea.
Han Zhou was previously mentioned to be like Chen Yin, and I went to listen to Chen Yin's songs specifically.
I found that Chen Yin is just so-so.
However, Han Zhou is very clear that if he starts to operate idols, it means that other companies can learn from him.
Their operation of New Idol may not be as strong as that of New World.
However, for singers who have signed contracts with former idols in South Korea and are returning, this set of things can be used to push them to the top position.
It is hard to say whether Chen Yin’s appearance in “Voice of Dark Gold” means that his company is starting to operate.
But having a target is a good thing.
Han Zhou watched the broadcast on TV and always felt that something was wrong.
It took me a long time to figure it out.
The audience of previous programs were mainly young adults over the age of 23.
Why are there so many underage faces in this recording?
So, these people are actually Chen Yin’s fans who have infiltrated the show’s audience.
If they voted, how could the Rubik's Cube win?
Rubik's Cube...what bad luck.
Han Zhou immediately thought of one thing: Is it possible that the other party would step on him again? To highlight the power of the dog-headed man?
If that's the case, don't blame me for being ruthless.
On the stage, Lu Jin became more and more confused as he listened: "I feel that this dog-headed man looks very familiar, but I can't remember who he is for a moment."
Ever since Chen Yin and others went solo, Lu Jin has taken on all the responsibilities of the original group, while at the same time he needs to make money under the company's arrangement.
Apart from singing and acting, all my time is spent on commercial performances.
After each recording of "Real Challenge", everyone else would return to Yanjing or go to the film set, but Lu Jin would go to cities like Shenzhen that are not entertainment bases to participate in activities.
So it’s normal that he hasn’t listened to Chen Yin’s new songs in the past year.
Chen Yin has now given up the idol singing style he learned in South Korea and started to focus on singing like a serious singer. Therefore, his techniques and song expressions have changed drastically. It is normal that Lu Jin did not notice it.
Sure enough, when it came to voting, the Rubik's Cube lost.
The Kobold received 587 votes, while the Cube received only 400 votes.
Yang Cong: "I still have no idea who the Rubik's Cube is. I tried to guess based on the nominations from netizens, but I didn't guess correctly."
Lu Jin: "Then please welcome the second group of contestants."
Han Zhou and others were at the entrance and went on stage.
The Conch Girl also appeared.
The group of people who wanted to test who the Conch Girl was were overthinking. Han Zhou guessed that the Conch Girl might have returned from abroad, and might be a Chinese colleague abroad, or might have just returned from studying.
In other words, they are either overseas Chinese or talented newcomers.
Han Zhou sang first this time.
Han Zhou was more focused than ever before and got right into the role of Lei Zi. He wanted to be in the same state as Lei Zi when he was singing. Combined with his own voice conditions, he should be able to sing this song well.
As long as the song performs well, there is no need to worry about any shady dealings.
The popularity will last for at least one year!
Do you know the value of Shudu’s publicity?
Conspiracy? Blackboard, black steel plate will be pierced into a hedgehog!
The performance information appeared on the screen.
Chengdu
Singer: Red Duck
Lyrics and composition: Red Duck
Wei Xuan plays piano, Tang Dayou plays guitar, and Annie Band plays bass.
Harmony: Sioux Children's Choir.