When it was first decided to hold a concert in the Taiwan Strait, Han Zhou considered that he must sing one of Jay Chou's representative songs.
Han Zhou had many choices.
For example, "Fireworks Fade Easily" and "Rice Fragrance", but in the end, Han Zhou chose a very special song.
On the big screen at the scene, ink paintings were flowing one after another.
The three large characters made of ink and water, like a painting, were formed and then blown away by the wind.
"East Wind Breaks"
Lyrics and composition: Han Zhou
Singer: Han Zhou
"A lamp of sorrow, standing alone at the window
I'm behind the door, pretending you're still here
It's like revisiting an old place, the full moon makes me feel even lonelier
The candlelight awake at midnight cannot bear to blame me~"
This piece of music is so special.
Because this is the easiest song to learn among all of Jay Chou’s Chinese-style songs.
Later, a large number of Chinese-style songs on the Internet followed the style of Dongfengpo.
The lyrics are full of ancient style, with a relatively flat tune and deep emotions.
This has almost become a standardized routine.
Since he was going to perform Chinese-style songs, Han Zhou finally chose to leave a simple mode for other singers.
Go and learn it.
"A pot of drifting, wandering around the world is hard to swallow
After you left, the wine warmed the memories and the longing
Water flows eastward, how can time be stolen?
Flowers bloom and mature at once, but I missed it~"
The audience could not hear clearly what Han Zhou sang, and many people could not see clearly the lyrics of the ink paintings on the big screen behind them.
But everyone felt it sounded good.
After singing a lot of Jay Chou's songs recently, Han Zhou gradually realized why Jay Chou can speak clearly but not sing clearly.
Because he deliberately spoke unclearly.
You know, when Jay Chou sang rap very fast, his pronunciation was not unclear, so why did his slow songs sound unclear?
In fact, he treated his voice as a musical instrument.
The articulation is deliberately weakened to allow the vocals and instrumental sounds to blend into one.
Han Zhou's voice is different from Jay Chou's, but using the same singing style, Han Zhou began to explore his own form of vocal instrumentation.
Often, when professional singers describe other singers’ voices, they like to use the quantifier “把” to describe their voices, such as “this voice is like this…”
Now Han Zhou also had some understanding.
It was indeed a voice.
If Jay Chou's original sound is like a guzheng, then Han Zhou's sound is closer to a pipa.
The audience waved light boards and listened to Han Zhou's singing almost quietly.
Han Zhou on the stage hummed softly: "Who is playing the pipa, a song of East Wind Breaking
Years peel off on the wall, and I see my childhood
I still remember that year when we were still very young
But now the sound of the piano is faint, you have never heard my waiting..."
This chorus is not passionate, not hot, and not explosive.
However, in the hearts of the audience who heard this kind of Chinese style song for the first time, this chorus was passionate, hot and explosive!!!
Suddenly, a large number of spectators screamed and cheered.
And Han Zhou continued singing.
"Who is playing the pipa? A song of East Wind Breaks
Years peel off on the wall, and I see my childhood
I still remember that year when we were still very young
But now the sound of the piano is faint, you have never heard my waiting~"
Many singers who attended the concert were in shock.
In their view, once this style of music comes out, it will definitely be the object of imitation and research by a large number of singers and songwriters.
Perhaps, I should also get involved. If it is too late, I will probably miss a lot.
The fans from across the Taiwan Strait felt like they were in tears at the scene.
Once upon a time, before the arrival of the new era of entertainment, everyone loved the lyrics and music of the old era.
After the advent of the new era of entertainment, the writing skills of almost all lyrics have plummeted.
It's not just the singers. In the last era, Taiwan's variety shows took the lead and were famous throughout the country. However, although the hosts' cultural level and expressive ability were strong , their literary literacy dropped drastically.
The older generation of audiences in the Taiwan Strait still remember those beautiful words from thirty or forty years ago.
Now, in Han Zhou's hands, the years of thirty or forty years ago seem to have returned.
However, thirty or forty years ago, singers used ancient lyrics but completely Westernized music.
But now, Han Zhou uses ancient style lyrics and music.
It seems that we have entered another era based on the original foundation.
A brand new era has arrived.
If Han Zhou could only write one song that was so-called three new and three old, then I'm afraid no one would be able to imitate it.
But now, Han Zhou has written another Chinese style song, so this new era has arrived!!!
Han Zhou on the stage has already finished singing: "Who is playing the pipa, a song of East Wind Breaking
Maple leaves color the story, I see the ending
I'll lead you along the ancient path outside the fence
In these years of wild smoke and grass, even parting is done in silence..."
Four minutes in, the audience has no idea how the song is going to turn out.
Four minutes later, the entire audience was crazy about the song.
Han Zhou had finished singing, but the audience started singing at the same time: "Who is playing the pipa, a piece of Dong Feng Po!"
Han Zhou waved his hand to thank the audience for their love: "Oh!"
“I learn very quickly.”
"good."
When the audience saw the music stopped, they realized they were wrong and thought there would be one more performance and they thought they could sing along.
I didn't expect it to end.
However, there are many songs and Han Zhou did not dwell on this one for too long.
Although, within the circle, a huge storm had already been set off at this time.
Many people realize that what is shown in "Dong Feng Po" is something that can be easily replicated. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
A large number of singers were discussing this song in their own small groups, and just after they finished singing, a gun version of it came out.
The Taiwan Strait May 68 incident is still ongoing.
This time Han Zhou prepared fewer songs.
But it is still full of sincerity.
In addition to "Lukang Town" and "Dongfeng Po", there is also a four-person chorus song.
The song Han Zhou chose for the four-person chorus was "The Desperado" by the band from his previous life.
This four-member group, which consisted of three generations of music industry leaders and one junior, performed for only one year and then disbanded.
However, they left behind a very nice original song, "The Desperado". That year, the Spring Festival Gala directly invited them and asked them to sing this song.
In order to perform on the Spring Festival Gala, they also wrote a mainland version of "The Desperado", "Departure".
This time, Han Zhou was hanging on to "The Desperado", but after all, it was not going to be on TV, so there was no need to be so cautious.
However, Han Zhou still changed some things. For example, for the line 'The funny thing is, I really want to ask the Lord to redeem me', Han Zhou used the line 'The funny thing is, I really want to ask you to redeem me' from "Departure".
Just like the original version, Zhang Ceyong, Chen Feng and Lin Xiaoxing wrote the lyrics themselves.
Han Zhou just gave a demonstration of his version of the lyrics to make it easier for them to modify them and avoid wasting too much time.
Original version, 'Hey, kid, I think I understand what you mean
What happened to you
In different appearances
It has also appeared several times in my life...'
And Chen Feng wrote, 'Hey, kid, no matter how you think about the past days
Destiny will not stop at this moment
All you and I have to do is
Carrying everything on your shoulders, right?
You said you wanted a brilliant story
Make sure all the journeys are for that right day
The surging crowd is like the crawling posture of ants
Following the footsteps of predecessors, drawing boring circles
Do you want to look up or keep running with your head down?
There are no wrong choices, only time flies by'
Chen Feng's lyrics, even when written as rap lyrics, still have a rock flavor.
But who can write lyrics without rhyming? What lyrics can’t be sung as a rap?
It's better to write down some words than 'I always cram at the last minute X4'.
But Lin Xiaoxing's lyrics are quite different.
Original version'Why do I feel like I'm not getting enough even though I have everything I need?
Oh my god, this isn't just greedy.
Why do we work so hard and pursue our dreams so hard?
…
Why are there people in this world who are so poor that they go crazy?
Some people are rich and use money as pillows
Why are there so many sad stories in the news?
The thief who stole bread just to feed his mother
Lin Xiaoxing sang it in a different style:
"Why, in my forties, I'm still called a single dog
Fuck, can you please stop showing off in front of me?
Why, my head is almost bald, I have lost a lot in my life
…
Why does the king of love songs know nothing about love?
Some male fans were surrounded by three or two girls holding hands.
Why, my nose got sore when I sang this?
Watching the flowers wither, bloom, and be blown away by the wind under the setting sun..."
From each person's lyrics, you can tell what each person wants to say, which is actually very different.
Chen Feng, it is very difficult for me to play rap or any song other than rock.
If he hadn't played with Han Zhou, Zhang Ce, Yong Lin and Xiao Xing, he would most likely be scolded for singing rap, or even looked down upon by other rock juniors.
However, with three people taking the blame, Chen Feng expressed himself unscrupulously.
But no matter how he expressed himself, he actually focused his attention on Han Zhou. He hoped that Han Zhou could think clearly about his future.
The king of love songs, Lin Xiaoxing, complained even more and used foul language.
What is the king of love songs?
I’m an old bachelor, what kind of love songs are they? I don’t know anything about love songs!
I just want a woman who understands me, where is she?
Do you want me to find a partner on the spot? Is there anyone who doesn't know me?
I've become a superstar in the pursuit of marriage, why haven't I succeeded yet?
Zhang Ceyong's lyrics are the most interesting.
It was because the original lyrics sounded like a poem written by a mentally ill patient that Zhang Ceyong insisted on changing the lyrics, which led to the four of them changing the lyrics.
Zhang Ceyong sang: "Listen carefully to the lyrics of this song
Like a poem written by a mental patient
At this moment when the stars are shining in the night sky of the venue
I want to rewrite my own words
Entertainment, entertainment, entertainment, not to fool each other
How many days in life do we have each other?
What's the difference between us?
Time flies by, it is indivisible
In the future, remember this shining day
So, the story never ends.
Because we want to..."
"Let's go, don't ask where the road is.
The only way is to move forward against the wind.
Let's go, I don't want to ask where the road is
Destiny oops, what level is this?
When the car rumbles, the dream begins to ache
It rolled up the wind and reshaped every face
The night fog is so thick, and the open space is also turbulent..."
When Han Zhou wrote this song, he didn't expect the three of them to want to have fun, so he didn't think about how fun the song would be.
Once everyone wrote their own lyrics, the song changed.
It comes from the previous life, but also from this world, from Han Zhou's own friends.
As they sang, the four people ran faster than each other.
Thank you?
This song is the farewell song.
Because we are all about to set off.
The audience watched the four people disappear from the stage before they realized that the four people had really "set off".
After the people left, the screaming continued.
Finally, when the four of them filed through the passage back to the backstage, the three old men kicked Han Zhou back to take the blame.
Han Zhou poked his head out from the side stage and was caught by the camera.
The fans at the scene were all staring at Han Zhou on the screen, and then looked at the unclear head on the stage.
Han Zhou took the microphone and said, "Let's go, let's go. If we don't go now, there will be a traffic jam."
"Let's go..."
The fans sang: "Don't ask where the road is
The only way is to move forward against the wind.
Let's go, I don't want to ask where the road is
Destiny, what level is it…"
Han Zhou: "Stop singing. If you keep singing, the car of those three guys will really rumble."
"See you at the next stop."
A fantastic performance ended at this moment.
Han Zhou really ran away.
Backstage, many singers who came to watch the performance came over.
Congratulations to the three.
After Han Zhou came over, he started congratulating the four people.
Now, Han Zhou's popularity is even greater than before.
Now "Drawing Sword" has broken the 12% viewership rating, and the second round of rebroadcasts is being carried out on many TV stations.
So Han Zhou is still the most familiar face to the audience.
I'm afraid this heat will hardly fade away within a year or two.
When an actor has starred in three consecutive TV series that broke ratings records, it can be said that he has become an eternal memory of the audience. Ten, twenty, or thirty years later, he will still be the actor the audience is most familiar with.
Not to mention that these three works have just been broadcast.
Many people greeted Han Zhou.
Han Zhou responded enthusiastically to those he knew.
If he didn't know the person well, Han Zhou would just respond politely.
Soon, the greetings ended and Han Zhou returned to his lounge.
Because Aunt Mao told Han Zhou that Wang Xiya was waiting for him in the lounge.
Han Zhou arrived at the lounge and sent away the people who came over to say hello and get to know each other before entering the room.
Han Zhou's concert lounge is not Wang Xiya's office.
There is only one chair in Wang Xiya's office.
So Han Zhou sat on the chair and Wang Xiya had to sit on the desk.
Han Zhou's lounge has a dressing table, three chairs, a sofa, and even a bed for a nap.
But Wang Xiya still sat at the table.
Legs swinging.
Han Zhou sat in the chair in front of the table, leaning back.
Holding a concert is indeed a physical job.
Although it was shared by four people.
But the quality of this concert was very high, the stage was very large, and there was a lot of interaction, so Han Zhou was still very tired.
Looking at Han Zhou lying on the chair, Wang Xiya smiled and said, "Is it fun to hold a concert?"
Han Zhou smiled and asked, "Is it fun to watch the concert?"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
All in laughter.
After laughing, Wang Xiya's face turned cold: "Although Hong Chengxu seems to be low-key, he has been very active recently, especially Zhao Qigang, who has been very active."
"During these two periods, Tianle suffered heavy losses."
Han Zhou: "I think Tianle made a profit from these two schedules."
However, for a company of Tianle’s size, if it earns less, it will lose money.
Logically speaking, with so much capital piled up here, it can appreciate and skyrocket even without doing anything.
It’s because of the conflict with the Beijing circle that the financial report is not very good.
After reading the financial report, Han Zhou nodded and said, "Hold on. This year's schedule is over. Next year's schedule, I will fully join the battlefield."
Wang Xiya has been waiting for this day for two years.
But we still have to wait half a year.
"Okay, I'll wait."
Wang Xiya: "Now, I want to make the financial report look good and attract hot money."
"Now we can only hope for 'Winter of Idols'."
"I plan to make "Winter of Idols" and expand the idol market, and then start an idol program."
Han Zhou frowned: "Be careful."
Han Zhou knew what Wang Xiya meant.
Now Tianle’s projects don’t seem to be very profitable.
Therefore, we need projects that can make money, and then adjust resources within the company to expand the film's profit report.
The specific approach is very simple. Open more idol programs and report all the movie spending projects in the report and in the program.
Idol shows are a sure win, and they are bound to make huge profits.
After doing this, the movie's financial statements will look good.
In this way, Tianle will be able to attract more people to invest when he continues to make movies.
Only after someone shares the risk can Tianle continue to fully confront the Beijing circle.
This is not a legitimate method to be used, but the Beijing circle is also using this method. If Wang Xiya does not use it, she will not be able to fight against the Beijing circle.
Therefore, Wang Xiya uses it more thoroughly than the Beijing circle.
Now everyone is pouring money into the film and television sector, but the profits are getting less and less, and in the future the winner takes all.
So, don’t say that you make little money, even if you lose money, you have to continue.
But Han Zhou has a concern, which is the problem of bubble market.
I talked to Wang Xiya about the bubble market issue. Wang Xiya was a little skeptical: "Are you sure it's like this?"
“Is the current huge idol market a bubble market?”
Han Zhou shook his head: "No, the idol market can be a normal market, but it can also be a bubble market. If it develops into a bubble market and collapses, it may even bring down the market for traditional celebrity artists."
Wang Xiya calculated the data silently and compared them in her mind.
Han Zhou continued: "Let's not talk about the distant past, let's talk about a more recent example, South Korea."
Wang Xiya: "The idol market in South Korea?"
Han Zhou: "How big is the idol market in Korea? I'm talking about real estate in Korea."
"There is a new way of renting a house that is popular in South Korea now. People in China may have never heard of it."
Wang Xiya was very curious about this.
As the saying goes: 'If you are a star and don't open a store, how can you cash in on your head?
If you start a business instead of finance, you deserve to be poor.'
Han Zhou: "Now, in the capital of South Korea, there is a new way to rent a house. We now assume that a house in South Korea is worth 10 million. If the tenant pays the landlord 6 million, he can rent the house for free for two years. After two years, the landlord will return the 6 million to you in full."
"It's like the tenant is the landlord's creditor, and the interest is like renting the house for two years for nothing."
Wang Xiya’s mind was full of question marks.
Is there such a thing? Why don't you buy a house with 6 million? Why use it to rent a house? It's enough to buy two houses with a down payment, right? Why use it to rent a house? The house price in South Korea has been rising!
Han Zhou continued: "So, a large number of people borrowed a large sum of money from the bank, and then gave it to the landlord to rent the house for free."
Wang Xiya realized that it was not her own money, but money borrowed from the bank.
"There are two prerequisites for this. First, the interest rate for loans in South Korea is only 0.5, which is 60% of the house price, and is much lower than the rent for renting a house."
“Second, banks do not establish uniform qualification review conditions.”
Wang Xiya: “So…”
Han Zhou: "After the landlord received the 6 million, he used it as a down payment to buy two new houses, and used the remaining money to pay the monthly mortgage."
"The landlord now has two houses, which he can rent out to others and earn 12 million yuan, which he can then use as down payment for four more houses, and use the remaining money to pay monthly mortgage payments."
"If this continues, someone in South Korea has already made 200 houses from one house, and in the future it may be 2,000."
Wang Xiya looked confused. Isn't this an ancient Ponzi scheme? "So, this is a trap, right?!"
Han Zhou: "That's right. You should know that the money used by the real estate company to renovate the house was also borrowed from the bank."
The money for renovating the house comes from the bank, the money for renting the house comes from the bank, and the money for buying the house comes from the bank.
Where does the money in the bank come from? The deposits of all the people in the country!
What? Some people don't know how to save money? It has nothing to do with them?
Excuse me.
The bank has insured all its operations.
Insurance has tied the financial market and the housing sales market together in all aspects, continued to increase leverage, and continued to package and sell insurance for this business as financial products.
In South Korea, no one can escape. Once the property market booms, everyone will soar.
Wang Xiya: "I remember... Korea seems to be... financially open?"
Han Zhou nodded: "Right now, the interest rate for borrowing money in Korea is low, and there is a lot of hot money in Korea. But if the United States starts to raise interest rates, Korea must raise interest rates, otherwise the hot money will run away, and they will die faster."
The global financial market, to put it bluntly, is the silver party.
You are playing in it, and others are also playing with you.
For such a perverted market, only China in the world does not want to enter it, holding up emoticons outside the door saying "Because I am not perverted enough, I am out of tune with you/jpg"
In this market, if the United States raises interest rates, the United States must also raise interest rates.
The interest rate hike in South Korea means that borrowing money to rent a house will become a losing business, so no one will continue to rent a house in this way.
This means that landlords can no longer rent out their houses, and have no money to buy new houses to continue to push up the housing price bubble, nor do they have money to repay their mortgages.
This ring, snap, broke.
Then, people who own hundreds or thousands of houses will be left with bad debts if they cannot pay their mortgages.
They will choose to sell their house to avoid losing all the money they earned or losing more.
If there are too many houses for sale on the market, house prices will fall.
As house prices fall and big landlords lose money, they continue to sell more houses and leave the market faster, resulting in more houses available and house prices falling further.
This is a vicious circle!
Once the United States runs out of money one day, it will pass on the crisis and banks will raise interest rates. Then the United States will enter a countdown to collective ascension.
Wang Xiya's eyes lit up: "How many years will it take?"
Han Zhou: "Start in two or three years? Complete in one year? Four years?"
Wang Xiya: "In other words, in three years, South Korea's financial system will collapse and the country will go bankrupt? By then, we can... ahem..."
Wang Xiya has already figured out how to buy all the industries in the Korean entertainment industry at one-tenth or even one-twentieth of the price.
Han Zhou: "So, do you understand why you can't continue to host idol shows?"
Actually the answer is very simple.
Because leeks are fixed.
There are so many star-chasers in this place, and among them, only so many are willing to spend money.
The more idols there are, the lower the average attention of new idols will be.
The lower the attention, the less attractive it is to new fans.
This is a vicious cycle.
Moreover, if the new idol market collapses, it will also bring down the old idols, such as ACE9 and Lu Jin.
If these people collapse, the entire collapsed market will quickly spread to the entire entertainment industry.
Based on what Han Zhou said, Wang Xiya built a mathematical model in her mind and roughly calculated: "I calculated that the current idol market can support four idol groups and at most ten top stars."
Han Zhou nodded: "What we need to do is to occupy these places, rather than creating a large number of idols and hurting our own market."
Wang Xiya: "But not everyone is under our control. One day, the market will collapse."
Han Zhou smiled: "No, as long as there are external conflicts, the market will not collapse."
Just like South Korea, they have a lot of bad debts, but there may not be a real bomb explosion. If someone used artillery shells to blow up the houses in the capital of South Korea before the bomb explosion, the bad debts would not exist.
Wang Xiya certainly knew what Han Zhou meant, but where were the external conflicts in the entertainment industry?
Han Zhou looked at Wang Xiya: "One step faster, every step faster."
"While others are still studying the decline of physical records, we are studying the idol market."
"Now that others are studying the idol market, it's time for us to study the international market."
Wang Xiya moved closer to Han Zhou and whispered, "How many people are there this time?"
"Are there still penguins? Mailang? Global China?"
Han Zhou whispered: "There are no penguins this time."
Han Zhou didn't really want to abandon his comrades.
But now, Penguin has started its own idol show.
They are capable of completing the closed loop of their own ecological chain.
Therefore, Han Zhou had no choice but to leave them alone.
Unless... the penguin can stand up and show that everyone is still on the same chariot.
When Han Zhou said this, he didn't expect that Penguin would follow up so quickly.
After the conversation, Wang Xiya returned to Yanjing. As soon as the plane landed, she received a call from Li Shanghong.
Li Shanghong wants to make the champion, runner-up and third place winner of Penguin's new idol program "Shining Girls" become ordinary contestants of "Winter of Idols" and direct all the program traffic to "Winter of Idols".
Wang Xiya immediately told Han Zhou the news.
And Han Zhou was silent.
If Li Shanghong did this and didn't take the penguin out to play, then it wouldn't be the penguin that was unkind, but himself.
However, Penguin discovered so quickly that the idol market is a bubble and a mine...
Such keen observation made Han Zhou a little hesitant about whether to take them with him.
At night, after thinking for a long time, Han Zhou decided that he might still bring the penguin this time.
I can't use the imagined future differences to deny the friendship of my current comrades, and they are such powerful comrades.
It costs hundreds of millions to make a program, and then all the traffic is directed to the new program that everyone is co-operating on, and the majority of the profits go to New World.
It’s so awesome. Even if we go our separate ways in the future, we will still walk together now.
Let's go.