Chapter 541 The Number One Genius?

"I don't know when, but the name Li Qian has become a standard. Every time I hear a new album bought from the market, I can't help but use such a standard to measure it—— - This level is far worse than Li Qian! Or - Li Qian is probably at this level! Or - only a little bit worse than Li Qian, which is already very good!

All of this is because in the past few years, Li Qian has shown us his comprehensive and powerful creative ability, from the many heavenly discs he created for the queens of Minghu Culture, to the The two breathtaking rock and roll masterpieces of the Four Great Beauties, which he himself sang as the lead singer, are nothing like this.

He even made the first global album of a Chinese singer tailored for Liao Liao, and his control of European and American pop music and his excellent creative ability shown in that album are just like his grasp of domestic music and Creation is the same, it has reached its pinnacle.

In this way, he is certainly a standard. And it is of the highest standard!

This time, after the temporary suspension of the four beauties, Li Qian, known as the leader of the music scene, finally brought us his first solo album.

Not rock, but still very good!

This is very Li Qian. "

——"Yanjing Daily Supplement"

"A total of one album, there are four subdivided music categories, including pop, folk, and rock, and there are even two western rap-style works unexpectedly. Unexpectedly, this is indeed another It's a pot of mishmash! It's just that Li Qian is a good cook after all. In this pot of mishmash, French fries are French fries, and sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes. As for whether you like French fries or roasted sweet potatoes, it depends on personal taste!"

——"Oriental Entertainment News"

"As always, the high standard! The folk songs are very good, the love songs are very good, especially "Dark Fragrance", which is full of twists and turns, and the dark fragrance is faint. It is definitely a rare masterpiece in today's domestic music scene. Emotional and sexual!

The two Chinese rap songs are difficult to listen to, the lyrics style is even more weird, and "The First Experience of Love" is almost a mess, but the strange thing is that this song is actually the main song of the whole album. It can be seen that Li Qian's most important thing is actually This song is beyond comprehension! "

—— "Shuntian Daily Supplement Vertical and Horizontal Pen Talk"

"After making a best-selling international album for Liao Liao, maybe Li Qian thinks that he has mastered Western music with ease, but with all due respect, his two Chinese rap songs are useless. The lyrics, I can’t understand what he is singing! I have to borrow a corner of the newspaper to offer a little advice: It’s good to concentrate on writing your love songs, folk songs are good, rock is also good, or it’s good to shoot TV dramas ! As for rap, don’t touch it! I’m born to be unaccustomed!”

——"China Variety Weekly"

"...The author believes that this kind of exploration is worthy of encouragement, especially considering Li Qian's appeal and influence in the domestic music scene at that time, he was able to write such a style of work by himself, and published it on his first page. In the first solo album, the attitude alone is worthy of encouragement! For domestic musicians who are engaged in this kind of niche music, it is also a great encouragement! Although rap is a minority, it is not completely without audience. From another perspective, our Chinese music scene needs such a flourishing of flowers!"

——"Suncheon Metropolis Daily"

"...Actually, I quite appreciate Li Qian's courage, and considering his status in the music world, he should be the most confident person to do this matter. However, as for the result, Personally, it is really hard for me to be optimistic. As we all know, oranges grown in Huainan will turn into oranges, while those in Huaibei will turn into trifoliate oranges. Unacceptable climate and water and soil cannot be reversed by humans.

Although in my opinion, the two songs "William's Castle" and "Old Indian Turtledove" should be relatively outstanding works among domestic rap songs, but for his domestic fans Personally, I am not optimistic about the response and feedback that can be obtained!

On the contrary, for "The First Experience of Love", which many colleagues are criticizing, I find it very interesting! Of course, personally speaking, I like the two songs the most, one in front and one in the back.

"Jiangnan" is a very beautiful R&B. It is currently at the top level in China. Compared with the few English R&B songs he made for Liao Liao before, it is not much better! "Dark Fragrance", a typical classical composition method, is very beautiful. You ordinary fans may just think it sounds good, but I can say that the more experienced you are, the more you know how good and awesome this song is!

Over the years, Li Qian has shown us his extremely comprehensive and abundant creative talent, his creative breadth, needless to say, in just five or six years, he has not only produced a huge output, a large number of works, but also various works. A style, a variety of genres, right, a very comprehensive ability to control. At the same time, his creative height is still very high, this is really, few people can match!

A work like "Dark Fragrance" is one of his works that can represent the height. I personally feel that it should be on the same level as his classic song "Farewell" a few years ago!

I think... I personally think that Li Qian put his two works in the album like this, one in front and one in back, the front leads the way and the back presses the line, this should also have some personal tendencies..."

——Shuntian Yinyuetai "Big Guys Say Big Guys", guest: famous songwriter, Liu Yue.

"I wrote a series of about 20 articles before, discussing and explaining the lyrics of Li Qian's past 20 music works in detail. It can be regarded as an appreciation of lyrics. I remember that I said at the time that hidden in Li Qian's Beneath his extraordinary musical talent is his rare poetic talent! From the earliest "Wild Flowers", this talent is so heart-wrenching, and now, when Li Qian's new album "First Experience of Love" is released Afterwards, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the lyrics book of the new album is indeed another small collection of poems!

Of course, the ten songs are not all poetic, but in my opinion, there are at least five or six of them, which are worth talking about and sharing with you, and the outstanding ones, in my opinion, are "Dark Fragrance", "William's Castle" and "Childhood", the reason why I chose these three songs is because they probably represent the three most typical styles of Li Qian's lyrics creation..."

—— "Dong-A Ilbo"

"Old Turtledove Indian" and "William Castle" are so in love! With all due respect, although Brother Qian was so popular before, his songs are really loveless, from Liao Liao, He Runqing, to Rose Power, Zhuang Mei Yue, it’s just enough to listen to. His rock is popular enough, but I still can’t fall in love! It wasn’t until I heard a few English R&B songs in Liao Liao’s album last year that I felt something interesting and started to change it. I have been exposed to his songs and works a lot, and when this album is released, I am instantly amazed!

Our domestic rap albums have at least ten or eight albums, but none of them can reach the level of his two songs! Chinese rap, fluent and natural, and the style is grotesque and absurd, but full of wit and wit! Not as fierce or wild as the lyrics in English rap works. Even if he raps, he has a Chinese-specific subtlety, but the subtlety is just right. If you taste it carefully, the fun in it will make you feel An indescribable sense of joy, at least at the moment, I can't imagine any works that fit the definition of Chinese rap music better than these two songs!

There is also the song "Jiangnan", which is not clear whether it should be his Chinese style or R&B, but the R&B style is quite strong, it is even more flamboyant! This is the first time I heard such R&B with strong Chinese flavor! Moreover, I dare to boldly say that this album, no matter R&B, rap, or our Chinese folk songs, is definitely a super masterpiece with the highest level in China at present, and it is not even weaker than the albums of European and American superstars!

So, I announce that starting today, starting from this album, I have decided to call him "Guru" together with you! Worship from now on!

What, you said that the leader has already made this kind of international-level album before? Please, Liao Liao's album is English songs! Using English songs to create an international taste, at best, can only show that the leader can go to Europe and the United States without any problem. Does it have anything to do with whether the Chinese songs are good or not? "

——The long post on the top of the music section of Sohu.com, "Li Qian, you are my "leader" now!" "

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As the "leader" of the music scene, Li Qian's release of an album is a major event for the entire domestic music scene.

Although there is no overwhelming publicity, and there are no various programs running around, the promotion of this album is not really in place before it is released, and there will be many fans who usually do not pay much attention to the daily trends of entertainment. A new album has been released, but anyone who pays close attention to industry trends, even if they just read relevant reports, watch related variety shows, or listen to any music program on any radio station, will definitely know that "The First Love" "Experience" is launched.

In particular, starting from the day after the album was released, almost all the media in the country, especially the major music stations, variety shows, and variety supplements of major newspapers, almost fully exerted their efforts, and began to discuss it with praise or criticism. After buying this album, coupled with the word of mouth of those who had already bought the album before, the word-of-mouth of this album quickly spread to the maximum extent!

To put it simply, there are mixed reviews!

However, love songs like "The First Time" and "Kiss Goodbye", which are the easiest to attract the love of most people in the first place, quickly became the most popular songs on almost all radio stations!

And the most surprising thing is that these two songs are not the hottest yet.

The hottest ones are "Jiangnan" and "First Experience of Love"!

All of a sudden, no matter where you go, wherever you go, as long as there is an audio-visual store, as long as there are speakers, you can almost hear "circle circle circle circle circle, every day every day" and "give me back my photo" !

Of course, criticisms of "Castle William", "Old Indian Turtledove" and "First Experience of Love" are not uncommon in the columns of major newspapers!

However, considering Li Qian's illustrious reputation in the music industry and his incredible achievements in the past, before the feedback from the market has really come back, the real data such as sales and on-demand rankings have not come out. In the past, except for a few eye-catching people, the vast majority of music critics, even if they didn't like Li Qian's "radicalism" this time, in order to avoid being slapped in the face in the future, they temporarily restrained themselves. It’s just bad-mouthing, or expressing a pessimistic and pessimistic attitude, and I didn’t directly step on these songs. The higher the level, the more face-saving, everyone is afraid of being slapped in the face .

And just when the music world started to be noisy because of such an album, showing an unprecedented noise, when the time entered the end of April, the registration of "Super Girl" in all parts of the country was officially closed.

On the day after the registration deadline, the program audition officially began.

The teams are led by three guest instructors He Runqing, Zhen Zhen and Cao Zhan respectively. Each team also invites a well-known music critic or musician, as well as a well-known singer. The curtain of the audition for "Super Girl" was opened in a mighty manner.

And just on May 1, at the launching ceremony of the national audition held by HUNAN Satellite TV, a senior official of HUN Shafu, hundreds of reporters from major domestic media gathered together, but unfortunately, although except for the three guest mentors In addition, Qi Jie also attended on behalf of Minghu Culture. Xie Bing also sang the theme song of "Super Girl" at the launching ceremony. Li Qian, who ranked first, was not there!

The reporters were obviously dissatisfied with this, but there was nothing they could do about it. After a few years, all the people who ran the news became very clear about Li Qian's behavior style. So at this time, at most, they can only hold Qi Jie, He Runqing, Xie Bing and others from Minghu Culture to inquire about it and go back to gather news.

So much so that even though "Super Girl" has been in full swing since its initial publicity, it has become overwhelmingly popular and overwhelming. However, at its national launch ceremony, the most concerned and asked questions by reporters were actually It happens to be Li Qian's new album.

Of course, at the same time, under the office building of Minghu Culture, Zhou Mo's sheep pen alley, and outside the gate of Shuntian Film Academy, the number of reporters waiting all day and all day increased rapidly.

However, after a few years, not only did they already know Li Qian very well, but Li Qian also knew them very well, and he was too easy to be caught by them.

So another strange thing during this period is that when many newspapers published reports or commented on the album "First Experience of Love", it was accompanied by a picture of Zhou Mao in sportswear going out for a run!

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Monday, May 2, 2000.

Dongguan Bookstore’s record sales rankings were released on time, and “The First Experience of Love” directly airborne to the top of the list without any suspense. Zhao Xinfu's "Love Doesn't Stop" was directly suppressed.

However, when it comes to absolute sales, the album's sales data in the first week of release, a total of five days of sales, is not particularly impressive.

43816 sheets!

For ordinary singers, even He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu, this is a relatively normal first-week data, and it may appear slightly lower, but it is not abnormal, but for Li Qian, with the previous four "Once Upon a Time" by the Beauty Band, his status in the domestic music scene can be said to be unique above all others. In terms of influence and fan loyalty, he is at the same level as Liao Liao and the others, so This first week's data is quite low for him.

You know, in the first week of the release of the album "Once Upon a Time", sales reached a record-breaking 147,269 copies in a single week! By the third week, there were 103,548 more than 100,000! That is a super sales record that no one can even get close to, let alone broken!

However, even so, almost no one in the industry is still bad-mouthing and criticizing.

Because firstly, there is almost no corresponding release promotion for this album. Compared with the first week and second week efforts of other albums, its first-week sales cannot reach a relatively ideal value, which is normal; secondly, , after all, it is Li Qian's album, just looking at the data of a week is bad news?

There are basically no such stupid people in China now!

However, as soon as this relatively low sales data came out, there were inevitably more discussions to some extent.

Among them, especially those involving the album's first title song "First Experience of Love" and the two rap-style works, there are still different opinions and mixed reviews.

All of a sudden, the word "rap" has vaguely become the most popular vocabulary in the current music circle. Major newspapers and magazines have invited musicians and music critics to write articles. Variety music programs have also invited some well-known music producers or singers to comment personally, and they have talked about "rap" one after another, as if suddenly, if you don't know what rap is, you will be left behind.

Of course, no one can find Li Qian!

It was rumored in the industry that both HUNAN Satellite TV and Suncheon Satellite TV had a good relationship with Li Qian. The senior leaders of the two TV stations couldn't stand the begging of the staff below, so they were forced to call Li Qian in person, hoping that he could come to the show, but in the end, It was still rejected by Li Qian without hesitation.

There were even rumors that a person at the level of deputy director of Huaxia TV had personally called Li Qian, but the result was the same as before, just two words: no!

The entertainment circle is a vanity fair, and it is a place of right and wrong. These two news came out one after another. For a while, some people praised, some scolded, some ridiculed and some were bitter—you know, when it came to a satellite TV station, even the director and deputy station of Huaxia TV station People of that level, let alone singers, are already at the level that most record companies dare not easily offend. You want to be on shows, you want to promote, you want to be exposed, and you even want to go to some variety shows to make money , the TV station must already be an extremely important platform for singers!

However, when someone at the director level called to invite him personally, Li Qian not only didn't even show his face, but even bluntly refused on the phone!

Don't be too bold, just because of his position and style, he has definitely broken through the sky! It's just so enviable!

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Wednesday, May 3, afternoon.

After being dormant for more than ten days, the reporters who were in charge of watching Zhou Mo at Yangjuan Hutong this afternoon suddenly discovered that Zhou Mo was going out!

Although it was only a business car of Minghu Culture that came to pick her up, not Li Qian's broken off-road vehicle, it still cheered up the spirits of the journalists who had been watching with cross-eyed eyes.

As the news spread, a large number of reporters rushed over and followed the guidance of their peers.

The more they chased, the more exciting it became. The commercial vehicle actually went straight to the northern suburbs!

As a result, the business vehicle sent by Minghu Culture had just left the North Fourth Ring Road with Zhou Mo, and was already followed by a long convoy.

Behind the long guns and short cannons are a pair of shining eyes like wolves!

Who knows if Li Qian is waiting in a holiday villa over the Miyun Reservoir or some other holiday villa!

But soon, the car had just left the city, and there was a row of more than a dozen cars behind it. The commercial vehicle got off the expressway halfway before it arrived at the Miyun Reservoir, and then took a long The convoy of more than a dozen vehicles turned around and headed back to Shuntian Mansion.

Then, the car swaggered back to Yangjuan Hutong. Zhou Mo got out of the car gracefully, and even gestured "Oh yeah" to the reporter who got out of the car in a hurry. With a smile on his face, he opened the door and went home.

The commercial vehicle was about to turn around, but the driver stopped the car again, looked at the reporters with a look of pity, and then stepped on the gas pedal, roaring away.

At this moment, many reporters were stunned.

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In the afternoon, almost at the same time as Zhou Mo specially called a car from the company to take the reporter for a walk, in front of an unknown old-fashioned tea house on a street in Shuntian Prefecture, a seemingly inconspicuous Volkswagen brand car drove by. Stopping on the side of the road, Li Qian got out of the car without even wearing sunglasses.

After entering the teahouse, before he could ask, someone in the booth stood up and waved to him.

Li Qian nodded to the stunned front desk clerk, turned around and walked over.

A few steps away, the two stretched out their hands, held each other tightly, and then let go.

"President Chen, I have kept you waiting."

"No, I have just arrived, please sit down!"

When the two sat down, Chen Youcheng stared at Li Qian intently for a few seconds, and then he realized that it was really impolite to stare at people like this, so he raised his hand to help him in a little embarrassment. Glasses, said with a smile: "From the time I signed the contract for "Jade Blood Sword" and I knew Mr. Li that you were the author of that book, I have been looking forward to meeting this time, and now my wish is finally fulfilled!"

Li Qian smiled, "You are too polite. The main reason is that I have been very busy recently, and secondly, I don't want to attract attention. You also know that I have always insisted that I am not allowed to reveal that I am the author of these two books..."

"No, no, no," Chen Youcheng interrupted impatiently, and said, "Mr. Li, you misunderstood, and I don't mean to blame you!" While speaking, he smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I don't know if there is any How many reporters want to find you and interview you? It is a great honor to come out and meet with me at this time!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly smiled "haha", turned his head and picked up a stack of books from his seat, "I'm kidding you, don't look at me in my fifties, I'm old, but I want to chase it back Star!" While speaking, he took out another signing pen from himself and handed it over, "I'm afraid I'll forget about it when I talk about books and writing later, can you sign it for me first?"

Li Qian smiled slightly, took the pen, pulled the book over, opened the cover to write, but said: "You always call me Mr. Li, this is a bit too polite, you should call me Li Qian!"

Chen Youcheng laughed, "Then call you Brother Li! In terms of age, I may be able to call you by your first name, but in terms of talent and achievements, calling you Brother Li is considered my superior!"

Li Qian smiled and shook his head.

He knew the polite way among literati, but he was too lazy to push back and forth for a title, so he simply took a pen and signed it, just saying: "You can call me happy!" In terms of mental age, he is four years old. In his early teens, when it comes to friendship with a person in his early fifties, it is most appropriate to be an older brother.

After brushing and writing, the cap of the pen was closed, and the book was pushed back. Li Qian said: "The handwriting is very poor, I will make you laugh."

Chen Youcheng opened it and glanced at it, only to see that it was written in flamboyant patterns: "Mr. Yangshan's Essence—Jin Yong", and he couldn't help showing a beaming expression in an instant.

Mr. Yangshan is his nickname, also called his nickname, or another name.

Li Qian is a public figure, and it is of course relatively easy for ordinary people to know a lot of basic information about him, but Chen Youcheng is just the president of a publishing house. Although he claims to be a literati, he is still a publisher. Too much fame, but unfortunately, Li Qian, who has never met him, actually knows his nickname that is only known in the small circle. It can be seen that at least after meeting this time, he has done his homework very seriously. Now He also deliberately wrote his number on the title page to show respect. For literati, this is a matter of great face.

When the ancients met politely, they would often say things like "I have admired you for a long time, and you are like a thunderbolt". Although it gradually became polite over time, the reason why it became a polite saying that everyone said was precisely because this saying was the most popular. Today's China largely retains many ancient customs, especially cultural people, and most of them have more or less old-fashioned literati.

"I didn't expect my little name to fall into the ears of your brother Li. Hehe, I laughed!"

While speaking, he put away his pen and autograph book contentedly, with a satisfied expression on his face.

For now, this is likely to be the only set of "Legend of the Condor Heroes" signed by the author in the country!

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Chen Youcheng not only runs a publishing house passed down from his father's generation, but he is also a book addict, especially martial arts novels. Li Qian's first "Jade Blood Sword" posted to various publishing houses, was either rejected by many publishing houses, or had a lukewarm attitude. Only his publishing house, after receiving the manuscript, I sent a reply soon, saying that it could be published, and in terms of the market, the remuneration given was not low.

Of course, today's Li Qian doesn't care too much about the higher or lower manuscript fees for several books. Since the cooperation is good, he won "Jade Blood Sword", which is equivalent to winning "Legend of the Condor Heroes".

"Jade Blood Sword" didn't sell very well, but it was profitable. After "Legend of the Condor Heroes" came out, within a few months, it has always been at the forefront of the sales rankings of major bookstores. The last book was released last month , the single edition of this book, and a set of four collector's editions released later, are all big sellers!

With this book, Chen Youcheng naturally made a lot of money!

You can imagine how important the author's position in his heart is for a book that not only admires Chen Youcheng as a reader, but also earns a lot of money for him as a publisher!

And there is another very important point, that is, he is currently one of the very few people who know the true identity of the author "Jin Yong"!

For example, in the various sales lists released by Dongguan Bookstore this Monday, most people in the publishing industry only pay attention to the best-selling lists of books, so they only know that the cutting-edge martial arts writer named Jin Yong, with a "Legend of the Condor Heroes" "The four single volumes and a set of collector's editions have won five of the top 20 best-sellers. Among them, the fourth volume of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has been on the market for nearly a month, and it is still the best. He was firmly at the top of the list, so he yearned for this mysterious up-and-coming writer, and racked his brains to obtain the author's contact information from the publishing house under Chen Youcheng, so as to compete for his next book.

As for people in the record industry and music circles, they only know that although the sales volume of Li Qian's new album did not reach the expected level in the first week, it still airborne to the top of the list without any suspense. The gossip in the industry was spreading wantonly, and the major media did not need Minghu Culture to pay a dime for publicity, but they took the initiative to discuss and discuss because of "The First Experience of Love", and they did it for this album unintentionally. The greatest degree of publicity, and so on, have made everyone envious.

It's just that no one would associate these two completely irrelevant people together!

However, Chen Youcheng, who personally handled the secret signing of Li Qian's two novels from the beginning to the end, is very clear about the fact that the two top names on the best-selling list are actually the same person!

So, after chatting with each other for a while, he couldn't help but said with emotion: "Writing songs and making music, of course you can't choose the level of your brother Li! Filming TV series is also well known, and now writing books is also so talented! Really! Yes... others don't say it, but I admire it so much!"

After a pause, he didn't wait for Li Qian to speak, and continued: "This time I asked your brother out, first of all, I want to make an appointment with your brother for a book, and hope to continue to cooperate with your brother, and second, I just want to ask, I don’t know when my brother plans to announce your real identity!"

Speaking of this, he looked rosy, shook his head slightly, and sighed three times, with a posture of pride, and said with emotion: "The number one in the best-seller list, and the best-selling music album list The author is actually the same person, if this is announced, my brother, it’s hard to tell if it’s too far away. In the past few decades in our country, your title as the number one talent has been stabilized!"

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Another big chapter, this time eight thousand characters. I originally wanted to dismantle it, after all, I still owe a debt! But after thinking about it again, let’s write it first, let’s not talk about debts and debts, just write a few days of big chapters, and the debts will be almost cleared. Because I found out that every time I said I had to repay a chapter of my debts, something would happen the next day...