Chapter 409 Brother, What's the Point of Playing Rock Music? (4k)

Weird makeup, weird music, and indescribable lighting, everything looks gloomy and mysterious.

If this place was not decided by Zhou Yi, Jay Chou would even doubt where this place is.

Obviously, many of the audience were scared, some swore, some booed, but the long-haired and gloomy cross-dressing man on the stage was still as steady as an old dog, singing the song without being affected at all.

It was that the strong Northeast Errenzhuan style was somewhat beyond the understanding of many audiences on the scene-

Not to mention them, even Xiao Yaxuan and Zhang Shaohan, as musicians, could not understand it.

On the contrary, Sun Yanzi, who has been looking for all kinds of strange and weird music to listen to, frowned at the beginning, shook his head, and couldn't help but beat the rhythm with his feet: "This is really... strange rock."

It feels very strange.

If you want to say it's good, it's definitely not good in the sense of the general public. At its peak, it should be a carnival in a niche circle.

But if you want to say it's unpleasant... she really heard something else.

"Of course it's strange, he deliberately took this unconventional approach."

Zhou Yi, who stretched out his hand to Sun Yanzi under the underworld lighting, was almost scared by the latter. When he found out that it was him, he breathed a sigh of relief and let the man take a piece of melon from his hand and walk away-

"He used to sing rock in the imperial capital and it was quite normal. However, at the end of the last century, not only did he not sing, but he was treated differently at a rock festival in Harbin. In a fit of anger, he put on women's makeup backstage and performed on stage.

"As a result, this operation made him famous and he began to have more opportunities to perform and make money.

"Compared to the rock attitude, this is actually more like a path dependence he accidentally discovered. Even if he is scolded by many people, as long as he captures the mentality of some people who are willing to watch him go crazy and play the clown, at least the band can survive.

"Although there may be a few people who are willing to watch him. ”

Why did the members of Second Hand Rose change over the years and continue to come and go until 2009? It was because they were paid less.

“How do you know so much? Did you meet them when you were hanging out in the bar street before?”

Sun Yanzi was a little curious.

“I haven’t seen them. I don’t know whether they have seen me or not.”

Zhou Yi smiled and shrugged: “I’m not bragging. I used to be a little famous in this area.”

“They should have the title of Little Zhou Yi, maybe they can be more popular.”

Jay Chou, who came over, happened to hear his self-boasting words and smiled and said: “It’s just like seven out of ten people in Taiwan want to debut as Little Zhou Yi.”

“That’s true. The newcomer Pan Weibo from Universal Records became popular with the name of Little Zhou Yi. ”

Zhang Shaohan, who is also an old acquaintance, invited Jay Chou to sit down. The two people who used to be the most transparent in Zhou Yi's MV "I Love You" have now improved to the status of being able to sit at the table for dinner.

"I know that person, he is quite nice."

After more than two years of experience, Jay Chou, who is no longer shy, smiled and talked about some interesting things in the circle: "I also learned English from him, and he also recommended an English teacher to me."

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"What's wrong, why are you all looking at me so strangely? ? ”

Jay Chou, who was suddenly stared at by four people with strange eyes, might feel a little embarrassed: "I didn't go to college, it's normal that I don't know English, okay, you guys can--"

Jay Chou got stuck when he said this.

Zhou Yi, graduated from Peking University, his English is so good that he can graduate from English major;

Sun Yanzi, Singaporean, English is her mother tongue;

Xiao Yaxuan, although not a foreigner, also went to Canada to study at a young age, and her English is also very good.

Angela Zhang, Chinese, is also the only one among the four who didn't go to college. These two prerequisites are the same as him. But she went to Canada to live with her parents when she was young and was forced to learn English...

Damn!!

Am I really the only one who can't speak a foreign language?!

Looking around, Jay Chou suddenly realized that I was the "illiterate"?

"Forget it, let's avoid this topic. "

Feeling that he might be embarrassed if he continued to talk about this topic, Jay Chou took a bite of the apple and waved his hands: "I have a question for you. Will anyone of you release an album in March this year?"

"March?"

It was the first time that the three women heard Jay Chou ask others about their album release plans so clearly. Sun Yanzi, who was just watching the show, asked again: "That's not the case. But why do you ask this? What, are you afraid of a challenge?"

"Speaking of these, when have I ever been afraid? I dare to release my album on the date of Zhou Yi's album." When it comes to music, even though his current performance is clearly not as good as Zhou Yi's, Jay Chou is still not afraid, and even has a posture of fighting again and again and never giving up.

He was at the peak of his personal creation and was full of energy every day, especially with Zhou Yi, a powerful opponent. Inspirations were sparking in his head every day, although many of them were inspired by Zhou Yi's album songs.

This was also a point that he sincerely admired Zhou Yi.

It was a miracle that the album was still sold well while balancing artistry and commerciality.

"Then why did you ask about March?" Xiao Yaxuan was a little curious.

"It's Cai Yilin's album. She is going to make a comeback. She plans to release her comeback album in March. This album is very important to her, so she deliberately chose March, which is a low season, to release it, in order to become a hit and return to the mainstream music market."

Speaking of his girlfriend who was acting like a real girlfriend, Jay Chou's smile was somewhat bright: "She is not familiar with you, and knowing that I am coming to the mainland this time, she asked me to ask about the date of your album. If it is possible to bump into her, change the date."

To be honest, he really just felt that the company's hype of "Double J Love" was annoying at first.

But it must be said that Cai Yilin, who had just returned from Japan, really hooked his emotional value. In their daily interactions, he even saw some of the charm of his goddess Xu Ruoxuan, and the two finally made a real play.

"I don't have it."

Hearing him say this, Sun Yanzi was the first to raise his hand to indicate that he had no such plan.

Her new album was only released in November last year, and the next album must be released at least half a year later to allow the market to fully digest it and not waste her high popularity.

Xiao Yaxuan, who released an album in July last year, shrugged: "I don't have it either. After renewing my contract with Viking, my terms are not so urgent. I have been busy with work for so long, and I plan to take a few more months off."

Not to mention Angela Zhang. Thanks to the declining performance of the record market, Fumao currently plans to let her, who unexpectedly became popular in the idol drama field, continue to shine in this field, relying on idol drama OSTs to accumulate more popularity before releasing the second album.

"Okay, then I'll notify her later."

Jay Chou was very excited to get a definite answer in person, and Zhou Yi wanted to laugh a little.

The so-called Double J love is actually a relationship with unequal status - in order to capture Jay Chou's heart, Cai Yilin, who was in a trough, would try to move closer to the direction he liked.

During this period, she privately chose to imitate Jay Chou's goddess Xu Ruoxuan, who was always wanted but not available.

The most typical representative should be the early collaboration song "Say I Love You" between the two.

This type of song is what Cai Yilin hates the most, and it is also the type of song she was forced to sing the most by the company before the lawsuit, otherwise she, the so-called boy killer, would not have jumped to Sony.

But when Cai Yilin became popular, the relationship between the two gradually became equal. At this time, Cai Yilin in private was no longer the Cai Yilin that Jay Chou expected and liked -

She wanted to be an independent woman. She saw this vent after crossing the river with Namie Amuro and Ayumi Hamasaki, and wanted to eat this fresh big cake. She wanted to fight for her career, and "Chivalry" written by her own lyrics was the way she wanted to go.

When there is a conflict in the route, breaking up is inevitable.

This is also one of the reasons why Jay Chou will be deeply affected by Chen Zeshan's chart buying incident in the future-

In front of the media, Cai Yilin was not even willing to laugh, and openly supported Chen Zeshan.

All this was just because Jay Chou could not help her to move to the next level, but Chen Zeshan could.

Cai Yilin's extreme fan group that tore apart the entire domestic music circle singers of the same generation was established under the single-handed operation of Chen Zeshan.

After learning, she was even able to change her own tactics, so that in the Internet age, even Jay Chou, who is the leading domestic singer in terms of the number of fans, could not fight or scold Cai Yilin's fans on the Internet.

The four big and three small singers of the same period were torn apart by her family, with a style of self-centeredness. After Zhang Shaohan unexpectedly regained her youth, she was immediately criticized for being a filial daughter;

After Ai Sun Yanzi's popularity led to Sun Yanzi's own rejuvenation, she kept looking for negative information about her, and even asked her sister Sun Yanmei, saying that she supported her to sever the sisterhood with her, so could you give her some solid evidence that your sister supports independence, just one sentence would do.

As a result, Sun Yanmei singled her out, saying that even if we severed the sisterhood, you Cai Yilin fans should not get involved and confuse right and wrong.

So, the question is, how did Sun Yanmei know that the other party was a fan of Cai Yilin?

Obviously, it was because her sister Sun Yanzi used to be a good friend of Cai Yilin.

Unfortunately, Sun Yanzi treated Cai Yilin as a best friend, but the latter used her as marketing material - after attending Sun Yanzi's wedding, she marketed herself as the only person in the circle invited by Sun Yanzi, and there were a lot of press releases about the deep sisterly love.

But in fact, at that time, Sun Yanzi invited only a few people to the wedding. In addition to Cai Yilin, she also invited Zhang Huimei and Cai Jianya, her celebrity friends in the circle. The former was unable to go because of an announcement, and the latter was unable to go because her father died and she was busy with the funeral.

Not to mention that some musician friends in the industry also went.

Sun Yanzi, who couldn't accept her sister using her wedding to market, has been drifting away from Cai Yilin since then.

Later, Cai Yilin also became a rare female singer who took more photos with male singers than female singers.

The other four big and three small ones have posted photos of themselves together later, in their own arrangement and combination. Only Cai Yilin didn't take photos with anyone, even when they attended the same event.

It's also a skill to be able to ruin everyone's relationship.

"Zhou Yi, what are you laughing at? Are you going to release an album in March?" Jay Chou was a little surprised.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yes, the new English album should be released in March if nothing goes wrong, because the Grammys are at the end of February."

"That's okay."

Jay Chou, who thought it was a Chinese album, waved his hand nonchalantly, and then asked curiously: "Have you decided on your second English album? What's the name of the album?"

"It's decided, it's called "Forever young"

Zhou Yi smiled and said the album name.

"Forever young? What does that mean? What style?"

Jay Chou was stunned.

He still understood this bit of English, after all, he was still learning English.

"Brother, you play rock, what's the point of playing it~~"

Just as Zhou Yi was about to speak, the opening line of the title song "Skills" of Liang Long, the lead singer of Second Hand Rose, came from downstairs. Then he smiled casually, raised his right thumb and pointed to the audience without looking back: "It's more rock elements."

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"Rock?"

New York, USA.

The director of the headquarters who was in charge of connecting with Zhou Jianhui heard the introduction of Zhou Yi's new song and frowned slightly: "Is this too risky?"

"No, believe me."

Zhou Jianhui expressed his trust in Zhou Yi openly: "Our next public relations will portray Spike as an image that is not afraid of the oppression of the evil forces in the music industry. Anyway, Eminem is a bad boy.

"Depending on the situation, we can ramp up to racial discrimination, but this move cannot be too fast. It depends on the direction of the Grammys."

"... OK, it's OK. "

After thinking for a while, considering Zhou Yi's huge commercial value and market, the visitor nodded, and then ended the conversation and walked out of the meeting room.

After wasting a lot of words, Zhou Jianhui could only curse in his heart.

Damn, you are still thinking about internal fighting at this time, your American headquarters is really a bunch of talented people.

It was only thanks to his argument that he slammed the table and almost had a fight with those idiots that he successfully decided on the established plan.

The angry Zhou Jianhui even rejected the invitation to the evening and prepared to calm down alone in the hotel suite. .

But at this time, he unexpectedly received a call from another big shot——

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Former president of Universal Group.

Of course, he also has another identity——Chairman of Bronfman Investment Group, which is trying to acquire Warner Music alone.

Because of the traditional art of the constant infighting within the Time Warner Group and the singer value and record value of Warner Music, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has set his sights on Warner Music, which Time Warner has not yet decided whether to cut out to save itself.

"I've heard of your name, Jianhui Zhou."

To show his sincerity, Edgar Bronfman Jr. even read out Zhou Jianhui's Chinese name: "I like Spike's music very much, and I know that he was discovered by you. I also like music very much. I think we should sit down and have a drink when we have time?"

"Mr. Bronfman, you should know that we can't meet privately for the time being. "Zhou Jianhui narrowed his eyes and said calmly.

"Nonono, we didn't meet in private, we just met by chance, by chance."

Edgar Bronfman Jr. emphasized.