Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 113 It’s Spring Festival again, prepare a new song

Because it’s close to the Chinese New Year, time is very tight.

Therefore, Zhou Ziheng did not waste much time taking the photos.

As soon as we finished shooting in one place, we rushed to another.

After leaving Dunhuang, Zhou Ziheng rushed to the northeast and found a snowy place in Harbin to take another set of snow photos.

After finishing this, I went to Shenzhen to take a set of urban photos.

For this group of producers, Zhou Ziheng has publicity purposes in mind.

In 2024, there will still be foreigners who think that the Chinese are so poor that they can only live in thatched huts.

Not to mention in this day and age.

Therefore, he wanted to use this set of photos to tell others that although China is still underdeveloped, it has begun to change dramatically.

It took Zhou Ziheng a total of sixteen days and half a month to shoot the seven sets of photos.

After taking the photos, Zhou Ziheng immediately contacted the people from EMi and asked them to contact the publishing house to publish and distribute this set of photos.

Similar to record release, photo albums also follow the same principle. They are taken by a production and photography company and then distributed by a publishing house.

Zhou Ziheng intends to distribute this set of photos throughout Asia, rather than in mainland China.

If you want to publish and distribute in other Asian countries, you can’t do without EMi as a central agency.

After temporarily handing over the photo album distribution to EMi, Zhou Ziheng began to get busy with his work.

The first is the book signing event in the Mainland.

After the release of "Fairy Tale", he went to Hong Kong a few days later and did almost no promotion in mainland China.

Now that he's back, he naturally has to pick up the autograph session again.

You can't take care of your godson and forget about your biological daughter!

So, taking advantage of the few days left before the Chinese New Year, Zhou Ziheng began traveling all over China.

With the hot sales of several consecutive albums and the passage of time, Zhou Ziheng's influence in the mainland has become increasingly widespread and is no longer limited to those few major cities.

There are also many people in small cities and rural areas who listen to his songs.

For this signing event, Zhou Ziheng is no longer limited to major coastal cities, but has begun to include inland cities as well.

For example, Chengdu, Xi'an and other places.

This can actually be considered as a warm-up for his concert in the near future.

However, Zhou Ziheng wanted to go to more places for signings so that his fans could get closer to him.

But time did not allow him to do so.

After February, he had to stop his signing activities and rush to Beijing.

The Spring Festival is coming.

This year's Spring Festival falls on February 10th.

As the only one in mainland China who even sells his records to Southeast Asia, Zhou Ziheng is naturally indispensable in this year's Spring Festival Gala.

He was almost the first singer to be invited.

Moreover, this year's Spring Festival Gala program team directly gave Zhou Ziheng an order to compose a song suitable for the Spring Festival Gala.

This is actually mainly the blame left over from the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.

Zhou Ziheng released a new song at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala and also specially composed a song to suit the occasion.

This made the Spring Festival Gala program team jealous.

It’s impossible that you, Zhou Ziheng, can sing a new song at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala and even compose one specifically for it, but not be able to sing it at the Spring Festival Gala!
In fact, it’s not that “Fairy Tale” is not good.

This song was indeed somewhat unorthodox in the mainland at that time.

But that's because you're not popular.

If you become as popular abroad as Zhou Ziheng, you will be extremely popular in Singapore, Thailand and other places.

No matter how unconventional your song is, it is still popular, awesome, and worthy of being performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

Therefore, the Spring Festival Gala program team is actually not opposed to "Fairy Tale".

However, compared to this song which has become popular all over the country.

The Spring Festival Gala program team obviously felt that it would be better to let Zhou Ziheng sing the new song.

After all, Zhou Ziheng may now be a well-known hit song maker in the mainland.

Well, three albums in a row.

Each album has a large number of good songs, which directly earned Zhou Ziheng this title.

However, the proposal for Zhou Ziheng to compose songs for the Spring Festival Gala gave Zhou Ziheng a headache.

He can already imagine the scene where the Spring Festival Gala program team will ask him to compose songs every year when the Spring Festival comes.

In fact, he could just pick out any song.

But this is the Spring Festival Gala!
This is the stage with the highest ratings, the largest number of viewers, and the greatest influence in the Chinese-speaking region. If Zhou Ziheng were asked to sing any song, he really couldn't do it.

What should I do?
I can only copy a song from my mind.

It can't be of average quality.

After careful consideration, I thought about it again and again.

He finally decided to use his hit song "Gong Xi Fa Cai".

Everyone says that Andy Lau can't sing as well as Jacky Cheung.

Yes, but in terms of singing skills, Jacky Cheung is indeed better than Andy Lau.

But in terms of the number of good songs.

In Zhou Ziheng's opinion, Andy Lau is definitely far superior to Jacky Cheung.

This is not a question of Jacky Cheung singing more covers or Andy Lau singing more original songs.

It’s a question of the song’s influence.

Andy Lau's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and "Chinese" are such songs.

Who can't sing these two songs?

A song that bombards you every day during the Spring Festival.

The other song is one that your teacher taught you to sing since you were in elementary school.

With these two songs, Andy Lau will definitely occupy an important position in the Chinese music scene.

And it is a status that has lasted for a long time.

Speaking of covers, although there are many covers in Hong Kong, most singers are keen on covers.

But Andy Lau cannot actually be counted among them.

Zhou Ziheng did some research and found a peculiar problem, that is, all of Andy Lau's popular songs were sung by the original singers.

The original song here is not original.

The two cannot be mentioned in the same breath.

The original singer is the first person who is given to you to sing after the creator creates the song. You are the first person to sing the song. This is called the original singer.

The original author refers to the person who created the song.

Well, many of Jacky Cheung’s songs have an original Japanese verse.

Closer to home.

The song Zhou Ziheng decided to play this time was Andy Lau's Spring Festival song "Gong Xi Fa Cai".

This song is a must-sing for time travelers at the Spring Festival Gala.

If Zhou Ziheng didn't copy it, he would be sorry for his fellow time travelers and also sorry for Andy Lau.

Because of the tight schedule, Zhou Ziheng submitted the lyrics and music of the song to the program team for review on February 2nd, and immediately borrowed CCTV's recording studio to start producing the song.

"Gong Xi Fa Cai" is a song with excellent combination of lyrics and melody, and with strong and distinctive national characteristics.

Every sentence is easy to understand and well-reasoned, just like Bai Juyi's works, deeply rooted in people's hearts.

It is understandable to both women and children, and is interesting and suitable for being passed on by word of mouth.

In addition, the taboo phrase "Congratulations on your prosperity" is put into the song to praise the good fortune, which makes people feel considerate and happy, and shares the real joy of the New Year.

In the past, after this song was performed on the Spring Festival Gala, it immediately became the most popular song during the Spring Festival.

Every time around the Chinese New Year, this song is always played in major supermarkets and on the streets.

Zhou Ziheng felt that even if he had released this song about ten years earlier.

But it will surely spread widely.

He was very confident about this song.

Of course, if Zhou Ziheng wants to sing this song, he definitely can't sing it in the same way.

Because some of the lyrics were timely in 2005.

In order to make them more relevant to the present, Zhou Ziheng made some slight modifications to these songs.

This is actually not too difficult for Zhou Ziheng.

Although all the songs in his albums were copied from later generations.

But he does have some musical accomplishment, and he can't say for sure that he can compose classic songs.

But it can be done by changing a few words.

His new version not only surpasses the original.

Anyway, it’s not bad and is more suitable for this era.

It won’t feel abrupt or strange.

(End of this chapter)