Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 135 Shameless Plagiarist

(PS: This takes up a few words. I didn't pay attention to the information before. The 1994 Golden Melody Awards selected songs from April 1992 to April 4, so "Fairy Tale" could not be selected, so it was changed to "Sad Pacific". I have already changed it in the front, so you don't need to read it later. Then I will make up for the number of words occupied here later. I won't make up for it. There is no charge for less than 1993 words)
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As time goes by, the Wanwan Golden Melody Awards are getting closer.

In recent days, the competition for various awards has entered a white-hot stage.

In order to win the award, the finalists of each award have begun to make various efforts.

Invite judges and use the media to suppress opponents.

There are almost endless ways to do this.

Every day the Taiwanese media is full of news about this music award.

Today, someone has a chance to win the award.

Tomorrow a veteran singer will come out to support one of the selected candidates.

It can be said that the news these days is all about this.

Zhang Yusheng and Tong Ange kept their word and both spoke out in the media to support Zhou Ziheng.

Zhang Yusheng: "Zhou Ziheng's achievements last year are obvious to all. I think his "Sad Pacific" has the best chance of winning the best song of the year."

Tong Ange: "I think the song that has the best chance of winning the Golden Melody Award for the best song of the year should be "Sad Pacific Ocean"! This song not only has outstanding lyrics and composition, but also has a very wide influence."

Neither Zhang Yusheng nor Tong Ange said directly that they would be dissatisfied if Zhou Ziheng did not win the award.

Not to mention that saying this would cut them off from the Taiwanese music scene and offend the Golden Melody Awards.

More importantly, saying that could easily backfire.

Now this is just right.

They publicly stated that they felt "Sad Pacific" should win the award, which was like the Golden Melody Awards expressing their wishes.

At the same time, it does not offend the Golden Melody Awards.

Moreover, anyone who wins the Golden Melody Awards will consider the subsequent impact of what the two people said.

Ange Tong and Yusheng Zhang.

One is a superstar in the Taiwanese music scene. He was very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan as early as the 1980s and is a leading figure in the Taiwanese music scene.

The other is a leader among the current young generation.

The record sales are good and the songs are very influential.

The Golden Melody Awards must take these two people's opinions into consideration.

Otherwise, if they don't give the award to Zhou Ziheng, the public might feel that it's unfair.

After all, even a big shot like Tong Ange thinks that "Pacific Rim" deserves the award. If you don't give the award to it, will the public think so?

To a certain extent, the public will definitely question the fairness of the Golden Melody Awards.

In addition to speaking out, Tong Ange and Zhang Yusheng also actively helped contact familiar judges.

Please ask them to vote for Zhou Ziheng.

Zhang Yusheng even asked Peng Guohua for help to assist Zhou Ziheng in the public relations for the Golden Melody Awards.

Peng Guohua is no small figure.

His status in the Taiwanese music scene is equivalent to Zheng Donghan in Hong Kong.

He is at the level of a big boss behind the scenes.

Currently, Wanwan has participated in the two largest record companies, Rolling Stone and UFO.

He was originally one of the founders of Rolling Stone Records. Later, due to differences in ideas, he founded Feidie Records with Wu Chuchu and Chen Dali.

Under his leadership, Feidie Records discovered popular Chinese pop singers such as Wang Jie, Zhang Yusheng, Little Tigers, and Su Rui.

One can imagine how much help such a big shot can bring to Zhou Ziheng.

In almost one day, the wind direction of the Golden Melody Awards changed.

The situation where Zhou Ziheng and Jacky Cheung were originally evenly matched suddenly began to tilt towards Zhou Ziheng.

Even Jacky Cheung has been actively doing public relations.

Even asking all the singers under Fumao to support him and speak for him would be of no avail.

It seemed that the wind direction had completely turned to Zhou Ziheng.

On the 21st, after the internal voting for the Golden Melody Awards was completed, Jacky Cheung, who had heard the inside story and knew that he had no hope of winning, made a public statement directly in the media.

"It's an unfair award, I'd rather not accept it!"

After making these remarks, he even refused the Most Influential Male Singer Award that the Golden Melody Awards had originally prepared for him.

The next morning, I flew directly back to Hong Kong.

Jacky Cheung's sudden decision to quit the job has caused great offense to the Golden Melody Awards.

Not to mention that he ranted before leaving.

This forced the Golden Melody Awards to make temporary changes.

The Most Influential Male Singer award that was originally intended for him was given to Andy Lau.

The Best Arranger award was given to Zhou Ziheng for "Sad Pacific".

This, together with the Best Composition award won for "It's the Moon's Trouble".

Zhou Ziheng won three awards at this year's Golden Melody Awards.

Three awards may not seem like a lot, but in fact, for the Golden Melody Awards, which only has 18 awards, this is unprecedented.

This is the first time that one person has won three Golden Melody Awards since the awards were first presented in 1990.

Because the winners of the awards were known in advance, the Golden Melody Awards on the 23rd was generally more like a gathering among singers.

At least that's what Zhou Ziheng thought.

Although the Taiwanese music scene always mocks the Hong Kong music scene for entertaining itself.

Actually, to a certain extent, the Taiwanese music scene does not exclude Chinese singers from other regions from being nominated and winning awards.

But in general, Wanwan's awards are more focused on giving awards to Wanwan singers.

This can be seen from the list of winners of this year's award ceremony.

There were 18 awards. Except for Zhou Ziheng, a mainland singer who won three awards, and Andy Lau who won the most influential male singer award, the rest were all from Taiwan.

Perhaps they knew that most of the awards would be taken away by Taiwanese singers, so many nominated Hong Kong singers did not show up.

The entire venue was almost filled with Taiwanese singers.

Of course, Zhou Ziheng felt that the reason why most of the awards were taken away by Taiwanese singers might also be related to the fact that those Hong Kong singers were nominated but did not attend.

There is a saying that goes, "If someone respects me one foot, I will respect him one yard."

You Hong Kong singers have obviously been nominated, but you don’t give face and don’t come to participate in the awards.

Then why should I give you the award?

Anyway, Wanwan still has a lot of singers waiting to win awards!
Andy Lau is lucky this time.

In terms of ability, he is indeed worthy of the temporary title of the most influential male singer.

But if he hadn't come, maybe the award wouldn't have gone to him.

Coincidentally, he recently attended an event in Wanwan.

In addition, his song "Thank You for Your Love" was nominated for Song of the Year, so he attended the event in person.

This is not surprising.

Andy Lau came quickly in the name of not offending anyone.

The title of a good guy is not just for show.

Since he has established this character, he has to accept it.

If you are not in Wanwan, you can say that you are too busy to come, but if you are in Wanwan, it is unreasonable not to come. Just like Zhou Ziheng.

If he was in the mainland now and didn't come to Taiwan to hold a concert, he might not come, and the final result would be that the award was taken away by Jacky Cheung.

It just so happened that he was having a concert here and came.

Jacky Cheung is here too.

Both of them also did public relations for the first time.

Jacky Cheung lost and criticized the Golden Melody Awards and refused to accept the award. Then the award naturally went to Zhou Ziheng.

In fact, this does not mean that after Jacky Cheung leaves, the award will 100% belong to Zhou Ziheng.

After all, the competition for Song of the Year is quite fierce.

There were still a lot of good songs between May 1992 and May 5.

Among the songs nominated this time, there are several powerful songs.

Needless to say, Andy Lau's "Thank You for Your Love"

In terms of classicism, this song is in no way inferior to "Sad Pacific".

If the sales of "Pacific Rim" hadn't been so hot, it might not have won.

In addition, there are others including Wang Jie's "Going Home", Huang An's "New Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Dream", Su Rui's "Holding Hands" and so on.

Among them are a number of songs of high quality and popularity. The victory of "Sad Pacific" is inseparable from the sales factor.

After the awards ceremony, the Golden Melody Awards organizers held a banquet at the hotel, and most of the people who participated in the awards ceremony chose to attend.

It was also the first time for Zhou Ziheng to meet so many singers. Under the guidance of Tong Ange, he began to actively get to know these colleagues.

"This is Tai Zhengxiao. You should have heard his song 'Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses'. This song seems to be very popular in the mainland."

Under the guidance of Tong Ange, Zhou Ziheng got to know many Taiwanese singers and communicated with them.

As the banquet was coming to an end, Tong Ange introduced a singer who came to say hello to him to Zhou Ziheng.

"Yes, I know him very well. His original song "Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses" was the first song I learned to play guitar when I was a kid!
I originally wanted to buy this song from Mr. Wang Huiran to adapt it, but I didn't expect Mr. Shao to get there first.

However, your arrangement of this song is really good. If I were to revise it, I probably wouldn’t be able to reach this level.”

Zhou Ziheng spoke with a smile.

As he finished speaking, Tong Ange looked a little confused.

Shao Zhengxiao's face darkened visibly.

"Mr. Zhou, please don't joke around. This song is my original creation."

"Original?" Zhou Ziheng frowned, "But the climax is clearly the "Yi Dance" composed by Mr. Wang Huiran!

Don't tell me that you wrote this song more than 30 years ago?
Also, isn’t the main part of your song a cover of the Japanese song “Moonlight”?

There were quite a few people in the banquet hall.

Zhou Ziheng and Tong Ange are one of the most popular singers in the Chinese music scene in the past two years, and the other is a veteran singer.

Many people are always paying attention to them.

There were even a lot of people surrounding him.

After hearing what Zhou Ziheng and Shao Zhengxiao said, everyone immediately looked at Shao Zhengxiao strangely.

“Heh, although those guys in Hong Kong are just porters, when they cover a song, they never try to hide the fact that it is a cover. Not only do they pay copyright fees, they also unabashedly put the name of the original creator in the composer column.

Compared to them, some people's plagiarism is even more despicable than that of villains."

A sneer came from not far away, and Zhou Ziheng looked towards it.

When he saw that person, his eyes suddenly became strange.

It’s Wang Jie.

It is said that Wang Jie has a straightforward personality and his interpersonal relationships in the circle are average.

With this kind of personality, it would be strange for him to have any friends.

After knowing that Shao Zhengxiao had plagiarized, he chose to expose it in a roundabout way.

Wang Jie didn't care about Shao Zhengxiao's face at all and started to criticize him directly.

As expected, he is the guy who will be able to criticize the God of Songs directly on the show in the future. Zhou Ziheng really likes this kind of personality.

"Wang Jie, stop talking nonsense. Do you have any evidence to prove that I plagiarized?"

Shao Zhengxiao's face turned pale when Wang Jie mocked him, and he refuted it on the spot.

"Mr. Shao, if you want to cover a song, then cover it. Wanwan and Xiangjiang cover many songs every year.

I don't think you need to do this.

Or do you really want me to produce evidence?"

Hearing that he was still stubborn and refused to repent, Zhou Ziheng also got angry and interrupted directly:
"You don't think no one knows about the Yi Dance, do you?

This song has been around since the 1950s, and in mainland China, it has long been adapted into versions with various instruments.

Many singers, including me, played this song when they first started learning music.

Do you really think we don’t know?”

"Unreasonable!" Shao Zhengxiao looked grim. Seeing more and more people gathering around him, he felt guilty and did not dare to argue. After leaving a word, he strode away from the place.

"Did he really plagiarize that song?"

At this time, Tong Ange asked curiously.

"One hundred percent!" Zhou Ziheng nodded, "If you are interested, you can check it out. The song "Yi Dance" is very famous in the mainland.

Judging from Mr. Shao's expression just now, he obviously did not obtain the original author's authorization."

"What a pity, I originally quite liked this song." Tong Ange looked regretful.

"I understand, just like I know this song is plagiarized."

Zhou Ziheng shrugged and said helplessly.

As he said this, he walked towards Wang Jie.

He was very curious about the person who opened the peak era of Chinese pop music.

Some say that the peak era of Chinese pop music was in the 00s, while others say it was around .

No matter what time period.

Wang Jie has left a profound mark in every one of them.

He was the first person in the Chinese music scene to surpass all others in sales, forcing Hong Kong to form the Four Heavenly Kings to compete with him.

Although his performance has been a bit sluggish in the past two years and the quality of his songs has declined, this does not affect his status.

Many singers in later generations were influenced by him and became singers.

What Zhou Ziheng admires most about Wang Jie is that he was the first person to define the term "Chinese singer".

Before him, all singers were either called Hong Kong singers, Taiwanese singers, or mainland singers.

It was not until Wang Jie, during a performance in Singapore, that when a reporter asked him where he was from, that he said he was a Chinese singer.

Since then, the term "Chinese singer" has appeared and has become a general term for all singers in the Chinese-speaking region.

In addition, the more Zhou Ziheng got to know this guy, the more he discovered that he really liked this guy's personality.

Natural and true to nature.

Even though he received many beatings for this, his character remained the same.

Now, he was somewhat convinced that his throat was really poisoned, not caused by alcoholism.

(End of this chapter)