Chapter 67: The Song List for the Rest of Life!
"The Lord of the Ming Dynasty" is adapted from the feature of the same name in March Mountain, directed and filmed by Wang Pingjie, written by Bai Qingyan, and starring Chen Yuanbang and Zhu Lingyi.
The play starts from the political incident "Attack Case" where the prince Zhu Changluo was assassinated, and ends with Zhu Youzhi quelling the peasant uprising, repelling the Houjin invasion, and creating "Jingping Zhongxing".
In his youth, in order to avoid the struggle for power, Zhu Youzhi was free in the rivers and lakes, and the country suffered internal and external troubles, he resolutely returned to the temple, and the generals entered the phase, saving and continuing the Ming Dynasty.
There are countless film and television dramas about Zhu Youji, for example, one of the masterpieces of martial arts master Hua Wenliang "Frost Sword" is based on this history.
However, "The Lord of the Ming Dynasty" is different from the previous film and television dramas, it is the first drama that portrays the legendary life of the "Great Prince" Zhu Youzhi from the perspective of a drama.
Since the news of the filming of "The Prince" came out, it has attracted much attention, and the discussion about the actors, plot, and service during the filming process has not stopped, so both the actors and the behind-the-scenes staff involved in this drama are under a lot of pressure.
Director Wang Pingjie is even more so.
On the one hand, she doesn't want to live up to the expectations of CCTV leaders, and on the other hand, she doesn't want to disappoint the audience, so she strives for perfection in every aspect of the filming process.
The theme song is under such high requirements, and it has been dragged out until now.
At this time, Wang Pingjie received the new song from Bai Qingyan, and couldn't help but have the same doubts as Cao Mulan: "Why did you write it so quickly?"
Even so, based on her trust in Yu Sheng'an's talent, she still asked Xu Jia and her team to come over, thinking that everyone would listen to it and determine the final result.
Xu Jia was a little speechless when she learned that Yu Sheng'an wrote the theme song in one night, such a huge production that gathered so many people's efforts, and used a song written in one night as the theme song, it was just a joke.
He didn't have any opinions about Yu Sheng'an, he was simply a little upset by this link.
After a while, I arrived at the director's studio, and before I had time to say hello, I saw Director Wang wearing headphones and listening attentively.
The assistant director next to him pointed to another pair of headphones and motioned for Xu Jia to put them on, Xu Jia nodded, put on another pair of headphones, and Yu Sheng'an's high-pitched, loud and somewhat rich singing voice came out of the headphones:
"Look at the iron hooves, stepping on thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, I stand on the cusp of the storm and hold it tightly, the sun and the moon rotate, the blood floods the world, and I am peaceful and happy, I really want to live for another five hundred years~~~~~"
Xu Jia was suddenly calmed by these majestic and heroic songs, his expression was uncertain, and his mood was extremely complicated.
As the music director of "The King of Daming", he is of course familiar with the series, and selects the soundtrack, ending song, and interlude according to the plot, basically going through the whole play.
It is precisely because of this familiarity that he can deeply realize that the subtlety of these lyrics is simply the truest portrayal of Zhu Youzhi's life.
Zhu Youji's biggest regret in this life is two:
First, it failed to achieve the true unification of the Ming Dynasty;
Second, it failed to open up a new route and reproduce Zheng He's feat of going to the West.
When later generations talk about this legendary figure, they will occasionally imagine that if he could live another 50 years, then history will inevitably be a different scene, just as future generations will fantasize about Qin Shi Huang getting a world map.
Based on this historical fact, listening to the lyrics of "I really want to live another 500 years" again, the feeling will be extremely real, as if Zhu Youzhi really shouted this sentence at a certain moment in his life.
"To be a man is a place of liver and gall, to be a man is not afraid of hardships and dangers, pride remains the same, year after year, there are bitter and sweet to be a man, good and evil are separated from both sides, all for the dream of tomorrow ~~~"
Yu Sheng'an performed the whole song magnificently, ups and downs, fully demonstrating the broad mind and heroic temperament of the Ming prince.
Compared with this song, "The Country is Important" was suddenly overshadowed, as Director Wang said, "decent".
After a while, after listening to the song, the two took off their headphones.
Director Wang asked, "Xiao Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Jia laughed at herself: "I'm going to learn three dog barks in public." ”
Wang Pingjie was puzzled, Xu Jia said the bet he had made before, Wang Pingjie smiled, and then said: "This is the theme song we have been waiting for." ”
Xu Jia nodded in agreement.
"Let's make an episode of "The Country is Important", put it in the plot where Zhu Youzhi decided to return to the court and was worshiped as a general. Director Wang Pingjie said.
Xu Jia naturally agreed.
After that, Wang Pingjie sent a message to Bai Qingyan, saying that he wanted to sign Yu Sheng'an as the theme song.
......
Tiantu headquarters, Cao Mulan's office.
Assistant Liang Huaizhu stood across from Mr. Cao's desk and asked, "Sister Mulan, how did you talk to Yu Sheng'an?"
Cao Mulan said: "Mr. Tie can't talk about it, how can I succeed?"
Liang Huaizhu said: "She just wants you to fail once." ”
Cao Mulan smiled and nodded, this meaning is too simple, of course it can't be hidden from Cao Mulan.
"Sister Mulan, what are your plans?" Liang Huaizhu is Cao Mulan's most powerful henchman, and he can still guess a thing or two about her thoughts.
"I talked to you before, under the influence of my husband, I will set up a screenwriting company to specialize in content, but for other reasons, I can't just do this part, so I will still do a comprehensive entertainment company, including artist management business. Cao Mulan didn't hide it either.
"Understood. Liang Huaizhu said.
The so-called "other reasons" are to take care of the artists and business teams who have been following her, such as herself.
Cao Mulan looked at Liang Huaizhu, pointed to the chair across the table, and said in a low voice: "Sit, I have something to discuss with you." ”
Liang Huaizhu sat down, looked at Cao Mulan, and waited for her to speak.
"Just now you asked me how I talked with Yu Sheng'an, I didn't tell you all ......" Cao Mulan paused, "I didn't just talk to him about joining Tiantu. ”
Liang Huaizhu understood the sound of the strings in seconds, and said, "You talked to him about the new company?"
Cao Mulan nodded: "He is ready to open a new company, but he lacks manpower, what he means is to let me arrange someone to help him first, and then go over to take over when I have a clear handover with Tiantu." ”
Liang Huaizhu said: "Sister Mulan, do you mean to let me go first?"
"Yes, I can only leave this matter to you, but I still want to know what you think, if you want to stay in Tiantu, I can help you fight for a position as general manager. Cao Mulan said sincerely.
Liang Huaizhu said: "Sister Mulan, if we don't say those words, I'll ask you a question, are you optimistic about the rest of your life?"
"Very optimistic. Cao Mulan's tone was firm, "Let me tell you a few things: the first thing, when Yu Sheng'an participated in "Good Cantonese", Mr. Tie went to him twice, you know, Mr. Tie studied psychology, and when he was in Changhe, he had the title of 'witch', saying that she could see through people's hearts and know herself and her opponent during negotiations, but she watched Yu Sheng'an twice, but she couldn't see through him, and finally the whole acquisition ended in embarrassment......"
Liang Huaizhu said: "I have heard of it, and it is said that after meeting Yu Sheng'an for the first time, there is a final case, and I am confident that I can win it." ”
"Yes," Cao Mulan said, "The second thing, I went to see Yu Sheng'an this time, the first thing I saw was Mu Yushi in the rainy season, to my surprise, Mu Yushi was not surprised that Yu Sheng'an was going to open a new company, and even thought about him everywhere, if you agree to go over, it is estimated that you will also connect with Mu Yushi first." ”
Liang Huaizhu said: "What do you mean?"
"My intuition, Mu Yushi is subconsciously waiting for Yu Sheng'an to become bigger, such as this acquisition, she has been following Yu Sheng'an's rhythm, even if he has such conditions in Tie Zong. ”
Liang Huaizhu said: "She wants to maintain the relationship between partners. ”
"Hmm. Cao Mulan bowed her head and continued: "The third thing, I went to see Yu Sheng'an yesterday, and I haven't said anything else, I just put forward this intention, do you know what he said?"
"What?"
"He asked me when I was going to resign. ”
"No doubts?"
"No, including arranging for someone to connect with him first, he proposed it. ”
Liang Huaizhu looked pensive.
"In addition, when I saw him yesterday, I casually mentioned to him the theme song of "The Lord of the Ming Dynasty", which was to ask him for a favor by the way, but he sent the song early this morning, and then after listening to it for a month, Mr. Bai and Director Wang Pingjie, who had been entangled in this matter for a month, were all shouting and hating each other. ”
"So, he wants to sing the theme song of "The Lord of the Ming Dynasty"?"
"Pretty much sure. ”
Liang Huaizhu sighed: "It seems that there is really nothing to stop him, Sister Mulan, leave this pioneer to me." ”
"Good. Cao Mulan said happily.
......
After Yu Sheng'an agreed to the invitation of the "Summer Graduation Song Party", all the performers of the party were finalized, and the relevant publicity was launched.
Everyone saw Yu Sheng'an, who debuted from Sky Blue Satellite TV, turned around and went to participate in the program of Mango Channel, and they couldn't help but speculate:
It is said that the ratings of Mango Channel's Red Sky Blue Satellite TV's "Good Cantonese";
It is said that Yu Shengan was dissatisfied with the black-box operation of "Good Cantonese", and deliberately participated in the Mango Channel program to express his attitude;
It is also said that Yu Sheng'an wants to use the two platforms of Mango Station and Station B to further open up the market for young people.
No matter how everyone guesses, one fact is that since the official announcement that Yu Sheng'an would join the party, the topic of "Graduation Song Party" has soared immediately, and it soon climbed onto the hot search list.
The teams responsible for the promotion of the program on the two platforms talked about the matter in the improvised chat group, and they all sighed: "Perhaps, this is the real top stream." ”
What is really happy is that the teams responsible for advertising and sponsorship of the two platforms, with the addition of Yu Shengan, the betting of advertising sponsorship is not finished.
Just when the two platforms were secretly happy to invite Yu Sheng'an's genius, they got the song list sent by Yu Sheng'an.
Then, they were dumbfounded.
There is no "Invisible Wings".
There is no "Ten Years".
There is no "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que".
There is no "Can't Say Goodbye"!
To put it simply, Yu Sheng'an's playlist does not have a single song that has been sung before.
Three songs, all new songs!
Although the performers have absolute autonomy in the songs they want to sing, when Mango Channel and Station B decided to invite Yu Sheng'an, they almost made it clear that the other party wanted him to sing "Invisible Wings" and "Can't Say Goodbye" at the song party.
However, Yu Sheng'an did not accept their opinions, and made it clear that he would promote three new songs through this song meeting.
"Let's communicate again, if he really doesn't want to sing two old songs, then at least make sure that "Can't Say Goodbye" is sung, I see that many people have ordered this one in the message below the official Weibo, if he doesn't sing a single old song, the audience will definitely have an opinion. The director on the side of Mango asked He Dan, the choreographer who was in charge of docking with Yu Sheng'an, to persuade him again.
He Dan's brain also turned quickly, and said: "Let's hold a poll first, let everyone choose which song they want to hear Yu Sheng'an sing the most, and then I will use this result to communicate with him." ”
"Yes, it works, but quickly. ”
"Hmm. ”
Subsequently, He Dan contacted the publicity team and asked them to initiate a poll on the Internet, list all the songs of Yu Sheng'an, and then let everyone vote on which one they most want to hear in "Song Club".
As expected, not long after the voting opened, the two songs "Invisible Wings" and "Can't Say Goodbye" went all the way and won high votes.
The former is too popular, and the latter is too cheap.
When I graduated, I couldn't say goodbye.
By 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the votes for the two songs had exceeded one million, He Dan made a screenshot, and then went to Mu Yushi to communicate:
"Although the votes for these two songs are very high, we don't need to sing all two songs of Mr. Yu, just pick one, and the remaining two can be used to promote Mr. Yu's new songs. He Dan didn't hint at it this time, and proposed directly.
Mu Yushi quickly replied: "Teacher Yu said, please rest assured, the song list he gave is more suitable for the graduation song party than those two songs." ”
He Dan: "......" the other party is so confident, she doesn't know how to refute.
Subsequently, she fed back the news to the director, and the director also gave up, saying: "Then let him go, after all, it is the big guy who sang "Can't Say Goodbye" and "Thousand Thousand Que Songs" in a row on the same night, maybe these three songs will really surprise everyone, and new songs have the benefits of new songs." ”
He Dan is no longer entangled, she knows very well in her heart that she still over-doubts Yu Sheng'an's talent in singing, she is definitely a fool.
......
On June 11, Yu Sheng'an returned to the East China Sea and summoned Ouyang Zai, Sun Chuanjia and Tang Fu to begin rehearsing new songs for "Summer Graduation Song Party".
On the 12th, Liang Huaizhu went to the East China Sea to meet Mu Yushi according to Cao Mulan's instructions, and then Mu Yushi took her to the rehearsal room to meet Yu Sheng'an.
When I got to the rehearsal room, I heard him singing a song just to the end:
"Ah...... Laa...... Laa...... ......"
The melody is quite good, but with such a long list of "lala", I really don't know what song to sing.
After Yu Sheng'an finished singing, he came to see Liang Huaizhu.
This is the first time Liang Huaizhu has met Yu Sheng'an face-to-face, and I feel that he is more ...... than on TV More handsome.
"It seems quite good to have such a beautiful man as his future boss. ”
While thinking so divergently in his mind, he told Yu Sheng'an the truth about his situation.
Yu Sheng'an naturally welcomed her, and then told her about the idea of the new company.
At this point, Yu Sheng'an's plan to start a new company is officially on the agenda.