Chapter 438: The Voice of China
At Pudong International Airport, Xiao Huo and Xiao Guo drove two business buses to take Cao Wu and his party back to the hotel.
Zhang Jiaqian and they have been playing in Europe for half a month, and they have basically lost a lap, but their complexion is much better than before.
Moreover, after eating and living together these days, the in-laws of both sides have deepened their understanding of each other a lot.
During this period, there were naturally all kinds of small contradictions, but for the sake of the children's face, both sides also opened their hearts and accepted each other's strengths and weaknesses.
However, both sides were originally very good people, Zhang Jiaqian has worked in the song and dance troupe for half her life, and she is also a knowledgeable person, Cao Wenhao is also a good person in society.
Fang's father and Fang's mother are also intellectuals, although they will be some good teachers, but they are still very kind-hearted.
After playing around, Zhang Jiaqian and Fang's mother still had some small opinions about each other, but Cao Wenhao and Fang's father became very good friends.
When the two of them were in Europe, they often found a place to drink together, and they were quite able to talk together.
In half a month, they traveled around several countries in Western Europe.
Europe is home to many small countries, none of which are particularly large in size, but the cultures vary from country to country.
Fang's father likes to study history, and he goes to the UC Book League every time.
Zhang Jiaqian, on the other hand, is interested in local traditional music, having spent the longest time in Spain and Italy.
The scenery of each country is beautiful, and the only thing that is not good is the food.
Taste is something that is hard to change in a short period of time.
It is true that all European countries have their own unique cuisines, if you want to eat rice, you have paella, and if you want to eat noodles, you have pasta, but after a period of adaptation, Zhang Jiaqian is still not very acceptable.
Therefore, as soon as they returned to the magic capital, they didn't care about the physical and mental exhaustion, so they found a Hunan restaurant, ordered a table of stir-fried vegetables, asked for a large pot of rice, and enjoyed eating.
When you are hungry, any shark fin sea cucumber is not as enjoyable as a bowl of fried meat with chili.
Lobster abalone, that's another story......
Fang Luxiao's vacation ended, and the next day, she came to the high-speed rail station accompanied by Cao Wu.
When they traveled from Llamas to Cusco, the plane they were taking encountered a glitch, and Cao Wu and Fang Luxiao had palpitations, and they did not plan to fly again after returning to China this time.
The business class of the high-speed rail and the first-class cabin of the plane are similar, relatively safe, and the speed is not slow, so Cao Wu asked Xiao Huo to help Fang Luxiao buy a ticket for the high-speed rail.
Sending Xiaoxiao to the gate of the high-speed rail station, Cao Wu didn't get off the train, and after saying goodbye, he turned back to the company.
After an afternoon meeting and the follow-up work arrangements were determined, Cao Wu transferred the company's car and sent his father and mother back to Xiangcheng together with his father-in-law, mother-in-law and himself.
He is going back to prepare for work, and "The Voice of China" is about to start recording.
The audition for the program starts after the Spring Festival, and there are stations in every provincial capital.
With Xinghai culture as an endorsement, the number of people who signed up for the audition this time was quite large, exceeding 50,000 people.
But compared with the hundreds of thousands of registrations when talent shows were popular in previous years, it is still a little insufficient.
Music talent shows have a history of more than ten years, and in addition to the audience's aesthetic fatigue, the shortage of contestants is also a big problem.
The music talent show, no matter how it is marketed, attracts attention, but after all, it is still a program with the theme of music competition, and the main players of this kind of show are mainly professional singers who have undergone professional training.
Of course, it is not excluded that there are talented genius grassroots, but most of the roles played by ordinary people are still dominated by the audience.
There are not so many geniuses in this world, and because some unscrupulous programs in the later stage ruined the reputation of the talent show, the contestants from the talent show were also infamy, and many professional singers began to participate in the talent show cautiously.
This has led to the poor quality of many talent show auditioners, and they can only spend money to hire professional singers to support the field, so there are also some so-called "draft professionals" professional talent singers, who earn quite a lot.
This time, the audition of "The Voice of China" was very open, and the focus was on the "marginal areas", that is, the areas along the border.
There are mostly ethnic minority areas, and there are many people who can sing and dance.
Because of the good cooperation of "Singer", this time "The Voice of China", Xinghai Culture still chose Xiangcheng TV for cooperation.
Xiangcheng TV coveted the copyright in the hands of Xinghai Culture and wanted to spend money to buy it, but Xinghai Culture didn't even report the price, with a clear attitude, and it didn't sell it.
Xiangcheng TV has already made a lot of money just by selling advertisements by relying on a "Singer". Before the advertising bidding for the second season of "Singer" began, someone had already shouted an exclusive price of 200 million.
But the copyright is in the hands of Xinghai Culture, the initiative is there, and Xiangcheng TV can only maintain the cooperative relationship by doing a good job.
Cao Wu has already decided to join the show as the mentor of the first season of "The Voice of China", which has been decided in the early stage of the show's preparation.
The lineup is luxurious, and it has become a symbol of the program produced by Xinghai Culture, and the program has set up a total of four mentors, all of whom are big names and acquaintances.
In addition to Cao Wu, the mentors also include Liu Huan, Shi Zhongyu and Shi Tanhui.
Through the "Singer" program, Shi Zhongyu has gradually gotten rid of the title of the prince of love songs, and has won many new fans and fans through his changeable music style and solid technical foundation, and has been named the king of variety singers.
And Shi Tanhui also re-entered the public's field of vision through "Singer", and was remembered by everyone with her iron lung, announcing commercial performances continuously, and the appearance fee rose over and over.
Liu Huan is a long-established pop musician in China, who has debuted since eight years and has created countless popular classic works.
He has a deep understanding and research of Western music, and has been serving as a professor at the University of International Business and Economics, teaching the professional course "History of Western Music".
In his works, he can not only experience the straightforwardness and atmosphere of Western music, but also the unique depth and restraint of Chinese music. In one fell swoop, he reversed the Northwest style folk songs that dominated the mainland pop music scene back then, and raised the overall level of domestic pop music to a higher level.
At the last charity concert, Cao Wu personally visited him and invited him to participate in the performance.
After that time, Cao Wu became friends with him.
This time, Cao Wu also invited him to support the scene, and this show needs a big brother-level figure to be in charge.