Chapter 53: The First Talent?

I don't know when the name Li Qian has begun to become a standard. Every time I hear about www.biquge.info a new album bought from the market, I can't help but take such a standard to measure it - this level is far worse than Li Qian! Or - Li Qian is probably at this level! Or - only a little worse than Li Qian, which is already very good!

All this is because in the past few years, Li Qian has shown us his comprehensive and powerful creative ability, from the many discs he created for the divas of Minghu Culture, to the two breathtaking rock masterpieces of the four beautiful bands of which he himself is the lead singer.

He even tailored the first global album of Chinese singers for Liao Liao, and his control of European and American pop music and excellent creative ability shown in that album are as great as his grasp and creation of domestic music.

In this way, he is certainly the standard. And it's the top standard!

This time, after the temporary suspension of the four major beauty bands, Li Qian, who is known as the leader of the music world, finally brought us his first solo album.

It's not rock, but it's still very good!

This is very Li Qian. ”

β€”β€”"Yenching Daily Supplement"

"There are four subdivisions of music in a total of one album, including pop, folk, rock, and even two Western rap-style works. Not surprisingly, this is really another pot of smorgasbord! It's just that Li Qian's cooking skills are good after all, this pot is a hodgepodge, French fries are fries, and sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes. As for whether you like french fries or roasted sweet potatoes, it's up to personal taste!"

β€”β€”"Oriental Entertainment News"

The folk songs are very good, the love songs are very good, especially "Dark Fragrance", a hundred turns and thousands of times, the dark fragrance is faint, and it is definitely a rare boutique in today's domestic music scene. Emotional, sexual!

The two Chinese raps are difficult to hear, the lyrics style is even more grotesque, and "The First Experience of Love" is almost chaotic, but the strange thing is that this song is actually the main song of the whole album, which shows that Li Qian values this song the most, which is incomprehensible!"

β€”β€”"Suncheon Daily, Supplement, Vertical and Horizontal Writings"

"After making an international album for Liao Liao, perhaps Li Qian thinks that he has mastered Western music to the point where he is at ease, but with all due respect, his two Chinese raps are simply useless, and if you don't read the lyrics, you can't understand what he's singing! Here I have to borrow a corner of the newspaper to put forward a small advice: concentrate on writing your love songs, folk songs are good, rock can also be, otherwise it is good to shoot TV series! As for rap, don't touch it!

β€”β€”"Huaxia Variety Weekly"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The author believes that this kind of exploration is worth encouraging, especially with Li Qian's current appeal and influence in the domestic music scene at that time, he can personally write such a style of work, and release it in his first solo album, just talking about attitude, it is already worth encouraging! For domestic musicians who are engaged in this kind of niche music, it is also a great encouragement! Although rap is a niche, it is not completely without an audience, in other words, our Chinese music scene needs such a hundred flowers to bloom!

β€”β€”"Suncheon Metropolis Daily"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ In fact, I quite appreciate Li Qian's courage, and with his status in the music world, he should indeed be the most confident person to do this matter, but I am really hard to be optimistic about the result. As we all know, orange is orange in Huainan and orange in Huaibei, and this thing is not suitable for climate and water and soil, which is really not reversible by man.

Although in my opinion, two songs such as "William Castle" and "Indian Old Turtledove" should be relatively excellent works among the rap songs currently made in China, but I am personally very optimistic about the response and feedback he can get from domestic fans!

On the contrary, I find it interesting to have a lot of criticism about "The First Experience of Love", which many of my peers are criticizing! Of course, for me personally, my favorite songs, one before and one after the other.

"Jiangnan", a very beautiful R&B, at present, in China, the absolute top level, compared to the English R&B he did for Liao Liao before, that is not much better! "Dark Fragrance", a typical classical composition, is very beautiful, you ordinary fans, you may just think it sounds good, but I can say that the more expert you are, the more you know how good and good the song is!

Over the years, Li Qian has shown us his extremely comprehensive and at the same time extremely abundant creative talent, his creative breadth, needless to say, five or six years only, he has not only produced a lot of works, but also a variety of styles, various genres, right, a very comprehensive control ability. At the same time, his creative height is still very high, this is really, few people can match!

"Dark Incense" is such a work, which is one of his works that can represent the height. Personally, I feel that the classic "Farewell" from his previous years should be a grade thing!

I think...... Personally, I think that Li Qian put his two works in the album like this, one after the other, the front opens the way, and the back presses, which should also have some of his personal tendencies......"

- Shuntian Yin Yuetai "Big Coffee Says Big Coffee", guest: famous songwriter, Liu Yue.

"I have written a series of about 20 articles, detailing and explaining the lyrics of more than 20 of Li Qian's past music works, which can be regarded as a lyric appreciation. I remember saying at the time that what was hidden under Li Qian's extraordinary musical talent was his rare poetry talent! Since the earliest "Wild Flowers", this talent has been so heartbreaking, and now, when Li Qian's new album "The First Experience of Love" is released, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the lyrics of the new album are indeed a small poetry collection!

Of course, the ten songs are not entirely poetic, but in my opinion, there are at least five or six of them, which are worth talking about and sharing with you, and the most outstanding of them, in my opinion, are "Dark Fragrance", "William's Castle" and "Childhood", and the reason why I chose these three songs is because they probably represent the three most typical styles of Li Qian's lyric writing......"

β€”β€”Dong-A Daily

"Indian Old Turtledove" and "Fort William" are simply crazy in love! With all due respect, although Brother Qian was so popular before, his songs were really loveless, from Liao Liao, He Runqing, to Rose Power, Zhuang Meiyue, it was just okay to listen to. His rock is hot enough, but I still can't love it! It wasn't until Liao Liao's album last year, when I heard a few of the English R&B, that I felt a little interesting, and began to get in touch with his songs and works more.

Our domestic rap albums, after listening to the least, there are ten or eight albums, but none of the songs can reach the level of his two songs! Chinese rap, smooth and natural, and the style is grotesque and absurd, but it is funny! Not as fierce as the lyrics in English rap works, so wild, even if he is rap, he has a unique Chinese subtlety, but subtle just right, carefully taste, the kind of fun inside, will make you have an indescribable sense of pleasure, at least for the moment, I can't imagine that there is a work more in line with the definition of Chinese rap as a music category than these two songs!

There is also the song "Jiangnan", which I can't tell whether it should be regarded as his Chinese style or R&B, but the R&B style is quite strong, and it is even more irritating! It is the first time I have heard such a R&B with a strong Chinese flavor! Moreover, I dare to say that this album, whether it is R&B, rap, or our Chinese folk songs, is definitely a super masterpiece with the highest level in China at present, and it is not even weaker than the albums of European and American superstars!

So, I declare that starting today, starting with this album, I have decided to join you in calling him "The Master"!

What, you said that the sect leader had already made this kind of album with international standards before? Please, Liao Liao's album is an English song! Using English songs to make an international taste can only show that the sect leader can actually cross Europe and the United States without a problem, does it have a dime to do with whether the Chinese song is good or not?"

β€”β€”A long post at the top of the music section of Sohu.com, "Li Qian, you are my "leader"!

…………

As the "leader" of the music world, Li Qian's album is a major event for the entire domestic music scene.

Although there is no overwhelming publicity, and there is no variety of programs everywhere, so that this album was not really promoted before it was listed, there will be many fans who usually don't pay much attention to the daily trends of entertainment who don't know that Li Qian has released a new album, but as long as people who pay attention to the trends of the industry, even if they just watch relevant reports, watch related variety shows and listen to even any radio music program, they will definitely know that "The First Experience of Love" is on the market.

In particular, from the day after the album was released, almost all the media in the country, especially the major music radio stations, variety shows and variety supplements of major newspapers, almost made full efforts, and began to discuss the album with praise or criticism, coupled with the word of mouth of people who had bought the album before, so that the reputation of the album quickly spread to the maximum!

To put it simply, the reputation is mixed!

However, love songs like "The First Time" and "Kiss Goodbye", which are the easiest to arouse the love of most people for the first time, have quickly become popular songs on almost all radio stations!

And the most surprising thing is that these two songs are not the hottest.

The hottest is "Jiangnan" and "The First Experience of Love"!

All of a sudden, no matter where you go, in the streets and alleys, as long as there is a video store, as long as there are speakers, you can almost hear "circle circle circle, every day, every day" and "give me back my photos"!

Of course, criticism of "Fort William", "Indian Old Turtledove" and "The First Experience of Love" is also rare in the columns of major newspapers!

It's just that, considering Li Qian's prestige in the music industry and the ungodly achievements he has achieved in the past, before the feedback from the market has really come back, and before the real data such as sales and on-demand rankings have not come out, except for a few people who are fighting for eyeballs, the vast majority of music critics, even if they don't like Li Qian's "radicalism" this time , in order to avoid being slapped in the face in the future, it is also temporarily restrained, at best, it is just a singing decline, or expressing a pessimistic and unoptimistic attitude, and it does not directly step on these songs - the higher the level of people, the more face-saving, and everyone is afraid of being slapped in the face.

And just when the music world began to be noisy because of such an album, showing unprecedented noise, when the time entered the end of April, the registration of "Super Girl" across the country officially closed.

On the day after the registration deadline, the audition for the program officially began.

Led by the three guest mentors He Runqing, Zhen Zhen, and Cao Zhan respectively, each team also invited a well-known music critic or musician, as well as a well-known singer, and the program team was divided into three ways and went to various places respectively, which opened the curtain of the "Super Girl" audition.

And on May 1st, at the launching ceremony of the national audition held by Hunan Satellite TV in Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province, hundreds of reporters from major domestic media gathered in one place, but unfortunately, although in addition to the three guest mentors, Qi Jie also attended on behalf of Minghu Culture, Xie Bing also sang the theme song of "Super Girl" at the launching ceremony, "Sing If You Want to Sing" composed and composed by Li Qian, but Li Qian, the chief planner and producer of the program, did not show up!

The reporters are obviously dissatisfied with this, but there is no way to be dissatisfied, after a few years, all the people who run this piece of news are very clear about Li Qian's style of acting. So at this time, at most, I can only pull Qi Jie, He Runqing, Xie Bing and others from Minghu Culture to inquire a little bit and go back to make up the news.

So much so, don't look at "Super Girl" from the beginning of the initial publicity, it can be regarded as hot and overwhelming now, but at its national launching ceremony, the most concerned and asked by reporters is Li Qian's new album.

Of course, at the same time, under the office building of Minghu Culture, in Zhou Yan's sheepfold alley, and outside the door of the Shuntian Film Academy, the number of reporters waiting all day long is of course rapidly increasing.

It's just that after a few years, not only do they already know Li Qian very well, but Li Qian also knows them very well, and they won't be caught by them if they are already idle.

So another slightly strange thing during this period of time is that when many newspapers publish reports or comments on the album "The First Experience of Love", it is accompanied by a picture of Zhou Yan going out for a run in sportswear!

…………

Monday, 2 May 2000.

Dongguan Bookstore's record sales list was released on time, and "The First Experience of Love" directly landed at the top of the list without any suspense, directly pressing He Runqing's "Cloudy Sky" and Zhao Xinfu's "Love Does Not Stop", which had been in a state of stalemate for a long time, but were still fighting endlessly.

However, when it comes to absolute sales, the sales figures achieved by this album in the first week of release, a total of five days of sales, are not unusually impressive.

43,816 sheets!

For ordinary singers, even He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu, this is a relatively normal first-week data, and it may seem slightly lower, but it is not abnormal, but for Li Qian, with the previous "Once You" of the four major beauty bands, his status in the domestic music scene can be said to be unique above the others, in terms of influence and fan loyalty, it is the same level as Liao Liao, so this first-week data is quite low for him.

You must know that in the first week of the release of the album "Once Upon a Time", the sales volume reached a record 147269 copies in a single week! By the third week, there were more than 100,000 103548 albums! That is a super sales record that no one has even been able to get close to!

However, even so, there is still almost no criticism in the industry.

Because firstly, this album has almost no corresponding release and promotion, and compared with the first week and second week of other albums, its first-week sales do not reach a relatively ideal value, but it is normal;

There are basically no such stupid people in the country at present!

It's just that as soon as this relatively low sales data came out, there was inevitably more discussion to a certain extent.

Among them, especially the first title song of the album "The First Experience of Love", and the two rap-style works, there are still different opinions and mixed reviews.

All of a sudden, the word "rap" has vaguely become the hottest word in the music circle nowadays, major newspapers and magazines have invited musicians and music critics to write, music programs on major radio stations, variety music programs on TV stations, and some well-known music producers or singers have also been invited to comment in person, and they have talked about "rap", as if suddenly, if you don't know what rap is, you will be outdated.

Of course, no one can still find Li Qian!

It is rumored in the industry that Hunan Satellite TV and Shuntian Satellite TV have a good relationship with Li Qian, and the senior leaders of the two TV stations couldn't stand the begging of the staff below, so they were forced to call Li Qian in person, hoping that he could come to the last program, but in the end, Li Qian refused without hesitation.

It is even rumored that Huaxia TV has a deputy director-level figure who personally called Li Qian, but the result was the same as always, just two words: Don't go!

The entertainment industry is Vanity Fair, and it is even more of a place of right and wrong, these two news have come out one after another, for a while, some people praise, some scold, some ridicule and some sour - you know, to the level of a satellite TV station, or even the director and deputy director of Huaxia TV, not to mention the singer, even to the extent that most record companies dare not easily offend, you want to be on the show, you want to promote, you want to be exposed, and even you have to participate in some variety shows to make money, TV station must be an extremely important platform for singers!

But on the contrary, a person at the level of the director of the station called to invite him personally, and Li Qian not only did not even show his face, but also bluntly refused on the phone!

If you have the guts to put it aside, just this coffee position and this forced style of others are definitely breaking through the sky!

…………

Wednesday, May 3rd, afternoon.

After hibernation for more than ten days, the reporters who were in charge of staring at Zhou Yan on the side of the sheepfold alley this afternoon suddenly found that Zhou Yan was actually going out!

Although it was only a business car of Minghu Culture that came to pick her up, not Li Qian's broken off-road, it still lifted the spirits of the reporters who were already a little cross-eyed.

When the news broke, a large number of reporters came and chased after them according to the guidance of their peers.

The more I chase, the more exciting it is, the business car actually goes straight to the northern suburbs!

As a result, the business car sent by Minghu Culture had just left the North Fourth Ring Road with Zhou Yan, and there was already a long convoy behind her.

Behind the long spear and short cannon, there are a pair of eyes that sparkle like a pair of wolves!

Who knows if Li Qian is waiting in the holiday villa or some holiday villa over there in the Miyun Reservoir!

But soon, the car had just left the city, and there was a row of more than a dozen cars behind it, and the business car actually didn't wait to get to the Miyun Reservoir, so it got off the highway halfway, and then with a long convoy of more than a dozen cars, it turned around and returned to Shuntianfu.

Then, the car drove back to the sheepfold alley with such a swagger, Zhou Yan got out of the car in a dashing manner, and rushed to the reporter who got out of the car in a hurry and was already stunned with a "oh yes" gesture, and pushed the door home with a smile on her face.

The van was about to turn around, but the driver stopped again, glanced at the reporters with a look of pity, and then stepped on the accelerator and roared away.

At this moment, many reporters looked confused.

…………

In the afternoon, almost at the same time as Zhou Yan specially called a car from the company to walk the reporter, in front of an unknown old-fashioned teahouse on the street in Shuntianfu, an inconspicuous-looking Volkswagen car stopped on the side of the road, and Li Qian got out of the car without even wearing sunglasses.

Entering the teahouse, before he could ask, someone in the booth stood up and waved at him.

Li Qian nodded at the somewhat stunned front desk attendant and turned his head to walk over.

A few steps away, the two of them each reached out and shook it tightly before they let go.

"President Chen, I've kept you waiting. ”

"No, no, I've just arrived, please take a seat!"

The two sat down, Chen Youcheng first stared at Li Qian intently for a few seconds, and then came to his senses, realizing that it was too rude to stare at people like this, so he raised his hand to hold his glasses with a little embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Since the time when I signed the contract for "Blue Blood Sword", I have been looking forward to this meeting since I knew that Mr. Li was the author of that book, and now I have finally fulfilled my wish!"

Li Qian smiled, "You are too polite. Mainly, I've been very busy lately, and I don't want to attract attention, and you know, I've always insisted that I'm not allowed to be exposed as the author of these two books......"

"No, no, no," Chen Youcheng couldn't wait to interrupt and said, "Mr. Li, you misunderstood, I didn't mean to blame you!" As he spoke, he smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I don't know how many reporters want to find you and interview you, right? It's a great honor to come out and meet me at this time!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly smiled "haha", turned his head and picked up a stack of books from his seat, "Let you see the smile, don't look at me in my fifties, I'm old, but I also want to chase back the star!" As he spoke, he took out a signature pen from his body and handed it over, "I'm afraid that when I talk about books and writing later, I'll forget it, so can I sign it first?"

Li Qian smiled slightly, took the pen, pulled the book, opened the cover to write, but said: "You have always called me Mr. Li, this is a bit too polite, you still call me Li Qian!"

Chen Youcheng snorted, "Then call you Brother Li!" In terms of age, I may be able to call you by your name, but in terms of talent and achievement, call you Brother Li, count me as a high climb!"

Li Qian smiled and shook his head.

He knew this kind of politeness between literati, but he didn't bother to push back and forth for a title, so he simply put pen to paper and signed, just saying: "It's good that you are happy!" In terms of psychological age, he is in his early forties this year, and it is most appropriate to have a relationship with a person in his early fifties.

After brushing and writing, the pen closed the hat, and the book was pushed back, Li Qian said: "The words are very poor, which makes you laugh." ”

Chen Youcheng opened it and took a look, only to see that the dragon flying and the phoenix danced on it: "Mr. Yangshan Yajian - Jin Yong", and he couldn't help but instantly show an expression of flying eyebrows.

Mr. Yangshan is his name, also called Ya, or alias.

Li Qian is a public figure, of course, it is easier for ordinary people to understand a lot of basic information about him, but Chen Youcheng is just the president of a publishing house, although he claims to be a literati, he is a publisher, and in the literati circle, he is not too famous, but on the contrary, Li Qian, who has never met, actually knows his nickname that is only known in a small circle, which shows that at least under this meeting, he has done his homework very seriously, and now he has specially written his number on the title page to show respect, for literati, this is a very face-saving thing。

When the ancients met politely, they often said "I have admired the name for a long time, like thunder", etc., although over time, it gradually became polite, but the reason why it became a polite word that everyone said was precisely because this word was the most heard. Today's China retains a lot of ancient customs to a large extent, especially the cultural people, most of whom have more or less old-fashioned literati.

"I didn't expect my little name to also enter the ears of your brother Li, hehe, I laughed!"

As he spoke, he put away his pen and signed the book with satisfaction.

For now, this is likely to be the only set of autographed versions of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" by the author in the country!

…………

Chen Youcheng not only runs a publishing house handed down from his father, but he is indeed a lover of books, especially martial arts novels. Li Qian's first "Blue Blood Sword" sent to various publishing houses was either rejected or lukewarmed in many publishing houses, but his publishing house gave a reply soon after receiving the manuscript, saying that it could be published, and in terms of the market, the remuneration given was not low.

Of course, Li Qian now doesn't care too much about the manuscript fee of a few books, since the cooperation is good, he won "Blue Blood Sword", which is equivalent to winning "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

"Blue Blood Sword" didn't sell very well, but there was also to make money, and when "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" came out, within a few months, it has always been at the top of the sales list of major bookstores, and the last one was listed last month.

With this book, Chen Youcheng is naturally making a lot of money!

A book that not only makes Chen Youcheng as a reader admire and praise, but also makes Chen Youcheng as a publisher make a lot of money, you can imagine how important the author's position in his heart is!

And there is also a very important point, that is, he is one of the very few people who know the true identity of the author of "Jin Yong"!

For example, in the various sales lists released by Dongguan Bookstore this Monday, most people in the publishing industry only pay attention to the best-selling lists of books, so they only know that the cutting-edge martial arts writer named Jin Yong, with four single copies of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and a set of collector's editions, actually won five of the top 20 best-selling books, including "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" The fourth book, which has been on the market for nearly a month, is still firmly at the top of the list, so I yearn for this mysterious new writer, and I want to get the author's contact information from the internal publishing house under Chen Youcheng in order to compete for his next book.

As for the people in the record industry and music circle, they only know that although the sales of Li Qian's new album did not reach the level he expected in the first week, he still landed at the top of the list without suspense, coupled with the gossip circulating in various industries, and the major media did not need Minghu Culture to pay a dime for publicity at all, so they took the initiative to discuss and discuss because of "The First Experience of Love", and inadvertently achieved the maximum publicity for this album, and so on, all of which made everyone envious.

It's just that no one would associate these two completely unrelated people together!

However, Chen Youcheng, who personally handled the secret signing of Li Qian's two novels from beginning to end, is extremely clear about the fact that these two names at the top of the best-selling list are actually the same person!

Therefore, chatting with each other for a while, he couldn't help but say with great emotion: "Writing songs and making music, of course you Brother Li's level is not to be picked! Filming TV series is also well-known to be good, and now he is so talented in writing books! It's really ...... If others don't say it, I admire it to the ground!"

After a pause, he didn't wait for Li Qian to speak, and continued: "This time I asked your brother to come out, of course, I want to make an appointment with your brother for a book, hoping to continue to cooperate with your brother, and second, I want to ask, I don't know when my brother plans to announce your true identity!"

Speaking of this, he looked like he was full of red light, shook his head slightly, sang three sighs, and had a proud posture, and said with emotion: "The first place on the bestseller list, and the first place on the best-selling list of music albums, the author is actually the same person, if this is announced, brother, it's hard to say far away, in recent decades in our country, your name as the first genius is stable!"

***

Another big chapter, this time 8,000 words. Originally, I wanted to dismantle it, after all, I still owe debts! But after thinking about it again, let's write it first, and don't say anything about paying off the debt, and after writing a big chapter for a few days in a row, the debt will almost be cleared. Because I found that every time I said that I had paid off a chapter of debt, the next day I had a problem...... (To be continued.) )