Chapter Eighty-Four: The Last Battle
On the afternoon of December 23, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.
In the No. 1 studio hall of the Dragon Star Satellite TV headquarters building, there is a busy scene.
More than 20 cameras are set up on the extended booms, all aimed at the huge central stage, in addition to the four rail positions on the stage, and more than a dozen people in the audience carry cameras, ready to capture various shots.
The stage has been fully arranged, except for a few big names, most of the singers, actors, dancers, and hosts are already waiting backstage, and most of the people sitting and standing in the audience are staff, and a small number of them are reporters from Dragon TV's internal news channels and variety channels, and the audience is not one.
That's right, this is the rehearsal scene of Dragon Star TV's annual New Year's Day New Year's Eve song party.
In the domestic entertainment industry and variety show circle, there are four most important large-scale galas throughout the year.
Among them, Huaxia TV's Spring Festival Gala has the largest coffee position, the highest style, and no one can compare with the ratings, but it is a comprehensive party, and it has a strong official nature, and the time that can really be left for all singers in the pop music world is actually forty to forty-five minutes, and even at that party, military singers have more status than these people in the pop music world, because people play the main theme and follow the government's tone.
So this party, it's hard to get on.
▼ Either your work has been really popular in the past year, and if it doesn't work, the people of the whole country have opinions, or you have a positive energy that is very good and at the same time in line with the needs of national propaganda, otherwise, you can honestly mix up the coffee positions in the circle first. Wait for you to mix to the level of Liu Mingliang and Zhen Zhen. Even if he wants to release a new song, he wants to use the stage of the Spring Festival Gala to promote it. The other side will also tend to be very welcoming.
The 40 minutes left for the Spring Festival Gala in the pop music scene are about divided into two pieces, each of which is about 20 minutes long. The first part is reserved for the solo singing of big names, which is about six or seven songs, usually three or four male singers, and two or three female singers.
As for the rest of the piece, it is the pop song couplet. A song can be divided into three sections, five to six songs each, and together it is about fifteen, sixteen to seventeen or eighteen people, which is where most record companies have to work public relations, and it is also a very important battlefield for ordinary second- and third-tier singers.
As long as the song is good and you are on this stage, you don't have to worry about not being popular!
So it is conceivable that there are only so many positions, even if it is a head-grabbing, you can finally get the position. That's it.
And if the rest of the people want to use this kind of large-scale party with national attention to do publicity, they have to fight the idea of the remaining three.
After the Spring Festival Gala. Turning over the New Year, it is the Dragon Boat Festival Gala of Mixed An TV, this party ranks at the bottom of the ratings among the four major parties, but it is still not to be underestimated, because the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival in May just means that the annual summer sales time is coming, so those who want to promote movies, new songs and new albums are also crowded up.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival party of Shuntian Satellite TV.
The style of this party is very high, but the ratings are slightly higher than the Dragon Boat Festival, so for most singers, it is about a bit of a chicken rib: the artistic conception of the song, the level of the god is very high, and it is not good, and at the same time, the publicity effect after going up may not be much better.
Of course, that also depends on the person.
For folk singers and folk singers, the style of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala is simply too much to their liking, needless to say, squeeze up in a bunch!
After the Mid-Autumn Festival party, it will be Dragon Star TV's New Year's Day New Year's Eve song party.
Unlike the other three galas, which are all comprehensive galas, this New Year's Day and New Year's Eve song party purely belongs to the singers, and more than 90% of the performance time will definitely be reserved for the pop music scene!
Therefore, although it has always been considered too low in style in the mainstream media, it has to be said that since its first launch, it has always been the most popular and sought after party among young people, and it is also ranked second in terms of ratings!
Therefore, it is conceivable that there are new songs to be released, new albums to be released to be promoted, and the albums have been sold for a few months, and they need to come here to brush up their presence and strive for more selling points, including those who have not shown up much recently, but will release new songs next to release an album, so come over in advance and mix up the familiar faces...... All of this, almost the entire pop music scene will be restless.
Even to a certain extent, the people who showed their faces at this party roughly determined the trend of the domestic music scene in the coming year!
And now December 23 is the first rehearsal of this New Year's Eve song.
At this time, in the dozens of preparation rooms at the back of the stage, almost most of the living forces in the current domestic music scene have gathered. Among them, there is a preparation room, which belongs to the five elements.
There are still twenty minutes before the start of the rehearsal, according to the arrangement of the program team, they will appear in the second hour and twenty minutes, so in fact, there is still plenty of time, but at this time, several girls have already put on makeup and done their styling early, just waiting for the arrival of the time on this stage, they are not farts, during the rehearsal, the big coffee can not wear makeup, They don't do styling, and the bigger ones don't even come to the first rehearsal, but they have to be fully armed for fear of making any bad impression on anyone.
At this moment, I have to say that the five girls are very nervous.
Dragon Star Satellite TV has dozens of rooms in the preparation area of this corridor, each room is only separated by partitions, the sound insulation effect is not good, even if you hide in your own preparation room, you can still hear all kinds of movements from everywhere, there are voices talking, laughter, walking, of course, there are guitar sounds and singing sounds are indispensable.
In short, it's like a big vegetable market, everyone shouts to everyone.
In such an environment, five girls who came to Dragon Star TV for the first time. Naturally, I was doubly nervous.
Rehearsals are almost underway. As a singer. The common sense is not to eat or drink until the show is about to start, and even if your throat is really dry, you are only allowed to take a few small sips to moisten your throat.
If it is an experienced old singer, he can hold the guitar and sing casually, stretch his voice, or pull the agent or producer to relax his mood, or you can even go to other singers you know to hang out, and everyone can sit together for a while and catch up. And so the time passed.
But the five elements are not good.
Although they have released an album and are not newcomers, they have never made any achievements, so they are not enough coffee seats, and they can't make any decent friends in the circle, and to be honest, they will be nervous, and they are not in the mood to chat with people at all The five of them, plus the agent Sister Wu, are bored in a small room of more than ten square meters. I didn't even want to speak, let alone go to outsiders?
So. It's noisy outside, but it's quiet inside.
The morning was fine, everyone looked relaxed before coming, but when they really arrived here, Zhou Pingping nervously had a stomachache, and she couldn't run to the toilet a few times, Sun Ruoxuan was a strong saliva, you asked her, she said that I had a dry throat, but after a few sips of water, she continued to have a dry throat.
Sima Duoduo is a little better, just sweating vigorously, on a cold day, although the air conditioning is on in the house, that is, seventeen or eight degrees, but she is wearing a thin performance costume and her head is sweating, she wipes her hands with a towel every few minutes, but if you hold her hand, you can bring back a palm of sweat at any time......
Xie Bing is a little better than her, and people don't say anything, just wearing headphones there and babbling her lips constantly opening and closing, but the volume of the headphones is so loud that you can hear it from a few meters away.
As for Wang Jingxue...... Well, she's probably the only one who can at least maintain a semblance of composure. After discovering everyone's nervousness, she chose to sit alone on the sofa in the corner, and then closed her eyes and began to recuperate.
In fact, they know very well in their hearts that there is no need to be so nervous at all, this is just a rehearsal, and there will be a rehearsal and two official recordings later! And this party is not a live broadcast, theoretically speaking, as long as there are two official recordings, they can have a good performance, and when the party is broadcast, the audience will see their best side.
But...... No, everyone just can't control their nervousness.
Because of the new album, and because of this party.
Their second album "Sister Sister Stand Up" will be officially released nationwide on December 26. For this album, whether it is the attitude given by the company after the audition, or the self-feeling of the girls in Wuxingwusu, they all have great confidence in its future market sales prospects.
Needless to say, a few fast songs led by "Sister Sister Stand Up" and "Happy Baby", in the words of producer Li Jinlong, the domestic market is not without fast songs and dance music, but there has always been no one who has no works that can really win the recognition of the market, and now, hearing these songs, I think that the market for fast songs is about to open!
It can be seen how much he trusts those songs!
Even those slow songs, that is, those songs that can make them recognized by the mainstream media and music critics in Li Qian's mouth, after the company's internal audition of the album ended, the company's music director Du Xiaoming also said to them excitedly: If you can get a song like "Farewell" and sing this work for the first time, your name will be remembered by many people in about 50 years!
Do you think, it's all like this, Li Qian's works, coupled with the high recognition and praise of so many authoritative musicians in the company, even if they are not very confident, don't they have to increase their confidence at this time?
However, the company said that although the company is very optimistic about their album and has great expectations for the market prospect of this album, considering their past market position, it is impossible for the company to directly spend money on them as first-line stars for publicity, so after internal discussions, in the promotion and distribution of the new album, the company decided to spend all the funds on Dragon Star TV's New Year's Eve party......
Therefore, they were not qualified enough in any case, but they were able to get the performance time of the two songs at this party, plus more than seven minutes together, and it was ten o'clock in the evening when it was broadcast, a relatively good time period.
But such a desperate propaganda strategy means that they only have one way to Huashan, if they become popular through the New Year's Day party, there is nothing to say, if it does not become popular, the next thing will be sad to death.
It's not completely impossible for the company to continue to spend money on publicity! But the question is, around New Year's Day, what publicity can compare to singing for seven minutes at Dragon Star TV's New Year's Eve party?
And as we all know, after the New Year's Day party, if you are popular, you are red, if you are not popular, if you are not popular, everyone does not pay extra attention to you, then then, when the whole country and the whole society begin to move towards the rhythm of the New Year after New Year's Day, even if you are the level of the king and queen, in this time period, it is difficult to get too good sales results, and on the contrary, as soon as the Spring Festival passes, it is the turn of those songs in the Spring Festival Gala to be popular all over the streets and alleys!
So, it's a complete last stand!
Time walked very slowly and quickly, and there was still a commotion in the corridor outside, and there seemed to be a visit to the next room, and the two male singers laughed when they talked about happy things......
Finally, the rehearsal officially began.
Then, finally, the program team knocked on the door to remind them that there was still half an hour for them to play, so they prepared immediately, and went backstage to wait for the show in ten minutes.
So, several sisters stood up one after another, one with a stiff face and the appearance of being about to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder, Zhou Pingping still had a stomachache, Sun Ruoxuan still had a dry throat and wanted to drink water, and Sima Duoduo continued to sweat.
The agent Sister Wu comforted a few words, and then their producer Li Jinlong also arrived just in time, and said a few words of comfort and encouragement, which made the five girls feel slightly better, and the tension was somewhat relieved.
Before going out to wait for the venue, Xie Bing finally mustered up the courage to speak, "Sisters, don't be nervous, let's sing hard, don't live up to the hard work of the past few months, and don't live up to the efforts that Teacher Li Qian has done for us!"
Sima Duoduo clenched his fists fiercely, "Well, don't be nervous! We will be hot! Our song will be welcomed by everyone!"
Even Wang Jingxue spoke very calmly, "Liao Liao took Li Qian's five songs, each of which is a big hit, and eight of our new albums are his works!
So, the five sisters stretched out their hands one after another, shook them together very solemnly, and shouted in unison: "Come on!"
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After all, when the staff of the program team came over to inform "the next group is you", the five girls were still nervous, Sun Ruoxuan's voice was almost nervous and couldn't speak, Zhou Pingping even looked like she was about to cry, and the sisters held hands and held each other tightly, as if they could pass on their strength to the past!
Then, the time has come.
The music of the previous song stopped, and the host took the stage and began to introduce their Wuxing Wusu group, and then saw the staff waving at them, and then pointing to the stage.
It's their turn.
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