Chapter 55: The World Is in Turmoil

After the time entered May, the film and television department of Minghu Culture finally began to get busy again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Han Shunzhang and Huang Wenjuan, these are the two most capable producers on the side of Minghu Culture, Han Shunzhang is already steady, after the experience of several plays, he can definitely take charge of himself now, Huang Wenjuan has been thrown into the crew of "The Legend of the New White Lady" and "On the Road" to study, and it may not be possible to be alone until now, but he is already a very competent deputy.

So, Jin Han took people around to choose the scene, and Han Shunzhang and Huang Wenjuan began to make preparations for the start of filming of "Meteor Garden".

It is planned that by the end of this month, the casting of this new drama will begin, and filming will start in mid-May, because there are only 20 episodes, so the amount of filming is not too large, and it is planned that all filming will be completed in about 50 days.

In this play, Li Qian will serve as the producer and producer, in addition to this, of course he is also a screenwriter, but that's all, he is not ready to interfere with this drama from the preliminary preparation to the middle shooting, and then to the post-editing.

For him, first, he already believes in Jin Han's level, and second, he is not afraid even if the road is crooked, which can further temper Jin Han's ability to shoot this kind of commercial production.

From the very beginning, he had high hopes for Kim Han, so as long as he did it, he was not afraid of making mistakes.

At present, Li Qian's main job, in addition to continuing to stare at the recording of Wang Jingxue and Xie Bing's new albums, also has to interfere in the production of Zhou Ye and Wang Nanhao's new albums, and then, on the side of "Super Girl", the auditions across the country are only halfway through, and he will take time to fly to Changsha Mansion every week to supervise the editing and processing in the later stage, and each episode of the program must be signed and approved by him, the chief planner and first producer, before it can be broadcast.

Of course, in addition, he has a very important job recently, that is, under the introduction or leadership of Mr. Chen Kefang, he visited several senior brothers and sisters one by one and talked seriously one by one.

Then, soon, the screenwriting team of the Minghu Culture, Film and Television Department was established.

At this time, the Voice of China Radio's next week's golden song on-demand list was released, and then, even though Li Qian had already been psychologically prepared for this, he was still forced to temporarily turn his attention back to the music world.

It's just that the subsequent development of things made even him dumbfounded!

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To the extent that Li Qian is at present, with his long-standing reputation, status in the music world, and people's inner positioning of him, whether it is fans or music critics, the evaluation criteria for him are already another dimension, which is different from the vast majority of other singers in China.

From a higher, or the highest requirement, is "The First Experience of Love" a success or a failure?

No one can say for sure.

To judge Li Qian's album, the sales of it are of course still an extremely important criterion, but it is not the only one.

Because you can always come up with some fresh and good works, everyone hopes that you can always come up with other fresh and good works, and these works should be praised by everyone.

Li Qian did not disappoint, he took out "Jiangnan", "The First Experience of Love", and also took out "William Castle" and "Indian Old Turtledove", once again expanding the width of domestic music genres.

But Li Qian is also disappointing, because this time, he is unusually aggressive.

In another time and space, Jay Chou has just debuted, and several albums in a row have sold well, but in a larger market, in fact, the mainland market, he has always been the youngest and most fashionable part of the fans to like the object, for other more fans, for his cool, Alternative music, well, is mainly the part of rap, of course, there is also the problem of his unclear words, everyone is unwilling to accept it, have heard it, don't like it, complain, more people, don't want to listen to it at all.

It wasn't until later that several Chinese-style R&B songs continued to become popular, coupled with a group of singers led by him who continued to cultivate the niche category of rap music in those years, and finally, more and more people were willing to put aside their prejudices and listen to his works seriously, and then, first liked his Chinese-style R&B, and then everyone even began to like Zhou's rap.

Then, rap is still niche, but almost everyone knows about it, and the vast majority of fans have basically no prejudices about it and have completely accepted it. The reason why it continues to be niche is mainly because after Dong Chou, there are no more singers with enough standards to continue to cultivate.

In contrast, Dong Chou, who first debuted two years ago, is not the same as Li Qian in 2000, regardless of his status in the rivers and lakes, as well as his influence in the music world and fans.

Reluctant analogy, it is about equivalent to Jay Chou releasing his first album and doing rap, which is similar to Mr. Liu Huan's sudden release of a new album to do rap - this album was released by Mr. Chou and can be classified as a newcomer with great characteristics and characteristics, but the same album, if released by Mr. Liu Huan, the meaning it represents and the message it conveys to the music world must be completely different!

The latter is unusually radical!

Therefore, although Li Qian is known as the "leader", and not only the leader of the fans, within the music industry, there are only a very few people who do not recognize this title in their hearts, and more people, even opponents, are also convinced by this, and the sales of this album are not bad, the first two weeks and twelve days together, Guangdongguan Bookstore has sold more than 100,000 copies, which is definitely the top sales. But this time, for this album, most of the industry has a "reservations, not to speak" attitude.

Even among the fans, the quarrel between the two opposing factions on the forum can be felt, and the evaluation of this album is indeed mixed.

When this week's golden song list came out, "William Castle" and "Indian Old Turtledove" actually made the list, and it was directly on the list in a way that made a big leap, perhaps in the eyes of many people, this should have proved the excellence of these two songs, proved that fans actually like these two works, and to some extent also proved that Chinese rap is not an impassable road.

Or it can be said that at this time, those comments that were originally intended to praise these two songs have come to the time when they can be boldly thrown out, and the comments that were originally intended to criticize can choose to keep silent.

But the reality is often so unexpected.

On the day when the Voice of China Radio's golden song on-demand list was just released, Shuntian Yinyuetai's "Big Coffee Says Big Coffee" took the lead!

Moreover, the guest of this issue is not an ordinary musician, but a professor of Shuntian Conservatory of Music and a visiting professor of Huaxia Conservatory of Music, Zhou Zhibin-

"Rap is good, its general popularity and popularity in Europe and the United States has proven that it is an indispensable genre of contemporary pop music, but what should rap, especially Chinese rap, do? I think Li Qian has made a bad start, especially in terms of his appeal and influence, and the impact of his opening will be especially bad...... Does rap mean slurred words and babbling?

I know that Li Qian has officially studied Peking Opera from his teacher, and coincidentally, my teacher is his wife, that is, Mr. Cheng Lu Shuming, so to some extent, I can call him a little junior brother.

Last year, I heard his "Rap Face" and his "Paradise", it was really amazing, I can say that it was one of the best works that Chinese contemporary pop music has been able to come up with in the past few decades, and the songs he made for Liao Liao were brought to the world, and I personally felt and honored! And you can feel it, he really worked hard to learn Peking Opera! Although it is difficult to say whether he can perform on stage, his research on Peking Opera is definitely not shallow!

When the teacher celebrated his birthday, I went to pay homage to her and chatted with her old man, and her old man also praised Li Qian, and my teacher, that is, Li Qian's teacher, Mr. Cheng Yunshan, was also very pleased.

I remember that his old man personally told his disciples at that time, as well as those of us who were disciples of Lu Shi, that Fang Shaobai, as a big disciple, inherited all his skills and pursuits in Peking Opera, and can be regarded as a representative of the old students of the Cheng School, and Li Qian is also a disciple, although it is estimated that it will be difficult to have the opportunity to sing Peking Opera on stage in the future, but in the matter of spreading Peking Opera culture and canvassing for Peking Opera, his strength is no less than that of Brother Fang Shaobai!

At that time, Li Qian was said to be abroad, and he didn't rush back, it was a girl who went to pay homage to Lu Shi for his birthday, so I didn't have the opportunity to see him, and it was a pity at the time, to be honest, I personally admired him for a long time before! I think he is a great genius sent by God to the Chinese music scene!

But as soon as "Fort William" came out, as well as "Indian Old Turtledove", I listened to it, and I was completely stunned, and I couldn't help but want to ask: Li Qian, have you really learned the Peking Opera in your heart in the past few years? What about the skills of Peking Opera recitation that Master Cheng taught you? Where did you go? Rap, rap, what is rap? If you want to rap, there are so many kinds of dramas in our country, all of which are read in white, so you can't learn it, you have to copy and copy foreign raps? And foreign rap is not your routine......

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The next day, "Suncheon Daily" suddenly made a strong effort and published a signed article by Zhou Zhou, a famous musician in the industry, entitled "The Deformed Combination of Chinese and Western Styles: A Brief Discussion on Failure."

The article is written very professionally, from the lyrics, to the song, to the singing skills, the head of the analysis is the Tao, and the criticism of Li Qian is also criticized to the extent of dog blood. This article is very unfriendly to ordinary readers who are not music majors, and it is said that this does not conform to the consistent tone of "Suncheon Daily Supplement", but the final conclusion of the whole article is still understandable to everyone - the song "Fort William", except for the lyrics that are barely worth watching, the song, arrangement, and singing are all complete failures.

This is the harshest criticism Li Qian has encountered in the industry since his debut with Liao Liao's "Persistence" and other headless works in 95!

Therefore, this time, the supplement not only gave the front page headline, but also gave a big guide title on the front page of this issue of "Suncheon Daily".

As a result, the Suncheon Daily on that day was said to be out of stock.

And at the same time, "Oriental Entertainment Daily", "Huaxia Variety News", etc., are all following up - you know, in terms of the domestic music and entertainment circles, these newspapers are quite influential, and they are by no means comparable to those entertainment tabloids that only report some gossip and scandals all day long!

And the many figures who came out this time are by no means comparable to the so-called freelance music critics who write some manuscripts every day to earn manuscript fees, they are all well-known people in the music industry, and they are "big men" who are not visible on weekdays, but in fact, they each have a certain amount of influence.

So, this time, one stone stirred up a thousand waves.

All kinds of criticisms have come one after another.

TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, Internet forums, etc., etc., when all kinds of news were collected by the propaganda department of Minghu Culture and put on Li Qian's desk, he took the time to read it, and could only smile bitterly.

Objectively speaking, even if he doesn't have the foundation of learning Peking Opera and only talks about Li Qian's habit of singing, the rap he does will definitely not be classified into the category of "unclear words".

But the problem is that at present, in China, the vast majority of people, including even quite a lot of professional musicians, have quite limited contact with niche music in this category of rap, and Chinese rap is something that is "difficult to get into the hall of elegance" in their eyes, so when Li Qian, who sang "Once You", went to sing "William Castle", the feeling brought to them was obviously disappointed.

But after thinking about it, he still decided not to argue anything, and when he was blocked by reporters in the underground parking lot, he said in front of countless microphones: "I am responsible for writing songs, and I can also be responsible for singing, but I am not responsible for arguing with people." The song is out, whether it sounds good or not, let time judge!"

And when Li Qian's answer was published, in an instant, the voice of the crusade suddenly became many times louder!

Negative words such as arrogance and self-righteousness were originally just a few people's evaluations of Li Qian, but now, more people are beginning to detain them on Li Qian's head.

Two raps, set off a storm!

But for album sales, that's not a bad thing.

On May 15th, the record sales list of Dongguan Bookstore was released, and "The First Experience of Love" in the third week of its listing sold more than 13,000 copies more than last week, and the sales volume in a single week was as high as 80,416 copies, continuing to rank first!

But for the domestic music scene, this is not the most important news.

Even, the merciless criticism of so many big names is no longer important.

On Tuesday, May 16, Yanjing Entertainment Life, a small newspaper known for its ability to dig into the privacy of celebrities, suddenly published a two-page feature article - "The Woman Hidden Behind Li Qian!"

The full text is accompanied by a large number of blurry or clear pictures, arranged according to the time and date, the closest one in time, is Li Qian and Wang Jinglu are walking hand in hand to the vegetable market, on the photo, the two are talking and laughing, each carrying a shopping bag in their hands, there are fish, meat and vegetables, the time distance is a little farther away, it is a photo of the two whispering at this year's Yangcheng Film Festival, when Li Qian was lying in Wang Jinglu's ear and saying something, Wang Jinglu's eyes looked slightly sideways, a pair of clear big eyes were rippling, bright and beautiful.

Further on, there are photos of two people eating together in a restaurant, and there are also photos of two people walking into the corridor together. Some are clear, some are blurry, but the body shape and appearance can be clearly distinguished.

Moreover, the timeline can be pushed back to September last year in one go!

With these photos as proof, without speaking, everyone can instantly know the relationship between two people!

But the two pages of the story begin with an interview conversation.

The object of the interview was the first professor of the Shuntian Conservatory of Music who stood up to criticize Li Qian, Zhou Zhibin.

Reporter: I have heard your remarks when you were a guest on "Big Coffee Says Big Coffee", and you have a negative attitude towards Li Qian's two recent Chinese rap works, "William Castle" and "Indian Old Turtledove", right?

Zhou Zhibin: Then it's not called a song.

Reporter: According to your own words in the program, you are a disciple of Mr. Lu Shuming, and Li Qian is the husband of Mr. Lu Shuming and a disciple of the famous Peking Opera master Mr. Cheng Yunshan, right?

Zhou Zhibin: Yes.

Reporter: You once mentioned a birthday banquet for Mr. Lu, saying that Li Qian did not go at that time, and entrusted a girl to pay homage to Mr. Lu on his behalf.

Zhou Zhibin (frowning): Neither. But Liao Liao also went.

Reporter: So, is it Ms. Qi Jie, the general manager of Minghu Culture? Do you know Ms. Qi Jie?

Zhou Zhibin (frowning): I don't know, but I know her, not her. …… What are you asking?

The reporter took out a photo and asked: Is this the girl?

Zhou Zhibin: Yes.

Reporter: Do you know in what capacity she went?

Zhou Zhibin (frowning): Of course, it represents Li Qian! Hey, don't ask, you're just asking about gossip! You go out, I won't accept your interview! Get out!

(After Professor Zhou refused, our reporter had to interrupt the interview, but kept the recording of the interview at that time, which can be provided with evidence at any time.) )

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It should be said that from an outsider's point of view, the reporter of "Yanjing Entertainment Life" has basically sorted out the entire life line between Li Qian and Wang Jinglu from September last year to the present. coupled with an interview with Zhou Zhibin, as well as a large number of pictures, it almost directly confirms the facts!

Moreover, they actually went to Jinan Mansion and interviewed a few classmates in Li Qian and Wang Jinglu's class, and got some other corroboration: the classmates of the two people personally confirmed that the two have been very close since the second and third years of high school, and some people say that they have been very close since the beginning of high school, and everyone thinks that they are in love.

Then, it's Wang Jinglu's information!

According to various information, "Yanjing Entertainment Life" presumes that Li Qian and Wang Jinglu have lived together in a two-bedroom apartment in a community in Shuntianfu in the autumn and winter of 1998 or early 1999 at the latest!

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As soon as the newspaper came out, the world was in chaos!

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It's back. (To be continued.) )