Chapter 179: Confused and High X
The pendulum will swing.
It should be said that for a long time, most of the singers who have surrounded the Minghu culture have been full of brilliant halos. From Liao Liao, He Runqing, to Rose Power, the Four Beauty Bands, and even the newly rising Zhuang Meiyue, it is all the same.
Even, even the battle between Liao Liao and Zhou Yan for Li Qian broke out for Li Qian, which was regarded by domestic fans and media who love the house and Wu as a romantic affair in the entertainment industry. All kinds of speculations, but basically, they are all biased towards positive reports and analysis, and the impact on Liao Liao and Zhou Yan is basically on the positive side, and basically there is no negative impact, and even because of the contradictions and conflicts between the two, it has also increased their popularity, not only Liao Liao has already firmly sat in the position of the queen of the people, Zhou Yan has also taken a big step forward, and there is a trend of becoming more and more popular.
And Li Qian, although he has long been recognized as a famous playboy in the industry, but in the past few years, his works have been published frequently, and most of them are of high quality, monopolizing the golden song on-demand list at every turn, and landing at the top of the album sales list at every turn, making his "talent" attribute extremely strong, in the current moral environment of taking concubines like this, frankly speaking, if a big talent does not have a little romance, it will make people feel unreasonable, so Li Qian has always been the "playboy" he has been carrying 's reputation, but it's not a bad name.
There is another point that has to be mentioned, that is, Li Qian has always been unusually low-key since his debut.
And his low-key is not just low-key in the face of the media, he is the kind of all-round low-key - in the circle, his reputation is simply well-known! In the past few years since his debut, except for making an exception for the Spring Festival Gala, he has never participated in any variety shows, never participated in any commercial performances, and almost never participated in any internal gatherings and small parties in the industry.
Even, even if he participated in a limited number of public performances, such as the Changping Music Festival, and the Spring Festival Gala, he has never been the kind of person who interacts with the audience and fans in a very high-profile manner.
Therefore, Li Qian's reputation has always been quite good.
Of course, with Li Qian's style in the past few years, it is not surprising that he has a "proud" reputation in the industry - with his strength and status, of course, there are many people who want to make friends with him, but Li Qian himself does not have time to interact with everyone who wants to know him. And in fact, even if he had time, he felt that some people would disdain to socialize themselves.
It has nothing to do with identity, status, and strength, making friends is a matter of character, and then there is opportunity.
So, here's the problem, if you don't give you a song, of course it's very faceless, of course you have to make a feud, and if you don't come to the party, this is of course very faceless, and you have to make a feud.
Therefore, in the music circle, Li Qian has always been regarded as "withdrawn" and "arrogant".
But in fact, don't look at his lack of friends, but knowing one counts as one, and their friendship with each other is often good. Because, although it is difficult to say that he responds to requests, Li Qian has always been sincere and frank with his friends.
For example, Zhen Zhen, the eldest sister in the music industry who asked Li Qian to sing when they met for the first time, thought that Li Qian was just casually agreeing, but only a month later, Li Qian sent someone to send her a song called "Boat", and at that time, Zhen Zhen had already announced that she would join Sony Records, so to speak, it can be said that she basically stood on the opposite side of Minghu culture, and everyone was already an opponent.
Zhen Zhen was very emotional, and specially invited Li Qian out to have a meal together, and then, after coming and going, everyone became friends, and even now, Liao Liao and Xie Bing, who have accompanied Li Qian to have dinner with her, have also had a good personal relationship with her, and they have not damaged their friendship because of the battle between Minghu culture and Sony Records.
There are examples like this, such as Liu Mingliang and Zhao Xinfu.
Of course, for example, Huang Yuqing and Zhou Yan had a very good personal relationship, and urban love songs were a niche genre back then, and their two representatives of the urban love song genre were a bit of a group for warmth, and now, both of them are popular, and this friendship has continued. Over the course of a year, sometimes Li Qian is here, sometimes he is not, or Huang Yuqing used to go to Zhou's sheepfold alley, or everyone made an appointment to go to a restaurant outside, etc., and they always had to eat together many times.
The friendship between Li Qian and him is also quite good, at least not as speculated by those who are not in the know.
Another example, of course, He Runqing has been popular for 12 or 3 years now, and her circle of friends in the industry can be called extensive, and Cao Zhan has been in Shuntianfu for many years as early as the early eighties, and later left Shuntianfu, and has always been a well-known songwriter in the industry, and his connections are also quite strong, and with the two of them as a medium, those who can be qualified to be introduced to Li Qian as friends are either old acquaintances and good friends for many years, or they are in a high enough position.
Therefore, to sum up, although Li Qian is very low-key and has relatively few friends compared to other stars, it does not mean that he has no friends - just like that, he has an excellent reputation in niche circles. On the other hand, it doubled down on making him look a little too arrogant in a relatively wider circle, in short, not approachable enough.
And when these various things are summed up, and after the brewing and fermentation of the past few years, seeing that Li Qian and the Minghu culture series are becoming more and more popular and proud, you can imagine that there are not a few people in the circle who are disgusted with or even hate them - by extension, the media circle, and even the fan circle.
In the past, especially this year, with the popularity of "Once You", and with Zhuang Meiyue suddenly becoming popular as a newcomer in the music industry, even if there are some dissatisfaction with Minghu culture inside and outside the industry, it will not be vented.
But now, first Li Qian and Liao Liao mysteriously disappeared for a period of time, which made Li Qian's sense of "pretending to be forced" to hide and not see anyone more and more intense, plus there was such a force behind him that provoked a little...... Well, the situation where things must be reversed is coming.
"Once You" and "At Least You" were still selling well, and Zhao Yuan's new album, which was due to be released in June, was gathering momentum, but suddenly, a fire began to burn from the Internet, which was extremely free, and then the fire quickly spread to all kinds of media across the country — radio, television, newspapers, and so on.
Although it is not all negative news, after all, many media are still relatively ethical, just some things that catch the wind and catch shadows, and many media will not follow it directly, but in the current era, more media still choose to let go of their ethics for the sake of sales, so all kinds of negative reports and negative articles about Li Qian, Liao Liao, and other singers in the Minghu culture series began to flood the domestic media circle.
And about Li Qian running to shoot a TV series without doing his job, about Li Qian and Liao Liao almost disappeared from the media for a period of time, what did they do, and about Li Qian arrogantly refused many singers' invitations to sing, etc., were dug up one after another, and everyone reported, as for Minghu Culture, there are dozens of media reporters gathered every day.
Of course, through this wave of popularity, Fujiwara Mie obviously benefited greatly.
Her fans and supporters are the group of people who are the most disgusted with Li Qian and the most attacked on the Internet.
And because this incident was largely caused by her, when this "anti-Li Qian" group finally burned, she became more and more the darling of various media.
And taking this opportunity, her image began to appear more on various radio stations, television stations, newspapers and magazines, so that more people knew her cute and beautiful image, and with the news that she was about to release her first Chinese album, as well as every step of the progress of the album preparation, began to become hot news in the entertainment section.
Of course, it's one thing to talk behind your back, and it's another thing to work hard in person.
Don't look at many people in the industry saying all kinds of things in private, but when facing the camera and the interview pen, the singers, agents, and musicians who have been in this circle for many years are still very cautious.
Even, during an interview, when asked by reporters repeatedly, Fujiwara Mie was even forced to cry, but she still choked up and said: "Li Qianjun has always been my idol, and he has never made any excessive demands on me, I hope you don't ask these questions again." ”
It's just that when reporters asked her if she got Li Qian's work, she first flickered for a while, and then had to admit, "Until now...... Not yet. However, although I really hope that Li Qianjun can write a song for me, whether to write it or not, whether to write it or not, it is Li Qianjun's freedom, and I think there is no problem. ”
After reading this report, Qi Jie pursed her lips and said, "Perfect performance." ”
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In the midst of the ups and downs, Minghu culture did not respond in the slightest.
The raging fire has been burned, and Minghu Culture still has no response.
Minghu Culture declined to be interviewed. ”
"Refused again. ”
The fire began to burn bigger and bigger.
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On Friday, May 21, after a week of small-scale releases, and after obtaining amazing single-theater box office data, and the same amazing excellent word-of-mouth accumulation, the distributor of "Titanic" Twentieth Century Fox began to suddenly speed up, increasing the number of screening theaters for this film to 2,705 at once, and the canvas reached 4,208 in one fell swoop!
And when this week's box office data came out, "Titanic" miraculously brushed down a whopping $84 million weekend box office, and won the North American box office champion this week with a total weekly box office of 91.35 million!
Finally, "Titanic" soared into the sky after gathering momentum for a long time!
This movie, as well as the director of this film, James Cameron, and the hero and heroine of this movie, and even the theme song of this movie "My-heart-will-go-on", quickly became the biggest hot news in the entire North American region.
Two days later, on Sunday, May 23, the "Titanic" movie soundtrack was released, and on the first day of its release, it was directly airborne to the sixth place on the most authoritative Billboard sales list in North America!
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With the repeated silence of Li Qian and Minghu culture, the attacks on Li Qian and Minghu culture from all sides in China began to become more and more violent, and even at this time, even within Minghu culture, began to have some worries.
On the one hand, Qi Jie had to hold a company meeting to appease some emotions in the company, and on the other hand, Li Qian had to answer the phone frequently, thanking those friends who cared about him, and at the same time reassuring them, "It's not a big deal, it will be fine after a while."
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On Thursday, May 27, seeing the good momentum after the expanded release of "Titanic", the distributor Twentieth Century Fox couldn't wait to speed up the blockbuster again, and before Friday, the film's screening scope was expanded to 4,988 canvases in 3,527 theaters - this is almost the highest level of projection capacity in the whole of North America, and it has also reached the limit of Twentieth Century Fox's distribution capacity!
Of course, what they gained was an amazing box office explosion!
In this week, despite the repeated expansion of the screening range, the single-theater box office of this film has repeatedly declined, but such a large base and such a good reputation have made the film only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the three days, swiped a whopping 114 million weekend box office, plus the box office revenue in the previous four days, the film broke the record, for the first time in history, it achieved a total box office of 170 million US dollars in a single week, and left the second place by as much as 30 million!
There is no doubt that "Titanic" is a big hit!
And also this week, its movie soundtrack also sold like crazy, beating the best-selling albums of many singers in the same period, and firmly sat at the top of the Billboard chart! Among them, "My-heart-will-go-on" became the number one single for the first time, ranking first!
The name LIAO-LIAO quickly climbed to the top of the popular search on major websites in North America.
Because compared with the director, hero and heroine of "Titanic", this strange name is more unfamiliar, and at the same time, people can't help but be curious.
And it wasn't until this time that the American media finally broke out: Liao Liao is China's queen of songs!
The whole United States was in an uproar.
Then, through the Internet, a lot of information related to Liao Liao was quickly picked up from Chinese websites!
Her photos, her life, her status in the Chinese music scene, the achievements of her past works, and even her emotional experience of "competing for a boyfriend with another singer like a legend" have quickly become hot topics in major online forums in North America.
And at the same time, almost all of a sudden, Chinatowns all over North America, video stores all over North America that specialize in selling all kinds of imported albums...... In short, as long as Liao Liao's albums can be found, they were quickly discovered and posted on the Internet, and then, Liao Liao's past several Chinese albums were sold out in North America almost in one day!
Many import and export companies that smelled business opportunities reacted within a day, and immediately placed high orders directly to Minghu Culture through Chinese partners, while at the same time, more than half of the large and small record companies in North America either rushed to China in person, or released tasks to their branches in China, so overnight, Minghu Culture Company suddenly had many more people coming to the door, and they all said that they wanted to negotiate the North American agency distribution rights of Liao Liao's previous albums.
Even, after spending some time to figure out the situation, even Changsheng Records, because he held the ownership of "Liao Liao" and "The Sound of the Waves", was soon overwhelmed.
At the same time, Rolling Stone Records finally couldn't help but release the news for the first time: Liao Liao has officially signed with Rolling Stone Records, and her first English album will be released in mid-June!
And it wasn't until this time that the domestic media suddenly discovered:, we stared at Liao Liao, who had been criticizing for almost a month and had disappeared for several months, and actually went to the United States quietly?
Moreover, he actually directly brushed the champion of the American Billboard?
Brush it, up and down in China, there is a feeling of "so cool" all of a sudden.
As a result, the media, which had been in various groups of excitement before, suddenly fell silent collectively, and then contacted the US news channels one after another, striving to dig up first-hand information.
And when the first-hand news was really dug up, all of a sudden, everyone was stunned.
The film with the highest investment in history, and the soundtrack of the epic blockbuster "Titanic", which is currently popular in North America and will soon be released worldwide, was made by Li Qian? The theme song was sung by Liao Liao? And it is said that it is still hand-picked by a great director like James Cameron, who is awesome and coaxed all over the world? It is said that it is still the person who the truck driver personally came to Shuntianfu to invite?
Liao Liao actually signed a contract with Rolling Stone, the world's largest record company? He is about to release his first global album in June? And Li Qian is the lyricist and composer of all ten songs, including six English songs?
Now, not only is the theme song called "My-heart-will-go-on", which translates to "My Heart Eternal", become popular, but it is said that Liao Liao is already the number one popular search in North America?
Lay down in a groove...... What kind of painting style is this?
It turns out that they didn't disappear, but they were hiding and planning to break out of Asia and go to the world?
You must know that Liao Liao is obviously not the first Chinese singer to release an English album, but Liao Liao is definitely the first Chinese singer whose English album can make such a big move!
And it's a billboard!
Even if you don't know what Billboard is, a little check of the information will make you understand: it is the most authoritative and representative music chart in the world, at least in the English-speaking cultural system!
Before that, not to mention the champion single of Billboard, there was no Chinese singer who could be on the top 50 of Billboard! So, no matter how you calculate the data and check the history, Liao Liao is definitely the first in history!
Moreover, with six English songs and four Chinese songs, Minghu Culture is responsible for East and Southeast Asia, and Rolling Stone Records is responsible for the rest of the world.
There have been Chinese singers who have released English albums before, but people's English albums are English albums, frankly speaking, everyone knows that in the English cultural circle, no one listens to Chinese songs, so no one dares to risk putting a few Chinese works in their English albums!
Therefore, if it is said that it is nothing for a Chinese singer to sing English songs and become popular, Liao Liao will definitely be the first Youmu You?—— Chinese song to sell Chinese songs all over the world, and one day it can be sold in the United States, and it is not a niche circle, it is very likely to be put on the shelves of major supermarkets and video stores and sold in large quantities!
It has always been European and American singers who sell it in China!
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Looking at the news I got from the United States at hand, after I was stunned, the media across the country instantly became high again!
, it turned out that it was silent, but people have really started the journey of the world map!
The pride of the Chinese people!
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