Nashville, United States, 6 December 2008. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The annual Grammy Awards nomination gala is held at the concert hall in Nashville, the "Country Music Capital of America."

This is the first time that the Grammys have come to Nashville, and the nominations for the 51st Grammy Awards have all been announced, and CBS TV has broadcast the nomination party live.

At the nomination party, the most media attention was not Coldplay, which was in the limelight with seven nominations, nor the "old and young" Robert-Plant and Alison-Krauss, but the "Asian diva" Shen Fu, a yellow-skinned and black-haired Chinese who won three heavyweight nominations.

Everyone can see that no matter whether Shen Fu wins the award in the end or not, these three nominations are a breakthrough in themselves, and they are a great affirmation, which shows that Shen Fu's influence, popularity and quality of works have reached a level that the Grammys cannot ignore.

《halo》、《stronger》、《rolling-in-the-deep》、《set-fire-to-the-rain》…… The quality of Shen Fu's entire album is undoubted, and the melodic and popular nature of the songs are obvious to all, and they have also been tested by the market.

Is there an explanation for such an album being nominated for a Grammy?

No, you don't!

No matter how much prejudice the Grammys have, and how many unspoken rules are hidden in it, they can not give Shen Fu an award, but they can't help but nominate her, because if they don't even give a nomination, it is equivalent to slapping the face of the Billboard list, and it is equivalent to slapping the face of the media that has praised the quality of Shen Fu's albums, in that case, all the members of the jury will get a title - "stupid and arrogant deaf".

And even if individual members of the jury don't care about their personal reputation, the reputation of the Grammys as a world-class music award still needs to be maintained, and if the quality of the album "Halo" cannot be nominated, then no matter who wins the award in the end, it will not be able to convince the public, and it will definitely become a stain that the Grammys cannot erase.

Therefore, Shen Fu was nominated.

After the list was announced, even the most demanding American music critics did not feel that Shen Fu was shortlisted for the nomination list.

A week ago, some American media predicted that Shen Fu would be the strongest contender for the Grammys of the Year Pop Singer of the Year and Song of the Year, and even a music critic wrote: "Take the three songs "Halo", "Rolling-in-the-Deep", and "Set-Fire-to-The-Rain", whether in business or word of mouth, they are already indisputable award-winning works, and the remaining question is only who to find to accompany them." ”

Interestingly, after the manuscript was published, not many people questioned it.

In addition to Shen Fu, two other Chinese people were nominated for the nomination, namely Li Wei, a famous guzheng player living in Canada, and Chen Kelan, a Chinese-American pianist, both of whom were nominated for Best Instrumental Solo. Similarly, in the hearts of Americans, Shen Fu's name must be preceded by a few words - "living in Britain".

At the party, the entire concert hall was brightly lit and star-studded, and the big-name musicians who won the Grammy Awards in previous years appeared one after another, showing people the charm, gold content and temptation of the Grammys, the world's top Vanity Fair.

Shen Fu, dressed in a black dress, sat elegantly in the third row of the venue, the agents Miss Wang and Ai Zhen sat around Shen Fu, and three beautiful black-haired Oriental women became the most chic scenery in the audience.

In the middle of the party, the music video of Shen Fu's Billboard champion single "SET-FIRE-TO-THE-RAIN" began to play on the big screen on the stage.

To be honest, the overall quality of this MV shot by a heavy investment, a collection of first-line stars from China, Japan and South Korea, and Asia's top directors and camera editors far exceeds the MV that was played before.

In the MV, Shen Fu, who was soaked all over, stood in the rain and sang, and the short period of picture transformation made people feel like watching a movie trailer, which was very impactful. In addition, there is a detail in the MV that greatly increases the goodwill of the Americans present at the party to Shen Fu, that is, this MV was filmed in Hawaii.

In the minds of some Americans, a Chinese singer who lives in the UK, sings in English, and shoots music videos in Hawaii is significantly closer to European and American cultures.

Well, that's just what the Americans think.

When the news of Shen Fu's Grammy nomination came back to China, the media was boiling.

People who heard the news and knew what the Grammys were, were overjoyed, and they discussed and told each other through mobile phones, QQ groups, Weibo, and forums.

Soon, CCTV broadcast the news on the hour, and then more people knew about it.

As a result, the Chinese people are boiling!

In a certain sense, Shen Fu's Grammy nomination is almost as important as Liu Xiang's gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics.

The gold medal in track and field at the Olympics is certainly difficult, but the difficulty is all about physical fitness, mental quality, scientific training and a little luck. In the track and field, fast is fast, high is high, far is far, as long as the results are out, as long as you break through the hard bar, as long as the urine test passes, no one can hack you, and you will definitely get honor.

Shen Fu's nomination is different, it has no hard bar, and the nomination or non-nomination is all subjective, so the difficulty of Shen Fu's nomination is many times more difficult than fighting in the track and field field, because it needs to cross prejudice, discrimination, barriers and other barriers.

To put it simply, the track and field gold medal is to convince people with her strength, and Shen Fu's nomination is equivalent to saying that she has achieved the convincing of the mainstream in Europe and the United States.

Thinking about this, it's easy to see which one is more difficult.

In other words, the Olympic gold medal is just a product of the national system, and if you win the gold medal this time, you may not be able to win it next time. However, Shen Fu's nomination is a milestone achievement in cultural export, which represents the improvement of China's cultural soft power, and overtakes Japan and South Korea in the internationalization of pop music.

Domestic.

Both the media and netizens collectively ignored the fact that Shen Fu's entire "Halo" album was all English songs.

On the same album, Americans understood it as Shen Fu being closer to European and American cultures, while some domestic netizens ridiculed:

"Shen Fu's English songs are beautiful and popular, and the Grammys have a vision. ”

"A Chinese has created this level of English songs, and I don't know how singers whose mother tongue is English feel. ”

"A second language beats the mother tongue and beats the other person in a familiar area, that's what really awesome!"

"The one who said that "Rolling-in-the-Deep" and "Halo" are not good, your music appreciation ability is given by phone bill, right?"

In one day, Shen Fu's reputation reached the peak since his debut, and the rumors of "suspected pregnancy" that had been boiling a few days ago were like rolling soup and snow, and no one mentioned it anymore.

And what about Shen Fu......

After the nomination party, she did not accept any domestic media interviews, but posted a photo taken by Ai Zhen at the party to Weibo, and added a sentence: "I am fine, I will be better! ”

A photo, in a word, Shen Fu's first voice after being nominated for a Grammy completely detonated Zhiwei Weibo.

Just when netizens were fanatically congratulating and liking Shen Fu's Weibo, Bian Xuedao's Weibo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly woke up, and he forwarded Shen Fu's Weibo without hesitation, and wrote four words at the same time - "Happy Puben!"

Bian Xuedao's appearance made netizens even more excited, and when everyone was still wondering what the words "Xi Da Puben" meant, the employees of Zhiwei Weibo quickly forwarded the boss's Weibo.

When netizens saw it, they no longer cared what these four words meant, and followed the trend and forwarded it, and for a while, the screen on Weibo was full of "Xi Da Puben".

After about an hour, someone finally explained the origin of these four words -- it is an abbreviation of "happy to hear, happy to hear, happy to be happy, to celebrate with the whole world, and to run to tell each other."

Netizens took a look, oops, it's quite interesting, so it spread around.

When the media saw it, they revised the title of the report related to Shen Fu's Grammy nomination, and "Xi Da Puben" became popular and became Shen Fu's exclusive idiom. (To be continued.) )