Chapter 19: The Emperor of Change
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Since that night, Liu Yan has been hiding from Li Qing.
But it's not that there is no good trend at all, the money that Li Qing sent to Liu Yan and the review materials that Li Qing gave Liu Dantao, Liu Yan sent back to Li Qing twice and still accepted it.
Li Qing speculated that Liu Yan's current economic situation should be very bad, otherwise she would not have accepted what she gave her so easily.
Anyway, Liu Yan can accept what he gave her, which is a good start.
Next, what Li Qing has to do is to increase his own value, otherwise why should he enjoy the blessings of others?
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Normally, after all the songs have been recorded, the title song is selected - divided into the first, second and third waves, and the title song of the whole album generally does not exceed three (except for the king and queen), and then the MV of the title song is made.
The average singer will only choose one genre when they come out, such as rock, folk, jazz, dance music, hip-hop, R&B, heavy metal or whatever.
It's really about deciding what the selling point of the record is, and determining which type of music fan it is aimed at.
Only a small number of singers will span several genres, such as Jay Chou, whose albums often appear in several genres at the same time, such as Chinese G style, jazz, r&b, dance music, electronic music, and saliva love songs.
However, this is rare, and most records will have a clear main style.
Li Qing's album is actually a hodgepodge, with all styles, more than Jay Chou's spanning types.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Zhuohui almost gave up cooperating with Li Qing - later, because the songs that Li Qing came out with were so good, Liu Zhuohui took Li Qing's songs to Xiangjiang to discuss with the big boss.
Because of the varied style of this monograph, after listening to the suggestions of Liu Zhuohui, Yan Bao, and Luo Bing, Li Qing decided to use "Wukong" as the title song of this monograph, and named it "The Great Sage of Change" (Later, during the publicity, Liu Zhuo gritted his teeth and changed the "Great Sage" to "The Emperor of Change", which caused a lot of turmoil. )。
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chose "Wukong" as the title song, and Li Qing also had some selfish intentions.
Dadi Records promised to give Li Qing a production fee of 2 million, but this money was not given at one time, but was taken at any time.
Li Qing was very afraid, after the CD was produced, the results in the initial stage were not as good as he and Liu Zhuohui and others imagined, and then Liu Zhuohui and others cut off the follow-up investment.
You know, this is not impossible at all, after all, Li Qing is not famous at this stage.
Although Li Qing does not dare to guarantee that this album will be very popular in the initial stage, Li Qing believes that in the end it will definitely have a good result - after all, "Kiss Goodbye" has achieved sales of more than 250,000 copies (this is a ten-year achievement, 4 million copies in 93 years, and 1.3 million copies in Taiwan area in 93 years), and the sales volume of "Forget Love Water" in Taiwan alone reached 1.5 million copies in 94 years.
In order not to have a big oolong, Li Qing naturally chose "Wukong", which accounted for more than one-third of the total production cost, as the title song, so as to cut off Liu Zhuo's way back.
In the MV production of "Wukong", Li Qing had two plans at the beginning.
The first plan was to make an animation like "The Return of the Great Sage" - later, when he inquired about the price, Li Xing gave up this plan without even thinking about it.
The second plan is what Li Qing told Liu Zhuohui, to find a dance master who is proficient in Peking Opera to help create this MV, and the idea comes from Qiu Jirong's dance of "Wukong".
But Li Qingtuo's friends inquired and found out that Qiu Jirong was born in 85 years and is only seven years old this year, and his father Qiu Shaorong is the right age, but Qiu Shaorong is just a Peking Opera master who doesn't know how to dance at all.
Li Qing also tried to find others, but in the end they all ended up in vain - Peking Opera and dance are two industries with a large span, except for Qiu Jirong, a guy who is not doing business, who can be proficient in Peking Opera and dancing?
At this point, it seems to have entered a dead end.
After thinking about it for two days, Li Qing referred to the novel "The Legend of Wukong", "The Return of the Great Sage", "Journey to the West" and Qiu Jirong's "Wukong" dance, and consulted dance masters and Peking Opera masters, and finally spent more than ten days to create a MV script of "Wukong" by himself - Li Qing can touch his heart and say: This script has made 12% of his efforts!
In addition, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, gritting his teeth, Li Qing decided to play the role of Sun Wukong himself - of course, the main movements still have to be completed by dance and Peking Opera stand-ins, Li Qing needs to do only a combination of the two (that is, more than a dozen movements) and some face-revealing performances.
In order to achieve the effect he wanted, in the next month or so, Li Qing put all his body and mind into practicing dance, practicing Peking Opera, and running in with the two stand-ins.
For this reason, during this time, Li Qing didn't go to the crew of "Seahorse Song and Dance Hall", didn't take care of Liu Yan, didn't even accompany Xu Jinglei to take the college entrance examination, and didn't even pierce the layer of window paper with Cao Ying, who was only one step away from being able to completely win.
For Li Qing's work of forgetting sleep and food, whether it is Xu Jinglei or Cao Ying, they are even more fascinated by Li Qing, and they have a tendency to extricate themselves - after all, men who are serious about their careers are the most attractive.
As for Liu Yan, it is unknown.
When everything was just a candidate who escaped the MV, something happened again - Li Qing couldn't find a suitable MV actor.
In fact, this actor does not have many scenes, and there are no action scenes, Li Qing only has two basic requirements - first, this actress must be beautiful and amazing. Second, this actress must have Peking Opera skills and have the style of Peking Opera.
After knowing who Li Qing was looking for, Li Qing's group of friends were very enthusiastic to help Li Qing find someone, and finally even Xu Fan and Liu Bei, the two big Tsing Yi, were invited.
But after trying on makeup, without Li Qing to speak, everyone knew that they were not suitable - not that they were bad, but that they did not match Li Qing, after putting on makeup, Li Qing's age was somewhat exposed, taking Xu Fan and Liu Bei, the two six or seven years of Tsing Yi, as an example, as soon as they stood next to Li Qing, both men and women were obviously people of two eras.
For the sake of this actor, Li Qing's time to go to Hollywood was postponed again and again, which made people in Industrial Light and Magic think that Li Qing was going to breach the contract.
It wasn't until Li Qing happened to see a TV series called "Charming Guanyin" filmed by ZQ TV that Li Qing found the MV actress he was looking for.
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