Chapter 196: An Idol Is Born

Julian Horn is a big man in the electrophonic industry, and when he brought the news back to Europe, the entire electrophonic circle shook.

That mysterious melody has been searched for so long, and it turns out to be from the mysterious East?

Many consequentialist people immediately re-translated that piece of music, and if they look at this music from the perspective of an already existing position, they will immediately find that this music is really oriental, and it can't be more oriental, with a subtle melody, mysterious division, and exotic musical temperament...... If this is not the East, then what is the East!

The electronic voice coil, which is big or small, is full of admiration for this melody.

Coupled with the two new songs they quickly got, the reaction in the electronic music circle was even more exciting.

Fan Cheng's works, there is a reason to say that they can become popular in the electronic voice circle.

In addition to various avant-garde music occasions, electronic music born in the special environment of the game, Perfume, Peng Weiwei, and the pop music represented by producers such as Yasutaka Nakata behind them, and even all kinds of music that may have been produced by ordinary people around the birth of Hatsune Miku, but surprisingly popular, these music are mixed together to finally form a unique, gentle and chic, strong rhythm style but extremely popular electronic music style in Japan。

In Fan Cheng's previous life, Perfume and Peng Weiwei were quite marketable in Europe, and the music produced by Fan Cheng was more than that, to say pop, Fan Cheng's electronic music was there, to say artistry and depth, his works were mixed with a lot of YMO melodies, plus the music he provided to Fan Xiaoqian and the three of them were all works that would not appear in his world for at least fifteen years, and many performers who were very interested in Fan Cheng immediately sent invitations, hoping that he could go to Europe to perform.

Fan Cheng himself has no interest in acting in Europe, but if Fan Xiaoqian can perform in Europe, it will be of great help to their fame and attention.

So Fan Cheng is also very serious about contacting European performers, saying that Fan Cheng is not interested, but the singers who have sung those two songs here can appear, and even sing new songs when the time comes.

Although Fan Cheng has some influence in Europe, he is not very powerful, Europeans must see him more as an electronic music musician, this identity may be good if it is replaced by other musicians, he really doesn't care much about Fan Cheng, and he is not interested in going too far in the electronic music industry.

After filming enough shows outside, Fan Xiaoqian finally returned to Yangji, the promotion of the new album is almost done, and she will study with peace of mind for a period of time, after all, she still has a student status.

The difference between idols and traditional artists is that traditional artists don't need to care much about their studies, whether they are actors or singers, they will go directly to a junior college after graduation, and as for cultural classes, they can just do whatever they want.

But this is not the case with idols, idols attach great importance to personal image, so people will expect the perfection of idols, even if their studies are not important, if idols have excellent studies, everyone will be very happy.

Fan Cheng also returned to Yangji with Fan Xiaoqian.

X's new album is already done and waiting to be released, Fan Xiaoqian needs to be promoted, X doesn't need publicity at all now, "SAYYES", which has 101 marriage proposals, is becoming popular all over the country along with the series, and the album released the day after the sixth episode is very likely to get excellent sales.

After Fan Cheng returned to Yangji, his main work was in variety shows, and a variety show called "The Birth of an Idol" was already in preparation.

In 2002, the world was before the dawn of reality talent shows, and if the world was similar to Fan Cheng's world, then by 2004, Super Girl would be born.

In fact, in Fan Cheng's world, there was a reality talent show in Japan in the seventies and eighties, that is, "The Birth of STAR", this show can be described as great, because many singers and artists in the seventies and eighties were born from this show, Yamaguchi Momoe, Nakamori Akina, Ishino Mako, Koizumi Kyoko, Tokunaga Hideaki...... The importance of this show to Japan is even greater than Super Girl's contribution to China.

Another important contribution of this show is that through this show, the definition of idol in Japan was born.

Fan Cheng established this show, not to fight against Supergirl, but to enrich his Sihai Records, now Sihai Records only has two singers, X and Fan Xiaoqian, which is far from enough, even if Qin Ruoxue and Wen Zhen, who are likely to join in the future, the number of artists is far from enough.

Fan Cheng did not use the name of the program "STAR Birth" but directly used "Idol Birth", such a name can better show the purpose of the program and better define the scope of participants.

The biggest difference between "Idol Birth" and Supergirl is that Supergirl is hosted by a TV station, outside of the TV station, although the music company headed by the partner Tianyu Media also has its own influence, but the dominant person is still the TV station, so the TV station is most concerned about the ratings, for this reason, the TV station shouted out the operation method of auditions regardless of age, which will lead to uneven strength of the participants, but on the other hand, the program effect will be very good.

The production method of "The Birth of an Idol" is mainly based on music companies, and Sihai Records is mainly looking for artists rather than variety shows, so although the target is still facing ordinary people, the artists who can be selected for the show are all potential to be idols, rather than any crooked melons and cracked dates.

On the promotional video of the show, Fan Cheng directly threw out the definition of idols: "The idols in our traditional thinking refer to people that everyone admires, but in our show, I hope that idols have a new definition." ”

"As an idol artist, not only requires an excellent job, but also requires a very good personal image, the goal of singers and actors, the first thing is to bring people good songs and dramas, and the primary goal of idols is to let people see the beauty of the world and bring people happiness......

As soon as Fan Cheng's words came out, not only the audience, but even the entertainment industry nodded again and again.

There are also smart people in the industry, and they have long seen the potential of this kind of artist operation through Fan Xiaoqian's debut, and they don't pay so much attention to the production method of strength but to create an image, which is just scratching the itch of major companies.

It's just that major companies that have just come into contact with this mode of operation are still exploring this way of promotion, and there is no complete definition of this kind of promotion for the time being.

Now they don't need to define it, Fan Cheng directly defined this kind of artist as an "idol".

Some people may think that Huaxia does not need idols, the idol industry has been completely stigmatized in later generations, and idols themselves are third-rate artists who have no strength and even look worried, but Fan Cheng doesn't think so.

What Fan Cheng gave was an idol definition, and it was a very complete way of operation, but if there was no Fan Cheng, would the idol not exist?

In fact, idols have always been there, even if they don't call the name idol.

For example, in the Huaxia of Fan Cheng's world, aren't TFBOYS idols? There are also those little fresh meat with faces and no acting skills, according to the above definition, fans don't value their acting skills and singing skills, what is that not an idol?

There is nothing wrong with idols themselves, and even the definition of idols is not wrong, like SMAP, being an idol to achieve the status of a king, who dares to say that their idol status is not suitable?

Even looking at Hong Kong and Taiwan in the eighties and nineties, the so-called Four Heavenly Kings are actually idols, and Liu Dehua has been married for so many years and dare not announce it, which is a standard idol operation method.

Even not only celebrities, the definition of an idol can actually be placed in many industries.

For example, the video live broadcast that was very popular in later generations, the appearance anchor can look at the face, only the technical anchor can be demanding of his technology, and those who brush each other's game dishes in the room of the appearance anchor are all a group of guys who can't read the air.

"The Birth of an Idol" After the promotional video came out, the station immediately received a lot of applications from all over the country to participate, compared with Japan that was very inconvenient in the seventies and eighties, it is much more convenient and faster to do this kind of TV show now, with the announcement of the promotional video, it is the network email address of the comprehensive entertainment channel, than need to wait, and even screen out most of the middle-aged people who don't know how to use the network mailbox, the comprehensive entertainment channel has been ready to give the show a very young positioning from the beginning, those who sing well to the explosion, but the appearance and age do not quite meet the definition of idols, let them go to participate in the supergirl two years later, the comprehensive entertainment channel here, only idols。

In addition, the program "Idol Birth" was also sold to Shuzhong TV at a relatively low price and was arranged to be broadcast at ten o'clock on Wednesday night with relatively low ratings. This show, after Fan Cheng took the plan, he said that we are doing it for the company to select talents, and the requirements for ratings are not high, even so, Shuzhong still bought this show, these programs were added to Shuzhong's weekly broadcast plan, and Shuzhong's weekly broadcast rhythm has actually been somewhat fragmented.

As for the filming location of the show, it was mainly the imperial capital, originally Fan Cheng even wanted to rent a studio in the third brother of Yangcheng, the imperial capital of the magic capital, and build three sets of studio furnishings, but then calculated that the extra two sets plus the cost of studio rental were enough for the channel to provide participants with two years of carriage and horses, and this plan was finally shelved.

The show has been built, and the next thing is to enrich the lineup, in addition to Fan Cheng, several musicians who did not have a music company that I knew on "Creation is King" were all absorbed by Fan Cheng into the team of program judges, plus the band, host, and professional sound engineer......

When the first batch of participants came to the imperial capital, the comprehensive entertainment channel also just enriched the entire program group, and the program "Idol Birth" began to operate at a very fast speed.

Then, the sixth episode of "101 Proposals" aired.

This drama produced by the comprehensive entertainment channel for the first time has attracted a lot of attention since it was first broadcast.

In the 2002 mainland TV circle, "Big Dyeing Workshop" and "Black Hole" are on the air, and what has attracted more attention is the mainland remake version of Jin Yong's martial arts.

What's more, this drama achieved such good ratings when it was broadcast locally in Beilin Province.

Shuzhong Satellite TV, which has specially established a new schedule for this drama, is of course doing its best in publicity, and after winning the contract, Shuzhong Taiwan immediately began a variety of continuous publicity, striving to make nine o'clock on Monday night a new decisive schedule.

For Shu Zhongtai, the new schedule at 9 o'clock on Monday night is a very important challenge, and now the TV drama circle in China is broadcast at least five days a week, and most of the TV series are broadcast ten episodes a week, and the new schedule means that the audience can only watch one episode of TV series a week, for the audience, this is actually equivalent to the broadcast habits of the ten episodes compared with one episode, is to watch this episode, and the ten episodes of the TV series are one less episode?

Or do you watch ten episodes in a row and ignore the fact that it's just one episode a week?

If the quality of the two dramas is about the same, I believe the audience will choose the side of ten episodes per week.

After all, it's enjoyable enough to watch, and you don't have to worry about watching the same time on TV every week.

But quality is the key, Shuzhong TV knows that "101 Marriage Proposals" has excellent quality, relying on such quality, can it compete with the broadcast habit of ten episodes a week?

If the fight is successful, it is likely to cause a situation that the audience is used to watching Shuzhong Station at nine o'clock on Monday night, and then watch other TV stations every ten episodes of TV dramas One less episode will be very unhappy, so people will be more inclined to watch other programs arranged by Shu Zhongtai from Tuesday to Thursday, which is equivalent to stealing TV programs from other time periods in disguise through Monday broadcasting.

Shu Zhongtai's idea is good, as for the effect......

The first episode of "101 Marriage Proposals" achieved 1.2% national ratings, which is a statistic...... It's a little lower, but it's decent.

followed by 1.3% in the second episode and 1.7% in the third episode, the ratings that have risen steadily and slowly, and the gradually increasing discussion and attention in the survey all represent a relatively healthy broadcast trend of this drama.

But...... I'm a little disappointed...... Although such ratings can be exchanged for other TV dramas, it is already possible to happily celebrate the banquet, but it is a little insufficient for the much-anticipated drama, what everyone expects, but this drama can break five or even ten!

In the midst of such anticipation and anticipation, the sixth episode was broadcast.

Sure enough, a huge topicality was immediately brought up.

And unlike the broadcast in Beilin Province, before the sixth episode, everyone knew that the sixth episode of this drama was a big breaking point, and it was a classic that could be recorded in the history of Chinese television, so the leap in ratings did not wait for the seventh episode, but exploded in the sixth episode!

The rating of 2.1% in the fifth episode directly doubled to 4.3% in the sixth episode!

This number is already quite good in the prime-time ratings nationwide!