In European record stores, records with the name Perfume have been on record shelves for some time.

The album, which is directly titled "Perfume", is strictly a compilation, with a total of 11 songs on the album, in addition to two solo songs by each of the three girls, and also contains three electronic music and two rock songs, this album caused some waves when it was first released in Europe, and those fans who had previously snapped up the album, and the album also squeezed into the top 10 on the European charts that week.

But that's about it.

Although their electronic music and rock are good, they are not developed in the European entertainment industry after all, and when they are active there, they can indeed cause a good trend, and when they come back, it becomes impossible to ensure album sales and influence without exposure.

After the first week, the trio's album sales quickly declined, and unless they went to Europe to promote it in the future, they were already at the end of their journey.

Shortly after the trio's album was released, next to the trio's album, another album with a very simple cover, with neither a photo of the people nor much introduction, was released.

Perhaps because it was too difficult to sell without an introduction, many record stores had to introduce the album themselves: "Released by Perfume producers, the music is all about letting you appreciate the mysterious charm of oriental music in addition to electronic rock." ”

The producer of this album is, of course, Fan Cheng.

The reason why he is a producer and not a singer is because there are only three pop rock songs on this album, and the rest of the electronic and traditional music is pure music.

In the first two weeks of its release, the sales of this album were simply miserable, because the sales were so bad, and soon the albums of Fan Cheng and the three girls were swept to the corner of the record store, and the unpopular album certainly did not need to exist.

The turning point came a month after the album's release.

A man with a strange beard walks into a record store in Paris.

He looked rather casual, and when he entered the record store, which was somewhat like a self-selected firm, he grabbed a small basket and began to choose the goods he needed.

This guest doesn't seem to care about money, and he has a very wide range of music, and he doesn't even look at the works of those pop singers, but delves into the special section of various sub-categories, and his main focus is on Asian music.

Turning around the scope of Asian music, he found Fan Cheng's album that had been stuffed into a corner.

"Perfume's producers, those little girls, so the electronic music and rock music are made by one person? That's kind of interesting, it's called Fan Cheng, isn't it? Although the music of those three little girls is nothing, it's also capable of doing both kinds of music, so listen to his work...... the producer thought.

There were already a lot of CDs in the small basket he used to hold the albums, and the albums of Fan Cheng and the three girls were only two of them, and by the time he heard these two CDs, two weeks had passed.

There was nothing surprising to hear at first, whether it was electronic music or rock, although it had a certain quality, it was all heard before, and the precious place may only be the girl's interpretation, until Fan Cheng's album was put to the end, when the last rock music passed, after a slightly longer silence, the piano sounded.

The strange-bearded musician was stunned.

What a quiet melody!

This album, before that, there were several styles, pop, rock, electronic music, this time, was it slow?

Then another instrument joined in.

Erhu?

He has recently specialized in Asian music, so he is quite familiar with many Asian instruments, this is definitely the sound of the erhu, is the erhu and the piano? This piece seems to be not a slow-tempo style but a traditional Chinese style, a little interesting, this is called Fan Cheng, who has done so many types of music before, can he still do traditional style?

In the first few seconds, she could still appreciate Fan Cheng's Chinese style with an interesting feeling, and after listening to it for dozens of seconds, his face quickly became serious.

This man is not playing! His work is of great quality!

Those electronic music are good for rock and roll, but they are worse than the Chinese style of this song called ...... "The Street Where the Wind Lives"!

A Chinese-style piece for a piano and erhu ensemble quickly passed, and the last piece on the album was also Chinese-style.

"The Original Scenery of Hometown".

About a week later, the most famous music magazine in Europe published a musical review by a German named Schulz.

I don't know this Fan Cheng from Schulz's previous life, but in this world, his name is quite influential, because he is a very famous musician in the world, and he has nothing to sing by himself, the key is that he has participated in a lot of music production in movies.

This status has made him quite influential in Europe and the United States, and his column is also a fairly important column in this music magazine.

Schulz wrote: "Today we are going to talk about the mysterious East. ”

"What kind of oriental music have you heard so far? I have actually listened to a lot, from their ancient songs of mountains and rivers and two springs reflecting the moon, to the recent Jay Chou, perfume, oriental music has a mysterious charm, and it takes a completely different route from our Western music. ”

"If you ask me about my favorite works of Oriental music, I might have said those ancient songs before, but in recent decades, for reasons that are well known, there are not many works, and we don't know much about them. ”

"But just the other day, I came across a man's work. ”

"I was interested in this person but I didn't really care about it, although his works are varied and interesting, but on the whole they are not out of the category of pop music, and in my opinion, only music that is free from the shackles of pop music and can show characteristic traditional elements is good music. ”

"Until I heard the last few pieces of music from his album. ”

"Beautiful, beautiful, traditional, clear...... This is the oriental music in my mind, I really didn't expect that this young man named Fan Cheng, who was remembered by me as a pop musician before, really has such a high level of musical literacy!"

Schultz's music criticism may not be much in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is almost a must-read for professionals, so after the popularity of electronic music and perfume, Fan Cheng's name appeared in the ears of European musicians for the third time.

Many professional musicians are amazed.

Everyone knows all too well how difficult it is to make music in the style of music, and many musicians, even if they are world-famous, can still only make music that they are familiar with, and it is no less difficult to achieve success in both genres of music at the same time than in other aspects such as sports science.

And this Fan Cheng, who made electronic music popular in Europe and rock 'n' roll was shocking, can he still do such a good job of traditional Chinese music? !

This is definitely a genius who is not born in the world!

Unlike the previous two times, this time the new news about Fan Cheng was quickly reacted to in China, and his two Chinese-style works were immediately transmitted back to China.

If Fan Cheng released these two songs in Huaxia, no one may care, and it can't be said that domestic musicians don't appreciate the level, there are too many Chinese-style works in China every year, especially recently, there was a Jay Chou singing Chinese-style pop music that became popular, Fan Cheng's Chinese style, even if it is noticed, I am afraid that it will be regarded as a follow-up work at most.

But after it became popular in Europe and then came back, the pattern was completely different.

This is the Chinese style that even Europeans and Americans like!

Many people's evaluation of Fan Cheng immediately multiplied several times!

In the domestic music circle, the most concerned in the past two years are of course Fan Cheng and Jay Chou, although Jay Chou is a more famous star, but most of the time in the circle Fan Cheng is evaluated higher, because he does more types of works, but Jay Chou is not bad, and Jay Chou is obviously more influential than Fan Cheng in that many of his music are quite traditional so-called Chinese style.

Fan Cheng's works are mostly electronic, rock, and pop music genres.

For Chinese people who have a history of 5,000 years and are proud of their history, talent is one thing, respect for history, and the promotion of China's unique style will always have the highest qualification, so when it comes to talent, Fan Cheng may have a slight upper hand, but when it comes to who is a better musician, people are always willing to put Jay Chou in front of Fan Cheng. Even if everyone admits that although both of them are geniuses, Fan Cheng is even more genius.

Some people will even attack Fan Cheng for advocating foreign flattery, what's wrong with our Chinese things? Isn't Jay Chou doing a good job? Although you Fan Cheng are doing good music, those things are too popular and too Western, look at what Jay Chou is doing? When you make Western music, he is promoting Chinese music!

Some people even shouted the slogan "Fan Cheng destroys Chinese music, Jay Chou guards Chinese tradition", as if Fan Cheng's music is doing well is a sin.

Fan Cheng's music, so far, the biggest "black spot" is here, he seems to have no interest in doing traditional Chinese music at all.

Just when everyone was thinking so, suddenly news came from Europe.

What? It's not that he hasn't done it, but he has a work like this, and it's been released in Europe, and it's popular?

Many musicians couldn't help but send Fan Cheng's album released in Europe to listen to it.

Hearing this, the originally chaotic voices in the entire circle shut up.

This is Chinese style! And it is a traditional Chinese style!

Jay Chou has integrated Chinese style into pop music, but when it comes to traditional music itself, his works are not very good.

But what about Fan Cheng's works?

The purest Chinese style works, although Western musical instruments are also used in the works, but it is different from Jay Chou, in Jay Chou's music, Chinese style is actually more like a supporting role and a gimmick, and Fan Cheng's This is pure and thorough Chinese style music, before Fan Cheng's works come out, everyone may tout Jay Chou on the point of Chinese style, after these works come out, no musician is embarrassed to say that Fan Cheng is not good at Chinese style.

As for integrating Chinese style into pop, he can even do electronic music and rock, how can he not do this, obviously he doesn't like and disdain to do this, so he will let Jay Chou do this and succeed!

If he wants to do it, he may not have anything to do with Jay Chou!

The previous attack on Fan Cheng was particularly ferocious after it turned into touting, and it seemed that there were still twin stars shining in public opinion, Jay Chou didn't do anything, and Fan Cheng was honest in the few days of filming on Hong Kong Island, as if Jay Chou had become Fan Cheng's subordinate.

Not only the mainland and Taiwan Island, but the discussion even came to Hong Kong Island, Fan Cheng also heard a lot in just a few days, and later the rumors were intensifying, and he couldn't help but stand up and explain.

About a week after returning from Tianjin, Fan Cheng appeared on a talk show on Hong Kong Island TV.

"Qiang Qiang Threesome".

This show was originally recorded, but it became a live broadcast because of his insistence, and he explained on the show: "I like Jay's music very much, and I can't do many of his works, his talent is undoubted, and I can't compare to his ...... in many aspects."

In his previous life, Jay Chou has always been a singer that Fan Cheng likes very much, and his Chinese style is also quite respected, and since the time crossed, he has also tried not to touch the works of Chinese musicians, although he has done so many things, but he is unwilling to admit that his works are better than Jay Chou, because this is even a bit like admitting that Japanese music is better than Chinese music.

Although he likes and understands Japanese music, he likes to understand again and again, the essence of being a Chinese is still there, and he doesn't want to be inferior to the Japanese.

Even if there are some aspects that the Japanese do have an advantage for the time being.

Fan Cheng's explanation seemed to be an undoubted show of goodwill on Jay Chou's side, Jay Chou was also very surprised after hearing Fan Cheng's music, and he even admitted in private that he couldn't make such traditional music, but Wen Wu is the first and the second, and music is actually a kind of "Wen", and he is unwilling to publicly admit that he is not as good as Fan Cheng.

Now Fan Cheng stood up and explained, which undoubtedly gave him a good step, so Jay Chou also immediately stood up and said: "I also like Mr. Fan Cheng's music, I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, and I also like Mr. Fan Cheng's movies and TV series......"

After the two sides had such a shouting in the air, the media finally stopped stirring up trouble, and the attention to Fan Cheng soon came back to his recent work.

Many media have described it in an interesting tone: "When we quarrel over Fan Cheng's music works, Fan Cheng is doing work that has nothing to do with music, as if music is just something he makes very casually, is it his true love? Judging from his first work "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Space", although it is very interesting, it is not very like a work that can be compared with the quality of music!"