Chapter 160: A New Song Arrives
Before Fan Cheng released the preview of the new program, no matter how much discussion there was, the attention of ordinary people was not very strong, but after Fan Cheng's preview was announced, public opinion in China completely exploded.
Who is Fan Cheng, just a variety show producer, the audience doesn't know the identity behind him, although he showed off his creative ability in the show and played the guitar, but this doesn't mean that everyone really regards him as a musician.
At a time when people have just slightly reversed their prejudice against variety show producers, Fan Cheng is actually facing musicians head-on? Even those who think that they no longer discriminate against the identity of variety show producers feel that Fan Cheng is too self-conscious, and the music circle is so easy to enter? And look at what you say, do new shows? Use your works in the first and second episodes? Which onion are you? God knows how your works are, what kind of people have what kind of works, you are so impetuous and arrogant, how good can your works be?
Even if your song is good, you are making enemies with musicians across the country by doing it now, and it is likely that everyone will not send singers even if they know that your songs are good, or only send very small singers to participate in your program, will your program still be able to do it at that time?
Many people can see that Fan Cheng's behavior is like roasting himself and the TV station on a fire, he is gambling, betting that his works are good enough and very good, so good that everyone is willing to pull down their faces to compete for his works, only in this way can he solve the crisis he is facing now.
But...... How about his songs?
The history of Fan Cheng was immediately turned out, and there was no professional training in music written on it, not only that, but someone even turned out Fan Cheng's black history!
This black history was exploded by a local music company in Yangji, and what they came up with was the song that Fan Cheng took a new song he wrote to participate in the competition they hosted a few years ago, this song ...... It's very bad, even worse than the songs used to be funny in the previous serious singing competition, after many people listened to it, even the laymen in music were bursting with laughter, everyone felt that such a bad work, he dared to say anything about making his work public for others to rob.
After listening to this work, many musicians also expressed their opinions, and they all felt that Fan Cheng's creation was almost not musical, and it was impossible for such a work to be used as a program and a single to release an album.
As for those who know the "truth", like Fan Xiaoqian and Wen Jia, they used this work to ridicule Fan Cheng, they didn't expect that Fan Cheng, who can create such good music now, would write such a bad work before.
With bad songs as proof, musicians believe that this is Fan Cheng's strength, his arrogance is simply because he has done too many successful things before to increase his self-confidence, in terms of variety shows, everyone admits that his ability is indeed powerful, but in terms of music, everyone believes that Fan Cheng is definitely playing bad this time.
In the next week, the comprehensive entertainment channel began to prepare for new programs while preparing to upgrade the provincial TV station.
Fan Cheng doesn't need to care about upgrades, Cheng Gaoge and the fourth Fan Zheng have been running these things recently.
The fourth fan of the Fan family is running a lot of potential in this area, the hotel of the Fan family, in recent years, he has been able to stick to it with his help after school, and now that he has basically graduated, Fan Cheng can also hand over most of the administrative work of the channel to him with peace of mind.
Of course, it is impossible for Fan Zheng to fully control the TV station when he comes up, so he has been interning with Cheng Gaoge recently, and after he is completely familiar with the work, he can really take over the work.
The upgrade of the entertainment channel is actually relatively simple, and the broadcast requirements of provincial TV stations, such as at least four hours a day, the original new program is met from the beginning of broadcasting, and the main work that needs to be done is administrative procedures and the preparation of new programs.
In terms of new programs, most of the new program productions have actually been prepared for a long time before, so Fan Cheng also doesn't need to pay too much attention to the preparations, and only this new program needs him to be really busy and prepare all kinds of things.
Over the next few days, various news about "Creation is King" was gradually announced.
Three songs per issue,The creator can specify that he wants a certain artist to participate,Of course, whether the other party is willing or not still needs to be judged by the other party,The creator can also specify the type of artist selected by the company that selects the artist,Gender,Age,Style, etc.
Decide who to sing the song, in addition to whether the artist is suitable or not, there is also a very important point is the issue of income, so in addition to singing, the major companies that fancy the song can also put forward bidding in the program, the bidding is divided into direct purchase and sharing form, in addition to whether it is suitable or not, the creator can also choose the company with the best bid.
After reading the rules and requirements of "Creation is King", the first reaction of major companies is anger.
Because Fan Cheng is simply drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle.
For major companies, there is a reason why they see their rules as the way they are.
The bigger the music library, the bigger the better, and the producers usually provide the songs not one or two but many, and when a company has a library of tens of thousands of songs that have not been released, the price of these songs cannot be as high as each song.
And like an album release, ten songs on an album, you can't always divide each song, right? There are always important main songs and less important supporting roles in an album, how can this be divided at that time?
In short, there are many problems for the company, and it can't be said that the share of a song is very high.
But Fan Cheng seems to be playing with this idea, he feels that the status of the creator is not enough, but he forgets that the company also has to take risks, those songs in the music library, there will always be a small number of songs that can be released, and the remaining vast majority of songs, after buying them, they are not used for various reasons such as quality taboos, and the money is a pure loss.
Many companies immediately said that they would never send their artists to participate in Fan Cheng's programs, no matter how good his works were.
At first, there were no two companies, but there were more and more companies that said so, especially those big companies, Warner, EMI, Rolling Stone, etc., have successively published similar reputations, and there are even more small companies that follow the fun, and they are still supporting the entertainment channel, that is, some record companies led by Universal.
Even the global company has a lot of criticism of Liu Zhanyun's support for Fan Cheng, and many people are secretly rumoring that Liu Zhanyun has a private agreement with Fan Cheng.
This put Liu Zhanyun under a lot of pressure, and in the end, he couldn't help but come to Fan Cheng and ask him.
Fan Cheng also understood him, and he directly showed Liu Zhanyun two of the three songs he was going to take out in the first issue.
After reading it, Liu Zhanyun didn't say anything anymore.
Not only did he not say anything, but after he went back, he was also frantically looking for suitable artists to participate in the show, and the two songs that Fan Cheng took out, he was bound to win!
Finally came to the day of announcing the new songs, and the comprehensive entertainment channel sent the two songs that were ready to be used as programs according to the addresses of major companies.
As for why it is two songs, because the third song Fan Cheng already has a singer chosen in his heart, unless this singer does not sing, this song will never be sung to anyone.
Some companies saw the songs that were sent to the mailbox as soon as they could, while others saw them very late.
Small companies have relatively few jobs and not many emails, so the speed of seeing them will be faster, and the work of large companies has more jobs and more emails, and the thoughts and moods of the staff also make the speed of the song being discovered a lot slower, such as Time Warner's mainland branch.
Time Warner in this world is different from Fan Cheng's original world, in Fan Cheng's world, Time Warner is a large company that focuses on film and television, while Time Warner in this world is a comprehensive entertainment company that includes film and television songs, and even most entertainment types.
The main producer of Time Warner's music is Wei Haonan, who brought out the Kong Ming Lantern Band and is now supervising Shen Yanbin.
Most producers in the Chinese music industry don't pay attention to Fan Cheng and Fan Cheng's programs, and Fan Cheng discriminates against musicians before, but in fact, most people are a little dismissive in their hearts, discriminating against musicians? White people discriminate against blacks, that is a problem, and black people discriminate against whites is also a problem? It will only make people want to laugh and make people think that this black man is just an idiot.
Therefore, most producers do not pay special attention to the music works that may be sent by the comprehensive entertainment channel, and some producers will even specifically instruct their assistants to delete them directly when they see something from the comprehensive entertainment channel.
Wei Haonan actually told the assistant to delete it directly, but the problem appeared with his assistant.
As a music producer of Time Warner, Wei Haonan's assistant is actually a former musician, but he has been doing it for many years and has not made any achievements, so he changed careers to do administrative work by Wei Haonan's side.
Although Wei Haonan told him to delete the works of the comprehensive entertainment channel directly, the assistant couldn't help but be curious after finally seeing the two songs that were sent.
Fan Cheng announced so arrogantly before, what kind of work is it?
It would be nice if it was really a very rubbish work, and everyone would listen to it and have fun when the time came, and they could also use it to show off.
With this in mind, the assistant clicked on the first song.
"I recommend young male singers around 20 years old to sing this song, and on the whole, the arrangement of this song is very young, which is most suitable for this age. ”
The guitar sounded.
“hohohoho……”
Fan Cheng's voice in this song is very young, and the content of the lyrics is also a very sunny and inspirational type.
"When the worries became more and more, and the glass marbles became less and less, I knew that I had grown up slowly, and when the red dragonfly had slowly disappeared in my years......"
"We have all grown up, and many dreams are flying, just like the red dragonflies we saw in childhood......"
This...... This is what Fan Cheng did?
The one who has done so many undisciplined TV shows, made people laugh so much that they rolled under the table, and was a serious singer before, and the songs in the show are so bad that anyone who has never been exposed to music creation can write them, the producer's work?
This is not scientific!
By the way, didn't he still reveal his previous works before!? A few years ago, he could only write such a rubbish work, but a few years later, he was able to write this song!?
Wei Haonan's assistant was also a hard-working person back then, so he knows better what kind of effort can be effective, music is a talent, no talent, for example, if the five tones are incomplete, you are working hard, and what you make is also a pool of garbage, only the efforts of building on talent can blossom and bear fruit.
Obviously, from Fan Cheng's works a few years ago, everyone can't see anything worth working on, and they can't feel the slightest talent, why can he transform into what he is now and write this kind of song......
And...... Are you really going to throw this song away...... If I were twenty years old, I would sing it...... Maybe you can sing it red......
After playing, the assistant closed the player and looked at the name of the song again.
"Red Dragonfly...... Do you really want to delete it?"
This first song is from "Red Dragonfly" by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, well...... The name comes from the translation of Taiwan, because it is exactly this name that the song covered by the Little Tigers of Taiwan.
Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi's song describes a kind of fear and longing for Tokyo, as well as confusion about himself, it is a song with a very complex state of mind and difficult to interpret, but the cover of the Little Tigers turned this song into a simple idol song, both are not the same in terms of singing skills and the expression of the connotation of the song, but this is not the fault of the Little Tigers, they also took this route when they were young, and it is appropriate to sing such a red dragonfly.
Fan Cheng didn't insist on singing Changbuchigang's version, for this complicated and difficult version, he could wait for the show or something to unfold later.
In the end, the assistant who still didn't delete the song put down the first song and looked at the second song.
"Hmm...... That sounds like a strange name......"
Compared with the simple and clear name of the first song "Red Dragonfly", the name of the second song was difficult to understand for a while.
"Thousands of ...... What kind of song is it? What kind ......of song is it?"
Turning on the audio, Fan Cheng's voice sounded: "This "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is a Cantonese version, although there is also a Chinese version, but I still prefer to sing this song in Cantonese, so in terms of singing singers, I hope that Cantonese singers will sing it, male or female, but at least over twenty-five years old." ”