Chapter 143: Invisible Competition
Alan Tam has been making films in Taiwan for the past three years, and recently released his third solo album "Can't Forget You" just after returning to Hong Kong.
Some time ago, Chen Lang and Alan Tam were both promoting their records on TVB's "Happy Tonight", but they didn't expect to meet again when they were promoting the record here today.
Today's stage for Chen Lang's promotional activities is a temporary open-air stage, and coincidentally, Alan Tam's stage is also open-air, and the two sides are on both sides of the same street, and they can clearly see each other at a glance.
At this time, both stages were surrounded by a large number of fans.
Chen Lang originally thought that he already had a large number of fans, but although he saw that Alan Tam's fans were not as large as his own, there were quite a few of them.
It seems that the influence of the Wenner band is still there, even if Alan Tam does not have any classic song masterpieces after flying solo, but he can still gather so many fans, and the charm and influence of the Wenner band can be seen.
Chen Lang knew that Tan and Zhang were competing for hegemony in the late eighties, but Chen Lang, who deliberately paid attention to Tan and Zhang, found that the current two did not have as strong influence and popularity as they remembered.
Leslie Cheung is still in Li's trough period, Alan Tam is busy making movies, and the previous records have not had much influence.
What Chan Lang didn't know was that Alan Tam is now releasing his third Cantonese album "Can't Forget You", and after more than a year of production, the quality of the songs on this record has been greatly improved compared to the past.
Among them, "Little Storm", which rewrote AirSupply's famous song "Alloutoflove", is one of Alan Tam's classic love songs.
Although this record is still mainly based on English songs, the title work "Can't Forget You" is a reversion of "Lovers よ" (Lovers) by Japanese singer-songwriter Mayuki Gowa.
The importance of this song is that it has made Hong Kong music fans begin to recognize and accept Japanese pop music, and set off a prelude to a frenzy of Japanese pop music in the Hong Kong music scene.
In the past, everyone also adapted Japanese songs, but starting from this song, this trend began to sweep Hong Kong, and when Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui also made big arrangements for Japanese songs, the whole of Hong Kong was almost shrouded in Japanese adaptation of songs, including Alan Tam himself.
These two songs are also the official beginning of Alan Tam's unique "Lun-style love songs" style, changing the image of the previous grease boy.
Other songs such as "Thinking of the Future", "A Goose on the Edge of the Sky", "Looking for Fun", and "Falling in Love with You" are all very beautiful works.
In addition, Lin Mincong, who cooperated with Alan Tam many times in the following years, made his official debut on the album and wrote three songs, "Thinking of the Future", "Love and Love" and "Can't Forget You", which kicked off his career.
The sales of "Can't Forget You" have increased significantly compared to Alan Tam's previous records, reaching four platinum, and he won his first "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" for the first time at the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Award Ceremony" that year with "Thinking of the Future".
"Can't Forget You" also won the 3rd Commercial Radio Song Award, and Alan Tam began to attract attention on this record after his independent development, which is a record with a turning point in Alan Tam's singer's career.
"Who makes my heart
Obsessively drunk around me
Every day shed tears for me to make me every day
It's also a sunny day with enthusiasm
Hidden in my heart"
The first to open is Alan Tam's stage, Alan Tam's typical fashion dress on the stage, with thick hair hanging down to his shoulders, a shirt on his upper body, and bell bottoms, full of style, and many fans in the audience screamed when they heard the idol's singing.
Many fans of Chen Lang had already seen the situation on the other side, and when they heard Alan Tam's singing and the shouts of his fans, everyone opened their throats and shouted, "Lang Lang is the best!" Lang Lang is the best! ”
And in the shouting of everyone, Chen Lang also walked to the center of the stage, first of all, there was a cool hip-hop dance combination moves, and the fans who watched screamed, stretching out their arms one by one, wanting to touch their idols.
"Like a cherry blossom blooming for a moment
The petals of love soon fall
For example, the mouth is very concerned about me
Don't pretend to kiss me
Just make it feel like home."
Accompanied by dynamic and strong accompaniment, Chen Lang began the singing of "Romantic Cherry Blossoms", and at the same time, there were more than a dozen people dancing behind Chen Lang, neat movements, with Chen Lang's youthful and passionate singing, so that everyone's body began to sway involuntarily, and many fans learned Chen Lang's movements on stage and began to dance.
The performances on both sides of the stage at the same time, on one side are moving love songs, many fans scream, while on the other side of the hot dance song rhythm is cheerful and agitated, many fans are twisting their bodies with the music, causing pedestrians on the road to stop and watch.
Chen Lang's fans seemed to think that the fans opposite were too noisy, so they began to sing "Romantic Cherry Blossoms" with Chen Lang one by one.
The fast song rhythm of "Romantic Cherry Blossoms" is very regular, simple and easy to learn, and it is easy for many crazy fans to learn, although it may not be how good it is, but it is not a big problem to sing along with Chen Lang.
And everyone seems to be deliberately competing, and the voice is getting louder and louder. Soon, the chorus of Chen Lang and many fans became louder and louder, and finally directly overshadowed the sound of another stage not far away.
Alan Tam's fans saw that their idol's voices were drowned out, and they all began to sing along with their idol Alan Tam, and finally the stages on both sides were singing loudly, which was bound to overwhelm each other.
Chen Lang and Alan Tam soon realized that the fans of the two were competing, but they were still singing and should not stop, so they did not stop but continued their own performances.
During this period, the two also glanced at each other in the air, but there was no sword light and sword shadow and no spark of affection, just with some doubts and helplessness.
Soon the two sides sang a song, Chen Lang and Alan Tam soon started to perform the next song, but the fans of both sides seemed to be really stronger, and they did not conflict with each other, or even communicate, but they spared no effort to support their idols.
Fans on both sides sang loudly along with their idols, and the voices grew louder and louder, causing the staff and pedestrians on both sides to look at each other, and now everyone has realized that the fans on both sides are competing and must outperform each other.
Chen Lang was surprised in his heart, could it be that a few years later, Tan Zhang's hegemony began in advance, but it became Tan Chen's hegemony.
But now one of the two is starting to gain enough attention with this record, and the other is starting to make a name for himself with his first record.
It's just that the current music scene is still the world of Xu Guanjie and Luo Wen, not to mention Lin Zixiang, Chen Baiqiang and others, the two are not like Tan Zhang in later generations to compete in an all-round way, whether it is sales or trophies.
Although Chen Lang and Alan Tam realized that the fans of both sides were engaged in invisible competition, after all, they were both crazy fans of themselves, and they did this in order to support themselves, and the two of them couldn't say anything, so they could only continue to perform.
And the performance of the two idols continues, and the fan competition between the two sides continues, you sing in unison, I sing in unison and louder, you scream loudly, I will shout wildly, I have to overpower you.
Soon after singing a few songs, Chen Lang began to interact with the fans, many fans raised their hands high, wanting to interact with Chen Lang on stage, and finally selected nine fans to start the game under Chen Shufen's roll call, and on the other side of the five stations, Alan Tam also began to chat and interact with fans after singing a few songs.
Chen Lang started to play the game of you and me, or in pairs, one by one.
During the period, there are a lot of spoof topics, such as the dog jumping over the wall, the person who compares is naturally learning to bark the dog, and has to have fun, everyone laughs more than once, and other words such as gorilla, golden rooster independence, etc., have made a lot of jokes under the comparison of fans, and everyone is happy to watch.
In the end, the people who participated in the game all got cute and novel gifts, and the winners got a hug from Chen Lang, why not a kiss?
Because the winning group was all men, both of them smiled and asked for their faces, Chen Lang's face turned green when he heard it, and everyone laughed.
The last two also said that they were joking, hugged their idols, took two gifts and stepped off the stage, Chen Lang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Alan Tam was chatting with his fans here, but Chen Lang laughed from time to time, which made fans and passers-by on the street look sideways, and they were all curious when they saw these novel games.
But he can't grow up with other people's ambition to destroy his prestige, Alan Tam doesn't want to be compared by a junior, so he started his own singing again, and the fans are all shouting in unison to carry out the competition to the end.
Chen Lang saw the excitement of the opposite stage and was unwilling to let others specialize in the front, after the game ended, he started his own singing, everyone waved their arms wildly, dancing to their heart's content, the competition between the two sides began again, and it became more and more intense, no one wanted to lose.
The competition between the two sides became more and more fierce, until finally Chen Lang used his big killer space step, following the rhythm of "Billirjean", Chen Lang sang while starting a space walk, this time not only Chen Lang's fans, many pedestrians on the road were watching Chen Lang's performance with wide eyes.
Alan Tam's fans suddenly felt that the opposite side was quiet all of a sudden, so they all turned their heads strangely, and saw Chen Lang sliding from one side of the stage to the center of the stage, with a strong rhythm, a handsome face, affectionate eyes, a unique voice, and an amazing dancing, everything was so perfect and shocking.
It wasn't until the end of Chen Lang's song that many fans began to scream again, and the shouts seemed to be able to break through the sky, otherwise it would not be enough to vent the passion and restlessness in their hearts.
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