Chapter 273: The Contest Begins
Since 1982, Hong Kong's economic and political situation has been very bad. In particular, the negotiations between London and Yenching have become more and more intensive, and the political news has become more and more alarming.
During this period, the entertainment industry was booming.
The film industry is full of flowers, and the TV industry's ratings war is intensifying. Others, such as pop music, genres, comics, and so on, are all showing a momentum of prosperity.
At the beginning of the year, Li's TV was reborn and renamed Asia Television, and the ratings continued to grow strongly.
Whether it is the time period of popular TV dramas in the evening or the live broadcast of the "Super Girl" competition, it is a weapon to grab ratings.
In fact, TVB's "Rookie Singing Contest" also has extraordinary star-making ability.
However, under the impact of "Super Girl".
TVB's "Rookie Singing Contest" has received little attention, and the number of applicants does not exceed 1,000.
It's like Asia Television's "Super Girl", after the registration deadline, the number of applicants has gradually soared. By April 2, the number had reached more than 50,000.
In April, ATV began to broadcast news about the competition and interview many potential players. "Super Girl" has gradually begun to become a hot topic among the people.
Central, a certain division of Super Girl.
Thousands of young girls, waiting around the arena for the match.
Merchants from all walks of life came to hear the news and set up stalls around the competition venue, and drinks, snacks, and various supplies to moisten the throat were sold more deliciously.
In front of the TV camera, the reporter reported with a smile: "Audience friends, good morning, now you are broadcasting live news from the various competition areas of 'Super Girl'. This is the 'Super Girl' contest, the first division! As you know, the entire Super Girl is divided into 5 competition areas. They are the Central and Western Division, the Wan Chai Division, the Mong Kok Division, the Sha Tin Division, and the Yuen Long Division."
"Well, this is the Central and Western Division, and there are about 7,000 players in this Division. Now, a brutal knockout round is underway. In the competition area, there are 21 judges and a group of 3 judges, and the contestants are screened by the elimination system. Each contestant will be given a maximum of 5 minutes to show their talents. If you don't qualify, you will be eliminated on the spot"
"Ah, that's the players are more familiar, everyone sees, does this seem to be Anita Mui, who became popular overnight a few years ago? Everyone should still remember that she once played a supporting actress in "Modern Bodyguard", and quickly became popular in the film and music circles with the song "Demon Girl" in the play. However, after becoming famous overnight, Anita Mui disappeared from the media's sight for nearly two years. Two years later, she once again struggled from scratch as a contestant in the 'Super Girl' contest. Let's take a look at Anita Mui's performance in the audition," the reporter kept turning the camera to the live video of Anita Mui's game.
In the scene, Anita Mui sang Xu Xiaofeng's "The Season of the Wind" without accompaniment, after years of stage singing and training, coupled with the systematic learning of vocal music by Teresa Teng, Anita Mui's simple syllables revealed the momentum of a big name with thousands of weather.
If it's just good singing, the problem is that Anita Mui's temperament in the focus of the camera can't be compared with even the big-name singers who have debuted for many years.
"The cool breeze blew lightly into my clothes, stole into my clothes in the summer, stole the sound, said hurriedly walked by, made me have a hundred feelings, remembered that scene, colorful, with the wind gently blowing until you stepped in, my heart changed in a breath, how much enthusiasm I have paid in my life, I can't calculate the truth, but I don't need to be afraid of the wind and rain, let the wind blow dry the bright tears in the eyes, blow and blow, let the wind blow and sorrow, and take away who is in the wind."
In the audience, the reporter listened to the song dumbfounded, and for a long time, he gave a round of applause excitedly, and said: "Xu Xiaofeng is the second!" In fact, Anita Mui sings "The Season of the Wind" even more powerful than Xu Xiaofeng's original version. This is a song that you can't get tired of listening to, and enthusiasts will continue to imitate it, but it is difficult to imitate the real classic of its charm.
Others can imitate the tune and pronunciation of this song, but they can never imitate Anita Mui's unique voice and stage temperament.
The three judges looked at each other, and then showed their scoreboards.
"9 points!"
"9 points!"
"10 points!"
The full score of the "Super Girl" audition is 30 points, and if a player can score more than 15 points, he will definitely not be eliminated in the first round.
Anita Mui, on the other hand, scored 28 points and was at the top of the pyramid.
"Congratulations, you're about to enter the next round!" Although the audition has not yet ended, the judges know that the contestants with 28 points belong to one in a million, and they definitely have the top three in the stable competition area, and even have the strength to enter the finals.
"Thank you!" Anita Mui greeted the judges and left the venue generously.
At this time, a reporter from Asia Television hurriedly walked over and interviewed: "Miss Anita Mui, can you disturb for a few minutes?" ”
"Yes!" Anita Mui said.
"Okay, let's talk here!" Then, the reporter asked, "Excuse me, two years ago, after the song "Demon Girl" became popular, you didn't immediately release a record, or further developed in the film industry, but why did you choose to live in seclusion for two years?" ”
"I was too young at that time, and I didn't have a comprehensive grasp of vocal technique. I realized that I was not as good as everyone thought, so I began to systematically study vocal music. Among them, Teresa Teng helped me the most, and her guidance made me really enter the music hall! Anita Mui smiled casually.
The reporter was surprised: "You actually got the guidance of Miss Teresa Teng?" ”
Anita Mui smiled: "Yes! Sister Lijun is very easy-going and has a solid knowledge of music, and there are few superstars in Hong Kong who are not only proficient in orthodox vocal knowledge, but also popular with fans all over the world. Of course, Sister Lijun is not the only one who instructs me, now she has a music class at Longteng Agency, and she will take a period of time every month to give music lessons to some girls! I'm under the banner of Longteng, and I can't be considered the most talented singer."
"So, what are the singers under Longteng that have influenced you deeply?"
With the interview between the two, Chen Huixian, Lin Yilian, Ye Qianwen and other names that impressed Anita Mui were introduced one after another.
Of course, in order to avoid its own artists playing against each other, Longteng Company participated in the competition in different competition areas, Anita Mui, Chen Huixian, Lin Yilian, and Ye Qianwen participated in the competition in different competition areas.
And when Anita Mui was emerging in the Central and Western Divisions. Chen Huixian, Lin Yilian, Ye Qianwen, and even Li Lizhen, Yuan Jieying and others are also struggling in various arenas.
Although it cannot be said that the audition of "Super Girl" selects 100% of the contestants with the highest musical achievements, it can undoubtedly select the idols who are most easily sought after by the audience and fans.
Anyone who stands out in this event will surely become a superstar in the eyes of thousands of people.
———————————— Asia Television's talent show, Zhang Shaojie did not stand on the opposite side of international records such as Polygram and EMI like TVB at the beginning.
In fact, ATV's "Beauty Music" company, although it has invested more than 7 million yuan, has built a recording studio with leading technology and equipment to provide an environment for producing music records.
However, Asia Television is preparing to outsource the recording plant for tapes and records to PolyGram's record production plant. In recent years, major companies have become popular and comprehensive, and every product and every link are handed over to their own company's factories for production and solution.
For example, His Royal Highness Asia's "Rei Music" outsources the production of records and cassettes to other companies. Undoubtedly, despised by major record companies.
That's what Zhang Shaojie needs.
In fact, Zhang Shaojie is ready to skip the stage of vinyl records and tapes directly, and is ready to invest in the establishment of a CD record production factory.
Compared with the vitality of vinyl records and D records that are about to be eliminated, it is undoubtedly very tenacious, and it has continued from the 80s to the 21st century. Of course, after entering the 21st century, the traditional physical record is generally sluggish, replaced by mp3, mobile phone and other music distribution channels.
For example, at the beginning of the 21st century in China, the music record market was only a few hundred million yuan, and if you rely on selling records, it will be difficult for even the biggest superstars to sell 1 million copies of a single record.
At that time, the market for mobile music reached 10 billion, more than 10 times larger than the entire record industry!
Zhang Shaojie prepares to produce CD records in the 80s ~ 90s, and after Sony makes a cassette Walkman, Zhang Shaojie can directly make the next generation of CD Walkman.
Then, at the end of the 90s, it was natural to follow the development of technology and withdraw from the physical record market, and instead focus on the next generation of digital music players, MP3.
MP3 has truly become the mainstream model of the world music market, and it is not the original chaotic pirated song based MP3 player. Instead, Apple launched the iPod MP3, and tried to open the iTunes store, in which genuine songs can be downloaded from this digital store.
As a result, Apple's plan has not only won the purchase of hundreds of millions of consumers, but also the support of record companies. Later, some record companies praised Apple, believing that it was precisely because Apple's iTunes store sold genuine music that the MP3 market was pulled on the right track and the music industry was rescued from the brink of death.
For the development of the entire music market trend, Zhang Shaojie knows everything about it.
It is precisely for this reason that Zhang Shaojie does not mind outsourcing the production of records to other companies. After all, for Zhang Shaojie, vinyl records are already a sunset industry, tapes can be popular for about 20 years, and CDs can have more than 30 years of vitality. What really interests Zhang Shaojie is the new distribution channels brought about by the development of MP3, the Internet, mobile phone and mobile Internet decades later. Only those digital development channels can reshuffle the industry and give birth to new international music giants.
(To be continued)