"Kiss Goodbye" is the fourth Chinese record released by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung, which has sold more than one million copies in Taiwan alone, and its sales have so far maintained the record of the highest selling album in the Chinese music industry, and also established Jacky Cheung's status as the "God of Song". Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The album is dominated by the title song of the same name "Kiss Goodbye", and most of the other songs are Cantonese songs sung by Jacky Cheung who rewrote the lyrics, such as "Autumn Mood" (Li Xianglan), "With You All the Way" (Breaking Up Always on a Rainy Day) and so on.

This record is a myth.

In terms of sales, "Kiss Goodbye" set the highest selling record in Taiwan's history with 1.36 million copies, and sold 4 million worldwide, which is still the highest-selling album in the Chinese music industry, and it is the most popular music scene in the veritable Chinese music scene.

Musically, Jacky Cheung, who returned to the Chinese music scene in 1993, once again attacked the Chinese music scene after four years ago, "Kiss Goodbye" won the "Best Song of the Year at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards", and Jacky Cheung's craze covered from Cantonese to Chinese, and swept the entire mainland Taiwan and all Chinese-speaking regions from Hong Kong, consolidating his status as a "god of songs".

Even ten years later, "Kiss Goodbye" is still the result of "Takemetoyourheart" by the Danish "Michael Learns to Rock" (Michael Learns to Rock).

The mid-90s was the peak of Jacky Cheung's career. According to IFPI International Phonographic Association statistics, Jacky Cheung's record sales were second only to the late American singer Michael, who was in full swing at the time? Jackson, who was ranked second in the world at the time. Up to now, its global sales of genuine records have reached 120 million copies, the largest among Chinese.

"Kiss Goodbye" has been released in more than 10 countries, among which the more famous are the Taiwanese original and Japanese versions, becoming one of the most influential records among record collectors. At that time, Polygram Records also released cassettes and vinyl records. Today, the price of the first and overseas versions of "Kiss Goodbye" has also been inflated, with the first Taiwanese version of "Kiss Goodbye" selling for more than $100 on well-known auction sites such as eBay, and the price of the Japanese version reaching $90.

After the release of "Kiss Goodbye", it has been covered by many artists around the world, including the Danish rock band "Mike Learns to Rock" and so on. In 2006 and 2007, it was sung by Hong Kong singer Fang Tian and mainland singer Hu Yanbin into the title song of his album, which can also be seen its huge influence.

In Singapore, the album sold over 600,000 copies, setting a record for record sales in Singapore and holding the record for the highest record sales in Singapore to this day.

In Taiwan, the album was sold out as soon as it was listed, and the most popular songs in addition to "Kiss Goodbye", the rest of the songs entered the charts, which were considered by many people in the industry to be the first Hong Kong record to be popular in Taiwan, according to statistics, the sales of records in Taiwan reached 1.36 million, and based on the population of Taiwan, every 20 Taiwanese had to buy a genuine "Kiss Goodbye" at that time, and the huge influence of "Kiss Goodbye" in Taiwan established Jacky Cheung's status as the king of the Taiwanese music scene.

In Hong Kong, because it is a Chinese record and a reproduction of some of the songs sung by Jacky Cheung before, the popularity of "Kiss Goodbye" is obviously not as popular as Taiwan and the mainland, but the record sales are still close to 1 million, which is one of the highest-selling records in the history of Hong Kong records.

In the mainland, the streets are filled with the sound of "Kiss Goodbye", and every young person seems to be attracted by this highest-grossing Chinese record in history, especially some entertainment venues. It is said that karaoke in some big cities prepared several records, but in less than half a year, the records were scrapped because they were too many on demand.

Due to the developed piracy industry in the mainland, the "Kiss Goodbye" record could not obtain authoritative statistics at the time, but there is no doubt that the pop music trend it brought has been written into history. The influence of "Kiss Goodbye" in the mainland is unmatched by some previous pop music.

Since the early 1994, the mainland has set off a historical climax of pop music that worships Hong Kong, and Jacky Cheung's subsequent "Blessing" and "True Love New Songs + Selection", "Forget You I Can't Do It", "I Want to Blow the Wind with You" and "Walking Through 1999" and other popular Chinese records are almost considered to be inseparable from the influence brought by "Kiss Goodbye" before.

"My world began to snow, so cold that I couldn't love it for another day, so cold that even the hidden regrets were so obvious. I kiss you goodbye on the street where no one is around, and I can't refuse to let the wind idiot laugh. I kiss you goodbye in the frenzied night......"

The familiar melody and familiar singing voice have brought many people back to that era. However, due to the age gap and the change of times, many people do not include young people. Young people don't have that memory.

Liu Yifei, who is only 16 years old, is very unfamiliar with this "Kiss Goodbye".

At the end of the first half of "Kiss Goodbye", the style of the live band suddenly changes to rock 'n' roll. Next, the mysterious clown sang "TakemetoYourheart", which is more familiar to young people, which was adapted from the Danish "Mike Learns to Rock" and released in 2004 in the British version of "Kiss Goodbye".

This kind of mixed arrangement and singing method gave the members of the guessing panel and the audience a big surprise. However, for live bands, it is not a big test. The arrangement was added on the fly, without rehearsal and without prior notice. The live band members are all passive. But in any case, everyone still completed the work relatively successfully.

After singing, Liu Mang, who turned into a clown, expressed his gratitude to the audience, the guessing panel on stage, and the live band bent down. There was no music, no singing, and the whole studio became quiet.

This silence lasted for a full two minutes, and was not broken until the host Li Xiang walked onto the stage.

"The mysterious clown has finished singing, I wonder if everyone has guessed his identity?" Li Xiang asked the members of the guessing jury questions. This is also his question. Who exactly is the mysterious clown?

Wu Qixian spoke first: "I'm too familiar with this person, but because I'm too familiar, I'm a little unsure. My friend, he would rather work hard to hold a concert every year than easily appear on a variety show. I don't know how hard the program team worked to invite him to participate in the Masked Singer. I can only say that the program team, you cows! ”

Wu Qixian gave a thumbs up.

Li Xiang said with a smile: "Brother Qixian, after all that, you haven't said who your friend is?" ”

"Do you need to talk about that?" Wu Qixian laughed loudly, "I believe that all the members of the guessing panel have already guessed, he should be a big name bigger than all of us, and he is also one of the four ......."

"Wait!" Yi Nengjing suddenly interrupted him, "Our show is called The Masked Singer." The singer has to mask his face, naturally so that everyone does not easily guess his identity. If he is really that big name, why do you want to sing this song "Kiss Goodbye"? Isn't that a clear indication of who he is? ”

Wu Qixian was stunned, this is indeed the truth. When other singers perform programs, they will more or less change their singing voices to deliberately confuse everyone. Why didn't the clowns on the stage hide it in the slightest?

Li Chen said: "Everyone wants to change themselves, but the clown does the opposite. In fact, they are also trying to confuse us. I just want to ask you one question, is there any artist in the circle who can sing so similarly to that person? ”

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Li Chen said firmly: "So he must be that person!" ”

Chen Xuedong has a different opinion, "Everyone knows that when that person sings, especially when he sings affectionately, he will always show habitual movements. I had been watching the clown all along, and even though he was singing very affectionately and devotedly, he didn't make any movements, just stood there like that. Have you noticed this? ”

"Yes," Yi Nengjing agreed, "a habit is a habit because it's hard to break. That person had been singing and singing for so many years, and had done the same action countless times, and it was impossible to control himself. So, he shouldn't be that person. ”

"Who's not that person?" Wu Qixian asked.

The clown's singing just now was very similar to Jacky Cheung. Except for Jacky Cheung, everyone really can't think of a second person. Is the clown Jacky Cheung or not? It's just too hard to ask.

Chen Xuedong said to the clown on the stage: "Can I ask you a question?" ”

Liu Mang, who turned into a clown, shook his head very dryly, refusing to answer any questions.

This attitude of the clown made everyone very helpless. If he can answer a few questions, everyone may have made new discoveries and be able to confirm whether the Joker is the person or not. But if he doesn't cooperate like this, how can everyone guess?

In the end, the members of the guessing jury did not have a unified result. Regarding the identity of the clown, 80% of the people at the scene thought that he was Jacky Cheung. But why did Jacky Cheung come to participate in the masked singer? That's the god of songs, do you need to participate in this kind of show?

Next, the host Li Xiang invited Li Keqin, who was incarnated as a white prism, to the stage. Li Keqin and Liu Mang stood on the left and right sides of the host respectively, waiting for the voting results of the public review.

Facing any of the other six singers, Hacken Li is confident of winning the competition. But in the face of the mysterious clown, Li Keqin has no confidence at all. To this day, Li Keqin still has a question swirling in his mind, how could he come?

The result of the audience vote was no suspense, the clown won with a super high number of 420 votes, and the white prism was eliminated.

At the same time, the first round of competition officially ended. The singers in the four groups who advanced were Zhang Wei, the star monster, Tan Weiwei, the soul policeman Li Quan, and the mysterious clown Liu Mang.

This is followed by the second round, where the four singers who make the cut will compete in a wheel battle, each singing a song, with the lowest number of votes stopping, and the remaining three singers will advance to the finals next week.

For the sake of fairness, the program team asked the four singers to draw lots to decide the order of singing on stage.

Zhang Wei, Li Quan, and Tan Weiwei all vaguely guessed the identity of the clown, probably because of the clown's powerful aura. When the lot was drawn, the three of them unconsciously got together and made a large slot for the clown. are also singers, but the achievements of the "God of Song" need everyone to look up to.

Liu Mang, a pseudo-singer, had good luck, and actually won the No. 1 lottery.

He had learned the rules of the breakout competition before, and prepared two songs before coming, one was the English-Chinese bilingual version of "Kiss Goodbye" that he sang just now, and the other was another very classic song "Blessing" by Jacky Cheung.

Returning to the stage again, Liu Mang, who turned into a clown, received the warmest applause and cheers from the audience. Even the members of the guessing panel on the stage were clapping their hands vigorously. This is in stark contrast to what he did when he first appeared on stage.

Liu Mang was not shocked. He stood quietly on the stage, and his eyes looked at Liu Yifei in the audience. At this time, the little girl was a little uneasy, everyone was paying attention to the stage, but she turned her head from time to time to look at the vacant seat next to her. Obviously, Liu Mang's delay in returning made her anxious.

At the beginning of the prelude, Liu Yifei finally focused his attention on the stage.

The female voice sings: "Friend, I bless you forever." Friend, I bless you forever. Ah, friend, I bless you forever. ”

At the end of the accompaniment part, Liu Mang opened his mouth and sang: "Don't ask, don't say, everything is silent." At this moment, by candlelight, let us spend it quietly. Don't wave your hand, don't look back, when I sing this song, I'm afraid, tears gently slide down......"

The song "Blessing" should have such a story behind "Kiss Goodbye".

A man and a woman are in love, but for various reasons, they are about to break up. The woman may have to go abroad, or she may have to go abroad, and the two have to break up. Maybe the breakup was brought up by the woman. The man agreed, but he was reluctant, hoping to be reunited in the future.

"Hurt parting, parting although in front of you, say goodbye, goodbye will not be too far away, if there is fate, fate can look forward to tomorrow, you and I reunite in the splendid season......"

As a classic, "Blessing" can easily move people's hearts. The audience naturally made up a picture in their minds. My heart is full of faint feelings and sorrows, as well as a most sincere blessing.

The eyes of the audience who felt it the most were filled with tears, and there were too many touches in their hearts. The audience, who was familiar with this song, unconsciously hummed along.

When the song "Blessing" ended, many people had regret and reluctance in their hearts.

is also a classic song of Jacky Cheung, with the same zero flaws and 99% similarity, which makes everyone have to suspect that the mysterious clown is Jacky Cheung himself! More and more people are gravitating towards this.

The second to appear is the star-picking monster Zhang Wei, who chose Lin Zhixuan's "Never Left". It's still the signature treble. Being able to compete with the god of song on the same stage is already the biggest honor for Zhang Wei. He never thought that he would win, and the ending was no suspense, Liu Mang successfully advanced to the finals with an absolute advantage of 480 votes. And Zhang Wei has to stay and wait for Tan Weiwei's challenge.

When Tan Weiwei took the stage, Liu Mang had already taken off his mask and sneaked back to his seat through the back door of the studio.

Liu Yifei grabbed Liu Mang's hand excitedly and said worriedly: "Cousin, you're back." How did it take that long? It's been almost an hour. ”

Liu Mang hurriedly explained: "I had a bad stomach this afternoon, and I'm still uncomfortable!" Alas, no more. Where did the show go? ”

"It's almost over. Four singers were eliminated in the first round. Now it's the second round. Just now, the clown fought against the Star Picker, and he has successfully advanced to the finals, and now it is the weeds that challenge the Star Picker. The results are coming soon. ”

"Really? So fast? I want to meet the clown! Who the hell is the Joker? ”

"He didn't uncover his face, and no one knew. However, everyone in the guessing panel thinks he is Jacky Cheung. ”

"Jacky Cheung? Isn't that the god of song? How could he possibly come to the competition? ”

"I don't know. Maybe not. ”

"By the way, what about Yang Zongwei? Did he win or lose? ”

"Yang Zongwei doesn't seem to have participated in the breakout competition. I thought he would come, but Shiro was happy. But it's nice to hear so many singers singing live! (To be continued.) )