Chapter Seventy-Eight: Building the Superstar Factory
Nadia is a foreign girl, carrying a guitar on her back and flying from the capital to Yangcheng to find Xiao Cheng, it would be too cold-blooded to keep people out, so Xiao Cheng took Nadia to Tianhong's new headquarters.
Up to the third floor, the people of Rainbow Company gathered, Li Jifeng and Qin Fang were just about to gather around to ask Xiao Cheng for New Year's red envelopes, when they saw Nadia following behind him, Qin Fang said with a gossipy face: "Xiao Cheng, are you rushing out of Asia to the world?" β
Xiao Cheng is depressed! Hearing this, he glared at Qin Fang with slanted eyes, and said, "Don't force me to be angry during the New Year." β
Qin Fang ignored him, and stepped forward to greet Nadia with 'Hello, Hello', and then heard that Nadia was from Ukolan, and immediately popped out of her mouth with a string of 'gurgling' bird words, Nadia immediately cheered loudly when she heard Qin Fang's words, and then she also snorted wildly with 'Gurgling'.
Qin Fang's bird words made everyone stunned, this guy always came out of the cold with a little bit of no one expected, so that you can't be determined.
There is a saying: the sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, but the hooligans are cultured. Qin Fang, this birdman, belongs to that kind of cultural hooligan, Xiao Cheng is happy, interesting.
Seeing that they were finished, Xiao Cheng had to interrupt the two of them and said, "Qin Fang, when did you learn this bird language?" β
Qin Fang can't do it, what is bird talk? He shouted: "You don't learn anything," Qin Fang was just about to say that Xiao Cheng didn't learn anything, but thinking that most of his skills were not as good as him, he immediately changed his words: "I know that you can't make a good fart, this is the Ukolan language, and this young master knows a lot of things!" I've always disdained to show it off, you know? β
Xiao Cheng shook his hand twice and said, "Go away, Nadia, do you know English?" β
Nadia said, "Yes." β
Xiao Cheng nodded and said, "Then you sing the best song for me." β
Nadia frowned, obviously not quite understanding, and then Qin Fang translated it again. After listening to this, Nadia said, "Is it okay to play the guitar?" β
Xiao Cheng had nothing to do, and everyone waited quietly to see what was so special about this foreign girl. Nadia was not polite, sitting on the sofa with her guitar in her arms, and playing and singing a song "WithoutYou" composed by Xiao Cheng.
Nadia has a wide range of vocal voices, and there is a wild, rebellious flavor to her vocals. Although Nadia has a good cover, her voice is not suitable for singing the song "WithoutYou".
In Xiao Cheng's previous life, I saw someone on the Internet commenting on the difference between Chinese singers and European and American singers, most Chinese singers sing in the first natural vocal range, that is, the vocal range of one and a third octaves, and a small number of singers sing in the vocal range of one and a half octaves.
The top singers in Europe and the United States usually sing in the range of two octaves to two and a half octaves, and a few singers even sing in the range of three octaves. Everyone knows that the wider the vocal range, the harder it is to sing, and the narrower the easier.
Most of the vocalizations sung by Chinese singers are hung on the meat, and this kind of vocalization hung on the meat has three fatal drawbacks:
First: it is difficult to go up to the high note, and even if the high note is sung, it is a very tight, very sharp, very narrow high note.
Second: the sound is tight, not relaxed, and the recording is not good.
Third: the vocal area is not unified or difficult to be unified because there is a voice change area.
As for the top singers in Europe and the United States, many of their voices have been separated from the body and delarynxed, so they can easily sing with a vocal range of more than two octaves and the vocal area is unified without a voice change area. Of course, whether it is China, Europe or the United States, as long as you sing in the first natural singing state, it doesn't matter whether you hang on the meat or not.
Xiao Cheng has more foreign songs in his mind than Chinese songs, and he used to like to listen to English songs. Now that Nadia has inspired him, since the blockbusters of the United States have been plagiarized, wouldn't it be too hypocritical not to plagiarize foreign famous songs?
Xiao Cheng began to search in his mind for foreign singers to match, and after a while, he looked at Nadia with a smile and said, "You really want to join Rainbow Music Company?" β
Nadia said, "Yes! β
Xiao Cheng asked, "Then what about your studies?" β
Nadia said, "I'm almost graduating. β
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Nadia, Xiao Cheng asked Bai Mulan to investigate Nadia's file at the National Academy of Arts and sign her if there was no accident. Then Xiao Cheng arranged for Nadia to live on the fourth floor, and asked people to buy her a few clothes.
Ji Xingyue had no doubts about Xiao Cheng's judgment ability, she was just worried about other things, and after Xiao Cheng entered the office, Ji Xingyue said: "Xiao Cheng, I won't doubt your strength if you sign Nadia, but have you thought about it, is it appropriate for her to sing Chinese songs?" β
Xiao Cheng said, "I didn't plan to let her sing Chinese songs, but let her sing English songs." β
Ji Xingyue said with a puzzled face: "You are also very confident in English songs?" But we don't have a channel to release English songs, what should we do? β
Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "This is simple, there is no one in China at present, but there is one place, and that is Hong Kong Island." β
Without waiting for Ji Xingyue to ask, he continued: "We need to register a music company on Hong Kong Island, and I have all thought of the name of the company, which is called Superstar Factory. The initial investment is 10 million, and then the issuance channel of GuΓ² Island enters the international market. β
Ji Xingyue said: "Isn't it too risky to invest so much money for Nadia alone?" β
Xiao Cheng said playfully: "Why don't we make a bet?" β
Ji Xingyue rolled her eyes and said, "I will never bet with you again in this life." β
Of course, Shaw City will not tell SΓΉ Ji Xingyue, Nadia is 99.9% similar to one of the special cases of the devil angel in Ireland in the previous life: Sinead Marie Bernadette O'Connor.
Cineid O'Connor was an arrogant, stubborn, headstrong, self-employed man. But at the same time, she is one of the most personal and controversial pop stars of the 90s, and she is undoubtedly the most influential of the countless female singers that emerged in the entire decade of the 90s.
Sineid O'Conor has topped the charts in various European countries and won her a Grammy Award, but O'Connor, who thinks of herself as a high-minded and often surprising performer, completely denies the value of the award to the music industry and refuses to accept it.
If the rejection of the Grammy Award is still within the limits of the world's tolerance, then her most incredible performance on the "SNL" (Saturday Night Show) on October 3, 1992 is incomprehensible.
At that time, she made an indignant declaration of indignation at the abuse of children by the clergy of the Holy See, and in the Bob Marley song "War", she looked directly into the camera camera and tore up a picture of Pope Paul II, sparking public resentment against her with the phrase "Down with the real enemy", and has since faded from the world music scene.
Sinead O'Connor's arrogant and blunt rhetoric, stubborn bald head, angry countenance and raunchy demeanor completely subverted the image of a female rock singer. This is a unique and shocking female rock singer, who was famous all over the world in the late 80s and early 90s of the 20th century.
Xiao Cheng picked up the sheet music and copied a song "YouMadeMeTheThiefOfYourHeart" by U2's lead singer Bono, which is also the theme song of the movie "In the Name of the Father".
Although Rainbow's recording studio has not yet been renovated, Xiao Cheng can't wait to hear Nadia sing this song, so he handed the score to Hua Ailin and asked her to find a recording studio to make up the song.
At the same time, Nadia, who had been refreshed after taking a bath, was called to guide her on the song "YouMadeMeTheThiefOfYourHeart".
Hua Ailin can serve as the music director of Rainbow, naturally there are a few brushes, and after a busy day, she handed over the arranged accompaniment to Xiao Cheng.
When Nadia, who had practiced for two days, sang the song "YouMadeMeTheThiefOfYourHeart" perfectly, everyone in Rainbow was dumbfounded.
Nadia Ilyich Sergey and the Superstar Factory are two names destined to be known all over the world, and Xiao Cheng is convinced of this.