The rise of a country is always long and arduous.

The easiest to rise is economic power, such as Germany in the 19th century, the United States in the early 20th century, RB in the second half of the 20th century, and China in the 21st century. With a population and resources, and a good international situation, the economic rise of these countries is often unexpected by the old powers.

It's just that after the economic strength grows, it will take a long time for the military strength to develop and accumulate if it wants to keep up. Especially in this era, the R&D cycle of any large piece of military equipment is ten years, and it costs even more money to equip it.

And what is even more difficult to rise is the political influence of a country.

For example, at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States had surpassed the European powers in terms of economic and industrial strength, and after World War I, it widened the gap with Britain and France, but its political influence could not be proportional to its economic strength, and the powers did not regard them as equal opponents. It was not until the victory of World War II that the United States was able to ascend to the throne of the Western hegemony with the help of the Soviet Union's threat to Europe at that time!

But the most difficult thing to rise is undoubtedly cultural influence.

is still an American, even after the economic and industrial strength becomes the first in the world, the American high society still admires everything in Europe the most, whenever something is popular in London and Paris, it will appear at the ball in New York in less than half a year, and the authentic British accent has been one of the weapons for girls for a long time......

Americans are lucky, though, because they speak English.

Under the painstaking management of the previous overlord, English is the world's cultural passport, coupled with the strong economic, military and political power of the Americans to escort the cultural export, sparing no effort to promote their culture and values to the world, gradually making Hollywood, Grammys and other popular symbols. It's hard to have such opportunities in cultures of other languages, just look at the world's most influential singers, basically except for the Americans are British, French, German and Japanese are difficult to break out of their own country.

A typical example is the RB on Earth.

In the eighties and nineties, when the RB economy was at its strongest, their cultural soft power seemed unattainable, Chinese such as the well-known movies such as "Manhunt", TV series such as "Volleyball Girl" and "Tokyo Love Story", and more cartoons such as "Saint Seiya", "Robot Cat", etc., even in the field of music, Sun Peng remembered that there were people on the Internet who said that a certain RB female singer was the savior of the Chinese music scene or something, that is, the wind of covering RB songs in Hong Kong and Taiwan was strong back then......

At that time, the total sales of RB's career as a casual singer were tens of millions!

But it seems that the strong RB cultural strength is average when it is put in powerful countries such as Europe and the United States, and many kings and queens who are trying to enter the English music scene have broken their heads. And after the Korean Wave flourished and China's economy rose, RB's cultural influence went all the way down!

By the time Sun Peng crossed over, in addition to the fact that comic and animation were still a strong mess, it was difficult for you to expect that the "low-investment" RB movies in the eyes of China and the United States could make a lot of waves in the world; Musically, South Korea's Oba and Ernie also seem to be stronger, and even the Japanese dramas that swept Asia back then are rarely seen except for fans.

Although there are reasons such as national relations, introduction costs, copyrights and other factors, as well as the increasing diversification of public tastes, it is undeniable that RB, which has the most solid foundation, the most complete system and the world's third market, seems to be more willing to produce and sell itself, and its influence in the international community has indeed decreased a lot.

Even the animation industry actually has hidden concerns.

Because right next to their country, there is an economic power that has begun to rise rapidly, and it is a big country that has begun to catch up in the cultural industry. There is no shortage of funds, and there is no shortage of technology, and the vigorous development of online articles can provide sufficient sources of creativity, the rise of domestic animation needs only the learning of ideas and the accumulation of experience, as well as the cultivation and development of the market, even if the process may be very long and difficult......

The inevitable result of the growth of the country's overall strength is not subject to the will of the people.

In fact, to sum it up, in Sun Peng's eyes, the current China should be China after 20 years on the earth, although the strong economic strength has given birth to a strong enough military force, and the political influence is increasing day by day, but because the international mainstream language is still English, and the comprehensive strength of China is far from overwhelming the United States and Europe, so the Chinese culture has a long way to go to completely regain the lost ground, not to mention that it wants to completely regain the lost ground.

The road of a hundred years of people in the West is not so easy to complete.

Whether it is the Chinese government in this world, or the cultural and entertainment circles, in fact, they have been actively working towards going out all these years. For example, China's epic blockbusters have begun to go abroad, and the overseas box office is gradually rising, and the overseas box office of "Zhu Xianzhen" that Sun Peng watched last year has an overseas box office of 1.1 billion, which is equivalent to more than 100 million US dollars, which is quite amazing!

In a sense, this is a good breakthrough.

Huaxia's current huge market for genuine film and television, music, animation, literature, etc., is the premise for future success in Sun Peng's view. The accumulation of Chinese people in various artistic fields is the foundation of success! After all, when the childhood of millions of children is no longer just textbooks and villain books, or rolling hoops or jumping rubber bands, but learning music, art, dance, and acting from an early age, who dares to say that they will not produce some genius singers, genius painters and genius actors in the future?

So in Sun Peng's view, the distress of those movie stars and singers is just the darkness before dawn......

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"Hehe, I guess that's why those English songs are the most popular."

After explaining a lot to his girlfriend, Sun Peng said with a smile: "Now the domestic music market is very mature, the competition is fierce, and there are a lot of kings and queens for decades, and if you want to go further, you can only go out, but it is not easy to create good English songs in China, so they are naturally very enthusiastic about these songs." ”

"Hmm...... After all, English songs are more influential? ”

Blinking, Zheng Jia asked with some uncertainty.

As a young man born after the rise of Huaxia, Huaxia has been very strong for most of his life, so it is difficult for Zheng Jia to understand the feeling of Sun Peng's previous life, and it is a little difficult to understand this kind of thing.

"Hehe, I think it should be."

After thinking for a while, Sun Peng nodded and smiled: "It has taken hundreds of years for the British and Americans to make English the most influential language in the world, how many years have we been working hard?" So...... Hehe, it is understandable that everyone has such thoughts and practices, otherwise do you think it is better to be called a Chinese superstar, an Asian superstar, or a world superstar? ”

"Hee-hee, I see!"

Zheng Jia pursed his lips and smiled, finally understanding what Sun Peng meant.

But after thinking about it for a while, Zheng Jia's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said excitedly: "Ouch, according to what you said, the person who finally got those songs...... Wouldn't it be able to make a big splash in a foreign country? No wonder! I've always wondered how a few songs have attracted so many people, and even two kings have popped out......"

"Hahaha......"

After listening to Zheng Jia's words, Sun Peng suddenly laughed: "Big red? How can it be?! It's just a few songs, and it's sung by a Chinese person, so it's good to make them remember the singer's name! ”

Sun Peng never doubted the power of a few songs.

It was originally a pop hit in Europe and the United States, and they were all particularly good grades, and it must be a high probability event to be popular in this world. But to say that these songs can become popular in Europe and the United States is a bit of nonsense - where is there such an easy thing?

In Zheng Jia's stunned face, Sun Peng shook his head with a smile and said: "Just a few songs can't support a so-called international superstar, at best they are just a few stepping stones, but they are just a little heavier......"