Chapter 301: The King of Asian Pop Music
At 10 a.m., a team of blond, blue-eyed foreigners with cameras on their shoulders arrived at Rainbow Records.
The foreign woman at the head said in a slightly accented but fluent Mandarin: "Ni Hao, we are the interview team of Time Magazine, and we have an appointment with Mr. Zhou Miao for an exclusive interview in the morning. β
The young lady at the front desk looked at the reservation record and greeted, "Please come with me." β
Led by the young lady at the front desk, the interview team of Time magazine went to Zhou Miao's office, and along the way, they noticed that the walls on both sides of the corridor were full of photos of artists, the most and the largest of which were Zhou Miao's photos.
The camera casually filmed this scene.
"Knock knock."
"Please come in."
As a magazine with great influence all over the world, Time Magazine can receive their interview invitations are basically the top figures in the political and business circles!
and accepted an exclusive interview as an artist and appeared as a cover character, such a person can be counted on one hand in the domestic entertainment industry, and all of them are actors.
And now, Zhou Miao will become the first male singer in Asia to appear on the cover of Time Magazine!
Zhou Miao beckoned the interview team to sit down and asked the assistant to pour coffee, and the interview officially began.
The foreign beauty reporter glanced at the interview question card and said: "Hello, I am Lisa, a reporter for Time Magazine, I collected a lot of information about you on the Internet before I came, and I noticed that you started learning music at a very young age, what made you interested in music at that time?" β
Zhou Miao thought about it for a while, "When I was a child, my parents wanted to enroll me in an interest class, there are many types, taekwondo, ice skating, and calligraphy...... But I don't like either very much.
After a long time of choosing, I finally chose the piano because I felt that it was a very fulfilling and cool thing to learn and play a piece from scratch through practice.
It was in the process of learning the piano that I gradually felt the beauty of music and began to like it more and more. β
Lisa nodded understandingly, "As far as I know, you first became popular because you didn't study well and were sent to an educational reform program by your parents, and they didn't seem to plan to let you take the road of music at the beginning?" β
Zhou Miao smiled, "Compared to music, they prefer that I can be admitted to a good university, take over my family's company after graduation, or find a promising job." β
Lisa: "I heard that the cost of writing a song for others is 5 million, and most of the other top producers in the industry are between 50~1 million, many people say that you are greedy for money, but you will invest tens of millions in charity every year, which is a bit contradictory to what netizens said, do you have anything to say about this?" β
Zhou Miao: "Actually, for me, it's the same whether a song sells for 5 million or 500,000, I'm not short of this money, I'm willing to donate all the 5 million, but if it's cheap, I think it's an insult to my work, because it's worth 5 million or more." β
Lisa glanced at the cue card and continued to ask, "Since your debut, you have sung nearly 100 songs yourself, plus the songs you have written for others, and each one is of high quality.
Most of these songs have reached the top of the charts, and many people are curious, how did you grasp the trend so accurately? β
Zhou Miao took a sip of water and continued: "I never consider any pop trend when I write songs, such as the title song of my new album, "The Seventh Chapter of the Night", which has never appeared in China before.
I only think about one thing when I write songs, and that is whether the song is good, as long as it is good enough, even if it is not the most popular music style at the moment, many people will still like it. β
These words may be a bit arrogant in the eyes of Chinese people, but in the eyes of foreigners like Lisa, a genius musician like Zhou Miao should be like this, which is absolute confidence in his own creative ability!
Lisa: "Hmm...... Another question, your first three albums all had some very sweet love songs, why did the fourth album change so much in style, is it the impact of the breakup on you? β
When Zhou Miao heard this, the smile on his face narrowed slightly, and after a while, he said, "No, it's just that I want to try more styles of songs." β
Lisa nodded and glanced at the camera, with an inexplicable meaning in her eyes, obviously not believing it.
The interview with Time magazine lasted for two hours, and Lisa asked very carefully, and she thoroughly understood Zhou Miao from all dimensions.
Zhou Miao has received a lot of interviews, but Lisa gives him the feeling that he is the most professional, whether it is the preparation before the interview or the in-depth digging during the interview, he is worthy of being a contracted reporter of Time Magazine.
In addition to Zhou Miao, Lisa also interviewed a lot of people related to him in Rainbow, Zuo Qiu, cumin, An Qi, Zhao Li......, and even said before leaving that he was going to Suzhou to interview his parents, and Zhou Miao couldn't help but give her a thumbs up, this professional attitude, convinced!
Sending the interview team away, Zhou Miao let out a sigh of relief, and finally it was over, and the foreign girl asked him out of sweat.
Zuo Qiu smiled: "Congratulations, when the interview is officially published, your status in the circle will go to a new level." β
Zhou Miao waved her hand, "No matter how powerful it is, it's just a magazine, mainly because I have developed to that height, they will come to interview me, not that their interviews have pushed me to that height." β
The cover character of Time Magazine is indeed a coveted honor for countless artists, but for Zhou Miao, it is just an icing on the cake.
After the release of "Weather Is Getting Colder", his influence began to gradually spread to the neighboring countries of Asia, most notably.
Video websites in South Korea, Japan and other countries are now snapping up the broadcast rights of variety shows he participated in recording!
"Metamorphosis", "The Battle of the Top of the Forbidden City", "Departure for Love", "South and North Tune", "10,000 Ways to Die for Couples" are now playing high on the Internet.
And his participation in "Star Robbery" was introduced to South Korea for release, and the box office response was very good, and his wonderful performance in the movie caused heated discussions on the Korean Internet!
Genius musician, variety comedian, new generation of movies, all-round artist of film and sound! Zhou Miao is now not only popular in China, but also in many Asian countries!
Zhou Miao's career has reached new heights, but Zuo Qiu is more excited than him, "When this sports meeting is over, we must hold an Asian tour!" β
"Asia Tour...... Let's talk about it. β
Lisa's movements were swift, and less than a week after the interview was completed, Zhou Miao saw his photo on the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine.
There is also a sentence written on the cover in English:
βking of asian popοΌβ
Translated: The King of Asian Pop!