The rookie singing contest began a week ago.

In the first two rounds of selection, TVB invited another primary judge.

It wasn't until this last round and the most important final that TVB had to broadcast live on TV, so it was the turn of judges such as Chen Qiming and Leslie Cheung to play.

On the same day, before the start of the competition, Chen Qiming and several other final judges met in Chen Qiming's lounge.

They are all top figures in the industry, and they have seen many times at various events.

Among them, Chen Qiming and Ye Qianwen should be regarded as the most explained.

Both of them belong to the Warner camp, and they deal with each other a lot at Warner Records' large-scale events every year.

Therefore, after meeting, several people were polite to each other and separated.

It was Leslie Cheung, and after Anita Mui and Ye Qianwen left, he stayed instead.

"Have you read the contestants' profiles?"

Waiting for Anita Mui and the others to disappear, Leslie Cheung took the lead in asking.

"Didn't pay much attention, what? Do you have a favorite player? ”

Chen Qiming has been very busy during this time, how can he have time to pay attention to the rookie singing contest.

Although he vaguely remembers this year's rookie singing contest, there seems to be a great character coming up.

But is there any more of him?

Not to mention that he is now a well-known superstar in the Chinese music scene.

As far as the three King Kongs under his record company are enough for him to pay attention to, he really can't be interested in others.

A record label has limited resources.

You don't see Andy Lau and other heavenly kings jumping repeatedly because of the distribution of resources.

Therefore, Chen Qiming does not plan to get too many singers who will develop in the future to the starting point record.

At present, Starting Point Records has signed Chester Bennington of the future Linkin Park in Europe and the United States, as well as the king of hip-hop rap.

On the Chinese music scene, there are his die-hard fans Jay Chou and Wu Bai.

With the four trump cards in hand, it is enough to start a record toss.

On the other hand, in terms of female singers, Chen Qiming may sign one or two more because the company's yang is too heavy.

But the male singer ......

Therefore, even if he knew that there would be a good newcomer in this year's TVB Rookie Singing Contest, he didn't pay too much attention to it.

"There is a very good one named Eason Chan, his singing skills are very stable, although he is a little disadvantaged in appearance, but I don't think it's a big problem."

Leslie Cheung obviously understands Chen Qiming very well, and does not pay too much attention to Chen Qiming's ignorance of the first two rounds of the rookie singing competition, but directly expressed that he values one of the newcomers very much.

Really.

Hearing Leslie Cheung's words, Chen Qiming nodded secretly.

To be honest, he really admires Leslie Cheung.

As far as he takes care of the newcomers, Chen Qiming can't catch up.

Of course, this is also related to the current business problems between the two.

Leslie Cheung has debuted for many years and has already passed a period of great concern for his career.

He now spends most of his time in movies, and the rest of the time he has a lot of free time, so it's normal to go and bring new people.

But Chen Qiming is different.

He is full of calculations, and he has only debuted for more than three years and nearly four years now.

Now is the heyday of his career.

At this time, he was energetic and wanted to do anything.

This can be seen in his current career layout.

filming, singing, being a screenwriter, writing songs, opening a film and television company, opening a record company, even a clothing company, and then a theater and so on.

It can only be said that Chen Qiming has too many things.

If he hadn't hired someone to stick to these companies on his behalf, he would only focus on the accounts.

With so many things, I can't keep busy cutting him in half.

And even if he hired someone to help manage it, he was very busy.

Therefore, what kind of promotion of newcomers and the like, Chen Qiming has no energy to care about it now.

It's like Jackie Chan is busy filming during the day and dancing at night after he becomes popular.

He is different from him, but he is also broadly similar.

When he is usually free, he would rather invite Li Jiaxin to eat dumplings, and he doesn't want to pay attention to the problems of newcomers.

Of course, these are just for now.

In a few years, I will be like Leslie Cheung at this age.

Chen Qiming feels that he can actually set up a character to promote newcomers or something.

Anyway, it seems like it's not bad to help the newcomers.

"I want to see what kind of person actually makes your brother praise you so much!"

Chen Qiming roughly understood what Leslie Cheung meant.

Leslie Cheung's meaning is very simple, that is, the newcomer named Eason Chan wants to take a hand.

When the vote comes, if you can, Chen Qiming will help.

"You're going to like him!"

Leslie Cheung said with a smile.

Subsequently, he chatted with Chen Qiming for a few more words, and then said goodbye and left.

"Eason Chan?" Thinking of the name of this singer this year, Chen Qiming couldn't help but touch his chin.

It's a new one.

I'm afraid that this entertainment industry is not going to have a situation where you can trample on a bunch of people surnamed Chen with one foot.

You are also surnamed Chen, I am also surnamed Chen, and he is also surnamed Chen, and people surnamed Chen are like a hornet's nest, a nest is a nest when you poke it......

After tossing in the lounge for a while, Chen Qiming and several judges were invited into the studio by TVB staff.

The 1995 Rookie Singing Contest began.

How to say it!

Chen Qiming felt that TVB was too stingy.

Obviously, this year's rookie singing contest is called a hot one.

The judges directly invited him and Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and Ye Qianwen and other four first-class kings and queens in the Chinese music scene.

The joining of the four has made the popularity of this rookie singing contest reach an unprecedented level.

In addition to the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and most other areas where Chinese gather basically know about this rookie singing contest.

is an almost universally known selection program, but it was messed up by TVB.

Cantonese!

The Rookie Singing Contest only focuses on Cantonese.

As a TV talent show in Hong Kong, it is understandable to attach importance to Cantonese.

But now the Chinese market is the mainstream, which has almost been the consensus in recent years.

With such a good foundation, TVB actually directly stipulated such a strange condition as singing Cantonese in the primary selection stage of the rookie singing contest.

Because of this condition, many talented Chinese singers who planned to take this opportunity to debut were directly stopped at the door.

And the result of this is:

The thunder is loud and the rain is small.

The propaganda directly shouted the sky.

As a result, there are few singers who are truly talented.

No way, Cantonese does have a lot of audiences.

At that time, the prosperity of Hong Kong films played a very big role in promoting the Cantonese language.

But compared to Chinese, Cantonese is still too niche.

Most of the people who can speak fluently are concentrated in Hong Kong and Macau.

But a large number of people from Hong Kong and Macao have already entered the Hong Kong music scene.

This time, even if the publicity is huge, it is useless.

Chen Qiming observed the finalists.

Good guy, except for Eason Chan, he has a little impression of Miriam Yang, and he doesn't know any of the others, and he doesn't even have memories of them in his dreams.

And Miriam Yeung, according to the memory in the dream, she seems to have debuted from this rookie singing contest like Eason Chan.

After a long time, TVB spent a lot of money on this rookie singing contest to invite him, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and Ye Qianwen over, which was basically for nothing.

In his heart, he felt sorry for TVB's sweeping operation, and Chen Qiming rarely suggested that TVB should change its mode or something.

As soon as he collects money, he does things.

What TVB does has nothing to do with him at all.

Moreover, maybe TVB actually knows that it is time to pay attention to the Chinese language.

But what about the unwillingness to abandon the glory of the past?

At the beginning, Cantonese songs were able to spread throughout East Asia, and even in the United States and Canada, and TVB contributed a lot.

There's a saying.

You can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

The current TVB should be like this, still silent when Cantonese songs are killed in Asia.

[If someone asks me, I will tell]

[But no one came]

[I'm looking forward to helplessness]

[I have something to say, but I can't get loaded]

On stage, Eason Chan chose a song that was difficult to sing.

Yes, it is the song "Exaggeration" that should have been sung by him for the first time in a dream, but now it was born ahead of schedule because of Chen Qiming.

Eason Chan sang well, but Chen Qiming shook his head slightly.

Eason Chan is not Chen Qiming after all.

In his dream, when he sang the song "Exaggeration", he had been working hard in the music industry for many years, and he already had his own singing style.

But now, Eason Chan is still a newcomer after all.

Therefore, even though the song "Exaggeration" should have been very suitable for his timbre, because the style has not yet been formed, his singing is not outstanding.

Of course, this is not outstanding is equivalent to Chen Qiming.

Preconceived ideas are very easy to be brought in by fans when it comes to songs.

Under normal circumstances, whoever is the original song, and the person behind sings the song, the audience will subconsciously compare it with the original song.

And the cover should be like surpassing the original song, unless it is re-like an adaptation.

Otherwise, it will definitely be very difficult to surpass the original song.

And that's how it is now.

Because Chen Qiming's version is in front, and this song is very popular in Hong Kong.

Therefore, now that Eason Chan sings again, he has not re-adapted it, but is imitating Chen Qiming because he is a newcomer.

This makes his singing seem too imitative.

However, after all, he is a newcomer and can't be too harsh, so after he finished singing, Chen Qiming did not do Charlotte, but praised him as the original singer.

"Miriam Yeung sings very well, my vote will be given to her! What about you? ”

At the last moment of the finals, the contestants had already finished singing their songs.

While they stood on the stage in rows waiting for the judges to decide the champions, runners-up and runners-up, Chen Qiming and several judges discussed on the stage.

Leslie Cheung is very firm and believes that Eason Chan's "Exaggeration" should be the champion.

After he said that he wanted to vote for Eason Chan, Anita Mui also gave her choice.

After saying her choice, she looked at Chen Qiming and Ye Qianwen.

Ye Qianwen didn't speak, but turned her head to look at Chen Qiming.

Of the four people here, in terms of qualifications, Chen Qiming is definitely the youngest.

But there is no way, the three best players at present, Eason Chan, Miriam Yeung and Xu Jianbang, are singing songs that are all Chen Qiming's songs.

It's such a drama.

In the finals, the three strongest players actually sang Chen Qiming's songs.

Eason Chan sang "Exaggeration".

Miriam Yang sang "Kiss Everywhere".

Another contestant Xu Jianbang, who Chen Qiming is not familiar with, sang "The Legend of the Wild Wolf".

The three songs are all written by Chen Qiming, and they are all written by Chen Qiming himself.

Therefore, among the four people on the stage, naturally no one's vote is as important as Chen Qiming.

Ye Qianwen's plan is very simple.

She was ready to see how Chen Qiming chosen.

Chen Qiming chooses whatever she wants.

Anyway, you are singing Chen Qiming's songs, and his advice as a part-time author of the original singer is definitely the most professional.

I'll just vote for it.

When the time comes, even if there is a dispute, you just look for Chen Qiming.

"Judging from the singing just now, in fact, I prefer Miriam Yang's "Kiss Everywhere", and the female version of "Kiss Everywhere" is very tasteful.

But ......"

After a pause, Chen Qiming glanced at Eason Chan, who was a little restrained on stage, "However, the song "Exaggeration" should be one of the more difficult songs in my songs.

I rarely hear anyone sing this song, though it may be flawed.

But, I decided to give him my vote! ”

Actually! Both of them behaved similarly.

Chen Qiming himself didn't know how to choose.

Therefore, he turned around with his pen when he was choosing, and turned to the left is Eason Chan, and the right is Miriam Yeung.

Unfortunately, Eason Chan was lucky, and the tip of the pen just happened to be on his side.

Therefore, although Chen Qiming voted for Eason Chan.

Actually! Eason Chan, Chen Qiming likes his songs very much.

But......

Chen Qiming didn't like his typhoon.

Well, maybe it's influenced by the guy in the dream.

The guy in the dream went to see Eason Chan's concert.

As a result, after watching it all night, he was made drowsy.

According to some memories in the dream, Eason Chan's typhoon can be called a pile output.

And this kind of typhoon, to be honest, is really unpleasant.

With Chen Qiming's vote, Ye Qianwen followed closely to vote for Eason Chan.

In the end, as in the dream, Eason Chan won the championship.

However, what is different from the dream is that Miriam Yang is not third, but won the runner-up.

After the champions, runners-up and runners-up were selected, Chen Qiming said goodbye to Leslie Cheung and others, and then prepared to leave.

"Ming Tsai! Wait! ”

As soon as I walked to the door of the TVB studio, a voice came from behind me.

Chen Qiming looked back, a little surprised.

It was Miriam Yang, who had just won the runner-up.

"Hello Ming Tsai, I like your songs very much, can I ...... Can you give me a signature of yours? ”

Another big fan in the future.

The corners of Chen Qiming's mouth curled.

I can see these starry kings and queens in my dreams, standing in front of me and asking for autographs.

To be honest, it's a really good feeling.

"Come on, I'm optimistic about you, you sing very well!"

Chen Qiming took the record she handed over, but it was not a Chinese record, but an English record of "Eternity".

"It's rare for me to meet someone in RTHK who asks for an autograph with my English record!"

Chen Qiming quickly signed his name and smiled when he handed the record back to her.

"I also like your Chinese recordings, but I think your recordings are more memorable.

After all, it was the first record to sell big on the global market! ”

Looking at Chen Qiming's signature on the record, Miriam Yang said happily.

"Work hard!"

Chen Qiming smiled and wanted to reach out and pat her shoulder, but he thought it was not appropriate, so he waved goodbye instead.

(End of chapter)