Chapter 428 Six English Songs

Looking at the world music scene, in terms of audience coverage and music influence, it is mainly divided into three mainstreams, namely English music, Latin music and Chinese music.

These three kinds of music can be regarded as international, but compared with the strong position of English music in the world, the audiences of Chinese and Latin have great limitations and are getting weaker and weaker.

The representative countries of English music are of course the United States and the United Kingdom, especially the United States. On the basis of American music culture, if Canada is included, the entire North American region basically represents the best place for English music. Mainstream and cutting-edge, even the mother country of English, the United Kingdom, is not as good.

The reason for the formation of this pattern is, of course, inseparable from North America’s large population, developed economy, and strong spending power, but there is another aspect that cannot be ignored, that is, as a multi-ethnic country, Americans’ The mentality is very open, which makes the North American music scene have a strong tolerance and acceptance of music of various genres. If you can barely make an analogy, the current United States is somewhat similar to the Tang Dynasty at its peak.

In China, with the development of thousands of years of culture, it has come to modern times. There are several music genres in the music scene, which are unique to Chinese, such as folk songs, such as the so-called sweet songs, which only belong to China, but they were born in the United States, and later There are more that have been carried forward, spread to the whole world, welcomed by countless fans all over the world, and even become representatives of American culture, such as soul music, such as blues, such as American country music, such as hip-hop.

As the rulers of the entire world music scene, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom together have representative superstars and representative works with high popularity and reputation in almost all categories of music.

It is easy and not easy to rise in such a market and such a music environment.

In particular, this rising singer is a Chinese from the mysterious East.

Therefore, Li Qian took great pains in choosing English songs for Liao Liao's global album.

First of all, Liao Liao can't sing hip-hop well, and it's not that she can't sing at all, but in comparison, she must be better at slow songs and lyrical songs. Therefore, it is better not to have hip-hop music in her first global album.

Then, R&B can be translated into Rhythm and Blues or Rhythm and Blues. This is one of the most popular music genres in the United States, and it is also Li Qian’s favorite in his previous life, so this must be required.

And then, of course, Liao Liao's voice and her singing skills are top-notch in the world, and soul music, a genre of music that extremely tests a singer's voice, skills and emotions, is definitely the most suitable for Liao Liao. There is no other music category that gives full play to his super singing skills. So, this must be there.

Then, American country music, which is the purest music category born in the United States and still has a strong dominance over the American music scene, no matter in the time and space that Li Qian experienced, or in the current world, country Music in the United States is full of superstars—to put it simply, if an outsider wants to gain a firm foothold in this market, country music is almost a must.

Up to here, well, there are only six English songs in total, and that's about it.

Li Qian thought over and over again, and finally, he helped Liao Liao finalize five other works besides "My-heart-will-go-on"——

First of all, the two songs are from the works of a generation of queen Whitney Houston, one "I-will-always-love-you", needless to say, and the other is also the representative work of Whitney Houston, It's called "Could-I-Have-This-Kiss-Forever".

The former is the most classic soul music, while the latter is the most classic English love song, and it is a duet.

If possible, Li Qian certainly hopes that Rolling Stone Records can invite pop king Jerry Cullen to sing this song with Liao Liao, and if not, Li Qian is ready to perform in person—in fact, if it is not for this consideration This kind of duet love song is easy to cause trouble in his own family, and he doesn't even have the idea of ​​​​inviting Jerry Cullen.

But thinking about it again, it really doesn't work, I just write a duet love song for Zhou Mo and Xie Bing later.

Because... the same sentence, with "My-heart-will-go-on" by his side, Liao Liao no longer needs any "support".

Then, when it comes to the time and space in Li Qian's impression of the European and American music scene, especially the European and American music scene around 2000, there are two people who will definitely not be able to jump through, and that is Mariah Carey and Shania Twain.

The former is an R&B diva and the latter is a country diva.

Li Qian thought about Mariah Carey's work, and finally chose "Through-the-rain".

In another time and space, this is a controversial work. It appeared after Mariah Carey's trough period, and it can be regarded as her first work to start a new period of peak. The content of the lyrics is very inspirational, this is no problem, and Mariah Carey was indeed caught in a lot of negative news at the time, so I used this song to encourage others and myself. However, as soon as this song was released on the market, it was questioned by many professionals, and everyone criticized her for being too ostentatious.

To be honest, the other Mariah Carey, who lived around 2000 years ago, has already perfected her singing skills, and the song's free switching between breathy voices and gorgeous high notes really shows her understanding of voice and breath. The reason why her extraordinary control ability was criticized as showing off skills, although it cannot be said that all of them were wronged, but it must have been more or less dragged down by the negative news about her before.

Moreover, influenced by many critics in the industry, although this song has crazily harvested the first place in various charts in Europe, its performance in the United States can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

However, in Li Qian's opinion, there is absolutely no problem with the song itself, it is definitely a good song.

And you must know that Liao Liao at this time is completely different from Mariah Carey's situation in another time and space.

According to the tripartite agreement between Rolling Stone Records, Minghu Culture and the producer of "Titanic", the album "My-heart-will-go-on" will not be released until five weeks after the official release of "Titanic". It was released and listed, because in the "Titanic Original Soundtrack" to be released before that, the producer of the movie "Titanic" has a share, and Liao Liao's personal album is also included. "My-heart-will-go-on", but Minghu Culture and Rolling Stone Records are only splitting the bills, so, of course, they must require this album to set aside a period of exclusive sales for the soundtrack of the movie .

Therefore, it can be predicted that Li Qian can even be sure that by that time, the song "My-heart-will-go-on" must have become popular all over the world with the east wind of the big ship, and Liao Liao, although in There is only such a song in the European and American music scene, but it must have become popular. Moreover, considering her original identity as an Asian queen and her identity from the mysterious ancient country in the East, it is estimated that by then, fans in Europe and the United States, and even fans all over the world, will have a very strong desire to explore her personally.

Therefore, as a newcomer in the European and American music scene, and a newcomer who already has a strong degree of favorability and recognition, when Liao Liao's new album is released, "Through-the-rain" certainly has a certain element of showing off , but it will definitely not be a loss item, it will only become a bonus item - everyone is always curious and relatively tolerant when dealing with newcomers. So at that time, if Li Qian's speculation is correct, even professional European and American music critics will only praise Liao Liao's powerful singing skills shown in this song, while the majority of fans will Pay more attention to the inspirational spirit shown in this song.

As for whether Liao Liao can control such a song... Li Qian has always been confident in Liao Liao's voice and singing skills, and he has heard hundreds of thousands of songs in his two lifetimes. Among the voices of the two singers, he really didn't think anyone's voice could definitely surpass Liao Liao's—although Li Qian knew very well in his heart that Liao Liao's voice characteristics made her range type and voice characteristics in the middle of Whitby's. Between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, it is closer to Whitney Houston's path, but with her current strength, it is not a big problem to control this song.

As for Shania Twain's works, Li Qian chose "You're-still-the-One" for Liao Liao.

Undoubtedly, Shania Twain's third solo album "Come-on-over", as the leading work of the country music industry, is based on this song, and that album, light It has sold more than 20 million copies in the United States, and its global sales have exceeded 40 million copies. It is the holder of the highest sales volume of a female singer's album in the history of music in the United States and the entire world.

Moreover, the song itself helped Shania Twain win two Grammy Awards for "Best Country Music Female Singer" and "Best Country Music Song".

Therefore, the weight of this song can be imagined.

Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, the Four Great Queens, five songs... These are the five songs that Li Qian painstakingly selected for Liao Liao. At the end of the negotiation, it was decided that the album must have six English songs, so Li Qian had no choice but to continue to draw in his memory. In the end, he decided to come up with a work by Alicia Keys, "No-one ".

Billboard's five-week consecutive championship, the two Grammy Awards for "Best R&B Female Vocal" and "Best R&B Song", all indisputably prove the excellence of this song!

Moreover, although the time has been advanced by several years, the R&B style of this song will not feel abrupt at the moment. It is in the kind of "a little trendy, but only half a step ahead of others". The most wonderful state.

Then, adding these six songs together, Li Qian has enough confidence to do it, making Liao Liao a hit in the European and American markets!

Even, to a certain extent, even if there is no big boat to borrow, Li Qian feels that with these six songs and Liao Liao's strength, it would be unreasonable for this album not to sell well!

Of course, although the song must be fine, and Liao Liao's singing skills must be fine, but when it is actually done, things will obviously not be so simple. It is just an exercise in singing, for Liao Liao , is a big problem.

Being able to control the voice and being able to control it well are not the same concept.

When I usually listen to songs and sing along to European and American records, the singing style when someone can imitate it is definitely different from the singing style when I need my own unique singing style, I have to figure out everything by myself, and walk out my own path.

Therefore, in the following days, Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan suddenly had a lot of leisure, while Liao Liao, on the contrary, put away his playfulness and devoted himself completely to the new challenge.

In mid-March, Xie Mingyuan went back to France to deal with some of his assets there, and then he was about to leave there completely, while Li Qian went back to China and asked his big brother Fang Shaobai to go to France with him. The teacher, Mr. Cheng Yunshan, went to his home. The three of them made a plan to record "Rap Mask" and "The Hairpin Phoenix". For the Beijing opera actors needed to shoot the MV in the future, he will personally be responsible for greeting a group of old friends, ensuring that they are equipped with the highest level in the Peking opera circle. If necessary, he is even willing to appear in person for the future MV.

After finishing these things, he left a copy of the songbook of "The Hairpin Phoenix" to his brother Fang Shaobai, and roughly set the recording time of this song in mid-April. After that, Li Qian only stayed in Shuntian Mansion After three or four days, I didn't even have time to go to the Gansu studio of "On the Road", so I flew back to Los Angeles.

But this time, Sun Meimei flew over with Li Qian at the same time.

It is conceivable that when Liao Liao's album is officially released and she becomes famous in Europe and the United States, various brokerage affairs will inevitably increase at once. , Of course, you can sign a contract with a special brokerage company, but at that time, Li Qian is very afraid that Liao Liao will not even have time to directly connect with the brokerage company.

Therefore, after careful consideration, considering the company's brokerage department, it is enough for Zou Wenhuai to be in charge, and the newcomers can be gradually brought out. After all, it is his own territory, so Li Qian brought Sun Meimei. Come here and plan to let her be Liao Liao's personal assistant in Europe and America, and fully support Liao Liao's affairs in Europe and America.

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