Chapter 404 Mine, Mine, All Mine (4k)
"Fuck! What a terrible movie!"
On the evening of January 3, 2003, Zhao Jie, who was walking out of the cinema with his girlfriend, couldn't help but scold Zhang Yimou, his face full of dissatisfaction with the movie "Hero".
"My girlfriend is a fan of Zhou Yi. After watching Zhou Yi's promotional song "The Elephant King", she kept clamoring to go to the cinema to watch this movie. I didn't want to go, but my girlfriend told me to believe in Zhou Yi.
"It turns out that I was right to have no expectations for Zhang Yimou. Wang Shuo was right. Zhang Yimou is just a decoration master. He can't be a big director at all! The movies he made are so fucking bad. If you want to watch them, I suggest you just watch the promotional clips of Zhou Yi's "The Elephant King" on TV..."
Unlike his girlfriend who happily shared the so-called peace, heroism, and Qin Shihuang concepts with her friends after watching the movie, Zhao Jie went straight to Tianya Community after returning home and posted a post to denounce Zhang Yimou's inhumanity.
Since Zhou Yi will appear in the China-Korea Song Festival tonight, his post with Zhou Yi in the title quickly attracted many netizens to post comments.
"Don't mention Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi is also average, and his song is more like a show of skill. Zhang Yimou, an art illiterate, doesn't know what Qin Shihuang did, but Zhou Yi, a top student from Peking University, can't he know what Qin Shihuang did? Is a tyrant like Qin Shihuang worthy of "The Elephant King"?
"Do you really think that netizens don't know what the elephant in "The Elephant King" represents?"
"The elephant king is a symbol of Buddhist nobility. The elephant is extremely powerful but acts cautiously, symbolizing wisdom in action. Why doesn't Qin Shihuang deserve this? If he didn't lack this wisdom and caution, he could have ascended the throne and unified the six kingdoms?"
"Forget it, the remaining strength of the six generations, even if there was no Zhao Zheng, there would be Zhao cats and Zhao dogs to unify the six kingdoms. A tyrant also deserves this song with the meaning of prosperity and peace?"
"To be honest, what Zhang Yimou wants to express in the movie "Hero" is that Qin Shihuang wanted peace in the world and create a prosperous era after unifying the six kingdoms. He is a hero in a broad sense. So there is nothing wrong with Zhou Yi matching him with this song of prosperity. This is the inner expectation of Qin Shihuang in the movie, and the music has concretized it."
"..."
Thanks to Zhou Yi's super high popularity in China and the rising box office of "Hero" in the market, the evaluation of this movie and even Zhou Yi on the Internet has become increasingly polarized.
At this time, the public opinion of Qin Shihuang Yingzheng on the Internet has not yet changed to "my charming ancestor", and he is still nailed to the pillar of shame of the tyrant and repeatedly whipped.
Zhang Yimou's deliberate filming of a positive image of Qin Shihuang is enough to make people angry, not to mention Zhou Yi also added fuel to the fire with a pure music propaganda song that is obviously about the prosperity of the world.
What do you two mean?
Do you still want to praise the ideals of tyrants?
You two should be sent to build the Great Wall, and see if you can still praise Qin Shihuang!
Among them, Wang Lihong's fans, who were ridiculed by Zhou Yi's fans for the failure of the English theme song of the Asian version of "Spider-Man", have become the most active main force at this moment.
As we all know, many of Wang Lihong's fans have not had much breathing power on the Internet recently.
As the first young male singer who relied on "Only" to compete with Zhou Yi in the mainland, many of Wang Lihong's fans once regarded themselves as the second in the country after forcibly brainwashing people to ignore that he actually debuted very early.
And he is the second one who is capable of challenging the first one at any time.
Unfortunately, the failure of Spider-Man's English theme song made his fans lose the shield of Chinese Americans. Now that there is a chance to discredit Zhou Yi, they will naturally rush to the scene to laugh at him and fan the flames crazily.
"Zhou Yi should go to Korea to play with women. He is already on the list of rich women. He should learn from Tang Seng and be a rich man. Don't come back."
"It's hard to imagine that a top student would think that Qin Shi Huang deserves praise. All these years of study are in vain."
"I began to think that what Han Han said made sense. Reading books may not be useful. Isn't Zhou Yi's statement ironclad proof..."
"I am a passerby who only listens to songs but doesn't know the singers. Now it seems that Wang Lihong, who sings "Descendants of the Dragon", is more pleasing to the eye. At least he didn't whitewash the tyrants. "Descendants of the Dragon" is about us. Unlike Zhou Yi, "Yellow Man" seems to include Japanese and Koreans..."
"Fuck horse-faced fans, don't open a small account to accuse me..."
Zhao Jie never expected that his post would go from the discussion of the movie plot at the beginning to history, and then to the battle between the two singers' fan circles.
He wanted to correct the trend, but it was obvious that it was useless.
Although Wang Lihong has few fans, he is very tough.
The two sides fought fiercely until the road was almost wiped out. Sun Yanzi, who was holding a lunch and dessert and burping from time to time, narrowed his eyes into crescents. Seeing the joy, he kicked Zhou Yi, who was also eating fruit after dinner: "There is an account on Tianya saying that you got sick while playing abroad. Is it true or not?"
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Zhou Yi, who was still chatting with Cheng Hao via text, turned his head and looked at the woman sitting in front of the computer at the desk with a teasing look on her face, and slowly typed a question mark: "Which bastard spread rumors about me?"
"What's the name of Free Beaver 3? What, do you still want to sue him?"
"It's him again? This is his third smurf account, and he is still so obsessed with slandering me?
"Fuck him, sue for nothing, I want to scold him, get out of here. "
Putting down his phone, Zhou Yi stood up and leaned in front of the computer. His bright back of the head suddenly appeared in front of Sun Yanzi. The latter tilted his head slightly, glanced at Zhou Yi who was half-bent over and concentrating on finding the target of netizens to attack accurately, and grinned silently-
Then, as if afraid of being discovered, he immediately retracted the arc of his mouth corners and moved his neck twice.
Zhou Yi tilted the keyboard, transformed into a slanted key fairy and began to output crazily. The crackling sound continued in the lounge where only the TV commercials sounded. An ID named "Ye Aonai Wo He 3" suddenly appeared. , and started the third battle to keep the number with that damn beaver;
Sun Yanzi, who was chewing orange peels in his mouth, began to lean back tactically after watching for a while, and quietly counted the number of lush hairs on the back of Zhou Yi's head. If he counted wrong, he would count again, not feeling bored at all, and even enjoying it.
In the online war, Wang Lihong's fans who were still talking about "Descendants of the Dragon" soon ushered in a new wave of blows with the broadcast of the China-Korea Song Festival-
People who have watched "Young China" are here.
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"The haters are talking!"
"What "Descendants of the Dragon"? This is not written by Ma Lian himself, but adapted. My evaluation is that it is not as authentic as "Young China", which is what I learned in textbooks."
"How dare Ma Lian fans, who are more authentic than the legitimate ones, let your master change his nationality first before you brag?"
"There are still people who criticize Zhou Yi's craziness. He himself sang that young people are young and crazy, what else do you want? If you are not crazy, then he can't be crazy? "
"..."
On January 4, along with the broadcast of the China-Korea Concert, the appearance of "Young China Says" has emerged with extraordinary popularity both in reality and on the Internet.
Because Zhou Yi appeared at the closing ceremony of the Korea-Japan World Cup last year, he was interpreted by jealous fans as being because the song "Yellow Man" was too broad and won the "favor" of Japan and South Korea in terms of meaning, so he was traded to the closing ceremony.
Although the lyrics of this song are about Chinese people at a glance.
More importantly, after the broadcast of this China-Korea Concert, many official media outlets rarely came out to cheer for "Young China Says".
The first to publish a long article praising it was the central mainstream media "China Youth Daily" -
"Young China Says": The cry of youth, the future of China. ”
A very formal title, a perfect hymn.
Zhou Yi, who had just joined the Music Association, handed in an answer sheet that surprised everyone. With the promotion of Warner and the cooperation of official media, the song "Young China" spread all over the mainland like a spark.
On January 5, even the Southern Daily, which had always been at odds with Zhou Yi, published a rare praise article -
"Mr. Liang Qichao's "Young China" is well-known. It is difficult to adapt such classic articles into pop songs. It is a thankless task. But I am very pleased to see Zhou Yi's attempt. His courage to adapt is worth learning from for everyone..."
To be honest, the popularity of "Young China" in the mainland has soared. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there must be someone behind it, but no one dares to come out and ruin the show.
Warner directly took advantage of the popularity in the first week of 2003, and sent Zhou Yi a long list of quotations, and the price was raised a lot.
At the same time, the Hong Kong entertainment gossip media officially started to select On the "List of Men Most Wanted to Keep This Year", Zhou Yi's name once again dominated the list with overwhelming votes, and on the first day, he left the second place Gu Tianle by more than 1,800 votes!
The selection has not yet ended, and the champion is already a foregone conclusion.
Unless Zhou Yi becomes a legal expert like Xie Tingfeng in the next year, no one can take his crown.
"Tsk tsk, someone is willing to spend 3 million RMB just to have dinner with you. This is really exaggerated. You are so valuable."
"Is 3 million a lot? Let alone 3 million, I don't care about 4 million or 5 million."
Warner, recording studio.
Zhou Yi, who was pulled over by Sun Yanzi to help her check the recording of the English song, was very disdainful of the public calls of those Hong Kong rich women: "To have dinner with me, you have to pay at least 10 million. Who are you looking down on?"
"Then I have made hundreds of millions, right? "
Sun Yanzi sat on the table easily with his buttocks lifted and his hands supported. He swung his legs and looked at the man sitting on the chair with one hand on his chin. He tapped and tapped his chin regularly with his index and middle fingers, as if he had thought of something and smiled.
Zhou Yi glanced at her: "You can think so."
"Then I will take care of you this afternoon, too. Do your best." Sun Yanzi, smiling, threw a notebook over: "Write down how much you want. You can even put zeros with your eyes closed."
"I'm not free this afternoon. I have to go to the inspection."
Zhou Yi took off the pen cap and wrote two hundred million on it in a serious manner: "In the evening, I have activities and I'm not free either."
Sun Yanzi was stunned, and then blinked: "Inspection? What inspection activities? Are you doing business?"
Business, the more vulgar name is "moonlighting".
For singers of this era, it is normal to make money by doing moonlighting. From first-line singers to second-rate resident singers, moonlighting is commonplace. The most typical example is compilation concerts and various non-sponsor activities and performances, and even weddings.
Zhou Yi is the only one in Warner who has not participated in this thing. Even she herself participated in several compilation concerts last year, one of which was with Jay Chou, Zhou Huajian and others.
There is no way, the other party is offering too much.
In one day, just attending an event and singing two or three songs can earn 500,000 or 600,000 yuan. Even for first-line singers, this price is hard for many people to refuse.
For the level of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong, although their popularity has declined, their status and national popularity are still there. The offer for just attending an event is between 800,000 and 1.5 million yuan, and singing is another price.
Let’s not talk about other things about the bosses in the mainland. The rich ones are really rich.
As long as it does not violate the taboos of artists, such as spending money to bring two mortal enemies together, generally they will agree to it for the sake of money.
Looking at the entire music scene, Zhou Yi is probably the only one who does not accept business. Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng, who are known as the godfather, have to come out from time to time to stroll around and participate in some activities to make money.
Captain Zhao is so old, but there is still an offer of 60,000 per show to invite him to sing "I am a Little Bird" at an event.
"Yes, I took the business."
"Which company? How could they invite you?" Sun Yanzi, who was curious, immediately asked.
Zhou Yi smiled mysteriously: "Guess?"
"..."
Sun Yanzi pursed his lips and thought for a long time, and asked tentatively: "Give me a hint?"
"A ribbon-cutting event."
"Company opening? Real estate sales?" The woman subconsciously thought of these two aspects, but the man smiled and said nothing.
"How much did you get?"
"It's hard to say."
"Then let me guess!"
Sun Yanzi bared her teeth at the man to show her threat and dissatisfaction: "If you don't want to tell me, forget it. It makes me sound like I have no business."
"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I'm afraid you'll be deeply hurt. It would be bad if your heart is directly hit and you feel cold. Chen Zeshan will come to fight me later."
"Tsk, what are you talking about? I've seen the world, okay?"
As if she heard a joke, Sun Yanzi raised her right thumb and pointed at herself: "It's not like I don't make money. And my family is not rich, but at least it can be called wealthy. What kind of scene have I not seen? Can it hit me?"
Just kidding, who doesn't know that Sun Yanzi is famous for her big heart.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course."
Sun Yanzi crossed her arms and shook her head proudly - confident, no need to say more.
January 5, 3:30 pm
When Sun Yanzi followed Zhou Yi to Jianguo Road in Chaoyang District, the China World Trade Center and the China World Trade Center under construction made her wonder in her heart-
Why are you here?
"Zhou Yi, Yanzi."
After arriving at a high-end residential area, a person Sun Yanzi did not expect appeared at the gate of the residential area and greeted them with a smile.
"Cheng Hao? Why are you here?"
"Well, you have to ask Zhou Yi."
Cheng Hao raised her hand with a smile, naturally put her elbow on the man's left shoulder, and smiled at him.
"What else can I do? Of course, you can help me cut the ribbon. Didn't I tell you before?"
Zhou Yi raised a sly smile, raised his hand without looking back, and pointed his thumb at the tall and magnificent building behind him: "Do you see that building? Mine."
"...???"
"Do you see that building? It's mine too, all mine."
"...???"
"The price is not expensive. I estimate that I can get hundreds of millions to tens of billions in the future."
"????"
Sun Yanzi opened his slightly confused eyes, a head full of question marks constantly popping out, and his brain CPU was a little confused for a while: "How much?"