Chapter 426 English Secondary Major Forever Young

"Do you mean that all the comments about you on the Internet are true?"

Zhou Yi pushed his drooping sunglasses upward with his right index finger, chuckled and asked back: "I'm not a clay man who can't fight back. I can't scold others when they scold me, right?"

"Then what do you think about your nomination for a total of 58 awards ceremonies in various countries?"

"I'm reading newspapers at home."

"How many trophies do you think you can win? Some award ceremonies will conflict in time. Will you choose to give up?"

"Only children make multiple-choice questions, buddy."

Zhou Yi patted the shoulder of the male reporter who looked only 27 or 28 years old in a friendly manner: "Mature adults will only say I want them all when faced with such questions."

"..."

I don't believe you!

If you dare to ask for everything, others will not give it all!

Do you really think that the award ceremony is your own home and you can buy as much as you want?

"It is now rumored that Sun Yanzi, Xiao Yaxuan, and Zhang Shaohan signed with China Mobile because of your push behind the scenes. Is this true?"

"There is also Jay Chou who signed with China Mobile. Why don't you mention him? Gender discrimination?"

Zhou Yi glanced at the reporter who was trying to make a big news: "Nowadays, society advocates equality between men and women. I tell you, you are maliciously discriminating against male singers."

Reporter Qian Yijing: "..."

Fuck gender discrimination!

What kind of brain circuit is this? !

Qian Xiaojing thought that he should be experienced and knowledgeable. In the past, his colleagues in the newspaper said that Zhou Yi often played cards unconventionally, but he didn't take it seriously. But when he really took Zhou Yi as his rotation, he understood what his colleagues' statement of pain and happiness was.

He loved Zhou Yi's mouth, but it was easy for him to look stupid as an interviewer - after all, he was a serious journalism graduate.

"I——"

"Sorry, sir, the interview time is over. Ayi still has a lot of work to do."

Before Qian Xiaojing could ask, Qian Jiang, who also walked out of the Warner building, came over with a crab step, with a belly, and directly blocked the reporter who was still trying to pester him, and waved to the security guard to follow.

"Wait a minute, Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! I..."

The unwilling reporter could only watch Zhou Yi being escorted to the car by his team, and shouted his name with all his strength but to no avail...

"The popularity of "Super Star" exceeded the company's expectations."

Qian Jiang, who had collected various data early, sighed: "I'm afraid you don't have the hope of winning the annual song this year. The increase in "Super Star" is too terrifying, even Taiwan has been pushed to the first place."

The so-called annual song, the title looks intimidating, but in fact it is just a self-entertainment for the media in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland basically play their own games.

For example, in Taiwan, many Taiwanese media believed that the song of the year in 2000 should be Liu Ruoyin's "Later" or Lin Yilian's "At Least I Have You", rather than Zhou Yi's "Happy Worship", while Hong Kong recognized Xie Tingfeng's "Because I Love You" or "Live Viva".

Although Zhou Yi surpassed the competition in the direct competition that year with hype, it was still empty after all, and both sides still had their own reasons.

In 2001, Taiwan believed that it was F4's "Meteor Shower", while Hong Kong believed that it was Zhang Xueyou's "If This Is Not Love" or Wang Jie's "Unromantic Crime". Anyway, they did not recognize "Jiangnan", which also had stronger data in the direct competition and won the championship consecutively.

Only last year, after the popularity of the first two albums, "Fairy Tale" almost dominated all the charts in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, which made Zhou Yi the only song of the year recognized by most media practitioners in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong so far.

There is no way. If Taiwan could still refute Zhou Yi's hype in 2000 with "Later" and "At Least I Have You", two strong candidates for the Chinese Century Golden Songs List, then in the next year, facing "Jiangnan", both Taiwan and Hong Kong were actually fighting hard -

Until they found all the excuses and waited for the massacre of "Fairy Tale" in 2002.

Faced with a completely one-sided trend, even the strong Hong Kong media can only bow their heads and admit defeat.

"If Taiwanese and Hong Kong singers have not been able to suppress your songs this year, then I think they should pinch their noses and make this "Super Star" the number one song of the year."

Speaking of this, Qian Jiang couldn't help laughing.

In the past, there was only Warner, but now this song has Viking and Fumao joining, and its influence has naturally expanded a lot.

"This is nonsense, not many people recognize it now."

Zhou Yi flipped through the documents handed over by Qian Jiang without caring.

This so-called annual data honor is only useful in the mature era of mobile Internet after 2018 - to be precise, it is a byproduct of the hype of the Weibo ranking event by Jay Chou's team in 2019.

At that time, because the main branches of the Chinese music scene had been on a downward slope for too long, active Internet users took advantage of Jay Chou's Weibo ranking hype to attract new fans who had not experienced that era to enter the scene, and also triggered a collective nostalgia for youth among a group of old fans born in the 1990s.

This unexpectedly triggered the concept of "the battle of the gods at the beginning of the century in the Chinese music scene".

Before 2018, this concept was not systematic at all. Any music article written about the beginning of the millennium was at most a nostalgia for the past youth.

After 2018, this concept was gradually improved by the mature mobile Internet system, and one familiar old song after another was dug out. The archaeological wave began from then on and was spread to the greatest extent after the Weibo ranking event in 2019.

It was at this time that Jay Chou's "second place for a thousand years" was ridiculed by most people -

Because in the next two years, various annual song data videos emerged to prove that Jay Chou was very popular in the early years of the century, and he was awesome, but basically every year there was a song that was more popular than his.

Even in his peak year of "Qilixiang" in 2004, there was Lin Junjie's "Jiangnan" who won and lost with him.

"No matter how many people recognize it, at least it can increase the cohesion of your fans."

Qian Jiang was not surprised by Zhou Yi's disapproval.

In the absence of much active benefits, Zhou Yi has always been too lazy to touch these so-called honors.

"How is the recording of the English album going?"

"If it goes fast, it can be finished before going abroad to attend the Grammy Awards."

Zhou Yi knocked down the chair and lay down comfortably, with his left hand behind his head, saying comfortably: "By then, taking into account the preparation time, it will be released after the Grammy Awards to take advantage of the popularity."

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Brit Awards, known as the British Grammy Awards, had already confirmed that he would not be included, the first foreign music awards ceremony he would need to attend this year should be the Brit Awards on February 20.

The 45th Grammy Awards will be held on February 23.

"Those British guys are really tough. You and Eminem, the two male singers with the most popular albums worldwide last year, were really only nominated for the two of you."

Qian Jiang felt funny when he thought of those stingy British guys.

"That can't be helped. I'm from China and Eminem is American. The British will definitely not choose us if they have a choice."

Zhou Yi picked up the dust invisible to the naked eye from his fingernails nonchalantly and joked: "Let the racial discrimination ferment when the time comes. We don't have to care. It's just right to sell albums in the UK."

The rhythm has been set, so it's none of his business what will happen in the end.

"It's possible, but I still think it's too risky. If your new album doesn't carry this heat, we will be backfired, and the public opinion at that time may become your own humiliation."

When Qian Jiang thought of the possible consequences, he was still a little hesitant.

It's not that he doesn't trust Zhou Yi, but the cost of playing with racial emotions is too high if it fails. It can be said that this is walking on a tightrope.

If Zhou Yi's new album does not reach the quality of "Attitude Show" - no, it should be said that if it is "only" the quality of "Attitude Show", it may not be able to stop everyone's mouth.

Because there are still some weak songs in "Attitude Show".

If you look at this album "Attitude Show" without prejudice, it is a record that is worthy of being included in the list of candidates for the Rolling Stone magazine's historical album rankings.

This means that if Zhou Yi wants to take on this pressure and transform the effect of marketing, he must come up with an album that can be included in the top 200, top 150 or even top 100 of the world's pop music history.

Only when he is better can he prove that he is "racially discriminated" for not winning awards and being criticized.

This is too difficult.

"As long as I don't give them a chance, isn't it okay?"

Zhou Yi's English second album playlist appeared in his mind, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth-

"Forever Young"

The theme of his second album, a total of ten songs.

The first to third songs on the A side: "Enemy", "Natural", "Shots".

As a whole, the three songs from the Dream Dragons band portray a red shirt Zhou Yi who always remains strong, self-analyzed and explosive.

"Enemy", as the first single, has already gained fame. The song's fearless spirit against all enemies and all hatred has been revealed, and a young and unyielding heart is beating in the chest;

After that, it is "Natural".

In this complex world, there are many different kinds of people. As long as you have a big heart and learn to believe in yourself, the critical eyes and hateful words from the outside world will become meaningless.

Next is the closing song "Shots" of Red Zhouyi.

The first two songs are about self-improvement, anger, and unstoppable explosive power. This song is used to self-analyze and motivate those who make mistakes after being too enthusiastic.

A person who cannot recognize his own mistakes is terrible.

Only by maintaining the ability of self-analysis, knowing what mistakes you have made, and reconciling with these mistakes can you continue to maintain a healthy mentality to welcome a new future.

Mistakes are not terrible. What is terrible is that you have lost the motivation to look forward and lost a young heart.

If you think you are an ordinary person, a person who can only fulfill the dreams of youth in books, news, and comics, it doesn't matter.

Because no one stipulates that you are born extraordinary.

Thus, the definition of the second stage of Orange Shirt Zhou Yi is introduced-

Two songs from Coldplay: "Something Just Like This" and "Viva La Vida".

I don't have superhuman abilities, nor Batman's wealth, nor the power of mythical figures. I am not as passionate and self-reliant as others, but even as ordinary as me, I also have my own fantasy and romance as a small person in life-

"Something Just Like This".

In sharp contrast to the ordinary little person in the previous paragraph, "Viva la Vida" is narrated in the tone of Louis XVI, a magnificent and desolate but exciting story.

Small people are also life, big people are also life, even if the life is completely different, but life is not high or low-long live life.

Turn to side B.

With the grand narrative already contracted on side A, Zhou Yi chose feelings at the beginning of side B.

In this regard, in order to bring freshness to the listening experience, he first chose two songs from the band Maroon 5: "One More Night" and "Payphone".

In these two songs, Zhou Yi is wearing green.

The lyrics of "One More Night" describe the guilt in a man's heart, implicitly expressing that people's romantic entanglements are sometimes like a fight, the tug of love;

Next is "Payphone", a song about the old feelings for each other after breaking up, showing the image of a passionate young man in a linear way.

For comparison, in the third and fourth songs on the B side, Zhou Yi chose two songs from the Republican era - "Apologize" and "Counting Stars".

Here, he is wearing a blue shirt.

If "One More Night" and "Payphone" show the tug of love caused by money and environment and the deep affection after breaking up, then "Apologize" brings a decisive attitude in turning around in love, without any dragging.

Once a relationship has ended, there is no need to linger on it. Even if the other party keeps saying sorry in regret, it will not help, because you have started a new life. You will no longer let yourself be consumed in love and fall into the vortex of money.

"Counting Stars" is jokingly called the inspirational song of counting stars.

At the same time, this song can also be used as a summary of the three songs before B - whether you are deeply trapped in the quagmire of love, money, and life, or have turned around and pulled out of the vortex, if you feel tired, then lie down and look at the stars and listen to this song.

The last song is "We Are Young" from the Fun band.

The opening begins with a "suit Zhou Yi" singing in a pub and telling a story. At the same time, four "Zhou Yi" wearing red, orange, green and blue shirts appear in the pub team and raise their glasses with the suit Zhou Yi on the stage.

The songs and stories sung by the suit Zhou Yi on the stage, Zhou Yi wearing four colors of shirts off the stage revels with others in the pub - a pun.

Zhou Yi on the stage wore a suit jacket, covering the red, orange, green and blue floral shirt underneath.

It can be said that this album is based on the song "We Are Young" which means "If we don't go crazy, we will get old", and interprets the theme of the entire album in reverse order - forever young, forever passionate, and forever full of tears.

You can think that the passion, self-analysis, romance of small people, grand historical self-narration of big people, deep affection for a relationship and determination to start a new life in the above nine songs are all fictional crazy stories;

You can also think that the above nine songs are not just stories, but everything that the "four Zhou Yi" experienced when they were young off the stage.

But what Zhou Yi in the suit on the stage wants to tell you is that no matter it is a story or a fact, they are all part of this world——

When you encounter difficulties, you must strive for self-improvement, and when you encounter mistakes made in failure and setbacks, you must learn to analyze yourself.

You only live once when you come to this world. The romance of small people is not shameful, and the life of big people is not noble.

On the road of growth, everyone will encounter emotional forks and quagmires in life, and there is no need to consume yourself.

Even if the pure white shirt that represents the baby period has been stained with other colors during the growth process, you can put on a suit jacket to cover the colorful shirt, continue to tell your story on the stage, and continue to write your life.

Only by keeping your original heart, always passionate and always full of tears can you be truly young forever——

Because you are still alive and you are still experiencing.

Forever Young.