Ten o’clock in the morning, blowing a gale.
Originally prepared to be held outdoors, the launch of “Chinese Good Songs” was moved to a relatively small indoor held, this is a not too large studio, below the crowded media, in front of the simple stage, on which sat four mentors, a special music critic, and three singers with rows.
Tutors: Liu Le, Yu Quan, Yang Keqian, Cai Ya.
Liu Le is a domestic academy singer who has sung countless classic songs, belonging to the big brother level, and is a real old artist just like Han Hong.
Yu Quan is a pop singer who debuted at the end of the 1990s, specialising in songwriting, with many classic pop songs and a huge fan base.
Yang Kewen is also a singer-songwriter, who had a hard time in his early years, but insisted on composing, and eventually exploded around the turn of the millennium.
The only female mentor, Cai Ya, is an accomplished female singer from Baodao.
Contributing music critic: Zhao Tianhua.
There is no need to introduce this one, he is one of the most ruthless people in the domestic music industry, he has created countless works in his early years, but later he turned into a big spammer, the reason is very simple, because the music industry sucks and he is not happy, he will scold anyone who is not good at his sights. In his early years, he also sprayed Zhou Dong’s bite problem, but he has a very high evaluation of Zhou Dong’s musical talent, that he is the first person in China.
The three singers who had the honour of attending the launch, all of whom were prestigious and different from ordinary singers, were:
Li Tiezhu, Huo Zhi’en, and Zhao Liya.
These three are all newcomers to the music scene that have popped up in the last three years, all young people who rely on originality to put down roots in the music scene, and it is the emergence of this generation of newcomers represented by them and Yi Xiaomao and the like that has halted the slippery slope during the 05-15 decade of the Chinese music scene’s empty window of regression.
It was almost time, and the host, Zheheman, said:
“Hello dear media friends, welcome to the launch of the large-scale music composition competition programme ‘Chinese Good Songs’ hosted by CCTV 3, I’m CCTV host Zheheman. First of all, let me briefly introduce this programme to you ……”
There was a lot of scene talk, but everyone was still in the clouds, only knowing that this was a music programme that focused on originality.
It’s not that the host is of low standard, quite the contrary, it can only be said that the standard is so high that it’s watery as hell and still manages to make you listen. This is because he needs to save the really crucial information for later, so that the media can ask for it themselves, and then the mentors and so on can answer it.
Now, we all know that the Chinese Good Song is also a semi-live broadcast, similar to The Super Voice, and that the creative team of the show is the original team of The Voice, except for the disgusting Lust for Words director.
The so-called semi-live way, that is, the competition link is indeed live, but before the preparation stage, will also record some video inserted into the live broadcast.
This on the one hand can maximise the suppression of live accidents, the other can enrich the live content, belonging to a very safe way.
And, the programme has a total of fourteen issues, divided into three stages, the first round is the tutor selection, the second round is the strong voice battle, and the third round is the battle of champions, the specific way how, we do not know now.
“Good, I believe that friends on the scene must have a lot of questions right? Below, we love the four mentors of this show to answer everyone’s questions.”
Hot Hopman finally finished his water and personally picked his media friends to address the four mentors.
In theory, everyone should be most concerned about the system and rules of the competition, so the mentors were prepared, but …… received strange questions.
“May I ask Tutor Liu Le, out of what kind of thinking did you guys invite Li Tiezhu to participate in this programme? Don’t you guys know that his standard is already far beyond the other contestants? We don’t compare him to vegetarian musicians, but just compare him to Huo Zhi En, Zhao Liya, Band on the Hill, and other such, and we can tell that Li Tie Zhu is completely bound to win. By doing so, wouldn’t we be guaranteeing Li Tiezhu the title?”
The first question was too tricky.
Li Tiezhu on the side was dumbfounded, Zhao Liya secretly spat out her tongue towards Li Tiezhu, Huo Zhi’en’s face was calm but in his heart he was ten thousand times unconvinced, why is it impossible for me to defeat Li Tiezhu?
The host, Rehman, is also very embarrassed, he said so long before, is not to guide the direction of the suspense?
How come you all treat me like air!
Liu Le smiled bitterly, picked up the microphone, and replied, ”This is a good question, we have had this kind of debate within ourselves. The show is going to start tonight, so there’s nothing to hide. Let me tell you this, as soon as this programme started its project, almost everyone thought of Li Tiezhu at first, but no one dared to propose it, just because his creative ability is too …… unbelievable. But in the end, we decided to invite him to come, is out of a most simple reason, if this era of Chinese good songs without Li Tiezhu, it must not be perfect. Since we are all singer-songwriters, what makes it so that some can come and some can’t?”
The reporter continued to press, “But, is it fair to the other contestants?”
Liu Le: “There’s never absolute fairness, in today’s music scene, if you can’t steal Li Tie Zhu’s thunder, you can’t become a superstar. This is the reality! However, in order for the show to be fair, or to look exciting, we have special rules for Li Tie Zhu, which means that he doesn’t have the same rules as the other contestants, and will face harsher restrictions. Don’t worry, we will maximise the difficulty of Li Tiezhu’s creation, not only for the sake of fairness, but also to let everyone see a strung-out Li Tiezhu, like it?”
The reporter was happy: “That’s still like it, I hope the difficulty factor is as big as possible.”
Li Tiezhu frowned on the side, there is still this rule?
Zhao Liya whispered, “There is!
Li Tiezhu was speechless, well, out of the mole.
Another reporter asked Zhao Tianhua: “Zhao old man, you serve as a music critic, and invited his granddaughter to participate, can this guarantee fairness?”
Zhao Tianhua: “I’m a dispensable character, after they’ve made their choice, I’ll only force a few words, can it affect the fairness of the competition? Besides, Yaya and Li Tiezhu are both pushed by me to compete, what I look at is talent, of course …… Li Tiezhu’s special rules are also set by me. Hey!”
Reporter: “May I ask what special rules?”
Zhao Tianhua: “Don’t ask, you’ll know when the conference is over.”
And then, the reporter finally returned to the topic and started asking about the rules of the competition.
In fact, it was also very simple, the first six sessions were the inverse of the selection session, from the dozens of participating contestants, the preferred twenty-four people were selected, and each of them became the mentees of the four mentors. The second session is the Strong Voice Battle, four instalments, which is actually a civil war, where three people are selected from each group and three are eliminated. The third segment is the Battle of Champions, four instalments, and this is a little more complicated, with groups facing off against each other, then catching each other in a battle, and the final five making it to the final night.
Smart people have already noticed that this show doesn’t actually get to see Li Tiezhu very often, in other words, there aren’t too many opportunities for each contestant to make an appearance.
Firstly, the six-phase long selection session, for example, Li Tiezhu only needs to appear once, and when it comes to the second round, he also only needs to appear once, and in the end, when the championship battle is a little bit more intense, he will only appear four times at most.
That is to say, if Li Tiezhu can kill the final, but also only use to appear in six of the fourteen issues, to create six songs, the other contestants are the same.
Of course, there was a reason for this, and mentor Yang Keqian explained, because originality was a difficult thing, and one original song per week could not guarantee the quality, so by having the contestants create as little as possible, it was in turn meant to improve the quality of the entire programme and the songs.
The reporter immediately retorted, “But, The Voice and Singer are two programmes, Li Tiezhu is a weekly original ah, the quality is superior.”
Yang Ke asked, “You think everyone is Li Tie Zhu? It’s only when you’re original every week like this that you’re bailing out the champion for Li Tie Zhu.”
It made sense to say that with one original a day, Li Tiezhu could be globally invincible, as long as he had enough intelligence.
After asking the mentors and music critics, the reporters could finally ask the three singers who were present today.
After waiting for a long time finally waited for today!
This was the heart of the vast majority of media people ah, since the music world fiasco started half a month ago, Li Tiezhu has not appeared in front of the public, people want to ask is too much.
So, the Q&A session was seriously skewed, which was expected.
Reporter: “May I ask Li Tie Zhu, how long have you and Leng Ba been together? Is there still a relationship now? Does Song Zhu’er know about it?”
Zhao Liya: “Hee hee hee ……”
Li Tiezhu: “Eh …… we are friends now.”
“May I ask, was it Leng Ba who chased you first?”
“I took the initiative, she felt at the beginning that the age gap between us was not small and not suitable. So, this matter is my fault.”
“With your relationship with Leng Ba, did she favour you at The Voice?”
“No, because it’s all audience voting at the back, she doesn’t have a chance to be biased even if she wants to.”
“If you and Song Zhu’er split up, would you stay with Leng Ba?”
“Heh …… I told you, this matter is my fault. You guys shouldn’t bring up any hypothetical questions either, they’re both fine.”
“Don’t you think you’ll bring down the youth with such a private life?”
“Don’t think so, the youth of today are very good at independent thinking.”
“I heard that you also have a different relationship with tennis star Jung Yeonji, right?”
“She’s the one you guys used to keep asking about, the class flower in the class flower’s milk tea, she used to treat me to milk tea in high school.”
“Because of Leng Ba, your image is flawed, what do you think about that?”
“That’s the real me! An ordinary person.”
“Do you regret making a mistake because of Leng Ba?”
“Mistake? It wasn’t a mistake; as I said, she was very good! I have nothing but gratitude and guilt for her.”
The reporters’ questions are getting more and more tricky, but Li Tiezhu calmly responded, and tried to carry the matter on his own, to reduce the pressure of Leng Ba. This matter, do not blame Li Tiezhu, but because of him, if it is not to deal with Li Tiezhu, Ai Daqian will not turn out Leng Ba.
Originally everyone a Li Tiezhu will lower posture, but did not expect Li Tiezhu as always just.
Well, the interview is still over.
Music critic Zhao Tianhua took out a large cardboard box and handed it to Li Tiezhu, saying, “Draw a note out.”
Li Tiezhu: “What?”
Zhao Tianhua said, “This is the special vulgar rule for you, other people’s original songs can be sky high, you can’t. The four mentors wrote a few notes each, a total of more than twenty, you draw at random, draw what to write. Every instalment you’re in is like this, and it’s drawn on the same day, and you only have ten or so hours of creative time.”
Li Tiezhu: “……”
The reporters present were also dumbfounded, this was too harsh, right? However, they were more concerned about what Li Tiezhu drew.