Chapter 115: In an Era of Godly Battles, Releasing Songs Is the Kingly Way
“I guess it’s Shen Qing!”
“Haha, I thought of him too.”
“I feel like Zhao Lei was deliberately sent to Super Boy by Shen Qing as a cavalry unit, just to disgust Mango TV and Tianyu, since they bullied Zhang Liangying?”
“Damn, that’s very possible! Last year Liangying was made difficult by Mango TV, Shen Qing must have been unhappy, maybe he really signed a singer with potential to challenge them, and then after breaking into the finals, he’ll cancel Mango TV’s invitation!”
“Shen Qing is so cunning, it’s a wonder he could think of that.”
“He also needs to have the strength. These two folk songs, Anhe Bridge and Painting, are not songs that ordinary people can write. It must be Shen Qing.”
“……”
Not long after the competition ended, the news that ‘Zhao Lei is Shen Qing’s cavalry’ spread on Baidu’s Zhang Liangying Bar, without any evidence.
The key point is that many media outlets reposted it with embellishments.
Shocking! The man behind Zhao Lei, who shone brightly on the Super Boy stage, is actually him!
Zhao Lei from the Chengdu Division of Super Boy is actually that man’s soldier!
Zhao Lei hasn’t signed a contract, is Mango TV repeating its mistakes?
……
For a time.
Shen Qing inexplicably became the focus.
Just before he recorded the first stop of the Come On! Boys national finals that evening, media even specifically came to interview him.
“Shen Qing, is the rumor true? Are you really the mastermind behind Zhao Lei? Are you trying to get revenge on Mango TV? How do you plan to retaliate?”
“Nonsense. Mango TV is where Liangying’s dream began. How could I, Shen Qing, possibly retaliate against Mango TV? I’m grateful enough.”
“Although Zhao Lei didn’t explicitly say it was you last night, he personally admitted that you are his idol, and you, Zhao Lei, are from Beijing, and your and Liangying’s studio are also in Beijing. Are these all coincidences… How do you explain this?”
“If I remember correctly, your Sohu is also in Beijing, right?”
“Uh… that’s not the same concept. Shen Qing, don’t go, come back quickly, say something!”
“……”
These media outlets just know how to stir up trouble.
And they stir it up quite a lot.
Although Zhao Lei only said ‘The person who wrote songs for me is a musical genius’ and ‘My idol is Shen Qing’, the media’s focus all pointed to Shen Qing.
Am I the only genius?
This is outrageous!!
That day, the entire internet was filled with this one piece of news.
Even the major news of Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower crew moving to Hengdian couldn’t snatch the headlines of major websites like Sina.
Zhang Yimou arrived in Hengdian that evening, had a few drinks with Jay Chou, Chow Yun-fat, and Gong Li, and even called Shen Qing:
“Little Shen, I’m happy that you can call me Uncle Zhang; but I’m unhappy that you stole Uncle Zhang’s headline, and I’ve been feeling down all day. Uncle Zhang is under a lot of pressure… After all, it’s a 360 million project. If it doesn’t break even, who will invest in me in the future?”
“Moreover, Uncle Zhang is the chief director of the Olympic Games opening ceremony and will soon be in Beijing to oversee things. The pressure is even greater, and my hair has turned much whiter. Are you interested in coming to help Uncle?”
Look at this…
It’s all the media’s fault for making Director Zhang so angry.
Although Zhao Lei is indeed Shen Qing’s person, how can it be said that he deliberately disgusted Mango TV? It was clearly a frontal charge!
This is called chivalry.
Even if Lei Zi fell on the road, it could still show Shen Qing’s attitude.
Facing Tianyu’s exploitative contract, he, Shen Qing, bravely says no on behalf of Zhang Liangying, “Damn it, how dare you bully my Liangying? Just wait! When I become awesome, I’ll come find trouble with you!”
Under this overwhelming heat, when Come On! Boys aired live that evening, a lot of onlookers and gossipers flooded in.
The show’s ratings inexplicably increased significantly.
“Haha, look how happy Shen Qing is smiling. Zhao Lei must be his person, that’s for sure.”
“Holy crap, I just realized Come On! Boys is quite good too. Shen Qing is a judge for the finals, Liangying occasionally makes a guest appearance, and the contestants are all amazing.”
“I’ve said it long ago that Come On! Boys contestants are better than Super Boy. Zhang Jie, Li Yifeng, Yu Haoming, Jing Boran, Wei Chen, Ma Tianyu, Xu Song, they are all so handsome, and their singing is no worse than Super Boy.”
“Especially that Xu Song, he sang Snow on the Broken Bridge tonight, it was amazing, but his singing skills are very average.”
“Why can’t I find the audio source for Snow on the Broken Bridge on Baidu yet?”
“Bro, wake up, this song was just sung tonight, it’s a premiere. No matter how fast Baidu is, it won’t have it tonight, right?”
“Never mind, buddy, I found the audio source for Snow on the Broken Bridge.”
“……”
The next day, the top 15 list for Come On! Boys was released, and riding on Shen Qing’s public opinion momentum, it made a small headline.
People then realized that Shen Qing had a hand in both Super Boy and Come On! Boys.
And.
In the Absolute Singing national competition to be held in Nanjing soon, there was also Shen Qing’s person, that 16-year-old beautiful girl from Hong Kong, Deng Ziqi.
Although Little Deng is young, her singing is not hesitant at all. She easily won the championship of the Nanjing Division for the women’s group and advanced to the national finals.
So in the following days, the news and public opinion fermented more and more intensely.
Everyone suddenly realized that Shen Qing had quietly placed his artists in Super Boy and Absolute Singing – Zhao Lei and Deng Ziqi.
Although there was no direct evidence proving Zhao Lei was Shen Qing’s person, all signs pointed to him. If he wasn’t your person, he was treated as your person.
Sina published three consecutive news articles:
Chilling! If Zhao Lei is truly Shen Qing’s person, then Shen Qing has a hand in the talent shows of the three major TV stations in 2006, and he is playing a bigger game!
Deng Ziqi will be paired with a male contestant next week to jointly challenge the finals. Looking forward to Shen Qing writing a duet love song for her.
Shen Qing is using talent shows to pave the way for his artists. The editor predicts that the Chinese music scene in 2007 may usher in a ‘Shen Qing Year’.
Shen Qing really wants to call the editor of Sina and tell them that if they have no performance metrics, they can report some gossip news. Why are they picking on me so much!?
But he also has to thank him.
Due to Shen Qing’s high popularity, he seized the opportunity to release the explosive news that he was ‘preparing Zhang Liangying’s new album’. For a moment, the declining popularity soared again.
Fans were exceptionally excited.
“Holy crap, Shen Qing is too prolific.”
“Haha, two albums a year, who else can do that?”
“Singers should learn from Zhang Liangying and release two albums a year.”
“Shen Qing is too awesome. I wonder what songs will be released this time? Will it be related to the Olympic Games? After all, the Olympics are in two years.”
In an era of fierce competition in the Chinese music scene, having enough representative works is the key.
Therefore, Shen Qing chose to release another album for Zhang Liangying in the second half of the year to create a quantitative advantage.
Otherwise, as the record market deteriorates in a few years, it will be difficult to maintain sales above 2 million, let alone break 3 million.
In fact, releasing three albums in two years is the norm for singers.
There are also amazing individuals who release two albums a year.
She is Stefanie Sun.
On June 9, 2000, Stefanie Sun released her debut album Stefanie Sun, and on December 7 of the same year, she released her second album My Desired Happiness.
These two albums allowed her to achieve ‘six platinum’ crowns in Taiwan (100,000 copies is one platinum), which was unprecedented and likely unrepeatable.
Zhang Liangying’s main stage is in Mainland China, and she can completely replicate Stefanie Sun’s miracle and achieve a ‘six platinum’ crown in Mainland China (1 million copies is one platinum).
At that time, the pattern of ‘Eastern Sun, Western Ying’ would be officially formed.
Don’t underestimate this title.
Once the reputation of ‘Eastern Sun, Western Ying’ is established, people will still remember it 20 or even 30 years later.
Just like ‘Zhou, Wang, Tao, Lin’ and ‘Four Dans, Double Bings’, even if some of them have faded, fans will still remember them when they talk about the entertainment industry of the past.
And.
With Shen Qing around, the title ‘Eastern Sun, Western Ying’ will soon be upgraded to ‘Second Class Private Ying’, no, it should be publicly announced as ‘Heavenly Queen Ying’.
