I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 15: Now you even want to control my music?
Well, the chain of contempt does exist...

Stars, idols, actors, internet celebrities.

Internet celebrities are always at the bottom of the contempt chain.

This is normal. Most internet celebrities are amateurs, and the reasons for their popularity are mostly accidental. It is because certain characteristics of their own are magnified under the influence of the Internet, which is in line with the netizens' psychology of aesthetics, ugliness, entertainment, stimulation, imagination, and spectatorship.

Internet celebrities live on the Internet, while celebrities need to face the public.

The living environment is different.

Celebrities need to control their diet, but influencers don’t…

The media resources that celebrities have are not comparable to those of internet celebrities!
Another point is that internet celebrities are amateurs who became famous by chance and have a huge influence that they cannot control. Some of their own shortcomings will also be magnified. Add in the fact that they don’t have a public relations team, so how can their reputation be good?
This is understandable...

Of course, Shen Liang is not just an ordinary internet celebrity. He has a company behind him and he also has his own works...

Coupled with "The Coming One", his popularity is no less than that of ordinary stars.

“Will you continue your career as an internet celebrity?”

"I will broadcast three times a week... This is my promise to my brothers... Unless I am too busy..."

"Most of my fans are male... I know this because when I live stream, I mainly talk about things from a male perspective. I am a man, and I know what boys are interested in..."

"I feel like I have benefited from the gender divide. There are too many female boxers on the Internet, so I was praised as a master just for saying a few words from a male perspective... The key point is that I didn't say much. I just said 'Men should be nicer to themselves', 'You have to love yourself before you can love others' and other nonsense..."

"Goal..." Shen Liang hesitated for a moment, then told the truth: "I don't have any long-term goals... I just wanted to join in the fun when I first entered this circle, and later I wanted to make more money. At this stage... I probably hope that my EP will be liked by many people, and that the movie I star in can be successfully filmed and released..."

"Yes, I joined a play called "The Wandering Earth"... I really like the original work by Liu Cixin. The name "The Wandering Earth" is full of oriental charm. When foreigners encounter a crisis on Earth, they will definitely flee from the Earth. Only Chinese people would have this idea of ​​taking the Earth with them..."

……

"Tomorrow's Son" awkwardly bumped into "The Rap of China"...

The popularity of Instructor Wu alone directly defeats all the members of "The Next Generation of Idols" combined!
Most importantly, underground rap has actually developed to a relatively mature stage now - in fact, Chinese hip-hop music has gradually emerged from the underground. Modern Sky, China's largest independent new music record company, established the hip-hop label MDSK in 2016, with more than 33 labels nationwide.

Coupled with iQiyi's 200 million resources and Wu Yifan's own popularity, it is simply unstoppable.

Even Feng Xiaogang came to take advantage of the popularity and said he was going to make a movie about hip-hop...

For example, on Weibo’s call list, PGONE, one of the champions, got third place amidst a group of popular idols…

In the front are Yi Yang Qianxi and Yang Yang, followed by Zhang Yixing and Wang Yuan. To be able to make it into the top three in front of this group of people, the fans are really strong!

Of course, when underground rappers came to the surface with the slogan "real", they did attract a lot of people...

But there is a difference between the reality that the public is willing to accept and your reality!
What the public is willing to accept is the kind of Reality that is as fierce as a tiger in heart and can sniff out roses, rather than the Reality that involves taking drugs, swearing, using foul language, and hooking up with other women!

In fact, violence, drugs and other things are rampant in the underground rap scene...

If this thing is not eliminated, do you want to integrate into the mainstream?
how can that be possible?
But hip-hop is really popular at this stage, so Ma Hao suggested that Shen Liang write a hip-hop style song...

Oh, Ma Hao came to Qingdao to discuss EP matters with Shen Liang.

Suggest adding a hip hop song...

Shen Liang directly refused: "Didn't Ma Boqian say that he wanted to make hip-hop style music?"

Ma Boqian is also a contestant of "Tomorrow's Son", known for his rap...

Shen Liang commented to his face that "his rap level is comparable to Deyunshe's Sulaibao!" In fact, he overestimated him. Sulaibao at least has a sense of rhythm, but his singing style has no musicality at all. It's more like reciting lyrics than rapping...

However, this person is very interesting!
Believe everything, easy to fool...

During the entire recording period of "The Next Generation of Idols", apart from Mao Buyi, only Ma Boqian could say a few words to Shen Liang!

Ma Hao explained: "…I heard from Li Wei that you sang a song that dissed the hip-hop community in "Mars Intelligence Agency"…He said it was pretty good…"

"...That's just nonsense, it can't be considered a song at all...No, the EP has five songs, they've already been confirmed, don't change it!"

"What about the song 'A Lin Daiyu Fell from the Sky' that you sang during the live broadcast that day?"

Shen Liang was surprised: "...You watched my live broadcast?"

"How can I have the time? They told me so... By the way, you are quite popular now, be careful... don't say anything out loud! What about 'I hate slow variety shows, a group of billionaires acting as the proletariat, using golden hoes and sickles to interpret that labor is the most glorious...' If you say that, how can I arrange for you to go to "Longing"..."

"I'm so popular now that 'Longing' invited me?"

"…They want to invite a permanent resident, and we want to help you get one…"

Shen Liang quickly shook his head: "Don't do that, I can't stand seniors who are addicted to pretending..."

"Teacher Huang Lei is pretty good..."

"Come on, you tell me he's good when he made 'Midnight Diner' and 'The Trouble Family'? Especially 'The Trouble Family', the most basic images and tones of that movie are a mess... I don't believe a good artist can come up with such a work, it's not even as good as He Jiong's 'Gardenia Blossoms'. The only explanation is that it's a scam!"

Hearing this, Ma Hao quickly asked: "...You didn't tell these words to anyone else, right?"

"No... I'm just telling you something, we're just chatting!"

"You must remember that you are an artist now. No matter how dissatisfied you are, you have to hold it in..."

"I know…"

"It seems that I really need to assign you an assistant..."

"...Indeed," Shen Liang nodded, "I am becoming more and more popular now. You have to arrange someone to keep an eye on me, so that I don't say the wrong thing...By the way, I plan to directly close the reward channel during the next live broadcast."

"Oh, you figured it out, are you ready to make money from this circle?"

"I shot a magazine yesterday and a commercial this afternoon, earning over 30... After doing the math, I realized there's really no need to live on tips from netizens!"

"30 in the account? Isn't it 60?"

Shen Liang immediately responded: "The company takes 50%... What's wrong, do you also think the company's cut is a bit harsh?"

“…Take your time…”

The contract issue is not urgent for the time being, it was signed for eight years...

There are still five years to go!
Shen Liang changed the subject: "Have you been to the studio of The Wandering Earth?"

"No...what?"

"At first I thought I was just acting in front of a green screen, but when I went to the set, I found that almost everything that could be real was real. Not only was it real, but there were also traces of it being used, just like a real scene..."

(End of this chapter)