Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 410 Song Selection by Female Vocalist
Wu Zhuorong ranks second on the Forbes Celebrity List

Abel Wu Zhuo tops the list of highest-paid Chinese celebrities with an annual income of 4.1 million RMB.

The Most Popular Celebrity of 2009

The media's evaluation of Wu Zhuo has been getting higher and higher.

After several years in the industry, he has become one of the most influential artists in China.

Whether in the film or music industry, you can't ignore him.

The media frenzy led to a surge in commercial performance offers for Wu Zhuo, who had just returned from his concert.

However, he declined all of these offers.

He plans to come back and rest for a few days before making final preparations for his album production.

Currently, most of the songs for his new album have been recorded, and only some post-production work remains.

The only song that wasn't recorded is "Fate Bridge".

This song requires a male-female duet, but Wu Zhuo's team has not yet officially decided who will sing with him.

Speaking of the chorus of this song.

Last month, HIM International Music sent audition invitations to several companies in China.

The female vocals in this song need to be very powerful, and among the female singers Wu Zhuo knows, there are none of this type.

Therefore, Wu Zhuo chose to extend invitations to external companies.

Companies that extend invitations can have their female singers record a demo and send it to Wu Zhuo.

Wu Zhuo made his selection from among them.

To be honest, only a few people in China, such as Wu Zhuo and Jay Chou, can do this kind of thing.

If an average singer dared to do this, they would probably be laughed at by other record companies.

Only a few people, such as Wu Zhuo, are famous enough to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing with them.

In fact, to a certain extent, countless singers in the industry want to collaborate with them.

Singers of Wu Zhuo's caliber generally garner a lot of attention when female singers collaborate with them.

For some singers whose careers have faded, there's even a chance for a comeback.

Wu Zhuo extended invitations to Emperor Entertainment Group, EE-Media, and several record companies in Taiwan.

Dozens of female singers have recorded demos for us.

Wu Zhuo took these demos and listened to them one by one without listening.

Blind listening is a common way of selecting songs in the industry.

This method is often used for selecting singers for film and television songs.

Many film and television productions, after commissioning songwriters, will send lyrics and music to the record companies that collaborate on the soundtrack production.

Have the singers under the record company record demos and submit them.

Then the production team will choose not to look up who the singer is, and just listen.

Ultimately, the best version is selected from among them.

The biggest advantage of blind listening is that it avoids preconceived notions.

For singing songs for film and television dramas, preconceived notions are a taboo.

Sometimes, if you know the singer's name and they are famous, you might subconsciously think their version is better.

If a singer isn't very famous, you might think they're not good enough.

But these are all subjective opinions.

A truly good voice transcends the distinction between good and bad people, and between famous and unknown individuals.

Some songs may not sound right when sung by famous singers, but they can sound much better when sung by newcomers.

"Abel, listen to this version, I think it's really good."

Because there were too many submissions, Wu Zhuo and Shi Rencheng had to listen to them separately.

Around lunchtime, while Wu Zhuo was still fretting about not having chosen a good female voice, Shi Rencheng walked over with his phone.

He sat down directly in front of Wu Zhuo, opened his phone, and clicked play.

"Smoke signals stretch for miles, burial grounds lie scattered," "In this chaotic world, lonely souls go unvisited."

"Huh?" After hearing just two sentences, Wu Zhuo showed an interested expression.

He discovered that the voice sounded very similar to that of Tan Weiwei, who sang this song with Wang Leehom in his previous life.

After listening carefully for a few minutes, Wu Zhuo finally confirmed that it was indeed Tan Weiwei.

"How about we use this version? Among the submissions I've submitted, I think this version best matches your requirements for a grand and historical feel."

Shi Rencheng looked at Wu Zhuo.

He has collaborated with Wu Zhuo more in recent years, and their relationship has become closer.

Compared to his previous life, he has gained far more fame and earned far more money in this life.

He won several Best Lyricist awards at this year's major music awards.

These are all Chinese versions of songs for Wu Zhuo's Korean and English songs, which he wrote the lyrics for.

Currently, he is also known as the man behind the king of pop.

He wrote Chinese versions of many of Wu Zhuo's songs, and because these songs were Wu Zhuo's songs, they were basically best-selling songs in China.

Naturally, his copyright fees also increased significantly.

It was also because of Wu Zhuo that his life became more and more prosperous. He had a very good relationship with Wu Zhuo and was very grateful to him.

He and Wu Zhuo had also agreed that if Wu Zhuo left HIM International Music to start his own company, he would join him.

"Let's choose her!"

Wu Zhuo sighed.

Fate is truly wondrous; this song, "A Bridge of Destiny," was sung as a duet by Wang Leehom and Tan Weiwei in a past life.

It seems that at the time, the producers of the movie "The Great Wall" asked female singers from record companies to audition, and Tan Weiwei was the one who stood out.

Now that the song is in my possession, I'm choosing it again, and I originally thought I would choose another female singer.

Surprisingly, after all the twists and turns, she was the one who was chosen.

"Let me see which company this singer belongs to. Wow, it's EE-Media."

Shi Rencheng began to check out the singers.

Upon finding out the other party's company, he couldn't help but joke, "Tianyu Media is really big and powerful. They can just pick out any singer of this caliber."

If this kind of singer were with HIM International Music, they would probably have been heavily promoted long ago.

But within EE-Media, they remained largely unknown.

Tan Weiwei rose to fame through the 06 Super Girl competition.

However, there were just too many contestants from Super Boy and Super Girl, so many that even though Tan Weiwei was quite talented, she ended up just sitting in the dust at EE-Media.

"By the way, did you see the drama surrounding Tianyu Media?"

Speaking of Tianyu Media, Shi Rencheng suddenly laughed:

"Chen Chusheng, the champion of the 07 Super Boy competition, was having a contract dispute with EE-Media, which caused a great uproar. For a while, they even suppressed your news."

"I looked at some of it, but didn't look into it in detail."

Wu Zhuo shook his head; he hadn't really understood this matter, neither in his past nor present life.

It's all just a matter of self-interest.

"I heard that Tianyu Media hopes Chen Chusheng will stage a scene at the New Year's Eve gala where he and his girlfriend reunite with his ex-girlfriend."

As a result, Chen Chusheng refused to accept this and withdrew from Hunan TV's Spring Festival Gala on the spot.

The accident that occurred during the last few minutes of the Hunan TV performance last night was due to this reason; those few minutes were originally supposed to be when Chen Chusheng was supposed to perform a song.

He ran away, which led to Hunan TV being attacked online, directly causing an incident.

Shi Rencheng quite enjoyed these gossips and explained them to Wu Zhuo with a smile.

"The Zhang Jie you know should thank Chen Chusheng. Now that Chen Chusheng is having a conflict with Tianyu Media, it seems that Tianyu Media is using its resources on him."

In the next few years, he might take off.

(End of this chapter)