Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 121 New song released, controversial

I returned to Beijing on the 1st and stayed at home for a day.

On the 2nd, he went to Langfang Film and Television Town as a music mentor to guide the trainees' performance stage rehearsals.

On the 3rd and 4th, the team members were given a short vacation. Shen Juan went to the coastal city of Qingdao alone to travel and relax, enjoying the feeling of a private date with the earth.

During the visit, he went to a hand-brewed coffee shop with stylish decoration and delicious taste. He also posted the check-in photos on Weibo and Instagram, and artificially created a new internet celebrity check-in point like Lu Han.

At the same time, it also attracted countless netizens to burst into laughter and ridicule: He is worthy of being Taobit, he is so capable and talented even in the field of abstraction, Shen Juan is still too comprehensive.

(Guess without a prize, which singer is in the picture?)
On January 1, at 5: US time on Friday, and : noon China time on Friday, Shen Juan’s much-anticipated new English song "In My Blood" was finally released.

This is a very important thing for many people, including but not limited to fans, media, black fans, music critics, music bloggers and even Shen Juan's opponents.

So naturally I started listening as soon as possible.

Then many people's eyes lit up.

This is another song that instantly becomes a hit without any prelude.

"Help me, it's like the walls are caving in." Help me, it's like the walls around me collapsed and trapped me here.

“Sometimes I feel like giving up.” How many times have I felt like I couldn’t hold on any longer.

It is still very familiar to the audience, very recognizable and you can tell it is Shen Juan's top voice and tone at one listen.

However, unlike the previous song "If I Can't Have You", the lyrics of this song are obviously more focused on the self, with more feelings about growing up and the confusion in the process, rather than just talking about love.

And the arrangement is also very interesting.

It starts with gentle and soothing guitar music, then as the tempo of the song quickens and drum beats are added, the singing gradually becomes hurried, and in the end it even becomes a hoarse shout.

It's as if telling a story through singing, gradually pushing the emotions to a climax.

“Sometimes I feel like giving up.” How many times have I felt like I couldn’t hold on any longer.

"But I just can't, it isn't in my blood!" But I can't give up, the courage to persist is surging in my blood.

"It isn't in my blood!"

It is not in my nature to give up.

If the drum beats of the first verse are like the collapse of the inner emotional world, leaving only the echo of the heartbeat.

“I need somebody now!”

"Someone to help me out!"

“I need somebody now.”

Then the powerful drum beats like rain in the second verse highlight the singer's condemnation of this negative emotion, building up momentum for the desperate cry in the chorus.

After listening to the whole song, some listeners were still stunned and couldn't come back to their senses. They only felt that the chorus part "It isn't in my blood" was playing in a loop in their minds.

This song, how do I say it?
Although it is not one of those songs that are very popular on the market today with light production and heavy melody, the melody of the chorus is particularly catchy. You can tell at first listen that it conforms to the aesthetic taste of Chinese people. It will become a brainwashing song that will become popular all over the country and then have a TikTok flavor.

But this pop single with rock elements that Shen Juan has never touched before is definitely good to listen to.

It is definitely an excellent work.

And the most important, crucial and special thing is that this song does not have too many industrial traces.

For example, many K-pop idol groups and many domestic popular singers, such as Wu Jiaheng, have released English works with obvious industrial traces.

Just like some novels readers can tell at a glance that they were written by a studio, some songs listeners can tell at a glance that they were mass-produced by European and American production teams.

Such songs are often quite good when you listen to them for the first time. After all, songs produced by a professional team at great expense can at least ensure that the quality is not bad.

However, the essence of the song is ultimately biased towards Europe and the United States, which does not conform to the aesthetic tastes of most Chinese people.

Then, because there are too many homogeneous works in Europe and the United States, when there is good pork to eat, not many people are willing to listen to songs produced on an assembly line.

So it is often difficult to please both sides.

The only purpose is to create an international image, making it easier for him to brag about increasing his pay and taking endorsements when he returns to China.

But Shen Juan is different.

His works are really popular in Europe and America.

Anyway, many netizens in the European and American music circles expressed their opinions online after listening to Shen Juan’s new song:
If they hadn't known in advance that it was Shen Juan's new song, they would never have thought that it was sung by a Chinese singer.

In their view, it is really rare to do this.

After all, musical aesthetics is just like everyone's taste in food, and it is difficult to correct.

When Chinese food goes to any country, it has to make changes to adapt to the local eating habits and tastes.

The same is true for music. Fortunately, Shen Juan has always been clear about what he wants, which is to enter the world's largest record market and the center of world pop music, the United States, to establish global influence and eat the food of fans around the world.

So instead of pretending to be great and glorious by bringing foreigners to experience Chinese culture, releasing Chinese English songs that are highly homogenized in Europe and the United States and can only be popular within domestic fan circles, and calling it a combination of Chinese and Western cultures, it is better to learn from the barbarians to defeat them, cater to the aesthetic tastes of white people first and then make them become your fans.

Since being neither east nor west often makes you lose the favor?
Then he might as well westernize completely.

Of course, such things are bound to cause controversy and it is impossible for them to be recognized and liked by everyone.

For example, some music critics and music bloggers who previously only focused on reviewing Chinese music have expressed doubts.

They said that their first feeling after listening to Shen Juan's new song was that it was very strange. They thought that this was not a popular melody in China and that it would most likely be unpopular in the domestic market. No one would support it except fans, and it did not meet their psychological expectations.

There are also a small number of people who, either because they received bad money or in order to get some black traffic, chose to take a different approach and attack Shen Juan from the angle that he is not a pure Chinese singer.

He said that he received training as a K-pop idol before his debut, and that the hip-hop that helped him become famous was an imported culture from America. In an interview, he said that his favorite music style, R&B, was also created by black artists whose ancestors were captured and taken to America to pick cotton.
To put it simply, it means that he is seriously influenced by Western music ideas, is not a pure Chinese, and cannot represent the Chinese music scene. All his achievements have nothing to do with Chinese singers, and should be attributed to European and American music.

Fans naturally responded angrily and speechlessly to such outrageous and abstract remarks.

[According to what you said, these singers in our country are all rare. Don't you know that pop music originated in the United States? And it is well known that football originated in China. According to what you said, all the people who play football in the world are spiritual Chinese? ]

All in all, the fan circle is always noisy, and topics related to Shen Juan are always hotly discussed.

As the first person in the domestic entertainment industry to effectively enter the US and hopefully establish global influence through music, his every move is the focus of everyone's attention, and anything he does has the potential to rise to the level of a hot search.

In a sense, he has even become a representative figure of China's external exports in the minds of many people.

Over the past few decades, so many well-known actors and singers in China have gone to the United States with their dreams in mind, trying to make a name for themselves there and become world-famous.

But in the end, most of them returned empty-handed.

Shen Juan was one of the few people who got to eat crabs.

It is the only one after entering the streaming media era.

Therefore, some people regard him as their spiritual sustenance, and expect that his future development will get better and better and gain more support and favor from foreigners.

To put it bluntly, he longs for recognition from foreigners and wants to satisfy his own desires through Shen Juan, the embodiment of their perfect ideal.

For this reason, he even became his fanatical follower.

Who would have thought that among the fan group that changed the IP to provide Shen Juan with streaming data in the US, there is a small portion of men who don’t usually hang out in fan circles or pay attention to celebrities?
Some foreigners, on the other hand, regard him as a symbol of China to the outside world, believing that he more or less represents the image of a part of Chinese youth, and are very curious about him.

Although Shen Juan had no intention of becoming a representative or a leader, he did not particularly desire recognition from the white people.

In fact, he desires all praise, appreciation and admiration equally, whether they are from Chinese, white Asians, or Nicolas, whom he doesn't like very much.

This is the deepest need of human nature.

But the fact is, he cannot decide what kind of people like him, nor can he forcibly expel others from his fan club and say that they are not his fans.

Therefore, he could only accept all these positive and negative things and, through various means, try his best to transform them into nutrients to promote his own progress and growth.

While the song "In My Blood" was undergoing a heated discussion in China, triggering a war among fans, Shen Juanren was already shopping and relaxing abroad without wearing a mask.

But it's not because of work, but because
Well, it can be considered a job.

The second phase of Jay Chou's Strongest on Earth World Tour will kick off in Singapore on January 1.

As a special guest, Shen Juan will perform the world premiere of his new song "In My Blood" on stage.

"Although most people are praising you now, there are also people who scold you. Anyway, this is the situation. Because of the success of your previous song and your good popularity, this new song will definitely receive mostly positive reviews in China, but it is unlikely to become a big hit. You should understand why."

In the lounge, Yang Yang Jin was cutting her fingernails.

Shen Juan was lying on the sofa nearby watching a movie.

Zhou Ye said some time ago that he and his roommate went to the cinema to watch the latest movie "Paddington Bear 2".

But since Shen Juan didn't have time to go to the cinema, he simply searched for resources on the Internet, and then accidentally discovered "Teddy Bear", which instantly opened the door to a new world, and he shared it with Tian Xiwei.

He thought Oda would like this tune very much.

"It doesn't matter whether it's a hit or not. Xue Zhiqian's "Actor" was so popular back then, but his status didn't rise that much. This song was originally aimed at the European and American markets, so we still have to look at foreign reviews."

“The reviews abroad seem to be pretty good. Many media music critics and YouTube bloggers released their reviews and reaction videos as soon as possible,” Yangjin Zhuoma replied.

“Because the company pays enough.”

"That's partly the reason, but partly it's because of you."

"Your first English single has made it into the top 40 of the B-list Hot 100. In the eyes of many European and American netizens, you are already a rising new singer. In addition, you are a very rare Chinese singer in the European and American entertainment circles. Many people are curious about you. So you are not an unknown person. You have to have confidence in yourself."

"If I Can't Have You" moved up a notch on the B Chart Hot 37 this week, reaching No. .

But this is probably the limit of this song.

In an era when the proportion of streaming media scores has not yet increased, it is so difficult to do without the support of radio data.

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(End of this chapter)