Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 160 Amateur killer is afraid of contact with amateurs

When I was buying coffee in a cafe near the advertising shooting location, I met a junior schoolmate whom I had met once at the Beijing Film Academy. It can only be regarded as a small episode in her life.

Although it was a bit unexpected, I didn’t expect to meet her outside of school, even though the winter vacation hasn’t ended yet.

But that's about it.

After all, under the high-intensity malicious marketing of his rivals, the entire fan circle now knows that he is an amateur killer. Naturally, he cannot casually contact amateurs in public, so as to avoid being caught by them and traced back to another amateur Zhou Ye in the school.

Frankly speaking, Shen Juan has always been indifferent to those romance rumors that have no substantial evidence.

Anyway, most of the male traffic stars have similar scandals. As long as they insist that they are fake and say there is no such thing, fans will choose to believe them out of self-deception.

Moreover, he has opened up new tracks overseas and initially established international influence and publicity functions.

So even if someone is offended or something really happens, there will be someone who will come forward to reduce the negative impact of the incident.

But for Zhou Ye, if it were revealed that he had even the slightest possibility of being in a relationship with a popular star, he would probably be torn to pieces by his angry girlfriends and female fans.

Ordinary people who have no company to rely on or capital to protect them have almost no chance of surviving the overwhelming and exaggerated online violence from top fans.

So not only for his own sake, but also to protect Xiaoye and Xiaotian from being harmed by his fans, he had to continue to keep this secret relationship a secret.

It is indeed refreshing when a top star officially announces his relationship.

He can even be called a "real man".

But the consequences are endless.

Many people's lives will undergo tremendous changes.

Next, continue working according to the schedule.

During the filming of the commercial, Yangjin Zhuoma took advantage of the time when the makeup artist was touching up Shen Juan's makeup during the break to discuss with him the selection of songs for the third single of the album.

The scheduled release date is almost here, but Shen Juan has yet to give a definite answer.

In fact, except for the last MV which was temporarily inserted to attract traffic for company colleague Cheng Xiao, all other preparations have been completed.

This means that this large-scale full-length album, which includes sixteen singles of different styles (including several already released singles), is almost complete.

Moreover, any of the singles has the ability to be released in advance and bring attention to the album.

For example, he originally planned to release "Way I Am" as the third single, but with the great success of the first two singles "If I Can't Have You" and "In My Blood" as well as the movie promotional song "Pray For Me" in Europe and the United States, which helped him initially establish his popularity and accumulate a certain fan base, the original release plan naturally had to be changed accordingly.

So the options before Shen Juan became:

A. Release "Way I Am" as originally planned, continue to cater to the musical aesthetics of European and American audiences, lay a solid foundation for entering the United States, and make the creative talent's personality deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Character is very important.

Because it can help artists and singers quickly leave a memorable mark in the minds of ordinary netizens who are accustomed to eating fast food.

Shen Juan’s current team is helping him establish his image as a “creative talent” and “male model singer” in Europe and the United States.

The former is not uncommon, and many singers have this title when they first debut. Even if they just release two self-composed songs, they can call themselves creative talents.

But the latter is quite special.

After all, the European and American music scene is a mixed bag, with rough middle-aged men, young gays and gangsters prevalent. Singers like Shen Jing who have good looks and a good figure, and who also take the route of a sophisticated and high-end fashion icon, are really rare.

What's more, he possesses the "exotic" charm that no white man has in the eyes of white women.

Therefore, this also became another important way for him to attract fans and expand his popularity among Generation Z in the early stage.

B. Release "Dancing With A Stranger" in collaboration with girl group member Normani or "Beautiful People" in collaboration with Khalid, so that the two rising "obscure" stars can keep each other warm.

(The former was originally released in 2019, and was on the list for a total of 44 weeks, with a peak ranking of 7th and 14th on the annual list.)
(The latter was originally released in 2019, and was on the list for a total of 20 weeks, with a peak ranking of 13th and 50th on the annual list)

If possible, you can even take this opportunity to market a wave of brotherhood that comes from humble beginnings, rises from the bottom and spans the Pacific Ocean. Americans love this the most.

But the problem is that they are really unfamiliar.

For Shen Juan, the purpose of these two people is actually to help him have a few black friends, so that when he says "that" in Chinese in the future, those media with ulterior motives will not use it to make articles and accuse him of racism.

So instead of selling brotherhood to attract attention and create hype, his preferred way is actually to create topics by quarreling with each other.

It’s a pity that the domestic public opinion environment does not allow public figures to output negative emotions and negative content to society. Otherwise, he would even want to follow the example of the Kardashian family and find a few singers in the European and American music scene who have a bad image and are suspected of discriminating against Asians to battle with.

Fighting is the main theme of the American entertainment industry.

Almost every once in a while you can see in the news that someone is fighting with someone else, or someone else is making peace with someone else.

This thing is similar to the domestic entertainment stars' joint business of promoting CP, and it has long evolved into a business in which both parties tacitly get what they need and entertain the public.

But the problem is that there may be a diversion of heat, and of course there may also be a situation where 1+1>2.

The fluctuations are relatively large and not very stable.

C. Release "Seven", the music video of which was previously shot with Nazha in Los Angeles.

(The original Time and Space was released in 2023, and it was on the charts for a total of 13 weeks, with the highest ranking being No. 1 and No. 82 on the Singles Annual Chart)

Although the original singer of this song, Jungkook, was more or less influenced by European and American music ideas while traveling to the United States with the group, even the production team of this song are all Americans.

But after all, he is an East Asian who grew up in South Korea, and similar to Wu Jiaheng, the American production team provided him with a large number of song demos for him to choose from, so he was able to take into account the musical aesthetics of East Asian fans when selecting songs.

D. Released "Golden Hour", which perfectly combines Chinese melody (the pentatonic scale used in piano is very East Asian) with Western melody, and became the background music of countless videos. It also achieved good results in Europe and the United States. But the problem is that the aesthetic trend of the American music scene changes very quickly, and this song happened to be produced by the era of friendship. It is hard to say whether it can achieve the same level of results as the original time and space if it is released four or five years in advance.

Moreover, Shen Juan did not prepare an MV for this song, which naturally put him at a disadvantage in terms of streaming data and initial popularity.

In addition, there is actually a song in this album called "2 soon" which is specifically designed to cater to the aesthetic tastes of East Asian listeners.

However, this song has limited popularity in Europe and the United States and is not as popular as in East Asia. It is also not suitable to be released as a warm-up single before the album is released.

So looking at it comprehensively:

Maybe it’s best to release “Seven” first.

At least the song quality is pretty good, the MV is interesting, and there are handsome men and beautiful women in it.

It is a standard commercial song of above-average quality, with a catchy melody that caters to the public's aesthetic taste as much as possible.

Therefore, even without the support of the Pokémon IP, it might be possible to break through the 10 million mark.

Time has come to Women's Day.

Shen Juan had just finished shooting the official endorsement materials for Snickers in the afternoon, and immediately took a car to the recording location of "Idol Producer", Langfang Dachang Film and Television Town.

The recordings for today and tomorrow are both related to the third performance stage: practice and rehearsal today, and live performance tomorrow.

There is no need to explain in detail how important the performance stage is. Anyway, the ranking announcement of each program is scheduled within a few days after the end of the performance stage.

So it can be said that the performance stage directly determines whether this group of trainees can be seen by the audience, whether they can get their support, and go further in the show.

Because of this, every trainee who stayed during this period worked very hard, even harder than when they were preparing for their first performance.

After all, having truly experienced the feeling of being on the verge of fame and being eliminated, I'm afraid no one can feel at ease going back to the dormitory to sleep before midnight.

After arriving at Langfang Film and Television Town, he first went to the pre-recording room to re-record for nearly half an hour, sharing his personal views on several popular trainees.

"Although I missed the trainees' second performance due to work reasons, I have actually been paying attention to everyone's performance."

"Contestants like Cai Xukun, Justin, and Zhu Zhengting actually performed very well."

"I know that what I said will definitely cause controversy after this interview is broadcast. People will say that I am not fair as a mentor and that I favor my friends."

"But the problem is, these trainees really performed very well. If they didn't perform well, why did they receive so many votes and love from fans?"

"Then I believe that the audience who have watched the show have also seen Fan Chengcheng's progress. The most common phrase I have heard from other teachers during this period is that Fan Chengcheng has made great progress and he really has great potential."

Except for KunKun, most people are cueing their own family members.

But Shen Juan has nothing to fear as he is upright. The trainees sent by Le Hua to participate in the competition are indeed much better than those from small companies in all aspects. This also gives him a legitimate reason to open a back door for his people.

Then he had dinner with other mentors who came to the recording site. After chatting for a while about each other's recent situation, he entered the mentor acceptance phase before the performance.

The format of the third public competition is that thirty-five trainees choose original songs to perform based on their comprehensive rankings.

But some groups have more people, and some have fewer people.

The program team requires that each group must have seven people.

Then the interesting things happened.

That is, Cai Xukun, who is currently leading the online popularity vote by a huge margin and whose super topic sign-ins have even reached 15, surpassing his mentor Zhang Yixing, was kicked out by trainees from the same group, Le Hua and Kun Yin, who teamed up to manipulate votes.

This made Kun Kun, who had just been comforting Qian Zhenghao, who was crying and asking him to keep trying and not give up, embarrassed.

Okay, okay, a group of people teamed up to mess with me!

So I'm the clown who was completely clueless throughout the whole process and was played around by everyone?
So KunKun, who was still in litigation with his former employer at the time, once again intuitively felt the filth and darkness in this circle, and made up his mind to climb higher.

Even if it means unscrupulous means, I will do it.

Because only in this way can he realize his dream of shining on the stage like GD, and only in this way can he keep up with the footsteps of his old friend Shen Juan.

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Beijing Film Academy 602 dormitory WeChat group small theater
Zhang Jingyi: [I met Shen Juan today! ]

Qiu Tian: [Jingyi, have you finally fallen in love with Shen Juan and become his dream girl? Woohoo, this is so rare, so touching.]

Zhang Jingyi: [.]

Zhang Jingyi: [I am serious.]

Qiu Tian: [Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did meet Shen Juan. I think I will meet Shen Juan tonight as well.]

Zhang Jingyi: [If you keep being so sarcastic, I will get angry! I really ran into him in the coffee shop today! ]

Qiu Tian sent a video link from Bilibili.

[Shen Juan's dream material/Dream Girl: Although I am not a plumber, I will squeeze Alex's pipes dry]

Zhang Jingyi: [! ]

　Thank you all for your recommendation tickets and monthly ticket subscription support!
　　Thanks to Li Zi Xiao Xiao Cheng for the 1000 points reward for the Cheng Xiao character!
　　Thanks to Penguin Fan for the 5000-point reward for Zhang Jingyi's character!

　　Thanks to Andersen xv Fairy Tales and Jayc3 for their contributions!
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)