Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 260 Chinese EP Production Planning
After returning from Paris, Shen Juan has been very busy these days because "Sunflower" has reached new heights.

During the day, I stayed on the set and filmed while learning acting under the guidance of the acting teacher.

If there are night scenes at night, I will shoot them seriously. If there are no night scenes, I have to do other work after returning home.

1. Start live streaming on Instagram to interact with European and American fans:
It can not only further expand the popularity of "Sunflower", but also attract traffic through the song and feed back to itself.

But speaking of it, Alovers in Europe and the United States really love Shen Juan, a love that is too deep.

Perhaps it is because distance creates beauty, or perhaps it is because Shen Juan only has activities in Europe and the United States a very few times a year, and every public appearance and stage performance is precious, so their fanatical star-chasing attitude towards Shen Juan is not much different from that of domestic fan circles.

It’s a pity that Shen Juan’s live broadcast on Instagram is always in the morning or afternoon in Europe and the United States. This is the only thing that makes them feel regretful and miserable.

Because they are in class during this period.

2. Use various methods to promote the personal Japanese EP that will be released in Japan later this month:

First, post a live broadcast preview on Instagram, and then explain the next arrangements during the live broadcast.

By the way, he randomly sang a few lines of the chorus to raise fans' expectations and provide marketing materials to facilitate the Universal branch's publicity and marketing in Neon after the EP is launched.

Then, he used his personal connections to contact Masaki Suda and Satomi Ishihara, who are very popular and influential in Japan, on LINE and asked them to help promote the film on social media.

3. To lay out the groundwork for the Chinese EP that will be produced after the Japanese EP promotion period ends:
For example, Shen Juan’s number of Weibo fans just exceeded 30 million a few days ago, so he naturally said that he would write a song specifically for this purpose to showcase the bond between him and his fans, as a benefit for his millions of fans.

For example, the popular fan comment after Shen Juan won the championship of "There is Hip-Hop in China" last year, "The gurgling water finally flows through the mountains" can come in handy.

For example, Shen Juan, with the reminder of his assistant, saw that Xiao Chunjuan was collectively comforting an underage fan on Weibo who was suffering from depression and had self-destructive tendencies.

So he not only logged into his main account to offer comfort and encouragement, he also planned to write a song with a light-hearted melody and put it in the EP to bring strength to those who needed it.

Then he interacted with Wang Jiaer on Weibo. Wang Jiaer first posted a message saying that Shen Juan's new song "Sunflower" was awesome! Shen Juan said that there was a chance to work together, and then the two chatted and agreed to work together on a Chinese song.

Uninformed fans and netizens sighed:
Teacher Han Hong is right, Juan Ye is really awesome, he can write songs when he wants to, and cooperate when he wants to. His sense of freedom of "I can do whatever the fuck I want" is so enviable!

10 month 8 day.

After working diligently for three days on the film crew, Shen Juan had to ask for leave and leave Chongqing again.

The 46th American Music Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on October 10th, US time.

As a nominee for the Collaboration of the Year and Most Popular Social Artist awards, Shen Juan naturally needs to attend this music awards ceremony where all the superstars gather.

On the international flight to Los Angeles, Shen Juan was organizing the specific production plan for the Chinese EP on his computer.

Which songs need MVs, which songs need to find co-actors, which songs need to find co-singers.
Although Le Hua found a capable professional team to assist him, as the leader of this EP, he needs to make many decisions himself.

As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!

With great responsibility comes great wealth!
In order to reap as much benefit from the album as possible, you should honestly squeeze out some time to consider and plan your future development process.

Shen Juan plans to put eight songs in this EP.

"A Journey on the Mountain Road" was created based on the comments of popular fans. The MV company asked Li Ziqi, who has recently become famous on YouTube, to participate in the filming. At that time, they can also use their overseas influence to promote the beautiful scenery and traditional culture of China.

The two original time-space hit singles that support the show are "Exchange the Rest of Your Life" and "Alien". Both songs have MV plots. Shen Juan will participate in the filming as the male lead, so he needs to find a suitable actress partner in the circle.

Those 90s and even 85s flowers who are trying to get a piece of Shen Juan’s traffic will probably fight over these two spots.

"If I Can" is always ready to provide gimmicks and marketing angles for "songs directly adapted into movies".

The MV can be shot directly like the movie mashup video of "Yue Lao", and actresses are also required to participate.

The MV for the Chinese collaboration single "Guo" which was seemingly casually agreed upon with Wang Jiaer on Weibo is very simple and was filmed directly in Shanghai.

"I'm Alive" brings strength to all fans and all people, and encourages everyone to live a good life.

"The Weight of Growth" focuses on personal growth.

And to add avant-garde feel to this EP, the song "Three Give Birth to All Things" uses Taoist elements in the lyrics.

By then, with the help of the company's marketing, he can respond across time and space to those sour-looking black fans who said that he was just pretending to be someone he was reading "Tao Te Ching" at the airport in front of the camera.

(Only the song "The Weight of Growth" which was not very popular in the original time and space was released in June 18, before the plot timeline. Because I just discovered this song recently and felt it was very suitable for the protagonist, I added it in, so the timeline does not match. Sorry.)

There are eight songs, and five MVs are tentatively planned to be shot.

There is no need to discuss the concept of EP. Even if we want to discuss it, it is the most common approach in the music industry of shooting the arrow first and then drawing the target.

Anyway, almost every song has a marketing hit.

As for the last song, "Three Lives and All Things", originally sung by a female singer, Liu Boxin, is it appropriate for a male singer to sing it?
In fact, as long as the vocal conditions are good, men and women can sing 99% of the songs in the world. For example, AI Bieber is almost omnipotent. At most, it just needs to change the lyrics and lower the pitch in the later stage, which is not a big problem in itself.

May 10th, US time.

After a long flight of twelve hours, Shen Juan finally landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport and breathed the free atmosphere of this sinful city again.

There is no work scheduled for today. My main task is to rest and adjust to the time difference, and have a little fun with the Sydney girl.

Then he met up with his "brother" Marlon, who was arranged for him by Republic Records, and went to the AMAs venue to rehearse the collaborative stage that would be broadcast live across the United States tomorrow.

Shen Juan was invited to attend the AMAs this time and had to perform two songs, both of which were collaborations, namely the old song "Eastside" with Benny Blanco and Halsey, and the new song "Sunflower" with Post Malone.

The former has entered the top 25 of the weekly list many times, and is still stuck at the high ranking of th to this day. Although the peak data is not impressive enough, it wins in terms of durability.

Although the latter has only been online for less than a week and its popularity has not yet fully fermented, the trends in streaming, radio and downloads are very good.

Based on the current trend, the data analysis website predicts that this song will definitely be in the top ten of Billboard Hot 100 next week.

However, it is hard to say what the final ranking will be.

After all, the competition for the top ten in the weekly chart is extremely fierce. Kanye, Cardi B, Eminem, Travis Scott, Drake, Juice Wild, Post Malone, and Maroon 5 are basically all top names in the European and American music scene.

It can only be said that Shen Juan’s timing for releasing the song this time was not very good, which affected the unexpected performance that fans love to brag about the most.

But it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, as long as the quality is good enough, it can still make a name for itself, just like this song only won the championship for one week in the original time and space, but this did not prevent it from becoming the second in the 2019 singles annual list, and became the first super god-level single in history to receive 20 times platinum sales certification.

November 10th, 9pm.

After completing all the preparations before the event and working on the drawings in the studio at the hotel, Shen Juan took a car to the venue of the American Music Awards ceremony.

Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

The first step is to make a red carpet appearance as usual.

It was almost exactly the same scene as what Shen Juan encountered when he attended the VMA in New York two months ago. The entire outer field was packed with people, and all he could see were fans and staff.

But the experienced Shen Juan was very adept at dealing with such a noisy situation.

So after getting off the car, he first smiled and waved to the group of Alovers who were holding his cheering items and screaming wildly.

Then, under the strict escort of the organizer's security personnel, he struggled to squeeze next to the host and accepted the red carpet interview that was broadcast live around the world on the YouTube platform.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm here with Alex Shen on the AMAs red carpet."

"I'm very happy to meet you at the AMAs. I heard that you will be performing the world premiere of your new single on the AMAs stage tonight. How are you feeling now?"

"Dream come true, that's the only word I can think of right now, I mean it's all too unreal, to be nominated for an AMA just one year after debuting, and to be on the AMAs stage to perform in front of the world audience, it's all so exciting, so I'm just enjoying it, enjoying the stage tonight, enjoying all the cheers and screams that Alovers bring to me."

When the red carpet director gave a close-up shot of Shen Juan, the live broadcast room also began to play his hit single "In My Blood", giving full face to this super-generation streaming media king who was called the Asian version of the public sweetheart by fans and media.

The comments in the live broadcast room were also refreshing like crazy.

It was early Saturday morning in the Asia-Pacific region. In order to see Shen Juan's red carpet appearance, many Asian fans set their alarm clocks early in the morning and watched the live broadcast.

So when they saw Shen Juan finally appear on the AMA red carpet, they all had a feeling that all the hard work had paid off, followed by excitement and thrill.

I am tired, Shen Juanxi, Shen Juansang, Shen Juansang.
Still so handsome! Even more handsome!

one World, One Dream.

The feelings that fans have for their idols, which are as hot and dazzling as the sun, are often deepened step by step through the mental journey and self-strategies that the idols themselves are not aware of.

The host continued to ask questions: "Okay, actually, I just interviewed NCT127, a South Korean idol group from Asia. When I asked them if they had any artists they particularly wanted to work with tonight, they all mentioned your name. So Alex, what do you think about this? Do you also want to work with them?"

Shen Juan pretended to be surprised and replied: "First of all, I am very grateful that they mentioned my name. Of course, I am also willing to cooperate with them. After all, we are all from the East Asian Chinese cultural circle and we have the same skin color. So it is not only the unity of the Asian people, but actually the unity of the people of the world."

We still have to say the polite words of Love & Peace.

Even if Shen Juan had no intention of cooperating with them, he couldn't say it so bluntly. After all, he didn't intend to give up the South Korean market. It couldn't be that only South Koreans were making money with Chinese currency, while Chinese were not making money with Korean won!
Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.

After hearing this seemingly meaningful speech, the host couldn't help but exclaimed "wow", but he didn't think much about it and continued to do his job honestly.

"What about you, Alex? Do you have a particular singer you want to work with at tonight's AMAs?"

"Without a doubt, Ari and Taylor are two female singers that I like very much." Shen Juan would of course give priority to his colleagues who are also under Republic Records.

We still need to take advantage of the popularity of these two sisters.

"So what is music to you?"

"Wow! Ma'am, the question you asked is a bit beyond the scope, like asking me what love is?" Shen Juan smiled and spread his hands, "But I'm only twenty years old this year."

"Hahaha! Just briefly talk about your views on music. No need to go into too much detail."

"Okay." Shen Juan thought for a moment and replied with a frown, "For me, music is like a memory storage device. There will always be a time when I like a certain song very much and I will play it on repeat. So these songs are like carrying special moments that belong to me. Certain people and certain things are like engraved into the melody."

When Shen Juan was watching Battle Through the Heavens, he particularly liked to play "When the Winter Nights Warm Up" by a Singaporean unpopular singer Stefanie Sun on repeat. Whenever he hears this old song now, he will recall the experience of following the novel. That feeling is indeed nostalgic.

"A very commendable answer!" The host obviously did not expect that Shen Juan could give such profound insights in such a short time.

"Thank you." Shen Juan smiled politely.

"I believe that the music you create, Alex, can also become a memory storage for Alovers all over the world."

"Let's hope so."

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(End of this chapter)