Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 288 Forced Female Competition
After the Starlight Awards, in order not to affect the subsequent album promotion and the New Year's Day holiday, Shen Juan had to rush to the next announced destination, Neon Tokyo, to complete the pre-recording of his first Red and White Songs Festival in his life.

The Red and White Song Contest is also called the Red and White Song Battle. The red and white here comes from the concept of red and white confrontation in Japanese kendo.

Therefore, the organizer NHK TV station will divide all the invited singers into two groups, the Red Group and the White Group. The Red Group is generally composed of female singers, and the White Group is generally composed of male singers. The two groups will sing songs against each other and decide the final winner.

In fact, when Red and White officially announced the new guest Shen Juan this month, it caused a lot of discussion online.

After all, in Japan, a country with the highest per capita music consumption in the world and a highly developed music scene that is as closed as a country to the outside world, very few foreigners can break into the music market here and build up enough fame and influence to be on the Red and White Show.

From the last century to the present, there are only Teresa Teng, Chen Meiling, Ouyang Feifei, Weng Qianyu, Wu Huimin and some artists who have performed on the red and white stages in the form of groups. The most recent Chinese artist dates back to the beginning of the century more than ten years ago.

Then in neighboring South Korea, as of now, only BoA, Girls' Generation, TVXQ, TARA and TWICE have performed on the Red and White Festival.

Therefore, as Shen Juan is the first Chinese artist to appear on the Red and White Show in the era of streaming media, his performance is of great significance.

At least it has allowed many domestic netizens to see that after China went through the stage of frantically plagiarizing Japanese music's intellectual property rights, it also has the potential to export artists to seize Japanese music's market share and reap the love of local Japanese fans.

Although Shen Juan sang Japanese songs to adapt to local customs when he went out, the news was still exciting enough.

After all, Shen Juan achieved what many music superstars including Jay Chou failed to do at the beginning of the century.

He successfully entered the Neon market with his dual skills of speaking English and Japanese, and was called the "black ship" of the streaming media era by the Japanese media.

In the annual ranking released by the Japanese Billboard some time ago, Shen Juan ranked second on the artist list.

Second only to Neon local singer Kenshi Yonezu.

Then on the singles chart, his super hit "Pretender" ranked second, second only to Kenshi Yonezu's "Lemon". Another hit "Subtitle", despite lacking the blessing of the original time and space Japanese drama "Silent Snow", still made it into the top ten and reached the eighth position.

This year, only Shen Juan and Japan's national girl group Nogizaka10 have achieved two TOP 46 singles in the same year.

On the album chart, Shen Juan's Japanese EP "You Are All I See" also ranked third, second only to Namie Amuro and Kenshi Yonezu who announced their retirement this year to stimulate consumption.

In addition, on the annual list released by the more authoritative Japanese local music chart Oricon, "You Are All I See" also ranked fourth with a double platinum certification for sales of over 48, second only to Southern All Stars, AKB and Namie Amuro.

In addition, the unplugged concert he had previously participated in was also released on Blu-ray DVD at the beginning of the month and achieved a good result of 5 copies in the first week.

If such achievements are not considered first-class, then Alovers will really curse themselves.

So all of this undoubtedly shows that Shen Juan, through his personal experience, has best embodied the idea of "inheriting the aspirations of predecessors and starting the trend of future generations" at this moment.

Perhaps the achievements of a single individual cannot improve the overall level of the music industry, but it can serve as a role model for future generations.

After all, music is like football. It is impossible to make huge improvements instantly. It can only be done slowly from youth training.

Take off from Daxing Airport in the morning.

Landed at Haneda Airport at noon.

After a simple bowl of udon noodles and finishing my hair and makeup, I went to the NHK Concert Hall in the afternoon to pre-record the red and white stage.

It has to be said that the Red and White Song Contest still has a big gap in venue scale and stage design compared to domestic ones.

Of course, this has always been a problem in Japan's entertainment industry. Some studios for popular programs have been used for decades without any updates. It is already the last year of the Heisei era, but they still retain the antique style of the last century, giving people a very strange sense of disconnection.

But it doesn’t matter how shabby, rotten, or simple the stage is. Shen Juan is just here to show off his face and build his foundation.

His primary goal for appearing on the Red and White stage was not to leave a mark on the stage, but to show his face in front of hundreds of millions of viewers in Japan.

Only by raising the brand awareness and completely breaking away from the self-entertainment of fan circles in the eyes of the public can we promote a more intensive and comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy in the future.

A little after five in the afternoon, the stage pre-recording was completed.

Although not flawless, at least Shen Juan's live performance of "Pretender" can definitely be described as excellent.

I believe that after the Red and White Song Contest is broadcast, it will provide Universal Neon Branch with a pretty good marketing material.

Saying goodbye to the top executives of NHK TV.

After work, I got back to the car and started watching Douyin.

Because she listened to Shen Juan and did the right thing, Angelina took the lead in Volavlev and started to love China. She praises China from various angles every day. In addition, her appearance is eye-catching enough, so her number of fans has increased very quickly during this period, and now she has several million.

(Volaf started at the end of 18)
My income has increased many times compared to when I was developing in South Korea, and I achieved financial freedom instantly.

So during this period of time, she not only often asked Shen Juan about his well-being on WeChat, but also asked her relatives and friends in Russia to send a lot of Russian specialties to Shen Juan. She also took the initiative to send her "letter of allegiance" or handle to him, implying that she would never betray him.

This also further increases the value of Shen Juan's golden phone. If the videos and photos in it are leaked, it will be much more explosive than Edison's nude photos!

Be it quantity or quality, Shen Juan completely suppressed Teacher Chen. Moreover, he was a willing participant and never took photos himself, so the difference was obvious.

Then, with the help of Shen Juan's deliberate use of his large account to like posts some time ago, the Douyin account of Dasha Taran, who was ridiculed by netizens as the "Russian Juan Girl", has also become popular.

Similar to Angelina's development model, she also frequents Shanghai and follows the patriotic route of high appearance.

But for now, no one knows that they are roommates, and no one knows that they are both internet celebrities recruited by Shen Juan to China.

By the time Shen Juan's company is established, netizens will see that these two extremely beautiful Maomei internet celebrities are both signed under Shen Juan, and there will probably be a lot of gossip.

"Where are we going now? Should we go back to the hotel to rest first, or find a place to have dinner directly?" asked the assistant.

Shen Juan thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to Soda first. We have nothing to do anyway, so we might as well go there and visit the set first."

Masaki Suda is currently filming the suspense drama "Class 3-A" produced by NTV.

The heroine is Japan's popular new generation star Mei Nagano, and several supporting roles are also quite popular, such as Katayose Ryota, who looks like Lu Han and Wang Junkai, and Imada Mion, who gained popularity with Shen Juan's "Wrinkles" MV.

Overall, the ratings and reputation are still very good. Anyway, Shen Juan had watched a few episodes in his previous life and thought it was okay.

But before that, Shen Juan felt it was necessary for him to get in touch with those friends of the opposite sex on LINE.

After all, this is a promise.

Tell them when you come to Tokyo.

Although Shen Juan will fly to Los Angeles tomorrow morning and will not stay in Tokyo for long, he still does not want to break his promise.

Stopping outside the studio, a Toyota Alpha, a standard vehicle for celebrities in the entertainment industry, caught the attention of the crew members.

The rear door was opened from the inside, and then Shen Juan got out of the car openly without any disguise.

"Shen Juansang!!"

All the female staff members who were watching the excitement nearby gasped at the same time when they saw Shen Juan's stunningly handsome face, which was praised by the Japanese media as one that can only be seen once in five thousand years.

Suda Masaki, who had been waiting for a long time, also greeted him with a smile and asked, "How was your first experience at the Kohaku Festival?"

"Not bad, but it's a pity that it's not a live broadcast, and there are no fans or audiences on the scene, which makes the stage less interesting." Shen Juan hugged him, then smiled and joked: "But why are you, a Japanese, asking me about my first experience of the Kohaku Show? Have you never been there in all these years?"

"Sister, it's a pity that as a Japanese artist who has debuted for almost ten years, I have never appeared on the Red and White stage." Masaki Suda shrugged helplessly.

In Japan, because singers have a very high status, actors and singers are clearly distinguished from each other. This is unlike the domestic entertainment industry where any celebrity with high traffic can spend hundreds of thousands to buy a single and exploit fans.

"It's okay. I believe you will have a chance next year."

"Really?"

"If I say yes, then yes. Don't worry."

"As expected of the almighty Alex-san, this confident kingly look is really handsome!"

"Why are you talking so strangely now?"

"Eh? Isn't this the latest internet meme? It is said that it came from China, 'Jian Ye can do anything.'" Masaki Suda read out the last six words in broken Chinese.

"Okay." Shen Juan did not expect that these contents would be the first to be exported to Japan.

Then start the next step of the visit.

Since it is an open visit, it is natural to buy some drinks and fruit snacks and distribute them to the crew members.

This is marketing material delivered to your door.

If the eldest brother can do it, the eldest brother can naturally do it if he is tired!
Moreover, compared with the Japanese actors who earn a lot of money by shooting commercials after becoming famous, Shen Juan's annual income of tens of billions of yen is definitely an astronomical figure. So it only takes a small amount of money to gain a good reputation in Japan for being generous and generous, so that you can earn more Fukuzawa Yukichi from it in the future. Why not do it?

However, what surprised Shen Juan was that when he said goodbye to Masaki Suda and was about to take a car back to downtown Tokyo, he suddenly found that there were two more girls in his car.

"How come you got here so quickly?" Shen Juan adjusted his mentality and sat between the two of them calmly.

Ikeda Elaisa didn't even think twice: "Because I happened to be unemployed, I rushed here immediately after seeing your message."

Hamabe Minami's eyes flickered: "Because I miss you."

Ikeda Elaisa immediately changed her words: "I miss you, too."

Shen Juan looked at Hamabe Minami on his left who was hugging his arm tightly with a serious look on her face, and then looked at Ikeda Elaisa on his right who was pouting at him. After a moment's silence, he couldn't help but laugh. Japanese women are indeed the best in East Asia when it comes to providing emotional value.

So relatively speaking, the housewives here are very tolerant and open-minded about their husbands' extramarital affairs.

They always choose to forgive.

It feels like a country that is very suitable for scumbags to survive~
In that case, he might be a little bolder. After all, everyone in the car was their own people, and no one except the three people in the back seat could understand Japanese.

And thanks to the thoughtfulness of Neon, they even installed curtains on the business cars they rented out to block the view of the front row! Is it because Neon business people like to work in the back row with their secretaries?
Of course the answer doesn't matter.

What really matters is how you put it to practical use.

So after closing the door curtain, Shen Juan first turned his head to look into Hamabe Minami's eyes, and asked calmly in a tone as gentle and sincere as possible: "How much do you miss Minami-chan?"

"I want it very much, very much!"

Hamabe Minami's gaze towards Shen Juan gradually became erratic due to shyness, and then she covered her mouth with her hands and laughed embarrassedly, "I think about it. I want to call you every day to share today's breakfast and the sunset I saw. I want to fall asleep listening to your beautiful voice every night. In this way, the probability of me dreaming about you at night will increase."

"What about you, Elaiza?" Shen Juan then turned his head and looked at Ikeda Elaiza who was already extremely anxious on the other side.

As the saying goes, you should treat girls with different personalities in different ways, so he smoothly switched to the lustful emperor mode with full sexual tension, stretched out his hand to weigh the weight of the throwing stone, then raised the corner of his mouth and whispered in her ear: "Is it an illusion? I feel that the weight of people's hearts seems to be a little heavier than last time."

Feeling the hot air that Shen Juan was constantly exhaling, and listening to the pleasant voice exploding in her head at a close distance, it was like listening to ASMR. Ikeda Elaisa's already sensitive earlobes suddenly became even redder. She subconsciously wanted to answer that it might be because she had gained weight recently and had gained some extra fat, but... perhaps because she wanted to leave a good impression on Shen Juan whom she hadn't seen for several months, or perhaps to please him, she was finally forced to participate in the female competition and secretly competed with Hamabe Minami, the little sister who had just reached adulthood.

"Because... there is one more person in my heart."

Although Shen Juan couldn't help laughing at this unskilled and cheesy love talk, out of respect for the girl's bold act of revealing her feelings, he still rewarded Yilisha in his own way: he reached out to hold her shoulders, then bent down and kissed her tempting pink lips painted with lip gloss.

"Hmm." Ikeda Elaisa did not panic or struggle at all when being suddenly kissed. It was as if she had been looking forward to the kiss for a long time. She quickly responded with even greater enthusiasm than Shen Juan.

The scenery outside the car window flew by, and subtle sounds gradually rang out inside the car, enough to make any girl's heart flutter.

At least Hamabe Minami, the girl who had tasted the sweetness and met Shen Juan in her dreams all day long, couldn't stand it anymore. When she saw Shen Juan and Ikeda Elaisa separated, she immediately pulled him over with a resentful look and forced her to kiss him.

Although the girl is young and immature, she has a unique charm.

On the other side, Ikeda Elaisa, who had been calming down for a long time but still had a flushed face, saw that Shen Juan and Hamabe Minami had not separated yet. She was so impatient that she could not wait any longer. She seemed to have made up her mind, lowered her head, and started to eat Want Want Crushed Ice in big mouthfuls.

After landing in Los Angeles, I rested in the hotel on the first day to adjust to the jet lag, and then started formal work on the second day.

Because when Shen Juan was still in China shooting the MV for the Chinese album, the professional production team far away in the United States had already started parallel production at Shen Juan's request, so the main task this week was to record and shoot the MVs for the two first release songs of the second English album.

One single is "Blinding Lights" released by The Weeknd on November 2019, 11.

How awesome is this song?

Billboard热百上榜周数最多纪录（90周），最多TOP5周数（43周）、TOP10周数（57周）和TOP40周数（86周），2020年全球最畅销单曲，2020年单曲年榜第一，2021年单曲年榜第三，此外还是声破天历史上首支播放量突破四十亿的歌曲。

It is not only the champion of Billboard's singles history chart, but also the number one hit song in the streaming media era!

After developing for so long, it’s time to use the ultimate move.

After all, Shen Juan spent a whole year to lay a solid foundation for himself and established stable and reliable distribution channels and a relatively good public image in North America. Naturally, he has the confidence and determination to make this single shine in this time and space as well as in the original time and space.

The second single was "Senorita", a love song released by Mendes on June 2019, 6.

The performance of this song is also quite exaggerated.

The third best-selling single of 2019.

Ranked 2019th on the 15 Billboard Hot Singles Chart.

The second best performing male-female duet single in 2019.

The best one was "Dancing With A Stranger" by Sam and Normani, but it was taken away by Shen Juan in advance and put into "Underrated".

And the most important thing is that Shen Juan found a collaborator for this hit single from original time and space who is even more awesome than the original singer, Ka Mei.

When Shen Juan sent the song demo and part of the lyrics to Ariana Grande from the same company some time ago, she immediately called to express her interest. She thought this would be a collaboration that fans of both companies and other music fans would want to see, so she accepted it without much hesitation.

Even though "senorita" means "Miss" in Spanish, and neither he nor Ariana Grande has a Spanish background, this did not hinder their performance, because after all, this is an English song, and Ariana Grande can even cosplay a Japanese person and even got the name Ariel, so it is natural for her to cosplay a Spanish-speaking Latin American in the song's MV.

"So how did you come up with the idea of using the Spanish word senorita as the core to write songs?" A妹 asked curiously.

"In fact, the core of this song is not senorita. There is no big problem in replacing this word with 'Miss' in other languages. It's just that senorita is easier to sing." Shen Juan made up a story with reason and evidence.

"really?"

"of course."

"You are such a genius. I mean you can handle any style of music. I really want to steal some inspiration from you so that I don't have to lose my hair writing songs!" When Ariana Grande, who is only 1.5 meters tall, pouts and crosses her legs, she only looks cute.

"I feel that your hair quality is very good, and the amount of hair seems to be pretty good too." Shen Juan touched A妹's hair.

A-mei shrugged, "Because I spend a lot of money on it every year, I pay a lot of attention to the maintenance of my hair."

"Such beautiful hair deserves maintenance."

"Thank you, but do you really think so?" Sister A turned her head and stared at Shen Juan's eyes. She had just broken up with her boyfriend and was in urgent need of finding comfort from others.

Shen Juan saw shadows of many people in her eyes, Yang Mi, Yang Ying, Nazha, Xiaolu. The way Ariana looked at him at this moment was very similar to those of these women.

"In my opinion, Ari, you are one of the best female singers of this era. I think you should be more confident. Besides," Shen Juan smiled and shrugged and continued, "there is no need for me to lie, right?"

Another day of recording work is over.

On the way back to the hotel, Shen Juan learned from his assistant about the hot news in the entertainment industry that was being hotly discussed in the country.

Lao Mi and Uncle Liu officially announced their divorce!
Originally, this matter shouldn't have been so popular.

After all, rumors of Lao Mi's Uncle Liu's marital crisis have been circulating for several years. During this period, even Wang Junkai, a 99 young hunk who only became an adult last year, had scandals with Lao Mi. Ms. Qifen even said in front of the camera that she wanted to help her daughter try it first.

From the outside world's perspective, Yang Mi Kaiwei's marriage has long been in name only, so it would not be surprising at any time when the divorce is officially announced.

But who made Lao Mi express her love for Shen Juan many times and claim that she is a fan of Shen Juan?

Therefore, in the eyes of those self-media marketing accounts that will do anything to attract traffic, even if Lao Mi has nothing to do with Shen Juan, they must have a relationship with him in their writings!
So the divorce case was inexplicably linked to Shen Juan.

It’s still the same old rhetoric: Many people say that Shen Juan cheated on Uncle Liu, and the reason why Yang Mi divorced Uncle Liu was to become single again and date Shen Juan.

There are also people who, like in the previous fan circle war, exposed Wu Jiaheng. This is the real treasure in the domestic entertainment industry. There will always be some hungry wolves!
Not only did it make Sister Function, who was at the age of being as vigorous as a wolf, fall in love with Shen Juan physically, but it also caused a bunch of internet idiots to chase after him and shout "husband, fuck me directly", and the comment section was full of chicken cries.

Of course, even though Shen Juan knew that this was harmless.

Because news that could really have an impact on his career development doesn't even need to wait for him to take action. The relevant departments will probably help him to suppress the heat of the incident directly.

His current value and significance have long transcended traffic and artist status, and he deserves the protection of relevant departments.

But it still feels a bit unpleasant.

Why do you pin all the scandals on me?

Is it because I'm Suki?
So he logged into the small account that was well-known in the fan circle and posted a text paying tribute to his idol, which was a relatively humorous way of responding to the matter.

【I hope my reputation will not be further damaged. 】

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　　There was sensitive content in the pre-screening, so I spent time deleting and revising a small section, so the update was a few minutes late. (The platform is getting stricter now)

　　
　
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