Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 362: Things on Wandao Island are always so bad
The layout of the Golden Melody Awards ceremony is not much different from other award ceremonies: it is divided into several areas.

The further forward you are, the bigger your status will be.

People like Jolin Tsai, G.E.M. Deng, Eason Chan, Shen Juan and others who came to the scene this year were arranged to sit in the front row.

After entering the backstage, he first waved to the fans, triggering cheers and screams so loud that it seemed to overturn the dome, attracting the attention of other guests and colleagues at the scene. They secretly sighed at Shen Juan's high popularity, and then followed the staff to the seat with their name tags and sat down.

On the left is Li Ronghao, who is currently busy with his world tour and "The Voice of China 2019", and on the right is Deng Ziqi.

We are all acquaintances, so we can have a quick chat.

"Long time no see. Where have you been making your fortune, Brother Ronghao?" Shen Juan behaved very friendly in front of his acquaintances.

And they haven't seen each other for a long time.

The last time we met offline was probably during the finals of "Idol Producer" in April last year.

They were both vocal mentors on the show at the time, barely helping out Master Lay. But after not seeing each other for a year, Shen Juan has already become one of the strongest contenders for becoming one of the top pop superstars of our time, while the two of them are still mentors on talent shows. It can only be said that there is a big gap in their personal circumstances.

"I'm not making any money! It's the same old trick. Going on tour, appearing on TV shows, how can I make money as fast as you?"

Although Li Ronghao is more than a generation older than Shen Juan, he doesn't dare to act like a senior in front of Shen Juan. "You have albums, DVDs, movies, TV series, and more than 30 endorsements. Even the tour is heavily subsidized by the government. I don't think anyone in the history of domestic entertainment can earn more than you as a pure artist."

“It’s all thanks to the fans’ support.”

But speaking of fans
Shen Juan's number of Instagram followers successfully broke through the 7000 million mark the day before yesterday. Coupled with the more than million listeners of "Super Vocal", which currently ranks first in the world, he has obviously become a truly and undisputed top global artist.

"Why are you being modest?"

"But isn't this the truth? Artists live off their fans. If the fans don't buy in, no matter how good the work is, it's useless."

There is nothing wrong with this statement. An artist's job is to serve his fans, so Li Ronghao just smiled and smoothly switched to the next topic, lowering his voice a little: "Your 11 nominations this year have made history. How many trophies are you going to take home tonight?"

"About 11." Shen Juanfeng smiled calmly.

"So confident?" Li Ronghao was a little surprised.

"I'm kidding buddy."

"I think you are joking with me"

Then, Shen Juan turned around and started chatting with Deng Ziqi, a "family member" who had already signed with Starlink.

She is one of the performing guests tonight, and she said that she started preparing for this medley of popular Chinese YouTube singles that will last for more than ten minutes several months in advance.

And these include "Exchange the Rest of Your Life" and "If Possible" from Shen Juan's Chinese album "Weixia".

"How's the preparation for the new album going?"

“It’s already in production and is scheduled to be released at the end of the year.”

"I heard that the lyrics of your new song mentioned me?"

G.E.M. Deng can’t be considered a great beauty, but when she smiles, her round face, dimples and goldfish mouth look very friendly.

"Yes, it's called "Period", you can look forward to it, but this song is mainly written for my former employer. I just quoted what you said in a previous interview."

"Which sentence?" Shen Juan was still quite curious about this.

"I was still very naive and uninformed at the time, and I didn't have the ability to discern those things like adults did."

Hearing this, Shen Juan was stunned for a moment and found it a little strange, because he said this in an interview at that time because he thought of G.E.M.'s lyrics, but he didn't expect that it would become the source of inspiration for her creation.

This is a completely closed loop.
Deng Ziqi continued to ask: "What about you? When do you plan to release a new song? Of course, I mean Chinese songs."

"I don't have any plans for now, but if there is an opportunity in the next two years, I can find time to try it."

"Oh? Then I'm really looking forward to it!"

We chatted for a while and took a photo of the three of us, and then it was exactly seven o'clock in the evening.

The Golden Melody Awards ceremony officially began.

After the opening performance, host lulu came on stage.

The first prizes awarded are small ones with lower value.

Apart from the fact that the Golden Melody Awards gave the Best Music Video Award to the MV director of "If I Can" in order to please Shen Juan and promote the movie "Yue Lao" he was currently filming, Shen Juan hardly even looked up throughout the whole process.

It was not until the new presenter came on stage to announce the winner of the Best Newcomer Award that Shen Juan, at Deng Ziqi's reminder, turned his gaze back to the stage.

Of course, there is no suspense.

Even the award presenter who had just come on stage, Su Jianxin, who had met Shen Juan in the semi-finals of "China's Hip-Hop" two years ago, did not keep the audience in suspense. He directly opened the envelope and roared out the result in his loud voice.

Not only did Shen Juan win the first Golden Melody Award in his career, but he also became another mainland singer after Li Ronghao to win the Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer at the age of 21.

And then there are the best lyricist, best composer, best arranger, best single producer, etc.
Although Shen Juan was nominated, for an award like this that tends to give a share of the pie to behind-the-scenes workers, Shen Juan, a mainlander, has basically no chance of winning.

So with so many nominations in the lyricist and composer categories, Shen Juan also won the Best Album Producer Award and Best Single Producer Award.

So far, three out of seven have been successful.

The winning rate is pretty good.

After another long wait, we finally arrived at the highlight of the night: the award ceremony for the Best Mandarin Male Singer.

With the background music of "Slowly Falling in Love with You", the award presenter Karen Mok, wearing a blingbling skirt, came on stage.

"Wow! Hello everyone, I'm glad to be back on this stage. Today is my fourth time presenting the Best Mandarin Male Singer Award."

As soon as he finished speaking, the live camera turned to several "Golden Melody King" nominees sitting in the front row of the audience.

The three local singers from Wandao are Xie Zhenting, LEO Wang and Ke Zhitang, as well as Li Ronghao and Shen Juan from mainland China.

There is no doubt that when Shen Juan, with a calm heart and a peaceful face, appeared on the big screen and live broadcast, the volume of fans' screams and the number of cheering comments instantly reached a climax. Everyone was releasing their emotions in their own way and cheering for their favorite idol.

If there is such a thing as online support rate, then let alone 99%, Shen Juan's real-time support rate is at least 98%.

On stage, Karen Mok took a deep breath and continued her pre-award speech: "But I am actually quite nervous, because based on my previous experience, presenting this award is very stressful and challenging for me, because I don't know why the names of these male singers are so difficult to pronounce."

The audience suddenly burst into laughter.

Shen Juan, who had not paid much attention to the Golden Melody Awards before, asked curiously: "What do you mean? Is there any history?"

"She accidentally read Huang Lixing's "Huang" as "Wang" and didn't distinguish between "Xing" and "Hong" clearly. As a result, she tricked Wang Lihong into coming up and made him very embarrassed." G.E.M. answered for Shen Juan in a low voice while laughing.

"Ah? Is it really that exaggerated?"

Shen Juan imagined that if he was tricked into going on stage like this, and then walked to the microphone happily, just as he was about to give his acceptance speech, he was suddenly told by the organizer that someone else had won the award. He would probably be embarrassed immediately.

Poor Leehom is really hard to bear.
"I practiced hard again, so I thought I could rehearse now. Can you guys help me listen to my pronunciation and see if it's correct?" Karen Mok tried to interact with the audience. "First of all, the name is very simple. It's from my good friend, Li Ronghao!"

There was a pretty good cheer from the audience.

“Then the pressure comes.”

"Ke Zhitang, Xie Zhenting, and Leo Wang!"

The cheers from these people were obviously much weaker.

"OK, there is one last one, a singer whom I really like, admire, respect and worship."

"That's right! He is Alex, Shen Juan!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

At least 80% of the tens of thousands of audience members at the scene were Shen Juan’s fans, so naturally they gave the best screaming display.

"Congratulations! You are the five new generation of musical talents in the Chinese music scene. Congratulations! And what makes me particularly excited is that no matter who wins the award tonight, he will become the new Golden Melody King, so we are about to witness a historic moment. Let's take a look at the VCR!"

Clips of songs by the five nominees began playing on the big screen.

"Can you also be considered the new generation?" Shen Juan elbowed Li Ronghao and made a joke with him.

"You... do you still want your cool and handsome image?"

"I have never taken the high-cold route."

"Bullshit, you're not cool, I really don't know who in the domestic entertainment industry is cool."

"That just means I have no interest in those people."

"What about Yang Mi? Not interested either?"

“Hairy.”

Li Ronghao covered his mouth and tried hard not to laugh, fearing that the live camera would be on him. Then the lip-reading master would read out their conversation content, and he inexplicably became a hot topic and was discussed.

As for whether he could win the award, he didn't care.

Because he knew that his chances of winning the prize were slim.

Although people on the Internet said that he and Shen Juan were strong contenders for this year's Golden Melody Award, he knew that was just a means for the Golden Melody Awards organizers to add suspense and create hype for the award. Whether in terms of industry music reviews, commercial performance, or song popularity, he could not compete with Shen Juan.

They have become first-tier singers in North America, with hundreds of millions of fans worldwide, and it would be condescending for them to attend the Golden Melody Awards. If the organizers are stupid enough and want to continue the event, they can't do anything fancy to create an upset.

If you are tired, you will definitely be tired.

Others can only be runners-up.

On the stage, the VCR has finished playing.

"The winner of the Best Mandarin Male Singer is..."

Karen Mok opened the golden envelope in her hand and saw the result. She couldn't help but smile knowingly. As expected, nothing unexpected happened.

Just announce loudly: "Alex, Shen Juan!"

"Aaaaaaaaaa!!!"

Applause broke out immediately, along with cheers and screams that broke through the sky and the official award speech prepared in advance:

"It has only been two years since his debut, but he has already achieved great success around the world. Shen Juan's first Mandarin album "Weisha" has a diverse style, using either affectionate or passionate melodies to sing about all aspects of life. With this sincere work, his proud musical talent is fully demonstrated."

"The Golden Melody Award winner is well deserved! I hope he can continue to touch us more with his music in the future!"

Shen Juan stood up with a smile, and then was surrounded and walked onto the stage amid the cheers and congratulations of his colleagues.

"Thank you, sister." Shen Juan took the trophy and hugged Karen Mok.

Karen Mok also smiled and said: "What I just said is true, I really like your work!"

"Thank you, thank you." Shen Juan also wanted to say that he liked one of her songs, but he really couldn't remember it for a while, so he could only repeat his thanks.

I came to the standing microphone and started speaking directly: "First of all, of course, I have to thank everyone as usual, thank you Golden Melody Awards, thank you my company, thank you my team, thank you my parents, thank you to the other nominees, thank you to everyone who has helped me, and thank you to the fans who support me."

"Of course, most importantly, I thank myself."

Still a familiar taste.

There were loud screams from the audience!
Many people were shouting Shen Juan's name loudly.

In the live broadcast, Shen Juan just smiled calmly in the face of the cheers from the fans, and then continued: "But to be honest, I am attending the Golden Melody Awards today not because I want to win the Golden Melody King trophy, but because I want to use this stage to say what I want to say."

"Say something about school bullying"

"There's a line in my previous movie, 'A River of Sadness', which goes like this: If you live in the light, you'll feel that the whole world is bright. And there's another line in my other movie, 'Better Days', which goes like this: Although we live in the gutter, some of us still look up at the stars."

“So, although we live in the same world, the living environment of each of us is completely different. Maybe the trivial things that someone has never paid attention to are the dangerous peaks that someone else is trying to cross. Somewhere out of sight, walking itself is a kind of courage.”

"You are afraid of the jokes that others make. They always say that you are not sociable, you are stingy, you are very sensitive, and you are boring. In the close proximity of their sight, the harm is always disguised as a fight. They tell you like an outsider that this is care and mutual help between friends."

"Can't you afford to play? Why did you report it to the teacher? What's the point of calling the police? We are all minors, and the law can't affect us! Do you have the nerve to tell others? Do you have any shame? Studying is the most important thing, no one will care about you! Why do they only bully you and not others?"

"Don't be influenced by these words. So-called school bullying is not a grand war. It is more reflected in the little things in life. School bullying has no lower limit and no upper limit."

“We cannot turn a blind eye to bullying! When we see bullying, we must stand up and stop it, or inform teachers and parents in time. As bystanders, our support and solidarity can give courage to those who are bullied.”

“At the same time, I also hope that those parents and teachers who have grown up can understand that it is the bullies who have problems, not the bullied who are trying to escape. Although psychology says that people are capable of development, and there are indeed cases where bullies eventually change their ways, this belated change is a difficult hurdle for the bullied at the time to overcome. You are their only support at the moment, and if you turn a blind eye, that will do them the greatest harm.”

"Everyone in this world has his or her own unique value and should be respected by the world."

"Although the cruel reality is that it is impossible to completely cure the problem of school bullying, and helping others may also put yourself in danger, if we are aware of this and are willing to make changes in this regard to solve the problem, then we can definitely effectively reduce the occurrence of this phenomenon."

"Thank you all for listening to my speech! Thank you to the Golden Melody Awards for providing such a good channel for expressing your opinions!"

After delivering his acceptance speech, Shen Juan walked off the stage holding the trophy amid applause and cheers from the audience.

At the same time, fans who were watching the live broadcast also started a heated discussion about Shen Juan’s remarks just now.

[I really couldn’t tell whether I was being joked or bullied when I was a student, but now I think that things that made me uncomfortable were not jokes. These experiences are actually very uncomfortable, and even after ten or twenty years, I still feel uncomfortable when I think about them.]

[I think the family environment is really important. If a family member and a child feel safe and confident, then he will be courageous outside and will fight back fiercely when being tempted by the bully. Then there will be no school bullying in their youth.]

[Now I really want to go to the cinema to watch "Better Days". Shen Juan's two consecutive movies are about school bullying. It seems that he really wants to improve this increasingly serious social problem. We must support stars who use their influence to do practical things! All other traffic is garbage! ]

[I find Shen Juan seems to be an idealist. How can a person who has never been bullied or bullied by others say these things? Don't you think it's ridiculous? I think he is just putting on a show for the box office! Don't believe a word that comes out of a celebrity's mouth.]

[Can this be considered an idealist? Does that mean that in the future, anyone who puts social problems on the table and calls on everyone to solve them is an idealist? According to this, does that mean that all the problems in the world don’t need to be solved? Anyway, since they exist, there is a reason for their existence.]

[Although I am not an idealist, idealism is not a derogatory term. Many important changes in human history were driven by idealists. Of course, I am not saying this to prove anything. I just want to tell you that I am going to watch "Better Days" for the third time tomorrow. If future movies can have this effect, it doesn't matter if the quality is a little worse. After all, it is for the good of society and everyone.]

The power of public opinion is terrible.

It is time to let the perpetrators experience the feeling of being cyberbullied by enthusiastic netizens or even being bullied offline.

Although the problem of school bullying is not as easy to deal with as the problem in Southeast Asian parks, as long as the matter is made big and becomes a hot topic on Weibo and Douyin, and those children who are bullied know to post on Douyin to seek comfort and help from netizens, it will eventually affect a group of people and will always be beneficial.

In this way, both the growth environment of the bullied and the movie box office can be significantly improved.

Let’s do it together!

In the following time, the new award presenter Xu Jiaying came on stage and presented the Best Mandarin Female Singer Award to Sandy Lam.

She also defeated Ai Yiliang, Jolin Tsai, Sun Shengxi and Yoyo Sham to win the Golden Melody Award for the second time in her career.

However, he did not come to the scene in person. Instead, he asked his agent Chen Zhenchuan to accept the award on his behalf and give a acceptance speech at the same time.

The Song of the Year Award was given to Jolin Tsai's "Rose Boy".

This song tells the story of an address book, and it is pretty good in all aspects, so it is well-deserved to win the award.

Then, the Best Mandarin Album was given to Shen Juan’s "Weixia", which sold more than 200 million Chinese yuan and was far ahead of everyone else.

But the more important Album of the Year award that was presented afterwards was given to Jolin Tsai's "UGLY BEAUTY".

Although Shen Juan was somewhat disappointed with the result, he could actually accept it.

The commercial potential of a diversified album like "Weisha" is undoubtedly beyond doubt, but it is still difficult to win awards with it.
After all, "Visha" has not reached the level of "Leviathan" where it can slaughter everything purely by relying on commercial value.

So after the award presenter finished speaking, Shen Juan was still very generous and gave applause to Jolin, his senior.

Anyway, I probably won't come again in the future, so I might as well give my first Golden Melody Awards trip a decent ending.

Half past eleven in the evening.

After a four-and-a-half-hour award presentation, this year's Golden Melody Awards ceremony finally came to an end.

But just as Shen Juan was holding the five trophies of the night (Best Music Video, Best Single Producer, Best Album Producer, Golden Melody Award, Best Mandarin Album), standing in front of the background wall backstage and accepting an interview with Taiwanese media, he heard these words from other reporters:

"Jolin Tsai just said in our interview that she felt she deserved the Album of the Year award, and it was not a surprise as people said online. She also said that although music has no national boundaries, in Taiwan, at the Golden Melody Awards, Mandarin singers definitely outperform foreign singers. What do you think of this?"

Shen Juan was a little surprised, "Did she really say that?"

Other reporters nodded their heads, apparently not making up stories just to stir up conflict with the singer or create news topics.

Shen Juan was a little speechless and a little amused.

I was so angry that I laughed!

Although he didn't mention any names, it was no different from mentioning any names. After all, among all the nominated singers, wasn't he the only one who became famous all over the world with foreign songs? And he also specifically emphasized the Wandao Golden Melody Awards, which seemed to be for me, an "outsider" from the mainland, to hear!

Horse's!

Are all the older generation singers from Wandao so arrogant?
But David Tao, JJ, and Leehom are obviously very similar
Wait, it seems these people are not Taiwanese.

Now, everything really makes sense.

Didn’t I just snatch the finale from you on Wandao Island?
As for being so fussy?

So the local tyrant must suppress the powerful dragon?
Not to mention that this sister is a well-known two-faced person!
Things on Wandao Island are always so bad
Shen Juan was silent for a while, trying to calm down, and said: "First of all, I have to correct her. We are not in Wandao now, but in Wandao Province, China. And I have actually released a Mandarin album. Otherwise, I would not be nominated for this year's Golden Melody Awards, right? Finally."

"I don't think that Vishay is not worthy of the Album of the Year award. I respect every nominee and every singer who has won the award. But I think that after winning the award, we should stop talking about those things. Yes, everyone has the right to express their opinions."

"Netizens have it, so they think it's a surprise. You have it, so you think it's not a surprise, and then you took the opportunity to say something else. But at the same time, I have it too, so I have some questions for Jolin. You came to Hong Kong Island and Chengdu before, why did you say you were going abroad? Why did Beijing Welcomes You delete all your parts? Why do you always mix with those special groups? Why don't you ever repost Weibo posts that express your stance?"

BOOM! ! !

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene exploded!
The group of media reporters who were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview Shen Juan were all excited and the scene was in complete chaos!
Gan!
They have never seen such a quarrel between stars!

They have never seen a star take revenge so quickly!

Right from the start, he launched a series of punches that directly hit the opponent's position!
This is going to end someone's career!

His two years in the United States really allowed him to learn the real things there!
When masters fight, they always stop when the time is right. How can they use killing skills like this where every move is aimed at taking the person's head?
Who the hell can stand this?
Who dares to mess with you from now on?
And the funniest thing is, Jolin previously relied on her so-called website-shaking value to get the higher-ups to turn a blind eye and not ban her outright, allowing her to continue making money in the mainland market. But now Shen Juan has emerged, and the website-shaking value of all Hong Kong and Taiwan artists has dropped several levels at once.

After all, it seems that now that we have the more powerful Shen Juan, why do we still need these little Karamis to mess around?

Times have changed. Do you still think we will unconditionally tolerate you crooked-butt bugs like we did before?
Some things will happen, it’s not that the time has not come yet.

Do you really think that your repeated behavior is smart?

So now, this is really fun to watch!
I’m afraid that some Hong Kong and Taiwan artists will really be punished this time!
(Are you alive?)

(End of this chapter)