The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 470 This is when we talk about music
“You can take off the mask now.”

Sun Man turned around and reminded.

"Oh," Zhen Wei behind him paused, letting the two eyes exposed through the mask smile, "I don't feel uncomfortable wearing it."

Sun Man also smiled and continued to lead her to the living room while instructing her what to do.

"The live broadcast will be held in the study room at 8pm. Because Xu Xing is participating in the live broadcast remotely and the whole world will watch it, the format should be as formal as possible. I need to communicate with the director of their main live broadcast room about the process. There may be some adjustments in the visual design, and all of them need to be debugged in advance.

"Originally, I could have done this, but I have a lot of other work to do right now, and the debugging process is quite long, so I wanted to transfer another assistant over, and I asked for help from your company. But it was a bit unexpected, I didn't expect it to be you."

"There aren't many people from our company left in Beijing. The more professional ones are all - no, I'm pretty professional too," Zhen Wei was a little embarrassed, "It's just that I'm the only one left. The situation has been a bit serious these past two days, and some of us have been locked in the community. But, but I debugged the live broadcast equipment and followed the process, so there is absolutely no problem!"

Zhen Wei really didn't want to come, but no one else could come.

"Ah."

Sun Man just smiled.

Arrived at the study room.

"I added you to their group, you can communicate in the group. Xu Xing is in the music studio downstairs and should come out in two or three hours. I'm working on the east balcony on the second floor. You can come to me if you have anything. Did you eat before you came here?"

Sun Man asked.

"have eaten."

Zhen Wei nodded quickly.

Sun Man smiled again, walked to the cabinets next to her, and opened a few cabinets.

“Here are some snacks.”

Open the door of the mini fridge.

"There are also drinks and fruits here."

Then she walked over to another desk by the window and took out the coffee machine from the cabinet below.

"You can also make your own coffee. Or, red wine? I'll get it for you from the wine cellar."

"No need for that, no need for that," Zhen Wei was stunned and shook her head repeatedly, "I'm on a diet, I don't eat much snacks, and I don't drink much."

"Well, you don't have to be polite," Sun Man smiled and pointed to the large bookshelf behind Zhen Wei, "You can use the record player if you want to listen to music. It has most types of records. Sister Huaiwei has helped me with many things. Just treat this place as your own home."

“Oh…”

Zhen Wei laughed dryly twice.

Then Sun Man left.

Zhen Wei quickly and carefully closed the study door before she breathed a sigh of relief.

I'm so glad I didn't take off my mask, otherwise it would have been even more embarrassing.

My own home...

...Ms. Zhen’s other home?
This study is bigger than my living room. When I came up just now, I seemed to see a swimming pool over there?
The dog is rich and knows how to enjoy himself, but I don’t know about other women - there should be no doubt about it, so I won’t continue thinking about it and will only make things difficult for myself.

Work work!

Just leave after finishing work!!!
First report to their live broadcast work group to indicate that Xu Xing is in place!

Then, then...

Zhen Wei began to sigh continuously.

They are so slow.

It's a mess. They keep coordinating, coordinating, coordinating from domestic to foreign, from Xiaohongshu to Tik Tok, from host Li Sisi to female lead Yuan Quan, but they didn't coordinate with Xu Xing.

In fact, the two words "Xu Xing" have a strong presence.

They talk about Xu Xing every few sentences. They have to consider what Teacher Xu Xing wants to do, how so-and-so cooperates with Teacher Xu Xing, what Teacher Xu Xing's team requires, what is the significance of Teacher Xu Xing to the play, how tight Teacher Xu Xing's schedule is, and what are Teacher Xu Xing's fans...

Well, none of Xu Xing needs Zhen Wei to answer.

Zhen Wei just interrupted and asked when they would get to Xu Xing's place.

The group, which was just like a quarrel in a vegetable market, suddenly turned into a screen full of apologies.

Four or five people added Zhen Wei as a friend and apologized in private chat, explaining that there were a lot of situations today and asking Zhen Wei to understand and help explain to Teacher Xu Xing.

While apologizing, he also praised her, "Teacher Xu Xing really makes us feel ashamed. Everything is done in advance. It is us who waste Teacher Xu Xing's time every time."

Then he told Zhen Wei that she could go do other things first and come back to the group in two hours, and he also promised that he would do it as soon as possible.

Well, this is the big star!
Super top stream!

World superstar!

Teacher Xu Xing!

Hey!
Stretch.

Stand up and stretch.

Take off your mask first, there are still at least three hours!
...It should be fine to avoid snacks and drinks, but just listen to some music.

Listen to music!

The main reason was that he turned off his record player halfway through listening to a song and didn't even put the records away. What a bad habit.

Zhen Wei was secretly complaining in her heart.

The stitches fall.

The song that was halfway through continued to play.

[No insecurity, no suspicion, we all have the right to love ourselves, no need to know, no one is sure at the end of the story... We are still young about love...]
???

Wan Fang’s “Uncertainty”?
It seemed like he and Ms. Zhen listened to this together?
But Ms. Zhen has been at home these past two days dreaming about her art museum...

——After he returned to Beijing from the filming of "Fang Hua", he gave Ms. Zhen a new carrot and wanted to open an art museum for her.

…or some other older woman?
He is so disgusting...

【How about it? 】

A WeChat message popped up.

It was Miss Xin Youqing who sold herself out!
But Zhen Wei's spirits were finally lifted a little.

Someone is chatting!
[I guess I have to wait until night before I can go back, and I might have to watch over him during the live broadcast in case of any unexpected situations?]

Xin: [Isn’t it already midnight? ]

Zhen: [Yes! [Poor]]

Xin: [Why don’t you just sleep over there? ]

Zhen: [What the hell? ]

Zhen: [I want to go home! [Angry]]

Xin: [Our community will be closed at 10 o'clock, you can't come back. [pouting]]

Zhen: [……]

Xin: [I heard his villa is very big, there shouldn't be a room for you, and there's no need for you to be so formal with him. [Laughing]] Zhen: [……]

Xin: [Ah, as a baby's breath, I envy you so much! [Poor][Poor][Poor]]

Zhen: [……]

Zhen: [Where's your Aunt Zhen? Is she done with her work? I want to call her!]

Xin: [Not yet. What are you going to do?]

Zhen: [I want her to come over. [Dazed]]

Xin: [No, Aunt Zhen has to stay at home with me. [Hehe]]

Zhen: [That's my mom! [Angry]]

Xin: [It's mine too. [Cute]]

Zhen: [She can't leave me in a strange man's villa! ]

Xin: [Not unfamiliar.]

Zhen: [You come too, don’t you want to sleep in his villa? ]

Xin: [I’m so busy at work, I won’t chat anymore, my boss has sent me a new task. [Sigh]]

Zhen: [… Coming here won’t affect your work. ]

Xin: [It's so far away, just treat it as an ordinary hotel. [Yawn]]

Zhen: [I want to call Old Zhen! ]

Xin: [You can fight. [Hug]]

Zhen: [……]

Zhen Wei is so angry!
Call up!
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"I listened to your album when I was in middle school in the United States. It was really great. But the boys in my class listened to hip-hop the most, so I could only listen to it secretly in my bedroom with the door closed. At that time, I hadn't decided what I wanted to do in the future, but my love for music made me finally determined to share what I love and find like-minded people, hoping that they would like it."

Xu Xing smiled and talked freely in front of the camera during the video call.

Taylor Swift on the other side was also smiling.

"Yes, it's all about sharing and loving. I remember the first time I heard your single "Love Yourself" in 17, I was immediately inspired. At that time, I was going through a difficult time, whether it was music, career, or relationship. I wanted to calm down and listen and grow, and that single really helped me a lot.

"When I learned that it was created by a Chinese singer, I sighed in my heart: he will definitely achieve legendary success in the future. But what I didn't expect was that in the next few months, he shocked the world. He won the first place directly, and the subsequent single "Shape of You" dominated for 17 years.

"That was truly an achievement that amazed everyone and felt incredible! He was so young, and he conquered the world so quickly. He came from the East, from China... He was not a one-hit wonder, he has been shining until now. The one in front of me, Xing!"

“Thank you.” Xu Xing also made herself smile more happily. “But when I debuted at the same age, you won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and I can hardly see any possibility of achieving the same success as you. In my opinion, you are the real legend.”

Ms. Taylor couldn't stop smiling.

"Wow! I've gotten more encouragement than ever before! I..."

Oh, business bragging!

After Trump sent out the tweet and Ms. Taylor retweeted "blinding lights" in response, it was equivalent to taking the opportunity to extend an olive branch to Xu Xing, and what happened next was a natural progression.

Since the production of the album "Lover", Ms. Taylor's team has regarded cooperation with Xu Xing as a potential possibility. The superb single performance of "Shape of You" and its amazing influence in Asia are both manifestations of Xu Xing's strength.

After the flop of "Lover" last year and Ms. Taylor switched to Universal Music this year, her proposal to invite Xu Xing to work with her received more support within Universal.

The two consecutive failures of "Reputation" and "Lover" have caused Taylor to face a lot of doubts about her music reputation and commercial performance.

The sales of these two albums are indeed very high, higher than almost any other singer, but far from the amazing success of "1989".

No matter how popular a singer is, can he or she withstand the failure of a few albums?
Who can guarantee that Ms. Taylor’s next album will be able to get out of the slump and that even the album sales will not suddenly plummet?

Collaborating with Xu Xing can at least guarantee the commercial success of the single. No one would say that a singer who can keep the top single for more than ten weeks is a loser.

And Xu Xing is indeed talented, and working with Xu Xing may also inspire extraordinary sparks in Ms. Taylor.

But the problem remains that even though Xu Xing spent his high school years in the United States, he is now mainly developing in China and has an influence beyond that of a normal star.

There is also considerable controversy among senior executives in the American entertainment industry regarding Xu Xing.

Until Trump suddenly tweeted, the door that was closed by concerns was suddenly opened.

Xu Xing is defined by the American entertainment industry as someone who is simply pursuing pure music, and he is a part of the American music industry and a manifestation of the influence of American culture.

It was emphasized again that Xu Xing's most important secondary education in his life was completed in the United States.

So, Xu Xing replied to Taylor's Twitter to express her gratitude. John called and formally proposed cooperation. Xu Xing agreed, and then she had a video call with Ms. Taylor today.

Xu Xing had no reason to refuse.

The other party had already extended an olive branch, and cooperating with Ms. Taylor would expand Xu Xing's influence in the United States.

What's more, in her previous life, Ms. Taylor released two folk albums, "folklore" and "evermore", in the second half of this year. These two albums not only helped her to nip in the bud the tendency of sliding into the abyss of obscurity, but also allowed her to ascend again.

Since his debut, Xu Xing's main development strategy has been to take this kind of train.

This time the car door opened automatically.

The long commercial exchange ended, followed by a moment of anger towards their common enemy, Scooter.

Then the topic turned to music.

Ms. Taylor first asked Xu Xing why she had not released an English album yet. Xu Xing said that her first English album was in production and she was looking forward to it.

Because they were video chatting in the music studio, Xu Xing also shared some demo clips. She invited Xu Xing to play and sing, and Xu Xing showed off his guitar and made some progress, but it was still an average guitar for an expert.

Xu Xing made fun of her guitar skills, and Ms. Taylor said she wasn't very good at playing guitar either.

But when she played the guitar over there, she was actually much better than Xu Xing.

Ms. Taylor then said that she was working on her new album. She had a lot of feelings right now and spent every day immersed in music. Chatting with Xu Xing on the other side of the earth today also gave her a lot of new ideas.

Eventually the topic came up, and the two would collaborate on a single on her next album.

Ms. Taylor played some demo clips she created, which was the chorus song "exile" from her previous life's "folklore".

In fact, the entire demo is already quite complete, but there are still some differences compared to the version released in the previous life.

She talked about the mental journey of creating this demo. Xu Xing also shared some of her own emotional experiences and gave a lot of suggestions based on the final version of her previous life.

The atmosphere of the call began to become emo.

Ms. Taylor was quite inspired and her expression showed that she felt she had met them too late.

"Xing, I actually never thought of you as such a sincere and thoughtful person before. The common topics between us are beyond my imagination."

She murmured.

“That’s when we talked about music.”

Xu Xing responded with a smile.

Ms. Taylor's eyes became brighter and she finally smiled naturally and unpretentiously.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)