Perfect Life

"I don't know when it started, but the name Li Qian has become a standard. Every time I hear a new album that I bought from the market, the author can't help but use such a standard to measure- - This level is far worse than Li Qian! Or - Li Qian is probably at this level! Or - it's only a little bit worse than Li Qian, it's already very good!

All of this is because in the past few years, Li Qian has shown us his comprehensive and powerful creative ability. The two stunning rock hits of the Big Four, which he himself sings as the lead singer, are no better.

He even tailored the first global album of Chinese singers for Liao Liao, and in that album he showed his control of European and American pop music, as well as his excellent creative ability, just like his grasp of domestic music and Like creation, it has been called the pinnacle.

So, of course, he is the standard. And it is the highest standard!

This time, after the temporary suspension of the four beauties, Li Qian, known as the leader of the music world, finally brought us his first solo album.

Not rock, but still very nice!

This is Li Qian. "

——"Yanjing Daily Supplement"

"In total, one album has four subdivided music categories, including pop, folk, rock, and even unexpectedly two Western rap-style works. Unsurprisingly, this really is another It's a hodgepodge! It's just that Li Qian is a good cook after all. In this hodgepodge, french fries are french fries and sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes. As for whether you like French fries or roasted sweet potatoes, it depends on your personal taste!"

——"Oriental Entertainment News"

"The high level as always! Folk ballads are very good, love songs are very good, especially "Dark Fragrance", which has a thousand turns and a faint fragrance. In today's domestic music scene, it is definitely a rare boutique. Emotional and sexual!

The two Chinese raps are hard to hear, the lyrics are even more bizarre, and "First Experience of Love" is almost chaotic, but the strange thing is that this song is actually the main hit of the entire album. It can be seen that what Li Qian values ​​most is actually This song is incredible! "

——"Shuntian Daily, Supplement, Vertical and Horizontal Pen Talk"

"After producing an international album for Liao Liao that sold well all over the world, maybe Li Qian thinks that he has mastered Western music with ease, but with all due respect, his two Chinese rap songs are useless. The lyrics, I can't understand what he's singing! I have to use a corner of the newspaper to give a little advice: concentrate on writing your love songs, folk songs are good, rock and roll are also good, or else it's good to shoot TV series. As for rap, don't touch it! I'm born unaccustomed to the soil and water!"

—— "Huaxia Variety Weekly"

"...The author believes that this kind of exploration is worthy of encouragement, especially because of Li Qian's appeal and influence in the domestic music scene at that time, he was able to personally write works of this style and publish it in his first song. In Zhang’s personal album, just speaking of attitude is already worthy of encouragement! For domestic musicians who are engaged in this kind of niche music, it is also a great encouragement! Although rap is niche, it is not completely without an audience. To put it another way, our Chinese music scene needs this kind of blooming!"

-- "Shuntian Metropolis Daily"

"...Actually, I really admire Li Qian's courage, and considering his status in the music world, he should be the most confident person to do this, but, as for the result, It's really hard for me to be optimistic. As we all know, oranges in Huainan are oranges, and in Huaibei, oranges are oranges. The climate and soil are not suitable for this, which cannot be reversed by manpower.

Although in my opinion, two songs such as "Fort William" and "Indian Turtledove" should be relatively outstanding works in the rap songs currently made in China, but for his popularity among domestic fans I am not very optimistic about the response and feedback that can be obtained!

On the contrary, I find it very interesting for "The First Experience of Love", which many colleagues are raving about! Of course, as far as I am concerned, my favorite is two songs, one in front, one behind, one head and one tail.

"Jiangnan", a very beautiful R&B, currently at an absolute top level in China, compared to the few English R&Bs he did for Liao Liao before, it is not much less! "Dark Fragrance", a typical classical composition method, is very beautiful. You ordinary fans may just think it sounds good, but I can say that the more expert you are, the more you know how good and awesome this song is!

Over the years, Li Qian has shown us his extremely comprehensive and abundant creative talents. Needless to say, the breadth of his creations is only five or six years. All kinds of styles, all kinds of genres, right, a very comprehensive kind of driving ability. At the same time, his creative height is still very high. This is really something that few people can match!

A work like "Dark Fragrance" is one of his works that can represent the height. I personally feel that it should be on the same level as his classic a few years ago, "Farewell"!

I think...I personally think Ha, Li Qian put his two works in the album like this, one after the other, the front opens the way, and the back holds the line, which should also have some personal inclinations..."

——Shuntian Yinyue Taiwan "Big Coffee Says Big Coffee", guest: Liu Yue, a famous songwriter and songwriter.

"I wrote a series of about 20 articles before, which elaborated and explained the lyrics of Li Qian's more than 20 music works in the past. It can be regarded as a lyrics appreciation. Beneath his extraordinary musical talent is his rare poetic talent! From the earliest "Wild Flowers", this talent is so heartbreaking, and now, when Li Qian's new album "First Experience of Love" is released After that, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the lyrics book of the new album is indeed another small poetry collection!

Of course, the ten songs are not entirely poetic, but in my opinion, there are at least five or six of them, which are worth mentioning and sharing with you. Among them, the most outstanding ones, in my opinion, are "Dark Fragrance", "William Castle" and "Childhood", these three songs were chosen because they probably represent the three most typical styles of Li Qian's lyrics creation..."

-- "East Asia Daily"

"Indian Old Turtledove and Castle William are madly in love! With all due respect, although Brother Qian was so popular before, his songs were really unloving, ranging from Liao Liao and He Runqing to Rose Power and Zhuang Mei. It’s just enough to listen to. His rock is hot enough, but I still can’t love it! It wasn’t until Liao Liao’s album last year, when I heard a few English R&B songs in it, that I felt a little interesting and began to update it. I have come into contact with his songs and works a lot, and when this album comes out, I am instantly shocked!

There are ten or eight of our domestic rap albums, but no song has reached the level of his two songs! The Chinese rap is smooth and natural, and the style is grotesque and absurd, but it is full of fun! Not as fierce and wild as those lyrics in English rap works, even if he is rap, he has a certain Chinese peculiar subtlety, but the subtlety is just right. If you taste it carefully, the kind of fun in it will make you feel a kind of Indescribable joy, at least for the moment, I can't imagine any works that are more in line with the definition of Chinese rap as a music category than these two songs!

There is also the song "Jiangnan", which is not clear whether it should be regarded as his Chinese style or R&B, but the R&B style is quite strong, and it is even more irritating! This is the first time I hear such a strong Chinese flavor of R&B! Moreover, I dare to say that this album, whether it is R&B, rap, or our Chinese folk songs, is definitely a super masterpiece that is currently at the highest level in China, and is not even weaker than the albums of European and American superstars!

So, I'm announcing that starting today, starting with this album, I've decided to call him "The Master" with you! Worship from now on!

What, you said that the leader has already made this kind of album of international standard before? Please, Liao Liao's album is in English! Using English songs to create an international flavor can at best show that the leader can actually traverse Europe and the United States without any problem. Is it related to the quality of Chinese songs? "

——A long post on the top of the music section of Sohu.com, "Li Qian, you are my "teacher"! 》

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As the "leader" of the music circle, Li Qian's release of an album is a major event for the entire domestic music circle.

Although there is no overwhelming publicity, and there is no show of various programs, this album is not really publicized before it goes on sale. There will be many fans who usually don't pay much attention to the daily trends of entertainment. They don't even know that Li Qian has A new album has been released, but as long as you are concerned about the industry trends, even if you just watch related reports, watch related variety shows, and listen to any radio music program, you will definitely know that "The Beginning of Love" Experience" is available.

In particular, from the day after the album was released, almost all the media in the country, especially the major music radio stations, variety shows and variety supplements of major newspapers, almost fully exerted their efforts, and began to discuss it with praise or criticism. This album, coupled with the word of mouth of people who have bought the album before, made the word of mouth of this album spread to the greatest extent quickly!

In short, mixed praise!

However, love songs like "The First Time" and "Kiss Goodbye", which are the easiest to arouse the love of most people at the first time, have quickly become the most popular songs on almost all radio stations!

And the most surprising thing is that these two songs are not the hottest.

The hottest ones are "Jiangnan" and "First Experience of Love"!

For a while, no matter where you go, at the end of the street, as long as there is a video store, as long as there are speakers, you can almost hear "Circle, circle, circle, every day, every day" and "Give me back my photos" !

Of course, the criticism of "Castle William", "Indian Turtledove" and "First Experience of Love" are not uncommon in the columns of major newspapers!

However, considering Li Qian's illustrious reputation in the music world and the incredible achievements he has achieved in the past, before the feedback from the market has really returned, the actual data such as sales and on-demand rankings have not come out. Before, except for a few people who were eye-catching, most music critics, even if they did not like Li Qian's "radical" this time, in order to avoid being slapped in the face in the future, they were temporarily restrained, at best. It's just a bad sing, or a pessimistic and unoptimistic attitude. It doesn't directly step on these songs - the more high-level people are, the more embarrassing they are, and everyone is afraid of being beaten in the face. .

And just when the music world started to be noisy because of such an album, showing unprecedented noise, when the time entered the end of April, the registration of "Super Girl" in all parts of the country officially ended.

On the day after the registration deadline, the program audition officially began.

Led by three guest mentors, He Runqing, Zhen Zhen, and Cao Zhan, each team also invited a well-known music critic or musician, as well as a well-known singer. The big screen of the "Super Girl" audition was opened mightily.

On May 1st, at the launching ceremony of the national audition held by HUNAN Satellite TV in Changsha Prefecture, Hunan Province, hundreds of reporters from major domestic media gathered in one place, but unfortunately, although only one of the three guest mentors In addition, Qi Jie also attended on behalf of Minghu Culture, and Xie Bing also sang the theme song of "Super Girl" at the launching ceremony. Li Qian, who was ranked first, was not there!

The reporters were obviously dissatisfied with this, but there was nothing they could do if they were dissatisfied. After a few years, all the people who ran this piece of news were very clear about Li Qian's behavior. So at this time, at most, Qi Jie, He Runqing, Xie Bing and others from Minghu Culture can only inquire a little and go back to gather news.

So much so, don't look at "Super Girl" from the initial publicity launch, and now it has become so hot and overwhelming, but it happens that at its national launch ceremony, the questions that reporters pay the most attention to and ask the most are not. It is Li Qian's new album.

Of course, at the same time, under the office building of Minghu Culture, Zhou Mu's Yangjuan Hutong, and outside the Shuntian Film Academy, the number of reporters waiting all day, of course, quickly increased.

However, after a few years, not only did they already know Li Qian very well, but Li Qian also knew them very well, and they would not be caught by them.

Therefore, another slightly strange thing during this period is that when many newspapers published reports or comments on the album "First Experience of Love", they were accompanied by pictures of Zhou Hao going out for a run in sportswear!

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Monday, May 2, 2000.

The album sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore was released on time, and "First Experience of Love" landed at the top of the list without any suspense, putting He Runqing's "Cloudy Day" and "Cloudy Day" and Xinfu Zhao's "Love Does Not Stop" was directly suppressed.

However, if you talk about absolute sales, the sales data obtained by this album in the first week of its release, a total of five days of sales, are not very eye-catching.

43816 sheets!

For ordinary singers, even He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu, this is a relatively normal first-week data, and it may be slightly lower, but it is not unusual, but for Li Qian, with the previous four The Beauty Band's "Once Upon a Time" that killed the Quartet, his status in the domestic music scene can be said to be unique among the others. In terms of influence and fan loyalty, he is on the same level as Liao Liao and the others, so This first-week data is quite low for him.

You know, the album "Once You" sold a record-breaking 147,269 copies in a single week in the first week of its release! There are 103,548 more than 100,000 in the third week! That is a super sales record that no one can even come close to, let alone breaking it!

However, even so, there is still almost no one in the industry to sing and criticize it.

Because this album almost did not do any corresponding release promotion, compared with the first week and second week of other albums, its first week sales did not reach a relatively ideal value, but it was normal; , that is Li Qian's album after all, just looking at the data for one week and singing bad?

There are basically no such stupid people in the country now!

However, as soon as this relatively low sales data comes out, there will inevitably be more discussions to some extent.

Especially involving the album's first title song "First Experience of Love", and the two rap-style works, there are still different opinions and mixed reviews.

For a time, the word "rap" has become the most popular vocabulary in the music circle. Major newspapers and magazines have invited musicians and music critics to write articles. Music programs of major radio stations and variety shows of television stations have been invited. Music programs have also invited some well-known music producers or singers to comment in person, and they have talked about "rap" one after another. It seems that suddenly, if you don't know what rap is, you will be outdated.

Of course, still no one can find Li Qian!

According to industry rumors, both HUNAN TV and Shuntian TV have a good relationship with Li Qian. The senior leaders of the two TV stations could not resist the pleas of the staff below and were forced to call Li Qian in person, hoping that he could come to the last show, but in the end, It was rejected by Li Qian without hesitation.

There are even more rumors that Huaxia TV has a deputy director-level figure who personally called Li Qian, but the result was the same as before, just two words: don't go!

The entertainment industry is Vanity Fair, but also right and wrong. These two news came out one after another. For a time, some people praised, some scolded, some ridiculed and some were sour-you know, it was a satellite TV station, even the director and deputy station of Huaxia TV station. A person of that level, let alone a singer, is already to the extent that most record companies dare not easily commit crimes. You want to be on the show, you want to promote it, you want to expose it, and you even want to go to some variety shows to make money. , TV station must be an extremely important platform for singers!

However, when a person at the level of director personally called and invited, Li Qian not only did not even show his face, but even bluntly refused on the phone!

Don't put your guts aside, just this coffee position and this forceful style of others have definitely broken through the sky! It's almost impossible to be jealous!

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Wednesday, May 3rd, afternoon.

After being dormant for more than ten days, the reporters in Yangjuan Hutong who were staring at Zhou Xiu suddenly found out that Zhou Xiu was going to go out!

Although the one who came to pick her up was just a commercial vehicle from Minghu Culture, not Li Qian's broken off-road vehicle, it still lifted the spirits of the reporters who were already staring at them with cross-eyed eyes.

When the news came out, a large group of reporters came later, and they chased after them according to the guidance of their peers.

The more you chase it, the more exciting it is, the commercial vehicle actually goes straight to the northern suburbs!

As a result, the commercial vehicle sent by Minghu Culture had just left the North Fourth Ring Road with Zhou Ai, and a long line of motorcades had already followed behind.

Behind the long spear and short cannon, there are a pair of twinkling eyes like wolves!

Who knows if Li Qian is waiting in the holiday villa or some holiday villa over the Miyun Reservoir!

But soon, the car had just left the city, and there were more than a dozen cars in a row. The commercial car had not waited to reach the Miyun Reservoir, and got off the highway halfway, and then took a long The convoy of more than a dozen cars turned around and returned to Shuntian Mansion.

Then, the car swaggered back to Yangjuan Hutong again. Zhou Ai got off the car in a dashing manner, and even rushed to the reporter who got out of the car in a hurry and made an "oh yeah" gesture. He pushed the door and went home with a smile on his face.

The commercial car was about to turn around, but the driver stopped the car again, looked at the group of reporters with a pitiful look, and then kicked the accelerator and roared away.

At this moment, many reporters were stunned.

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In the afternoon, almost at the same time that Zhou Hao specially called and called a car from the company to walk the reporter around, in front of an old-fashioned teahouse on an unknown street in Shuntian Prefecture, an unremarkable-looking Volkswagen brand car was passing by. Stopping on the side of the road, Li Qian got out of the car without even wearing sunglasses.

When he entered the restaurant, before he could ask, someone in the booth stood up and waved at him.

Li Qian nodded at the dumbfounded front desk clerk, turned his head and walked over.

A few steps away, the two of them stretched out their hands and clenched tightly before releasing them.

"President Chen, I kept you waiting for a long time."

"No, no, I just arrived soon, please take a seat!"

The two sat down. Chen Youcheng first stared at Li Qian intently for a few seconds, and then he came to his senses. He realized that staring at people like this was really rude, so he raised his hand to help him a little embarrassedly. Glasses, smiled and said, "I've been looking forward to this meeting since the time when the contract for "Blood Sword" was signed, since I knew that you are the author of that book, Mr. Li, and now it's finally my wish!"

Li Qian smiled, "You are too polite. The main reason is that I have been busy recently, and I don't want to attract attention. You know, I have always insisted that I am not allowed to expose that I am the author of these two books..."

"No, no, no," Chen Youcheng interrupted impatiently, and said, "Mr. Li, you misunderstood, and I don't mean to blame you!" While speaking, he smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I don't know if there is any How many reporters want to find you and interview you? It's a great honor to come out and meet me at this time!"

Having said this, he suddenly smiled "haha", turned his head and picked up a stack of books from his seat, "I'll make you laugh, don't think I'm in my fifties, I'm old, but I also want to chase it again. Star!" While speaking, he took out a signature pen from himself and handed it over, "I'm afraid I'll forget about books and writing later, so can you sign me first?"

Li Qian smiled slightly, took the pen, pulled the book over, opened the cover to write, but said, "You have always called me Mr. Li, this is a bit too polite, you should call me Li Qian!"

Chen Youcheng snorted, "Let's call you Brother Li! In terms of age, I may be able to call you by your first name, but in terms of talent and achievement, calling you Brother Li will count me as a high achiever!"

Li Qian smiled and shook his head.

He was aware of the politeness among literati, but he was too lazy to push around for a title, so he simply picked up the pen to sign, and just said, "It's good if you call me happy!" In terms of mental age, he is four years old this year. When you are in your early teens, it is most appropriate to have a relationship with a person in his early fifties.

After finishing writing, the pen closed the cap, and the book was pushed back. Li Qian said, "The handwriting is very poor, it made you laugh."

Chen Youcheng opened it and glanced at it, only to see the words on it: "Mr. Yangshan Yajian - Jin Yong", and he couldn't help showing a frowning expression instantly.

Mr. Yangshan, it is his number, also called nickname, or alias.

Li Qian is a public figure. It is of course easier for ordinary people to know a lot of his basic information, but Chen Youcheng is only the president of a publishing house. Although he calls himself a literati, he is a publisher. He is so famous, but Li Qian, who has never met before, actually knows his nickname, which is only known in small circles. It can be seen that at least under this meeting, he has done his homework very seriously. Now He also specially wrote his number on the title page to show respect. For literati, this is a very face-to-face thing.

When the ancients met politely, they would often say something like "Long-awaited name, like thunder," and so on. Although over time, it gradually became polite, but the reason why it became a polite word that everyone said was precisely because this word was the most popular. Today's China, to a large extent, retains many ancient customs, especially the literati, and most of them are more or less old-fashioned literati.

"I didn't expect that my little nickname would also fall into the ears of your brother Li, hehe, I laughed!"

While speaking, he put away his pen and signed book contentedly, with a contented expression on his face.

For now, this is likely to be the only autographed version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the country!

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Chen Youcheng not only runs a publishing house handed down from his father's generation, but he is indeed addicted to books, especially martial arts novels. Li Qian's first "Jade Blood Sword" sent to various publishing houses was either rejected by many publishing houses or had a lukewarm attitude. Only his publishing house, after accepting the manuscript I quickly replied, saying that it could be published, and in terms of market conditions, the remuneration was not low.

Of course, today's Li Qian doesn't care too much about the more or less fees for several books. Since the cooperation is good, he won "Jade Blood Sword", which is equivalent to winning "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

"Blood Sword" did not sell very well, but it was profitable. When "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" came out, within a few months, it was always at the top of the sales rankings of major bookstores, and the last one was released last month. , this single edition, and a set of four collector's editions that followed were big sellers!

With this book, Chen Youcheng is naturally making a lot of money!

A book that not only makes Chen Youcheng as a reader admire it, but also makes a lot of money for Chen Youcheng as a publisher, you can imagine how important the author's position in his heart is!

And there is a very important point, that is, he is one of the very few people who know the true identity of the author "Jin Yong"!

For example, in the various sales lists released by Dongguan Bookstore this Monday, most people in the publishing industry only pay attention to the best-selling lists of books, so they only know that the new martial arts writer named Jin Yong, with a book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" The four single copies of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and a set of collector's editions have won five of the top 20 best-selling books. With a stable top position, I yearn for this mysterious new writer, and I desperately want to get the contact information of this author from the inside of the publishing house under Chen Youcheng, in order to compete for his next book.

As for the people in the record industry and the music circle, they only know that although the sales volume of Li Qian's new album in the first week did not reach the level he expected, it still topped the chart without any suspense. The gossip within the industry is spreading freely, and the major media do not need a dime of publicity fees from Minghu Culture~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They took the initiative to discuss and discuss because of "The First Experience of Love", and inadvertently The promotion of this album to the greatest extent, and so on, have made everyone envious.

It's just that no one would associate such two completely unrelated people together!

However, Chen Youcheng, who personally handled the secret signing of Li Qian's two novels from beginning to end, is extremely clear that the two names that top the bestseller list are actually the same person!

Therefore, after chatting with each other for a while, he couldn't help but say with emotion: "Writing songs and making music, of course, you can't choose the level of your brother Li! It's well known that filming TV series is also good, and now writing books is also so talented! Really! Yes...others don't tell me, I admire to the ground!"

After a pause, he didn't wait for Li Qian to speak, and then continued: "This time I asked your brother out, of course, I want to make an appointment with your brother for the next book, and I hope to continue to cooperate with your brother, and secondly, I just want to ask, I don't know when my brother plans to reveal your true identity!"

Speaking of which, he had a red face, shook his head slightly, sang three sighs and sighed with pride, and said with emotion: "No. 1 on the bestseller list, and music album bestseller list The author of the first place is actually the same person, if this is announced, brother, it’s hard to say, in recent decades in our country, your reputation as the number one talent has been stabilized!”

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Another big chapter, this time with eight thousand words. Originally wanted to open, after all, I still owe a debt! But after thinking about it again, let's write it first, let's not talk about clearing the debt and not clear the debt, and write a chapter for a few days, and the debt is almost cleared. Because I found that every time I said that I had paid off a chapter of debt, the next day something happened... (To be continued.)