Chapter 85: Last Stand

December 23, afternoon, Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

In the No. 1 studio hall of the Oriental Star TV headquarters building, there was a busy scene.

A total of more than 20 camera positions were mounted on the outstretched booms one after another, aiming at the huge central stage. In addition, there were four orbital camera positions on the stage, and there were more than 10 track positions in the audience. Several people are carrying cameras, ready to capture various shots at any time.

The stage has been completely set up. Except for a few big names, most of the singers, actors, backup dancers, and hosts are already waiting in the background. There are few people sitting or standing in the auditorium, most of them are working. A small number of personnel are reporters from Dragon TV's internal news channel and variety show channel, but none of the audience.

That's right, this is the rehearsal site for Dragon TV's annual New Year's Eve Song Concert.

In the domestic entertainment and variety show circles, there are a total of four most important large-scale evening shows throughout the year.

Among them, Huaxia TV's Spring Festival Gala has the largest number of celebrities, the highest style, and unmatched ratings. However, it is a comprehensive party and has a strong official nature. It can really leave time for pop singers. That's forty to forty-five minutes. Even at that party, the military singers had more status than the gang of pop singers, because they played the main theme and closely followed the tone of the government.

So this party is very difficult to attend.

Either your work was really popular in the past year. If it doesn’t get popular, people all over the country will have opinions, or you have excellent works that meet the needs of the country’s publicity. Otherwise, you will be old. To be honest, let’s mix up the celebrities in the circle first. When you get to the level of Liu Mingliang and Zhen Zhen, even if you want to release a new song and want to use the stage of the Spring Festival Gala to promote it, the other party will often welcome it very much.

The forty minutes reserved for the pop music scene during the Spring Festival Gala are roughly divided into two parts, each of which is about 20 minutes long. The first one is the solos reserved for big names, about six or seven songs, usually three or four male singers, and two or three female singers - this position, ordinary singers don't even think about it of.

As for the remaining part, it is the popular song Dalian. A song can last about one minute, and the twenty minutes is divided into three sections, each section has five to six songs, and the total is about fifteen. Six to seventeen or eighteen people—this is where most record companies have to work hard on public relations, and it is also a very important battlefield for ordinary second- and third-tier singers.

As long as the song is good and you are on this stage, you don't have to worry about not being popular!

So it is conceivable that there are only so many positions, even if it is a breakthrough, there are only a few people who can get the position in the end.

And if the rest of the people want to use this kind of large-scale national attention to publicize, they have no choice but to come up with the idea of ​​the remaining three.

After the end of the Spring Festival Gala, turn back the year and it is the Dragon Boat Festival Gala of HUNAN TV. This show ranks at the bottom in the ratings among the four major shows, but it is still not to be underestimated, because the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival in May just means the annual summer vacation The big sale time is coming, so those who want to promote movies, new songs and new albums are crowded together.

After the Dragon Boat Festival Gala, there will be the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala of Suncheon Satellite TV.

The style of this gala is very high, but the ratings are only slightly higher than that of the Dragon Boat Festival gala, so for most of the singers, it probably has a meaningless meaning: the artistic conception, level, and spirit of the song are very demanding, not good. At the same time, the publicity effect after going up may not be much better.

Of course, that also depends on the person.

For folk singers and folk singers, the style of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala is simply too suitable for them. Needless to say, they get together and squeeze up!

After the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, it will be Dragon TV's New Year's Eve Song Concert.

Unlike the other three shows that are all comprehensive, this New Year's Eve song show is purely for singers, and more than 90% of the performance time will definitely be reserved for the pop music world!

Therefore, although it has always been considered too low-key in the mainstream media, it has to be said that since its first session, it has always been the most loved and sought after by young people. In terms of ratings, it is also Ranked second!

Therefore, it is conceivable that there are new songs to be released, new albums to be promoted, and the album has been sold for a few months. The album is about to be released and new songs will be released, so come here early to get acquainted... With all these things, almost the entire pop music scene will become restless.

Even to a certain extent, the people who showed their faces at this party will roughly determine the trend of the domestic music scene in the next year!

And now December 23rd is the first rehearsal for this New Year's Eve song party.

At this time, in the dozens of preparation rooms behind the stage, almost all the vital forces in the current domestic music scene gathered. Among them is a preparation room that belongs to Wuxingwusu.

There are still 20 minutes before the rehearsal starts. According to the arrangement of the program group, they will appear in the second hour and 20 minutes, so in fact, there is still plenty of time, but at this time, the girls have already arrived early. After putting on makeup and styling, they just waited intently for the time to go on stage—on this stage, they are not farts. During the rehearsal, the big stars can completely do without makeup or styling, and the bigger ones They don't even come to the first rehearsal at all, but they have to be fully armed, lest they make any bad impression on anyone.

At this moment, I have to say that the five girls are very nervous.

In the preparation area of ​​dozens of rooms in the corridor of Oriental Star TV, each room is only separated by partitions, and the sound insulation effect is not good. Even if you hide in your own preparation room, you can still keep going. I can hear all kinds of movements from everywhere - talking, laughing, walking, and of course, the sound of guitar and singing practice.

In short, it is like a large vegetable market, where everyone sells their food.

In such an environment, the five girls who came to Oriental Satellite TV for the first time were naturally doubly nervous.

The rehearsal is about to start. As a singer, it is common sense not to eat or drink before the performance. Even if your throat is really dry, you are only allowed to take a few small sips to moisten your throat.

If it is an experienced old singer, he can sing casually with his guitar in his hand, stretch his throat, or he can chat with his manager or producer to relax, or you can even go to other singers you know Going to visit, we sit together for a while, chatting about the old days, and the time passes.

But I can't do the five elements.

Although they have already released an album, they are not considered newcomers, but they have not made any achievements, so there is not enough coffee, and they cannot make any decent friends in the circle. Nervous, and not in the mood to chat with others—the five of them, plus the manager, Sister Wu, were bored in a small room of more than ten square meters, and they were unwilling to speak, let alone looking for outsiders. ?

Therefore, it is very noisy outside, but the house is very quiet.

It was fine in the morning, and everyone looked relaxed before they came here, but when they got here, Zhou Pingping was so nervous that her stomach hurt and she couldn't do it even after going to the toilet a few times. Sun Ruoxuan just kept swallowing, If you ask her, she will say that my throat is dry, but after taking a few sips of water, she continues to have a dry throat.

Sima Duoduo is better, but she keeps sweating. It's very cold. Although the room is air-conditioned, which is 17 or 8 degrees, she is still sweating all the time in a thin costume. I wipe my hands with a towel every few minutes, but if you hold her hand, you can bring back a palm of sweat at any time...

Xie Bing is a bit better than her, he doesn't talk or make trouble, just keeps opening and closing his lips with earphones on, but the volume of the earphones is so loud that you can hear it from a few meters away .

As for Wang Jingxue...well, she was probably the only one who could at least maintain her superficial composure. After realizing everyone's nervousness, she chose to sit on the sofa in the corner by herself, then closed her eyes and began to rest.

In fact, they all knew in their hearts that there was no need to be so nervous. This was just a rehearsal, and there was another rehearsal and two official recordings to come! And this party is not a live broadcast. In theory, as long as they can perform well in one of the two official recordings, when the party is broadcast, the audience will see their best side .

But... no, everyone just couldn't control their nervousness.

Because of the new album, but also because of this evening.

Their second album "Sister and Sister Stand Up" will be officially released nationwide on December 26th. For this album, whether it is the attitude given by the company after the audition, or the self-feeling of the girls of Wu Xing Wu Su, they all have great confidence in its future sales prospects.

Needless to say, there are a few fast songs headed by "Sister and Sister Stand Up" and "Happy Baby". In the words of producer Li Jinlong, the domestic market is not without fast songs and dance songs, but no one has no works that can really win. The recognition of the market, and now, after hearing these songs, I feel that the market for fast songs is about to open!

It can be seen how much he trusts those songs!

Even those few slow songs, that is, those few songs that Li Qian said could make them recognized by the mainstream media and music critics, after the company's internal audition for the album, Du Xiaoming, the company's music director, also I said to them excitedly: If you can get a song like "Farewell", and you can sing this work for the first time, in about fifty years, your names will still be remembered by many people!

You think, it's all like this, Li Qian's works, coupled with the high recognition and praise of so many authoritative musicians in the company, even if they are not very confident, don't they have to increase their confidence at this time?

However, the company said that although the company is very optimistic about their album and has great expectations for the market prospect of this album, considering their past market position, it is impossible for the company to directly regard them as the front line Stars spend money on publicity like that, so, after internal discussions, the company decided to spend all the money on the new year's New Year's Eve Song Concert of Oriental Star TV in terms of the promotion and release of the new album...

Therefore, they, who were not qualified anyway, were able to get the performance time of two songs at this party, which added up to more than seven minutes, and it was around ten o'clock in the evening when it was broadcast. Not a bad time period.

But such a desperate publicity strategy means that they only have one way to go, Huashan. If they become popular through the New Year's Eve party, there is nothing to say.

Let the company continue to spend money on publicity? It's not entirely impossible! But the question is, around New Year's Day, what kind of publicity can compare to singing for seven minutes at Dragon TV's New Year's Eve song party?

And as we all know, after the New Year’s Day party, if you are popular, you are popular, and if you are not popular, you are not popular. As long as you are not popular, and people don’t pay extra attention to you, then, when the whole country and society start to move towards the rhythm of Chinese New Year after New Year’s Day, Even if you are at the level of the king of heaven and the queen of heaven, it is difficult to get good sales results during this period of time. However, after the Spring Festival is over, it will be the turn of those songs on the Spring Festival Gala to become popular in the streets and alleys!

Therefore, it is completely a last stand!

Time passed by very slowly and quickly, the corridor outside was still noisy, and it seemed that a visitor came to the next room, and the two male singers laughed loudly when they talked about happy things...

Finally, the rehearsal officially began.

Then, finally, the program team knocked on the door to remind them that it was their turn in half an hour, so they should prepare immediately and go backstage in ten minutes to wait.

As a result, the sisters stood up one after another, one with a stiff face, one who was about to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder - Zhou Pingping still had a stomachache, Sun Ruoxuan still had a dry throat and wanted to drink water, Sima Duoduo continued to sweat.

The manager, Sister Wu, gave a few words of comfort, and then their producer, Li Jinlong, arrived just in time, and added a few words of comfort and encouragement, which made the five girls feel a little better, and their tension was somewhat relieved.

Before going out to the waiting room, Xie Bing finally plucked up the courage to speak, "Sisters, don't be nervous, let's sing well, don't let down the hard work of the past few months, don't let down the dedication that Teacher Li Qian has done for us !"

Sima Duoduo clenched his fists, "Well, don't be nervous! We will be popular! Our song will be welcomed by everyone!"

Even Wang Jingxue said calmly, "Liao Liao took five songs from Li Qian, each of which became a hit. In our new album, there are eight songs by him! We have to believe in ourselves and him!"

So, the five sisters stretched out their hands one after another, held them together solemnly, and shouted in unison: "Come on!"

... ... ...

After all, when the staff of the program team came to inform that "the next group will be you", the five girls were still extremely nervous. Looking like they were about to cry, the sisters held hands and clasped each other tightly, as if they could pass on the strength in that way!

Then, the time came.

The music of the previous song stopped, and the host came on stage, and began to introduce their group Wuxingwusu, and then saw the staff wave to them, and then pointed to the stage.

It's time for them to play.

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