Yang Ye is preparing for the movies "Myth" and "Slaying the Wolf" while preparing for "The Voice of China".
Not long after, it was award season.
Since the Golden Melody Awards and the Academy Awards have made a good start, other award ceremonies in Hong Kong are also held from February to April.
Hong Kong now has three music awards, namely the Golden Melody Awards held by Radio Television Hong Kong, the Golden Melody Awards held by Wireless Television, and the "Top Music Popularity List" held by Hong Kong Commercial Radio.
Thanks to Yang Ye’s support for the Golden Melody Award, after ten years of development, it has become the most prestigious music event in the Chinese world, and musicians are all proud of winning the Golden Melody Award.
Wireless's Jinge Golden Melody Awards is an imitation of the Golden Melody Awards, but it pays more attention to popularity.
Commercial Radio's "Chi Chi Music Pop Chart" is the most transparent music award in Hong Kong, because its list of winners is based on Hong Kong Commercial Radio's annual song play rate.
Music fans only need to estimate the approximate list of winners based on folk statistics of playback rates.
However, in the end, it is subject to Commercial Channel’s own data, so there will be a slight difference in the list of winners.
Yang Ye only attended the Golden Melody Awards and never appeared at the other two award ceremonies. They would not invite Yang Ye either.
If Fang Yihua and Yang Ye don't deal with it, they will naturally not invite Yang Ye. However, in order to show fairness, they will also give awards to Yang Ye. Every time, Yang Ji's singer will accept it on his behalf.
Hong Kong Commercial Radio and Hong Kong’s left wing have a deep hatred. During the 1967 riots, the "Current Affairs Commentary" hosted by Commercial Radio's Lin Bin was extremely popular.
The leftists hated him so much that they blocked Lin Bin and his cousin Lin Guanghai on their way to work and set them on fire.
Yang Ye and Xia Meng are as close as siblings and have a close relationship with Shi Hui, so they never interact with Yang Ye.
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In addition to the three award ceremonies in Hong Kong, Taiwan will also start holding the Golden Melody Awards this year, and the time is scheduled for January.
In order to cope with competition, the Golden Melody Awards began to reform. In addition to the regular awards, category awards were added. This is a model of the American Grammy Awards.
However, there is a big gap between Chinese pop music and European and American pop music, so it is not as complicated as the Grammys. It is divided into country, jazz, R&B... more than a dozen subcategories.
For the time being, the Golden Melody Awards only has four sub-categories: pop, folk, rock, and musical/drama. Additional categories will be added in the future depending on the situation.
This year is the first award ceremony after the reform. The organizing committee spares no effort to invite people from all walks of life to come and support the event.
So this year's award ceremony was very lively, with big names gathered, and almost all the loud-sounding musicians came. Just walking on the red carpet took a long time.
Yang Ye and Teresa Teng made their final appearance, triggering bursts of screams from the music fans.
The reporter came forward to conduct a simple interview with the two people and asked them what they thought about the addition of four sub-categories in the Golden Melody Awards this time.
Yang Ye said: "Chinese pop music started late and the genre is relatively single. This time it is only divided into four sub-categories, but it is still a big progress.
I hope it will become more popular in the future. To grow stronger, we can see other types of music such as blues and jazz, and we hope to see our own unique type of music. ”
After Yang Ye and Deng Lijun simply answered some questions, they entered the Hong Kong Coliseum. Deng Lijun asked: "Will you create a type of music of our own?"
Yang Ye shook his head: " How can I do this?”
Deng Lijun said: “I think you have done it!”
“When did I do it?”
"Sixteen years ago, you sang "Country Road" to me, breaking the limitations of old Shanghai music and traditional folk songs, and creating a simple, plain and catchy style of music. You even named it at that time Doesn’t this count as a Chinese folk song? ”
"Well, it borrows the characteristics of American country music, so don't count it! Besides, folk songs can be found all over the world. For me, I can only count them as folk songs with Chinese characteristics."
"Then help me produce it. The two pieces of "A Touch of Love" are composed with classical poetry, and the style is very unique, which is completely different from Western pop music. Doesn't this count? "
"One person releases a few songs, no matter how different the style is. It is unique and cannot form a genre.
Unless a large number of creators participate and gain a large number of fans, it can form a market scale.
For example, with the development of Taiwan in recent years. With urbanization, urban folk songs gradually emerged.
And it gets more and more intense, and sooner or later it becomes a trend, and then this genre is born.
It’s just that urban folk songs are not original to China. They were learned from Europe and the United States, from Bob Dylan. ”
Yang Ye feels more and more that the world is just repeating itself.
Campus folk songs emerged in Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, with the rapid development, With the urbanization, urban folk songs came into being.
In fact, this is just a journey of the United States.
As for the mainland, which is lagging behind Taiwan, that group of people listened to Taiwanese campus folk songs when they were teenagers.
In the 1990s, they began to enter society and became a backbone, so campus folk songs, which had declined in Taiwan, emerged in mainland China.
After the millennium, the mainland also began to urbanize rapidly, and urban folk songs naturally came into being, with representative musicians such as Song Dongye and Hao Yun appearing.
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After entering the Coliseum, Yang Ye sat in the front row and greeted Zhang Minyi next to him: "Sister, I haven't seen you for a while, what have you been busy with recently?"
Zhang Minyi said calmly: "What else can I be busy with? The Golden Melody Awards and the Academy Awards."
"Thank you for your hard work. The entertainment industry in Hong Kong can be so prosperous, and you have contributed a lot to it, eldest sister!"
"I don't dare to worry about this. The fact that Hong Kong films can be sold all over the world is mainly due to you filmmakers. We are just providing good service."
The two of them pretended to be polite. , and secretly set a date for a date, and the award ceremony officially began.
"Please... Yi Nengjing and F4, bring us "Only I Have Feelings for You"!"
This year's opening show invited the main cast of "Meteor Garden", which became popular in Asia last year, and it was natural to use their popularity to increase the popularity.
The song "Only I Have Feelings for You" was the title song of Fahrenheit's first album in the original time and space. It was composed by JJ Lin and sung by Fahrenheit and Blackie.
Fahrenheit is also a four-person group, plus the black guy is one woman and four men, which just matches the five protagonists of "Meteor Garden".
The sales of F4's "Meteor Shower" last year were terrible. It was not only popular in the Chinese area, but also entered the Japanese and Korean markets. Half a year after its release, the sales volume has exceeded four million copies.
The two major record companies, Poplar and Rolling Stone, will strike while the iron is hot and create their second and third albums respectively. The second album will be in Mandarin and the third album will be in Cantonese.
"Only I Have Feelings for You" was chosen by Yang Ye as the title song of F4's Mandarin album.
This song is in the style of dance music. In the current Japanese pop music industry, Tetsuya Komuro and others are setting off a dance music trend, leading the trend in Asia.
When Yang Ye came up with this song at this time, it can be said that he was at the forefront of popularity.
“No matter how beautiful or sweet the smile is, it’s not special if it’s not yours.
No matter how bitter or salty the tears are, it’ll be a sunny day with your comfort and sunshine.
No matter how close you are, if you don’t hug me, it’s too far.
The whole world only has feelings for you!”
Yi Nengjing and F4 jumped up and down on the stage, attracting the attention of the audience. Fans screamed wildly.
Yi Nengjing was born in the girl group and trained for many years before debuting. She is much more professional than F4 and her performance is obviously better.
But there are more shouts of F4 in the audience. Much more, female fans are so crazy. Even so, Yi Nengjing has reached a new peak in her career with "Meteor Garden"
The album released alone last year sold more than 800,000 copies in Asia, which is a very good result.
However, her innate conditions were like that, and she didn’t have much potential to tap, so she stopped there.
In F4 in this time and space, there are two singers, Zheng Yijian and Sun Yaowei, who are pretty good at singing.
It is not a big problem for Louis Koo and Zhang Zhilin to paddle slightly into the water.
It's better than the four original ones that were all parallel imports.
After Yi Nengjing and F4 performed, the awards officially began, starting with the folk song category.
The awards are relatively simple, divided into best male folk singer, best female folk singer, and best folk song.
What is more interesting is that Yi Nengjing and F4, who have just finished their performance, served as the award guests for the best male singer and female singer respectively.
Yi Nengjing opened the list of winners and read sweetly: "The winner of the best male folk singer is...Sir Yang Ye!"
There was a burst of warm applause on the stage, and the camera showed Yang Ye, but he was a little confused.
How could it be me?
After the names were read, Yang Ye went up to the stage happily, took the trophy from Yi Nengjing, and said into the microphone: "Thank you everyone, I am honored to be the first to receive the award, but am I mistaken? I haven’t released an album in many years.”
The emcee today was Huang Zhan, and he immediately said: “You also know that you haven’t released an album in many years.”
"Ah this..."
Huang Zhan said again: "Aye, you are a little biased!"
"Why am I biased?" Yang Ye was confused.
“You released three movies last year, and your fans were hooked. But what about the fans? What will happen to the fans? If you don’t release an album, your fans will starve to death! Everyone said Really?"
The audience was very proud and immediately shouted: "Yes!"
Yang Ye could only say perfunctorily: "Hurry up!"
In fact, it's not wrong to give him this award. Last year, "At the Gate" was released, and his song "The Loved One" was included in the subsequently released movie soundtrack.
Subsequently, two singles were released, "Lake Baikal" and "White Birch Forest".
These three songs are all in the style of Russian folk songs, and the quality is also very good. If he doesn’t win the award, who will win?
Yang Ye raised the trophy and said: "As usual, I should give an acceptance speech, but I would like to take this opportunity to say something else.
Nowadays, the Chinese music market is booming, and this is indispensable. We musicians must thank everyone for their support.
But what follows is increasingly rampant piracy. According to estimates, piracy sales in the two major markets of Hong Kong and Taiwan have now accounted for 20%.
Piracy will cause heavy losses to record companies, musicians, and singers, and will cause them to lose their creative enthusiasm. In the end, it will be the fans who will be harmed.
So here, I would like to appeal to say no to piracy! ”
Some of the audience in the audience felt that it made sense and were ready to respond to Yang Ye’s call.
Some did not agree. Your genuine version is so expensive, what’s wrong with me buying a pirated version?
Yang Ye suddenly brought up this matter because although the market situation is good now, the impact of piracy on genuine products is not that great.
However, piracy is on the rise. If it is not curbed, it will rise to 50% within ten years, completely hitting the development of popular music.
In the original time and space, IFPI announced that piracy will not be eradicated and will no longer publish sales lists and ranking statistics in the Taiwan industry.
Taiwanese record companies began to report sales figures unscrupulously, which led to a trend of exaggeration across both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
It wasn’t until Jay Chou publicly questioned record sales and Taihe Maitian announced Li Yuchun’s album sales figures that the audience truly faced the seriousness of the water injection of record numbers.
However, Yang Ye has no good solution for this kind of thing. Now the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are not a unified country, and the rule of law is not sound. He can only appeal, which is better than nothing.
Next is the Best Female Folk Singer, which was awarded to Qi Yu.
After Qi Yu took the stage and gave a speech, he sang "Barcarolle" released last year live.
The best folk song was awarded to "White Birch Forest". Yang Ye won two awards. He didn't say anything on stage this time, he just sang the song live and it was a hit.
Next is the popular category, where competition is the most intense.
The original time and space was so troubled by the "Tan-Zhang competition" that Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung successively announced that they would no longer win awards.
At that time, they were qualified to pretend to be this cool, because they were really tired of it.
But not now, the competition is too fierce.
Not only did a large number of Hong Kong singers such as Zhang Xueyou enter the competition in advance, Taiwanese singers also joined the competition, and there was also the bug of Yang Ye. No one could win the award steadily.
In this case, isn’t it a joke that you announced that you will no longer win awards and will support the younger generations?
What are you pretending to be? With such a big face, you will definitely be able to get it.
So every year there is a bloody battle.
Veteran singers released many good songs last year. Alan Tam's "Love and Love", Leslie Cheung's "Side", Anita Mui's "Lady", "Song of the Sunset", Chen Baiqiang's "What I Want in Life", Priscilla Chan's "Night Flight"...
But The final award for the best pop song was awarded to Wang Jie's "Who Knows the Prodigal's Heart".
Only two years after his rise, Wang Jie defeated a number of veteran superstars to win the award, which proves how fierce the competition is now.
When it came time to award the best female singer, it was even more surprising. Pan Meichen, who had just debuted a year ago, swept away all the queens with her self-composed song "I Want to Have a Family."
"I Want to Have a Family" is indeed a classic song. When Pan Meichen was studying, she had the experience of moving three times within half a year. She was even so poor that she stayed in the house for several days in a row. Eating instant noodles in a rented cabin.
She created this song based on her own personal experience and personal insights, expressing her longing for family from the perspective of a person who lacks the warmth of family.
After the song was released, it became popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and everywhere, making everyone feel the same after listening to it. It also appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, touching a generation.
It is reasonable for such a good song with meaningful words to win the award, and those queens have nothing to say.
Next is the rock category.
Rock is a small category in Chinese music, but it also has a certain influence and has produced many well-known rock singers.
Compared to jazz, blues, etc., it is already much more popular.
This time, Yang Ye was invited to the stage to be the award guest.
After taking the stage, Yang Ye said: "Rock is very niche in Hong Kong. According to estimates, there are only about 5,000 rock fans in Hong Kong. Even if one person buys an album, the sales volume will only be 5,000.
Therefore, it is difficult for rock singers in Hong Kong to survive, but there is a band that has been surviving tenaciously until now, and has made very outstanding achievements.
The winner of Best Rock Artist is...Beyond, congratulations! "
When the four sons heard Yang Ye read out their names, they were so excited that tears filled their eyes and they hugged each other tightly! (End of this chapter)