Chapter 1233 1333. Starry Music Festival, Infinite Challenge Song Festival
After the guest role, Nie Wei and Shu Chang did not return to Kyoto immediately. They traveled in the local area for another four days, playing all the places to play in the surrounding area, and of course, they also tried all the food.
Of course, they occasionally went to the set these days to chat with several actors in the crew, and gave them guidance on acting skills, etc., and of course, they talked more about some fun things in the entertainment industry in the past.
Everyone also exchanged text messages with each other. Nie Wei said that everyone was pulled into a group, and Zhou Duoduo was also pulled in. Although these young actors looked inconspicuous in front of Nie Wei, they were indeed promising rising stars. For Zhou Duoduo, these people were worth getting along with, and they were also her potential network resources in the entertainment industry in the future.
After all, Zhou Duoduo could not rely on Nie Wei all her life. She always had to have her own social circle, gradually leaving her brother's wings, and become an independent existence.
Naturally, she had to go back after playing enough, but Nie Wei and Shu Chang didn't know that someone was waiting for him in Kyoto.
The Infinite Challenge Song Festival has been held for the tenth year this year. As it is the tenth anniversary, it is natural to make it more grand. In the end, the program team racked their brains and came up with an idea, that is, to put the Infinite Challenge Song Festival this year at the Star Music Festival that the company is about to hold.
This music festival is not simple, it is a super-large music festival for global bands.
In order to cooperate with the Star Group, the local area has allocated dozens of acres of land to build a super music plaza that can accommodate more than 300,000 people. The Star Group has also invested nearly 1 billion yuan to build a series of supporting facilities such as hotels and shopping malls in the surrounding area.
This investment has also led other companies to follow suit with a total investment of nearly 10 billion yuan, including residential areas, bars, cafes, etc. A series of investments have emerged one after another. For a time, the Xinbei District, which was originally quite deserted, suddenly became a new upstart in the area near Kyoto, and the land price soared.
This construction process took a full two years, and this year is the third year. The Star Music Festival, as the core project of the area, is about to kick off.
For such a major occasion, the program group felt that it was definitely qualified as the stage for the 10th anniversary of the Infinite Challenge Song Festival.
You should know that in addition to more than 30 domestic bands and singers, many foreign first-line bands and singers were also invited. Taylor, Adele, and Maroon 5 were all on the list of the first Stars Music Festival.
Only the Stars Group in China has this influence and can invite so many internationally renowned singers and groups.
However, when Ma Dong and others heard that the program group wanted to arrange this season's Song Festival at the Stars Music Festival, they were all at a loss. Before, everyone had a Song Festival for fun. The audience didn't really care whether the singing was good or bad. The audience would applaud if the songs were good, and the audience would just think that the members were making fun of the songs if the songs were bad.
But it would be different if you went to the music festival. The people who went there to play were definitely not all fans of Infinite Challenge. With other listeners, everyone felt a lot more pressure in their hearts.
"I heard that at the music festival, some groups who didn't sing well were booed off the stage by the fans below. Do you think we will all be booed off the stage?" As the only two singers in "Infinite Challenge" who have released records, Xie Na asked with a worried look while chatting with everyone in the lounge.
But her worries were not comforted. After hearing her words at this moment, several friends all changed their faces. For example, Chen Jianzhou, who was tone-deaf, was so scared that his face turned pale, and he completely lost his usual fearless demeanor.
"Are you program crew deliberately trying to make us embarrassed?" Ma Dong suddenly stood up angrily, pointing at the program crew directors on the side and questioned loudly.
Several directors shook their heads quickly, but the way they held back their laughter fully showed their gloating mood at this moment.
"No, what good will it do you if we embarrass ourselves? If we lose face, won't your program team also lose face?" Yuchi Linjia begged with a wry smile: "Or let's discuss it again. If it doesn't work out, we can just hold the Song Festival in KTV this year."
"..." Hearing Yuchi's words, the other members and the program team were all silent.
"You can find a guest singer." The program director Wushi Yuchi suggested and said directly.
"If you don't let us find one, we will find one too, just in case we make the guest singer unlucky together." Ma Dong couldn't help laughing.
No matter how much the members don't want to or how much they object, in the program "Infinite Challenge", the things decided by the program team will not be changed.
Not to mention singing at the music festival, the program team also arranged for these guys to go to a certain mountain to build a plank road. Didn't they all build more than ten meters hard?
It was thousands of meters high, and there were only a few wooden planks underfoot. If a heavier person stepped on it, it would make a grinding sound, as if it would break at the next moment. Although there was a safety rope, the environment was much more dangerous and difficult than the music festival we were going to participate in now.
They had gone through the construction of the plank road, coal mining, and survival on the uninhabited island. In the eyes of the program director, the last music festival was a very happy thing for the members.
"Who have you decided to find as the guest singer?" The will of the program team could not be violated, so everyone began to discuss the guest singer, which was very important to all members.
Everyone knows what their singing skills are. Ma Dong and Chen Jianzhou are pure tone-deaf people. Xie Na has released an album, but her singing skills are not very good, and can even be said to be very poor. Without the sound engineer, she is also the kind that occasionally runs away. Of course, she is better than Ma Dong and Chen Jianzhou, but also limited.
Yuchi Linjia is not a professional, but after all, she studied broadcasting, with a good voice and KTV microphone master level.
Ou Di and Cheng Kun are the real singing gods hidden among the members. You should know that Cheng Kun debuted as a singer, but he was too bad. He was selected by a director to shoot a TV series before he released an album.
Ou Di, needless to say, debuted as a member of an idol group, and another member of the group is Luo Xiaozhu, who is known as the Asian Dance King.
"I asked my wife for help. My wife happened to be very free recently. Director, is it okay for me to invite my wife?" Chen Jianzhou asked.
"You can invite anyone, but the program team will not pay a penny for the performance fee." The director replied expressionlessly.
Chen Jianzhou held the back of his neck and felt his blood pressure rise. It was indeed a stingy program team that didn't even pay the performance fee. Chen Jianzhou was speechless. The other members also loudly denounced the program team, but it was useless. The director had already trained a thick skin like a city wall in the past ten years and didn't care about any accusations.
"I suspect that your skin can block the armor-piercing bullets fired by sniper rifles." Ma Dong finally concluded, and this made the corners of the mouths of several directors and writers twitch involuntarily.
"I want to invite Luo Xiaozhu, but I don't know if he has time."
"Then I will invite my husband Zhang Jie."
Several people with connections immediately determined the target of the invitation, which made Ma Dong and others envious, but there was no way, who let her husband and wife be singers, and that group debuted, which was something that everyone had never experienced.
The remaining three people were distressed for a long time, and it seemed that they couldn't think of any solution, so the first day of recording ended here.
However, when everyone went out, Ma Dong, who had just got into the nanny car, immediately took out his mobile phone and called Nie Wei. However, to his surprise, the phone actually prompted him that he was on the phone. Ma Dong had a bad idea in his mind. He suspected that it was either Cheng Kun or Yuchi who was calling Nie Wei.
As Ma Dong expected, it was Cheng Kun who called Nie Wei.
Cheng Kun did not beat around the bush on the phone. He told Nie Wei about the situation of this year's Song Festival, and then invited Nie Wei to sing a song and invite him to be his guest singer.
"How did you find me?" Nie Wei asked with a smile.
"I have no friends. The program group is always stingy and does not pay the guests for performances. I thought it was your company anyway. If you were invited, you should have nothing to say. After all, all the money earned by the program went into your pocket, right?" Cheng Kun shamelessly used a set of perverse logic to persuade Nie Wei.
Nie Wei was speechless: "Don't talk nonsense, Fanxing has so many shareholders, I'm just one of them, how could all the money go into my pocket."
"You are the largest shareholder, at least most of the money went into your pocket, that's right, Nie Wei, President Nie, my brother, just agree." Cheng Kun even acted like a spoiled child to ask Nie Wei to agree, which made Nie Wei so angry that he had goose bumps all over his body.
"Okay, I promise you, don't call me brother, you are so much older than me, don't you know it?"
"Really? Why don't I remember? Aren't we all born in the 1980s?"
After hanging up the phone, Nie Wei smiled and complained to Shu Chang beside him: "I feel that Cheng Kun is getting more and more playful as he gets older."
"It's because you recommended him to Infinite Challenge in the first place, otherwise a good and cold male god would not have been cultivated by you into the funny male god he is now." Shu Chang couldn't help but say happily.
After ten years of doing a program, even if Cheng Kun no longer has a talent for variety shows, he has developed a sense of humor. When he first joined the program, he couldn't let go of all kinds of things and had at least a mountain of idol baggage on his back, but now these things are long gone, and even Cheng Kun is about to grow wings behind him. He is flying higher and higher on this road, and sometimes others can't stop him.
While talking, Nie Wei's phone rang again. This time it was Ma Dong who called. Just like before, he also asked Nie Wei for help, but Nie Wei had already agreed to Cheng Kun, so he naturally declined Ma Dong.
Ma Dong still wanted to "seduce" Nie Wei to breach the contract, but Nie Wei righteously blocked him with a few words, and he could only hang up the phone helplessly.
The Stars Music Festival kicked off on August 5, and now it is early July. Everyone still has nearly a month to prepare songs and rehearse performances.
It seems that there is plenty of time, but in fact, it is very tight when you calculate it carefully.
First of all, the problem of songs is a big problem. If everything goes well, you can probably write a demo in half an hour, and a relatively complete song in two or three days. As for the fine-tuning later, you have to adjust it little by little as you sing.
But this is only the case when everything goes well. If it doesn't go well, you may not be able to write the melody you want in a week or even half a month.
In addition, several artists are all first-line hosts in China. In addition to "Infinite Challenge", they also hold at least two other satellite TV programs. In addition, there are also commercial performances and so on. It is amazing to have a week of free time in a month.
For example, Cheng Kun only has four days to practice with Nie Wei, two days in the studio to record songs, and two days to rehearse on site.
This is only after Cheng Kun pushed back several activities.
Fortunately, Nie Wei had plenty of time. In fact, most of the tasks of this group of members were to be assigned to the guest singers and songwriters. In addition to proposing some of their own ideas about the songs, they also thought about how to perform well on stage.
Cheng Kun and Nie Wei met on the third day after Nie Wei returned to Kyoto.
Not only Nie Wei, but also Shu Chang and Zhou Duoduo participated in the recording of the program. Zhou Duoduo was brought in by Shu Chang, because when Shu Chang heard that Nie Wei and Cheng Kun were going to form a band to participate in the music festival, he also became very interested and insisted on participating together.
And they also assigned roles to everyone. For example, Cheng Kun, as a member of the program, must be the host, while Nie Wei was the guitarist of the band. Shu Chang could play the piano and could act as a keyboardist. As for Zhou Duoduo, who was brought in, she acted as the drummer of the band.
"What's the matter? Isn't it very reasonable?" Shu Chang asked Cheng Kun after he finished chattering.
What else could Cheng Kun say? Shu Chang had arranged everything.
"But I can't play the bass, why don't you let Nie Wei play the bass and I'll play the guitar." Cheng Kun suggested.
"No, my husband plays the guitar beautifully, it's a pity to let him play the bass." Shu Chang immediately rejected it, which made Cheng Kun very embarrassed, but he didn't know what to say, after all, he couldn't compare to Nie Wei in guitar.
"It doesn't matter, I can play the guitar too, we can just find another bassist." When Nie Wei said this, the first person he thought of was Alan. This girl plays the bass very well. At the Strawberry Music Festival last year, a solo shocked countless fans.
Nie Wei was dumbfounded after watching the video at that time. When that small body played the bass, it was like she sang, and it felt like a little giant, shining brightly on the stage.
Cheng Kun didn't expect that he only wanted to invite Nie Wei, but he caught a whole nest of fish, Shu Chang, Zhou Duoduo, Alan, plus Nie Wei and himself. Cheng Kun suddenly felt that he should turn down a few more activities and train well, otherwise it would be a bit disappointing to such a fairy team.
"I feel that if Ma Dong and others knew that our group had formed a team, they would definitely come to make trouble." Cheng Kun laughed, and he had already imagined Ma Dong's angry look when he yelled at him for "cheating".
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