The main venue of the Shanhai Music Festival started with a performance at 1:30 and lasted for an entire afternoon. The main venue was a circular gymnasium, which used many sets of LCD screens to form a huge screen that was synchronized with the stage and could even magnify the performers' subtle expressions on the screen.
Most of the bands that can perform at the main venue have experience on large stages, such as the Feixian band that won an award at the New Zealand Music Festival last year and is somewhat famous in Beijing. Although it is a niche band, no one underestimates their ability to play and arrange music. Another example is the Kongming band, which came from the famous Huolu Mountain City and has many fans in several large cities in the southwest. So this time the band will perform in Shanhai, and many people came here because of its reputation...
For example, singers like Zhao Le already have some fame and have released albums with impressive sales. Although these bands and singers are not household names in China or top-tier, if one or two songs can be sung at music festivals, and then packaged and promoted by record companies and praised by some music critics in the industry, they may become a big hit.
Of course, it is impossible for the top singers and bands in the country to participate in such a music festival based on their status.
Record company critics and other people who held VIP tickets at the scene did not participate in the whole process. After all, the music festival lasted eight hours each day, and it was a physically demanding job to listen to all the performances. Some record company executives chose to attend the performances of bands they had favored in advance, or they would have their subordinates record the performances of some bands and singers who were no longer in their sights, and then choose to listen to them later. However, they usually only listened to one or two songs, and if they did not like the band or singer, they would just skip it.
At the same time, there are people who conduct surveys on site at the festival audience seats, monitor the performances, and record some bands and songs that have received good audience responses, and then select them for judging.
Xiao Bo, vice president and partner of the famous domestic Zhenyan Records, is sitting in the VIP seats, which are seats on the high platforms on both sides of the stadium. From this angle, you can see the side of the stage. The stadium facing the stage is already a sea of people, probably no less than tens of thousands of people. This is the evening with the most lively atmosphere. The laser lights on the stage below are blazing, reflecting countless waving glow sticks and arms.
Xiao Bai secretly sighed at the madness and enthusiasm of the crowd, this is the power of music.
In fact, the reason he was in charge of Shanhai City this time was mainly because there were some conflicts in development ideas among the partners of Zhenyan Records, one of the four largest in China. Some insisted on making records, while others thought that the future prospect was to become a celebrity agent, to become big and high-end, and one or two celebrities could support a company. However, Xiao Bo still believed in the commercial tour of music festivals. However, all the partners were big names, and each had their own insistence, so they each formed a team and tried their own approach.
The same is true for Xiao Bai. Among the bands performing at the main venue, there are two that appear to be independent bands, but in fact they have quietly signed contracts with their Zhenyan Records and have even been trained and polished and are lurking quietly.
They are actually using this music festival as a test.
These two bands are the result of real money investment by Zhenyan Records, which invited famous lyricists and composers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan to compose the lyrics and music for them, and used the most advanced technology in the Zhenyan Records industry to modulate them. So even if they perform live, the effect may be inferior to that of recording in the studio, but they also have the best equipment and sound systems throughout the whole process, and the specifications are one level higher than the standard configuration of this stage, so the effect is naturally different. Xiao Bai feels that it is a bit of a bully for these two "special forces" to participate in this music festival.
It's purely using someone else's territory to train your own troops, but it saves a lot of publicity and promotion costs, so it would be a waste not to do it.
But this is the market, this is competition. In fact, Xiao Bo also knew that not only their Zhenyan Records, but also Yingchi Company, which can be said to be their rival in the music field, actually secretly sent out the "seeds" cultivated in the seed bank that have not yet been exposed.
Bands like Zhenyan and Yingchi are born with platforms and resources. Whenever you need it, they can find top musicians in Hong Kong and Taiwan to write lyrics and compose music for you. Then, through a suitable opportunity, such as a music festival like this, they can be "exposed" to compete with the crowd and become famous in one fell swoop.
I don’t know if it’s because their Zhenyan and Yingchi concepts are at the forefront in the country, so when they saw the new format of the Shanhai Music Festival, they immediately prepared to enter the scene to compete for resources.
Once these two major domestic record companies intervene, it basically means one-sided suppression. No matter how hard those band singers who come to the Shanhai music festival with their musical instruments and all kinds of dreams and expectations try, they can only be declared as supporting roles in the end.
Maybe in the end it will just become a battlefield between Zhenyan and Yingchi, or at least several companies with considerable production resources.
Independent musicians or singers and bands with mediocre backgrounds are destined to fail, unless they have works and expressiveness that can rival those of others. However, in front of large record and entertainment companies with abundant resources, no matter how talented they are, they will probably be unable to meet the demands compared to the technical strength accumulated by others.
Xiao Bai and his group, the first band of Zhenyan Records, had just performed, and the effect was indeed the best level so far on the first day of the music festival. When the band sang the rock song that the company had actually paid a lot of money to get from a first-line rock musician, the atmosphere was extremely lively. From Xiao Bai's position, he could see that some girls were even shouting at the top of their lungs. That look reminded Xiao Bai of the model who was rolling on him last night and making such itchy sounds.
Xiao Bai took out a notebook filled with some professional reviews. Based on an evaluation system he made, he defined the performance of this band as Grade A. With this kind of popularity, they can release an album after the music festival and may have good sales.
However, Xiao Bo did not take it lightly. It was already eight o'clock in the evening when the band finished their performance. There was still an hour and a half left for two singers, so he decided to listen to the rest to see if his band was the best of the day.
When the singer named Zhao Le appeared, Xiao Bai frowned. From the information he had, he knew that Zhao Le was actually pregnant with Yingchi Entertainment. He was quite famous in the local area, so when he took the stage, the heat of the scene also rose sharply.
Seeing Zhao Le appear, Wang Zhonghua, who was also in the VIP seat, curled his lips. Zhao Le was probably his biggest surprise this time in Shanhai. Wang Zhonghua was not optimistic about Zhao Le at first. After all, he was just a third-tier singer with a little fame, but it also showed that he had reached a bottleneck in his musical form. He should reshape his personality or find a breakthrough again, but he was the hardest to transform. A singer who was halfway through, unable to break through the original image, it would be even more difficult for him to move to the next level.
However, Wang Zhonghua thought Zhao Le's self-recommendation, especially the song he brought out, was extremely good, and he was immediately inspired and gave Zhao Le an idea.
So at this time, Zhao Le was on the stage, wearing a wide-brimmed hat. He had changed his previous suit and tie attire and instead wore a leather jacket, earth-gray jeans, and a beard. He came to the center of the stage amid the cheers of thousands of people. He took off his hat and threw it into the crowd, and immediately another burst of cheers broke out.
Then Zhao Le picked up the microphone and said, "Shanhai Music Festival is the domestic Woodstock Music Festival! So it should have the spirit of Woodstock! The core of Woodstock is the spirit of peace and anti-war... We should also pursue this spirit! Therefore, I, Zhao Le, am here today to call for world peace and to reflect on the pain that war has brought us. I hope you all like the song "Hope in the Eyes of Children"!"
At the same time, in the No. 3 branch venue, Qin Xizhen, who had performed several of her own songs, decided to perform the first song given to her by Cheng Ran today.
She glanced at Shanan Luomu, Ning Yuan, and Liu Pei behind her, and they all nodded in response. Then Qin Xizhen faced the audience and said, "The previous ones were all slow songs. The next song is the only fast song today, and it will also be my last song on stage... This song, "Sorrow of Ending the War," is for everyone."
There are two stages in the venue, one large and one small, but except for the arrangement, the songs are almost the same, playing at the same time in this night sky.
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