Chapter 249: "Exploring the Window" leads the national trend, the four kings of the new era
[416 Art Girl Group "Exploring the Window" is online! #00s Shanghai Theatre Academy girls sing pop songs in Peking Opera style! ]
At exactly eight o'clock, the short video "Exploring the Window" was officially uploaded to the short video platform.
With the promotion of Lin Zhixing’s Weibo, countless netizens, musicians, and opera artists clicked on this video at the first opportunity.
The beginning of the video.
Dong Chen, dressed in a theatrical costume, stood on the stage and sang with difficulty.
The scene turned to the audience below, where the audience in the front row were holding bricks and rotten eggs, shaking them in their hands, ready to throw them onto the stage.
Although netizens guessed that it was a contrasting shooting technique, they all laughed hard when they saw such a funny scene.
"It wasn't easy for ancient opera workers. I can tell from the looks of it that this guy has plenty of tiles at home, hahahaha!"
"Isn't this Dong Chen from Leap Miracle? He has quite a talent for acting!"
The camera turned back to the stage, where Dong Chen left the stage in embarrassment amidst rotten eggs and vegetable leaves. Audience members in the theater left their seats one after another, cursing and preparing to leave.
Just then, the stage curtain opened again.
Five beautiful girls dressed in Hanfu with unique oriental charm appeared in the center of the stage.
One of the tall and thin girls raised her hand in a gesture and then spoke.
"She sang about meeting an old friend in a foreign land"
"Every step and every word is about lovesickness"
The crisp, sweet voice like a lark brightened the eyes of netizens in front of the screen, and countless netizens pressed the volume + button tacitly.
In the video, the audience who were halfway out of the venue stopped and looked back, with surprise in their eyes.
"The names of the people in the audience are on the list of winners"
“I never recognized old acquaintances on stage”
The members of the 416 Art Women's Troupe sang in turn, with the elegance of Mei style, the melodious and graceful singing of Cheng style, the soft and sweet singing of Huadan, and the high-pitched and steady singing of Laodan.
The melodious voice echoed in the theater, and all the audience members who had left the theater returned to their seats.
"When he talked about the wedding night"
"Everyone congratulates the beautiful woman and the talented man"
"I haven't heard a word of sigh in the play, there is a love-crazy man"
In the video, while the audience in the front row were cheering, the bricks and rotten eggs in their hands were all replaced with gold necklaces and wallets.
Such a contrasting scene made the netizens outside the screen laugh again, and almost all of them gave the video a like, with the number of likes increasing by thousands per second.
"Love in the play, love in the play"
"Strangers meet in a land of flowers and brocade"
“She sang…”
At the climax of the song, the girls from the 416 Art Girl Group sang in chorus. Their melodious and ethereal voices made the audience in front of the screen intoxicated.
After watching the entire video, more than 90 percent of netizens chose to listen to it again and left positive comments in the video comment section.
"The five young ladies sang very beautifully, because you have a better understanding of opera singing!"
"This is what the Chinese culture should look like. It's so beautiful. I'm intoxicated! I suddenly understand how our ancestors lived without cell phones!"
"This is what I hated the most before, but why do I like this tune now? Am I that old now?"
"Very good, I like it very much. At least it makes me more or less understand why Peking opera was so popular in the past. It can be regarded as a little opening of the door to ancient Peking opera."
Just ten minutes after the video was posted, it received over 200,000 likes and over 50,000 comments. While netizens were sharing the video, the official account also began to promote the video.
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Peking Opera Academy.
Female dormitory room 416.
"I'm so nervous. Will all 80,000 fans disappear?"
“Will they scold us for ruining Peking Opera?”
Half an hour after the video was released, the five girls from the 416 Art Girl Group, who were on pins and needles, hesitated for a long time before finally mustering up the courage to open the video account.
"ah!!!"
Captain Bian Tingting rubbed her eyes and exclaimed, "80,000 fans have become 200,000, my God!"
"Really? The video has 300,000 likes!"
The data was so unexpected that it seemed like a dream. The five girls couldn't wait to open the comment section of the video.
[I really like this young lady who sings Lao Dan. She gives me the feeling of having experienced a lot, like she is reminiscing about the past when she is old.]
Bian Tingting chuckled. This kind of comments that only praised oneself were quite embarrassing.
“Give me more!”
She gave a thumbs-up.
[Professional matters should be left to professionals. This is what opera is all about! ]
[Catch all 5 of these for me and sing them all night long, they are so beautiful! ]
The five girls were delighted by the favorable comments and were full of admiration for Lin Zhixing's ability to create stars.
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The next morning.
Inside the Good Luck Studio.
After Lin Zhixing and Dong Chen arrived at the company, they immediately checked the video playback status of "Window" and the data exceeded their expectations by one third.
The number of likes reached a terrifying 1 million, and the number of views exceeded 30 million. The original soundtrack of the video was used in many traditional Chinese style videos, and Internet celebrities and netizens also began to post videos singing this song.
It is no exaggeration to say that the song "Looking into the Window" has set off a Chinese style trend in short videos overnight.
They didn't pay much attention to the positive reviews, but the expected doubts did appear.
There is still a clear difference between the opera songs they sang and traditional folk art. As a result, some bad comments appeared, and the accusations of "tampering with Peking opera" and "destroying the national quintessence" were put on the heads of the five girls. "Brother Lin, I want to fight these haters!"
Dong Chen, who worked hard on the production, rolled up his sleeves and said angrily: "If Peking Opera continues to be so conservative, young people will not even be interested in learning about it. Some people even accused them of insulting Peking Opera. It's really hilarious!"
"Never mind those people."
Lin Zhixing waved his hand. “No matter if they are celebrities, internet celebrities or novel authors, part of the money they earn is from being scolded. The world is so big, if you explain it to Zhang San but Li Si still doesn’t understand, how can you explain it? If you want to show your face to the outside world, just say it!”
"Too."
Dong Chen nodded, sighed, and put down his phone.
Two minutes later...
Lin Zhixing yelled, "Dong, you go on a small account and curse me, someone is forcing me to curse me!"
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The second day after "Exploring the Window" became popular on short video platforms.
This craze for national style is so exaggerated that as long as a video has tags such as #opera#416art girl group#national style, the number of views will at least double.
Xiao Yang is a Peking Opera actor. Although he loves this profession, his income is so meager that he wants to change his career.
Last year, there were 145 registered Peking opera and Kunqu opera performance institutions in China, with 8,076 employees. There were 31,000 performances in China each year, but the pure market-oriented box office revenue was only 450 million yuan, with an average single performance box office of only 14,500 yuan.
The hard work of Peking Opera practitioners across the country for a year may not even equal the box office revenue of a medium-sized investment movie, not to mention the income of the opera actors.
Xiao Yang, who only gets paid more than 2,000 yuan for a month of singing, had no choice but to start live streaming. Usually, there are only a few old men watching in the live streaming room.
The uncles only came to show their support and gave all the money to the aunties.
Today, he started the live broadcast as usual during his lunch break.
“My father has been telling me since I was a kid.”
“Hongmei Opera is not easy to sing”
As Xiao Yang was singing, his eyes suddenly blurred. The live studio received a sports car as a gift for the first time. "Thank you, boss, for the sports car."
When the song reached the interlude, he accidentally glanced and was surprised to find that there were 500 viewers in the live broadcast room at that moment. It was like a dream.
"You sang well! I've recently fallen in love with opera because of the song 'Exploring the Window'. You sang well, I'll support you!"
"Dude, can you please sing 'Looking into the Window'? If you sing this, the online audience will definitely double!"
After the broadcast.
Xiao Yang searched for the song "Tan Chuang" out of curiosity. After learning about the song, she liked it very much and left an encouraging message under the account of 416 Art Girl Group.
【Thanks to you, opera may really have a second spring! 】
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Peking Television.
In the director’s office.
"Director, these are the ratings for the past two days."
"Well, put it on the table!"
Station Director Lao Luo blew on the freshly brewed tea and showed no interest in the ratings report on the table.
CTS has a total of 15 channels, and the AATV11 opera channel, which he manages himself, has the lowest ratings, ranking last every day. He has become desperate about this channel.
Who among the serious young people would listen to opera? This traditional art form will be doomed sooner or later.
After drinking half a cup of tea, Master Luo put down the cup, raised his eyes and asked, "Just leave the things there, do you have anything else to do?"
The secretary pointed to the report on the table and said with a smile: "Director, please take a look at the report now."
Director Lao Luo picked up the report and glanced at it impatiently.
He was suddenly startled, rubbed his eyes, grabbed the glasses on the table and put them on quickly, "It has increased by 5 points in two days? It hasn't increased this much during the holidays. What's going on?"
The secretary smiled and told the whole story about how "Window" had caused a national trend on short videos and how young people had begun to pay attention to traditional art.
Look through the window?
Master Lao Luo turned on his computer and listened to the song out of curiosity. He was full of praise after listening to it.
"Students from Shanghai Theatre Academy, post-2000s, opera, development and inheritance, these labels add up, they are perfect to be promoted as role models!"
"Hurry, contact them and ask them to participate in the interview. We can design a program based on them!"
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Peking Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera, inside the cafeteria.
"Senior, are you from the 416 Art Girl Group?"
"Um."
"Wow, can I take a photo with you guys? You guys are my role models!"
"Thank you very much, thank you very much. It's ok to take a photo with you."
In the past two days, the five girls from the 416 Art Girls Group have been very popular in the college. Their schoolmates have asked them to take photos with them, and their teachers have praised them in class. They really feel like they have become stars.
The five girls were clearing up the dishes when suddenly Bian Tingting's cell phone rang.
Zhu Huan frowned and said, "Tingting, isn't that someone calling again? He ignored you when you were not angry, but now he suddenly asks you out. I feel like he has bad intentions."
"Brother Chen called."
Bian Tingting turned the phone over and waved it in front of her roommate twice. After the call was connected, she was so excited that she stood up.
"Really? Okay, okay, I'll tell them."
After hanging up the phone, Bian Tingting was so excited that she hugged her roommate, "Good news, Brother Chen said that we are going to record a show on CTV!"
"AATV11?"
"We're going to be on TV, hahahaha!"
The girls were so excited.
Only two and a half days after the release of the song "Visiting the Window", the five girls received an invitation from China Television Radio. Their popularity was as fast as a rocket! …
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The recording building of "I Am the King of Singers".
Inside the players' locker room.
"Brother Lin, you were right to say that you would not respond to those haters who were causing trouble."
Dong Chen handed the phone to Lin Zhixing, who had just changed his clothes. "Now, not only have TV stations invited them to do programs, but official media have also voiced their support for them."
Lin Zhixing glanced at the content on his phone and laughed, "This official praise is a slap in the face to those people."
Dong Chen smiled and nodded, "Yes, now whenever there are comments attacking them, the fans will attack them collectively, and they don't even have to criticize them themselves."
As they were talking, the door to the locker room opened.
"She sang about meeting an old friend in a foreign land~~"
A singer hummed a tune and walked into the dressing room.
The opera singing was so unpleasant that it was impossible to tell who was singing by the tone. Lin Zhixing leaned over to take a look and saw that the person who came in to change clothes was Yu Jiang.
"Brother Jiang!"
Lin Zhixing raised his hand and said hello, "Have you ever considered becoming a singer? If so, I'll call the police."
When Yu Jiang heard this, he reacted and burst out laughing, "Does my singing sound so bad? I'll give you a chance to reorganize your words. Although I don't understand opera singing, I know a little bit about boxing."
After the joke, Yu Jiang patted Lin Zhixing on the shoulder and gave him a thumbs up. "I like "One Night in Peking" and "Looking into the Window" very much. They are so good that they can set off a national style trend!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Brother Jiang."
While they were chatting, the door of the locker room was pushed open again.
"She sang about meeting an old friend in a foreign land~~"
Who is singing again? The three of them were stunned. This a cappella singing was very good, the kind that was completely flawless, and the timbre was somewhat special.
"This is the men's locker room!"
Yu Jiang leaned over and shouted, and everyone was stunned.
Lin Zhixing and Dong Chen looked at each other and looked over curiously.
Where did those women come from? They were two men.
Next to Guo Jiahe stood a handsome man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. His name was Cheng Huan, and he was invited by Guo Jiahe to be a guest singer in the future.
The reason why Cheng Huan came this time was to watch Fengqi Wutong's performance live in the audience so that he could have a better idea of the situation and know both himself and the enemy.
"Brother Huan, hello!"
Yu Jiang recognized Cheng Huan, stood up, smiled and walked forward to greet him.
Lin Zhixing didn't recognize him at all. After sitting back down, he nudged Dong Chen with his elbow and asked curiously, "Who is he? Do you know him?"
"You don't even know him?"
Dong Chen shrugged his shoulders in admiration and explained, "His name is Cheng Huan. He has a voice that was kissed by an angel. He has won numerous awards in music and is known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the new era."
The Four Heavenly Kings of the New Era? I just heard him sing a line from "Exploring the Window". He really sang very well and his voice is indeed unique.
Lin Zhixing stroked his chin, nodded as if he understood, and then asked curiously, "When was the selection of the Four Heavenly Kings of the New Era held? Am I included or not?"
Dong Chen: “…No, if you had debuted a few years earlier, you would have been here.”
"Okay, it's okay."
Lin Zhixing thought to himself: "I am Wang Jie, at my peak, I can fight against the Four Heavenly Kings."
(End of this chapter)
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