Chapter 92

"What did you say? You're coming to visit the set?"

March 9, morning, the hotel for the "Pink Ladies" film crew.

Chen Hao, who had just finished washing up in the morning, exclaimed in surprise upon receiving Zhou Yi's phone call: "Really?"

"Of course it's real; would I lie to you? It just won't be that soon, probably about a month from now. The specific time depends on the agent's schedule, after all, I still have to record two songs and shoot a commercial here."

Inside the recording area of the Warner (Xiangjiang) company building.

Zhou Yi, who had just finished part of the arrangement, ate the dates Sun Yanzi had washed, took a few crunchy bites, and mumbled unclearly.

"A month from now? Are you sure? A month from now, our crew should be filming on location in Japan. What would you come to visit for?"

Chen Hao, having finished washing up and undergoing a simple skincare routine, faced the mirror in the bathroom, gently patting her own fair and tender face with one hand: "I can't exactly say I flew here specifically to visit the set, can I?"

"Japan?"

"Yeah, part of the plot in 'Pink Ladies' requires filming on location in Japan. The director and producers' idea is to take advantage of the current season and weather to finish the Japanese scenes in April."

Back in the living room of the hotel room, to ensure she hadn't misremembered, Chen Hao specifically flipped through her script, which was filled with many annotations and summaries, and then affirmed.

"Is that so? Then we'll talk about it when the time comes. Anyway, I'm just telling you about this now."

Zhou Yi didn't care much, casually instructed to gradually sell off a few stocks over the next few months to generate cash flow, and then hung up the phone.

"I didn't expect it; you actually got into investments with someone?"

Sun Yanzi, who studied business, sat on a nearby chair peeling an orange. Seeing Zhou Yi hang up the phone, she smiled and put a segment into her mouth: "Chen Hao, the female lead in your 'Flower Field Mistake' music video?"

"That was a long time ago. I met her when I first arrived in the Capital. At that time, the World Cup was just happening. I wanted to make a big move, and she was the only one who supported me."

Zhou Yi, turning his chair around, spat out the date pit in his mouth, leaned the back of his head against the chair back, looked up, and chuckled while recalling: "After that, the two of us formed an alliance, right? Until today."

"Isn't she an actress? Does she understand this?"

"I understand a little, she just trusts me completely and buys along with me. I can't let down her trust, can I? Especially since my first pot of gold was able to double, it was all thanks to her pulling out her small savings to support me back then—Ooh-ooh..."

Zhou Yi, who had just taken a segment of orange and stuffed it into his mouth, hadn't finished speaking when the sour sensation suddenly attacking his tongue instantly swept through every nerve in his body, once distorting his facial features—

"Is it that sour?"

Seeing him in this state, Sun Yanzi was momentarily stunned, then suspiciously examined the large remaining half of the orange in her hand.

It wasn't that exaggerated when she ate it.

"The doctor said my teeth aren't good; I have no fortune to enjoy this. You have it yourself; I'll continue with the arrangement."

Zhou Yi waved his hands repeatedly; he wanted to finish 'The Lazy Song' and 'Sad People Don't Listen to Slow Songs' early to wrap up work early.

"Tsk, ungrateful."

Sun Yanzi, chewing on the orange segments completely like nothing had happened, pouted her lips, didn't say anything more to disturb him, and quietly enjoyed this rare one-week holiday.

Nothing to think about, nothing to do, eat and sleep every day, wake up and eat, occasionally helping Zhou Yi with some handiwork to avoid making the people at Warner Xiangjiang think she was truly on vacation.

Life was truly like that of an immortal.

Three days later, after completing the arrangement work for 'The Lazy Song', Zhou Yi, seeing her idle appearance, simply pulled her directly into the music video he planned to shoot.

"??? Wait, I can't dance."

Sun Yanzi, unable to bear being assigned tasks, was completely confused.

"This music video doesn't require you to dance; just nod your head up, down, left, and right with the rhythm. I'll have Warner prepare another batch of dancers to wear masks and move with me."

Zhou Yi pointed to the sofa and said indifferently: "You also know the lyrics to this song; it mentions a girl. When the time comes, you just get up from the sofa, show your face, pinch your voice to look surprised, and say 'oh my god, This is great', and that's it."

Strictly speaking, the most catchy part of the song 'The Lazy Song' isn't the melody, but its music video.

The original was remade by Mars Brother Bruno in two days; it was simply a single continuous shot. One of him sitting in front of the camera, singing while twisting his body, and a group of people wearing sunglasses and gorilla masks imitating all the actions in his music video.

The cost was very low, not as flashy as ordinary music videos; the main point was a return to simplicity.

But the final dance footage, combined with the melody, had a very magical effect.

Zhou Yi didn't want to change this extremely magical and catchy style of music video; he just planned to make slight modifications to make it more suitable for him.

For example, in the original music video, the black brother who pinched his voice to pretend to be a girl saying "oh my god, This is great" to be funny was chased and beaten by the backup dancers wearing sunglasses and gorilla masks behind Mars Brother after he finished saying that line, symbolizing joy and humor.

He could completely change it so that after he finished singing the lyrics "Get up tomorrow morning, work out, do P90X. Then date a hot girl, embrace a beautiful new life," Sun Yanzi, who had been nodding and shaking her head to the rhythm on the sofa, would make her timely appearance as the "hot girl"—

After walking over to his side, saying the line "You're so great," and turning to leave, leading the crowd of sunglasses-wearing gorillas to follow her one after another.

This way, it would both correspond to the lyrics and echo the meaning of the song, symbolizing a beautiful life.

"Are you planning to release an English single? And shoot a music video?"

Sun Yanzi, feeling it was quite interesting, asked with interest after seeing the concept Zhou Yi presented.

"I think Jackie Chan's movie will be a huge hit globally. At that time, Warner just needs to seamlessly launch the single music video for this soundtrack of mine, and it should be enough to initially make my name known.

"At the very least, the audience must see my face in the music video and recognize me as a singer."

In front of Sun Yanzi, Zhou Yi did not hide his plans at all.

"Competition in the West is no different from the Chinese music scene; it's even more ruthless. If I release a hit song but have no music video, it's very likely to create the impression that the song is popular but the person isn't.

"As an Asian, if I want to leave a deep impression on Western audiences at first glance, this arrangement for the music video fits perfectly.

"I won't say it will make their eyes light up, but at least it will make people who see this music video remember me."

Magical, catchy, with a very strong rhythmic groove. Throughout the entire music video, except for Sun Yanzi's brief appearance swaying, his face was always located in the center of the lens; besides that, there were only the backup dancers wearing sunglasses and gorilla masks surrounding him in the middle like stars orbiting the moon.

Naturally, people's gaze would fall on his face, thereby deepening their impression of him as a singer.

In the music industry, as a singer, it is very important to let the public remember you.

And just as Zhou Yi was arranging the shooting of this low-cost but extremely magical music video in full swing, agent Qian Jiang rushed in with news concerning the song 'Drifting North' from his new album—

"Ah Yi, you previously said the hook part of this song needs a female singer with high vocal ability and range. This is the list and their songs collected after the search; listen and see which ones you think are suitable."

Qian Jiang, who arrived with a huge pile of tapes, first handed the list of female singers in his hand to Zhou Yi.

There were many people on the list, from both sides of the strait and the three regions.

However, what surprised Zhou Yi even more was that he actually saw two future demon-level figures on this list, and their introductions were extremely domineering—

Tan Jing: Won the Gold Award for Popular Singing in the Professional Group of the 9th CCTV Youth Singer Television Grand Prix in 2000;

Zhou Peng: Won the Silver Award in the Professional Popular Singing Category at the 9th CCTV Youth Singer Television Grand Prix in 2000.

At first, Zhou Yi hadn't realized who this Zhou Peng was, ranking only behind Tan Jing, until he saw her photo—

Isn't this Sa Dingding?

PS: The music video for Mars Brother's song couldn't pass the review for the Easter egg chapter; they said it involved vulgarity... 6

(End of this chapter)