Although he has the advantage of being reborn, Yu Dong doesn't know much about music. He can only take care of the general direction, and it would be better to leave the details to Cheng Yanqiu.
Moreover, Cheng Yanqiu was also very concerned about this matter, so Yu Dong took advantage of the situation and left it to her.
Speaking of "Armageddon", it was indeed cut out at that time.
One time before, Yu Dong asked Yu Liang to show him all the songs Jay Chou had written recently. At that time, "End of the World" was in that document, and this song had already been booked by Wu Zongxian and his group Xiubi Duhua.
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It was Yu Dong who cut the song and left it to Jay Chou to sing by himself.
Cheng Yanqiu listed the ten songs she selected on a piece of paper, and then looked at the music scores and lyrics one by one.
After reading it, Cheng Yanqiu put the notebook on his lap.
"The time you gave him is too short, and he is only one person. The arrangement of these songs is more or less problematic and not rich enough. After you decide to make an album, you must focus on the arrangement. Also
, the lyrics too, I always feel they are not good enough, please help me with this."
Yu Dong looked at the book and asked, "Which songs do you think have problematic lyrics?"
""Lovely Woman" and "Tornado", the others are okay."
Yu Dong nodded. There were indeed some problems with the lyrics of these two songs. He was also struggling with how to solve the problem of the lyrics.
Looking for Xu Ruoxuan is definitely out of the question. No matter what the purpose is, artists like Xu Ruoxuan must not be allowed to have more contact with Jay Chou.
And even if we find Xu Ruoxuan now, she may not be able to write these lyrics.
Since we can't find Xu Ruoxuan, there are only two ways left.
One is to collect lyrics again. It doesn’t matter if they are from previous lives, as long as the lyrics are good, use them.
Another thing is that Yu Dong took it upon himself to fill in these lyrics.
Seeing Yu Dong's troubled face, Cheng Yanqiu asked curiously: "Isn't it just about the lyrics? Why do you look so troubled? The lyrics are easy to solve. Why don't you hold a collection contest in deep space? Don't you guys do this all the time?
Well, we can also promote Xiao Zhou’s album in advance.”
As the proprietress of Deep Space, Cheng Yanqiu was familiar with Deep Space's marketing routines, so when he thought about the lyrics just now, he thought of collecting lyrics on Deep Space to promote the album.
Yu Dong smiled and waved his hand: "Forget it, I'll write these two songs."
After thinking about it for a while, Yu Dong decided to fill in the lyrics of these two songs by himself. As for the lyrics of "Istanbul", Yu Dong decided not to re-write them and asked someone to rewrite them.
Cheng Yanqiu didn't expect Yu Dong to write it himself, and was quite surprised, "Are you sure you want to write lyrics for Xiao Zhou?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Let's just build momentum for him."
Cheng Yanqiu also laughed, "This little Zhou is so lucky."
…
Jessica has been practicing piano recently, practicing like crazy, because Deep Space Company wants to release an album for her, and she agreed.
During this time, she has been practicing the songs she was going to record, hoping to be in perfect condition when recording.
"Jessica, Hardison is here."
Mother's voice came from downstairs, and as soon as her voice fell, the sound of Hardison's footsteps going upstairs had already reached Jessica's ears.
The hurried footsteps suddenly slowed down at the door, and then there was a knock on the door, "Jessica, can I come in?"
Jessica didn't speak, but lightly knocked on the piano keys twice. Hardison outside understood what he was doing and opened the door to come in.
This is a secret code belonging to both of them. If you knock it once, it won't work, but if you knock it twice, it will work.
After coming in, Hardison first opened the curtains to let the sunlight penetrate into the room from the outside.
Jessica likes to close the curtains when practicing the piano. She feels that this way she will not be distracted by the scenery outside and can practice the piano more concentratedly.
When the room became brighter, Hardison walked up to Jessica and said, "Jessica, what do you think is in here?"
Jessica then noticed that Hardison was holding a box in his hand.
It's a black box, smaller than a shoe box, with a delicate bow tied on the outside.
Before Jessica could respond, Hardison opened the lid of the box: "La la la la, a commemorative book of ancient poetry produced by Deep Space Company."
There is a thin book inside the box. The cover shows an ancient Chinese building. There is a moon hanging in the sky. Several flowers in the yard have their branches twisted by the wind.
There are also a few lines of Chinese characters on the side of the cover.
Hardison pointed to these lines and said with a smile: "This is a poem, and the content is exactly what this cover is about."
Jessica became interested and asked Hardison, "Do you understand this poem?"
When asked by Jessica, Hardison scratched his head in confusion, "I only know a little bit, but there is a detailed explanation of this poem in this booklet. You can see it by turning to the back."
Jessica nodded and took the booklet out of the box.
There are not many pages, but they are thick, colorful pages with very good texture.
Jessica did not rush to read the poetry analysis at the back, but stared at the painting on the cover for a long time.
This painting produced by Deep Space Company is very well done. Although there is no one person in the whole painting, you can see at a glance that there are two people in the painting.
There must be a person inside the half-open door of the room, with a faint light and a vague shadow.
There should also be a person in the corridor. Although there is no human figure in the corridor, the shadow of the flowers is very special and looks like a human figure.
After reading the cover, Jessica opened the analysis at the back.
There are only a few lines of text, but the analysis is very long.
This is a poem written by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Zhen in the handwriting of Yingying in his novel "Huizhen Ji".
In "Huizhen Ji", Zhang Sheng fell in love with Yingying, and the matchmaker persuaded him to propose marriage. At the same time, she told him that he should not use rude words to pursue Yingying and should write love poems. Zhang Sheng listened to the matchmaker's advice and wrote two poems for Yingying.
Love poems...
Later, the two fell in love, and Yingying often waited in the room for Zhang Sheng to climb over the wall and have a tryst, so she wrote the song "Mingyue Three and Five Nights".
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "When the moon is under the west wing, the door facing the wind is half open. The shadows of flowers on the wall are moving, and it is suspected that a beautiful lady is coming."
The meaning of this song is very simple. At night, Yingying leaves the door ajar, waiting for Zhang Sheng to come over and meet him. It tells the story of the mentality of a girl in love.
When she saw this explanation, Jessica's face immediately turned red.
She suddenly remembered that she sometimes had the same thoughts as this Yingying.
Sometimes he would suspect that Hardison was coming because of the footsteps on the stairs.
Did this guy come here for this poem on purpose?
Seeing Jessica's face turn red, Hardison asked doubtfully: "Jessica, what's wrong with you?"
"nothing."
Jessica rolled her eyes and continued to read the next poem.
There is also a Tang poem and a Song poem at the back.
They are Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Poems" and Li Qingzhao's "Like a Dream Ling·Chang Ji Xiting Sunset", both of which are poems related to the love between men and women.
Jessica looked at Hardison with suspicion: "Hardison, these three poems were specially selected by you, right? You must have done it on purpose."
"Ah?" Monk Hardison Zhang Er was confused, "No, I didn't choose it in particular. Deep Space published three poems this time, and I printed them all. The announcement said that this is the first batch, and in total
There are three poems, plus pictures and analysis, which can be combined into ten pages, which can be put together into a small booklet. If there are other poems, I will definitely not let them go. I think ten pages is still a bit short."
"Is it really just three poems?" Jessica asked.
Hardison nodded in response, "Of course, if you don't believe me, go to Amazon's website or Deep Space's official website and take a look. They have already issued announcements on both sides. The announcement also said that the second batch will be released next week, right?
Three poems, and I have already pre-ordered them, and they will be sent to me directly when the time comes."
Jessica nodded, looked inside the box again, and asked, "Did you only print one copy this time?"
Hardison shook his head and said with a smile: "Of course not, this one is for you, I also have one for myself. In addition, I also ordered a copy for your grandmother, and it has been placed in the living room below. She must be sure after seeing it.
Will love this gift."
"Yeah, sure."
Jessica nodded in agreement. Her grandmother was a loyal reader of YU, and because she likes YU, she is now very keen on studying Chinese culture.
After YU wrote a bunch of ancient poems at the book signing last time, she also fell in love with ancient Chinese poetry. During this time, there were many books related to ancient Chinese poetry in her home, and she was also learning Chinese.
However, it seems that the effect is not good. Jessica often hears her grandmother complaining that Chinese is too difficult and ancient Chinese poetry is too difficult.
Moreover, the books she bought seemed to be not very good. The introduction to ancient Chinese poetry was superficial and could not be understood at all.
As for what Deep Space has created, not only is the analysis very clear and understandable in a simple way, but the pictures are also very well done and fit very well with the content of the poem.
If grandma sees this, she will definitely be ecstatic.
However, Jessica still doesn’t understand why these three poems published by Deep Space Company are all related to the relationship between men and women. Are most Chinese poems about men and women?
That’s not right. Jessica has also paid attention to ancient Chinese poetry before. There are many themes, covering everything, and there are also many that have very high intentions and heavy themes.
…
What Jessica didn't know was that the first three poems in Deep Space were all love-themed poems and were the result of special research by their special group.
After discussing with Yang Minru, Mo Lifeng and Yang Minru both agreed that if they want to attract foreign readers, they must start with love themes.
Love is a common topic for mankind, and in ancient Chinese poetry, the theme of love is indeed very brilliant.
Poems with heavy themes must also be exported, but there is no rush now, let’s open up the market first.
Facts have proved that Mo Lifeng and Yang Minru's ideas were completely correct.
After the commemorative card of ancient Chinese poetry in Deep Space came out, it was first circulated among readers in Yudong, but it quickly spread.
Many American students saw that the poems above could express love, so they imitated them and copied the poems into their love letters.
In particular, the poem "Zhuzhi Ci" is the most popular, and in this poem, the last two lines are the most popular.
"The sun rises in the east and rains in the west. There is no sunshine but there is sunshine."
After reading the analysis, the students also understood that a pun was used to connect sunny days with love.
Although American students are much more unrestrained than Chinese students, there is no fundamental difference in the minds of boys and girls. They also like this kind of double-entendre, which sounds very cool and profound love poems.
Can't understand it at first glance?
It doesn't matter, it's okay if you don't understand it. It's great if you don't understand it.
Of course, the confusion quickly disappeared.
Because these two poems became popular so quickly, all the boys and girls in the school soon knew this poem. When I took out the love letters written by many people, I found that the plagiarism rate was 100%.
In this way, these ancient Chinese poems became popular in the United States in the form of love letters.
…
As soon as Chen Mobai opened Deep Space, he saw a hot post.
[I was confessed to by a native American using ancient Chinese poetry in the United States.]
The content of the post is very simple. A Chinese boy received a love letter at school, and the love letter turned out to be Chinese poetry.
The poster is not a Chinese boy himself. He claims to be the boy’s cousin. He lives in China. After talking to his cousin on the phone, he was shocked when he heard about this incident, so he shared it.
The replies inside also prove this.
[The pigeons in the world are not generally white: I also heard from my relatives that ancient Chinese poetry has indeed become popular in the United States recently.]
[Character Knife: What exactly happened? Why did it suddenly become popular? 】
[Master Ronald: It’s not sudden. I heard that it had a small wave of popularity in the summer, but it was not as powerful as this time.]
[Flying Big Bear: I know something. Deep Space Company has cooperated with Flash Print and Amazon to create a commemorative book of ancient poetry. It should have been released. 】
[Maimang: Do these foreigners really know the meaning of these poems?]
[Master Ronald: Don’t worry, this commemorative booklet has analysis. 】
[Jin Kefan: Yes, the commemorative album of ancient Chinese poetry produced by Deep Space this time was jointly produced by our Jinling University, Yanjing Normal University and Jinyi University, and the quality is very high.]
[Master Ronald: How did Big Stupid Bear know about this? It turned out to be the team leader who told him. 】
[Flying Big Stupid Bear: Don’t spread rumors.]
[Master Ronald: Did I say something... Team leader, please tell me specifically, how do your three schools cooperate? 】
[Jin Kefan: What I know is not very specific. I only know that Teacher Mo Lifeng from our school, Teacher Yang Minru from Yenching Normal University, and Teacher Liu Changmin from Jinyi University are cooperating with each other. 】
[Oriental Spider: Teachers Mo Lifeng and Yang Minru are both very powerful. Let alone Americans, I want a copy of them both. 】
[White paper is not paper: That thing is not cheap. Printing one piece of paper costs at least fifty cents, and ten pages costs five dollars, plus shipping.]
[Princess Yuezhi: I’ll go, it’s so expensive. 】
Chapter completed!