Chapter 146 Director, I Want to Try Singing Live

December 3rd.

Xu Chen and the princess reunited and went to the CCTV building for the first Spring Festival Gala rehearsal.

The director of the Spring Festival Gala in 1998 was named Meng Xin. The director of the Spring Festival Gala in this era was not appointed by CCTV, but had to bid for it!

The competition is very fierce, and there must be a very grand finale to have a chance of winning.

Meng Xin has too many finale programs, one is called "Legend" and the other is called "Meet in 1998".

Therefore, the director of this Spring Festival Gala has almost no suspense in choosing director Meng Xin.

Xu Chen has never met Meng Xin, but the 1998 Spring Festival Gala had the highest ratings in the 1990s, which shows that Meng Xin is very capable.

Being able to persuade the princess and Na Ying to sing "Meet in 1998" on the same stage shows that Meng Xinxin is very courageous.

After all, the cool queen has never been interested in party songs. Moreover, when she attended the Spring Festival Gala in 1994, the program was temporarily canceled by the Spring Festival Gala director team.

The princess has a psychological shadow about the Spring Festival Gala.

Director Meng Xin, who is very powerful and courageous, asked Xu Chen to lip-sync.

Xu Chen frowned. Lip-synching was common in the industry, such as a certain concert or a certain party. Generally, in order to ensure a perfect ending to the performance, the singers and the director team tried their best to lip-sync.

This has nothing to do with the celebrity status. Anita Mui performed really well in the Spring Festival Gala in 1999, but she really sang in the Spring Festival Gala in 1994. The first singer to be screened out was the princess.

Besides.

Nowadays, lip-syncing is not called lip-synching. There is an unspoken rule in the circle: "As long as the singer sings with a real voice, he is a real singer."

But.

Xu Chen doesn't really want to lip-sync. His dream is to be the world's pop king. The world's pop king is lip-synching during the Spring Festival Gala. When he says it, he loses his taste immediately...

"Achen, you are so surprised. You don't know that all the songs performed in the Spring Festival Gala are recorded." Zhou Tao is the female host of the Spring Festival Gala.

She hadn't seen Xu Chen for a while, but they exchanged frequent private text messages. One Xiao Lang had evil intentions, and the other Shi Niang deceived herself and others, and was flirting with the concubine.

Zhou Tao stared at the princess next to Xu Chen casually, feeling sad and empty because of some strange coincidence.

She was keenly aware that she was worried about gains and losses, and deceived herself and thought: "Achen is young, and I treat him as my brother. Achen has found a woman who is 10 years older than him and is in love. It is normal for me, the older sister, to dislike him."

"Achen, it's cold outside, let's go in and talk." Zhou Tao smiled with red lips and said elegantly and dignifiedly: "Ms. Wang, please come inside."

"???"

The princess wore black-rimmed glasses, put one hand in her pocket, and pushed the frame on the tip of her fair nose with the white middle finger of her other hand.

The little girl's aesthetics are really good. Zhou Tao looks graceful and elegant, and his demeanor is dignified and elegant, but he is so jealous: "Thank you."

The princess responded indifferently, calling the little puppy Achen and respectfully calling herself "Ms. Wang", so she didn't care to talk to her.

The princess and Zhou Tao were slender and tall. In the cold wind of December in Peiping, they looked at each other with eyes that were a bit unpleasant to them.

Xu Chen was so happy that Gong Dou was a waste of energy. Once the energy was gone, there was no need to disturb him and make him uneasy.

"Sister Tao, is CCTV so perverted? You have to wear this outfit in the winter to torture me." Xu Chen felt a little sorry for Sister Tao.

In the middle of winter, Zhou Tao wore a thin plain white women's professional OL skirt, which accentuated her slender and tall figure. Her round feet were wrapped in fleshy stockings, and her red-soled and white-faced high-heeled shoes were spotless and delicate.

"I'm used to it, the studio is very warm." Zhou Tao smiled with red lips: "Achen's program on Peking TV Station was a great success. Xiaoying went to Achen's place. It was much more comfortable than CCTV. She couldn't be happier."

"If Sister Tao wants to come, there will always be a place at Time Pictures." Xu Chen didn't flirt with her. Although Feifei didn't say anything, Feifei would give him a cold look.

The CCTV building is not a big-pants building. The architecture is very 1980s style, equivalent to a township enterprise in 2023.

The rehearsal program for the Spring Festival Gala is very strict, with a total of five rounds of rehearsals. The Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Tiger was held on January 27, 1998, and one rehearsal took about 10 days.

Fortunately, Xu Chen had fewer things to do at the end of the year, otherwise he would have offended CCTV for nothing.

Thinking of this, Xu Chen lightly touched the princess on the shoulder. The princess had already offended CCTV. She was screened out of the 1994 Spring Festival Gala because the princess Tietouwa was unwilling to change her words.

"Xu Chen, I'm going to find Na Ying. You and Miss Zhou can discuss it. Call me after we have discussed it." The princess is not too Zhou Tao, this woman is very bad.

The little girl named Gao Yuanyuan in Zhou Xun and Xu Chen's company is much cuter.

The princess' Yingqi eyebrows were slightly furrowed. She was going to find an opportunity to make it clear to Xu Chen that she didn't like Zhou Tao and was not allowed to bring her in.

"Achen, I have heard about you in the Hong Kong music scene. The Hong Kong music scene is narrow-minded and cannot accommodate the giant Buddha Achen. There is no need for Achen to be too concerned."

The corridor in the studio was dimly lit, and Zhou Tao's high heels made a crisp "click-click" sound on the ground.

She is tall and graceful, and pays great attention to manners. Her slender back is as straight as a lotus branch, and her black and bright hair is combed into a bun. She is the leading star of CCTV with a melodious and melodious tone, and an elegant and charming accent.

"Sister Tao, you are so lucky to be an audience member. Just listening to the sound makes your ears feel pregnant." Xu Chen ignored Zhou Tao's hint.

There is no need to worry about the music industry, but the princess, the beautiful host sister.

"How can you get pregnant with your ears?" Zhou Tao glanced at Xu Chen with red lips and beautiful eyes: "Achen is the king of Chinese pop. If his voice can really make people pregnant, wouldn't Achen's female fans all have big bellies?"

Thinking of a large group of women with bulging bellies, Zhou Tao had a slight smile on his lips.

"Sister Tao, you are also a fan of mine, so Sister Tao is also made pregnant by my..." Xu Chen deliberately paused and said teasingly: "My voice."

Xu Chen paused deliberately, Zhou Tao's heart trembled for a moment, and Zhou Tao gently hit Xu Chen's shoulder with his fist, raised his eyebrows, and pretended to be angry: "Well, you Achen, you've been to Hong Kong people for a while, sister." I dare to tease you, I have to give you a long memory."

Xu Chen smiled with a smile on his lips, and his slightly over-the-top dirty jokes made the atmosphere ambiguous but not embarrassing.

He did not neglect the serious business of picking up girls: "Sister Tao, I would like to apply to Director Meng Xin for a chance to sing. Of course, Director Meng can test my singing skills. If it is too lousy, I won't be able to stay on the Spring Festival Gala stage."

"Achen, don't be so radical. Leave it to me, Director Meng, to decide whether to keep the Spring Festival Gala stage or not." Zhou Tao scolded slightly, but Xu Chen was unruly and upright.

He doesn't want to lip-sync. If he can't really sing, then he simply won't appear on the CCTV stage.

Zhou Tao admired Xu Chen's integrity and smiled with his red lips: "The only real singing spot in this year's Spring Festival Gala is Teacher Song's "Good Days". A Chen might as well give in to these seniors when singing. I believe Director Meng will agree."

"Sister Tao is really my good wife~" Xu Chen said that he didn't have the face to stay at the Spring Festival Gala all on purpose, and Zhou Tao was the one passing the microphone.

How could such a smart woman let her good brother fall into a trap? Xu Chen was so confident!

"I'm asking for a beating, you always use idioms randomly, the good wife said it to her wife..." Zhou Tao always reminded himself that Xu Chen was just a younger brother who cared about his older sister.

Um.

Achen has not studied since she was a child, so using idioms indiscriminately is very reasonable and normal behavior.

The backstage of the studio is chaotic, so it would be nice to have a rest room.

Zhou Tao arranged a single lounge for Xu Chen, with heating, snacks, and magazines. She did not have the consciousness to seek personal gain with power, which was how the Chinese pop king always treated her.

Spring Festival Gala director's office.

Zhou Tao approached Meng Xin, the general director of the Spring Festival Gala, and expressed his thoughts in a concise and concise manner: "Director Meng, Xu Chen would like to apply for a real singing spot. We don't want to live up to the expectations of the audience and fans."

"If Xu Chen really sings, he is a real singer."

Meng Xin was born in the 1950s, with short stature, neat shoulder-length hair, and wearing scholar-like black-rimmed glasses.

This Spring Festival Gala was her first time directing, and she was very conservative in her thoughts. She immediately asked: "Have you discussed with the princess about Xu Chen's real singing? Many people on the stage were worried about the princess' live broadcast accident in 1994." In mind."

Meng Xin's plan originally included a plan to invite the princess. In order to convince the princess, she specially found someone to customize "Meet in 1998".

Unfortunately, what she didn't expect was that the princess agreed to attend the Spring Festival Gala, but the song she sang was "Legend".

Meng Xin has read the song "Legend".

Everyone in the industry she invited said "Legend" was good, and Xu Chen, the singer who composed "Legend", was originally an apprentice of mainland composers Wang Zili and Gu Jianfen.

Meng Xin couldn't refuse Xu Chen's application for "real singing".

But after all, Xu Chen was attending the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and he also brought along a princess with a dark history. Meng Xin felt that singing "Legend" was too risky.

"Director Meng..." Zhou Tao disliked the princess in his heart. Not to mention her age, she also hindered A Chen, and said, "Xu Chen suggested the audition."

"Audio test?"

"Director Meng, what's the audition? Does anyone want to actually sing?"

In the director's room, several assistant directors opened the door and heard that someone wanted to sing for the Spring Festival Gala. This incident was really a big event in the Spring Festival Gala.

From the 1983 Spring Festival Gala to the 1997 Spring Festival Gala, there were constant controversies between real singing and lip-synching in the Spring Festival Gala.

As of 1997, all the singers who have actually performed on the Spring Festival Gala are without exception, and almost all of them are ethnic singers. These ethnic singers are among the best in the industry in terms of their singing styles and abilities.

"You are here just in time. Comrade Xu Chen and Comrade Wang Fei's song "Legend" is going to be sung, and I'm about to go try it out." Meng Xin prepared to rope in a few assistant directors.

Xu Chen was rebellious and had a high status in the mainland music scene. Meng Xin did not want to offend Xu Chen for nothing.

"Xu Chen, do you want the princess to really sing?"

"The princess really had an accident in 1994."

"Xu Chen sings pop music, right? Is his singing ability really up to par?"

The assistant directors all felt that this matter was not safe. After all, if there was an accident during the Spring Festival Gala, it would be really embarrassing and humiliating to the people of the whole country.

"I'm not going to audition. If it doesn't work, Comrade Xu Chen won't really insist on singing." Zhou Tao came to Xu Chen's rescue.

"Let's all go and have a look." Meng Xin led a group of people to the Spring Festival Gala studio with great momentum.