Chapter 70 Real little bastard
On January 1, 1999, the euro was born.
The joint defense and counterattack in the new earth century has begun.
Countless people born in the 1970s, 1980s and even the 1990s resisted to the death, made great sacrifices, and fought bloody battles with foreign invaders, composing an epic and evocative human war record...
On this day, Cao Xuan came to the capital with his parents after accepting an interview with Zaoshi Daily.
The big stone made the alley, and Sun Lan walked around the yard with a little disgust on his face.
"The houses in the capital are no better than those in our hometown. Our family is also considering renovating a bungalow. These are all tile houses."
Cao Shuangguo nodded in agreement: "Your mother is right, this place is not as good as the building. How much did it cost?"
"2...200,000, maybe."
Cao Xuan looked at the disgusted eyes of the two elders and finally did not dare to tell the true price, otherwise he was really afraid of being nagged to death by the elders.
"200,000 yuan is expensive. To build a house like this in our village, tens of thousands of yuan is enough."
Sun Lan felt a little distressed, while Cao Shuangguo put forward a different opinion: "The prices in Beijing are expensive, so it is normal for the houses to be more expensive, as the location is good."
Cao Xuan couldn't stand it any longer and quickly changed the subject: "Dad, Mom, you guys have a rest first. I'll take you to visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Great Wall in the next few days.
Didn't you say you want to watch the flag-raising? Our house is very close, it only takes 20 minutes by bike. As long as you can get up, you can watch it every day. "
After all, the old couple finally stopped worrying about the housing prices in the capital, and Cao Xuan cleaned up the room for his parents.
He vacated the main bedroom with the most complete facilities and moved to the east wing by himself. Zhang Chong will not go home for the New Year this year and will still live in the west wing.
However, Zhang Chong’s girlfriend is not leaving this year, and this guy is likely to stay at his girlfriend’s house.
Cao Xuan firmly despises this kind of behavior of living together without marriage, unless the person involved is himself...
In the next few days, Cao Xuan took his parents to visit various major attractions in the capital.
Speaking of which, Cao Xuan has been in the capital for several years, but he is busy surviving and making money. Except for a few scenic spots, he has never visited most places.
Accompanying his parents this time, he also got to know the customs and customs of the capital.
On January 6, Cao Xuan went to CCTV Headquarters to participate in the third round of Spring Festival Gala rehearsal.
Different from facing the directing team directly in the previous two times, Cao Xuan met many celebrities participating in this year's Spring Festival Gala rehearsal for the third round.
For example, Zhao Benshan, Song Dandan, Guo Dastanson, Zhao Lirong, Jiang Dawei, Xiangjiang's Shen Dianxia, Zeng Zhiwei and others.
That is to say, the rehearsals were not held on the same day, otherwise Cao Xuan would still be expected to have a historic meeting with Ren Xianqi.
Although Cao Xuan is gaining momentum and is one of the most popular singers in the mainland, he still keeps his attitude low in front of these seniors.
Although Cao Xuan is low-key, his presence is not weak at all.
In the entire entertainment industry, who doesn't know about him, [Beicao], who has suddenly emerged this year.
Now some people have begun to call Cao Xuan the Little Heavenly King of the Mainland.
The mainland music scene has never been short of big names and top singers, but the title of Chinese pop king is rarely born.
The reason is that the King needs extremely high popularity and commercial value.
To put it bluntly, if you want to be the King of Pop, you need to have many fans, great influence, good sales, and good looks.
Hong Kong and Taiwan have a mature business operation process, so they continue to "mass-produce" kings. However, the mainland music scene did not start to develop pop music until the mid-1990s, and there is no relevant experience at all.
Coupled with the crazy impact of Hong Kong and Taiwan's trends, it is difficult for the mainland music scene to compete with Hong Kong and Taiwan's prevailing situation.
Even Cao Xuan can achieve today's momentum thanks to the joint hype between Warner and Rolling Stone, as well as a head-on battle with Chinese-speaking newcomer Xianqi, which attracted countless heat.
Without the peak duel of [Nan Ren and Bei Cao], his current popularity and influence would probably be compromised.
But no matter what, the combination of strength and fortune allowed Cao Xuan to break the suppression of Hong Kong and Taiwan on the mainland, and is expected to become the rare Chinese pop king in the mainland.
This year's Spring Festival Gala, the director team specially arranged a solo program for Cao Xuan, which already shows his current popularity and status.
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Cao Xuan had been busy with various filming, commercial performances, and book signings this year. Except for the disaster relief benefit performance, he rarely saw so many artists in the industry.
During the disaster relief benefit performance, everyone was in a heavy mood and had no intention of building relationships, but during the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, there was no such psychological baggage, and many people came to get to know Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan is also happy to make more connections, at least to become familiar with them.
The third round of rehearsals lasted two days. One day was for the show to be performed in the studio, and the other was for the leadership review.
Cao Xuan's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" passed the review, but the director team raised objections to the performance of the show.
It was originally scheduled to be Cao Xuan's solo, but the director felt that it was too shabby for him to be alone, so they had to add some backup dancers to liven up the atmosphere. Since it was a blessing song, it had to be more joyful.
Cao Xuan felt that the director's proposal was a good one, but it also meant that he would have to spare a lot of time for rehearsals with his backup dancers.
This is what it should be. Cao Xuan has no objection. It only takes about a month. As long as he can attend the Spring Festival Gala, these are all trivial matters.
Besides, he was only doing some joint training with the backup dancers. The rehearsal task was not heavy, and it did not delay Cao Xuan's work on the new album.
Cao Xuan didn't have to worry about backup dancers. The most important thing for the Spring Festival Gala program was dancers. In just two days, Cao Xuan met his backup dancers team.
Four men and four women are all professional dancers from a dance troupe in Beijing. These eight actors will dance with Cao Xuan's performance.
There are also 20 children. 1999 happens to be the Year of the Rabbit. At that time, these children will be dressed in fluffy rabbit costumes and serve as the atmosphere group during the performance.
What a little bastard!
The Spring Festival Gala director team attaches great importance to Cao Xuan's "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and specially arranged a planner and a choreographer to help Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan is not good at this aspect, so he simply follows the instructions, and then records it to see the overall effect. We all discuss it together. If the effect is good, we will keep it. If the effect is not good, we will delete it.
It took several people nearly a week to finally finalize the plan and then start rehearsing.
The rehearsal hall for the Spring Festival Gala was crowded, so Cao Xuan simply rented one out. Being a rich man, he also covered three meals a day, round-trip transportation and accommodation for all the people.
We ate lunch boxes that were guaranteed to cost 3 to 5 yuan, and we stayed in Datongbu in the dormitory. It was said to be a pick-up and drop-off service, but many times we couldn't get in line and the time was not on time.
Of course, these are ordinary performers, and stars will be treated better, but in fact they are not that much better.
Cao Xuan has no control over what happens to other people, but these backup dancers are working with him after all. If he doesn't have the conditions, that's all. If there are conditions, there is no need to suffer for everyone, let alone a group of children.
He first booked a hotel for the dancer team members to stay, then asked Zhu Jiang to rent two buses specifically for team travel, and then provided the meals to a restaurant.
This restaurant is Cao Xuan's private collection, and the chef's skills are particularly good.
After eating several dishes and soup, I fed the dancers a group of little rabbits until they were fat. Even if I changed my costume and acted as a piglet, there was no sense of disobedience...
Under the strong logistical guarantee, the backup dance team has high morale, the rehearsal progress is rapid, and the results are quite good.
Looking at the backup dancers rehearsing, Cao Xuan vaguely figured out the correct usage of "money power".
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