Chapter 8 Chapter 2 Opportunities Don't Come Out of Nothing

In our day and age, smacking is a virtue, but if you want to succeed, you have to show the momentum of smacking.If I didn't have this momentum, I wouldn't be associated with "I Love to Remember the Lyrics", and I wouldn't be where I am today. In 2007, when the station was researching the program "I Love to Remember the Lyrics", the leaders were not optimistic about it, and they didn't even want to ask me to host it. The hosts at the beginning were Zhu Dan and another male host, who were a little bit like me. It doesn't matter.Even at the beginning, I didn't even know that the station was going to plan this program.

One night, after recording the show, a brother and I went to a small restaurant we often go to next to the station to fill our stomachs.Don't underestimate my buddy, he is an old man in the stage, and he knows everything big and small. I once joked with him that you are the Jianghu Baixiaosheng described by Gu Long. We were eating, and after talking nonsense, he suddenly asked me: "Hua Shao, do you know that our station is going to have a new program?" He looked smug, looked around cautiously, and whispered to me: "I heard that our station is doing a singing program, the form seems to be reciting lyrics and singing karaoke."

At that time, the planning of "I Love to Remember the Lyrics" was just an idea. The general form was to combine karaoke with the lyrics memory game that was popular in Europe and America at that time.The program will select classic pop songs that are popular in China in various ages, artificially reduce the lyrics, and let the contestants recall the missing parts on the spot and sing them out loud. The person who sings the most lyrics correctly will be the champion of the competition. This program is not designed to examine the singing level of the participants. It is more inclined to mass entertainment. It is a program that challenges memory. It is not more than singing voice, pitch, or stage performance, as long as the lyrics are sung correctly.

As soon as I heard it, my heart lit up, and I subconsciously decided that this show was born for me, or in other words, I waited so long just to meet "I Love to Remember the Lyrics"! Why do you think so?I have been a radio DJ for six years, and I have done a lot of music programs. If I don’t talk about anything else, if I want to talk about the names of the songs I know and the tracks I have listened to, I guess no one on the TV station can do more than me.Casual, I can immediately name the songwriter and where the song came from. The small calculations in my heart were resounding, but on the surface I looked absent-minded, and said casually: "I think the form is good, but it has nothing to do with me." That brother didn't think so, he Knowing that I have been a DJ in the radio station, I encouraged me and said: "You have to fight for it, I think this show is very suitable for you!" Oh, why didn't I think so in my heart?Since it suits me, I want to "grab" this show over!How to grab it?I made a simple plan for myself: first, I need to get acquainted with the program team and let them know that I want to participate in this program; Come down; in the end, we must strive to become the host. If we cannot become the host, at least we must become an important staff member of this program.

Just thinking about the chance to be a real host makes me a little bit giddy. Act now! After inquiring about the planning team of this show, I hung out with them in a sullen manner.What are you doing?Use the stunt of my career: skip the meeting!Never heard of it?In fact, meetings are often hated by everyone, so many people avoid them as much as they can, but leaders cannot avoid them!Do you think that your opponents have taken the opportunity to slip away, and don't hurry up?This is called taking advantage of it.What's more, everyone who says what they say is here, this is called going straight to Huanglong!As long as you can think positively and speak enthusiastically, bad impressions will disappear, and you may even become the confidant of the leaders.So, I often lie in ambush at the door of the meeting room, pretending to chat with other colleagues. As soon as I hear the news of their meeting, I will run over and say "count me, count me", and then sit in the meeting room. Once there is something to discuss question, I tried to intervene.Fortunately, I am very popular, and many directors also know that I am a radio DJ, and they want to hear my opinion, so everyone got together to discuss it.

Because I have been in music programs for many years, I have more experience in column music editing.More importantly, during the discussion, I gave up the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation - modesty, and expressed my opinions from time to time: where to leave the lyrics to be filled in, where to reflect the singer's singing skills, and so on.Colleagues are also very willing to listen to my suggestions, the communication is very smooth, and the program has been formed step by step. In my opinion, songs are alive, beautiful melodies are bones, moving lyrics are flesh and blood, and the stories behind those creations are the birth process of life.Those classic lyrics, even without music, are still beautiful poems, and there are moving stories behind each poem. The program "I Love to Remember the Lyrics" not only tests the memory of the contestants, but also gives us a chance to appreciate the lyrics and be moved.

Just like the lyrics of the song "Across the Ocean to See You", there is a line "I even practiced the breathing when we met".When we meet our lover, we usually just pay attention to the clothes and makeup. Just imagine practicing breathing. What an unforgettable love!Perhaps many people do not know, this is actually a true story. The original singer of this song was called Wawa. At that time, she was overseas, and she fell in love with a teacher at Peking University. It is a good story in the world that she has a lover and a concubine, but the teacher is already married.When the love was so strong that she couldn't extricate herself, the baby traveled across the ocean to Beijing to find him. She waited at the gate of Peking University for a day and a night, but the other party refused to abandon his wife and children, and refused to come out to meet him.After all, the doll failed to wait for the person it was waiting for, but left behind words that moved us.

When I told the above story to the program directors, they were also very moved.This song is relatively uncommon, and many people have never heard it, let alone tell the story behind it.After such a small test, my understanding of music has been recognized by everyone, and they unanimously agreed to use this sentence as the lyrics to fill in the blanks.Of course, because this song is relatively uncommon, many people will not be able to sing it, but when we announced the answer, everyone felt not only that it was difficult to remember, but also that they felt the sincerity from this line of lyrics.

In addition to participating in program planning and song selection, I have also done a lot of things that are unbelievable to me now: writing lines, planning proposals, program promotion, etc., so that I have to constantly switch roles every day. Work in different departments and positions. If I continue to work hard like this, I guess the program team will feel embarrassed if they don't take me to play. After step-by-step advancement, "I Love to Remember the Lyrics" has finally reached the stage of publicity.From my experience, it is especially suitable for promotion on radio stations, because there are many music programs on radio stations, and some stations are even called "The Sound of Music".With my instigation, everyone unanimously decided to cooperate with the radio station and jointly promote it.But with so many radio stations in Hangzhou, which one is the most reliable to cooperate with?I stood up and patted my chest and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of this. Anyway, I came from the radio station!"

I slapped my chest loudly, but I must not mess things up.I went to my old club as soon as possible, and presented the plan in detail using PPT, and put the benefits that both parties gained from this matter on the table.After all, Zhejiang Satellite TV is a satellite TV station with strong publicity. After seeing the plan, the old leader also felt that the cooperation would play a good role in publicity for the station, so he agreed immediately. After discussing serious matters with the old leader, it is inevitable that he will be asked about his current situation on the TV station.I told the truth about my situation, neither good nor bad.After the leader heard it, he said to me slowly: "Yes, the boy has calmed down. Don't try to eat a fat man in one bite. If you decide on something, just do it, but don't worry too much, take your time. The radio station will always be Your home, but we don't welcome you home, we hope you can make a good appearance on the TV station!" I nodded vigorously, but didn't dare to look up at him, lest he see the tears in my eyes.

After the publicity is negotiated, the rest is recorded. At the beginning of this show, the station still had a bit of a mentality of asking for directions, so the support was not strong, and many necessary equipment were not there. We didn't even have a venue for recording the show.Not having a venue is a small problem, but the big problem is that we don't even have a suitable stage.We need a stage with LED screens, how can this be good? At that time, the producer was quick to think, and choked out a sentence: "How about we put it in a nightclub to record?" It should not be difficult to find a nightclub with a nine-square grid or a large LED screen. At that time, I said without thinking: "I can handle this. " I can do it?What can I do?Anyway, the idea at the time was that you can't let others do it! In fact, I have never been to a nightclub, and I am not familiar with it. What should I do?Get a friend to help.Now that I think about it, after so many years of hard work, today, without friends, there would be no Hua Shao today! I have a friend for many years who is the sales director of a nightclub.I bit the bullet and called him: "Brother, I need a venue for a show, can I borrow Guibao to use it?" My friend teased me on the phone: "No." As soon as I heard it, I became anxious and yelled to the phone: "Both brothers usually look good, but if they don't help at the critical moment, are they still brothers?" The subconscious mind that made the show well put too much pressure on me, and I was a little nervous. .My friend got anxious when he heard me, and laughed, and then I realized, oh, so he did it on purpose! "When do you use it? It's open during the day and it's open at night." "I know, we will use it during the day, and we will withdraw it before your guests come at night!" The other end of the phone hesitated for a while, and asked a particularly ridiculous question: "Do you want drinks?" For the show, no drinks, just use the venue..." After the relationship was established, I immediately arranged time to take the director of the program group and other colleagues on a field trip.Nightclubs are naturally open at night, and our group can only follow other people's working hours and wait until they go to work before entering the venue. I took the chief director back and forth on the dance floor, and everyone around me was dancing passionately. The few of us squeezed in the middle, looked around, and shouted: "How is the passageway over there?" Is this place big enough?" After measuring the dance floor, we went straight to the second floor.The people in the boxes on the second floor were either chatting or playing cards and games.A few of us were measuring the height of the field under countless strange eyes, to see if we could hang the lights, because at that time, the show lights would have to be readjusted. After two or three days of working like this, the nightclub finally failed because the suspended ceiling could not bear the weight of the field lights.On the last day of our visit to the nightclub, we were resting in a cafe next to us, thinking about the name of the show, and suddenly someone said in passing: "Just call it "I Love to Remember the Lyrics"!" "Isn't it too tacky?" "Whether it's vulgar or not, I'll record it right away!" So, the show finally had a name. The name is there, but the live band is nowhere to be seen.Many of the singers and musicians you saw in the lead band of "I Love to Remember the Lyrics" were my friends for more than ten years, such as Wang Tao, Haifeng, Zhang Jie... At that time, I went to visit one by one, and invited them one by one. These friends basically didn’t say anything, and they didn’t even ask the appearance fee, just said to help me bear it first.Without these good friends, there would be no "I Love to Remember Lyrics" today. Wang Tao was originally a well-known singer in Hangzhou and a teacher at the Teachers College. He was well recognized in the local media circles in Hangzhou.The same is true for Haifeng. He has a band of his own and has participated in some shows on the stage before.Therefore, the program team has no objection to the joining of the two of them. Relatively speaking, Zhang Jie is more dissenting.In fact, we met when I was working as a radio DJ, when he was still in college.His imitation ability is particularly strong, and he can imitate eight singers. In the program "I Love to Remember Lyrics", there is actually a great need for someone who can imitate.I recommended Zhang Jie to the program group, saying that he can imitate eight singers.Everyone didn't believe it, saying that at least in Hangzhou, they had never seen such a person!I didn't say much, I made an appointment with Zhang Jie, pulled him directly in front of the director, and performed a live performance.The director was dumbfounded, didn't say a word, and acquiesced. So far, I have solved the problems of program content, publicity, name and personnel one by one, and the dedication of "I'll get it done" is finally about to be reaped!At this stage, everyone suddenly discovered that I contributed the most to this program.Of course, this was exactly the effect I wanted - to make them feel a little embarrassed not to hand over to me to host, so many things came naturally, and I became the host of this show.In this way, I finally squeezed onto the high-speed train of "I Love to Remember the Lyrics", and won the opportunity to quickly march towards my dream.