"Preach in the text." --Tang Tears"
As far as the Chinese entertainment industry is concerned.
The influence of the four heavenly kings surpassed their predecessors, whether it was the first generation of song gods Xu Guanjie, or the brief rivals Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong, including the double Weekly Cheng of the film world, in terms of synthesis, they were not as strong and eternal as them.
Younger generations are even less likely to be as much as one-tenth of what they have achieved.
Just like when Tan Yonglin criticized Eason Chan's unscrupulous words, saying that he was inferior to the Four Heavenly Kings, ten is not one.
I still remember Zhang Guorong's comeback in 1995, the reporter interviewed Aaron Kwok and asked if he had any ideas, Aaron Kwok only said one word, the seniors are happy.
Many people may not quite understand, why can a title have such a strong power?
Aren't they idols packaged by capital?
The concept of "packaging" definitely exists, but it is not limited to idols.
Powerful singers still need packaging, such as making record covers look better, shaping specific personalities and styles, which are collectively referred to as packaging.
But just like a girl wearing makeup, the final effect of a good foundation is definitely better than the final effect of a poor foundation.
And the four kings do not rely on packaging success.
Their history of fame is well known to everyone, and there is no need to talk about it.
We set our sights on 1998, the last year the four kings shared the stage at the music awards ceremony.
After years of experience, transformation and high-intensity competition, they have also been polished like impeccable jade, dazzling.
This is the culmination of a decade of prestige and achievement.
The most inspirational king is Aaron Kwok, who won all three male singers' highest awards in the music industry in this year, Lianzhuang TVB "Most Popular Male Singer", opened an eight-year cooperation with Pepsi Cola, and won the Hong Kong film box office crown with the movie "The Wind and Clouds Dominate the World", and opened 25 consecutive "Pepsi Kwok Aaron 100 Concerts 98" in the Red Pavilion.
Dawn won the TVB Golden Melody Gold Award for the third time, equaling jacky Cheung's record, winning the Gold Award for the Most Popular Advertising Song with "Love You Don't Love You", and the song "This Life Is No More" won the Best Original Song Award at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Andy Lau won the Four Television Media Awards, and won the Gold Award for Outstanding Chinese Songs of the Top Ten Songs and the Top Ten golden songs of the top Chinese with "Stupid Child", and won the Songwriter Award in the music scene.
Jacky Cheung won TVB's Asia Pacific Most Popular Male Singer Award and The Gold Award for Most Popular Choral Song, and won the Four Channels Joint Music Award for "Release Yourself".
In fact, this ten-year trend of the King of Heaven, the review of Hong Kong IFPI's sales champion weekly list data is clear.
This data records the weekly sales list from 1993 to 2000.
Jacky Cheung held the first place from 1993 to 1997, and the worst result ranked third in 1998.
Aaron Kwok finished at the bottom of the 1993 record, then rose to third in the following two years, jumped to second place in 1996, slid to third place in 1997, topped in 1998, and slid to fourth place in 1999.
Andy Lau remained runner-up from 1993 to 1995, slipped to third place in 1996, bottomed out two years later, and finished third in 1999.
Dawn was third in 1993, bottomed out from 1994 to 1996, followed by two years to second, first in 1999.
The top four are Jacky Cheung (50 weeks), Aaron Kwok (29 weeks), Andy Lau (26 weeks) and Li Ming (23 weeks).
Jacky Cheung is undoubtedly the strongest selling king, and Aaron Kwok is unexpected by many people.
On the basis of big data, let's take a look at the 1998 Tianwang Answer Sheet.
Aaron Kwok released two Cantonese albums and made two films
The albums are "Code in the Wind" and "A Change of The City", and the main songs are all advertising songs.
"The Code in the Wind" is a cityBank advertising song, the practice of Xiaomei lyrics, Tan Guozheng composed, can be called the classic in Aaron Kwok's works, melodious style, atmospheric and durable, Aaron Kwok in the later period is especially good at this kind of low slow start to the climax of the surging unprovoked singing, the treble area vibrato is also a major feature, evocative and long.
"A Change of The City" is a new promotional song of PepsiCo, with a rap attempt, and when there is a song "This Night Mood" on this album, the other songs can actually be ignored.
Atmospheric, high-spirited, grateful and a thousand times, from the popular singer, to the depression at the beginning of the award ceremony, to the hard practice of singing skills step by step, until the peak of King's Landing at this moment, the entire Age of Heavenly Kings, all the traces of Aaron Kwok have been written into the song, Xiaomei's words, really can be called the peak of the grateful inspirational type, Aaron Kwok has this confidant in this life, it is indeed a great blessing.
The films are "The Mighty Storm" and "Anna Madeleine".
The former film is the highlight of Jiahe's tailor-made for Aaron Kwok, which creates a miracle and also announces the end of the bi-Monday era, and the latter is the debut work of art director Xi Zhongwen, which can also be regarded as friendship support and the quality is acceptable.
Looking at the entire film industry, Aaron Kwok's Bu Qianyun and Zheng Yijian's Nie Feng are the only choice, many people like to rip the movie box office explosion for various reasons, but please FORGIVE, no matter what factors, the irreplaceability of the two of them is the most important reason.
Ten years after his debut, he won the first annual championship of his personal career, which is a matter of pride.
He ranks sixth in the Hong Kong Star Income Chart with a revenue of 59 million.
Andy Lau released an album and made two Wang Jing films.
The album "You Are My Woman", written by himself, has a good mood, and the singing voice is also a breakthrough than before, especially the application of less attempted false sound processing, in fact, Andy Lau is trapped in a lower vocal range, the difficulty of false sound application is greater than that of many singers, and "I Don't Believe in Tears", "His Woman" and "Sweater" are above the level.
Regarding Andy Lau's songs, many people may have misunderstood.
His live singing function is actually very stable, limited to the range, he did not do too much trying and broadening like Jacky Cheung and Aaron Kwok, but carefully polished within his upper limit, although the difficulty of the song is not very large, but it is better than stable, plus the lyrics are quite good, so the later from record sales to audience acceptance are relatively strong.
The two films are lackluster, either typical commercial entertainment or clichés, which is also Wang Jing's consistent style.
This year, he earned 53 million, ranking eighth on the Hong Kong Star Income List.
Dawn made three films and released an album.
The movies are Wang Jing's "New Century of Love", Du Qifeng's "True Heart Hero" and Zhang Wanting's "City of Glass", which is very interesting.
The three directors are all directors, indicating that Li Tianwang has a good momentum and better resources, and in terms of style, one is a Wang Jing-style comedy, one is a man's play of Galaxy Image, and the other is a gentle literary style.
In other words, the big screen performance of the dawn at this time is really exciting, and he can control these three different styles of works in the same year, compared to Guo Tianwang's action route, Liu Tianwang's inertial business and Zhang Tianwang's cameo, he is indeed outstanding.
One of the best is of course Du Qifeng's "True Heart Hero".
Compared with Liu Qingyun's efforts to control the role, Dawn is dashing and handsome and has a much higher degree of consistency with the role.
But the film was not well received, only receiving 6.79 million at the box office, almost bringing the Galaxy Image out of business.
The album "Yearning" is the last album before leaving PolyGon.
The title song feels ordinary, while the rap and diacritical treatment of the other "Telepathy" is also quite interesting, which is a preliminary attempt at electric sound in the future, "Heaven in My Eyes" maintains a consistent standard, and other songs lack change breakthroughs.
With 29.55 million, it ranked twelfth on the Hong Kong Star Revenue List.
Jacky Cheung made a cameo appearance in a film and released two albums.
In "Anna Madeleine", he plays a policeman and has a confrontation with Aaron Kwok, and this kind of routine performance is a hand-to-hand and effortless performance for him.
A Cantonese album "Release Yourself" and a Mandarin album "No Regrets".
And whether you like Jacky Cheung's voice or not, just like Aaron Kwok said that his voice is very beautiful, Andy Lau said that he should have asked Jacky Cheung how to sing, and his name of the god of song is really deserved.
Whether it is the main song "Release Yourself" in Cantonese, the super difficult "Hair Messed Up" or the Mandarin "No Regrets", "Deep Sea" and "A B And D" or pick a random one, it is very interesting.
This stage can also be described as the peak of the song god, and the "Snow Wolf Lake" musical was just held in the first year.
Although it only had four sales champions weeks, it still won the highest-selling male singer award of the year.
He ranked fourteenth on the Hong Kong Star Earnings List with 23.75 million.
The new century is coming.
The singer of the shadow is about to return and turn to the introverted performance route.
While Dawn's film performance continues to improve, there are already shadows of acting skills.
Andy Lau is about to usher in the peak of the film industry.
Aaron Kwok will face a period of confusion and then wait for the opportunity.
Seven years of fighting is coming to an end.