December 6, 2008, Nashville, United States.

The annual Grammy Award nomination party was held in the Music Hall in Nashville, the “American Country Music Capital”.

This is the first time that the Grammy has come to Nashville. Nominations for all awards of the 51st Grammy Awards have been announced. CBS TV broadcast the nomination party live.

At the nomination party, the most popular media attention was not the Cool Play Band, which was the seven nominations of the limelight, nor the "young and young" Robert-Plant and Alison-Krauss, who were "a young and old" but the "Asian queen" who was nominated for three heavyweights - a Chinese with yellow skin and dark hair.

Everyone can see that no matter whether Chen Fu can win the award in the end, these three nominations are a breakthrough in themselves and are extremely affirmed. It shows that Chen Fu's influence, popularity and quality of his works have reached a level that the Grammy cannot ignore.

"Halo", "Stronger", "Rolling-in-the-deep", "Set-Fire-to-the-Rain"... The quality of the whole album is undoubtedly, the melody and popularity of the songs are obvious to all, and have also been tested by the market.

Does such an album get a Grammy nomination? Does it need an explanation?

unnecessary!

No matter how prejudice the Grammy is or how many unspoken rules are hidden, they may not give her a prize, but they cannot give her nominations, because if they don’t even give her a nomination, it is equivalent to hitting the face of the Billboard list, and the face of the media that praises the quality of the album. In that case, all members of the jury will receive a title - "the stupid and arrogant deaf person."

Even if individual members of the jury don’t care about their personal reputation, the reputation of the Grammy, a world-class music award, still needs to be maintained. If the quality of the album "Halo" cannot be nominated, no one can win the award, and it will definitely become a stain that the Grammy cannot erase.

So, Chen Fu was nominated.

After the list was announced, even the most demanding American music critics did not feel that the list of nominations was to accompany them.

A week ago, some American media have predicted that Chen Fu is the most popular female singer of the year and the most powerful contender for the year's songs. Some music critics even wrote: "Taking the three songs "Halo", "Rolling-in-the-deep" and "Set-Fire-to-the-Rain", both in business and reputation, they are already undisputed award-winning works. The remaining question is who to accompany you."

Interestingly, after the manuscript was published, not many people raised questions.

On the entire nomination list, in addition to Chen Fu, there are two Chinese people nominated. They are Li Wei, a famous Guzheng artist living in Canada, and Chinese-American pianist Chen Kelan. Both of them are nominated for the best instrumental solo. Similarly, in the hearts of Americans, Chen Fu's name must be added to the first name - "Hien in the UK".

At the evening party, the entire music hall was brightly lit and starry-studded. Big-name musicians who won the Grammy Awards in previous sessions appeared one after another to show people the charm, value, and temptation of the Grammy, the world's top vintage and fortune fair.

Wearing a black dress, she sat gracefully in the third row of the venue, with agents Ms. Wang and Ai Zhen sitting on the left and right of Shen Fu. Three beautiful black-haired oriental women became the most unique scenery in the audience.

In the middle of the party, the MV of the Fragrant Billboard champion single "Set-Fire-to-the-Rain" was played on the big screen on the stage.

To be honest, this only invested a lot of money to gather the top Japanese and Korean top stars and the top Asian directors’ video editing of the overall quality of the MVs far exceeds the MVs played before.

In the MV, the whole body was soaked and sang in the rain. A short picture was changed, which made people feel like watching a movie trailer, which was very impactful. In addition, a detail in the MV greatly increased the favorability of the Americans present at the party, that is, this MV was shot in Hawaii.

In the minds of some Americans, a Chinese singer who lives in the UK, sings in English, and shoots MVs in Hawaii is obviously closer to European and American culture.

Well, that's just what Americans think.

When the news that Chen Fu was nominated for Grammy was sent back to China, the media was infuriated.

Everyone who heard the news and knew what the Grammy was was overjoyed. They talked enthusiastically through their mobile phones, QQ, Weibo, and forums.

Soon, CCTV reported the news at the same time, and then more people learned about it.

So, the Chinese people were in a state of excitement!

In a sense, the weight of the Grammy nomination in Shenfu is almost no less than that of Liu Xiang's gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics.

Although the track and field gold medals in the Olympic Games are difficult, the difficulty lies in physical fitness, psychological quality, scientific training and a little bit of luck. On the track and field, fast is fast, high is high, and far is far. As long as you get a grade, as long as you pass the strong bar, as long as you pass the urine test, no one can beat you and you will definitely get honors.

The nomination of Chenfu is different. It has no hard marks, and nominations and non-nominations are all subjective. Therefore, the difficulty of Chenfu's nomination is many times more difficult than fighting in the track and field, because it needs to overcome obstacles such as prejudice, discrimination, and barriers.

Simply put, the track and field gold medal is convinced by strength, and the nomination of Chenfu means that she has made the mainstream European and Americans convinced her.

If you figure this out, it will be clear which one is more difficult.

In other words, the Olympic gold medal is just a product of the national system. If you win the gold medal this time, you may not be able to win anyone next time. The nomination of Chenfu is a milestone achievement in cultural output. It represents the improvement of China's cultural soft power, surpassing Japan and South Korea in the internationalization of pop music.

domestic.

Both the media and netizens collectively ignored the fact that the entire album of "Halo" is full of English songs.

Americans understand the same album as being closer to European and American culture, while some domestic netizens joked:

"The rich English songs are both nice and popular, so the judges such as Grammys have vision."

"A Chinese have created English songs of this level, and I don't know what those singers whose native language is English think."

"It's really awesome to defeat the native language in the second language and defeat the other party in the field that the other party is familiar with!"

"The one who said "Rolling-in-the-deep" and "Halo" was not good. Your music appreciation ability is paid for by phone bills, right?"

In one day, the rich reputation reached its peak since its debut. The rumor of "suspected pregnancy" that had been rumored in the past few days was like a rolling soup and pouring snow, and no one mentioned it again.

And what about the fragrance...

She always remembers the task of helping Zhi increase popularity for Weibo. After the nomination party, she did not accept interviews from any domestic media. Instead, she posted a photo of Ai Zhen taking at the party to Weibo, and added a sentence: "I'm fine, it's better! Thank you everyone."

A photo and a sentence, Chen Fu's first voice after being nominated for the Grammy, completely detonating Zhiwei Weibo.

Just as netizens were enthusiastically posting congratulations and likes on Shen Fu's Weibo, Bian Xuedao's Weibo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly woke up. He forwarded Shen Fu's Weibo without any hesitation, and wrote four words at the same time - "Happy!"

Bian Xuedao's appearance made netizens even more excited. When everyone was still thinking about what the four words "Xi Da Pu Ben" mean, Zhiwei's Weibo employees quickly forwarded the boss's Weibo.

When netizens met, they no longer cared about what these four words meant and followed the trend and forwarded them. For a moment, the screen on Weibo was full of "happiness".

About an hour later, someone finally explained the origin of these four words - the abbreviation of "welcome to hear, enjoy the people, celebrate together, and tell each other".

When netizens saw it, hey, it was quite interesting, so they spread around.

When the media people met, they revised the title of the report related to the Grammy nomination. "Xi Da Pu Ben" became popular and became the exclusive idiom of Chen Fu.
Chapter completed!