Chapter 191 "Love"

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After the song was played, Luo Quan asked: "How was it? Is it okay?"

Seifert analyzed: "It's a very good song. The vocal style is different from your previous songs. It feels a lot thicker."

Luo Quan nodded: "Because it uses a lot of chest sounds, it's a new regular test."

"Okay, wait until your song is sent to my Google mailbox, and I will send it back to the headquarters immediately to prepare for promotion." When talking about work, Seifert became much more serious.

Leon asked: "By the way, you said you wanted to collaborate on a song with me. Has the song been written?"

"Okay." Luo Quan turned around and took out a document from the suitcase and handed it to Leon.

After getting the song, Leon didn't look at it immediately. He just stood up and said, "Then we won't keep it any longer."

This time Seifert left happily, after all, he had something important to do.

Only Wen Xia and Luo Quan were left in the room again.

"By the way, how is Junko getting along with the other students in the dormitory?" Only then did Luo Quan have time to ask about Junko's current situation.

Luo Quan said softly: "It's not bad. Although we are new here and we are foreigners, we still have three or four good friends in the dormitory, especially Jiang Yuner. The two of them seem to have a better relationship than other students. "

Luo Quan nodded: "It's normal. After all, in China, they all come from foreign countries... Now that the students' strength has been demonstrated, do you think these people can compete with the Korean girl group?"

Wen Xia's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "If we are just competing with the second-tier girl groups, we can give them a 50-50 draw."

"Second tier? It's only 50-50!" Luo Quan never expected such a result. "This is already the best female group trainee in the country. No matter how hard you sift, you can't find a better one."

Wen Xia sighed: "I know, but this is the situation, there is no point in arguing.

In fact, it’s pretty good to be able to compare with second-tier girl groups. Above the second-tier girl groups, there are only two levels: first-tier and popular girl groups. Now there are students who are members of popular girl groups. If you don’t count me, the only one is Kang Yoona. , Yue Wei, Xu Yuelin, and Junzi each count as half. "

"Half of them are here." Luo Quan was amused when he heard this, "Does that mean these three are at the level of a first-tier girl group at best?"

Wen Xia nodded: "And it's not the top-notch kind."

"Are those Korean girl groups really that strong?" Luo Quan really couldn't believe that in such a small area, idols could be so powerful.

"Did you see Jiang Yuner? What do you think of her?"

Luo Quan thought seriously and said: "I see, he is indeed very strong. He can crush all the idols in the country... except you and Chu Xiang."

Wen Xia said in a deep voice: "The five members of the girl group I was in before, including myself, Sweet Girl, are about the same basic strength as her. In the fourth generation group, there are at least two girl groups with similar strength to Sweet Girl, and In front of the fourth generation, there are first, second and third generation girl groups, which become stronger as they go forward.

Moreover, some fifth-generation girl groups are about to debut or have already debuted..."

When Luo Quan heard this, he fell silent.

If you look at it this way, the Korean girl group is indeed ridiculously strong.

"But it's not completely inferior to them, it's just that you still have me." Luo Quan thought for a long time and finally found a point that could compare with the Korean girl group.

Wen Xia smiled and said: "You have always been a big motivation for me to persevere. After all, one can spend time to develop one's strength, but one may not be able to get a good song no matter how much time one spends on it.

Those three songs of yours are really good. Whenever it is late at night and I am confused about my future, I just look at them and I will immediately feel confident. "

"Why don't you be so sensational?" Luo Quan crossed his arms and made a numb gesture.

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!" Wen Xia glared at Luo Quan, stood up, and walked out of the room angrily.

Seeing this childish scene, Luo Quan could only shake his head and laugh.

At ten o'clock in the evening, at Zhou Yangwen's urging, Penguin Music finally released the news about Luo Quan's new album:

"Luo Quan's new English album "Love" will be exclusively released nationwide!"

There is a lot of news content, the first is an introduction to Luo Quan.

Although Luo Quan does not have a few awards yet, his talent has long been well-known, and domestic and foreign media have also reported on it. He is basically worthy of all the titles given, and he can be called a musical genius who pays equal attention to talent and art.

This album is Luo Quan's third album and the first all-English album. She and the people have high hopes for this album, hoping to win a Grammy for China.

If successful, this will be a very significant album in the history of domestic pop music, even if there is basically no Chinese in it.

Then, there is the album preface written by Luo Quan himself:

“The age of 19 is the age when a young man truly experiences the taste of love and understands what love means.

When love first arises, when we look into the eyes of the person we love, we all think it is love. In fact, it is just a momentary touch between two restless hearts.

Real love is far from that simple. Compared with possession and pleasure, I think love is more of a responsibility and a vow.

It is not the passion of saying I love you 10,000 times every day, nor is it the love that comes out of your mouth forever.

It is a cattail fan that will always shake for you when you are the hottest in the scorching summer heat; it is the cold snow in winter, a thick coat that will always be added to your shoulders when you shrink from the cold wind.

How many vigorous events were eventually wasted by time and turned into mediocrity.

There is a poem by Yeats that captures the true meaning of all this:

How many people love your charming and charming time,

Loving your beauty comes from pretense or true love,

But only one person loves the sincerity of your soul,

Love the sad wind and frost on your fading face

This is what the nineteen-year-old me understands as true love.

Of course, although I created this album called "Love", I have actually never experienced the most basic form of love - "Huaichun", let alone falling in love with anyone.

Therefore, all the inspiration for the songs in the album come from the love in fairy tales I have seen, love in real life, and the love of my father and mother. "

Luo Quan actually wrote such a long and disgusting preface without any intention of becoming a literary youth. He just wanted to find a suitable excuse for himself to write this album.

After all, she had never been in a serious relationship during her entire life, which lasted more than 40 years, since she was a child. It was indeed unreasonable to create an album with a love theme.

And if it is explained in this way, it will look much more pleasing to the eye.

After the news came out, it reached the top five hot searches in less than ten minutes, and every five minutes, the ranking rose by one, until it was second only to the hot search "Leon joins to create Girls' Generation".

Comments from all sides came in quickly:

"It's so prolific. I just released two Japanese songs on Station B, and a new English album is here."

"Would you rather not open for three months or open for three months?"

"This little essay made me cry."

"The old writer is young, and he has always been good at writing literary compositions."

"It turns out I'm not the only one who has a solo, I = Luo Quan!"

"I understand at night level."

"There is still something different. Ren Luoquan is looked down upon by everyone, but you are looked down upon by everyone."

"What you say is so damn hurtful."

"Where's the song? Just a piece of news?"

"Don't worry, Penguin Music Luo Quan's personal homepage already has the title of the title song, but it's in white for the time being. It won't be open for listening until half past ten."

"what is it call?"

""Someone like you"

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Netizens discussed it enthusiastically and were waiting with excitement for the song to be unblocked. Zhihu and Bilibili also had related discussions, and the popularity was building up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, after the song was unblocked, not many people listened to it, but there were a lot of curses:

"Holy crap, you have to pay for the advance version too?!"

"And you have to pay to listen, and you don't even have a trial listening. If it doesn't sound good, you can't get a refund?"

"You are crazy about money. I am a luxury green diamond VIP member. Can't I even try it out?"

"I asked you to have sex for nothing last time. This time I learned the lesson. If you want to listen to the music, you have to pay first."

"To be fair, it's a bit expensive. An electronic album costs 30 yuan for ten songs, but one song alone costs four yuan!"

"Six yuan is enough for me to have VIP membership for 20 days. What song do you want to listen to that you can't hear?"

"You can't hear this song (funny)."

To be honest, Luo Quan had imagined many possible comments, but he never thought it would be like this.

Isn’t it normal to charge for listening to music? There’s no way you’re having sex for free, so why should you be so indignant?

It is true that Penguin Music has set the price a bit higher, but compared to the albums of domestic popular stars, the price is only ten yuan more. The electronic albums sold by foreign stars in China all start at 40, and none of them are People think it's expensive.

That is to say, her nationality is Chinese, and she naturally feels that Chinese singers are not worthy of being paid for singing. If she were a foreigner, these people who think they are expensive would probably not even fart.

There is no way, the national conditions are such that the songs of so many powerful domestic singers are basically free. Even if they charge, it is just a membership, which only costs 15 yuan a month.

So much so that people simply don’t have the habit of spending more money to listen to music. On the contrary, albums by popular stars, even if they are of average quality, still have the support of countless fans.

Don’t look down on these fans. At least they are willing to support their idols with real money, and they will immediately report and boycott them when they find pirated resources.

This is one of the reasons why songs by traffic stars sell so well.

Due to "various reasons", Luo Quan's new album has such high popularity, the pre-sales volume is only 73,028 copies, and the title song "Someone like you" has sold 107,900 copies. Forty-one.

"I'm on the street." Luo Quan looked at the two numbers that added up to less than 200,000, and his mind was a little empty.

Before the release, she was full of confidence. She felt that she had various titles and countless fans in China. Even if she released a new album, not to mention achieving the results of "Coming of Age Ceremony", it would still have 500,000 pre-sales at least.

It's better now, not even one-tenth of what was expected.

Luo Quan blushed when he thought that Mr. Zhou's tens of millions in licensing fees had not been paid yet.

"It's so embarrassing!" Luo Quan hammered the bed hard and called Zhou Yangwen.

"What's the matter, Luo Quan?" Zhou Yangwen's tone was very calm, and he didn't look anxious at all as if the investment had failed.

"Mr. Zhou, can I charge less for the licensing fee?"

"Huh???" Zhou Yangwen's head is now full of question marks, "I have been in the industry for so many years, and I have heard a lot of requests for temporary additional money. This is the first time I have heard this request for repayment."

Luo Quan smiled bitterly: "The pre-sale volume is too small. I'm really embarrassed to take the licensing fee."

Zhou Yangwen laughed and said: "These days, there are not many stars as honest as you.

Don't be too anxious about this matter. The domestic music market is not like foreign countries. Many people have no concept of actively paying. And you are not like a traffic star with so many crazy fans. It is true that your sales volume will be less in the first place. normal. "

"But this is too little..."

"There are quite a few. There are so many high-level musicians in the country who have put paid albums on the shelves. Many of them have sold hundreds of copies, and some of them can exceed 50,000 in pre-sales. You can count them with just one slap over the years." Zhou Yang Wenton After a while, he said: "After all, it is a chargeable thing, and it is not cheap. You have to let the common people see the reviews of the "rich" first. Things like word-of-mouth need time to ferment. With us doing the publicity, your The quality of the songs is so high, selling well is not a problem at all!”

Luo Quan smiled awkwardly: "That's because I'm impatient."

"You are also concerned about chaos, but the spirit of the contract cannot be messed with. Even if it is a verbal agreement, it cannot be changed immediately. I will give you the paper contract later. Sign it quickly. Don't go back on your words in the future. Do it again.”

"I understand, thank you, Mr. Zhou." Luo Quan hung up the phone, thinking that he was still too young to be so impatient even if something went wrong.

In fact, Luo Quan cannot be entirely blamed for this.

The "19" album had suffered a failure in China before. Although she said she didn't care, she couldn't care less.

It was a work she had worked hard for half a month to make, but after it was put on the shelves in China, no one bought it, which made everyone feel depressed.

But Luo Quan has been keeping it buried deep in his heart, suppressing it.

What I originally thought was that I would be proud of my new album this time, but it turned out that I was on the street again, and even a well-educated person would have to be impatient.

But even so, Luo Quan didn't post on Weibo to express his condolences to those who thought the album was too expensive. He just called Zhou Yangwen, hoping to get less licensing fees and at least feel better.

But now that Zhou Yangwen had enlightened her, and she had calmed down and thought about it carefully, she was indeed a little impulsive just now.

In fact, she is still too obsessed with it. Abroad, she has been well-received and popular. She also wants to achieve this achievement at home. However, the environment at home and abroad is completely different. It may not be that simple to achieve the same effect, and it is definitely not in the short term. It can be done.

Fortunately, this time, she was not alone.

The last time the album hit the streets, it didn't make much of a splash, it just added some jokes.

But this time, there were more people speaking for her.