Chapter 868: My Name Is Elaine
Stealing songs, you have to steal something!
Chen Wen had a bunch of Chinese songs and English songs in his head, but he really didn't remember a few French songs, and the two most impressive ones were all Holey's own songs, one was "The Departing Train" and the other was "My Name is Elaine".
Chen Wen is very familiar with the song of the little demon queen Ellijie, but the style does not match Holly at all! It is now 1992, and even if Ellijie's song is stolen, it is very inconsistent with the general direction of contemporary times, and the audience may not buy it. Let Huo Lai sing on stage and twist his sexy waist like Ellie, Chen Wen himself feels that it is too discordant.
Chen Wen asked, "Miss Holley, can I ask you a question?"
Yelena Holley smiled, "My name is Elena, call me Elena, so I will feel more comfortable." ”
Chen Wen continued: "This letter from Mr. Petro seems to suggest that you come and exchange ideas for lyrical music with me. I want to know, are you asking me for a song?"
Yelena Holley put away her smile and said with a serious expression: "Frankly, I don't plan to ask you for a song. Oh, excuse my wording, I've heard a few Chinese folk songs you composed, the melodies are beautiful, I like it very much, but the songs you write are in Chinese style, not our French style. I'm worried that if you were asked to write songs for me, we fans in France wouldn't necessarily accept your style. To date, I haven't heard you compose a song in French. ”
Chen Wen smiled: "What you said is very reasonable, I have never written a song in French, I don't know what to write." ”
Yelena Hollet said: "Actually, I have two wishes for this visit to the University of Versailles. One wish is that I do a class of students and regain the feeling of youthfulness. When I was younger, I had a lot of inspiration for lyrical songs, and "The Departing Train" was a work from that period.
Another wish is to be able to chat with Mr. Chen about lyrical songs. You are a Chinese songwriter and I am a French lyric singer. You've been living in my country for a while, and you may have a new understanding of it, or maybe I can find inspiration in your new compositions and convey them to the writers on the record labels.
Oh, sorry, I have to say one thing, if your melody is used by us, even if it's a part of it, I can guarantee that our record company will pay you. ”
Chen Wen has already passed the primitive accumulation stage of wealth by stealing songs to save money to buy a house, and now he really doesn't care about the two dates given by the record company, he can earn more by buying a sports game.
However, Chen Wen is still very interested in stealing a song for Yelena Hollay, which will be of great benefit to him in the future to open up contacts in France and even in Europe!
Chen Wen doesn't know how to write songs, and his advantage is theft
Song. IT'S NOT DIFFICULT TO STEAL A FEW LYRICAL SONGS FROM ELENA HOLLEY FROM THE 21ST CENTURY IN HER PAST LIFE, AND SOME OF THE FAST SONGS AND SLOW SONGS ARE LADYGAGA AND TATE SWIFT LET HIM COPY THEM CASUALLY.
He loves the work of this representative of French pop music, and what he thinks most about now is the most iconic song "My Name is Elaine" by Yelena Holley.
The Chinese name of the song is purely a matter of translation, and in French, Elaine and Yelena are the same word. When this singer and song entered the Chinese market, the singer's name was translated as "Yelena", and the song title was translated as "Elaine", which is really unreasonable.
Chen Wen thought to himself that if this song has not been born for the time being, then it would be too appropriate for him to steal it.
According to memory, Chen Wen vaguely remembered that this song was released in January 1993 in his previous life, because he had too deep memories of what happened in 1992 in his two lives, and he had never heard this song in the year of Zhang Juan's death.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen asked tentatively, "Yelena, I have a small question that I want to ask you." ”
Yelena Holley smiled, "Of course you can, you ask!"
Chen Wen said: "When I was a child, I heard a song from the former Soviet Union called 'Katyusha', and the title of the song was a beautiful girl. I love this song very much. I often wonder if I can write a song with the name of a girl I like. ”
Yelena Holley said: "That's a great idea!"
Chen Wen asked, "You also think it's good, right? I want to ask you, among the songs you have, including those that have been released and those that have not been released, is there a song named after you? For example, "Elaine", or "My name is Elaine", or "My name is Elaine"?"
Elena Holley had a thoughtful expression, as if she was thinking about something.
Chen Wen trembled in his heart, he knew that the song in his previous life was actually under the name of Yelena Holley, the creation time should be at the end of 1992, and the release time was January 1993, but he was really not sure if Yelena Holley already had the melody and lyrics of this song in September.
Of course, in the previous life, whether this song was composed and lyrics by Yelena Holly herself, God knows, KONE Records has a creative team, maybe it was the song they wrote, and it was named Yelena Holley.
This practice is also common in the singing world, and Chen Wen has done it. The two rock songs of the Old Boys Band are the works of Wang Feng stolen by Chen Wen in his previous life, and he is named Huang Qin and Ah Hui in this life.
Elena Holley reminisced for a moment before she spoke: "At the beginning of the year, I had a conversation with my mother, and she advised me to give up rock and roll and go back to the folk-lyrical style of my own debut a few years ago. My mother said that at the time
The phrase, 'Elena, you should make people think of your name with only one concept in their minds, and that is your lyrical and romantic voice'.
Mr. Chen, you may not know, but I would love to have a song with my own name as the title of the song, which would be unique to me and to the French music scene. But my idea, it's still just an idea, I haven't come up with the right melody and lyrics, it's too difficult, to use a singer's name as a song title, if the song itself is not particularly moving, fans will instinctively resist the song with such a title. ”
Chen Wen thought to himself: What you discussed with your mother, I definitely don't know what you thought about in your heart! I threw out the title of the song, just to test whether you already have this song, since you don't have it, then it will be easy to do, the time has come for the number one thief in the Chinese pop music world to pretend to be forced!
After getting the confession of Yelena Holley's personal "confession", Chen Wen said confidently: "Yelena, I have a song on hand, which is written for my beloved girlfriend, and the song is the idea that I came to France after I came to study abroad. Now I want to change my girlfriend's name in the song to yours, and I'll sing it to you, okay?"
Yelena Holley immediately clapped her hands, her expression less like a 26-year-old older sister and more like a 19-year-old female college student.
Professor Josephine, who has always been transparent, said: "Chen, do you need to accompany the instrument, I have quite a few in my office. ”
Chen Wen said, "Please give me a guitar." ”
After staying in the office for a while, Chen Wen had already seen a wall-style piano at the root of the wall, and the original accompaniment of the song "My Name is Elaine" in his previous life was the piano, but he couldn't play the piano, so he could only use the guitar, the instrument he was best at and the only instrument he knew.
Josephine took out a guitar from the cabinet, and Chen Wen knew it was a good product as soon as he got it. Although it is not as good as the one given to him by Brother Huan, it is also a guy with a grade of 10,000 yuan Huaxia coins.
In his previous life, Chen Wen had already practiced this song, and this time he pretended to adjust a few chords and tried to strum.
Elena Holley had an expectant expression on her face, and she was eager to see what kind of surprise this male student from a mysterious country in the Far East could bring her.
Chen Wen controlled the product with his left hand, swept the strings with his right hand, and used the simple playing method of four rhythms and one change of taste, imitating the piano accompaniment rhythm of the original version of the song, and began this singing that was about to change many things.
"Elaine, my name is Elaine, I'm a girl, like any other girl......"
When Chen Wen finished singing this song, Yelena Holley covered her mouth with her hands and looked at him in disbelief.
Professor Josephine didn't have time to get excited, because just then there was a knock on the door, and she opened the office door, took the takeaway, and paid for the meal.