After ending the chat with Jin Shuo, Lin Mu began to calm down and think about what he should do with his first album.

Rock, pop, folk?

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't make a decision, so he decided to simply do everything and kill all types of fans. Of course, it's an exaggeration to do everything, and the overall style of the album still has to be there, otherwise the whole album will look messy.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Mu finally decided that the definition of this album is roughly under the framework of campus folk songs, supplemented by a few other styles of music.

That is to say, while the style as a whole is unified as a campus ballad, he is ready to intersperse one or two songs with different flavors, such as rock and pop, so as to give the audience a different feeling.

In fact, many albums in the previous life are roughly like this, and in the major record companies, there is generally a department called A&R, the full English name is ArtistAndRepertoire.

The main task of this department is to discover and train singers or artists.

The A&R division is the link between record labels and artists, helping them succeed in the commercial market. In the preparation stage of record production, A&R will help the singer think of the planning direction and album concept according to the characteristics of the singer himself, and only with the concept can he invite songs to the copyright company in a targeted manner.

A commercial album certainly wants to have as wide a audience as possible, and after positioning the concept and overall style of the album, the planning team will also subdivide the style on this basis, such as adding several songs with different styles to meet different audiences.

In general, after deciding on the general style of a piece of music, it is time to find an album producer.

Commonly referred to as a record producer or album producer, their job includes controlling the scheduling of recording projects, training and directing singers, organizing production budgets and resources, overseeing the recording process, and conducting mixing and mastering post-production.

The producer often determines the final direction of a record and is the soul of a record. In a way, a music producer is like a film and television director, whose task is to design and produce songs that fit the style of the entire album.

Because producers play such an important role in the production of albums, choosing a producer becomes the most important thing in making an album.

The style of each producer is very different, so the choice of music producer depends on the style of the album, for example, it is impossible to find Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng when making a dance music album.

As for whether you have to ask a big-name producer to escort the record, this is a matter of opinion. In fact, most of the time, this is just a publicity stunt, because although the big-name producer is stable and objective, the music he makes can be a little more old-fashioned, and sometimes the music made by a new producer is more creative and can achieve unexpected results.

However, Lin Mu does not have the above troubles, because his entire album will be handled by himself, which is the case now and will be the same in the future.

Once you've decided on the overall style and producer, the next thing to do is decide on the tracks for the album.

Generally speaking, after deciding on the idea of a record, the record company will send a request to the copyright company to invite songs, because the copyright company has a massive library of original songs, and the producer only needs to wait for a large number of song materials to be sent.

There are all kinds of music types, as long as the producer thinks the song is suitable and pays the copyright fee, even if it is a foreign melody, it is also used, and there is no restriction at all.

As for inviting songs to the designated music creators, it is the "icing on the cake" thing.

Many singers will ask one or two big-name musicians for one or two lyrics or songs for their albums, because the quality of the big-name musicians' work is relatively stable, and what they write is not too bad to add points to the album, and on the other hand, the most important aspect is because the record company can use this strong creative lineup as a publicity gimmick to win the attention of fans.

But it is not a simple matter to invite big-name musicians to sing, not to mention the expensive works of big-name music creators, often they have more work at hand, and they have to "queue" to ask them to compose lyrics and music, and they will face the problem of long delivery time, and the most important thing is that people may not dump you.

Fortunately, Lin Mu has countless excellent music resources from his previous life, this problem is not a problem for him at all, what he has to do now is to pick out some songs to compose his first album.

Of course, there will definitely be some caution when spending headline points.

"Which songs?"

"One song of "City Capital", two songs of "Southern Girl", plus three songs of "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth", and "Listen to the Wind" can also be included, but this is only four! It is still much different from the standard configuration of 10 to 12 songs on an album. ”

Lin Mu was a little worried, of course he had a lot of good songs in his head, but now it made him a little annoyed to let him choose some of the vast number of songs all at once?

After all, there are too many good songs, and if you put one song, you will have one less place to put another.

Although it was difficult to choose songs, in the end, Lin Mu still selected the ten songs of his first album.

The remaining six songs are tentatively set as: "Dispel Sorrow", "Love in the Dust", "People Like Me", "Lilacs", "Life with You", and "Childhood".

Why are there ten songs and not a few more? Because Lin Mu's heart hurts!

"Lilac", a classic sad song, was uploaded to the Internet in 2002, with an online hit rate of more than 20 million times, and became popular all over the country.

The song is deeply touching and has moved countless fans, and the story behind the song has also caused many conjectures. The song won the 2004 Classic Internet Original Song Award.

"Life with You", sung by Shui Mu Nianhua, written and composed by Lu Gengxu, arranged by Li Yanliang, and included in a classic track in his 2001 album "Life with You". In 2002, the song won the Golden Melody Award of the 15th National Song Chart of the 9th China Song Chart, and Shuimu Nianhua also won the Best Newcomer Award, and it was also a song that was popular all over the country in his previous life.

"Childhood", a kind of memory and nostalgia for simple life, stupid things and silly children in childhood, in 1994, the album in which the song was performed won the "100 Best Albums of Pop Music".

In 2009, Luo Dayou appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala with this song.

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In good conscience, no matter which of these ten songs is a classic among the classics, any one of them can be used as the title song of an album.

And now Lin Mu has put all of them on an album, an album that doesn't come out of the entity and doesn't sell money, you say that he doesn't feel heartache.

However, heartache is heartache, Lin Mu still decided that this first album is these ten songs, although it will lose some income from physical albums, but Lin Mu believes that it can be earned back in the future.

Now the most important thing is to make a high-level, popular album, as long as you can make headlines and become popular, you don't have to worry about not making money later.

Besides, according to his own account, he is now a writer, and music is just an amateur play.

Since you want to play, you have to have fun and play some famous, otherwise wouldn't you eat the music literacy capsule in vain?