Chapter Ninety-Six: Rave Reviews
The center of the storm was first detonated on the Internet, and due to the convenience of the Internet, many musicians, music critics, singers, and even record company executives who listened to "To Youth" could hardly express their true feelings on the Internet for the first time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"There is no doubt that "To Youth" has definitely exceeded all imagination and expectations, from the first song, it will surprise you, and when the surprises accumulate to the end, you can't help but shout in your heart, great, this is how I feel." Music critic Gao Xiaosong wrote his thoughts on the largest authoritative music website in China, "Everyday Listening".
"Please let me calm down from the huge shock first, well, forgive me, I simply can't do it right now, because 'To Youth' is so unbelievably good that I can only express my heart's reverence with a masterpiece of pop music that has never been seen before." Musician Hu Jiahui also wrote on the personal homepage of "Listening Every Day".
"I just listened to the album "To Youth", although I was fully mentally prepared, it was clear that I was still deeply shocked, "To Youth" showed enough amazing quality and leading culture, and it is undoubtedly the best and most important album of the year." Musician Tang Zhongbo commented.
"To Youth" is obviously an extraordinary masterpiece that is bound to leave a name in the history of Chinese music, no matter what happens in the future, with such a work, Jiang Lin will be remembered by countless people as a legend and greatness like Xu Wenjie and others." Music critic Qu Hongbo commented.
"Thanks to Jiang Lin, he gave me the privilege of listening to the best album in recent years, yes, better than the album I made myself, and it is a lot better, Zhiqi don't blame me, as a musician, I can't be vague at this time, good is good, bad is bad, in the album "To Youth", there are many songs that I particularly like, "Childhood", the simple melody is written to be particularly moving, Jiang Lin is another masterpiece in this regard, one of my four favorite songs in the album, the other three are " "You at the same table", "Descendants of the Dragon", and "True Heroes" are all good songs that can be savored repeatedly......" After a sprinkling of exclamations, the famous musician Xu Pei'an finally said: "I am very happy to be able to enter the 21st century, and it seems that I can really rest assured to see such a talented young man in the Chinese music scene." ”
With the arrival of November 12th, the entertainment pages of major media magazines were completely occupied by "To Youth", and the whole article was full of enthusiastic praise.
"Note that this is not a cover, nor is it a selection, the strongest creative newcomer in the Chinese music scene is coming." --Jinghua Daily.
"It's unbelievable that a masterpiece was born, and if anyone doesn't listen to this album, it will probably be the most regrettable miss of the year." --Yenching Evening News.
"For any musician, "That Summer" is an unattainable starting point, but now, just the second album produced by himself, Jiang Lin has achieved the transcendence of "That Summer", and is far behind "That Summer", any words of admiration are not exaggerated to use on "To Youth", can you imagine a creative album containing 15 songs that are all good songs? Can you imagine an album with multiple styles, each of which is the embodiment of the highest level of Chinese music? This is "To Youth". --Qilu Daily.
"There is no album like "To Youth" that combines commercial entertainment and artistry so perfectly, in terms of commercial entertainment, this is a popular music classic that is easy to hear and explode and deeply touches the heart; In terms of artistic connotation, this is a classic album worth listening to repeatedly and savoring the creator's thoughts on youth, childhood, parting, classmates, love, and family affection. --Nanfang Daily.
And on November 16 later, Chen Haizhou pushed "To Youth" to a new height.
"Yes, even if you are fully prepared to like it, you will still be deeply surprised in the process of listening, this is Jiang Lin's "To Youth", just over a month ago, we were just happy to say "there is another extraordinary creative newcomer in the Chinese music scene", but now we have to redefine Jiang Lin, I don't know what others think, in my opinion, "the most outstanding musician so far this century", Jiang Lin deserves the title. ”
At the beginning of the music review, Chen Haizhou couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.
"Based on the super high standard of "That Summer", I was pessimistic that it would be difficult for Jiang Lin to surpass his producer in the future. Female work, it turns out that it is stupid to use the logic of ordinary people to measure genius, but I am very happy to see my own stupidity, and I thank Jiang Lin for giving me such an opportunity.
Just like what he did in "That Summer", Jiang Lin single-handedly handled the composition and lyrics of all the songs of "To Youth", and participated in many links including arrangement and chorus, the difference is that he has a new identity this time, and he is still the singer of the song.
The first song of the album, "Lovelorn Front Alliance", is full of fresh melodies and arrangements, coupled with interesting lyrics, which makes this fast song both nice and interesting, a rare fast song masterpiece in the Chinese music scene, and four stars is my final score.
The second song of the album "Red Dragonfly", a song that can make people younger, although the lyrics are not gorgeous, they are valuable in expressing the theme of the song very well, and four stars is my final score.
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In Chen Haizhou's music reviews, the four songs "Childhood", "You at the Same Table", "Descendants of the Dragon" and "True Hero" received five-star evaluations, "Fairy Tale", "Father", "Jiangnan", "Butterfly Flying" and "I wish you a smooth journey" five songs received four-and-a-half-star evaluations, while the remaining six songs of "Seventeen-year-old Rainy Season", "Red Dragonfly", "Love", "East Wind Breaking", "Lovelorn Front Alliance", and "The Girl Across the Side" received four-star evaluations.
In the end, the album evaluation of "To Youth" was five stars, and the recommendation index was five and a half stars, which was considered by Chen Haizhou to be the most outstanding album in the Chinese music scene so far at the level of pop music.
In the final epilogue of the music review, Chen Haizhou wrote: "To Youth is not the greatest, but it is good enough, and more importantly, this is only the second album Jiang Lin has produced, and he has reasserted his existence in a shocking way, but I still wonder if this is his limit. In fact, I can't imagine what kind of album will be born from transcendence on this basis, but please forgive my greed, because the Chinese music scene needs such hope, and the fans need such an album.
The music scene is lively, not to mention among the fans, online, in cafes, offices, classrooms, dormitories, apartments, ...... About Jiang Lin, the topic of "To Youth" appears in more and more places, and the fanaticism of fans is beyond imagination, Jiang Lin's fan base is rapidly expanding in a snowballing way, and Jiang Lin seems to have become the most talented singer-songwriter in the contemporary Chinese music scene under the promotion of fans.
With the passage of time, the first-week sales of "To Youth" have also become the topic that people are most concerned about.
Jiang Lin, who had been calm before, also became extremely looking forward to it at this time, and even seemed a little nervous. The female album, no matter what happens in the future, "To Youth" will occupy an extremely special place in his singer's career, and he certainly hopes to have a legendary beginning in the eyes of future people, just like Lin Zhiying, Little Tigers, Britney. Spears, Taylor. What Swift did in the original plane, it is because of this that he stuffed so many good songs into "To Youth" at any cost, and to be honest, if "To Youth" did not achieve a decent sales result, he would be very hurt and blind so many good songs.
Looking forward to looking forward to it, the days are passing day by day, there will be a specific story staged every day, the first week of sales of "To Youth" has not yet come out, and the three good things have been preemptively unveiled and appeared in front of him.
One good thing is that with more and more chapters uploaded, his revised "Star Change" is being liked by more and more readers, although it is not far from the most popular works at the moment, but the upward momentum of "Star Change" is absolutely gratifying, making him more and more confident about the future of "Star Change".
Good thing two, after a long and arduous self-destruction, the script handling work of "Youth Bao Qingtian" has finally been completed, and after the copyright registration is completed, you can negotiate new cooperation with Tangde Film and Television.
In terms of "That Summer", Hanhai Records made the first settlement according to the 850,000 CD albums, 280,000 cassette tapes, and 7% royalty sharing of the collected money, totaling 1.68 million yuan; followed by "To Youth", thanks to the hot sales of "That Summer" and the huge attention caused by songs such as "You at the Same Table" and "Father", this time there is no need for Hanhai Records to take the initiative to distribute goods, and the major sub-distributors have taken cash to pick up the goods, according to the 1.05 million CD albums that have received the payment, the sales of 320,000 cassette tapes, a total of 8.31 million yuan, the two albums combined, Jiang Lin suddenly had an income of 9.99 million, as for the publicity cost of "To Youth" of 1.2 million, It will be deducted from the subsequent payments of both albums.
9.99 million, when he learned this amount, even though he knew that this amount was almost insignificant compared to the wealth he would gain in the future, Jiang Lin was still excited, and the future was the future, which was an unprecedented huge wealth for his current self.
Besides, he is not short of small money now, what he lacks is such a big money, with this fund, his plans can also be implemented, such as the acquisition of the station, such as the filming of "Youth Bao Qingtian", such as the recruitment of employees of the new company and the recruitment of artists.
There is no doubt that from now on, my entertainment life will enter a new stage, which is exciting to think about.