Chapter 3 Is This My Shangri-La?

In the later generations, Ye Gui was crazy about music during his college years, and he listened to countless songs in just two years, from pop to folk, from metal to blues, from cheerful funk rhythms to ethereal backswings, from modern electronic music to antique Chinese style, Ye Gui has been exposed to all kinds of music, including all kinds of classic music.

But he hadn't heard the song that was played in the video store in the afternoon.

You must know that in this era, when ordinary people don't listen to music so much, and places like video stores generally only play some popular songs with high popularity, there is a melody that Ye Gui has not heard, and there must be something strange in it.

Ye Gui guessed that this might be other effects caused by the butterfly changes he brought, either this song that was not well-sung in his previous life suddenly became popular for some unknown reason, or... It is a song that did not exist in a previous life.

Ye Gui was a little excited in his heart, if it was the latter, it would mean that the music pattern of this world might have changed, maybe all the former singers and bowls had been replaced by other people, maybe some classic songs had not yet appeared, in short, the music of this world could not be exactly the same as the original.

For an ordinary reborn, something different would definitely make them feel uneasy, but for Ye Gui, the most valuable memory in his mind was not something like stocks or current events, but art.

Art is about diversity.

Ye Gui was pleasantly surprised by this idea, and he wanted to go to the audio-visual store immediately to verify his idea, but thinking of his parents outside the bedroom door in order not to disturb his parents who were learning to watch TV quietly, he had to give up the current idea of going out immediately.

I just said that they should not worry about studying, and then they have to run out in less than two hours, isn't this a slap in the face at the speed of light...

Because of the cruel words he had let go of earlier, Ye Gui had to stay in the bedroom for a night, he wanted to flip through the textbook, but since he had this idea in his heart and couldn't verify it immediately, Ye Gui was like a hundred claws scratching his heart, how could he still be in the mood to read, he could only spend the night thinking wildly.

The next morning, Ye Gui got up early to eat, then shook in front of Ye's mother for a while, and read aloud in the house with Chinese poems for an hour, estimating that the audio-visual store should be open, and it was almost pretended in front of his parents, so he said to Ye's mother to go out for a walk, and then put on his shoes and hurriedly went out.

Ye Gui didn't hesitate to rush directly to the audio-visual store at the entrance of the market, and then rushed in.

At this time, the song playing in the store was not yesterday's, but the representative work of Tianwang Zhe, one of the four heavenly kings that was in fire in this era, "Love is Like a Tide".

Ye Gui knew that this classic track composed by Xiao Li and composed by Li Fuhui was published in Zhetianwang's 93-year-old album "Heart Matters", when the young Zhetianwang was all the rage with this song, and Ye Gui himself has always liked the beautiful melody of this song and the feelings expressed in the lyrics.

But... That's not the point, Ye Gui came today to find yesterday's song.

Looking at all kinds of discs, at this time, Ye Gui especially missed the Internet and search engines in later generations, and had no choice but to find professionals, so he walked to the counter: "Boss, the song you put in the store yesterday is very good, what is its name, is there an album?" ”

The boss was a young man in his thirties, he looked at the young man in front of him and said a little puzzled: "I have several discs in my store every day, which one do you say?" ”

Ye Gui knew that he hadn't said it clearly, so he thought about it and added: "It was probably put on around five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and a woman sang it, with a very clean voice, and her voice was very clean." ”

The boss thought for a while and pointed to an album on the shelf behind Ye Gui: "You're talking about Chen Jiajia's "Nianhua". ”

Ye Gui followed the boss's finger and first saw a disc cover with a unique style of the 90s, and a long-haired woman wearing a brown tweed coat and matching a dress hat was smiling in the snowy winter. Ye Gui picked up that album, Chen Jiajia... Haven't heard of it.

Ye Gui looked at the song list of "Nianhua", and he had never heard all the song titles, but unfortunately there was no equipment for auditioning albums in the current audio-visual store, so Ye Gui didn't know for a while whether these songs were songs that appeared in his previous life.

"Boss, has this person been hot lately? I haven't heard any of these songs before. ”

Ye Gui watched it for a long time without results, and he couldn't be sure of the title of the song alone, so he could only start from another aspect.

An album placed in a conspicuous position at the door of an audio-visual store should not be an unknown niche singer.

The boss looked like you with the expression of a dirt bun, and pointed to another album behind Ye Gui: "Chen Jiajia has been popular all over the country since last year's "Gone", and the "Nianhua" in your hand has made her a first-line female singer in China, "It's still you" A song that has been popular in the past few months, you haven't heard it." ”

And so it was.

Ye Gui listened to the boss's explanation, his heart was shocked, but he was silent on the surface, if the song title he had just never seen before didn't make him sure of his thoughts, then the statement of the first-line female singer in the boss's mouth should be able to prove it.

A person who was not famous at all in his previous life has now become a first-line female singer in China.

He turned around and picked up the "Gone", the cover was also the beautiful woman, but this time the background changed to summer, and the outfit on her body changed from a delicate tweed coat to a simple white dress, Ye Gui put the two albums in his hand back on the shelf, and then asked the boss: "Is the song you said "I still love you" the song you played yesterday afternoon?" ”

"Well, that's the one."

After the boss finished speaking, Ye Gui put the album back and said, "One 15, if you take both, how about you 20?" ”

Ye Gui's face flushed, he searched all his belongings yesterday, and there were more than a dozen yuan in total, and it was estimated that this was left by his previous "thrift", and now the money on his body is not enough for him to squander.

In such a small place at the end of the 90s, an ordinary front-line worker's monthly salary was only in his early 400s, and Ye's mother worked in the logistics department of the factory.

So Ye Gui doesn't have much pocket money for a month, and it is not easy to leave a dozen yuan, but at present, an album, even if it is pirated, is more than ten yuan, if it is not necessary, Ye Gui will not rashly use the only dozen yuan left.

"I'll take a look at the rest first, and then I'll get this album if it doesn't work."

Ye Gui could only cope with it briefly, and then walked to the place where the song album was specially placed inside.

A female singer may be a special case, and she wants to see how much music has changed in this world.

The inner row of shelves in the audio-visual store was filled with colorful songs and albums, and Ye Gui began to browse through the past line by line, most of the people who were still in the Four Heavenly Kings and the top Chinese music scene in the 90s could be seen.

Hey?

As Ye Gui slowly looked down, a singer who had never appeared in his memory began to appear, Ye Gui took a closer look at the singer There were more than one or two, it seems that there are more characters in Chinese music in this world than in his previous life.

Then Ye Gui picked up an album, the singer of this album he had never heard of in his previous life.

But there was a song on the album playlist that was originally sung by the singer Zhang Xueyou, and then look at the production - Hong Kong Polygram Publishing, which is the record company signed by the singer. Now it seems that the company did not give this song to the god of songs, but to another singer of the company.

Then looking down, Ye Gui saw another album of Xiao Li, which is a collection of classic songs called "Xiao Li's 24K Gold Selection".

Ye Gui looked at the song list carefully, most of the classic songs were still there, but there were a few classic songs that could not be found.

It seems that not only have singers who have not appeared before, but those singers who became famous in their previous lives are also different from the original ones, Ye Gui secretly thought in his heart.

No, Ye Gui thought about it carefully, not only did the work change, but the release time of this album itself was higher than the original release time in his previous life, if Ye Gui remembered correctly, this album should be released at the end of this year, in his previous life, he would be a freshman and went to buy this genuine album.

And now, it's the beginning of '97.

Ye Gui saw that there was already a basic framework for the domestic music of the world, and the overall pattern of the music scene had not changed, the king of heaven was still the king, the superstar was still a superstar, and only a small number of singers who were once popular did not see the album today, but it is not ruled out that it is just because of the shortage in the store today.

Now developed, not to mention those disappeared classics, even the classics in Ye Gui's memory are enough for him to have a place in the music world, not to mention those foreign works, you must know that Ye Gui listened to even more foreign songs than domestic songs back then.

Ye Gui didn't expect him to be reborn, and he was actually determined to enter the industry he gave up back then, it seems that music is something that he can't let go.

At this moment, Ye Gui finally confirmed last night's thoughts.

He suddenly remembered the song he vaguely heard in his previous life before he lost consciousness, and the song sang about going to find Shangri-La or something, could this be my Shangri-La?

Ye Gui seemed to have seen the white hole, and the white tomorrow was waiting for him.

"Hey, you've been watching it for so long, and you're not going to buy it."

Ye Gui heard the boss's urging voice and put down the album in his hand awkwardly, unknowingly he had been standing here for more than half an hour.

Didn't you just watch it, and I didn't listen, it only took half an hour to catch people, and when I was developed, I bought your small shop and asked you to sell tapes!

Ye Gui muttered in his heart.

The boss only saw him in the distance, and after he finished speaking, Ye Gui was stunned for a moment, and then muttered two words in his mouth, and ran out quickly, and after a while, a voice came from outside the door.

"You drive it well, wait for me to buy it next time~~~"

……

When I got home, I saw that there was no one at home, and I remembered that last night Ye's father said that he was going to the factory in the morning, and Ye's mother may have gone out to buy something.

At this time, Ye Gui was very excited, he was not good at showing it outside just now, there would be no one at home, Ye Gui clenched his fists and shouted twice, as if he wanted to shout out all the grievances and grievances in his heart before.

After a while, he calmed down, then returned to the bedroom, took out the paper that he had written yesterday, first carefully looked at what he had written on the paper yesterday, and then recalled the albums he had just seen in the video store, and slowly sketched a blueprint in his mind.

Figuring out how the world is changing is only the first step, and the next thing is how to exchange the memories in your head for the real thing.

Those songs in memory are the biggest plug-in on Ye Gui's body, but Ye Gui, who has been in contact with the music industry, knows that if you write a good song, you will definitely be popular, and those record companies will receive samples sent by countless people who have music dreams in their hearts like him once did, but very few of these samples can be excavated.

In Ye Gui's impression, those musicians who made a living by writing samples in later generations could only sell for about 1,000 samples for a sample, and some famous musicians wrote samples for 3,000 to 4,000, and the real selling price was the samples sung by some singers, and a song could be sold for hundreds of thousands.

In the case of the Internet in later generations, this is the case for selling songs, let alone now, no matter what era, the less famous people in this circle, the more difficult it is to get ahead.

Ye Gui knew that it was impossible to go to the street to sing every day with a guitar, and then wait for it to be excavated by some music circle person who ran to this small northwest city with idle and boring, in that case, it was estimated that before anyone could be reached, he would be dragged out by his mother and beheaded.

After thinking about it, Ye Gui sighed, it seems that this matter is still in a hurry, if you want to become a top musician, you have to start from the basics step by step, but Ye Gui is confident in his future, he has a big killer weapon in his hand, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to fight a world in this world.

But becoming a top musician is only a long-term goal, and now he has to find a way to improve the situation first.

Not to mention that the family conditions are ordinary and need financial support, even the things that Ye Gui will do in the future will not be achieved overnight, he must start with some simple songs and slowly cultivate his popularity.

So what you have to do now is to have a start-up capital, and you need money to buy a piano, record songs, and even learn music in order to improve yourself in an all-round way.

In this way, the problem returned to the starting point, and Ye Gui held his chin and fell into deep thought.