After the LDC's fifth anniversary exhibition competition, Ding Ning finally had a respite and could officially devote his energy to the production of his first album.

The office was successfully renovated on Saturday morning, and the recording studio is expected to wait another day or two, before that, Ding Ning's focus is on writing the lyrics and selecting songs for the album.

According to Yang Du's meaning, if you have the ability, the first album should be 12 songs, which is large enough to be full, and it is easy for people with different aesthetics to find songs that meet their own tastes.

And there are many songs, and there is a greater possibility of pop songs.

Folk songs are the type of music that Ding Ning has been exposed to the most after graduation, and it is not difficult to choose 12 songs.

The already released "Young Jinshi", "Those Flowers", "I Eat Fried Chicken in People's Square", "Evening Breeze", "Wonderful Ability Song" and "Nanshan Nan" have all been selected for the album.

"Walking", which is not a ballad, was also chosen.

"Youth is fed to the dogs", Yang Du felt that there were more sensitive words in the lyrics, and it was okay to sing them in private, but when they were put on the table, they were not very harmonious and easy to attract controversy, so they were put aside.

There are five songs left, and Yang Du still thinks that Ding Ning will have to make it for a few days to toss it out.

As a result, Ding Ning, who had already prepared for the new album, took out 15 songs for him to choose that afternoon, three more than the number of songs in the entire album he proposed.

He couldn't help but think of the documentary "Animal World" he watched last night, which said that lions mate more than 3,000 times a year, on average, almost 8 times a day. In his opinion, Ding Ning is as natural as a lion.

These 15 songs are Zhao Lei's "Painting", "Southern Girl", "Jim's Restaurant" and "Let Me Secretly Look at You", Pu Shu's "Life is Like a Summer Flower" and "Listen to the Wind", Li Jian's "Baikal Shore", "Legend", "Beautiful Dawn" and "Father", Old Wolf's "Love in the Dust", "Tiger's Mouth" and "Want to Sing Me to You", Zhao Zhao's "When You're Old" and "Basking in the Sun with Grandma in Winter".

Just looking at the lyrics and songs, Yang Du's head was big for a while, and he felt that these 15 songs had their own strengths, and it was difficult to choose at all.

No, he asked Ding Ning to record a simple sample of these 15 songs to facilitate screening.

Ding Ning recorded the sample on Sunday morning, and he sent the sample to Yang Du, who said that he would discuss it in the evening.

At noon on Sunday, the recording studio was completed ahead of schedule, and Yang Du took Ding Ning to check it out to confirm that there was no problem, and then discussed the album with Ding Ning in advance.

Because the songs given by Ding Ning are all good, he proposed to change the number of songs to 15, Ding Ning doesn't care at all, after all, even if it is doubled by 30 songs, he can still easily get it out.

Yang Du first picked out "Father" and "Basking in the Sun with Grandma in Winter", because it is an album that he cannot only appeal to similar themes, but needs to involve all aspects of life and even life, which is the so-called breadth.

"Father" and "Basking in the Sun with Grandma in Winter" are both songs about family affection, and family songs are generally scarce in the song industry, and they are the only two songs he took out to write about family affection, of course, they have to be listed.

Yang Du especially praised the song "Basking in the Sun with Grandma in Winter", because it uses a particularly light and retro traditional dance melody, combined with the folk style, which is so ingenious that people are amazing.

After that, Yang Du chose "Love in the Dust".

Yang Du said that it is a more retro traditional folk song than "Those Flowers", no matter whether the lyrics and songs reveal a strong style of the last century, it will have to trigger a wave of nostalgia.

Then came "On the Shore of Lake Baikal", he felt that this song Ding Ning sang with a special feeling, and it sounded like people really walking on the shore of a lake where the water and light reflected the clouds and mountains, and his eyes were full of style.

Ding Ning listened to his evaluation, but he was actually quite weak-hearted.

In his previous life, he didn't dare to sing Li Jian's songs at all.

Because Li Jian's songs are basically tailored for his own image and voice, they have their own characteristics.

His folk songs are truly poetic, and not many people can sing his unique sense of freshness and handsomeness.

Even if the song "Legend" was sung by Faye Wong in the Spring Festival Gala to become popular all over the country, Ding Ning still stubbornly thinks that Li Jian, the composer and original singer, sings better than her.

Because "Legend" is written about the deep love of the crush broom, it is clean and clear, and it is angular.

And Faye Wong's main song is sung in a space spirit, which is not practical enough, and the chorus part is sung too loudly, like a queen getting married, not as calm and peaceful as Li Jian.

Of course, Faye Wong is singing live or the Spring Festival Gala, what she pays attention to is the gorgeous style, and it is normal to lose the original flavor of the song.

It is true that due to the great loss of age, his current voice is a little cleaner and more transparent than in his previous life, but compared with Li Jian, Ding Ning thinks that he is not as good as him.

That is, Yang Du has never seen Li Jian, so he thinks he sings well.

This is the benefit of crossing, if others have not seen it, there will be no comparison.

And he likes the people of this world to look like they are "uninformed".

Then there's "Jim's Restaurant", and the reason why Yang Du chose it is because at first glance no one understands what it wants to express, and it generates curiosity, which is very important.

And once this curiosity is released in the process of learning the lyrics and studying the lyrics, it has invisibly brought the listener closer to the song.

Yang Du was right, he liked Jay Chou so much back then.

At that time, he didn't understand what the hell "Lady" was singing, and after carefully pondering the lyrics of this song, he was really shocked, it turned out that the lyrics of such a Jiangnan flavor can also sing the feeling of this avant-garde, this guy with vulgar curly hair on his head, is really a capital "cool" word.

Then, Yang Du chose "Life Like a Summer Flower", saying that it was a bit mystic, and the main song, chorus and harmony of the whole song were very layered, which made him very arranged**.

It's not bad, "Life Like a Summer Flower" is to a large extent, it is the first to rely on the arrangement to win, and Yang Du is knowledgeable.

In the last two songs, Yang Du let Ding Ning make his own decisions, Ding Ning thought about it carefully, and chose "When You're Old", which he is very good at and widely acclaimed.

Then, he played and sang a song "White Birch Forest" to Yang Du on the spot.

It's not about breadth, the song "Birch Forest" uses poignant love to illustrate the cruelty of war, which can enrich the connotation of the album.

He used to think that the song "White Birch Forest" was too thin, but now that he thinks about it, maybe it is because of the thinness that it is more profound, and it is precisely because of the thinness that it can be remembered.

Otherwise, when he was studying, this song would not have been sung by everyone like a pop love song.

Taking out fifteen songs at a time is already scary enough, specially, I have to play and sing and add one more song at the end, this is simply the evil animals in the heavenly fairy yard who are not optimistic about sneaking away in the lower realm, Yang Du and Ding Ning The first thing they did after saying goodbye to returning home was to quickly turn out the contract that was thrown in the drawer at random, read it carefully, and then carefully put it into the folder and hid it in the crack of the bedside cabinet.