Chapter 616: The Impossible Miracle (Chapter 2)
Chapter 616: The Impossible Miracle (Chapter 2)
Releasing an album is actually very simple for Xu Yinglong, because the songs are ready-made, although his debut time is short, but there are a lot of original songs, plus the more than 20 new songs announced at the concert, Xu Yinglong don't say an album, even if it's two or three, it's no problem.
Originally, according to Solvay's intentions, taking advantage of the success of the concert, the album should be released immediately. But because Xu Yinglong was busy with Cai Yong and Fang Yuping's affairs at the time, he had no time to separate at all, so he refused. In addition, Su Wei found him a few recording studios that made him very dissatisfied, so Xu Yinglong simply asked Su Wei to build a recording studio in the name of the company, anyway, there are so many signed singers under Starlight Entertainment, it is still necessary to build a high-quality recording studio.
Su Wei also knew Xu Yinglong, knew that this guy was a cow, and he was very strong, and the thing he decided was that ten cows and ten horses couldn't pull it back, so he didn't say anything anymore. I didn't bother to go home for the Chinese New Year, and it only took ten days to get all the equipment ready, and a brand-new high-quality recording studio was built. Su Wei can't help it, as a professional agent and an old fritter in the entertainment industry, he knows very well how difficult it is for an artist like Xu Yinglong, who is semi-free outside the entertainment industry, to release a best-selling album.
After the concert a year ago, Xu Yinglong's fame has been hit, which is not bad. If V was like before, Su Wei really wouldn't dare let him release an album. In recent years, the record industry has been getting worse, and due to the impact of various music websites, fewer and fewer people are willing to buy albums. Even a king-level singer releases an album. It's good to have millions of sales, but twenty years ago, this number could only be compared to some newcomers. Therefore, many singers only charge a cost at most for releasing albums. If you can have 500,000 sales, it will be considered a success.
According to Xu Yinglong's previous state, even if every one of his songs is a classic. But there won't be too many people willing to buy. Su Wei estimated that the sales volume was only more than 100,000, and even 200,000 was barely enough.
But with the huge success of the concert a year ago, Xu Yinglong's fame is no worse than those popular singers on the front line, so it is best for a publishing expert at this time. If you miss this favorable opportunity, I am afraid that the effect will be greatly reduced if you want to do it again, which is why Su Wei is so anxious to let him come back to record.
Moreover, releasing an album is a tedious job, in addition to recording, you also have to shoot some MV, especially Xu Yinglong, almost all of his songs are Xianxia style, and it is not easy to shoot MVs. Solvay expects to start recording right away, even now. When the album is on sale, it will be three months later at the earliest.
However, after Xu Yinglong came back, he told Su Wei that he would give him a week at most, whether it was recording or shooting the MV, it must be done within this week, otherwise it would be outdated.
Hearing this, Su Wei was completely speechless, it is already very good to be able to record more than ten tunes in a week, you must know that releasing an album is different from a concert, and the requirements for sound quality are extremely high. After all, the concert is a live performance, and the occasional abnormal performance is not a big problem, and people may not be able to hear it. But albums are different. Because there is often only one person when listening to an album, even if there are only minor flaws, it is easy to be heard. Therefore, whether it is a superstar or an ordinary singer, when releasing an album, they all strive for sound quality, and many people can spend several months recording an album alone. Sometimes a song can even be sung hundreds of times before it is sufficient.
Not to mention shooting the MV, it is a time-consuming job. After all, any MV is a condensed movie, and it mostly has elements in the movie. Shooting a music video has everything from the script to the director and actors. Shooting one a week is already a speed, as Xu Yinglong said, shooting more than a dozen songs a week at the same time shooting more than a dozen MVs. No one will believe it, and no one will be able to do it.
In desperation, Su Wei had no choice but to build yƬ Xu Yinglong, and all of Xu Yinglong's songs did not make MVs. After all, people buy albums mainly for his songs, and having a MV can certainly add a lot of color, but if you don't have it, it's nothing. But if you shoot some garbage and put it in, not only will it not add color, but it may ruin the whole album.
But Xu Yinglong did not agree, but asked Su Wei to go back and find a trustworthy team to shoot in Kyoto, and he didn't have to worry about the rest. Su Wei is already accustomed to Xu Yinglong's stubbornness, in his heart Xu Yinglong is a person who does not play cards according to common sense, and he can often create a miracle. Although he was really not optimistic about Xu Yinglong this time, he still carried out Xu Yinglong's order very quickly.
The recording was done quickly, with a total of twelve tunes, all of which were classics selected from the songs that Xu Yinglong released last year. Under Xu Yinglong's precise skills, all the songs were re-recorded once, and all the recorded sound quality was extremely clear, emotional, and quite tense.
The recording process stunned many people, including Su Wei and others, who felt incredible. After all, singing is a kind of performance, and since it is a performance, there may be mistakes or flaws, after all, it does not mean that every performance must be in place. Even those emperor superstars may fall off the chain, and even a diva-level singer sings inaccurately on the most important occasions in China, which is a common thing.
Because of this, no one dares to say that they can perform as flawless every time, especially when recording an album, and it is impossible for anyone to repeat all the tunes. But Xu Yinglong did it, and all twelve tunes were successful at one time, which is a miracle.
It was even more remarkable when the MV was recorded later, Xu Yinglong actually drove away all the directors, screenwriters, and martial arts instructors that Su Wei spent a lot of money to invite in one go, and even the heroine was driven away, and the whole team was left with only one cameraman and a few people in charge of costumes and props. Originally, Su Wei thought that Xu Yinglong was dissatisfied with those people, and was ready to spend some money to recruit a group of real famous screenwriters and big-name directors in the industry.
But I was told that those people don't need to be looked for anymore, whether it is the screenwriter or director, or the martial arts instructor Xu Yinglong is all at the same time, even the heroine He has found it, so he won't trouble others.
Originally, Su Wei didn't believe in this matter, but Xu Yinglong knew that Su Wei knew about it, so it would be nothing if she said that she was also a martial arts instructor. But the rest, whether it is a screenwriter or a director, requires professionals to be competent, and ordinary people are not capable. Especially for screenwriters, it depends on the director how well an MV is filmed, but whether the whole story is wonderful or not depends on the screenwriter's ability.
Su Wei knows Xu Yinglong's details, don't look at him now, but he has never passed Chinese from elementary school to university, it is already a miracle that such a person can write lyrics, how can he dare to expect him to write a wonderful script?
But when Xu Yinglong threw a stack of scripts in front of him, Su Wei was completely stunned. None of the scripts fit the background of the song in that way, as if the original song was written for the story, and none of the twelve scripts were made up.
In fact, how could Su Wei know, in fact, those tunes have a story, and behind any song comes out, there is a tragic or happy story, Xu Yinglong just wrote the stories behind those tunes, of course, in Su Wei's opinion, the tunes and the script match, because they were originally tailor-made.
But even so, Su Wei still thinks that Xu Yinglong is unlikely to shoot all twelve MVs in a week, after all, it is a Xianxia-style MV to be filmed. And he has also read the script, there are a lot of flying and fighting scenes in it, just hanging Weiya and arranging the scene is a huge project, and now these things are not ready, how can it be filmed in a week.
However, this time Su Wei was once again frightened by Xu Yinglong's actions, and when Xu Yinglong informed him to start filming immediately, and took Ziyi, the heroine, to fly into the air and dance without Wei Ya or plane, Su Wei was completely stupid! (To be continued......)