Chen Youcong's "Extreme Women's Group" was completed, and Meng Shi sent him to the airport and took a plane to Lu Chengkang's crew in Shangdu.

When Meng Shi returned to the company, he was dragged by Lao Qin to drink tea together and discuss the list of "Band".

Ma Yi, the lead singer of "Tongue Sword", called and said that he wanted to sign a contract.

Meng Shi shook his head.

Lao Qin jokingly said, "Don't sign a band? ”

Meng Shi nodded, took his mobile phone, and said, "Qingxue Media does not sign bands. ”

Lao Qin was anxious, "Meng Shi! What are you doing! Don't ......"

Meng Shi hung up the phone directly.

Lao Qin's face was cold, "You have to give me an explanation......"

Meng Shi returned the phone to him, took out his mobile phone and clicked on a software, kept sliding his fingers, and said: "Putting aside the use of more and more metal instruments, let's return to the acoustic guitar, what did the original rock music want to express?" ”

When the speaker of the mobile phone was released, all kinds of laughter, music, and rhythm switched frequently with Meng Shi's sliding fingers, making Lao Qin feel irritable.

He took a few sips of tea, lit a cigarette, and said, "Expressing anger, thoughts, creativity, and calling for freedom." ”

Meng Shi looked at his mobile phone, didn't raise his head, and said, "This is very good, people are getting more and more angry now, anger has become more and more popular as a consumer product recently, and it is too easy for rock and roll to be entertaining." ”

Lao Qin was silent, what he wanted was never entertainment.

Meng Shi swiped his finger quickly, and then stopped on a certain video.

This is a ten-second beauty dress-up, a back-and-forth contrast, under the stacking of layers of filters and music, it is exquisite.

Does it make sense? No.

Is it good-looking? It's good-looking, at least most people think it's good-looking.

See what it gets? Spend time in good spirits.

The software collects Meng Shi's preferences and pushes short videos that can make him stay below.

After Meng Shiyi watched two videos of the same type, big data began to try to control him, and homogeneous videos appeared one after another.

Meng Shi's sliding speed slowed down, and he reached out for a cigarette, for him, after psychological withdrawal, smoking was already dispensable.

He lit his cigarette, quit the app, and said:

"Eye-catching material and simple melodies are woven together, fast-paced and massively conditioned sensory activities,

Recently, more and more people have begun to mention the three views, pull out the past film and television music works for trial, and the call for ruining childhood is everywhere.

Rock 'n' roll can also be added to this entertainment aimed at raising moral standards and lowering intellectual levels. ”

Lao Qin said, "Rock and roll is not about entertainment, it's about the spirit of freedom." ”

Meng Shi smiled and said, "So, that's why I don't sign a band - freedom." ”

Lao Qin said, "I will not restrain them, I will not want to promote or burn what Zhang Renpei wants, and there is no conflict between signing and freedom." ”

Meng Shi extinguished half of the cigarette, picked up the bowl, took a sip of wolfberry tea, and stretched out two fingers, "This is the second thing we need to discuss - survival." ”

Lao Qin said, "You can't convince me with just these two words. ”

"No, I can convince you from two angles, each of them."

Meng Shi said, "Freedom, can't be separated from two points, ZZ and sex, ZZ controls thoughts and information, sex controls body instincts, from rock music, you and I both know that it can't do without ZZ and sex, so it is destined to only pursue freedom, but not obtain."

If it wants to be heard by more people in the mainstream, it needs to be introverted and outwardly oriented, but if the thinking is too introverted, it is not direct enough, and if the attitude is too exposed, it may be naïve, and it is free to speak, but it also causes idolatry, which is very fun and makes people laugh. ”

Lao Qin lit another cigarette and said, "If you don't sign a contract, don't promote, and let them go "underground", then what are you doing with "Band"? ”

"I'm just going to give you another chance to go on stage and sing a song for Lou San."

Old Qin was silent, he didn't believe it.

Meng Shi shook his head and said, "I don't know how many bands there are in the "underground" now, but I can imagine the state of most of them.

They have a little ability to think, a little ability to love freedom, a little courage to tell the "truth", and a little sense of responsibility.

But these are not enough to sustain freedom, and in the process of spiritual collapse these can turn into self-hatred, and also into nihilistic anger, and when ideals are shattered, anger will distort the soul into the devil.

The blind pursuit of free thinking and feeling is dangerous because it will lead to more blind lifestyles, blind personal hobbies and ideological claims.

These people who curse the system, disrespect the audience, think that they are stupid if they don't listen to rock and roll, say that they are freely expressing their feelings of liberation, breaking with tradition, and using music against certain things, it is ridiculous.

It's not freedom, it's not about music, it's not about rock. ”

Lao Qin's smoke creaked.

Meng Shi continued, "On the first day I came to Sijiu City this time, I told Qin Qingxue that if this platform is going to collapse, it will collapse in your hands.

I am actually the same as Jia Shudao, he is in the Red Mansion, I am traveling to the west, although the path is different, but it is destined to be the same end, whether it is a monkey or Jia Baoyu, it has no good end, and even I don't care about shaking ...... at all

Lao Qin threw the cigarette butt into the teacup and said angrily, "Don't say it!" ”

Meng Shi still shook his head and said: "Lao Qin, no one is a savior, I'm not, neither are you, "Band" just looks inside the edge of the well, and doesn't solve any problems. ”

Lao Qin said again, "Don't say it. ”

Meng Shi continued to shake his head, "We also have ultimate freedom, which is different from the former, it can be separated from the scope of society and realized in the individual, such as the freedom brought by philosophy, religion, and art, and the spirit can transcend the worldly things in the body. ”

Lao Qin said, "Have you done it?" ”

Meng Shi said: "I can't do it. ”

Lao Qin said: "This is too illusory. ”

Meng Shi said: "But we can achieve maximum freedom in the existing environment, think with an independent brain, question, feel with real preferences, and harvest with our own abilities." ”

Lao Qin said: "It's still difficult. ”

Meng Shi said: "This is self-realization, and the pursuit of ultimate freedom is your own penance, so you can't sign them off, raise them, rip out their brains and instill thoughts in them, this is a crime." ”

Lao Qin was silent for a long time, feeling that his brain was stirred into a mess by Meng Shi.

Meng Shi did it opposite the coffee table and drank wolfberry tea.

After a while, Lao Qin looked at me with an expression of whether you were fooling me, and said: "Everything you said is too empty, fluttering and flickering, even if it falls on the paper, I have to read it over and over again before I can chew it." ”

Meng Shi laughed and said: "Then let's talk about real and down-to-earth things, "Band" is to take people to take a look at the edge of the well, or to poke their heads out of the well to peek,

And there are some things in the ground that can't withstand the sun, so we can't predict the consequences of this look.

If you look at it and then fall down, or get sunburned, it's really a feast for the eyes, and you sink into the ground again.

So to separate the company and the band into two parts,

From the basic setting, the possibility of not opening the band's mouth to pick up the pie is not given, that is, not signing,

In this way, the band accepts the concept of a market economy and understands that only they can save them.

A table of people can't make up a thousand dollars, and it's not worth singing,

Twenty-four hours a day, in addition to writing songs and thinking, moving bricks is enough to support myself. ”

Lao Qin pondered for a moment and said, "If you don't sign a contract, how can you manage it?" ”

Meng Shi said, "You can't manage it, if you manage it, you will die,

Let's not talk about what underground rock relies on, and whether signing a band can bring profits, let's imagine what will happen after the band is incorporated into the company?

Lao Qin, the place where we sleep is too crowded,

Lao Qin, there is no place to rehearse,

Lao Qin, let's change the musical instrument to a new one,

Lao Qin, creation takes time and money,

Lao Qin, we can't ride a bicycle when we go out, right?

This band wants TB-303, and that band has a TR808,

All the simplicity that could be overcome and transformed into nourishment will be destroyed,

Next, all the anger, contradictions, and confrontations will be transferred to the contradictions between the band and the company.

It's not a question of how to manage, it's a question of how to serve the master well.

At the same time, if you take a fancy to a band, sign him, and send it to "The Band", you will be defined as capital, the upper class, you are out of class, this is a big hole. ”

Lao Qin muttered: "If you fall into the pit as soon as you put it in a tube, no matter how you want to make a mess of porridge, how to solve it?" ”

Meng Shi said: "Let them take care of themselves, the band fights with the band, and the company fights with the company." ”

Lao Qin asked, "How to fight?" ”

Meng Shi lit a cigarette: "Relying on your face, Qingxue Media provides a platform to provide the best musical instruments, the top stage sound, the most enthusiastic audience, and the most comfortable food and travel during the recording of the program, and provide them with the most pertinent evaluation.

Invite an independent band, shoot a show and give money, how far can you go in the end, no matter if it will be signed by other companies, no matter what.

The company band competes with other companies for the opportunity to go on stage, and what it ends up looking like, no matter what.

The only thing that needs to be controlled is that every season, there must be more underground bands than corporate bands.

This is the opportunity to give the underground, they fight themselves, earn themselves,

Qingxue Media has to climb out of the well, walk under the scorching sun, give underground indie bands a chance, and at the same time check and balance other companies,

What you earn is copyright, traffic, fame, advertising, and all face.

Of course, walking in the scorching sun is inevitably panicked, Jia Shudao has come again recently, and he can just use Huashi as a parasol. ”

Lao Qin listened to it dimly and seemed to understand it, but he knew that he had accepted Meng Shi's two statements.

He asked, "What do you want?" ”

Meng Shi grinned at him and said, "I don't want anything, so even if Jia Shudao scratches his head, he can't figure out what I want, and when he makes a move, he will be caught by me." ”

Lao Qin only felt a chill behind him.

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The correct timeline for this chapter is between 117 and 118, after 143, and the opening is half a month ago, which is actually appropriate.

And the reason why it is not the main text is because this wolfberry tea talk is destined to only spread among a limited number of people, and even Qin Qingxue will not know about it.

Lao Qin wouldn't tell Maizi the specific details, otherwise he would have called to explain.

And Meng Shi himself naturally won't mention it again, this matter is easy for him to do, and he hasn't come to watch the play with Ah Gong yet.

And the chapters that have been removed in this way leave a lot of blank space, but if this chapter is not issued, it will really make people completely stunned.

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My original intention was to not put this book on the shelves and grind it slowly, but it is not up to me to decide on this matter.

It's just that it used to be easy to say anything, but now no one reads a chapter and a dime, so it's a bit difficult to top.

So I finished the second volume this month, and the third volume may really be fate......