Chapter 144: Their songs are more than a notch off
"Hey, Brother Kan, do you want to watch "Youth Without Regrets: Campus Love Song" together at night?"
At noon, Jiang Kan wanted to change his taste and go downstairs for lunch, but he happened to meet Zhang Lingling in the elevator who was also going downstairs for lunch.
"Hey, this movie, I really don't want to watch it a second time......"
There were not many rare people in the elevator, and the two stood shoulder to shoulder, and Jiang Kan was very embarrassed to refuse Zhang Lingling's kindness.
After all, in order to write the theme song for it, he had already seen it once in the company's screening room.
He has no masochistic tendencies, and he really doesn't want to torture himself again.
"Oh, okay......"
Zhang Lingling was a little disappointed when she heard this, but she quickly cheered up again.
"Everyone is spreading the theme song of this movie - that is, the song "You at the Same Table" you wrote is very good, and I also want to go to the cinema to experience it immersively, or I can't taste it just by listening to it on my mobile phone."
The elevator talked to the first floor, and the two chatted while walking out, planning to find a restaurant to have a good lunch to treat themselves.
But I saw a familiar figure, walking back and forth outside the door under the Feiyang Entertainment Building, and wanted to enter the door, but seemed a little hesitant.
"Hey, Boss Zhou!"
Since they met, they couldn't say it without saying hello, so Jiang Kan stretched out his hand and waved at him with a smile on his face, and said hello.
"Ah, little ...... No, Brother Jiang, it's been a long time! โ
Seeing that it was Jiang Kan, Boss Zhou, who had a sad face, suddenly had his eyes lit up, and immediately trotted over in three steps and two steps, grabbed Jiang Kan's hands, and shook them vigorously.
"What's the matter, Boss Zhou, so polite today?"
Jiang Kan was frightened by the other party's enthusiasm and asked very strangely.
"Hey, Brother Jiang, I thought I had learned your awesomeness before, but I didn't expect that I still knew too little about your skills!"
Boss Zhou said as he shook Jiang Kan's hands with emotion and embarrassment.
"This ...... Where do you start? โ
Jiang Kan also wondered, Boss Zhou didn't look like he was in the right mood today, what's wrong?
"Alas......"
Zhou Dong glanced at Jiang Kan, who was confused, and then at Zhang Lingling, who had been next to him for a long time, as if he knew something, but he didn't say it, and sighed very depressedly.
"That...... It's a long story, it's better to be like this, Brother Jiang, Miss Zhang, you see that it's time to eat now, we just happened to order a few dishes at the Sichuan restaurant next door, how about chatting while eating? โ
Boss Zhou is still holding Jiang Kan's hand, and there is a tendency that he will not let go if he does not agree.
"I'm casual, hehe, look at Brother Kan."
Zhang Lingling didn't care, she smiled, shook her head and said.
"This ...... Okay, but let's say okay, I'll invite you to this meal, Boss Zhou, the fun รท pavilion honorarium you gave me last time made me make a little fun รท pavilion! โ
Jiang Kan also wanted to open it, isn't it just a meal, he is such a familiar person, and he is afraid that he will not be able to eat himself.
"Hey, how can this work, brother, I invite Brother Jiang to dinner, and I have to let you have a treat? Let's go, don't be polite to me, order whatever you want, this grade of restaurant still doesn't praise Lao Zhou! โ
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As they spoke, a few people came to a restaurant called "Giant Panda Sichuan Restaurant" next door, which looked very high-end at first glance, and opened a private room.
"Would you like some drink?"
Although there were only three people, Boss Zhou still very politely let Jiang Kan sit on the seat first, and then sat next to him with Zhang Lingling.
"No, no, I still have to go to work in the afternoon, just drink some tea."
"Okay, let's have a pot of Biluochun."
Boss Zhou turned his head and said to the waiter.
After a while, the dishes were all ready, and Lao Zhou didn't say anything else, so he kept toasting Jiang Kan with tea instead of wine, and Jiang Kan was very embarrassed, thinking if this was necessary......
Zhang Lingling was smiling and pouring herself a drink, she ordered a small bottle of sake, and it didn't affect the afternoon's work.
"Lao Zhou, if you have something to say, you are so enthusiastic, I am really a little panicked."
Jiang Kan couldn't resist it, and finally spoke out after being toasted by the other party for three cups of tea.
"Hey, what's going on...... What should I say about this? โ
Boss Zhou was a little hesitant, but finally spoke.
"Brother Jiang, thanks to you last month, the song "Cold Rainy Night" of our Winter Rain Band won the tenth place on the champion list of newcomers and new songs, this love, brother, I have always kept it in my heart, if you have anything to say in the future, brother, as long as I can do it, there is absolutely no second word!"
"It's just that, this month, didn't I ask you before, you said that there is no song suitable for us, and you are also very busy, so we have to ask another one for the relationship...... It was also a composer from your company who helped us write a song that was suitable for the band to sing, called "No More Ordinary", ......"
As he spoke, he picked up the teacup again, touched Jiang Kan's cup, and didn't say any toasts, just tilted his neck and drank it all.
"We also had high hopes for this song at the beginning, and everyone's enthusiasm was very high, after all, this is a song that is rated B to B+ within your company, and it is also a very powerful song for an underground band like us that can't even talk about third-tier singers!"
Speaking of this, the bitter color on Boss Zhou's face became even heavier, and his entire eyebrows and mustache were wrinkled together, feeling like a withered bitter gourd.
"But who would have thought that we released it on January 1st, and now on the 10th, the number of downloads has not even been 30,000 times!"
He took out his mobile phone, unlocked the screen and pressed the play button without waiting for Jiang Kan to say anything.
Then the whole room was filled with the sound of the song.
The style of the song is rock, there are many high-pitched and roaring parts, and the lyrics are also more radical, mostly indicting social injustice and human injustice, while the lyrics from the perspective of the lead singer are to the effect that they want to break a way out of this complicated world and make their lives no longer ordinary.
The length of the song is about three and a half minutes.
After listening to it, Jiang Kan's ears were still buzzing.
Zhang Lingling was also rubbing her ears, with a hint of disdain on her face, which she politely hid well.
"Look, it's this one, we feel pretty good, but as I said just now, it's a ...... sales It's not that it's bad, but compared to "Cold Rainy Night", it's really more than a grade worse......"
Boss Zhou's face wrinkled more and more like a bitter gourd, and the unwillingness and depression in his words were so thick that they were about to wring out water.
"Indeed...... Haha, the style of this song is really different from the song I wrote......"
Because after all, they are acquaintances, and the composer is still a colleague of his own, so Jiang Kan is not very good at saying bad things behind people's backs.
But he really didn't appreciate this noisy and cynical genre.
Not to mention anything else, this song made his head hurt.
The concept of creating this kind of band song may still be stuck in the era of 30 years ago, when the band era was just emerging.
They are about accusations, screams, and cynicism, otherwise they can't embody the maverick spirit of rock musicians.