Chapter 504: Rumors and Persistence
While some of the more well-informed fans of Xia Guo were talking about this new song, the members of the Pink Dragon Orchestra were still in the dark state before the dawn was about to come, and they couldn't see anything clearly.
The good news brought by the eldest sister of lead singer Dan is like a shot in the arm, which gives them a lot of comfort in their declining career.
But the long wait for the arrival of this song made them excited by the arrival of the good news, and gradually became full of gains and losses, and full of worries.
The bassist of the orchestra is such a person who suffers from gains and losses.
Unlike the musicians of the rock band that people imagine are crazy people, Ben is a very crazy person in music, but very honest and responsible in life.
In between the tours, after finishing an early party with his friends on the West Coast, he dragged his tired body back to the hotel and fell on the wide bed with a "bump" like a chopped sugar cane.
"I'm exhausted......
He groaned, and no one responded.
The others are still out there socializing with their fellow musicians.
He remembered a conversation he had with a long-time West Coast bassist who had been friends for a long time, and the topic was very violent, but the process was not very pleasant.
Because he mentions that the neighbor's big sister who is the lead singer of his band is Janice, and the big sister also helps them contact a talented composer in Xia Guo to write a violent song for them that is enough to be in the top 50 on the bulletin board.
"Ha, you just blow Ben, fifty out of a hundred people I know say he knows Jackson, forty claim that he has worked with gold medal composer James, and ten praise Janice Haikou will be a guest at the next concert......"
The West Coast bassist had an ear-length pigtail, a half-smoked cigarette in his left hand, and his right hand rubbing back and forth against his left arm, as if that was the only way to make people see the dragon he had just tattooed.
"Ha, Bob, what I'm telling you is true, our captain Dan is really Janice's neighbor, the kind that has been played since childhood, and she said that if she will find us a song, then she will definitely find a song!"
Seeing that the other party didn't believe his words, Ben was a little anxious, and his brows were so furrowed that he could clip several hot dogs.
"Hey, buddy, don't think that our musicians on the West Coast are all fools, so easy to deceive~"
The tattoo brother disdainfully put down a sentence, he has heard a lot of such words, whoever is his relatives and friends, as long as he is willing to give a simple lift, he will immediately ascend to heaven.
"I really didn't lie to you, I dare to swear by my rock 'n' roll faith!"
Ben was a little anxious, so he raised his right hand and put it next to his head to swear.
"Okay, okay, your way, the magic is vast, Janice's royal composer will write you a song that makes the whole meter and the whole of Europe shake their heads, and then you rush all the way to the first bulletin board~"
The tattooed brother spread his hands indifferently, and the disdain at the corners of his mouth was still overflowing.
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Ben clenched his fists, then relaxed again, turned around and sat back on the tattered couch like him, and lit himself a cigarette of unknown brand.
"Dude, sometimes YY two sentences are enough, don't fool yourself, then it's boring......"
The tattooed brother patted Ben's shoulder, with a big brother, I am from here, and I have seen too many of these things.
"Alas, you didn't believe it when I told you, forget it, you'll know later."
"Ha, you are really stubborn, this kind of lie can only deceive you young people, if your lead singer Dan really has this relationship, you became popular a few years ago, and now you are running around the country to earn a meager appearance fee?"
He tapped Ben on the shoulder a few times, still looking completely unconvinced.
"That's fine, or let's make a bet if your band does get a song that will make it to the top fifty on the bulletin board...... No, even if it's a song that can be on the bulletin board, I will lose you 100 dollars, do you dare to follow? β
With a "snap", he took out a roll of colorful rice bills from his arms, took out a few from the middle and slapped them on the table.
"Haha, Ben, I thought you were a smart guy, but you also believe this kind of lie, your captain has good muscles, but the deceptive words still need to be strengthened, there is really a song that can enter the top fifty on the bulletin board, he will keep it for the orchestra to sing? It's already cool to fly solo by yourself, right? β
A buddy watching the play next to him put down the drumstick in his hand, smiled and followed the tattooed brother's words, and also took out a large handful of mixed banknotes from his arms and slapped them in front of Ben.
"I'm betting $58, that big guy is fooling you with good words, so as to boost the morale of the team, and after a while he will definitely say that Janice told him that the composer is too busy to squeeze in the time lately, so let you wait a little longer."
"Yes, let you wait a little longer, a week will be two weeks, two weeks will be three weeks, three weeks will be a month, and a month will be two months...... Over time, even you will forget about it, and continue to 'tour' around Quanmi on cheap flights to earn a pitiful appearance fee......"
The tattooed brother and the person next to him looked at each other, and then stretched out his fist to make a set of bells and whistles.
"No, it can't be like this, Dan never lied to us......"
Sandwiched between them, Ben's tone was not as certain as it had been at the beginning, and his momentum became weaker.
"Hehe, you must not think that such a big pie fell from the sky, right? Believe me, buddy, those big stars are all bastards or cousins who run the train with their mouths, they will be good to you if you have use value, and if you don't have use value, their own brothers will kick them away, do you have any use value for Janice? β
The guy in the back had gold teeth in his mouth, and he opened his mouth with a big grin and screamed, as if the gold teeth in his mouth could strengthen the credibility of his words, for fear that the people around him would not see his wealth and prophet.
"This ......"
Poor Ben is also dizzy from a meal of ecstasy soup from them, think about it carefully, it seems that there is really no usability for such a big star?
So, why would people come to help themselves and others? At least the top 50 songs on the bulletin board are worth a lot of money, so why give yourself a few little-known rock bands that can at least pull out hundreds of identical rock bands?
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Soon, this conversation between the two spread out with the speed and breadth of ripples.
Not only the entire West Coast, but also the musicians of several nearby cities have heard the news in general.
"Hehe, a song of the same level will be given to a small underground band that has been touring at its own expense and has never heard the name at all? When the throne of Janice is papier-mΓ’chΓ©? β
"What kind of song is it, and what other songs can compare to? If there is really such a song, and some people spend millions of meters to buy it, how can they get an underground band that is just a little famous? β
"In my opinion, what kind of big sister Janice next door and the like are fake, they don't exist, and they can still have such a good relationship and not be famous for so many years?"
"That is, they also say that it is a composer in Xia Kingdom, as far as I know, a diva in the port area of Xia Kingdom once wanted to praise people, and defeated a lot of powerful bands, and won the championship of a 'band' that can't even play musical instruments, Janice is the queen of our country, and she doesn't even have this ability?"
"Hehe, I guess it's a 'neighbor' separated by several blocks, if you want to say that, Michael is also my 'neighbor', we were only separated by less than three blocks when we were young, why didn't he come to support my music career?"
"Speaking of which, this 'Xia composer' is also very suspicious, this song is obviously so Westernized, so rice-style, how can he, a Xia composer who has been influenced by Eastern culture for decades, make such excellent songs? It can't be that someone wants to package such a genius and deliberately put gold on his face, right? β
"Yes, yes, yes, the oriental music we have been exposed to for so many years is at most Fusang and Nanbang, when did Xia Guo have such an excellent composer? I can still hear the bamboo instruments they play, but pop music? Please, can they know what is popular? β
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The West Coast hipsters, who have been in the underground music scene for many years, added their own "judgment" to the news, and within two days they had completely dismissed the news as a huge and ridiculous farce.
"I want to be red and want to be dizzy", "shamelessly recognize the neighbor's eldest sister", "It's better to put a microphone in front of a dog to write a song for them"...... and so on, and the swear words continued to spread, and soon reached the ears of the Pink Dragon Band's own people.
"These guys who can't eat olives and think olive sour are obviously jealous that we have such good luck!"
Guitarist Wayne angrily threw the pick in his hand, feeling that it was not enough, and pulled off the hat he was wearing on his head and threw it on the ground.
"There are always some people who are like jealous dogs, who can't look down on others, and always feel that good things are not their turn, and they are just a lump of S ......"
The violist Daniel was also full of anger, he hadn't mentioned it to his colleagues in the past few days, but wherever he went, he could feel some sarcastic eyes looking at him mockingly.
"Let them go, they are all a bunch of clowns who have never seen the big world, and if they can't do it, they think that other people should soak in the quagmire with them and never climb up......"
Dan was also angry enough at this time, obviously when he first came here, the local musicians were very polite and enthusiastic to them.
But after the news spread, I immediately felt their hostility and ridicule.
Sure enough, it is worthy of the "underground" music circle, if you really have the ability and strength, you may have already made a fortune.
"Leave them alone, Daniel, Ben, and Wayne, we make our own music, and Sister Janice will definitely not tease us, not to mention how strong my relationship with her is from childhood to adulthood, just our ability to do these more than 20 concerts from the East Coast to the West Coast has thousands of audiences every time, which has proved that our ability is strong enough!"
As the leader of the orchestra, Dan certainly did not let gossip destroy the confidence of the members, and he stood in the middle of several people, his hands held high, and his aura was quite powerful to make his declaration.
"Wayne is right, those people are jealous that we have such good luck, of course, luck is definitely not all, we still have many times stronger strength than them! Did you see the dozens of die-hard fans who traveled with us from the Middle States the other night? That's what we're capable of, and we're so much better than their Luthers who only say they can't do! β
Dan's speech was as full of strength and confidence as ever, and gradually, the confusion and doubt in the eyes of several partners around him gradually dissipated.
But in the following waiting time, they still suffered a lot of cold words, and even the music groups that had the best relationship with them at the beginning began to gradually say strange things that were not yin and yang.
Anyway, as long as you're stuck in the quagmire like us, we're still good brothers.
The four-piece band was very sad, but they still insisted on holding the next two scheduled concerts.
But unlike those "professional" underground musicians who obviously don't think they are good, the number of audiences attending their concerts is increasing every time!
Part of the reason for this is that they want to prove themselves more and focus more hard when performing.
The other part is also thanks to the news that the pop superstar Janice will provide them with a song that is no less than that!
Fans in the United States, like fans in other parts of the world, have a lot of star-chasing ingredients in them.
They like a singer and a band, and they also have to divide senior fans into ordinary fans.
If you can like a singer, a band before they become famous, follow them, and believe in them, then after the singer, this band rises, they will have a very famous name, and a qualification worth showing off among their peers - you newcomers, do you know how difficult it was when the band first started? It is we who have strongly and silently supported them to tide over the difficulties and move towards glory together!
This is the simple concept of the fans, the glory ushers in the hypocritical spectators, and the twilight witnesses the true believers.
Thanks to losai98 for the 500 coin reward.
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