waited until Shizuka Kudo's legs warmed up before Zhou Yan took her to Xidan to buy clothes, and then the two went to the audiovisual world together.

Not long after the opening of the current audio-visual world, the location is still in the southeast corner of the intersection, and the business area is only more than 200 square meters.

Later, Xidan audio-visual world became popular, so it moved to a place, and the business area increased to nearly 2,000 square meters, which can be said to be a landmark store in Yanjing.

Most of the singers who were worthy of their names at that time were also signed in the audiovisual world.

Although the area of the audio-visual world at this time is not as large as later, the scale is not small at the moment, and when Zhou Yan and the others arrived, there were already many customers in the store.

Compared with other video stores, the design of Xidan Audiovisual World is relatively novel, in addition to rows and rows of shelves, there are also inlaid windows on the wall to display the records in the store.

Most of the records that can be displayed on the window are hot-selling records, and customers can see them at a glance when they come in.

In addition, there are many audition spots in the store, and many people come here to listen to music even if they don't buy anything.

However, it is difficult to grab the audition position, and every time Zhou Yan comes, the audition position is basically full.

Although it was Tuesday, the audition seats were also full.

If it's a weekend night, there will be more people in the store, and sometimes you can't squeeze in.

There is an information board in front of the store with information about the new album that has just been released, and Shizuka Kudo's new album "The First Dream" is the first in line because it just came out today.

When you enter the store, you can see the new shelves, and the first row on it is "The First Dream".

There were three, a CD, and two tapes, and I don't know if I had already sold some of them, or if I just put them on the line.

Zhou Yan, the finished product of the record, hadn't seen it yet, so he walked to the shelf and picked up the CD and looked at it.

The cover is a photo of Shizuka Kudo wearing JK, holding a ukulele, and Shizuka Kudo in the photo has a bright smile on her face, which is a full image of a sweet girl.

[Neon Kudo Shizuka's new Chinese album]

[The first neon singer Chinese album]

Noriko Sakai's Chinese-language album hasn't been released yet, so "The First Dream" is indeed the first-ever Chinese-language album with a neon singer.

There have been many neon singers who have sung Chinese songs before, and even released Chinese singles, but Shizuka Kudo is indeed the first to release a Chinese album.

Such a good gimmick, the cooperative record company Sony naturally couldn't waste it, and directly printed the entry on the album cover.

In addition to Shizuka Kudo, there is also the name of Zhou Yan on the cover.

[Music master Zhou Yan, personally produced]

Ogi Productions asked Zhou Yan to help Shizuka Kudo write songs, not only because of Zhou Yan's musical talent, but also because he wanted to rub Zhou Yan's fame in China, and of course, he also wanted to print Zhou Yan's name for music fans to see.

Zhou Yan looked at it from the side, and there was no audition version, so he couldn't see anything in the album.

The packaging of the tape is similar to that of a CD, and the photos of Shizuka Kudo printed on it are the same, but in equal proportions.

Shizuka Kudo hugged Zhou Yan's arm and whispered, "I, is it good-looking?" ”

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, it's good-looking, but it's still a little thinner." ”

"I've grown fast, ten pounds." Shizuka Kudo said with a pout.

"It could be a little longer."

"If I grow longer, can you still hold me?"

"Even if you grow twice as long, I can hold it."

Shizuka Kudo pursed her lips, "Bragging." ”

Of course Zhou Yan didn't brag, Shizuka Kudo was only more than ninety pounds, and it would be less than two hundred pounds to double his size, and he could still have a princess to hug, but it was a little difficult.

At this time, there seemed to be more and more people in the store, and of course the two of them couldn't stand next to the shelves all the time, so Zhou Yan took Kudo Shizuka's hand and walked inside, ready to take her to visit this video store.

She hadn't taken a few steps before Shizuka Kudo suddenly stopped, and then she walked to one of the shelves with a look of surprise on her face, "Here, and your ......"

Halfway through, she didn't go any further.

Zhou Yan leaned over and took a look, there were his music albums on the shelves, in addition to "Piano Boy" and "Mysterious Country", there was also the original soundtrack of "Yanjing Silent".

Of these three albums, only the cover of "Yanjing Silent" is a live photo of Zhou Yan playing the piano, and the other two albums do not have a photo of Zhou Yan, and Shizuka Kudo also noticed it because she saw "Yanjing Silent".

"This album, I seem, haven't heard it yet." Shizuka Kudo took "Yanjing Silent", "I think, buy one and go back and listen to it." ”

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "You don't have to buy it, I have a videotape of this concert at home, and I'll take you to watch it at night." ”

Shizuka Kudo put the album down with a smile, "Well, then I'll not buy it." But your albums, on the shelves, are also on the shelf, very few, in total, so, a few. ”

"It's okay, the position of this shelf is still relatively high, the pure music albums in the mainland are not easy to sell, you look at the rows of shelves in front, there are only my pure music albums."

Shizuka Kudo looked at several shelves, she actually didn't know much about these albums, she didn't know which ones were pure music and which ones were pop songs, but she could basically guess by looking at the cover.

The covers of Zhou Yan's albums are obviously different from the covers of ordinary pop song albums, and the covers of most pop song albums are printed with the singer's photos like "The First Dream".

Shizuka Kudo pouted, "In Neon, your albums, they are, all of them, put in the front row." ”

What she said was the truth, in most of Neon's video stores, Zhou Yan's albums were placed in the most conspicuous position, and they usually put a lot of them, because they sold well.

In the past two years, in Neon, Zhou Yan's album sales have been unsurpassed.

Although both albums have been released for a while, they still sell very well every week, and they always make it to the weekly sales charts.

The market in Chinese mainland is very far from neon, and here, if it is not rock songs, or hot songs from Xiangjiang and Taiwan Island, it is not easy for Zhou Yan's album to be placed in such a high position.

Zhou Yan is used to it, but Shizuka Kudo is a little unhappy, she feels that Zhou Yan's album should be placed in the most prominent position.

"Let's go to other shelves, this video store has a lot of records, and there are also a lot of foreign language records."

"Is there a neon one?"

"Yes."

"Is there any mine?"

"You can look for it."

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Shizuka Kudo was quite curious, so she followed Zhou Yan to the foreign language record area.

The foreign language record area is not large, and there are two shelves.

Speaking of which, these two shelves account for a lot of money in record stores, but for the music industry around the world, two shelves seem to be a bit less.

Therefore, the records that can be placed on this shelf are basically the kind that are well-known all over the world, and most of them are English records.

Like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Carpenter in the United States, as well as the Beatles, Queen, and Genesis in the United Kingdom, they are basically smash hits or bands, and their records can appear here.

On the neon side, like Tanimura Shinji and Tamaki Koji, they are singers who are more familiar to Chinese.

Female singers have Momoe Yamaguchi and Akina Nakamori, but there is no Shizuka Kudo.

Unable to find herself, Shizuka Kudo muttered, "There is a clear flower." ”

The latter sentence "without me" was not spoken.

Shizuka Kudo is a few years older than Akina Nakamori, but they are also singers of the same era, and the two are often compared by fans.

However, the positioning of the two is not the same, Akina Nakamori is a serious singer, and Shizuka Kudo debuted as an idol, in terms of music, Shizuka Kudo is indeed not as good as Akina Nakamori.

In fact, at the beginning of the year, Kudo Shizuka's music career had already declined slightly, but she just sang "Walk with Me" and "If Love Has Heaven's Will", which stabilized the music career again.

Shizuka Kudo has a good relationship with Akina Nakamori in private, but when she saw Akina Nakamori's record here, but she didn't find her own, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Zhou Yan smiled and comforted her, "It's okay, there will be a lot of your records here soon." ”

"Actually, I'm not either, I care a lot."

Hearing Shizuka Kudo say this, Zhou Yan smiled, this girl has a hard mouth.

took Shizuka Kudo to watch the foreign language album area, and Zhou Yan went to the classical music music again.

Compared to the foreign language album section, the classical music section has fewer goods.

Not only is there less goods here, but there are also fewer people.

However, this area has the highest style, and there are a lot of vinyl records in the window inlaid on the wall, which occupies a large area and is very conspicuous.

For video stores, these vinyl records are not like commodities, but more like decorations, placed there for customers to see, not to buy.

Normally, the best-selling thing is naturally tapes, followed by CDs, and things like vinyl records are rarely bought.

Not to mention the price of vinyl records, it has too many disadvantages compared to CDs, first of all, it is large in size, it is not easy to carry and store, and secondly, it is difficult to preserve.

And the vinyl record player is also large, so it takes up so much space that the average person won't buy it at all.

The sound quality of vinyl records is not necessarily better than that of CDs, but some people like the sound presented by vinyl.

It is also because of these reasons that people feel that vinyl is just a little higher.

"Mystery Country" and "Piano Boy" both made vinyl, but they were sold in the mainland, but the sales in Europe were quite good.

There is also a copy of "Mystic Country" on this wall, and when she saw this album, Shizuka Kudo was very happy.

"This is "Mysterious Country", it should appear, location."

Zhou Yan joked, "The albums on this are all difficult to sell." ”

In addition to "Mystery Country", there are also music collections by well-known classical musicians such as "Beethoven's Selected Works", "Mozart's Selected Works", and "Tchaikovsky's Selected Works".

In China's classical music market, these albums are really hard to sell.

Before Shizuka Kudo could speak, a man's voice sounded next to him, "Dude, you're wrong, this "Mystic Country" is selling very well." ”

Zhou Yan turned his head to look at the person who spoke, a young man in his thirties, not tall, white and clean, wearing glasses, and slightly fat.

"Oh, really?" Zhou Yan replied with a smile.

"Of course, Zhou Yan's music has nothing to say."

Zhou Yan looked at the window on the wall, "It's a little inappropriate to put him and Beethoven together." ”

What he meant was that he was a living man up there.

However, the man thought that Zhou Yan was not qualified, "They must not be compared with Beethoven, but he is now famous, and he is one of the composers of the younger generation." You have time to listen to his music, especially his "Eternal Night" and "Flowing Wind", the level is very high, but unfortunately this album is not there, he has played in concerts, if you want to listen to it, you have to buy the "Yanjing Silent" live soundtrack. ”

Zhou Yan nodded, it seems that this man is still a classical music lover, and ordinary music fans like "Kite", "Wind" and "Reunion".

"Eternal Night" and "Flowing Wind", if you don't like to listen to classical music, it will sound very tiring and boring.

And the average music fan doesn't know these two songs.

Shizuka Kudo listened interestingly, covered her mouth and smiled.

She looked at Zhou Yan, then at the man, and asked, "Have you still heard, Zhou Yan's concert?" ”

"No, I also listened to the soundtrack, and his concert couldn't get tickets at all." The man glanced at Shizuka Kudo and said curiously, "Girl, listen to your accent, you're not a local." ”

Shizuka Kudo asked with a smile, "Then you, listening to my accent, where do you seem to be?" ”

"It's kind of like ...... Over there in Ganxi? "Actually, the man wants to say that the Kudo accent is like a neon man, but he is embarrassed to say it, if not, isn't it upsetting?

Shizuka Kudo felt that her pronunciation was affirmed, "I'm not from Ganxi, I'm a neon person." ”

"Oh, then your Chinese level is okay."

"It's okay, so-so."

"Oh, by the way, today you have a neon female singer released, I saw it on the new album shelf in front of me just now, it seems that Zhou Yan helped make it."

Shizuka Kudo pretended to be surprised, "Really? Then I'll take a look later. ”

However, when she spoke, she still played with the scarf and pulled it to prevent the other party from recognizing her. When he went out with Zhou Yan, he was disguised, she wore a hat and a scarf, and only a small part of her eyes could be seen on her whole face.

The man nodded and said, "Yes, that female singer seems to have had an affair with Zhou Yan." ”

"That's the case, no wonder, Zhou Yan will help her write songs."

The man smiled and waved his hand, "Hey, you can see these news, most of them are fake, there are more female celebrities who have had scandals with Zhou Yan, didn't his scandal with Zhang Manyu fly all over the sky before?" I can't seem to hear it now, and there is a female star in the mainland, who is called red, and it has also been transmitted. ”

Shizuka Kudo said with vinegar, "Maybe, it's all, really?" ”

The man laughed, "How is that possible, Zhou Yan is alone, how can he be busy?" If you want me to see it, the scandal with this female singer in your country is the most unlikely. is not in the same country, so far away, I would rather believe that Zhou Yan and Anita Mui are in love. ”

"Zhou Yan and Anita Mui are also ......"

Zhou Yan on the side heard that the more the two of them talked, the more they lost their score, so he coughed lightly, "I didn't expect you to pay attention to gossip news, brother." ”

The man scratched his head embarrassedly, "I saw it by chance, but I still pay more attention to music." Well, you two keep shopping, and I won't bother. ”

With that, the man left.

After the man left, Shizuka Kudo gave Zhou Yan a roll of his eyes, "What he said, is it true?" ”

"There are true and false."

"Is there a real or a fake?"

Zhou Yan shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "Isn't it true with you?" ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Shizuka Kudo pursed her lips and smiled, "You have more scandals than me." ”

"It seems that you have a lot of scandals." Zhou Yan rebelled against the first army.

"That's all arranged by the company."

Zhou Yan smiled and teased her, "I was also arranged by the company?" ”

Shizuka Kudo stomped her foot, "I won't tell you, I'll tell you." ”

Then she ran to the new product shelf at the door and looked at it, and found that none of her albums were missing, proving that there was no one who bought her albums at this time.

Seeing such a result, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Seeing her expression of loss, Zhou Yan took her hand with a smile, "You have also debuted for so many years, and your mentality is still so bad, it has only been a while, and it is normal for no one to buy it." Let's stop watching it for now, it's almost time for dinner, I'll take you to dinner. ”

"Okay."

Although she was a little disappointed that she didn't see anyone buying her album, she still had to eat, so she followed Zhou Yan to find a restaurant to eat.

However, not long after they left, two young people, a man and a woman, entered the video store and went straight to the shelves of new products.

Seeing "The First Dream" on the shelf, the girl smiled, "I just said yes, I remember that it was on the shelves today." ”

The boy saw the photo of Shizuka Kudo on the album and raised his eyebrows, "It turns out that Shizuka Kudo looks like this, no wonder she had an affair with Zhou Yan." ”

The girl looked disgusted, "Oh, you just pay attention to this." ”

With that, she quickly grabbed a cassette of "The First Dream" from the shelf and ran to the cash register, "Boss, check out." ”

Then she pointed in the boy's direction, "He gives money." ”

After that, she began to unwrap the tape.

After unwrapping the plastic package, she first took out the Walkman from her backpack, put the tape inside, and then did not rush to play it, but studied the lyrics first.

She is not a fan of Shizuka Kudo, and the reason why she bought this album was completely for Zhou Yan, so she had to see if there were any songs written by Zhou Yan in this album.

Reading the news report before, Shizuka Kudo said in person that Zhou Yan helped her write songs, but she didn't say how many songs she wrote.

There is no need to find a girl at all, the first song in the lyrics book, the three columns of composition, lyrics, and arrangement, are all Zhou Yan's name.

"Obediently, Zhou Yan is really good enough to Shizuka Kudo."

Zhou Yan has also written pop songs before, but he has never done it all, most of them only occupy a composition, and any more is to add an arrangement.

The first song on the A-side, and the title song of the entire album, is "The First Dream" with the same name as the album.

The girl didn't flip backwards either, she couldn't wait to press the play button, and then began to listen to the lyrics.

The song begins with a very high-spirited violin, and if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the wind in it, but the wind is faint, and the girl is not sure if she heard it wrong.

Soon, she was sure she had heard correctly, as she heard some more waves.

It should have been specially sampled when arranging.

In addition to the violin, the sound of the wind and the sound of the waves, you can also hear the sound of some other instruments, but you can't tell what the specific instrument is, which is very special.

Maybe it's not the sound of a conventional instrument at all, many of Zhou Yan's songs will have synthesized sounds, and these synthesized sounds are made by Zhou Yan himself, and they do not belong to any kind of conventional musical instruments.

This element of the new century style actually appears in Zhou Yan's music.

After the prelude ends, the vocals appear.

"If pride is not coldly photographed by the sea of reality

How can you understand, you have to work harder

to get to the distance......"

There is no temptation at all in this song, and it comes up directly and gives a heavy blow, grabbing all the attention of the listener at once.

At this time, the boy had already paid the bill and walked over to the girl, "What......"

The girl hurriedly made a silent gesture, "Shhh ”

After saying that, she gave another headset to the boy.

"Plant tears in your heart

Brave flowers will bloom

You can ......"

No matter where you start listening to this song, it is high-spirited and forward, and the melody is not muddy in the slightest.

The girl originally thought that this would be a love song, but after listening to it, she found that this song has nothing to do with love, but an inspiring and inspirational song.

Although I don't know what kind of style Shizuka Kudo originally had, the girl felt that it was very appropriate for Shizuka Kudo to sing this song.

What surprised the girl even more was that Shizuka Kudo's pronunciation turned out to be very standard, and there were a few sentences that couldn't even be heard with an accent.

Although singing is originally easier than speaking, it is obvious that it is hard to pronounce the words to this point, and this Kudo Shizuka is likely to speak Chinese.

If you don't speak Chinese, it's hard to pronounce your voice with just your back.

After listening to a song, the girl breathed a long sigh of relief, "Zhou Yan's composition is really trustworthy, whether it is the melody or the arrangement, it is very good." ”

The boy couldn't help but nod, "That's right, this song is a typical conversion of the same name, the main part is in the key of g#, and then there is a subsection that is changed to the key of A, and then the chorus is changed to the key of F......"

The girl rolled her eyes, "It's the same as it really is." ”

"What I'm saying is true, the arrangement of this song is really rich, blurring the unique nature of major and minor, neutralizing the brightness of major and the dullness of minor, and there is also an out-of-key technique......"

"Alright, alright, I'm sure you can't do it yet." The girl looked down at the lyric book in her hand again, "I'll take a look at what other songs Zhou Yan wrote for her." ”

The boy pouted and said, "It's amazing to be able to write a song, don't be too greedy." ”

"Hey, the first song on the B-side is also yes."

"Really?" The boy looked at him in surprise.

The girl didn't lie, the first song on the B side was also written by Zhou Yan, and the composition, lyrics, and arrangement were also written by Zhou Yan.

"Small hands holding big hands, I don't know how, I'll listen." (End of chapter)