Chapter 20 A Prose Poem to My Father
"What is the focus of today's society? Of course, it's the voice of the people! Dong Zhou said with a smile.
"Now that our art is so developed, works of art are people's spiritual food, think about it, if you meet their spiritual needs, then they will be good to you, will they take the initiative to help you." Chou Dong continued.
"And now the entertainment industry is in a saturated state, and new blood needs to join, and this saturation needs to be broken, and your folk songs are this new blood, which can easily break through the shackles and break this equilibrium." Chou Dong continued.
Chen Mo lowered his head and thought for a while, then gradually understood something, and said: "Thank you, teacher, I know how to do it, teacher, although most of my folk songs can be played with guitars, but I think some folk songs are better with other instruments, especially some harmonies need other instruments, just like the song I gave to Song Yang before "Anhe Bridge" used the horse-head qin at the beginning, by the way, Song Yang is the little fat man in the campus competition My good friend." ”
"The last time I heard it at the scene, "Anheqiao" is indeed your style, and this song is also very good, but the singing is still a little bit interesting. By the way, what you just said meant was that you had other folk songs that had already been written? Dong Zhou was a little surprised.
Songs are not cabbages in the vegetable market, wholesale is said to be wholesale, and written when you say you write it, as a musical genius, it is not so easy for Chou Dong himself to create a song, and even sometimes, he needs to find his good friend Fang Wenshan to ask for a song.
He was a little worried that Chen Mo would not cope with the quantity and reduce the quality of the songs, and this kind of creation would outweigh the losses.
It's just that Dong Chou and the others don't know that Chen Mo is not alone, Chen Mo has crossed over, and there is the entire library of the earth behind him. It can be said that it is inexhaustible.
"Yes, there are some that I created before." Chen Mo whispered. I silently thought in my heart, I'm sorry, anyway, this is not the earth, I created it in this world, I'm sorry for the teachers of the earth.
"By the way, Ma Yinyin's song has been practiced, what about you, what song are you going to sing?" Teacher Haring next to him saw that the two of them were chattering endlessly, and interjected and asked.
Dong Zhou and Ma Yinyin were also curious.
"The other day was Father's Day, when I went out to eat, I met a female owner of a restaurant, she told me a story of her own, and then I had some inspiration, so I simply wrote a song based on her own story, and I wanted to give this song to my sister, to her father, to my father all over the world." Chen Mo spoke eloquently.
"I'll describe the story my eldest sister told me first, and then I'll practice this song later, and then the two teachers will help me comment on it." Chen Mo continued.
The story goes like this: "My eldest sister, a restaurateur, wanted to be a poet since she was a child, because she knew from a young age that her father was a poet, and in their place, her father was very respected and very prestigious.
As she grew up, she was influenced by her father and wrote good poems. But God gave you something to take away some of your things, and suddenly one day her father had a cerebral infarction, but fortunately the rescue was timely and his life was saved, but his physical condition was not what he used to be.
From that day on, her father could not write, and could not speak, reminiscing about the happy life with her father, she sorted out the books that her father had read and written, and unexpectedly turned to a diary, and the contents of the diary were probably that.
In 1984, the crops in the field had not yet been harvested, my daughter was sleeping so sweetly in her arms, I didn't have time to watch the open-air movie tonight, my wife reminded me that I had to repair the pedal of the sewing machine, and my daughter cried all day, and tomorrow I had to go to the neighbor's house to borrow some money, buy her the biscuits she wanted to eat, wear a blue shirt, squatted next to the pond and gave herself two punches.
After telling the story to everyone, Chen Mo walked forward, picked up the guitar and simply played and sang the song. Because I was in a hurry, I didn't bring the original sheet music with instruments such as bass, oboe, keyboard, and drum kit, and even though I had a band teacher, I couldn't play it without a score.
A hoarse and low singing voice sounded, using a male voice to interpret this song sung by Xu Fei.
1984
The crops are not yet harvested
My daughter was sleeping so sweetly in my arms
I didn't have time to watch tonight's open-air movie
Years later
I watched as tears flowed
My father was as old as an old newspaper
These are the words from my father's diary
It was left behind by his life
Prose poems that remained
Decades later
I watched as tears flowed
My father was as old as an old newspaper
Old newspapers
The story above is a lifetime
At the end of the song, several people were still immersed in the strong father's love for his daughter deduced by the song, and the emotion of this song was really too strong. The notes convey the father's love and responsibility for his children, as well as the helplessness of the children when they perceive the passage of time and the father's old age.
The somewhat sensual Ma Yinyin next to him even reddened the corners of his eyes, and tears swirled in his eyes.
"The emotion of this song is strong, the lyrics are unpretentious, if I have to say that the lyrics are a little different from the lyrics, but it is precisely because of the way of commentary that this song is even more valuable." Dong Zhou commented.
"As for singing, I also think that using the guitar alone to interpret it is a bit monotonous, and it really needs to add more musical elements and more instruments." Chou Dong added.
"This song vividly expresses the father's strong love for the family and the child in his own way in that era, and I see the father's strong love for his daughter from the song." Harling added.
"As for singing, I think it would be better to add more instruments, Chen Mo, you go back and ponder carefully, improve the score, and then come back to us to practice, or I will help you improve it with your teacher." Harling added.
"Good teacher, good teacher Haring." Chen Mo nodded at Dong Zhou and Teacher Ha Ling in response.
"Both songs are good, but because the sound can't fully express the emotions in "Little Half", so I still need to choose a song to deal with the next recording, and Chen Mo needs to improve the lyrics. I think it would be better if you had more spare. Dong Zhou said to Ma Yinyin and Chen Mo.
After the song practice, Ha Ling and Chou Dong taught Chen Mo and the two of them more, helping Chen Mo and the two to know or learn more stage experience, performance methods and so on.
The two mentors are both old-timers who have debuted for many years, and it is more than enough to teach Chen Mo and the two newcomers.
Most of the time this day was listening to the experience of Ha Ling and Chou Dong, the two of them have rich stage experience, which is a treasure for the two newcomers, and at the same time, they also told the two of them some rules of the entertainment industry, saying a lot about the rules of survival in the entertainment industry, speaking cautiously, and acting carelessly.
Both benefited greatly! I didn't eat lunch until about two o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone broke up after eating.
Ma Yinyin needs to go back and choose the song again, and Chen Mo also needs to prepare and improve the score. At the same time, Chen Mo felt that he could also help Ma Yinyin find a love song from the earth's music library, after all, there are so many songs on the earth, Chen Mo has not only heard folk songs, but is only familiar with folk songs.
Chen Mo decided to transfer Sun Yanzi's "Encounter" to Ma Yinyin, she felt that Ma Yinyin should sing this song very well.
"Encounter" gives full play to the characteristics of Stefanie Sun's voice and is one of her masterpieces. The most beautiful melodies are composed with simple guitar and piano, and the concise lyrics are written with bright style and slightly helpless feelings.
The song is a little sad, but it also reveals strength, and it is easy to evoke people's emotional memories through the helplessness of reality, which makes people immersed in the melancholy artistic conception of love.
Sad, but not lacking in beauty! The fact that this song can become a person's masterpiece shows that it is classic enough.
When Chen Mo was writing, he didn't want to be disturbed, and after telling Ma Yinyin about helping her choose a song, Ma Yinyin went home.
Song Yang and He Shan had also left a long time ago, and Chen Mo was the only one fighting here, and he was immersed in it.
The song was quickly written, and he tried to sing it himself, making sure it was okay.
Then Chen Mo was thinking about preparing the song he helped his mentor Chou Dong write.
The Chou Dong of this world is very similar to the Chou Dong of the earth, but he is not a person. (Existence is reasonable, the novel is set like this, and the reader greatly makes up for it on his own.) )
What Chen Mo planned to give to Dong Chou was Dong Chou's "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold" on the earth, and he prepared a few more folk songs in case of emergency.
It was late at night, and Chen Mo was almost ready, so he went to take a shower and slept comfortably.
The next day, Chen Mo contacted Dong Chou in advance, and went to Dong Chou with a few songs.
I went to find a mentor with a few songs, and I received a call from Netease Liu Sisi on the way, because after Liu Sisi invited Chen Mo at that time, Chen Mo never replied, and he was a little anxious to wait, so he called to confirm.
Moreover, after going back, she actively fought for the company and helped win the third-level contract, which was not easy.
"Chen Mo, have you read the electronic version of the contract I sent you, how did you think about it?" Liu Sisi asked.
Here comes a call,
"Aha, this, that, Manager Liu, I forgot about it when I was busy, so I haven't seen it yet, I'm really embarrassed." Chen Mo said perfunctorily.
"Don't worry, you sent me an electronic version, right, I'll read it now, I'll give you an answer later, okay?" Chen Mo asked with a slight smile.
"Okay, then you can watch it now, don't hang up the phone, I'll wait for you!" Liu Sisi on the other side of the phone said with a smile.
The smile on Chen Mo's face froze, he originally wanted to be perfunctory and wait a few days to talk about it, but she actually said that she wouldn't hang up the phone.
Ginger is still old and spicy!
"Okay! But I'm not at home right now, I'm going to practice at the Voice recording site, you see... ”
"It's okay, I can wait, just don't hang up the phone, I'll be waiting for you here." Liu Sisi said very resolutely.
Chen Mo knew that he couldn't shirk it, so he simply opened it and looked for the contract while walking.
After reading the contract in a hurry, it can be said that the salary is very high, but he doesn't want to sign with any agency, he wants to be an independent musician.
When I finally arrived at the recording site, the instructors had been waiting for a long time.
"Chen Mo, you're late!" Har Tong said with a smile.
"Teacher Haling, traffic jams, traffic jams, everything in the capital is good, but there are too many cars, jams!" Chen Mo held the mobile phone and saw that he hadn't hung it up yet, so he didn't care.
"Hey, Chen Mo, you seem to be quite busy, why don't I hang up first?" Liu Sisi's voice came from the mobile phone.
Dong Zhou and the others looked at their mobile phones in surprise.
"Oh, okay, I'll call you later!" Chen Mo said, relieved to see that the phone hung up.
"What's going on?" Harbour asked curiously.
Chen Mo could only tell a few mentors about the previous incident, and Dong Zhou and they were all surprised, these people were too fast.
Chen Mo has not officially debuted yet, but it shows that these people have a good vision and grabbed Chen Mo in advance.
"What are your plans? Interested in a company? Dong Zhou said.
"I want to be an indie musician!" Chen Mo told his mentor his thoughts.
After hearing this, Dong Zhou's eyebrows furrowed, obviously he also felt that this matter was difficult, it was quite difficult for a newcomer to be an independent musician, and now Chen Mo seemed to have offended people before he grew up, which was even more difficult.
But seeing Chen Mo so resolute, he knew that it was impossible to change Chen Mo's mind.
"Well, I'm an indie musician now, and you're always welcome at my Jewell Company. If you really decide, you can choose to cooperate with NetEase Music for exclusive debut, this company is still relatively fair to independent musicians, everything pays attention to strength, even if you are not an artist under his company, as long as your song can become popular, it will help you promote, and I am also cooperating with them, I can help you. Dong Zhou said.
"Good! Then NetEase, I believe the teacher! And the teacher can help me more over there. Chen Mo said.
Chen Mo said and took out a folder from his bag, with lyrics and song scores written on it, and said: "There are four songs here, one love song is for Yinyin, one is for you, teacher, and two are mine."
Teacher Ha Ling, Teacher Na Ying'er, I don't know if you are lacking, so I didn't prepare for you, if you need it and don't dislike me, I can help you create. ”
"No, you still know how to sing love songs?" Ha Ling picked up the song "Encounter" that belonged to Ma Yinyin and watched it, humming it slowly, the more he hummed to the back, the more excited he became, he could feel the melody and rhythm of this song, he was a person who understood music, one time was enough.
At the same time, a very obvious high-rise building, Minyu Building, has many recording studios in this building, which is the place where Huaguo Media writes songs and records songs for artists.
In and out are the stars of Huaguo Media, not only singers, but also actors, directors and the like, as long as a person who has a certain achievement in Huaguo Media can get an independent recording studio assigned by the company, as for what level of recording studio you get, it depends on your own strength, your influence, how much appeal, you will get the corresponding level of studio, everything is a competitive relationship. Wang Feng
One of them is quite a good recording studio, and there was a very cheerful laughter, if Chen Mo was here, he would definitely be able to hear it, it was the laughter of the dean Jiang Nan.
Jiang Nan rushed over to visit his disciples, who were basically signed with this powerful entertainment company, Huaguo Media.
"Very good, it seems that in a few days, Dean Jiang's disciples are going to occupy the top ten rhythms of the Chinese music song chart!" A girl said with a smile.
"Hehe, they all seized this opportunity to release new songs, I think the timing is very good, Valentine's Day in a few days is a day of competition, not only a few of my disciples have new songs, it seems that there is also a king of heaven to release, my disciples can enter a few songs into the top twenty, it would be good." The dean said happily, in fact, his heart blossomed.
"What about the king, this is not the first time, there is a teacher who composes lyrics and music, and it is not the first time to overpower the king, and the teacher's shot is already half the success." It was a disciple of Jiang Nan who spoke.
"That is, a few years ago, the song "Blooming Life" composed by the teacher for Senior Brother Feng Changdong is on par with the "Nocturne" of Dong Chou's album "Chopin in November". Another disciple of Dean Jiang said with a smile.
"Teacher, it seems that Senior Brother Feng Changdong also has a single "Nowhere to Place" released on this Valentine's Day, right? Senior brother is really getting more and more powerful, and it is estimated that the position of the Heavenly King will be surpassed to a higher level in the near future. Jiang Nan's disciple said.
In the current copyright era, if each entertainment company does not have its own independent music player, it is cooperating with others, so the songs have been released, and they will basically be released on each music player at the same time.
Of course, there will also be some singers who broadcast exclusively on a certain music player, and only cooperate with one music player, and other music players will not appear, because there is no copyright.
And most people choose to cooperate with many players, because this can quickly promote their songs on various platforms, so that more people know, and can also get greater benefits from it, many music players are with entertainment companies to maintain a share of interests, no one will be afraid of more money.
But some musicians don't work with all music players for money, and if you only broadcast on one player, then the player company will give you more money.
When a new song comes out, if you want to know whether it is popular or not, the degree of popularity is generally seen from the charts on the official website of Huaguo Music, Weibo hot searches, Huaguo musician song network rankings, Baidu music search rankings and other lists.
This time, many singers are aiming at the perfect time of Valentine's Day, such an opportunity is only once a year, and many heavyweight singers will release new songs, generally speaking, new singers will avoid such days, afraid that the songs of well-known singers will be buried as soon as the new songs go out.
released new songs at the same time as well-known singers, and was either trampled to death by well-known singers, or stepped on the top of well-known singers.
Obviously, Dong Chou wants Chen Mo to step on the top of a well-known singer, this is the fastest way to get on the top, and it is also the best way to know his true strength, he feels that even if Chen Mo's ballads can't reach the top ten, they will not be buried in the public.
When they all thought that Chen Mo could only sing folk songs, Chen Mo suddenly created a pop song, and the quality was high, no worse than the classic songs they usually saw.
Chen Mo has been composing during this time, but he only writes folk songs and never mentions pop songs, so Ha Ling and the others thought that Chen Mo would not create pop music.
However, now I see the pop music "Meet" composed by Chen Mo for Ma Yinyin, although I haven't heard the full version yet, I can feel it by simply humming along with the song score, this is a rare song.
Ha Ling was a little surprised, and at the same time a little excited, I really don't know how Chen Mo's head grows, as soon as he shoots, it is a classic!
Dong Chou also took the score and looked at it, hummed it, and kept nodding his head to express his satisfaction.
Ma Yinyin saw that the two mentors were so satisfied, and she smiled heartily, Chen Mo was so good to herself.
"I really want to break your head to see how long it is, to write such a high-quality song in one day, and I see that your three ballads are not simple at all, the quality is high-quality, especially this "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold", I feel that it is also very story-like." Dong Zhou smiled happily, having such a strong apprentice is also a blow, the shot is a classic, and he doesn't need his own teaching, and he doesn't know much about folk songs, so he can only discuss and learn together with Chen Mo. I can only teach him some experience.
"Hehe, I originally wanted to save this song for the Voice finals, but I don't know if I can PK until then, and you also said that this battle can only be won, not lost, so I took it out." Chen Mo said.
"Don't say so much, let's go and record the song, I can't wait, which song are you going to license to me?" Dong Chou couldn't wait to say.
""Fireworks are easy to be cold"" Chen Mo said solemnly, this song was moved by Chen Mo from Dong Chou in his previous life, which is very suitable for Dong Chou in this world, and the singing style is also very suitable.
Originally, Na Ying'er and Ha Ling, who came to help the students record songs together, chatted with them, and knew that Chen Mo was coming over today, so they came with them.
Seeing that Chen Mo was so talented, she was a little eager to talk next to her, and she hadn't released a new song for a long time.
"I was thinking... I'm thinking..."Na Ying'er looked at Chen Mo a little embarrassed, and finally said: "I see that the pop songs you have created are all so good, can you help me create one, as long as the quality can be as high as "Meet", I am willing to buy it for 500,000 songs." ”
"Yes, there is, but my thinking is not so clear for the time being, and it may take a few days." Chen Mo said with some embarrassment, he couldn't expose too much at once, otherwise he would really be arrested for research to see how his head grew.
"Okay, then I'll make a reservation, as long as you can give it to me, the song needs to be precipitated, I understand, and I'm not in a hurry, then let's go listen to the song you prepared for Dong Chou first." Na Ying'er said and smiled very knowingly.