Chapter 124: For the Monarch, I Turn It into Pipa Xing

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"Luo Quan's new song released!"

At 9:00 PM, Luo Quan, who had just woken up, hadn't even had time to wash her face before uploading the first song of the new album to Bilibili.

Bilibili's trending list was arranged immediately, and fans who had been waiting for a long time swarmed in.

"It's actually 'Pipa Xing'!"

"Can such a long song be written into lyrics?"

After seeing the name of this song, the fans were surprised.

This long poem was written by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. It can be called a masterpiece through the ages. The fact that it was listed as a must-memorize ancient poem for high school students by the Ministry of Education is enough to explain its status.

Luo Quan dared to use this song as lyrics, would it be too arrogant? If the melody is not written well, it is easy to be counterproductive.

But when everyone played it, they immediately had no such worries.

The melody is very good, ancient and fragrant, catchy, and Luo Quan also boldly tried a new singing method, which is the recently popular "opera cavity."

The opera cavity singing method is a relatively niche singing method, which is to sing the tune of Peking Opera. Not many people know it. Most of the time, it is self-entertaining in the ancient style circle.

But it must be admitted that this singing method can indeed give people a refreshing feeling. Many fans who came into contact with the opera cavity singing method for the first time fell in love with this song in the chorus part of "Pipa Xing."

It is worth mentioning that many opera cavity passages in the ancient style circle are squeezed out by singers pinching their throats and deliberately using falsetto. Strictly speaking, it is not a real opera cavity at all.

And Luo Quan's singing style highlights an original flavor. The voice is round and jade-like, the tune is flat and rhythmic, and it is simply full of charm like real Peking Opera!

Although the MV of this song is completely a static selfie of Luo Quan, this does not hinder the fans' love for it. In twenty minutes, the click-through rate exceeded 500,000, and the ratio of collection to coin casting reached 1:2!

Soon, Zhihu had a related hot topic: How to evaluate Luo Quan's new song "Pipa Xing"?

"The lyrics are unparalleled in the world, killing any lyricist at home and abroad! (Funny)

Back to the topic, compared with Bai Juyi's lyrics, the melody of this song is actually not very good, it is a mediocre level.

However, Luo Quan boldly integrated the opera cavity singing method into the song, and the level is comparable to real Peking Opera actors. Anyway, I enjoy listening to it very much. I haven't heard similar opera cavity songs before, but those songs that try to use falsetto to pass off as fish eyes are simply the difference between delicacies and pig food compared to this one!"

"There is a gap with Luo Quan's Japanese songs. The arrangement is a highlight. The accompaniment uses many Chinese-style musical instruments, which has a bit of the meaning of the Jiangzhou Sima listening to the Pipa girl playing on the boat back then. If it is ten points, I can give seven points."

"I don't know if Luo Quan is really as the outside world says, not good at writing Chinese songs. Lyrics aside, the melody is really not amazing, it can only be said that it is not hard to listen to.

There should be another so-called ancient style song tonight. Let's see what her level is. I hope I won't be disappointed."

The evaluation of "Pipa Xing" is mixed. Some think it is good, and some think it is average. However, on the whole, it can be considered to have reached the passing line in everyone's mind.

After all, using Tang poetry as lyrics, Luo Quan's creation must have its limitations, and the next ancient style song can better show her lyric-writing skills.

And compared to Zhihu and Bilibili, the style of Weibo is very strange.

There are both those who like it and those who don't. The reasons for those who like it are basically the same, while the reasons for those who don't like it are strange.

"Pinching the throat like a eunuch, it's so hard to listen to!"

"Does writing so many seven-character lyrics show your high culture?"

"The lyrics are pretentious, seemingly powerful, but actually empty. It's just high school level."

"I can write ten

If Luo Quan could see these comments, her heart would surely only be left with a pile of symbols:??????

Soon, similar moronic remarks were mocked by passersby:

"I'm not a Luo Quan fan. Usually, when you guys bash her, I just quietly eat my melon and watch it as a joke, but today I really can't hold it back. Do you guys really know who wrote this poem? This is the 'Pipa Xing'; it's a must-memorize for high school students!"

"If Bai Juyi were alive in heaven and saw his work evaluated like this, I wonder if he would be so angry that his green shirt would be soaked through?"

"This can also be considered an exposure of the educational level of the Weibo haters. I guess the commenters haven't even reached middle school; they didn't even recognize Bai Juyi's poem."

"I used to think Luo Quan scolding you guys was a bit too much, but now it seems, she really scolded well! If it were me, I'd scold too!"

On the other side, Luo Quan, who was browsing Bilibili, saw that the evaluation of this song in the comment section was quite good, and all aspects of the data were rising quite fast, so she was satisfied with this result.

She didn't expect to use this song to achieve a stunning effect; it was mainly to complete the task. The next ancient-style song was the same, and she didn't hold too much expectation either.

In the Chinese music scene, whether it's ancient-style or opera-style, it's ultimately niche. It's a very difficult thing to become a classic that has been passed down for many years. It's not just about composition and singing; lyrics are also a very important part. After all, in China, what a song values most is the quality of the lyrics.

If this album were led by Luo Quan's will, she would definitely not have added these two songs. It's not that they aren't good to listen to, but there are simply too many songs better than them. But those songs, while excellent, aren't necessarily more suitable than these two.

Taking advantage of the fact that the heat hadn't faded, Luo Quan uploaded the second song, which was the ancient-style song requested by fans, to Bilibili.

It was still an "MV" with only one selfie. For this kind of selfie, Luo Quan photoshopped her head onto a female warrior wearing white martial arts attire. Unfortunately, her photoshopping skills weren't up to par, and her head was a bit crooked.

The second new song—"Not a Hero"!

Luo Quan didn't expect that a song she originally held no hope for, and which was chosen purely to complete the task, would receive extremely high praise on the three major platforms!

The click count on Bilibili exceeded one million in half an hour, directly topping the homepage recommendations. The related topic discussion volume on Zhihu and Weibo also broke ten thousand in a short time, and both made it to the hot search.

Zhihu soon had quite a lot of evaluations:

"My middle school days were spent watching Jin, Gu, and Liang's martial arts novels. Once, I fantasized on countless nights about becoming a hero in the novels who roams the world freely and is full of passion.

But as I grew older, the time for fantasy gradually decreased, and people became more and more realistic. The so-called hero dream now seems like nothing more than a joke.

But this song made me return to my youth in an instant. It outlined for me a free and easy world of martial arts where one can enjoy grievances and hatred. That was the place I dreamed of day and night. Now that I revisit it, I'm actually teary-eyed."

"It completely crushes all so-called ancient-style songs in the country. From lyrics and music to arrangement, it's all top-tier. It's hard for me to see this kind of elegant aura in other ancient-style songs again!"

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Folded flowers toward Jiangnan

Facing the spring breeze and red candles

Passionate, always like me

Romantic, loving the world

Drank horses toward Jiangbei

Facing the west wind and yellow sand

Heartless, also like me

Facing the sword wind to slash peach blossoms

Just these two lines of lyrics have already won over peers by too much. As long as I close my eyes, I can see the martial arts world as if it were right before my eyes. This kind of literary skill is simply comparable to the older generation of lyricists!"

"Perhaps this song also wrote out Luo Quan's inner voice: winning or losing is just a joke; it's better to change to a cup of aged wine and be free and easy.

Since her debut, Luo Quan has been under attack by public opinion. She has a tenacity different from ordinary stars. When everyone chose to lie flat and remain silent in the face of the whole network's blacklisting, only she still seemed like a reckless youth confronting the haters, and constantly mocking them with witty remarks.

Luo Quan is like a pure fighter who doesn't know what compromise is, and never bows to power. Perhaps it is precisely because of this innocent heart that she can constantly write one good song after another!

Just like what is sung at the end of the lyrics:

Romance never grows old

Plucking the sword and singing of the years

Let me go freely

Just be a madman, not a hero

I really love this girl to death!"

"The pinnacle of domestic ancient-style songs in the last ten years. It's more than enough to be the theme song for a Jin Yong martial arts TV series. I wonder if there are any TV series being remade recently; the two sides can cooperate."

"Turned from black to fan. I used to bash her for singing Japanese songs, but now I know she really has talent. I'm very sorry for saying so many hurtful things to her."

Perhaps even Luo Quan didn't expect that she would gain such good word-of-mouth with such a song. It can only be said that similar songs are too rare in the country, and the Chinese people have been poisoned by those cheap internet celebrity songs for too long.

After the two songs were released, Luo Quan posted a status:

"Are you all satisfied with these two songs? The Tang poetry and ancient-style tasks are completed. There are eight songs left. Tomorrow's theme is passionate love and love songs that go up and down. At 12 o'clock on the 26th, Chinese time, please pay more attention to my submissions."

"It's time for my favorite questioning session again. Let me ask a question everyone is concerned about: has Luo Quan ever been in love?"

"To write love songs that are deeply engraved in the heart and have substance, there must be an emotional foundation. I wonder if Luo Quan's emotional experience is rich?"

"My friend is Luo Quan's elementary school classmate. He said that Luo Quan was the school beauty in elementary school. Wherever she went, there were boys coming out to give her 50-cent snacks."

"What's 50 cents? When I was a kid, I was embarrassed to make a move on anything under a dollar!"

"Awesome, I used to just freeload off others."

"So what does this have to do with Luo Quan's emotional experience? This only proves that she has many simps."

"Little brats don't understand so much; they just see a pretty female classmate and want to play with her."

"Luo Quan is an old steel-straight girl. I checked her Twitter; from freshman year to now, I haven't seen a single photo with a boy!"

"So does that mean Luo Quan has never been in love to this day?"