Chapter 126

Gao Liang's new album sold well, breaking 3 million copies in just two days, breaking many sales records in the United States.

Of course, this is also due to Universal Music's choice to sell in the form of electronic records. The price is cheaper than physical records, and it is also very convenient to buy, so it can sell so well.

The track composition of this new album still inherits Gao Liang's consistent style, focusing on rap. The lyrics all carry some meaning of criticizing current events. It is rare to see him describe common rap vocabulary like big gold chains, sports cars, and beauties in the songs.

Originally, everyone only thought "Baby" was the only surprise in this album, but no one could have imagined that the song that really topped the Billboard chart in this album was another song, and it was the rap song that Gao Liang's fans disliked the most.

"Have you heard 'Lose Yourself'?"

This question has become a popular sentence pattern on major forums in the United States. Almost everyone who has heard this song is spontaneously acting as a fan for Gao Liang.

The Chinese music scene is gradually being occupied by cheap internet celebrity songs. Bad money is strongly driving out good money. Chinese fans haven't heard good songs for a long time.

The same problem actually exists in the American music scene. In the past, the American music scene, rock, metal, jazz, R&B, reggae, countless music styles could be called a hundred flowers blooming. That era was hailed as an era of gods fighting. Every singer placed in the present is an existence comparable to a founder of a sect.

But I don't know when it started, Hiphop became the number one music form in the West today. 60% or 70% of the songs on the Billboard chart are pure Rap or Rap mixed in songs.

Aesthetic fatigue has actually existed for a long time, but because of some special political correctness reasons, many musicians dare not speak out about this phenomenon.

If the quality of hip-hop music can go up, it wouldn't be unacceptable if the quantity is a bit more, but now I don't know if hip-hop music has gone into a detour. The whole article is Sex, Violence, and Drugs. Except for money and luxury cars, it's beauties and parties, as if all the American people are millionaires, living a life of paper-drunk and gold-fan gods every day.

In fact, no matter where you are, most people who play hip-hop are poor ghosts. In the past, hip-hop always had the nickname of poor people's music. Although it now occupies most of the market, it cannot cover up the essence that many hip-hop songs have no nutrition and promote incorrect values.

But there is no way. Even if hip-hop has so many faults, it is still the hottest music form now. The general public just likes it, and making hip-hop music is easier to become famous.

Now the most popular in the American music scene are these hip-hop singers. Many big-name pop singers in the past are now competing to cooperate with them. The combination of hip-hop and pop music can always win results and word-of-mouth on the Billboard chart.

And in such a big environment, Gao Liang's choice to develop with hip-hop as his career center was originally understandable. It's just that the lyrics of the rap songs he wrote had depth, but the level of Flow and beat was too poor, so he was never very popular in the market.

But another main song in the new album besides "Baby," "Lose Yourself," completely subverted everyone's inherent impression of Gao Liang.

This song reached the top level in recent years in terms of lyrics, Flow (rhythm), and beat (accompaniment), and the singing difficulty was quite high.

If it were an old gun who had been rapping for more than ten years who sang such a song, it would be understandable, but what is surprising is that Gao Liang, who sang this song, was just a seventeen-year-old brat.

If this is a few years later, is it still okay?

Everyone seemed to have seen a rising rap superstar.

Obviously, most people ignored the composer and lyricist of this song. In the United States, this aspect is often easily ignored. Everyone pays more attention to the performer of the song, not the creator.

Many passersby who didn't like Gao Liang's kind of "little fresh meat" were also circled by this song, including a considerable number of black people.

Among those who mocked Gao Liang for doing rap, nine out of ten were black, and now even the most picky black people probably can't pick any thorns for this song.

The only shortcoming is probably that there are too few swear words, and the lyrics are too positive, which doesn't quite match the overall style of hip-hop.

But in Gao Liang's eyes, this is what rap should look like. He is very satisfied with this song and has forwarded and promoted it many times on Twitter.

Of course, when forwarding, he always hangs the sentence "Sister is the creator of the song" on his lips, which can be considered as a disguised way to gain fans for Miss Luo Quan.

Seeing this situation, many double fans of Gao Liang and Miss Luo Quan always show great excitement and strongly demand cooperation between the two under his Twitter.

However, it seems that there is no chance for this at present. Gao Liang is about to start his first US tour, and Miss Luo Quan's vacation is about to end, and she is busy releasing her new songs, so both are quite busy.

Originally, as usual, Miss Luo Quan was going to release two more songs on the 27th, but fans waited until dark, and there was still no movement in Miss Luo Quan's status.

Just when everyone thought Miss Luo Quan only wrote these four songs, Miss Luo Quan posted a message in the evening.

"The first main song of the new album will be released tomorrow at noon. This song is the one that has taken the longest time for me to produce so far. In my opinion, its quality is the best among the Chinese songs I have written so far. I may not be able to write such a song again in the future.

Its style may seem a bit dark, and the public may not necessarily like it at the first time, but I believe that gold will always shine!"

Miss Luo Quan's remarks soon sparked heated discussions on major forums.

In the past, Miss Luo Quan released songs very simply, without too many descriptions. Basically, she let fans comment on their own, and there was almost no situation of self-praise.

And this time, Miss Luo Quan was so complimentary about the main song of the new album, which really surprised others.

"I'm very curious about how high the quality will be to make a genius like Miss Luo Quan directly say that she may not be able to write it again in the future?"

"It definitely won't be a love song. It will mostly involve humanistic care."

"Could it be a rock type? Throughout history, rock songs are the easiest to leave a name in history."

"I feel it's very possible. Miss Luo Quan has an English song called 'We Will Rock You,' which has won the weekly championship on the Billboard chart for several consecutive weeks. Rolling Stone magazine called it the greatest rock song in recent years, and its status is quite high. I think Miss Luo Quan has high attainments in rock music!"

"There is such a thing? Why is there no movement in the country?"

"The Weibo account was banned, there is no way to promote it, and Miss Luo Quan herself is relatively low-key, so people who don't pay attention to the European and American circles basically don't know."

"Miss Luo Quan's songs are popular all over the world abroad, but they are still being questioned in China. It's really magical to think about it."

Just as fans said, Miss Luo Quan is very low-key and never hypes, so the achievements she made abroad are completely ignored in China.

And this time she finally hyped a little bit, and finally became an opportunity for anti-fans to fight back.

The new songs she released before were evaluated higher and higher, so that the haters wanted to output, but couldn't find an angle.

Before, because of the sentence: "Pipa Xing" lyrics are not good, she was already mocked by the whole network. If she said something wrong again, she would definitely be sprayed more miserably. Although most haters have thicker skin than the city wall, no one likes to be sprayed every day.

And this time Miss Luo Quan took the initiative to give them a chance, how could they let it go?

So on Weibo, the performance of anti-fans began.

"Blow the cowhide bigger, how many songs have you written to dare to speak like this?"

"Miss Luo Quan is indeed talented, but compared with those older generation musicians, there is still a gap in grade, and her personality is too arrogant and self-centered, not at all like the golden mean and humility of the Chinese people."

"Talented but not virtuous is talking about her. I have never seen such a pretentious female star in my life."

"Wrote a few good songs, and the tail is raised to the sky. Can't you die after one album?"

"She won't take the title of leader of the new generation of creation seriously, will she? Won't she, won't she?"

Miss Luo Quan seems to have a black-attracting constitution. From her debut to now, the rhythm about her has almost never stopped. On the one hand, she is too excellent, and there are many people who eat lemons.

On the other hand, her personality and speech were relatively straight before, offending some stars' fans, so that they are still biting her to this day.

In short, on Weibo, her public opinion environment basically cannot turn over. Whatever she does will be scolded. Fortunately, Weibo banned her account, otherwise, seeing so many people scolding her every day, wouldn't she be angry to death?

In short, the atmosphere on Bilibili and Zhihu is peaceful. Everyone is waiting for this "divine song" that Miss Luo Quan claims she can't write again in the future, although most people feel that this statement is actually a bit exaggerated.

The Chinese pop music scene has developed to this day, and every type of song has been tried by people. Pop, rock, R&B, country, ancient style, Chinese style, all have peak works. These songs have withstood the test of time, and even today, decades later, they are still classics that can be sought after.

And Miss Luo Quan wants to share a seat in front of these seniors, which seems too tender to most people.

I have to admit that Miss Luo Quan feels she has such talent, but she is too young, without rich social experience and precipitation, the possibility of writing works with depth and musicality is almost zero.

This is definitely not something that can be made up by a simple talent. It takes time. Many musicians feel that before graduating from university, Miss Luo Quan cannot write works that can be called classics passed down through the ages.

But is that really the case? At least Miss Luo Quan doesn't think so. After all, she is a cheater.