Chapter 191: Surprise

Cao Mufeng had often heard others say that Luo Quan's singing skills were stronger than many professional singers who had debuted for many years, and her physical functions were incomparably excellent, with a wide vocal range and beautiful timbre, enough to crush most singers even without professional training.

Cao Mufeng had heard every one of her songs; her singing skills were indeed very strong, and they were indeed very good to listen to, but he always felt something was missing. This was the biggest flaw he felt Luo Quan had.

However, this time, Luo Quan seemed to have completely made up for this flaw.

The tune of the whole song wasn't very high, but Luo Quan frequently used chest and cranial resonance for mixed voice in the chorus, making the whole song sound extremely thick, and it felt as comfortable as if one's ears were pregnant.

General singers absolutely couldn't do this, because whether it was chest resonance or cranial resonance, the requirements for breath were relatively high. If general singers sang like Luo Quan, they would have seen stars due to lack of oxygen long ago.

Cao Mufeng himself was also famous for singing high notes and having long breath. When he participated in the talent show, he shocked the judges with his singing talent as soon as he opened his mouth, and he once thought he was the one with the best physical functions among the new generation of singers.

But today, meeting Luo Quan, he knew what it meant to have people beyond people.

For Luo Quan's singing style, Cao Mufeng asked himself that if he spent some effort, he could still do it, but the quality of the sound certainly wouldn't be as round and full as Luo Quan's, and it was even more impossible to sing it out with a relaxed expression while sitting on a stool like her.

This breath control could simply be described as ridiculous! Luo Quan's capital was simply too abundant. Cao Mufeng listened carefully for a long time, and he didn't hear how many obvious breathing sounds she had from the high-fidelity recording equipment!

And she sang the whole song in one go, without any pauses in the middle, and the rhythm of the singing and accompaniment was also quite tight. The producers looked at it roughly, and there was basically no need for any movement calibration for the two tracks.

"Perfect." Cao Mufeng, who put down his headphones, evaluated this recording.

The producer also shook his head and sighed: "I've been in the industry for so many years, this is the first time I've seen someone sing like this at this age."

At this time, Luo Quan also walked out of the room: "How is it, is the song okay?"

Cao Mufeng sighed lightly: "Almost flawless, just modify it slightly, and it can be released."

"Let me listen." Luo Quan said, picking up the headphones and clicking play.

Indeed, as Cao Mufeng said, there were no flaws, and as a preview version, it could indeed be released directly.

Of course, the official album certainly couldn't use this relatively simple version; it still needed more detailed processing, it was something to be sold for money after all.

"Indeed no problem, can record the second song." Luo Quan said, opening the computer software to produce the accompaniment for the second song.

Cao Mufeng was stunned. Luo Quan didn't bring anything, just took a computer and started working. Did she remember everything in her head? How could this be enough?

In the past, Cao Mufeng would ponder a song with the producer for a week, determine the major tone, and then finalize details such as accompaniment timbre and arrangement.

After recording it, he would then record the song, and this production would take about another week, which meant it would take him at least half a month to get a song out at the fastest.

The one in front of him was good, one song every half hour, handling lyrics, music, arrangement, and tuning all by herself. The key was that the quality was ridiculously high.

And she could start work with just one computer, without checking any information, without collecting any materials. A small sound synthesis software seemed to have magic in her hands, and she could give birth to the timbre she wanted in a few strokes...

This could no longer be described as talent, only "god-man."

The accompaniment for the second song took Luo Quan more time. The style of this song was more biased towards electronic music, and after recording, the singing voice also needed some processing. The workload was much larger than the first song.

However, it only took Luo Quan a little over an hour to finish everything.

As more and more songs were produced, Luo Quan's craft became more and more proficient. The work that used to take nearly two hours could now be shortened by nearly 40%, and it might be faster in the future.

The third song was a fast-paced rock song, and the production difficulty was slightly lower than the second one. Luo Quan spent less than an hour.

During this period, Cao Mufeng and the two producers watched Luo Quan busy alone outside. The only thing they could help with was clicking the mouse twice to play the accompaniment.

No way, Luo Quan was simply too omnipotent. The whole recording process was as if a draft had been made in her heart long ago. She was just simply implementing the plan, and didn't need to use her brain to conceive it at all.

Saving the three songs and sending them to her mailbox, Luo Quan stood up and stretched, her bones making a crisp sound like fried beans.

"Wow, I haven't been this tired for a long time." Luo Quan twisted her waist, which was as enchanting as a water snake. Cao Mufeng glanced at it and hurriedly moved his eyes away.

"Did you also record three songs a day before?" Cao Mufeng asked.

"My first official album, that is, the 'Coming of Age' one, seemed to be finished in two and a half days, with a total of ten songs.

Later, I never worked that hard again. The '19' album also had ten songs, and it took me about half a month, finishing it while playing."

Luo Quan's tone was indifferent, while the other three were listening with fear and trepidation. This high efficiency simply beat the domestic music circle!

"Thank you for letting me use the recording studio first. If there is anything I can help with in the future, I will definitely try my best." When leaving, Luo Quan expressed her gratitude to Cao Mufeng.

In the air-conditioned room, Cao Mufeng was sweating: "A small matter, don't take it to heart."

Luo Quan nodded and left the recording studio.

Night had fallen, and the bright incandescent lights illuminated the empty corridor. It was very lively when she came in, but when she came out, there were no people in the several recording studios.

Luo Quan took out her phone and dialed Zhou Yangwen's number.

"Hello, Luo Quan? Calling me, is there anything you are dissatisfied with regarding the cooperation, or..."

"Director Zhou, you've overthought it. I just want to tell you that I've finished recording the songs."

"So fast?!" Zhou Yangwen was greatly surprised.

The first time he reached a cooperation with Luo Quan, he ordered the publicity department to build the project and let them prepare urgently.

A few minutes ago, they told him that the publicity draft was out, and as a result, Luo Quan had already recorded the songs here. What kind of speed is this?!

Zhou Yangwen was also a bit unable to laugh or cry at this time: "Luo Quan, your speed is really... If those people under my hand had your efficiency, where would they need 996."

Luo Quan smiled: "You're overpraising me, just skilled.

Then I'll send the songs to your mailbox later."

Zhou Yangwen nodded: "Alright, the publicity draft is out here. If it's faster, it can be released tonight, just in time to take advantage of your brother's wind."

In the afternoon, the "Produce Girls' Generation" production team had already released the news that Gao Liang would join the second episode of the show, and also published many raw photos of him at the recording site.

As soon as it was published, it exploded directly, and it was still hanging on the first hot search. If the news of Luo Quan's new album was released later, it would be difficult not to be popular.

"No problem, anyway, he also cooperated on this album, just consider it as him contributing to the promotion page."

Zhou Yangwen smiled: "Let's do it this way, we will arrange the publicity for you as fast as possible."

Hanging up the phone, Luo Quan stepped on the moonlight and returned to her residence.

Opening her laptop, she downloaded the two Japanese songs recorded today.

First, she sent them to the two animation production teams separately, and then used the animation posters to produce two MVs.

This could also be considered Luo Quan's spontaneous promotion for these two animations. Bilibili was the largest ACG website in China, and these two animations would definitely be released on Bilibili as new series in the second quarter. Although Bilibili hadn't bought the series yet, it wasn't a bad thing to do a warm-up in advance.

First, Luo Quan uploaded the ending theme of "Re: Zero − Starting Life in Another World," with the song title "STYX HELIX."

After reviewing for about ten minutes, the MV showed that the upload was successful.

Soon, the comment section exploded.

"Surprise, Luo Quan released a new song?"

"Looking at the song title, it seems to be an English song."

"Pay attention to the details, it seems to be the ED for a new series."

"Re: Zero − Starting Life in Another World."

"This male lead is simply a passerby face, the recognition is too low."

"The female lead is so good-looking!"

"White hair control is satisfied!"

"Let's listen to how the song is."

The comment section was full of people occupying the front row, basically no one was listening to the song.

And when they clicked on the song, they found that the pioneers had returned to give them a high-energy warning.

Bullet comments:

"This song is high-energy throughout, please prepare tissues!"

"High quality as always, it makes my brain tremble."

"Simply great to listen to! I decided to loop it all night!"

Everyone was full of expectations when they saw it. So many bullet comments were praising it, which meant it must be very good.

And the fact was indeed so. As soon as Luo Quan opened her mouth for the first sentence, they knelt down directly.

"Oh please don't die"

"Oh please don't let me die like this"

"Waiting for your touch"

"Waiting for your touch again"

Just two lines of lyrics made people's scalp tingle and their ears pregnant, capturing the hearts of all listeners in an instant.

Although the main part was slightly mediocre compared to Luo Quan's previous Japanese songs, the two English lyrics in the chorus full of electric sounds could make people feel soul-out-of-body, and it was incomparably brainwashing. Listening to it a hundred times or a thousand times, it wouldn't feel boring.

Undoubtedly, this was a high-quality brainwashing single.

Just when everyone was cheering for such a good new song, the second surprise came.

Luo Quan's second MV upload was successful!

This time it was the OP of "Domestic Girlfriend," with the song title "カワキヲアメク (Crying Out)."

Obviously, this song was uploaded ten minutes later than "STYX HELIX," but after only twenty minutes, its clicks, comments, and bullet comments had all been surpassed, which proved that it was more liked by Bilibili netizens than the former.

It was probably because this song was more difficult to sing and the melody was more catchy.

Just like its song title, when Luo Quan sang this song, her voice was always hovering at the critical point of breaking and not breaking, which was a huge test for the singer's control of her voice.

And Luo Quan mastered it perfectly, and even recorded it in one go. One can imagine how shocking this singing skill was to Cao Mufeng, who watched the whole process.

Breaking sound in most cases would extremely destroy the listener's listening experience, but if it was at the critical point of breaking and not breaking, then the listener's listening experience would come to another extreme.

That feeling was like a soft feather scratching their heart, stopping abruptly every time it was about to cause pleasure, leaving behind an unsatisfied loss.

And Luo Quan used her exquisite voice to provoke the listeners' ears and nerves. Finally, in the chorus part, she used a series of refreshing high notes to let all the emotions accumulated before explode at once.

The angry sound and panting made the emotions of the whole song expressed more fully. Until the end, all the accompaniment disappeared, leaving only Luo Quan's lingering tail sound still whispering, echoing her singing at the beginning of the song.

Luo Quan sang the whole song "hoarse," and the fans were also listening heartily. This song was undoubtedly of higher quality than the previous one!

Soon, the two new songs broke through one million views in the countless loops of the fans. Many fans directly opened computers and mobile phones at the same time, performing a forbidden duet.

At the same time, many cover up-hosts also set their sights on this song.

Luo Quan's songs were almost the weather vane and wealth code of the Bilibili music area. As long as there were Luo Quan's Japanese songs in the videos made by music sharing up-hosts, it was easy to break ten thousand clicks.

And as long as the singing up-hosts covered Luo Quan's songs, as long as they weren't particularly poor and had their own characteristics, they would start with one hundred thousand views.

Except for a few songs that were too difficult to cover, every song of Luo Quan had various versions of covers on Bilibili, and the clicks of each were not low.

This had almost formed a rule, that is, as long as you sing her songs, someone will listen, and the coin-tossing rate is extremely high. I don't know if the fans are using this way to make up for the guilt of white-paying for Luo Quan's album before.

And after nearly two months, Luo Quan finally released a new song, and the quality was higher than the other. It is foreseeable that in the next half month, Bilibili will be covered with videos made with these two songs as BGM.

Especially when these two new series are officially launched, they will definitely be popular again.

So taking advantage of the fact that the songs have just been released, a group of singing up-hosts wanted to cover these two songs to rub some heat.

However, after trying once or twice, more than 95% of the singing up-hosts chose to give up.

Just like when "Unravel" was popular on Bilibili but no one dared to cover it, these two songs were not low in difficulty, and Luo Quan's flavor was too strong. Casual covers would only be a laughing stock.

Many singing up-hosts published works based on their passion for music, using recognizable voices to attract fans. Most of them had not received professional training. It was already very difficult to finish these two songs, and singing them well was an almost impossible task.

At least in the short term, the cover versions of the two songs would not appear on Bilibili.

No way, some songs are written, only Luo Quan can sing them. Others either can't sing them, or don't have that flavor. After all, the gap in singing skills and talent is too big.

Luo Quan finished releasing the songs here, lying on the bed brushing Twitter, and also waiting for news from Zhou Yangwen.

There was a knock on the door outside, Luo Quan got up and opened the door.

"Good for you, you didn't tell me when you released the song." Seeing Wen Xia held her phone, and the screen was a pink interface, which should be Bilibili.

"Is it good? I spent two hours recording it." Luo Quan smiled proudly, looking like "hurry up and praise me."

Seeing Wen Xia walked into the room, sat on the bed, and looked disdainful: "Look at you... these two songs are just so-so, I feel they are still quite a bit behind 'First Love'."

Luo Quan smiled: "You have a good eye."

"First Love" was indeed the highest quality among all her Japanese songs, and it would definitely win many heavyweight awards in the upcoming Japan Record Awards.

In her previous life, the status of this song was epoch-making. There was no Japanese song before, and it would be difficult for any Japanese song to surpass it in the future.

Of course, it's too early to talk about historical status now.

"By the way, what about the songs on your English album? This is a Japanese song." Seeing Wen Xia asked curiously.

"It's already recorded. Director Zhou is still preparing for the publicity work, so it hasn't been released yet, but it's estimated to be soon."

Seeing Wen Xia whispered: "Can you let me listen to it in advance?"

"Of course." Luo Quan was about to play the song for Seeing Wen Xia when someone knocked on the door again.

Luo Quan opened the door and found that it was Gao Liang and Seifert.

"Coming to a girl's room late at night is really not a behavior a gentleman should do, but we do have a need..." Before Seifert's pedantic and greasy words were finished, he was slapped aside by Gao Liang: "Is it convenient for us to come in? He has something to discuss with you."

Luo Quan looked at Seifert and couldn't laugh or cry: "You can say it clearly in two sentences, why take so many detours?" Saying that, she stepped aside and let them in.

"Summer, you're here too." Seifert saw Seeing Wen Xia and greeted her. Seeing Wen Xia nodded in response.

Luo Quan closed the door and asked: "Tell me, what's the matter with coming to me late at night."

"Luo Quan, why didn't you tell me about releasing a new album? If Gao Liang hadn't mentioned it, I would still be kept in the dark." Seifert's tone was very resentful, as if he had suffered some great grievance.

Luo Quan was also very innocent: "I didn't mean to keep you in the dark, I just forgot to tell you. I thought Gao Liang would tell you, and in fact, he did tell you."

"He just mentioned it inadvertently, not at all what you said!"

Gao Liang whispered: "It's not an important thing."

"Why isn't it important?!" Seifert's eyes widened. "This is your sister's first English album, the first work after she turned nineteen. This has a very important meaning!"

"So you came over, do you have ideas about my album?" Luo Quan cut directly to the topic.

"Since you are so straightforward, I won't beat around the bush." Seifert showed a cunning smile: "Universal Music, wants the exclusive authorization for the global release of this album!"

Luo Quan shook her head: "Global exclusivity is probably not possible."

Seifert's face turned pale: "Why! Was it snatched by Sony?"

Luo Quan shook her head again: "That's not it, it's just that I have already given the exclusive authorization for China to Tencent Interactive Entertainment, so I can at most give you the overseas exclusive authorization."

"Happy cooperation!" Seifert shook Luo Quan's hand with lightning speed, his expression sincere.

Luo Quan was stunned for a long time before reacting: "You really know how to go down the slope, the price hasn't been negotiated yet."

Seifert smiled: "As long as it's a problem that can be solved with money, it's not a problem. How much Tencent Interactive Entertainment gives, I give double... uh... I'll look at it, it definitely won't be lower than their price!

And Gao Liang also cooperated on this song. He is a signed artist of Universal. You don't need to worry about resources. It will definitely be promoted with the highest specifications!"

Although the speed of negotiating cooperation was a bit too fast, Luo Quan had no intention of refusing Seifert.

After all, Universal is one of the top three in the world, and it is very open in the United States. Letting them promote and distribute the English album is naturally beneficial and harmless, and choosing them also has considerable benefits for Gao Liang's future development in the company.

"Then it's settled." Luo Quan nodded, agreeing to this cooperation.

Seifert rubbed his hands: "Then, is the song recorded? Is there a demo?"

"One of the lead singles is recorded." Luo Quan said, took out her phone, and clicked play.