Chapter 192: Love

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After the song finished, Miss Luo Quan asked: "How is it, it's okay, right?"

Seifert analyzed: "A very good song, the vocal style is different from your previous ones, it feels much thicker."

Miss Luo Quan nodded: "Because a lot of chest voice was used, it can be considered a new attempt."

"Okay, send this song to my Google mailbox later, and I will send it back to the headquarters immediately to prepare for promotion." When it came to work, Seifert became much more serious.

Gao Liang asked: "By the way, you said before that you wanted to cooperate with me on a song. Is the song written?"

"It's done." Miss Luo Quan turned and took a document from her suitcase and handed it to Gao Liang.

After getting the song, Gao Liang didn't look at it immediately, but stood up and said: "Then we won't stay any longer."

This time Seifert left quickly, after all, he had important matters to attend to.

Only Seeing Wen Xia and Miss Luo Quan were left in the room.

"By the way, how is Chunzi getting along with other trainees in the dormitory?" Miss Luo Quan finally had time to ask about Chunzi's recent situation.

Miss Luo Quan said softly: "Not bad, although she is a newcomer and a foreigner, she still has three or four friends she can talk to in the dormitory, especially Jiang Yuner. The two seem to have a better relationship than other trainees."

Miss Luo Quan nodded: "Normal, after all, in China, they are all from foreign lands... Now the strength of the trainees has been shown, do you think these people can compete with Korean girl groups?"

Seeing Wen Xia frowned slightly: "If it's just compared to third-tier girl groups, it can be a 50/50 split."

"Second-tier? Only 50/50!" Miss Luo Quan never expected such a result. "These are already the best girl group trainees in China, no matter how you screen, you can't screen out better ones."

Seeing Wen Xia sighed: "I know, but the situation is just like this, there is no point in arguing.

Actually, being able to compare with second-tier girl groups is already very good. Above second-tier girl groups are first-tier and popular girl groups. Now, trainees with the strength of popular girl group members, excluding me, only Jiang Yuner, Yue Wei, Xu Yuelin, and Chunzi, each counts as half."

"Even half came." Miss Luo Quan found it funny when she heard it. "That means these three only have the level of first-tier girl groups at most?"

Seeing Wen Xia nodded: "And not the kind that is very outstanding."

"Are those Korean girl groups really that strong?" Miss Luo Quan really didn't believe that in such a small piece of land, the idol strength could be so ridiculous.

"You saw Jiang Yuner, right? What do you think of her?"

Miss Luo Quan thought seriously: "Saw her, the strength is indeed very strong, it can be called crushing all domestic idols... except you and Chu Xiang."

Seeing Wen Xia said in a deep voice: "The girl group Sweetgirl I was in before, including me, the five of us, our strength is basically the same as hers. And among the fourth-generation groups, there are at least two girl groups with strength similar to Sweetgirl. And before the fourth generation, there are first, second, and third-generation girl groups, and the further forward, the stronger the strength.

Moreover, some fifth-generation girl groups are about to debut or have already debuted..."

Miss Luo Quan was silent when she heard this.

Looking at it this way, Korean girl groups are indeed ridiculously strong.

"But it's not completely inferior to that side, it's just that you still have me." Miss Luo Quan thought for a long time and finally found a point that could beat Korean girl groups.

Seeing Wen Xia smiled: "You have always been a great motivation for me to persist. After all, strength can be exercised over time, but good songs may not necessarily be obtained even if you spend more time."

"Your three songs are really very good. Whenever it's late at night and I'm confused about the future, as long as I look at them, I will be full of confidence."

"Don't be so sentimental." Miss Luo Quan hugged her arms and acted greasy.

"Too lazy to bother with you!" Seeing Wen Xia glared at Miss Luo Quan fiercely, stood up, and walked out of the room angrily.

Miss Luo Quan could only shake her head and laugh when she saw this childish scene.

At 10:00 PM, under the urging of Zhou Yangwen, Tencent Music finally released the news of Miss Luo Quan's new album:

"Miss Luo Quan's new English album 'Love', national exclusive premiere!"

The news content was a lot, first of all, an introduction to Miss Luo Quan.

Although Miss Luo Quan doesn't have many awards yet, her talent has long been well-known, and domestic and foreign media have competed to report on it. All the titles given are basically deserved, and she can be called a music genius who emphasizes both talent and art.

This album is Miss Luo Quan's third album and also her first all-English album. She and the citizens have high hopes for this album, hoping to bring home a Grammy for China.

If successful, this will be a very significant album in the history of domestic pop music, even if you can't hear much Chinese in it.

Then, it is the album preface written by Miss Luo Quan herself:

"19 years old, it is an age when a young person truly experiences the taste of love and understands what love means.

When love first blossoms, looking at each other with the person who makes your heart beat, we all think that is love, but in fact, it is just the touch of two restless hearts in an instant.

True love is far from that simple. Compared with possession and pleasure, the love I think of is more of a responsibility, a vow.

It is not the enthusiasm of every ten thousand 'I love you's, nor is it the 'till the seas run dry and the rocks crumble' or 'lifetime' that comes to the mouth.

It is the scorching summer, a palm-leaf fan that always shakes for you when you are hottest; it is the biting winter snow, a thick garment that is always added to your shoulders when you shrink from the cold wind.

How many vigorous and resolute things have been worn away by time and finally turned into plainness.

Yeats has a poem that writes out the truth of all this:

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

This is the true love understood by the nineteen-year-old me.

Of course, although I created this album called 'Love', I have actually never had the most basic form of love—'spring longing', let alone falling in love with anyone.

Therefore, all the inspiration for the songs in the album comes from the love in the fairy tales I have read, the love in real life, and the love of my father and mother."

Miss Luo Quan wrote such a long and greasy preface, actually without any intention of being a literary youth, it was just an excuse for herself to be able to write this album.

After all, from childhood to adulthood, in two lifetimes for more than forty years, she has never had a serious relationship, and creating an album with a love theme is indeed not very reasonable.

And if you explain it in this way, it looks much more pleasing to the eye.

The news came out, and it rushed into the top five of the hot search in less than ten minutes, and every five minutes, the ranking rose by one, until it was second only to the hot search "Gao Liang joins Produce Girls' Generation."

Comments from all sides poured in:

"Simply high-yielding like that, just released two Japanese songs on Bilibili, and the English new album is here."

"Are you the one who doesn't open for three months, and eats for three months after opening?"

"This little essay made me cry."

"Old literary youth, writing literary essays has always been a hand."

"So I'm not the only one who is a womb-solo, I = Miss Luo Quan!"

"Late-night understanding."

"It's still a bit different. Miss Luo Quan looks down on everyone, while you look down on everyone."

"You speak so hurtfully."

"Where are the songs? Is there only one piece of news?"

"Don't worry, Miss Luo Quan's personal homepage on Tencent Music already has the song title of the lead single, but it is temporarily white, and it will be open for trial listening at 10:30."

"What's it called?"

"'Someone like you'"

Netizens discussed enthusiastically, and also waited for the songs to be unsealed with excitement. Zhihu and Bilibili also had relevant discussions, and the heat was accumulating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, after the songs were unsealed, not many people listened, but there was a lot of scolding:

"Damn, the preview version also needs to pay?!"

"And you have to pay to listen, there is no trial listening, what if it's not good and you can't refund?"

"Crazy for money, I am a luxury green diamond VIP member, can't I even try listening?"

"Told you to white-pay last time, this time people have learned to be good, want to listen to songs, charge first."

"Reasonably speaking, it's a bit expensive. An electronic album, ten songs cost thirty yuan, and a single song sells for four yuan!"

"Six yuan is enough for me to open 20 days of VIP, what songs can't I listen to?"

"You can't hear this song (funny)."

To be honest, Miss Luo Quan had imagined many evaluations that might appear, but she never thought it would be like this.

Isn't it normal to charge for listening to songs? No way to white-pay, need to be so indignant?

Indeed, Tencent Music set the price a bit higher, but compared to the albums of domestic traffic stars, this price is only ten yuan more expensive. Electronic albums sold by foreign stars in China start at forty, and no one thinks it's expensive.

It's just that they see her nationality is Chinese, and they naturally feel that Chinese singers don't deserve to charge for singing. If she were a foreigner, these sprayers who think it's expensive would probably not even fart.

No way, the national conditions are like this. The songs of so many powerful singers in China are basically free. Even if they charge, it's just opening a membership, and it's at most 15 yuan a month.

So that everyone doesn't have the habit of spending more money to listen to songs. On the contrary, those albums of traffic stars, even if the quality is average, still have countless fans supporting them.

Don't look down on these fans, they are at least willing to use real money to support their idols, and as soon as they find pirated resources, they will immediately report and boycott.

This is also one of the reasons why the songs of traffic stars can sell so well.

Because of "various reasons," Miss Luo Quan's new album, despite having such high heat, had a pre-sale volume of only 73,028, and the lead single "Someone like you" had a sales volume of 107,941.

"It's a flop." Miss Luo Quan looked at the two numbers that added up to less than 200,000, and her brain was a bit empty.

Before the release, she was full of confidence, feeling that she had various titles and countless fans in China, and after releasing a new album, not to mention achieving the results of "Coming of Age," but at least a pre-sale volume of 500,000 should be there.

Now it's good, not even one-tenth of the expectation.

Thinking that the tens of millions of authorization fees from Director Zhou hadn't been transferred yet, Miss Luo Quan felt her face blush.

"Simply shameful!" Miss Luo Quan hammered the bed hard and called Zhou Yangwen.

"What's the matter, Miss Luo Quan." Zhou Yangwen's tone was very steady, without any anxiety about the investment failure.

"Director Zhou, can I collect less authorization fee?"

"Hmm???" Zhou Yangwen now had question marks all over his head. "I've heard many requests for temporary price increases in my years in the industry, but this is the first time I've heard a request to return money."

Miss Luo Quan smiled bitterly: "This pre-sale volume is too low, I'm really embarrassed to take so much authorization fee."

Zhou Yangwen laughed: "In this day and age, there are not many stars as honest as you.

Don't be too anxious about this matter. The domestic music market is not like foreign countries. Many people don't have the concept of active payment, and you are not like traffic stars, who have so many brainless fans. It is normal for the first-time sales volume to be a little less."

"But this is too little..."

"It's not little. There are so many capable musicians in China. Paid albums are put on the shelves, and there are many who sell hundreds of copies. Those who can break 50,000 in pre-sales can be counted on one hand for so many years." Zhou Yangwen paused and said: "After all, it's something that needs to be charged, and it's not cheap. You have to let the civilians see the evaluations of the 'tyrants' first. Reputation is something that needs time to ferment. With our promotion, and your song quality is so high, it's not a problem to sell well!"

Miss Luo Quan smiled awkwardly: "That's me being anxious."

"You are also worried and chaotic. But the spirit of contract is something that can't be messed around with. Even if it's a verbal agreement, it can't be changed just because you say so. I'll give you the paper contract later, sign it quickly, and don't do things like going back on your word in the future."

"Understood, thank you, Director Zhou." Miss Luo Quan hung up the phone, thinking that she was still too young, and couldn't hold her breath when a small situation occurred.

In fact, this can't be entirely blamed on Miss Luo Quan.

Previously, the "19" album encountered Waterloo in China. Although she said she didn't care, how could she not care at all.

That was a work she worked hard for half a month to make, but after it was put on the shelves in China, no one bought it. Anyone would be depressed.

It's just that Miss Luo Quan has always buried it in her heart, suppressing it.

Originally, she thought about raising her eyebrows and exhaling with this new album, but as a result, she flopped again. No matter how good a person's cultivation is, they have to be anxious.

But even so, Miss Luo Quan didn't post on Weibo to imply those who felt the album was too expensive, just called Zhou Yangwen, wanting to take less authorization fee, at least to feel better.

But now, after being enlightened by Zhou Yangwen, and thinking about it carefully after calming down, she was indeed impulsive just now.

In fact, she still has too deep an obsession. Abroad, she has already been acclaimed and sold well. In China, she also wants to achieve this achievement, but the domestic and foreign environments are completely different. It is probably not that simple to achieve the same effect, and it is definitely not something that can be completed in the short term.

Fortunately, this time, she is not fighting alone.

Last time the album flopped, it didn't make much of a splash, just added some jokes.

And this time, there are many people speaking for her.