Chapter 273: Oiran

It is said that Miss Luo Quan is a Big Demon King; once she releases a song, her peers all have to shrink back and avoid her edge.

But now, the real Big Demon King of this summer has arrived.

"Creating Girls' Generation," which was popular for an entire spring, finally formed the group at the end of June and released its first debut album at the beginning of July.

Just the promotion was overwhelming; on the very night, there were directly 12 hot searches.

Although most of them went down quickly, three still remained on the hot search, continuing to shine.

The official side was exerting effort, and the fans of Girls' Generation were naturally not idle. Besides regular chart-hitting and reposting, they were also promoting in spaces or moments.

Girls' Generation fans are mostly girls. Many wealthy female fans directly tagged everyone in their class groups, offering to pay for classmates to buy albums and do data.

This operation actually appeared when "Creating Girls' Generation" was hot, but at that time they were buying milk; this time they were buying albums, which was cheaper in comparison.

Although fan-circle girls sometimes don't use their brains and often have some strange operations, doing bad things with good intentions for their idols.

But in terms of spending money, just like boys spending money on games, they are not ambiguous at all.

Now that China's economy has developed, everyone has become rich. When survival is no longer a problem for young people, the satisfaction of the spiritual world arises.

Boys' games and girls' idols are both products of this phenomenon.

Compared to Girls' Generation fans, Miss Luo Quan's fans are mostly male. Among these fans, there are many super-rich tycoons, but not many are willing to spend money to "do data" for her.

Because consumption concepts are different, there are definitely many tycoons willing to send all kinds of gifts when Miss Luo Quan is live-streaming, because there are many people at that time, and sending gifts can get the whole screen saying "Boss is generous," as well as Miss Luo Quan's thanks that can flow into their hearts.

For them, this is definitely a kind of enjoyment.

But who can see buying an album? After spending money and the album is delivered, it's over.

There is no chart telling Miss Luo Quan who bought the most. For example, the Saudi prince who bought 30,000 commemorative records a while ago—what did he get in the end?

Miss Luo Quan didn't even publicly express thanks. (PS: Actually, there is news abroad of this prince showing off the signed photo he got from Miss Luo Quan, but it's not known domestically yet.)

So, male tycoons would rather charge 100 captains for Miss Luo Quan than buy 100 albums at 20 yuan each.

Of course, if Miss Luo Quan were like those idol singers, offering more benefits for buying more, that would be another situation.

Therefore, colliding with Girls' Generation this time, Miss Luo Quan was already prepared to be "publicly executed."

But the songs still had to be released; after all, the main audience for the Japanese album wasn't Chinese fans.

The sixth song, "Always With Me," was well-received, and there were four songs left. Japanese fans still maintained high expectations.

And Miss Luo Quan didn't continue to squeeze toothpaste; the next day, she released three songs at once:

"Arigatou" (Thank You)

"Dearest"

"Irony"

Three different styles, which could be considered taking care of fans of three age groups.

The melody was as catchy as ever, and Miss Luo Quan's voice was as ethereal and pleasant as ever. Her throat seemed born for singing; even the most ordinary tune could be interpreted by her in a state of intoxication.

The various data for these songs remained high on Japanese music apps, and the pre-sale volume of physical records also broke through two million.

Although compared to the 6 million+ pre-sale volume of "Coming of Age" back then, it was more than half less.

But in the Japanese music scene, she was the only one whose record pre-sales could reach one million.

With the average price of Japanese physical records being several thousand yen, these 2 million+ pre-sales already meant billions of yen in sales, and Sony earned a full pot again thanks to Miss Luo Quan.

And now, Miss Luo Quan had only one last song left to release.

Fans who knew Miss Luo Quan well knew that she always liked to save the best for last.

And before that, she would always release some audio or video on Twitter or Weibo to whet the fans' appetites.

Sure enough, at noon when the three songs were released, Miss Luo Quan posted a video on Twitter titled "Gokuraku Jodo."

The content of the video was a white background wall with nothing on it, and then there was a dynamic, explosive BGM full of Japanese characteristics with a strong rhythm.

Clearly, this was a dance song style very popular among young people.

For older fans, this song was no different from the punk and rock that made their ears ache.

Although a bit disappointed, they could understand.

After all, Miss Luo Quan was not even twenty years old, and the fans who liked her were mostly people of similar age. She definitely had to take the majority group as the main target. Moreover, there were already many old-fashioned love songs on this album. Currently, besides her, who else in the Japanese market could write such excellent love songs full of the post-Showa era flavor?

Buying an auditory enjoyment for a few thousand yen was definitely worth it.

As for the young Japanese fans, they were quite excited, and the prelude to the song was quite magical, but not hearing the whole song made them feel as uncomfortable as if a cat was scratching their hearts.

And what did this all-white background wall mean? Was Miss Luo Quan going to dance to this song?

Everyone had seen Miss Luo Quan's dance steps. When "Seve" swept the world, everyone was imitating her dance steps.

Although Miss Luo Quan had never been surpassed, her dance steps could only be considered average in the eyes of professionals, but because of the fan filter, there were more people blowing it up.

Generally speaking, one should try to avoid one's shortcomings, but for some reason, Miss Luo Quan chose to dance again this time.

So everyone still had a question mark in their hearts about what this dance would be like tonight.

And Miss Luo Quan herself was naturally as confident as usual.

She had investigated many times before choosing "Gokuraku Jodo" as the tenth song.

In Japan, she was like a national idol with countless fans, but after reading so many fans' comments, the main group was still otaku, or rather, lovers of two-dimensional culture.

Since it was such a result, she naturally had to prescribe the right medicine.

Moreover, her goal this time wasn't just Japanese otaku; she wanted to kill both in Japan and China!

They were all adults; they definitely wanted everything.

So although she didn't plan to record an MV at first, she changed her plan later.

Actually, it wasn't a real MV, because the recording and post-production were all done by her alone, in one take, and the direction hadn't even changed.

In this song, the person dancing was the real highlight; the fans would only know this after watching it.

In the fans' agonizing wait, the time finally reached 8:00 PM Tokyo time.

"Gokuraku Jodo" and its MV were launched on major music platforms globally. This was also the only song among Miss Luo Quan's new songs that only had an MV.

The meaning was obvious: the MV for this song was the soul.

And when the otaku clicked on the video, they were instantly stunned by the beauty of the girl standing sideways in the center of the video line.

She was wearing a gorgeous kimono with gold and pink, embroidered with blooming cherry blossoms, full of Japanese style.

But her face looked so exotic.

The song accompaniment started, and Miss Luo Quan's slender fingers drew elegant and winding circles with the music.

When the accompaniment reached the end, Miss Luo Quan was already facing the camera completely, gently clapping her hands, and she began to dance.

Miss Luo Quan's jade-white legs crossed and moved forward like butterflies through flowers, as if possessing a magic power that made all the audience unable to stop, obsessed and addicted.

This was a unique dance step that fans rarely saw. Many people were seeing it for the first time, but under Miss Luo Quan's interpretation, it appeared so beautiful and so enchanting.

Throughout the whole song, everyone's feeling was one word: Beautiful!

Although the song style was relatively lively, everyone always felt that Miss Luo Quan's dance posture was so tender, which was really quite contradictory.

But this didn't prevent everyone from falling in love with this dance Miss Luo Quan performed.

As for the way of loving, it was also very simple: the pre-sale volume of records in Japan surged by one million in just half an hour!

"Gokuraku Jodo" hit the Twitter hot search, with as many as 50,000 related tweets!

Among these tweets, there were those expressing amazement, those expressing love, and those popularizing science. From those exclamation marks, Miss Luo Quan felt everyone's excitement that was beyond words.

"This dance is really too beautiful; my head is now full of Miss Luo Quan's legs and hands."

"Damn, it seems Miss Luo Quan is a two-dimensional person like us; this dance is really full of otaku elements."

"I always thought she ignored us; I didn't expect her to be a two-dimensional person herself."

"Saying that only shows you don't pay much attention to her. On the largest two-dimensional website in China, she is one of the most active UP hosts, often interacting with Chinese two-dimensional people."

"Ah, damn! Really envious of these Chinese two-dimensional people."

"No need to envy; this song is Miss Luo Quan's response to us. Chinese two-dimensional people don't have such treatment."

"Thinking about it this way, I feel much better."

"Science time: Miss Luo Quan mainly used a dance step called the butterfly step in this MV, but she also used another dance step later; I don't know that one."

"Fans just went to ask; Miss Luo Quan said this was inspired by watching Oiran Dochu, a self-created Oiran step!"

"Right! I just said why it looked so familiar. Mentioning Oiran, everything makes sense!"

"She looks even more beautiful than the most beautiful Oiran."

"If I could see Miss Luo Quan's Oiran Dochu, I would have no regrets even if I died immediately..."

Oiran Dochu is the behavior of the most popular Oiran in a flower street walking on the street when welcoming important guests.

Usually at this time, the courtesan would walk with a special gait, very slowly; perhaps the Chinese cannot appreciate it, but in Japanese culture, this is one of the most beautiful sights in the human world.

In addition, when Oiran Dochu, the kimono the Oiran wears weighs more than 20 kilograms, which is also the reason why they walk so slowly.

The kimono Miss Luo Quan wore when filming the video was far from that heavy. If she really carried more than 20 kilograms of clothes to do movements, that wouldn't be called dancing; that would be called losing weight.

Although there were many calls on Twitter for her to walk Oiran Dochu, she basically didn't pay much attention to them.

Thinking back to when she first arrived in Tokyo, in order to make her famous, the System threatened that if she failed, she would go to Shinjuku to debut as an Oiran.

Although it said Geisha, there was no such thing as selling art but not selling the body in that kind of place. Once you arrive, whether you sell your body or not is not up to you.

Fortunately, heaven has its own way; Miss Luo Quan became popular quickly, and the punishment didn't become real.

Thus, there was one more music diva in this world, and one less foreign Oiran.

I don't know which side's loss is greater for the Chinese and Japanese two-dimensional people.

However, Miss Luo Quan definitely wouldn't walk Oiran Dochu. Her current status didn't support her doing such things anymore.

Oiran sounds quite literary, but decades ago in China, that was "lower-class."

Although the industry she is in now was still "lower-class" decades ago, the difference between the two is still very large.

The anniversary album concluded perfectly. Japanese fans were quite satisfied with such a song. The style satisfied almost all groups, and the pre-sale sales were also growing at an amazing number.

However, judging by the situation, it shouldn't be able to exceed the number of "Coming of Age," which was unprecedented and would have no successor, but reaching 4 million shouldn't be a problem.

According to professional estimates, the total sales of this album by Miss Luo Quan would be around 15 million, while "Coming of Age" just sold that many, and it is expected to reach 23 million in the end.

Breaking 40 million with two albums, Miss Luo Quan broke the record of the Japanese music scene again.

Undoubtedly, in Japan decades later, Miss Luo Quan will definitely be a legendary figure mentioned by countless people.

But now, her experience can already be called legendary.

But in China, she has now become the object of everyone's ridicule.

On July 9th, the "Girls' Generation" album was officially released.

Tencent didn't squeeze toothpaste like Miss Luo Quan; all ten songs were put on the APP at once, with no physical records.

By midnight, the total sales of various versions of the digital record broke through 10 million, and the sales reached 400 million yuan, shocking the entire Chinese music circle.

A girl group that had debuted for less than half a month, the debut album only took four hours to break all domestic records regarding record sales.

This was something unheard of and unseen by all musicians.

Including Miss Luo Quan herself, she didn't expect Girls' Generation to be popular to this extent.

Overnight, the bosses of various video APPs gave instructions to the planning teams to produce idol audition programs, regardless of gender or scale.

The only requirement was that the process and mentor lineup should follow "Creating Girls' Generation"!

Tencent wasn't the first to eat crab, but it made a fortune in its own way.

With a template, followers rushed in, and Chinese idol auditions finally started a new era.

As for Miss Luo Quan, she became "Luo Luo Yi Ji" again, becoming the object of everyone's ridicule on Zhihu.

"Luo Luo Yi Ji, your album flopped again, hahaha." ===== CHAPTER 274 =====