Chapter 284: Participating in the Tour

"How to evaluate Luo Quan's words during the livestream?"

Some Zhihu's reaction to Luo Quan's every word and action was even more sensitive than Bilibili. Luo Quan was still livestreaming, and the question here was already on the hot list.

The question was aimed at what Luo Quan said when answering viewers' questions in the livestreaming room in the morning: "Is this face of mine only worth 100 million US dollars?"

Some Zhihu users also launched a discussion on this question:

"100 million US dollars is too low, I think even 1 billion insurance for Luo Quan's face is low."

"I personally think it's priceless. This is the most beautiful face recognized by the plastic surgery industry as impossible to replicate, the only one in the world!"

"Seeing Luo Quan livestreaming in the hotel every day, discussing these unnutritious questions with fans, I am truly heartbroken.

With this leisure time, can't she put her mind to writing more good songs?

Luo Quan's talent makes people bow down, but Luo Quan's laziness is also truly helpless."

"If there are no accidents, she will probably stay in the hotel and livestream for the next month. If she's in a good mood, maybe she'll write one or two songs............"

In the afternoon, Luo Quan took time to browse Some Zhihu and was quite speechless seeing these "hating iron for not becoming steel" answers.

How many songs has she written in the past six months? And they still say she's lazy. Is this appropriate?

Even a sow giving birth to piglets needs a buffer period of pregnancy, right? These people really treat her as a song-writing machine, not leaving her any rest time at all.

Besides, she didn't say she would play until September. She had to let her rest, right? Everything has a schedule. The new album just went on sale, how could there be new songs so quickly?

After dinner, Luo Quan posted an update on Bilibili: "Partners, I probably won't be able to livestream for the next few days, Lovemusic is coming to China for a tour, and I have to go help."

Tomorrow is the last stop of Lovemusic's global tour, at the Shanghai Gymnasium, which can accommodate 80,000 people.

Yun Yun Jingxiao had told Luo Quan about this a week ago. Besides singing on stage together, this time when the two sides met, Luo Quan also had to produce a new rock album for Lovemusic.

Although Yun Yun Jingxiao and Miyano Natsuko also wrote some songs during the tour, there were two or three with good reviews, and the others were relatively average.

Luo Quan also had a guest bassist title in the Lovemusic band, and she basically hadn't participated in any of the band's activities. After so long, it was time to help the band produce an album.

In fact, for her, writing songs for a rock band is the simplest, because the greatest works in music history are basically rock songs, and they are all comprehensive works that take into account artistry, musicality, and ideology. Anything picked out is the best of the best.

However, she hadn't chosen yet, no rush; everything had to wait until the concert was over.

At the same time Luo Quan posted this update, Weibo also had a hot search for the Lovemusic band.

Backed by Universal Music, they didn't have to worry about traffic at all.

As one of the hottest bands in the world right now, the Lovemusic band possesses quite high popularity all over the world.

Frequent performances have allowed the band members to grow incomparably fast.

Stage presence, playing technique, singing—compared to last year, they are like different people.

Although the members of this band are all Asians, their popularity in the West is quite high. Every tour is full, and there are quite a few encores, and concert tickets are hard to come by.

The raspy voice that once troubled Yun Yun Jingxiao has also become a major signboard for the band. His voice was even listed in the ranking of the most recognizable singer voices, ranking second.

If only talking about the fanaticism of fans, the Lovemusic band as a whole is stronger than Luo Quan, and the number of fans is also on par.

In fact, the pre-heating for the last stop of the tour started a week ago, and the tickets were sold out as soon as they went on sale.

At that time, Universal told fans that this tour would have a heavyweight guest, and everyone thought it would be some big star from China, until today they knew it was Luo Quan.

Five minutes later, the price of tickets on the scalper website directly doubled five times, but even so, thousands of scalper tickets were bought at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The fewer the quantity, the higher the price of tickets continued to rise. The best front-row VIP tickets even sold for a sky-high price of 80,000 each!

You can't blame the fans for being so crazy. You have to know that this is Luo Quan's first concert in China.

She had performed once in Japan before, but it was a charity type, and there were many stars performing, and she didn't sing many songs.

For a long time after this, she hadn't performed on stage.

With Luo Quan's extremely lazy personality, maybe this would be her only chance to appear at a concert this year.

Luo Quan's fans, as long as they had the conditions, couldn't let go of this opportunity.

Miss this village, and there won't be this shop.

While the fans of the band and Luo Quan were discussing on Weibo that tickets were hard to buy, Luo Quan had already booked a flight to Shanghai.

The next day, Luo Quan arrived at Shanghai Pudong Airport with a small suitcase.

Finding the hotel room where Kamigaya Lingyin and the others were staying, the two girls were in their respective beds. Natsuko had already woken up, and Kamigaya Lingyin was still sleeping in.

Luo Quan knocked on the door outside.

"Luo Quan!"

Natsuko opened the door and saw this face she hadn't seen for a long time.

Kamigaya Lingyin, who was still sleeping, turned over and jumped up, screaming and pouncing on Luo Quan.

The three girls hugged together, screaming quite happily.

"Why are you making noise so early in the morning, we still have to open tonight." An Shi You opened the door yawning and saw Luo Quan, her body shook violently, then revealed a smile: "Why didn't you tell us in advance when you arrived?"

"Isn't this wanting to give you a surprise." Luo Quan smiled and said, "Where's the captain? Still sleeping?"

Luo Quan was about to shout, but An Shi You waved her hand: "The captain has been frustrated in love recently, his spirit is very withered."

"There's such a thing?" Luo Quan immediately became gossipy, pulled An Shi You into the two girls' room, and closed the door: "Tell me what's going on."

"It was when we were touring in London before, the captain met a British girl named Leila, quite beautiful, and she had a good impression of the captain, and the two often chatted online.

However, after that girl knew the captain was the lead singer and captain of a rock band, she became much colder. The captain was also almost depressed because of this."

"Why?" Luo Quan was full of incomprehension.

An Shi You scratched her head: "Probably because that girl was misled by the stereotype of rock. Britain is a place where rock is prevalent, and many hall-of-fame rock bands have come out of it, and many members of these bands play quite wildly—drugs, promiscuity, homosexuality, violence, almost all of them are involved.

And the greater the influence of the band, the more common this phenomenon is.

After Leila searched for our band, she almost didn't say 'bye-bye' directly to the captain."

"This matter............" Luo Quan smiled helplessly.

If you play rock well, most of them have strong personalities and distinct characters. It's no exaggeration to say that they are all prodigals.

Looking at those hall-of-fame bands in rock history, there really aren't many without negative news.

Perhaps fans will support this indulgent behavior of their idols, feeling it's the embodiment of rock spirit and yearning for freedom.

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is not much different from a rotten person, and it has nothing to do with whether the singing is good or not.

But having spent quite some time with Senior Yun Yun Jingxiao, Luo Quan knew he wasn't that kind of person.

Luo Quan was curious: "Didn't the captain explain to that Leila?"

Kamigaya Lingyin sighed: "The captain didn't say a few words to Leila before being blacklisted, and he didn't have Leila's phone number. Now it's equal to completely losing contact, and he doesn't even have a chance to explain.

It was because of this matter that the captain was anxious and sad."

Luo Quan supported her chin with the web of her thumb, thinking for a while.

Suddenly she clapped her hands: "I have a way, we can rely on the band's influence! Britain loves rock so much, if there is a new song with enough influence, it will definitely be played in every street and alley, and Leila will definitely have a chance to hear it!"

Natsuko was curious: "Then how can we let Leila know this is the captain talking to her?"

"Simple, leave it to me!" Luo Quan smiled, already having a plan in her heart.

Then, Luo Quan came to Yun Yun Jingxiao's room.

The latter was still sleeping, and there were quite a few wine bottles on the floor, fortunately no cigarette butts.

"Yun Jing senior?" Luo Quan shouted.

"ZZZ"

Sleeping quite soundly, it seems he wasn't that sad.

When she was sad, she probably couldn't even sleep.

Seeing no reaction, An Shi You kicked him.

"What are you doing?" His butt was suddenly kicked, and Yun Yun Jingxiao, who was in pain, opened his eyes and sat up.

"Luo Quan!" Yun Yun Jingxiao saw Luo Quan suddenly appearing in front of him, the corner of his mouth curved, both surprised and happy.

But soon his face slumped: "You're here."

"What kind of expression is this, are you so unhappy to see me?" Luo Quan asked knowingly.

"Sorry, I've been in a bad mood recently." Yun Yun Jingxiao said in a low voice, his whole person wrapped in depression, so similar to An Shi You last year.

"Are people trapped by love all like this?" Luo Quan spread her hands, looking at An Shi You.

An Shi You smiled awkwardly: "Ah, there's no way around this."

It seems he was more desperate than the captain last year.

"Yun Jing senior, An Shi-san has already told me about your matter. Being so cowardly because of feelings, this is not your consistent personality."

"I know, but............" Yun Yun Jingxiao sighed again.

"Maybe I have a way to help you?"

"Really!" Yun Yun Jingxiao instantly regained his spirit.

"Really." Luo Quan nodded: "But you have to cheer up. We still have a concert tonight. How can you face the fans in this state?"

"As long as you can help me contact Leila, I don't care what happens!"

The long-troubling heart matter now had hope of being solved, and Yun Yun Jingxiao instantly regained his past vitality. The other three who had been worrying about him also breathed a sigh of relief.

At noon, Luo Quan met with the person in charge of the Lovemusic band from Universal Music, and everyone discussed the production direction and details of the band's new album.

Among them, the person in charge suggested that Luo Quan also sing two songs. Luo Quan thought about it and didn't refuse.

Through the band, she could also make a name for herself.

Although rock has long lost the influence of the last century, there are still quite a few loyal fans. After all, this type of music is destined not to be outdated. No matter when, bands that leave their names in history will appear.

Of course, the premise is that there must be excellent works.

In this life, the rock atmosphere in China is still quite good. The discussion of related topics in the forum is no less than other types, and like the previous life, rock music is also at the top of the contempt chain.

The time for the two sides to discuss wasn't very long. Universal was very reassured about Luo Quan's ability and handed over all matters related to album production to Luo Quan to control. Any requirements could be raised.

Luo Quan's only requirement was to provide her with equipment for producing the album, and she would take care of the rest.

Nowadays, singers like Luo Quan who produce entirely by themselves are very, very few.

The Grammy's assessment of music is increasingly focusing on the variety of melodies, the diversity of musical elements, and unique arrangements and timbres.

These things involve music sampling and quite a lot of professional technology. It is very difficult for a singer-songwriter from a wild background to complete a song that can win an award by themselves.

So now, the producer list for many songs has a long list of names. Singers like Luo Quan, whose work has only one name from beginning to end, almost don't exist.

This is different from China. For many songs in China, the producer list also only has the singer's name, but in fact, the production of a song is more than just lyrics, composition, and arrangement.

And in order to establish the persona of a singer-songwriter for their artists, companies will also deliberately omit the names of these producers.

In short, singers like Luo Quan who independently complete the production of an entire album are very few in the music circle.

Meeting such talent, no company is willing to let go.

It's a pity that Luo Quan doesn't sign artist contracts with any company. Sony and Universal have both had ideas and taken actions, but none have succeeded.

Fortunately, they can still cooperate with each other. Sony and Universal have good relationships with Luo Quan, and Luo Quan also prioritizes them whenever she releases songs.

Of course, the money that should be given is definitely not small.

Although Luo Quan is nominally a member of the Lovemusic band, since Universal is asking her for songs, she still needs to be given some hard work fees.

Luo Quan's asking price isn't high, 1.5 million US dollars per song, and then like other members, she takes a share after the record is released.

If an album has ten songs, Luo Quan can directly get a pre-tax income of 15 million US dollars. Calling it a "friendship price" is actually already quite expensive.

However, in her view, the difference between this price and the songs she is about to take out is not much different from giving them away for free.

She wasn't that confident about other songs, but for rock, she really had too many good songs to write.

Especially since Yun Yun Jingxiao's vocal conditions are so good, he can basically handle the vast majority of rock songs.

After the album contract was negotiated, Luo Quan signed her name on it.

The concert was held tonight, and she could write the first song this afternoon, which was also a song she helped Yun Yun Jingxiao think of to shout and confess to Leila. ===== CHAPTER 285 =====