Chapter 328

PS: 2020 is finally going to pass. This is an extraordinary year. We have been in the same boat through wind and rain and experienced a lot.

The new year is coming. I believe next year will be a year full of hope and happiness. Here, I also wish all book friends and the author himself a new atmosphere in the new year, rapid progress in reading, rising wages in work, and wish everyone good health and family happiness!

Main text:

Putting on makeup for Ai Wei is not urgent. Miss Luo Quan has a lot of things to do at the moment, and she doesn't have time to help Ai Wei debut yet.

The preliminary round of the music competition lasted until 7 o'clock in the evening. Fortunately, it is class time now, and Miss Luo Quan and Ai Wei went directly to the cafeteria to eat a small hot pot.

Ai Wei is a local in Shanghai and eats relatively light, so Miss Luo Quan ordered a mandarin duck pot, one side is tomato clear soup, and the other side is red oil.

Although there are not many people in the cafeteria, there are not few. Miss Luo Quan suddenly appeared, and it is inevitable to take a photo with fans she met by chance.

After the incident of being forced to sign, Miss Luo Quan rarely signs for fans she met on the road. It is not to maintain the market price of her signed photos, but just doesn't want her signed photos to become a tool for others to make money.

"Yo, big star is quite busy." Just after Miss Luo Quan finished taking a photo with a fan, a familiar voice came to her ear.

"Lin Xuezhang!" Miss Luo Quan was surprised and happy to see Lin Zheyuan suddenly appear in front of her.

Since the last time she asked Lin Xuezhang to help her shoot the MV, the two hadn't been in contact for a long time. Looking at his circle of friends, it seems that he went to the United States to study photography technology, so Miss Luo Quan hadn't seen him in school during this period.

"Are you back from studying in the United States?"

Lin Zheyuan laughed: "I've been back for several days. The girls in the United States are really enthusiastic. When I got on the plane, everyone was reluctant to let me go."

Miss Luo Quan looked disdainful: "Just blow it."

When she first met Lin Xuezhang, she felt that he was quite decent and loyal. After getting familiar with him, she found that he was the same kind of goods as Seifert. There was no gatekeeper in his mouth, and he didn't need a draft to brag.

"Who is this beautiful little sister?" Lin Zheyuan soon noticed Ai Wei beside Miss Luo Quan.

"This is Lin Xuezhang Zheyuan, a fourth-year student in the Photography Department." Miss Luo Quan introduced Ai Wei first.

Ai Wei nodded and asked: "Hello, Lin Xuezhang, I am a second-year student in the Bel Canto Department, my name is Ai Wei."

"Ai Wei…… good name." Lin Zheyuan laughed, seeming to point to something.

Ai Wei didn't have any special expression, probably because she was already used to it.

"Then you eat first, and we'll gather when we have time." Lin Zheyuan didn't stay long, greeted Miss Luo Quan, and went to the third-floor cafeteria to eat a big meal.

After people left, Ai Wei asked curiously: "Boss, how did you know this Lin Xuezhang?"

Miss Luo Quan said while eating: "Met in Tokyo. At that time, he went to Sony to work a summer job in photography. I happened to debut at Sony. The promotional video and portraits for my first record were shot by him."

After taking a sip of the drink, Miss Luo Quan asked: "Why, are you interested in him?"

Ai Wei shook her head directly: "No, the language is frivolous, feels like a glib boy."

"That's not to that extent. Lin Xuezhang is just a bit of a fart, and he is quite loyal." Miss Luo Quan helped Lin Zheyuan speak.

"You are so beautiful, of course the boys you meet are loyal."

"That's true." Miss Luo Quan heard this and was thoughtful.

After dinner, the two parted at the gate of the cafeteria.

Before leaving, Miss Luo Quan didn't forget to let Ai Wei suggest more singing skills and guitar, and learn more about the stage style of those famous rock singers when she has time. These are all things to be used after debut.

Returning to the dormitory, Miss Luo Quan saw three roommates lying on the bed playing with their phones: "Don't tell me you spent this whole day on the bed."

"Ate, went to the bathroom, came down." Zhang Yun responded.

"Then have you eaten dinner?" Miss Luo Quan looked at everyone's table, and it seemed that there was no trace of takeout.

Lin Yizhu looked unhappy: "Ate at 6 o'clock. A new Indian curry chicken opened in the third cafeteria. We went to try the taste, it was super disgusting!"

"I can see it." Miss Luo Quan smiled.

"By the way, how did you do in the competition, did you get first place?" Lu Yao looked at Miss Luo Quan curiously. She didn't know much about the competition system, just knew that Miss Luo Quan went to participate in the Shangyi Music Competition today. It stands to reason that it shouldn't be difficult for Miss Luo Quan to get first place in this kind of competition.

Miss Luo Quan shook her head: "Today is just the preliminary round, there are semi-finals and finals. It's still early to get first place."

"On the hot search." Lin Yizhu said suddenly.

"This is on the hot search?" Miss Luo Quan was startled, took out her phone and clicked on Weibo.

It is indeed on the hot search, but it seems it's not her, it's Fan Ying in front of her.

"Shangyi Music Competition surprisingly appears rap!"

The content of the hot search is the climax of Fan Ying singing *Social Person*. The scene was quite explosive. In Shangyi, which is not very interested in rap, it could cause such an effect, let alone on Weibo. Below the video, there are tens of thousands of likes and tens of thousands of comments.

"This Fan Ying's rap is so strong, I've never heard of it before!"

"This paragraph is really a fairy flow, a bit of hardcore rap feeling."

"Indeed, there are some shadows of Gao Liang."

"Isn't Gao Liang an idol singer?"

"Is the upstairs here to be funny? Gao Liang is the premier rapper of the New Age. Don't think he is an idol just because he is handsome."

"Gao Liang's fast mouth is currently recognized as second in the world, no one dares to recognize first."

"So amazing, I only knew Gao Liang was very handsome before, he is an idol."

"Gao Liang and sister Miss Luo Quan are both like this, right? The overly outstanding beauty makes the public easily ignore the equally excellent strength of the two."

"By the way, isn't the Shangyi Music Competition quite formal? Can rap songs advance now?"

"Why can't it advance if it's sung well?"

"Don't feel it's very good, not even worthy of carrying shoes for the White Grass Gang."

"Are there still people who fan those rap scum now? Look at the depth of Fan Ying's lyrics, isn't it much more powerful than any beauty, luxury car, champagne?"

"Just come to diss if you don't agree, why so much chattering."

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On Weibo, wanting to provoke a war is a very simple thing, even a straight fishhook can catch a large group of fish. However, this is a good thing for Miss Luo Quan. If Fan Ying hadn't come out to block the firepower, it is estimated that she would be the one on the hot search today, and she would be the one being scolded.

As for the reason, it's too easy to find. For example, she created a new music genre today, and the concept of "appeal" are all points that will be attacked.

Originally, she was prepared to be complained about, but she didn't expect someone to become a target one step ahead of her.

But it's normal, after all, rap is popular now.

The most popular in the country in the first half of the year must be various idol talent shows. After *Creation Girls' Generation* became popular, talent shows produced by various platforms sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain. Although the quality is far inferior to Creation Girls, it was brought up by taking advantage of this heat. Even if it was following the trend, it still took off, fiercely cutting a large wave of heat.

And in the second half of the year, the most popular should be rap.

In the past, many domestic raps were a group of underground rappers having fun by themselves. A few who succeeded in commercialization set up a few labels and earned some small money.

But after all, it is still niche, and not liked by mainstream society, feeling that doing rap is not much different from hooligans.

However, Jin Zihao, who became a top-tier flow by virtue of Creation Girls in the first half of the year, also took a variety show in the second half of the year, called *Chinese Rapper*, aiming to use his own flow to drive the Chinese hip-hop industry and dig out those underground rappers who have no fame but have strength.

The show was held from the middle of July and was popular for a whole summer vacation. It just ended a while ago. Many rappers who were unknown before became famous in the variety show.

Now the new flow wealth password on the internet is rap. Many stars even post short videos to do a clumsy rap to rub the heat. Rap, which was originally only underground, suddenly stood on the stage, and the prospects are even exceptionally broad.

Following the trend will soon come. At that time, in the atmosphere of national rap, the hot topics of the whole second half of the year are estimated to be inseparable from these two words.

For an emerging market, the cake of rap is too big. Even if there is already a large group of famous rappers now, it is still not finished. After all, the threshold of rap is so low, and the audience is wide. Just relying on the current practitioners, it is simply impossible to finish eating.

And the appearance of Fan Ying made many listeners who were tired of dirty words, diss, and paper-drunk and gold-fan content suddenly feel refreshed. They only discovered that rap without dirty words can also be so good, and can also be on the stage of a serious music competition!

Soon, Fan Ying's account on Weibo was found out, and fans increased by one million overnight. The playback volume of the song *Social Person* also quickly topped major internet platforms.

"Is it so popular?" Miss Luo Quan saw that on the Penguin Music hot song list, the comments of *Social Person* had exceeded 10,000, all of which were rap lovers who came to hear the wind. After listening, the evaluation was also quite high.

To be honest, during the summer vacation, Miss Luo Quan thought about whether to follow the trend and fix two raps, but after thinking about it, forget it.

Rap is this kind of American black thing, English is orthodox, and there are not many Chinese raps that can be heard.

You have the same truth, can foreigners write five-character quatrains in English?

It's not a cultural system, and even the lifestyle is different. No matter how you sing, you feel awkward, so she finally dispelled this idea.

And she is quite confident in her strength. Real stars don't need to follow the trend, because she herself is the trend.

But she doesn't want to sing, fans are quite wanting Miss Luo Quan to come to one. They have been leaving messages before, wanting her to sing one. Today, after Fan Ying was on the hot search, everyone brought up the old matter again:

"Fan Ying is Miss Luo Quan behind, but no one mentioned her today."

"No way, rap is popular, if Fan Ying hadn't sung *Social Person*, this Shangyi Music Competition would probably not be on the hot search."

"Miss Luo Quan should also be able to, didn't she sing a Yuzhou dialect rap before to scold those haters?"

"Old fan, this song is actually quite niche. When it was released, rap was not as popular as it is now."

"Miss Luo Quan really sang rap? I'll search and see!"

"Actually, not just this one. Many of Gao Liang's popular rap songs were written by Miss Luo Quan. The quality is simply, Miss Luo Quan must be a rap master, but she sings too few works herself."

"Big truth, I think that is real rap. These domestic ones always feel a bit like a monkey wearing a hat."

"Don't recruit black for Miss Luo Quan."

"Quite want Miss Luo Quan to sing one seriously herself. If I could hear her scolding people in English, it would be too comfortable."

"Hmm………………"

Fans discussed so much, some people even said her inner words, but it's not good to say this, so Miss Luo Quan must come out to explain a few words:

"English rap and Chinese rap have their own characteristics, there is no need to compare length, so everyone don't discuss too much.

In addition, I don't have any plans to do rap at the moment, so I may have to let everyone down."

This answer did make many fans disappointed, but think about it, a pop singer like Miss Luo Quan doesn't need to mix in this muddy water. After all, the environment of the rap circle is notoriously smoky. Once the rhythm starts, it's really scolding, and even have to write songs to scold people.

So this matter ended like this.

However, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop. Miss Luo Quan doesn't want to be deeply trapped in the rhythm, but the rhythm actively finds her.

After Fan Ying was popular on Weibo for a whole night, an article appeared on the Weibo hot search the next day:

"On the public's music aesthetics"

The article wrote that Fan Ying's *Social Person* and Miss Luo Quan's *Nightingale* were works performed one after another on stage, and the former became popular all over the internet overnight, while the latter is still in a state of being ignored.

What's more interesting is that Fan Ying had no fame at all before, but Miss Luo Quan is a big star with tens of millions of Weibo fans!

It is really puzzling that this did not drive the popularity of *Nightingale*.

In terms of musicality, *Nightingale* completely exploded *Social Person*, and it was not known how many levels higher. The catchiness was not worse than *Social Person*. It can be said that it was superior to *Social Person* in all aspects, but the popularity just couldn't compare.

The author of the article did not criticize *Social Person* and Fan Ying or rap, but questioned this phenomenon from an objective perspective, questioning whether the public's aesthetics should be learned and improved, so as not to let more excellent music be buried.

The article also attached the whole process of Miss Luo Quan's performance of *Nightingale*. After publication, it was quickly forwarded and praised by many music bloggers, among which there were many users with titles like Professor of a certain Music Academy!

These people are indignant at the obscurity of Miss Luo Quan's *Nightingale*, and some with more excited words even called *Social Person* garbage.

These have already constituted the elements of opening a group. Although people in the rap circle often fight internally, when encountering provocation from external forces, they will immediately become united and consistent with the outside world.

Originally, the one who opened the group was the blogger who wrote this article, but the people he supported were Miss Luo Quan. Miss Luo Quan is a vested interest, so the rap circle aimed the firepower at Miss Luo Quan.

Miss Luo Quan, who had just woken up, had only one thought at this time: Sitting at home, the pot comes from the sky.