Chapter 416: Retro and Music Festival

After listening to this "Imperial Consort," foreign listeners were stunned. Could Miss Luo Quan also produce such a charming voice?

Fans couldn't wait to comment:

"Oh... my god, Miss Luo Quan's singing voice is really hard to describe in words."

"It's really rare for singers in Europe and America to have this kind of voice. I was born in the open West, but I still feel that this kind of singing voice should be labeled 18+."

"This also reflects Miss Luo Quan's superb singing skills from the side. In the past, her voice wasn't like this, but for the effect of the song, she could change it to the corresponding style. It's too amazing."

Although they couldn't understand the lyrics, just based on this singing voice, it was enough to make everyone imagine a million-word novel.

The style of the song was also a type that a group of European and American listeners had never seen before. This kind of Chinese-style song was full of the tenderness and charm unique to China, and even Miss Luo Quan's singing voice sounded full of exotic style.

Not to mention the set of gorgeous Hanfu photos Miss Luo Quan took.

Everyone had seen Miss Luo Quan in a swimsuit, but European and American fans were seeing Miss Luo Quan in this kind of clothing for the first time.

That night, the pinyin "HanFU" climbed to the Twitter trending list. Miss Luo Quan could be considered to have done a good job promoting her own traditional culture with her influence this time.

It's a pity that there weren't many Chinese people on the foreign internet, and even fewer were willing to spend energy to show Hanfu to foreigners.

However, although there were few photos, in fact, these few photos of Miss Luo Quan were enough to arouse everyone's interest in Hanfu. Fans were listening to the song while excitedly leaving messages in the Twitter comment section:

"This clothing is both gorgeous and consistent with the temperament of Miss Luo Quan's makeup. It looks like high-end custom-made by Chanel for her."

"In fact, this clothing shouldn't be as complicated as high-end custom craftsmanship, but it contains a considerable amount of cultural connotation. In ancient China, this was the clothing that only the most noble women could wear."

"If Miss Luo Quan was born in ancient times, whether in the East or the West, she should be able to be the most noble woman, right?"

"If I were the emperor, I would definitely make her my empress."

"Go to sleep quickly, brother. In your dreams, you can make Gao Liang your empress."

"It's not a bad choice for fencing."

"With Gao Liang's appearance, wearing women's clothing should also be quite nice."

"A boy with a girl's appearance, if not an ugly ghost, is a top-tier treasure."

"There is a mistake here. This set of Miss Luo Quan's clothing is actually our Korean ancient costume, Simida."

"Yes, the whole universe belongs to Korea. (Miss Luo Quan is not)"

"It's not like we haven't seen Korean ancient costumes; they are completely different from this set. Are you collecting one type after seeing it?"

"Just get used to it. Chinese people say they are too lazy to argue with them."

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Although there were Koreans intruding in the comment section, because the words were too outrageous, they were quickly mocked by everyone until they deleted their comments and closed their mics.

Come to think of it, it was fortunate that Miss Luo Quan often stated her identity as a Chinese person when facing interviews with foreign media.

Otherwise, according to the character of the Koreans, it was really hard to say what her identity was now.

Relying on the song "Imperial Consort" and her brand-new look, Miss Luo Quan successfully broke out of the circle at home and abroad.

The sales volume of the digital album hit a new high again, and this time it was a global bloom in the true sense. Fans in the three largest markets were all willing to pay for Miss Luo Quan.

After seeing the results she achieved, Miss Luo Quan was considering whether her future albums should all be trilingual.

After all, if it were a single language, it could only sell well in one market, but if it were three languages, it would be a fair distribution!

The imagination was beautiful, but for now, she still had to get the new album done.

On the third night, Miss Luo Quan released the Japanese lead single—"First Love" (Takashi Murashita).

This was a song that surprised Japanese music fans because it was full of the style of the 1980s.

However, although the style was retro, it didn't mean that everyone was dissatisfied with this song. The music was as pleasant and moving as ever, and while retro, it also had a bit of the feeling of future electronic music.

It could be seen that Miss Luo Quan put a lot of effort into the arrangement. It wasn't just a simple choice of retro; there was a certain experimental nature in it.

But unlike the vast majority of experimental songs, this song was just too much better to listen to.

And in terms of lyrics, where Japanese songs had always been relatively weak, Miss Luo Quan also did a very good job, such as this section at the beginning:

The rain in May is green

An afternoon alone makes me sad

More lonely after falling in love

Keeping the longing that cannot be delivered to myself

Cannot say I love you, first love

Is a delicate heart like a pendulum

Campus after school

You are running

I have been searching for you in the distance

Because it's like a dream and not a dream

So I will hide it in my heart

These lyrics were like a fresh-style poem. Looking at them, it was like a clear spring flowing into the heart. It was truly a rare masterpiece.

In fact, the Japanese music scene had recently had a retro trend.

Because Japanese music developed relatively early, around the 1990s, relatively trendy pop music had already become the mainstream.

At the beginning of the new century, this kind of music reached its peak, even leading the music trend of the whole of Asia.

However, with the retirement of those diva-level singers one after another, there was suddenly no one to carry the beam of pop music, replaced by various boy groups and girl groups.

Although Japan had a huge market to support this kind of song, for music, this market trend was undoubtedly a regression.

New songs were getting worse and worse, causing fans to like listening to those high-quality old songs more and more.

And although the style of old songs could no longer keep up with the trend, after being suddenly picked up now, they had a unique flavor.

Although Miss Luo Quan later appeared out of nowhere and brought several masterpieces that could be called the peak of Japanese pop music, that was only because she was amazing alone, and others couldn't imitate her.

Plus, many of her own songs were also of a relatively retro style, which also made the retro style of Japanese pop music gradually become the mainstream.

The song "First Love" undoubtedly fit the market very well. If she had taken "Blue Bird" or "Gurenge" that she sang at the Bilibili New Year's Gala and released them here.

Perhaps young people would love them to death, but it might not have such a good effect on slightly older fans, and it is estimated that they wouldn't have such a high evaluation as "First Love" now.

And seeing that the effect of retro songs was so good, Miss Luo Quan naturally followed the trend and carried the retro to the end.

The next night, Miss Luo Quan released the second Japanese song in the album—"Lemon."

That's right, it was "Lemon," but it wasn't releasing the original version directly, but a remastered version, commonly known as reheating leftovers.

The Japanese fans who didn't know the situation were stunned when they saw this song, thinking that Miss Luo Quan was joking.

After checking the date, they found that it was still a long way from April Fool's Day, so they angrily asked:

"Quan-chan is really too naughty, actually reheating leftovers like Capcom."

"Did I travel through time? Back to that summer in 2016?"

"The retro you mentioned is releasing a song from more than a year ago to be retro?"

"Just finished listening, don't be anxious, everyone, go listen to it quickly; it's completely two styles from the original!"

"As expected of you, Quan-chan, you really didn't disappoint me. This song is really good."

Seeing the later fans speaking for Miss Luo Quan, the other fans reacted, realizing that Miss Luo Quan had also prepared a surprise.

The song was indeed "Lemon," but the singing method had completely changed.

The previous mention of retro basically referred to the style full of the Heisei era.

The style of this "Lemon" was retro to the Showa era.

As soon as Miss Luo Quan opened her mouth, it was full of Showa flavor.

(PS: For the specific song, please search for "Japanese Fei Yuqing" on Bilibili; the first one is it.)

The singing method Miss Luo Quan used this time was completely different from the ordinary pop singing method; it was the unique Enka singing method of Japan.

The so-called Enka, analogous to China, is actually equivalent to the national singing method. It belongs to a relatively high-end and atmospheric singing method in Japan. Such songs will appear in grand singing and important evening parties.

And the status of Enka singers is basically equivalent to China's national team, belonging to the big shots among big shots.

Miss Luo Quan could kill all sides on "I Am a Singer" using the national singing method and win the admiration of the world.

Using the Enka singing method, she could naturally conquer the vast number of Japanese fans, and she was interpreting it with one of the hottest Japanese pop songs recently, "Lemon," which could be said to have taken care of fans of almost all ages.

After the song was released, the Enka version of "Lemon" immediately boarded the midnight music broadcast segment of TV Tokyo, making a large group of middle-aged people who stayed up late to watch TV suddenly feel refreshed, thinking, when did Japanese Enka suddenly become so good?

Japanese fans on Twitter also didn't spare their praise for this song:

"I apologize to Miss Luo Quan for my previous questions. This reheating of leftovers is really too fragrant."

"It's really an ingenious reset, perfectly integrating Enka and pop, which can be said to be suitable for all ages."

"As expected of the music angel, this album only has four songs, and there are already several singing styles?"

"If this song was sung at the Kohaku Uta Gassen not long ago, would there still be suspense for the first place?"

"Speaking of this, I feel a pity. The Kohaku Uta Gassen last year actually didn't invite Miss Luo Quan!"

"No way, she was attending the Queen's birthday in the UK at the time, but the concert at the Bilibili New Year's Gala later made me listen to it comfortably."

"I don't know what kind of eye-catching works she can bring out next. I'm really looking forward to it!"

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The Twitter comment section these past few days had almost become a large-scale confession and flattery scene.

Countless praises and compliments surrounded Miss Luo Quan, album sales were breaking records every day, and she had been hanging on the front page of domestic and foreign online media for several days without coming down.

Even many singers were conquered by her performance these past few days and began to post to praise her.

If it were someone else who received so much positive feedback and faced countless people's flattery every day, I'm afraid they would already be a bit floating.

This had nothing to do with being humble or not; it was just that there were too many positive evaluations, making people stay in a strong psychological suggestion, and there would always be a voice telling themselves: she is the most amazing, she is invincible, the whole world likes her.

But even Money couldn't make the whole world like him. Could Miss Luo Quan?

She had never felt that way.

Perhaps she was very popular now, her popularity and reputation had reached their peak, and everyone was pursuing her in a way that was almost like killing with praise. Praising Miss Luo Quan seemed to have become politically correct.

But she actually saw it very clearly. If she were to fail one day, these people who had praised her so hard would probably also be the ones who would scold her desperately.

Media had always been like this, liking to lift someone to the sky and then throwing them into hell.

I don't know how many celebrities had suffered such treatment, both in the past and present.

As great as the King of Pop MJ, how prosperous was he in his past life? When he called, everyone responded, the city was empty, a concert made dozens of fans faint, and when he posed at the Super Bowl, fans were willing to keep screaming for him.

But what was the result? The media smeared him, his reputation plummeted, and he himself even became an unforgivable sinner.

There was also Britney Spears as a female representative. When she was popular, she was hailed as America's sweetheart, the dream lover of all American men.

In the end, she was also driven to mental illness by American paparazzi and media.

So Miss Luo Quan had always understood in her heart that the brilliance experienced in life would eventually have to be repaid with loneliness.

The harder they blow now, the worse they will be scolded when they are unlucky in the future.

So she would never show any image of being arrogant or looking down on everything in front of the public, not leaving any handle for anyone.

Besides that, she would also try her best to maintain this brilliance and try her best not to let loneliness come.

Therefore, no matter how hard these fans and media blow now, no matter who floats, she will never float.

Keep the original intention, and you will get the end.

Of course, in front of good friends, Miss Luo Quan's tail was almost knocked to the sky this time.

In Wen Xia's mansion in Beijing, Miss Luo Quan held her phone with a smile, showing off the proud results her new song had achieved in the four days since its release:

"Haha Wen Xia, it seems I'm going to win the best-selling album in China this time."

Before this, the best-selling album in China was Girls' Generation's debut album, which sold more than 13 million copies, and the second was "Chopin's November," which sold more than 8 million.

The release dates of the two albums were about three months apart. Girls' Generation actually took some advantage, but it hadn't been broken until this year, which also proved that Girls' Generation's popularity in China was indeed explosive, and even Miss Luo Quan was not an opponent.

Therefore, Wen Xia didn't lack showing off this matter in front of Miss Luo Quan.

And this time, Miss Luo Quan's new album had already sold 5 million copies, and it looked like the stamina was quite good. It was not impossible to break the record created by Girls' Generation in China.

Coming to Beijing this time was on one hand to attend the music festival, and on the other hand, to dampen Wen Xia's spirit.

However, Wen Xia didn't eat this set at all, just smiled: "It won't be too late to be arrogant when you sell to that number!"

"Wait and see!" Miss Luo Quan snorted with her nose, but didn't set a flag.

PS: Thanks to book friend Great Song Renzong Mingxiao Emperor Zhao Zhen for the reward of book coins, thank you! ===== CHAPTER 417 =====