Chapter 57: Fortune and Misfortune (Part 1)

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Unlike the rave reviews in China, the Japanese version of the second track of "Coming of Age", "Yakimochi (Jealousy)", did not have a very strong response in Japan.

Of course, this is compared to "First Love". The playback volume and discussion of the second song are still far beyond all songs in the same period, second only to "First Love".

Perhaps Miss Luo Quan has also raised the audience's taste. The public cannot accept the quality of this second song. What they want is a song of the same quality as "First Love".

This is indeed a bit difficult for people. The inspiration for good songs is hard to find. Songs of the level of "First Love" are rare in a few years. Wanting every song to reach this level is simply a fantasy.

Moreover, the quality of the song "Yakimochi" is actually not bad. It is definitely far higher than the average level in the current Japanese music scene, and it is more than enough to be the title track of some second-rate singers.

However, for Miss Luo Quan, this work seems a bit mediocre. After all, the Japanese music scene now regards her as a genius singer. If all the songs created in the future are at this level, it is an indisputable regression!

This statement sounds a bit harsh, but this is indeed the general view of the Japanese music scene now.

A student who has been scoring 20 or 30 points for a long time, if he scores 60 points one day, it will definitely attract a lot of exclamation and praise, feeling that he has finally turned over and knows how to learn.

And a top student who has been scoring 100 points for a long time, if he scores 90 points one day, the blame he will face will definitely be far more than the praise the poor student gets.

This is human nature. The weak are often very relaxed, and the excellent are often abnormally harsh.

Miss Luo Quan is now such an excellent person who is treated harshly. After "Yakimochi" came out, although there were still many praises in the comment section, there were also many voices of disappointment.

Fortunately, negative comments are basically invisible. The statement that one song judges her as exhausted has no market in Japan. After all, there are eight songs behind. It is not too late to evaluate after listening.

Although the overall response of the second song is not particularly good, the heat brought by the title track is too high. It achieved zero negative reviews on the whole internet, and everyone who listened said it was good.

So the pre-sale volume of "Coming of Age" is still rising, the playback volume of these two songs is still firmly occupying the top of major music charts, and the enthusiasm for discussion about Miss Luo Quan and the new album on the internet is still high.

And Miss Luo Quan didn't let those who expected her down. At 20:00 on August 14, the trial version of the third song of "Coming of Age", "Soba ni Iru ne (Stay by My Side)", was officially online. Ten minutes later, the reputation exploded again.

This song rushed into the top three of the Oricon chart as soon as it was released in the original space, sold 450,000 copies in the first week, became the weekly champion of the Oricon chart in the second week, and continued to be on the list for eleven weeks!

Until now, this song is still the best-selling single by a Japanese female artist, and it has even won the Guinness World Record certification.

Such a song with explosive quality was taken out, and the sensation caused was no less than when "First Love" was first released.

The title of genius singer no longer had any objections. Major music magazines praised it one-sidedly. The pre-sale volume of "Coming of Age" reached 890,000, continuously refreshing the record of Asian record pre-sales.

All kinds of praise and recognition have been so dense that people's ears are calloused. These days, Miss Luo Quan's phone basically hasn't stopped, all from advertisers and TV stations, asking her for endorsements or variety shows, and the price can be opened at will.

This phone number was left by Miss Luo Quan when she posted videos on YouTube to facilitate others to contact her for business.

Later, after signing a record contract with Sony, she deleted it. Didn't expect it to be recorded by someone with a heart in such a short time, and then sold it.

It was also fortunate that this person still had some bottom line and didn't put it directly on the internet. If her fans knew, I'm afraid she would receive tens of thousands of calls a day!

Because school was about to start, Miss Luo Quan pushed away all endorsements and variety shows. Her current popularity and money were already enough, and there was no need to spend time on these fine details.

If it were a big-production movie or TV series, she could consider it. However, Japanese movies have not been prominent in the world for these years, and they have long since lost the glory of leading Asia in the last century. However, Japanese dramas have developed well, and every year there will be a few hit works that sweep Asia.

The internet's pursuit of Miss Luo Quan has reached a crazy level. All posts are praising her, and all comments are blowing her. Such a phenomenon, if placed in China, would be very abnormal, only making people think of two words, which is "killing by praise."

God makes whoever perish, first makes him crazy. But this law obviously cannot control Miss Luo Quan, because judging from her current performance, she is absolutely worthy of such evaluation.

And the release of the fourth song "Kiseki (Miracle)" drew a perfect end to this carnival.

The status of this song in the original space is similar to the third song. The latter is the first in single sales, while the former is the first in the history of the Oricon download chart, and it is quite popular among young people in Japan. Every year, its name is on the KTV singing hit list, and it is an indisputable national single.

And Miss Luo Quan, who continuously released songs of this level, had been lifted to the peak of young singers. Among the new generation of Japanese music people, at least in terms of creative ability, no one can be compared with her. The only few female singers of the same level are the most outstanding ones of the middle generation.

"The only difference between Miss Luo Quan and big-name divas is that she hasn't held a large-scale concert yet."

This is the view published by Onodera Ryusuke on Twitter, which has been unanimously recognized by passersby, fans, and peers.

In Japan, if a female singer hasn't held a concert, then her singing career must be a failure. Concerts are the greatest embodiment of a singer's singing skills and box office appeal, and are also called the touchstone of singers!

Many singers' songs may be popular on the internet, and covers are countless, but once a concert is held, the people who come can't even fill the first row of seats, and the number of fans is not as many as security guards.

Such situations appear quite a few every year, and often cause ridicule from onlookers.

However, these situations basically cannot happen to Miss Luo Quan, because quite a lot of fans on Miss Luo Quan's Twitter are asking when she will hold a concert, and saying that as long as it is held, they will definitely bring their families to support it.

Similar comments reached tens of thousands, and the number of likes was even more, which shows how much Miss Luo Quan's fans are looking forward to their idol holding a concert.

And Miss Luo Quan's answer made the fans very disappointed:

"School is about to start, studies are more important, wait until winter vacation for the concert."

As soon as this remark came out, the fans were suddenly wailing.

PS: There will be a small climax next, need to think about it carefully. Only this chapter today, will make up for it with three chapters tomorrow. ===== CHAPTER 58 =====