Chapter 596: An Unimagined Path

"The Greatness of the Ordinary!"

Billboard editor-in-chief and veteran producer Ma Ersun Ka Te published an article early this morning.

At the beginning of the article, he used these words to describe Miss Luo Quan's new album song, "Hey Jude."

As a pop-leaning music chart, Billboard doesn't actually study the musicality of music as deeply as the academic school does.

On this chart, sales are king; data decides everything. If it sells more, the ranking will be higher.

However, having said that, if a song is truly perfect, the market will definitely buy it. After all, relying on fans to throw money at it to get data on the Billboard chart is a non-starter; it must be a truly excellent work.

But in the current European and American music scene, singers seem to be paying more and more attention to so-called musicality, focusing only on the richness of the arrangement while ignoring the pleasantness of the melody.

The songs they make are all aimed at winning awards, yet they want to use so-called art to force the public to applaud such songs.

This is quite absurd, because in the film industry, those art-house films aimed at winning awards never demand box office success; directors will even explicitly state when making the film that it will lose money once released.

But many singers want both critical acclaim and commercial success, yet the songs they write aren't at that level, and in the end, they blame the audience for lacking appreciation. This is extremely shameless.

For some time now, the Billboard chart has often been scolded because of this phenomenon.

As one of the most closely watched charts by the public, music fans have become accustomed to looking for pleasant and melodious music on it.

But the quality of the music found has been sliding straight down, and in the end, it's the Billboard chart that gets scolded.

Actually, Billboard is also very helpless, because these are already the best-selling songs on the market; the songs lower down the chart are even less listenable.

After all, when picking the tall one among the short ones, how tall can it really be?

Fortunately, Miss Luo Quan appeared, and she changed the ecology of the entire market with her own strength.

Before, it was so-called musicality supreme, with arrangement as the focus and melody as a supplement.

But now, it is melody as the focus and arrangement as a supplement; only if it sounds good will people buy it.

And after listening to these songs by Miss Luo Quan, going back to listen to your so-called art will only make you feel it's ridiculous.

Thinking that stitching so many things together is art—art is meant to move people; these things probably only moved the author themselves.

Since you like to admire yourself in isolation, and now there is something better, music fans are too lazy to settle. I will be my vulgar self, and you continue your elegance.

Thus, under the efforts of Miss Luo Quan alone, the quality of the Billboard chart underwent a earth-shaking change. As long as it's in the top thirty, never mind musicality or not, the pleasantness is definitely not bad, because most of them are Miss Luo Quan's songs.

And while Miss Luo Quan's music maintains quality, the output is also quite high.

Others might hold back an album for two or three years, but since her debut, Miss Luo Quan has released an average of one and a half albums per language per year, and she also casually produces several songs for friends and family around her.

With this kind of output, saying she has propped up half the sky of the American pop music market over the past two years is not an exaggeration at all.

There is a term called the "catfish effect," which says that if a pond is full of farmed fish without natural predators, they will easily lose vitality and die.

But when a few catfish are put into the pond, under the threat of predators, the farmed fish have to struggle to avoid being caught, and instead, the spirit of the entire group becomes vigorous.

Miss Luo Quan is that catfish in the pop music market.

No, at her level, she should be a shark. If peers want to earn more money, they can only write good songs to compete, and that previous set of musicality no longer works.

Under the principle of good money driving out bad, the quality of songs on the Billboard chart now has greatly improved, which is definitely a very good phenomenon.

And just when everyone was putting effort into the melody, this new song by Miss Luo Quan gave everyone a lesson once again.

For a song to sound good, it doesn't necessarily have to focus on the melody; sometimes, touching the audience's emotions has an equally excellent effect.

"Hey Jude" is just such a song. The melody and lyrics are very simple, but the more ordinary the song appears, the more one can feel its greatness.

The sing-along in the second half of the song is simply too infectious. Even if it's just one person listening to the music played through headphones, there will be a sense of boiling excitement.

Moreover, this is clearly a song born for big scenes. If performed live, that scene of thousands or tens of thousands of people singing along will be even more shocking!

This is the level that can be reached after a song is infused with emotion.

"My Heart Will Go On" is like this, and "Everlasting Love" is also like this. The reason classics are called classics is definitely not by relying purely on pleasant melodies or ethereal musicality.

After "Hey Jude" was released, the Billboard editor-in-chief was an industry insider who published the article relatively late, mainly to wait for the song's sales data and then see how to hype it up.

As for the fans, they didn't need to go through so many procedures. That very night, they pushed this song to the top of the trending searches, and its popularity could almost rival the "US stock market circuit breaker."

The most popular tweets were generally quite emotional:

"This is a piece of music I have been looking forward to for a long time. It is rare to hear this type of song now. I feel that surrounded by this song, all disputes and sorrows have disappeared, leaving only the initial and purest emotion brought by music."

"Yes, it is just that magical. A song can make people cry. Before, I only thought this was a pretentious statement by others, but after I experienced such a situation myself, I realized how naive my initial thoughts were."

"I've lost a lot of money these past few days, and there isn't much savings left at home. The pressure is very high, and I'm a bit at a loss. This song made me feel much better."

"Although the stocks in my hand are still falling, I haven't sold them off. I hope it will warm up a bit after a while."

"I sympathize with you, my brother. I only hope that this damn stock market can return to normal soon, and I also hope those bastards on Wall Street die soon."

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The statements of unfortunate people can always resonate with others, and the appearance of "Hey Jude" allowed them to find some comfort and spiritual sustenance. It is estimated that these people can only regain their smiles in the world of music now.

The online environment, originally swept by sorrow, was suddenly dispersed of much of its atmosphere by a song, and with time, this influence also spread rapidly under the promotion of the fans.

By noon the next day, many radio stations in the United States began to receive requests to play this song simultaneously, whether from the homeless, the poor, workers, or the middle class.

They are all victims of the economic downturn, and material emptiness often needs to be compensated for spiritually, and music is undoubtedly a very good choice.

And for "Hey Jude," the lyrics used for comfort can be said to be most appropriate.

Against such a backdrop, "Hey Jude" actually became a hit song requested by the whole nation just like that.

The simple and catchy melody and lyrics made singing along have no threshold at all; with just one listen, the audience could hum along, which is simply too great for the improvement of its spread.

And what truly gave this song nationwide popularity was a report on the evening television news.

The content of the report was not long, only mentioning that when "Hey Jude" was played on the street, people seemed to sing along involuntarily as soon as they heard it, and then smiles would also appear.

I don't know if it was the effect of the emotion, but the stock market, which had been falling for many days in a row, actually showed rare signs of turning red today. Although the margin was not large, it was definitely good news.

Although there is no relationship between a song and the rise and fall of the stock market.

But the television station's report forcibly created a connection between the two.

Creating momentum is sometimes just that simple. Once public opinion is stirred up, even if there is no relationship, it becomes related.

"Miss Luo Quan saved the stock market with music again?"

In the next day's Time magazine, a relevant article appeared very much in line with current events, first recounting Miss Luo Quan's "glorious deeds" in Japan, and then speculating that this song would create the same miracle in the current United States.

Although the whole article used a large number of uncertain words like "possible," "perhaps," and "hope," the song "Hey Jude" had indeed already exploded.

These past two days, it wasn't just radio stations; street speakers and mall broadcasts were all playing this song. It could be called overwhelming and ubiquitous.

According to statistics, the global online play count of this song exceeded 4 billion in just two days, equivalent to every American playing it at least seven times a day!

This data has not appeared in the last ten years. Even "My Heart Will Go On," which became popular all over the world again with "Titanic," did not reach this level.

There is a term called a phenomenal song.

Originally, fans all thought that "This Is America" and "My Heart Will Go On" from the beginning of the year were already phenomenal.

But I didn't expect that there would be a mountain higher than a mountain.

Under the addition of such terrifying play counts, mainstream media finally began to report on it, once again bringing a huge wave of attention to the song.

It is worth mentioning that on the third day after the song's release, the US stock market once again saw a small-scale increase.

It seems that just like Time magazine speculated, people's emotions were really infected by a song?

Perhaps there really is such a reason in it, but most of the credit should be attributed to the fact that the money printed by the Federal Reserve has arrived.

Miss Luo Quan herself did not become complacent because of this ambiguous situation, thinking that she had played the savior again.

To be honest, she really didn't think her song could save the US stock market. This time's situation was completely different from the one in Japan.

However, at present, it seems that fans, passersby, and the media all want to pin this credit on her head.

Especially the television news program that reported it first yesterday, which can be said to be the culprit of everything.

But they brought her considerable popularity by doing so. To be honest, she still has to thank them.

Miss Luo Quan thought about how to refuse to accept this credit, while also appearing not to be getting the best of both worlds.

It feels a bit difficult, and speaking out at this time is actually quite a buzzkill; there's no need for it.

Anyway, with her current fame, no matter how popular it gets, she can hold it down.

And during these few days when the song swept the world's pop music scene, the film crew where Miss Luo Quan was located would welcome quite a lot of reporters every day, all wanting to interview her to get some hot material.

However, once her workaholic mode was turned on, she didn't want to deal with these people at all and directly declined them all.

But there were no bad comments online because of her behavior; instead, they felt she was willful and cute, and also very professional.

Miss Luo Quan looked through the comments. Alright, no one said she was possessed by the Lazy God anymore; they directly ignored the correct answer.

The ten songs of the album have been released, and the cumulative physical sales have reached over 6 million, while digital sales have long exceeded 13 million, breaking the Guinness World Record.

Most of this credit should be counted on the head of the last song, "Hey Jude." It can be said to be well-deserved; it was not in vain that she put this song at the end.

This year's music can be considered to have come to a full stop, and after filming for a few days, Miss Luo Quan also arrived in Incheon, South Korea, by plane.

The three hottest events in the world recently are the US stock market crash, Miss Luo Quan's new album, and S8.

The influence of LOL is indeed terrifying; there are few events that can sweep across Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with almost all regions participating.

And after nearly a month of fighting, the S8 World Championship will welcome the final battle, with IG playing against FNC.

However, before this, Riot Games will present a performance belonging to the players for summoners all over the world.

A girl group composed of five League of Legends female heroes will debut at the concert and bring the debut songs "Popstar" and "More."

However, summoners all know that the highlight of this girl group is actually on Miss Luo Quan.

KDA originally only had four, and the setting was to perform with virtual images, but this time a new hero came out, and it was bound to a star in reality, and this debut performance would also be completed by this star.

Speaking of this, there is actually no need for a hint; this star is Miss Luo Quan.

In order to cosplay this female hero, Miss Luo Quan dyed her hair pink several months ago, and after waiting for so long, she finally waited for today.

Night gradually approached Incheon Stadium, and the audience waited expectantly in their seats, waiting for the appearance of "that woman."

However, the first to take the stage was the well-known host of Korean LOL, who is the "Roar Emperor" because his facial expressions are very distinctive when speaking.

Under the iconic roaring hosting of the Roar Emperor, the start of the S8 Championship Final was announced, with the KDA girl group from Riot Games bringing everyone the debut song "Popstar."

The stage lights went out, leaving only four cylindrical lights shining down from above. After a flicker, four slender, trendy-dressed female heroes appeared on the stage, followed by the explosive and dynamic new song "Popstar"! ===== CHAPTER 597 =====