Chapter 829

"Don't panic, the lighting and background still need to be adjusted."

Wen Xia was fiddling with the photography equipment, and Li Yuan and Mia were also helping out in the piano room.

One had just set up the reflector, while the other was making the light in the room as soft as possible.

Besides this, Da Hei and Xiao Yu also had tasks.

Under Miss Luo Quan's command, the two little rascals, one lay on the stool next to the piano, and the other lay under the piano.

Both of them would be in the frame when filming later, which can be considered as adding some interesting elements to the MV.

Of course, as the protagonist of the MV, Miss Luo Quan naturally attended in full dress today.

Other pianists playing the piano are usually in suits and leather shoes.

However, she didn't have a suit in her wardrobe here, so she wore an evening gown.

Anyway, it's formal attire, and it's fine as long as it looks good.

Although, after putting on the evening gown, the fans' attention might not necessarily be on the piano.

After waiting for about five minutes, all units announced they were ready.

Miss Luo Quan interlaced her ten fingers and flipped them outward, then placed her hands on the keys.

Recording started.

Miss Luo Quan wore a smile, her fingers tapping the keys lightly.

The melody immediately echoed in the quiet room.

The other three all stared fixedly at Miss Luo Quan, as if admiring the most beautiful work of art in the world.

This piano piece is not long, just over four minutes, the length of an ordinary pop song.

But for Wen Xia and the others, the shock brought by this piece far exceeded any pop music they had ever heard.

Just by looking at Miss Luo Quan's fingers that danced into phantoms, one could know how ridiculous its difficulty was.

To use one word to describe it, that is "tentacle monster."

These fingers are spread too wide.

It's just that Miss Luo Quan's hands are relatively large; if it were someone with smaller hands, they probably wouldn't even be able to play it.

And Miss Luo Quan, who performed the song perfectly, also exhaled a breath as if relieved of a heavy burden.

She had performed quite a lot of classical music, but the previous ones, just in terms of difficulty, really couldn't be mentioned in the same breath as this one.

Even if she had redeemed all the specializations in the piano category, she still felt a bit inadequate.

In the end, she spent a huge amount of popularity points to redeem a limited-time usage card for Lang Lang, which made her feel a bit more confident.

Sitting down and trying it, she passed it in one take, which can be said to be quite smooth.

And the piece performed was naturally wonderful and beautiful.

After playing, Miss Luo Quan realized that she had already shed quite a bit of sweat.

Her back, white as jade, was covered with fine beads of sweat, sparkling and shimmering under the light.

Playing the piano is indeed physical labor, especially for such a high-difficulty piece, which is even more mentally and physically exhausting.

"Awesome, Luo Luo. I don't usually see you practicing the piano, I didn't expect your technique to have reached this level." Wen Xia pressed the recording button of the camera and then started praising her.

"Can't help it, geniuses are like this." Miss Luo Quan's mouth tilted, smiling very proudly.

"Yo ho, you're showing off again." Wen Xia curled her lip, with a hint of sarcasm.

She knew Miss Luo Quan was deliberately showing off in front of her, but Wen Xia was already used to it.

After the song was recorded, Miss Luo Quan went to the recording studio again to slightly adjust the whole material and remove the noise.

In the evening, the fifth song of the new album went online amidst the fans' countdown.

"Miss Luo Quan's piano solo 'La Campanella' strikes with a shock!"

Penguin cooperated very well by setting up a trending search on Weibo's advertising space, and then relying on Miss Luo Quan's original popularity, it quickly rushed to the number one spot on the trending search.

As for Twitter, it didn't even need these to have already caused a huge amount of discussion.

First of all, the original author of "La Campanella" is the Piano King, Li Site.

This master has had a major influence in the history of the piano, and under the influence of social romanticism, he applied virtuosity to piano music.

From him on, composers, when creating piano music, would sometimes specifically create some melodies with extremely high difficulty to show off their superb piano skills.

Of course, some composers couldn't actually play the virtuoso parts they wrote themselves; it was purely to find the limit of the difficulty of piano music, a purely experimental creation.

However, Li Site was different; he could play the songs he created himself, and later generations basically found it very difficult to surpass him.

The main reason is that Li Site had a pair of large hands, naturally the material for playing the piano.

And the piano pieces he created had large spans, many trills, and difficult techniques.

And "La Campanella" is even the best among them; not only does its difficulty break through the sky, but it is also incomparably beautiful, and it is a famous existence among virtuoso pieces.

For an ordinary person wanting to play "La Campanella," just playing it completely is already very difficult.

Let alone mastering it and playing it with emotion.

Only top pianists at the level of Lang Lang can achieve such ease and grace.

If Miss Luo Quan hadn't cheated and practiced hard on her own, she probably wouldn't have dared to touch this piece for three to five years.

But no one else knew she was cheating.

So after "La Campanella" came out, everyone who had some understanding of classical music or the piano was shocked.

"Is this a piece a human can play?"

When hearing the ultra-fast playing section in the second half of "La Campanella," I don't know how many people had such thoughts in their hearts.

And for ordinary listeners who don't understand at all, the pleasant melody of "La Campanella" is enough for them to enjoy the beauty of classical music.

As a top-tier virtuoso piano piece, the reason for "La Campanella's" fame has never been just because of its difficulty.

There are quite a few pieces with higher difficulty than it, such as some of Rachmaninoff's etudes, "Reminiscences of Don Juan," or the "Goldberg Variations," etc.

These are all pieces with difficulty coefficients beyond the cognition of ordinary people.

However, these high-difficulty pieces are not as easily compatible with the aesthetics of ordinary listeners as "La Campanella."

In addition, in terms of duration, they also exceed the limits of ordinary songs, often being ten or twenty minutes, or even an hour.

By comparison, "La Campanella" is only a few minutes long, quite suitable for appearing in this fast-paced era.

Therefore, Miss Luo Quan chose it.

And after "La Campanella" went online, it indeed caused a sensation.

Those in the know were marveling at its technical content.

Those not in the know were marveling at its beauty.

Besides this, fans were also marveling at Miss Luo Quan's beauty in the MV.

Fans in a happy mood were happily commenting in the comment section:

"This piece is too big."

"Eh?"

"I mean the difficulty is really too big."

"Haha, this is indeed Miss Luo Quan's most difficult piece so far. I've practiced piano for a few years, and after listening to it, I wanted to reproduce it, but as soon as I sat down, my whole body froze, and I couldn't play it at all."

"Indeed, this piece is really difficult, but the melody is very beautiful; it is truly a rare masterpiece."

"I can only say that Luo Bao's talent is still gushing out, and you can't even cover it up."

"What can't be covered up is not just talent? There's also her looks."

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In fact, for a genius singer like Miss Luo Quan, "running out of talent" will always be the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head.

Debuting at the peak and then constantly going downhill is the portrayal of many singers called geniuses.

And before this, more than one person had predicted this for Miss Luo Quan.

But facts have proven that it is still too early to say Miss Luo Quan has run out of talent.

She is still in the rising period until now, and there is no sign of any decline in her songs, whether in melody or thought.

And she has started to incorporate some of her own thinking about society, becoming endowed with humanistic care.

This is the right path from a simple love song singer to a true musician.

And Miss Luo Quan is already a musician to a large extent now; except for being a little young, there is no sense of disharmony in other places.

After "La Campanella" went online, the whole world was fascinated by this music that seemed like a clock turning.

That light and lively melody made the mood of all listeners involuntarily become happy, revealing satisfied smiles.

Of course, the capitalists responsible for selling Miss Luo Quan's album also had very satisfied smiles.

Whether domestic or foreign, the pre-sale volume of the new album is rising rapidly.

Currently, the total has already exceeded five million copies, and it is estimated that there is a very high probability of breaking the record set by her "Coming of Age" three years ago.

A while ago, people were still saying that even Miss Luo Quan would find it difficult to break this record in a short time.

Now it seems that everyone has underestimated Miss Luo Quan and her fans too much.

As long as the songs are excellent enough, fans are truly willing to spend money to buy records.

And on the other side, because the popularity of the "La Campanella" MV was too high, it occupied the trending searches both domestically and internationally.

Her stunning look while playing the piano also caused heated discussion.

From the makeup to the clothes on her body to the high heels, and even Xiao Yu and Da Hei lying on the side, all were the focus of public concern.

Miss Luo Quan had released a tutorial for the makeup; you can know how to apply it by directly checking her Bilibili videos.

As for the clothes, it was a piece of high-end custom-made Chanel; ordinary people can't afford it, but many Taobao clothing stores have already seen business opportunities and are preparing to imitate it.

It is estimated that it won't be long before "Miss Luo Quan piano imitation style" will become popular in the market, and the same goes for high heels.

And these two types of pets, Xiao Yu and Da Hei, also saw a sharp increase in sales on Taobao.

However, a Husky like Da Hei is still easy to find.

But there really aren't many top-tier Lion Cats like Xiao Yu, who is snow-white all over with a wisp of golden hair on the forehead.

Even if there were, they would have been sold out long ago; now it is in a stage of having a price but no market.

However, as long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

Clothes and shoes can be imitated, and cats can also be imitated.

If the fur color is wrong, dye it; if the fur on the neck is not fluffy enough, perm it, or just wear a wig.

In short, it is to imitate Miss Luo Quan's appearance, and then sit by the piano and take a few sets of heavily photoshopped photos that elongate the legs and waist.

After posting them, they became "Piano Goddesses" possessing elegant temperaments.

This kind of marketing method was quite popular on the internet before, like "Buddha Goddess," "Dao Goddess," "Yoga Goddess."

Some are for showing off wealth, some are just wanting to make themselves appear to have good taste, and then attract fans or sycophants or something.

Now they have a better template, and that is Miss Luo Quan.

What is a low-key, luxurious, and connotative way to show off wealth?

That must be playing the piano.

A good piano, cheap ones are hundreds of thousands, expensive ones are directly over a million.

And playing the piano is also an elegant art, which easily makes people think of words like high-end, surprise, and elegance.

Driving a luxury car and showing off a famous watch is blatant showing off of wealth.

But if it is playing the piano, the comment section will only say that the sister is so amazing and too elegant.

Just thinking about it makes one's vanity explode.

So after Miss Luo Quan hit the trending search, she inadvertently gave birth to the group of "Piano Goddesses."

Many rental villas with pianos have become quite popular in the past two days.

However, for these Piano Goddesses to rent one alone, the expenses are a bit huge and not cost-effective.

So it's still the old method: group buying.

It used to be dozens of people group-buying luxury cars, afternoon tea, luxury bags, etc.

Now it is group-buying pianos, but the nature is actually the same.

In general, it can be considered as driving social consumption and avoiding the waste caused by these items being left idle.

It's just that I don't know how many people on the internet will be deceived by these Piano Goddesses and become suckers or dupes.

Miss Luo Quan looked at the trending searches related to "Piano Goddess" and didn't intend to express any opinion.

Everyone has their own way of living; vanity, showing off, and liking the feeling of being rich—these are actually not wrong.

If it weren't for not being able to make money, who would want to be a poor person?

As long as it is not a way that violates the law or morality to make money, or to enjoy being rich, she will not have any opinion.

If everyone were equally rich and didn't have to worry about food and clothing, then the behavior of showing off wealth would not happen.

Of course, the ideal is good, but in a country with a population of over a billion, it is almost impossible to achieve it.

Miss Luo Quan has no grand ambitions or aspirations in this regard, so she never thinks too much about it.

After reading about the Piano Goddess matter, she didn't pay much attention to it.

Five songs released in a row for the new album; according to custom, rest for two days.

However, these two days of rest cannot be idle; she still has to live stream to interact with fans.

Last night, she released a new song, and fans asked her if she had decided what black silk stockings to wear for her birthday night.

Miss Luo Quan was very helpless, thinking to herself that you don't care about my birthday, but you keep asking about the style of black silk stockings; wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse?

But she couldn't say this directly, so she just perfunctorily answered: "What styles can black silk stockings have? Do they divide into three-tenths black, seven-tenths, and nine-tenths black?"

The implication is that just wearing any pair is fine; don't expect too many tricks.

After all, black silk stockings sometimes have only a tiny difference from erotic stockings, so it is best to choose more ordinary ones.

To avoid any problems when the time comes.

Fortunately, Mia and Wen Xia usually wear this kind of clothing, and they bought some that they hadn't finished wearing when shopping online before.

Miss Luo Quan took a pair from Mia, which basically fit, so she decided on it.

And the fans also knew when to stop; they had already let Miss Luo Quan compromise to wear black silk stockings, and if they pushed their luck, maybe there wouldn't be any benefits in the future.

So after asking last night, no one mentioned this matter again today.

Everyone is waiting for the arrival of Miss Luo Quan's birthday, looking forward to seeing a different her when Miss Luo Quan turns twenty-two.

As for Miss Luo Quan herself, she is actually looking forward to it in her heart.

She just feels that this is a key node for her to move from greenness to maturity.

After all, once there is a first time, there will soon be a second and a third time.

When black silk stockings become the norm, I don't know what kind of changes her mentality will undergo.