Chapter 915: Art Olympics

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In the old days, pianists performed with their backs to the audience.

It wasn't until the appearance of Liszt that piano performance changed from facing away from the audience to facing the side of the audience.

The reason was that Liszt felt he was very handsome, so he felt that while letting the audience appreciate his wonderful music, they should also be able to appreciate his face.

And Miss Luo Quan also felt that she was not only beautiful but also very handsome.

So in the music video for *Uptown Funk*, she chose to use other aspects to reflect her handsomeness.

Aura, dance posture, and that outfit full of sexiness.

When the music started, she was the most beautiful kid on the whole street.

The awkward dance that was originally mocked by netizens, after being matched with this music full of rhythm, also became pleasing to the eye.

Music and dance were a pair of natural best partners; putting them together could produce an effect of one plus one greater than three.

And after Miss Luo Quan released this music video, the "whole internet mocking" that lasted only half a day instantly ushered in a big reversal.

"Miss Luo Quan is so handsome" became the number one trending search term on Weibo.

After watching the music video, the black fans all chose to shut their mics; they knew they would be severely humiliated again for the next period of time.

And the fans ushered in a carnival:

"Being a fan of Miss Luo Quan is really worry-free; no matter what rhythm there is, fans don't need to do anything, she can solve it herself, and it's super satisfying."

"What to do, why do I feel that 'sexy' is so appropriate when used on Miss Luo Quan?"

"Black silk imperial sister, enchanting queen, neighbor girl—there's always one that suits your taste."

"That's it for tonight's Weibo browsing."

"Is this something that can be said?"

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Compared to the explosive popularity in the country, the popularity of *Uptown Funk* abroad was even more intense.

Less than two hours after going online, the YouTube viewership exceeded ten million.

Many media outlets mentioned the word "sexy" when praising Miss Luo Quan.

What is sexy? The most straightforward understanding is being able to make the opposite sex interested in you.

But in people's view, Miss Luo Quan's sexiness was not only toward the opposite sex, but also an existence with great charm for all human beings.

On the other hand, the brainwashing degree of *Uptown Funk* was also beyond common sense.

The popularity continued to rise in the two days since its release, and there was no sign of decline at all, completely unlike those other internet hit songs that cooled down quickly after being popular.

Even video websites all over the world began to appear with a large number of follow-up content imitating Miss Luo Quan's dancing.

No way, her dance matched with the music was simply too magical; listening to it made people unable to help but want to dance along.

With so much follow-up creation, the popularity of the song naturally rose with the tide.

For a long time in the future, this song would probably be a dominant existence on the charts.

However, this didn't exceed Miss Luo Quan's expectations; after all, this song was also an existence that could hardly find an opponent in the pop music circle in the previous life, one of the most popular pop music of the second decade of the 21st century.

The dance in the song's music video was also a classic among classics, having already evolved into a pop culture symbol.

Being able to have such a grand occasion now was completely within reason.

And just when she was enjoying the joy of the new song becoming popular all over the world again, there was an extra email in her inbox.

It was sent by Deputy Director He of the GD Bureau, which contained a document about a brand-new international competition.

The content of the document was:

"Next March, the United States, Huaxia, Russia, Germany, and other countries will jointly hold an Art Olympics competition, and art practitioners from all over the world can participate.

The specific competition system will be announced subsequently."

When Miss Luo Quan saw this document, she was directly stunned.

She didn't expect that just after the Olympics ended, an Art Olympics was created; she didn't know which genius thought of this work.

Because there was investment from the five permanent members, the rewards for the competition were quite generous, and the authority was also very high, so for every artist, it was a good opportunity to make a name for themselves.

Originally, Miss Luo Quan shouldn't have been qualified to know this news in advance, but because her identity was relatively special, Director He told her in advance.

As for where she was special, it was naturally her unparalleled creative talent.

In terms of music, Miss Luo Quan was undoubtedly the most dazzling new star in the world today.

If she participated, among the eight arts, music—not to mention being within reach—was also very hopeful to win gold.

Therefore, she received special treatment.

Actually, it wasn't much special treatment, because the original plan for this document was to be released at night; telling her now was to let her have some mental preparation.

Of course, the most important thing was that Director He wanted to communicate with Miss Luo Quan and let her sign up for a few more projects.

This Art Olympics competition system had no limit on the number of projects a participant could sign up for; as long as you had the ability, you could sign up for as many as you wanted.

As everyone knows, Miss Luo Quan was an all-rounder, so of course, she couldn't just sign up for one project; for Huaxia, which lacked top talent, the more she signed up for, the better.

Otherwise, as a great country, having only a few gold medals out of hundreds of projects in the Art Olympics would be too ugly.

And for the arrangements of the superiors, Miss Luo Quan was of course very happy to follow.

After all, when she knew there was this competition, she felt it was a good opportunity for her to show off.

She was just worrying about what method to use to increase the growth rate of popularity points on a global scale; this was truly coming to a pillow just as she was about to sleep.

So Miss Luo Quan excitedly made a guarantee to Director He that she must win more than one gold medal this time.

In the evening, the news that the Art Olympics was about to be held hit the trending searches.

Such an art competition with global participation had never happened before.

After all, both East and West had their own unique artistic aesthetics, which were very difficult to compare with each other.

If they insisted on competing, the controversy would certainly be very large.

But now there was indeed a lack of an art competition that could allow the whole world to participate.

After planning and arguing for who knows how long, the Art Olympics finally appeared.

In mainstream cognition, art is divided into eight major categories, which are: literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture, drama, architecture, and film.

As long as you are good at one of them, you can participate in the Art Olympics.

And these eight major categories are each subdivided into a dozen different genres.

It's like track and field in traditional sports, with running, long jump, high jump, etc.

Music is also divided into composition, performance, and singing; in addition, composition can also be subdivided into classical composition, modern composition, and can even continue to be divided downward.

In this way, the competition system appeared very rigorous, and contestants of different art genres could also have a fair and just competition with other contestants in the same track.

After the news hit the trending searches, the discussion on the whole internet was extremely high.

After all, this also carried the name of the Olympics.

When the Tokyo Olympics were held a while ago, eight or nine out of ten trending searches were related to it, and in terms of popularity, almost nothing could be compared with it.

And now there was an extra Art Olympics; although everyone didn't know what it would look like, seeing so many great countries leading the organization, they knew the scene certainly wouldn't be bad.

And the host city of the first session was located in the center of the Western Renaissance—Florence, and the cultural atmosphere was also quite strong.

As long as no accidents occurred, the probability of this competition being a complete success was quite high.

For this Art Olympics, the voice of young artists was quite high.

These talented young people, because of the lack of time for precipitation, their reputation was often not as great as those old predecessors.

And those who do art were often not as easy to be popular as those celebrities.

Now that there was a competition that attracted global attention, for most young artists, even if they didn't win any ranking, just going on stage to show their works was very profitable.

So overnight, art talents all over the world were excitedly reviewing the works they had created for many years, wanting to choose the best one from them to send for the competition.

Of course, there were those who liked this competition, and naturally there were those who didn't.

Some elderly artists felt that art pieces didn't have high or low, strong or weak distinctions, and any behavior attempting to grade art was a blasphemy against art; this matter itself had nothing to do with art.

So they posted to criticize this competition, tasking that art shouldn't be quantified like this and should be canceled immediately.

However, artists who held opposing opinions were relatively few; most people felt that this was a good opportunity to promote the art world.

If more people could appreciate the beauty of art and attract more potential newcomers to learn art, it was absolutely a good thing.

So most of the voices were supportive.

Among the eight arts, the most popular right now must be music and film.

And Miss Luo Quan, known as the "Music Angel," was also curious to people; which projects would she participate in this time, and which works would she bring to the competition?

The competition system mentioned that contestants could use works that had been released before, as long as they were completed independently.

And Miss Luo Quan had released quite a lot of songs before this, and the number of classics among them was countless.

And the most valuable project in music was naturally classical composition, and the competition was also the most intense.

Because anyone who dared to touch classical composition, nine out of ten were masters.

After all, without three-three, how dare you go to Liang Shan?

Of course, even with so many masters, Miss Luo Quan was absolutely the most dazzling one among them.

Curious netizens never held back any questions, directly @Miss Luo Quan in the Art Olympics comment area, asking her to talk about which piece she would use to participate in the domestic preliminary competition.

Originally, everyone thought Miss Luo Quan would choose *Canon*, after all, this was known as the most beautiful melody in classical music.

However, Miss Luo Quan's answer was different from what everyone expected: "For the preliminary competition, I want to use *Waltz No. 2*."

This was a symphony Miss Luo Quan released during the Queen's birthday; it was magnificent and romantic.

When it was first released, it also caused a sensation and was hailed as the best waltz in decades.

The facts were indeed so.

After all, this piece was one of the most excellent waltzes in the previous life, and even in Lin Mo's view, this "one of" could be removed.

This piece was the work of the former Soviet musician Shostakovich.

Legend has it that this talented musician was disliked by the "Kind Father" because his works were too capitalist, and he spent his whole life waiting to be shot.

However, when the Kind Father passed away, there was a list of names in his safe that could not be touched no matter what, and Shostakovich's name was among them.

Whether this legend was true or not could no longer be verified, but this musician's talent was unquestionable; he was a master destined to leave his name in history alongside Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and other music titans.

As for the so-called musical style not being correct enough, in Miss Luo Quan's view, it was biased.

Take *Waltz No. 2* for example; a waltz is also called a waltz, which is the most common social dance in the European court, symbolizing an elegant and luxurious court life.

*Waltz No. 2* indeed embodied these elements very well, but this was only the appearance.

The core of this song was solemn irony, dark light, evil kindness, and joyful sadness.

This was a contradictory piece; it seemed to be singing the praises of the nobility and the extravagant life of paper-intoxicated gold, but in fact, this was a song written for the working people.

However, most people might not necessarily be able to hear it.

Moreover, the occasion where this song was brought out was indeed at a luxurious noble banquet, so it had a considerable misleading effect.

Only when she specifically interpreted this song in the future would the world know its true meaning.

Of course, the core of the song might not be understood by everyone.

But the melody of the song, as long as you had ears, you could understand it.

*Waltz No. 2*, as classical music, also possessed a catchy feeling that modern people could fall in love with as soon as they heard it.

This was something many classical music pieces didn't possess.

Being appreciated by both refined and popular tastes was its greatest feature; while having extremely high artistic value, it could also make ordinary people listen with relish.

This was also the reason why Miss Luo Quan was preparing to use this song to participate in the Art Olympics preliminary competition.

According to the competition system, she had to participate in the domestic preliminary competition first, and after passing, become a Huaxia contestant.

Then compete with contestants from various countries for a round, and finally be able to officially step onto the Art Olympics stage.

Conservatively estimated, she would need at least three songs.

Currently, the first one had been decided, and there were two left; she would talk about them after passing the domestic preliminary competition.

Besides that, she wasn't just signing up for classical music composition this time.

She would also participate in various music types of modern music, such as soul, rock, R&B, pop, etc.

And the United States, as one of the hosts of this competition, added rap to these modern music projects; this belonged to the traditional strength of the United States and was the host's welfare.

And Huaxia of course also possessed this privilege, and added two projects: Huaxia-style pop music and Huaxia-style pure music.

As for what Huaxia-style was, it was completely defined by the Huaxia people themselves.

For the people of the country, the advantage in these two projects was not small; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them free points.

But if they lost the championship, it would truly be losing face to the grandmother's house.

So Director He repeatedly urged Miss Luo Quan: other projects didn't matter, but only these two must be guaranteed to be won.

The good news was that Miss Luo Quan agreed very crisply. ===== CHAPTER 916 =====