Chapter 130: Suspected New Song of Chinese Opera

Facing the temptation of the position of Music Director, Luo Mo ultimately just smiled and said, "President Shen, can our company appoint two Music Directors?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Shaoqiu was amused.

"You kid!" He pointed at Luo Mo, unable to misunderstand his meaning.

He wanted to be a leader in the company, but complained that there was too much work.

In reality, the Music Director mainly grasps the general direction and has very little grunt work; this position was actually quite suitable for him.

Luo Mo was just afraid of trouble.

Ultimately, he only said, "President Shen, if you don't have a suitable candidate for the time being, I can fill in temporarily, but I can't guarantee I'll do it for too long, and as you know, there's a lot to do at the studio, and I still have to prepare for 'King of Love Songs'."

"That's fine, then you do it for now." Shen Shaoqiu nodded and agreed directly.

In his view, Qian Wei's previous grasp of the general direction was not excellent enough.

Luo Mo seemed very sharp regarding the market; now many people in the industry say this genius songwriter has a hand that can turn stones into gold, and he seems able to grasp the preferences of the audience very well.

Let him try and see if there can be any change.

At the same time, giving him a position would also make it easier for him to get along with the Singers in the company.

Shen Shaoqiu knew very well that if it weren't for the fact that Luo Mo was busy with his debut album and "King of Love Songs" recently, and that the Singers of Xinyu were afraid of affecting him or making him unhappy, plus having Shen Yinuo blocking the way, the Singers of Xinyu would have long since crowded up to cozy up to him.

After all, they were young people, and Shen Shaoqiu did not want them to affect Luo Mo; giving him a position would also make his backbone stiffer.

This kind of son-in-law-level treatment would likely arouse the envy of many people.

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The next day, Qian Wei was transferred away.

He held company shares and was an old hand at the company, very loyal, but his ability was insufficient and he did not fit the company's current general direction.

Therefore, he was just moved to a different seat, to the place where he belonged.

The Music Director is extremely important to a company.

Those first-line and second-line Singers at Xinyu might have a steadier mindset, but those third-line and fourth-line ones, as well as those Newcomers, were a bit panicked.

They had finally gotten familiar with the original Music Director, and who the hell knew what kind of temper this new lord would have?

For a time, there was much discussion within Xinyu.

"I wonder who will Air Drop into the Music Director position."

"Could it be Kong Liang who tops Qian Wei's position? He has coveted this position for a long time."

"Who knows! I don't know if we'll be able to get along with this new director, sigh."

"Qian Wei seems quite resigned to being transferred away; I haven't heard him complain in private."

"Really? Could it be that they dug up a Great God from the outside?"

Once the news that Luo Mo was temporarily filling in for Qian Wei's Music Director position was released, Xinyu exploded!

Most Singers were both shocked and excited.

A 24-year-old Newcomer, although currently said to be temporarily filling this position, would likely shake the industry if it got out!

Unprecedented; such a thing had never happened before!

If this matter had happened before "East Wind Breaks", then those first-line Singers at Xinyu might have been a bit unhappy.

After all, as first-line Singers, they also possessed quite a few hit songs and had high popularity. Previously, Luo Mo signing an S-class contract had already made these people a bit jealous, feeling that the company shouldn't do things this way.

But after Tong Shu's new album slaughtered the charts, the wind direction shifted, and the sudden emergence of "East Wind Breaks" made many people shut up directly.

The broad category of 【Chinese Style】 is currently too short on songs.

"East Wind Breaks" is currently occupying the top spot on the Hot Song Chart; it's red-hot!

In this situation, if Luo Mo, the founding ancestor of Chinese Style, were willing to write a Chinese Style song for any one of us... wouldn't that be exhilarating!?

Those quasi-first-line Singers and quasi-second-line Singers had been seeking a breakthrough for a long time.

However, Qian Wei was really not very good in this regard.

But Luo Mo is different; he was able to promote even Tong Shu, who was originally like a nobody, to be as popular as he is now.

By the same logic, perhaps we can too!

Admittedly, a company having a Newcomer director, a 24-year-old director, might be teased, mocked, or even ridiculed by a few people.

But so what?

Like Chen Shanqi, she was even dying for this phenomenon to happen.

"Luo Mo is, after all, a hot-blooded young man; if he is mocked and wants to prove himself, doesn't he have to show off his strength?"

"Then he needs to promote people and needs to do things that Qian Wei couldn't do."

"What if... the one being promoted is me!?"

This female Singer who had been "ridden" on the charts by Luo Mo felt that she was holding a love number tag and that the chances were high.

It must be a special fate to be ridden all the way and then become family.

This new director lord will officially take office next Monday and start drawing the Music Director's salary.

At the same time, the three new songs from his new album "Red" will also be officially uploaded next Monday.

Whether it's within Xinyu or the entire music scene, everyone is watching.

"East Wind Breaks" has already opened up the structure of this album, so will his next songs continue to push the momentum of the whole album higher, or will there be a decline?

All of this will have to wait until Monday to find out.

At this time, Luo Mo received a WeChat from Shen Yinuo.

"Luo Mo, do you know what the most common meme in the company is after the news of you temporarily filling the Music Director position got out?" Shen Yinuo asked.

"What?" Luo Mo was curious.

Shen Yinuo immediately sent one and said with a giggle, "Haha, your popularity is really high!"

This meme actually only has a few large characters—【Luo Mo, get to work!】

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……..

Over here, they are still busy with the "get to work" meme.

On the other side, a certain Great God nearly lost his reputation a few days ago and was about to retire in disgrace.

The phenomenon of a "Luo-style Escape" is not quite there yet, but it has indeed caused Huang Xishan, this Great God, to lose all Face.

Fortunately, the new week is finally arriving, and the new battle of the charts is about to begin.

Whether he can regain his Face depends on this week.

Honestly, Huang Xishan and Zhao Xueqin feel that this week will be somewhat torturous.

As mentioned before, in their new album "Second Cup of Coffee," they are mainly playing R&B, but they have also made many new attempts, seeking a breakthrough.

One of these attempts is Opera……..

When producing the album, who the hell could have imagined they would be competing against a Newcomer who hadn't even debuted yet?

At that time, they didn't care about these messy things at all.

In fact, Zhao Xueqin even thought that if this little brother from "Creating Idols" successfully debuted as part of a group and then joined our Pineapple Entertainment, he would give him a chance to sing a duet with him and let him sing the Opera part.

Well, that's great now; he's walked right into his line of fire.

This song is called "Butterfly," just one word, and it is one of the three songs to be released on Monday.

Pineapple actually has confidence; the quality of these three songs is there, and unless Luo Mo pulls off another "founding a sect" move, they have a fighting chance.

They are only worried about two points.

"First, Luo Mo releases another high-quality Chinese Style song!"

The wave of Chinese Style has already been stirred up, and the attitude of many people on the internet begging for songs can be described as famished; they are full of longing for this new genre, and their ears are not being satisfied.

"Second, Luo Mo also releases a song with Opera Elements at the same time."

He comes from a famous school, his master is the titan Tong Qinglin, and he has practiced Opera diligently for 19 years; his foundation is different.

What's more, Luo Mo's "Red Actor" has already made a name for itself and has a foundation.

If songs of the same type start fighting, the onlookers will love to watch it.

"Coffee" is R&B style, "East Wind Breaks" is currently a unique new-style Chinese Style; it is equivalent to a battle between gods across different fields.

But if it's the same type, the concept of winning or losing is very different.

But after discussing it, Huang Xishan and Zhao Xueqin felt their state of mind calm down.

"Teacher, do you think Luo Mo will put the song 'Red Actor' that he sang with Xu Chujing into his new album?" Zhao Xueqin asked.

Huang Xishan nodded and said, "It's very possible; he can use this to raise his status."

Xu Chujing is a Heavenly King, and having a duet with a Heavenly King on a new album is a different level; the promotional resources the new album receives later will also rise to a higher tier.

Many old songs that have been released for months are also put into albums by Singers; this is very normal.

Songs like "Double Happiness" and "Daughter's Love," Luo Mo will definitely put into the new album to release an official version.

Because although the copyright is in his own hands, he doesn't get much revenue from the live version sung on the show.

Under normal circumstances, if Luo Mo wanted to put the duet version of "Red Actor" into the new album, Xu Chujing's side would definitely object.

But the two seem to have a good relationship, and Xu Chujing has been helping him promote his new album and even reposted it on Weibo, so there is a certain possibility.

"If we are competing against the duet version of Xu Chujing and Luo Mo, then the significance of winning or losing is not great," Zhao Xueqin said.

After all, Xu Chujing is on the same level as him in the music scene; overall, the triple-threat Heavenly King Xu Chujing is definitely stronger than the Heavenly King Zhao Xueqin, who only works in the music scene.

Losing to her is not shameful.

"And it's not certain that we will lose, because this is an old song, and everyone's sense of novelty has passed," Zhao Xueqin said.

Huang Xishan nodded and said, "This battle is not hard to fight; you might as well put more energy into 'King of Love Songs' now; on that stage, your advantage is greater."

He left half a sentence unsaid: this sense of crushing in a face-to-face competition is definitely stronger than fighting a battle from afar.

Zhao Xueqin responded, and the two had a tacit understanding.

At this moment, Zhao Xueqin remembered something and said, "Teacher, have you heard? Luo Mo replaced Qian Wei's position and is temporarily serving as the Music Director of Xinyu."

"I've heard; it's truly nonsense," Huang Xishan frowned.

He also served as the Music Director of Pineapple for a period of time, but later, as he got older and entered a semi-retired mode, he stopped.

In his view, a Music Director controls the overall direction. Luo Mo can indeed be considered an excellent producer, but this is different from being a Music Director.

Production is production; do you have the ability to make a hit song for every Singer in the company?

Huang Xishan does not think Luo Mo is qualified to sit in such a position like them.

In the entire circle, there has never been a 24-year-old Music Director!

A wry expression appeared on Zhao Xueqin's face, and he said, "President Wang was so angry he laughed when he heard this news."

"How so?" Huang Xishan asked.

"President Wang probably wants to directly target all of Xinyu," Zhao Xueqin said.

Pineapple's top leader, Wang Shisong, actually feels that Shen Shaoqiu really took advantage for a moment after signing Luo Mo and has become obsessed.

Very well, not only are you going to sign him with an S-Class Contract and wipe away Pineapple's Face, but you are also going to let him be the Music Director, letting him lead Xinyu's music field, right?

Then fine, let's see who is better in the field.

Next, Pineapple might keep an eye on Xinyu and continuously create album battles.

To be precise, this isn't even a battle; it's directly sniping at the songs released by Xinyu's Singers!

You release songs under the guidance of Music Director Luo Mo, and we will send people to fight you.

Huang Xishan understands Wang Shisong's temperament; this entertainment mogul, who used to resort to Xuezang and bans at every turn many years ago, has a very murderous nature.

He just looked at Zhao Xueqin and said, "These are not things we should worry about; we just need to do our own work well."

Zhao Xueqin understood in his heart that although his teacher spoke nicely, wasn't their own job also to crush Luo Mo?

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Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already Sunday.

Over these past few days, Zhao Xueqin's personal Weibo account had successively revealed the titles of his three new songs.

For one of the songs, he even released two lines from the chorus.

This kind of tactic is relatively common nowadays; for instance, when Jackson Wang and JJ Lin collaborated on "Over," they released a few lines during the promotion, specifically selecting a part that was inexplicably catchy and left people wanting more.

But in reality, when you listen to the full version, you feel like it doesn't have much connection to the edited teaser content.

As for Luo Mo's side, the studio only revealed to the public that the three songs would include "Xi" and "Daughter's Love."

As for the one brand-new song, Luo Mo himself would provide a spoiler on major social media platforms at seven o'clock tonight.

At exactly seven o'clock in the evening, Luo Mo posted the spoiler content on Weibo and other social media platforms on time.

The accompanying text read: Look at the picture and guess, guess, guess.

The image attached below was a piece of calligraphy with the words 【Prospering Day by Day】 written on it.

This piece of calligraphy also bore the seal of the old master Tong Qinglin.

Netizens could tell at a glance that it was a gift of calligraphy from Luo Mo's master.

The comment section began to buzz with discussion.

"Tsk, Old Master Tong's calligraphy is amazing. Look at the brushwork, the energy, the... well, I don't understand calligraphy, I just simply think it looks good!"

"Since it's a gift of calligraphy from his master, then the new song must definitely contain an Opera Element, right!?"

"The performer!!!"

"Place your bets, place your bets, no more changes!"

"Could it also be related to calligraphy? But I don't seem to have heard of any songs related to calligraphy. Forget it, I'm still betting on Opera!"

(PS: First update, 4000 words, asking for monthly tickets!)

(End of this chapter)