Chapter 205: 《Maple》

I don't know when it started, but a saying began to circulate among the fans of Zhou Jielun.

"Listen to 'Simple Love' in spring, 'Common Jasmine Orange' in summer, 'Maple' in autumn, and 'Nocturne' in winter."

'Maple' can be considered the song among Zhou Dong's tracks that best matches the autumn season.

This album, titled 'November's Chopin', was released at the transition between autumn and winter, which happens to fit the time Luo Mo is currently in.

After the song title appeared, many viewers who had just seen Chen Shanqi's Weibo knew why she said she was giving spoilers.

So, she had spoiled her Director's new song so thoroughly!

The pre-chorus of the song rang out, still a simple piano melody.

The bullet comments surged at this moment.

"Luo Mo can always use the simplest melodies to play out a different feeling!"

"Speechless, why can it be both simple and high-class?"

"Pre-chorus Kill! Every time he brings out a Pre-chorus Kill, I know—this song will likely have slurred lyrics!"

"Hahahaha, I have the same intuition!"

However, as a typical slow song, 'Maple' actually focuses more on the rendering of emotions in its pre-chorus, spreading out the sorrow and loneliness of autumn.

It is worth mentioning that the composer and Arranger of this song are still Zhou Jielun and Zhong Xingmin.

The Lyricist is named Tandu, and everyone might be more familiar with the group he is in, 【Nan Quan Mama】.

There is no need to mention Zhou Dong's consistent care for this group. In fact, even now, the figures of some members of Nan Quan Mama can still be seen among the main members of Zhou Jielun's concerts.

The Lyricist of 'Maple', Tandu, once stated in an interview that the most correct thing he had done in his life was writing songs like 'Stranded' and 'Maple' for Zhou Jielun.

Because of these songs, even if he does nothing every year, he can still steadily have an income of over a million...

In fact, 'Maple' has a feeling of being in the same vein as 'Stranded' in terms of composition and arrangement.

I won't go into technical terms; to summarize the characteristics in plain words, it is—especially difficult to sing!

After the pre-chorus ended, Luo Mo, wearing a black overcoat, began to sing.

"【Dark clouds leave a shadow in our hearts,"

I listen to the long-silent mood,"

Clear and transparent, just like a beautiful landscape,"

Only seen clearly in memories.】"

Teacher Lv Yi, sitting in the front row, listened to the pre-chorus and the first few lines of singing, and said in his heart: "Starting with C as the Key."

"And the starting pitch is a bit high."

No one has ever questioned Luo Mo's high-pitched Singing ability.

As mentioned before, there has always been a saying in the music scene: for an opera singer to sing pop, that is a dimensionality reduction strike.

But in reality, he doesn't love to belt out high notes on stage at every turn.

Many Singers, in order to show off their skills, forcibly adapt many sincere and peaceful songs, adding high notes into them.

Luo Mo rarely does this.

On the stage of 'King of Love Songs', what left a deep impression on everyone regarding his high notes was the B-section of 'What If It Never Happened'.

"Perhaps it's because it's already the grand finals, so he wants to get the stage hyped up?" Lv Yi thought to himself.

"Looking at the singing method, it is that very typical lyrical narrative style, unhurried and calm," he thought.

Because singing up to this point, the overall accompaniment was only embellished with a few simple piano sounds.

Under such circumstances, the vocals would be extremely prominent.

"Could this be 'high skill makes one bold'?" many professional judges thought in their hearts.

If it were them writing the music, they wouldn't dare to write like this for the Singers.

Either they would be told "it can't be sung," or it would be returned.

Only until singing up to this point did new Yueqi sounds join the accompaniment.

"【Can the heart that has been hurt through continue to love me,"

I use force to hold hands that have no warmth."

Past Gentle, has already been locked by time,"

Only the lingering sadness remains.】"

Lv Yi's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this.

"It's coming!" he said in his heart.

When the two words "sadness" were sung, the pitch of the whole song suddenly rose.

It really gave the feeling of a sudden autumn breeze blowing in late autumn.

On the stage, special effects began to appear.

Maple leaves filled the sky, falling from above, covering the ground in gold and red.

The bullet comments increased instantly, and netizens expressed their emotions.

"Wow! This dog director Ke Ming finally decided to spend money on the stage design!"

"These special effects are stunning; to be precise, the maple leaves themselves are beautiful!"

"It reminds me of the maple leaf avenue at school."

"The sense of imagery is so strong; I suddenly feel that the whole song has become even more beautiful."

And amidst the bleak autumn wind and the fire-red ground, Luo Mo, wearing a black overcoat, made many female viewers stare wide-eyed.

The atmosphere was pulled to the max!

"The male leads of Idol dramas can retire."

"If future Idol drama male leads don't meet this standard, I won't watch!"

"It's killing me, I really want to hide in his coat!"

The climax of the chorus resounded through the entire venue at this moment, and the content of the lyrics achieved a perfect unity with the stage effects.

"【The slowly drifting Maple leaves are like longing,

I light a candle to warm the autumn at the end of the year.

The aurora flashes across the horizon, the north wind brushes past the face that misses you.

I burned my love into fallen leaves, but I cannot trade it back for that familiar face.】"

High above the stage, there were indeed auroras beginning to flash.

The overall effect was magnificent.

Since it is the grand finale, it must be expensive.

Ke Ming would never be vague in this regard; even if Luo Mo wanted to plant the entire venue full of real Maple trees, he would find every way to get them.

After all, a perfect conclusion to the grand finale is especially important; only in this way can the second season of King of Love Songs be successfully launched.

If the grand finale gives people a feeling of loud thunder but small raindrops, then everyone's expectations for the second season will also instantly decrease.

"If the market expectations are low, how can I trick investors and title sponsors out of their money?" Ke Ming thought to himself.

It must be said that his professional dedication in this regard was still maxed out.

The appearance of high notes, along with the addition of various string instruments in the music, made the whole song become even more grand.

Zhong Xingmin's Arranger level is extremely high, and precisely because of this, his many collaborations with Zhou Jielun almost always result in classics.

The magnificence of the strings, combined with the Maple leaves falling all over the sky, gave people a strong audiovisual enjoyment.

And the pitch of the entire song was still constantly rising.

The most terrifying thing is that after the pitch was raised, Luo Mo still hadn't used any falsetto.

——It was all being sung in full voice!

It's killing me, did you forget that you still have to sing the second song of the grand finale later?

It's one thing that you're using full voice for everything, but the arrangement of the whole song has all the high notes right at the vocal break points!

This is simply not giving yourself any time to rest!

Clearly, most songs will drop back slightly at the vocal break points and then rise again. You insist on continuing to rise at every vocal break point, constantly climbing.

Is your diaphragm rented, that you have to use it so hard!?

It's a good thing the breathing time reserved in the whole song is long enough, otherwise it would be even more agonizing.

On Earth, someone once asked on the internet: "Why does Zhou Jielun rarely sing 'Maple'?"

The most upvoted reply was only one word: "Difficult."

With the growth of Zhou Dong's age, there are more and more people making memes about this on the internet.

"In the past, Jielun would tilt his head, and the high notes would come. Now, he tilts his head, sticks out his belly, and the microphone is handed out."

But these are just jokes after all; after all, whenever he hands out the microphone, it always triggers a sing-along.

The climax of the chorus was still continuing, and Luo Mo stood in front of the microphone stand, yet the feeling he gave was as if it were effortless.

His voice was forged by 19 years of Basic Skills.

"【Let love permeate the ground,

All I want is for you to be by my side.】"

As soon as this lyric came out, the camera gave Luo Mo a close-up of his face directly.

In the creation of the overall atmosphere, it forcibly crafted a feeling of deep affection for the audience.

After finishing the beginning of the B section, everyone thought it was going to start the Loop of the chorus climax again.

As a result, he changed the key, and the entire song entered a brand-new melody.

The pitch was elongated, and it could actually continue to build the atmosphere even higher.

This different melody did not cause any sense of abruptness; instead, it provided an even deeper layer of foreshadowing!

This made those composers and Arrangers among the professional judges feel that their horizons had been broadened once again.

"How on earth did he do it!" They were incredibly envious of this ability.

Amidst the sky full of fiery red, Luo Mo sang loudly:

"【The red rain drifting on the hillside, withering with the north wind,

I gently sway the wind chime.

Wanting to awaken the abandoned Romance,

The snowflakes have already covered the ground,

Fearing that the Maple leaves outside the window have already frozen into ice.】"

Having returned to the backstage lounge, the scruffy-bearded Heavenly King Zhao watched Luo Mo's performance, his heart feeling like dead ashes.

"For the grand finale, he still put in the effort regarding the music." Zhao Xueqin sighed.

He could already imagine what the comments in the Live Broadcast were saying right now.

But regarding these incredibly Ox strings, he couldn't say anything.

The most important thing is that this Singing technique is also impeccable.

He now feels that it is a great fortune for the domestic Idol industry that Luo Mo did not become an Idol.

Otherwise, he would definitely have caused an even greater impact on this industry!

At this very moment, the performance on stage had already reached the concluding part.

When singing "【Two lines of tears from the end of autumn】", the word "tears" began to feature a vocal turn.

This Singer, who kept hitting high notes with full voice, finally used falsetto!

But in reality, this is also a form of showing off skills.

To hold a high note in your true voice for so long, and then suddenly switch to falsetto, the difficulty coefficient is ridiculously high; one slip and your voice will crack.

Yet, Luo Mo completed it perfectly.

After Singing the final iteration of "【Let love permeate the ground, all I want is for you to be by my side】," the stage effects reached their maximum.

Maple leaves covered the sky and earth, and for a brief two seconds, one could not even see clearly where Luo Mo was.

When all the Maple leaves dissipated, only one sentence remained on the big screen.

"【Born as an evergreen leaf, once stained with Acacia, it is no longer the same.】"

The song ended, and the entire venue screamed!

(PS: First update, requesting monthly tickets! I've left one day for readers who do voice acting to practice "Maple," hoping to hear some stunning covers, hahaha.)

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