Chapter 233: This Song, Listen to It on Your Knees

"Scared the hell out of me! Scared the hell out of me!" Ma Dalong had only finished listening to the A-section, and his memories were already beginning to surge.

Foreigners learning Chinese take pride in being able to recite tongue twisters fluently.

This thing was too much of a mouthful, making Ma Dalong start to wonder: "Is Rap really something that originated from our side?"

If the rhyming in Rap was already difficult enough, then tongue twisters—things that challenge your tongue—simply doubled the difficulty!

"【The changes of level and oblique tones, level level oblique oblique level level oblique.】"

Ma Dalong listened to the song while looking at the lyrics.

He was certain that he recognized all these characters.

Yes, this foreigner even recognized the cramped 'oblique' character, so he could be considered a master-level Chinese learner.

However, he could not understand what it meant.

"【How clever the Chinese people are, how beautiful the Chinese Language is.】"

Oh my God! How did they manage to sing out my inner thoughts?

When he heard this line, he actually agreed with it in his heart.

Ma Dalong truly liked Chinese, and what he liked most was ancient poetry.

After coming to Huaxia, he increasingly realized the breadth and depth of Huaxia culture, feeling that it could bring him unparalleled shock in every aspect.

For example—food.

Coming from a country of dark cuisine, he could not figure out why there were people in the world who understood eating so well.

It seemed that anything, through the hands of the Huaxia people, could turn into a delicacy.

When he visited museums, he was also shocked by the artifacts inside; he could not have imagined that the ancients of Huaxia possessed such wisdom.

Not to mention his favorite poetry; he felt that the flavor within them could not be described by the modern poetry of his own country.

The better his Chinese became, the more he understood Huaxia, the more he was intoxicated by it, and the more he felt a sense of awe.

Therefore, when he often saw comments on the internet from Huaxia people belittling their own country's culture, a series of question marks would usually pop up in his brain.

"What are you doing!?" He could not figure it out.

He, a foreigner, felt immensely proud because he had been influenced by it.

Yet you all look down on it.

He had already thought about how to write a music review.

"No! I won't write a music review," he thought to himself.

Ma Dalong decided he would record a video.

He wanted to challenge the tongue twisters inside and learn the Singing style of the Aurora Girls.

"This must be Oriental Rap!" Ma Dalong thought.

For the whole afternoon, this international friend with blonde hair and blue eyes kept the song on Loop, and then started practicing from the tongue twister at the very beginning.

There were a few sections he was hearing for the first time, and a few sections he had practiced for a short while when learning Chinese, so they felt very familiar.

The strange thing was, even after keeping it on Loop for the whole afternoon, he actually did not get tired of listening to it.

It could only be said that the composition and Arranger work were equally strong.

He had an interest in language; this was a natural interest.

But the composition and Arranger work were the biggest help in allowing him to listen persistently.

The composer and Arranger of this song was Zheng Nan.

In one season of "Singer", the Arranger work was basically all handled by him.

Ma Dalong looked at the lines of text in the lyrics; the name Luo Mo could be said to have flooded the screen in the lyrics.

【Lyricist: Luo Mo】.

【Composer: Luo Mo】.

【Arranger: Luo Mo】.

【Producer: Luo Mo】.

【Mixing Engineer: Luo Mo】.

【Harmony Arrangement: Luo Mo】.

【String Arrangement: Luo Mo】.

A long string was all this name!

"With this person's songs, others probably can't earn a single cent from him, right?" Ma Dalong thought in his heart.

He did not know if it was a flash of inspiration or if he had developed a wicked thought, but a bad idea suddenly popped up.

He opened his group chat for the educational institution, which was full of foreign teachers.

He shared this song directly to the group.

Oh, my friends, come and recall the fear of once being dominated by tongue twisters!

This behavior was exactly like those people who, after reading a depressing article, desperately share it with friends, claiming it is a healing article.

It was also exactly like those jerks who, having been scared by a video, must scare more people to help themselves recover their souls.

Ma Dalong didn't just share it; he also tagged all 13 people in the group one by one. Since he was not the group owner, he did not have the 【@】 function for everyone in the WeChat group, but he did not mind the toil.

A few minutes later, he received a series of uniform replies, which were abbreviations of short insults.

He Dalong: "WTF!"

Hou Tianlei: "WTF!"

Zhong Dalong: "WTF!"

Yes, in a group of only 14 people, there were actually three 'Dalong's.

When these foreigners were learning Chinese, they had all been required by their Chinese teachers to practice tongue twisters.

It felt like these teachers were venting all the frustration they had while learning English onto them.

Tongue twisters are truly too hard on the mouth; they feel like they're burning the tongue when read aloud.

Seeing their intense reaction, Ma Dalong boastfully sent a voice message to show off his learning results.

"【Older brother and younger brother sit before the slope, on the slope sits a goose, under the slope flows a river."

Older brother says, the wide river; younger brother says, the white goose."

The goose wants to cross the river, the river wants to... %&***%##%】"

By the time he sang to the end, he didn't even know what he was singing anymore.

A Black friend in the group chat revealed a mouthful of white teeth when hearing this voice message.

"Rap! You've still got to look to us!" He instantly became deeply interested, preparing to practice hard to slap Ma Dalong in the face.

Hip Hop culture is, after all, our specialty.

Coincidentally, it wasn't just this group of foreigners in Huaxia learning this song.

Quite a few foreigners also spontaneously joined in.

Then, overnight, it began to spread virally!

The main thing is, posting these online generates heat.

People will give them likes.

What do people live for?

Of course, it's to show off!

Whether it's vanity at work or just to grab attention, in short, a trend began to sweep across major platforms.

This left the marketing teams of Xinyu and Luo Mo Studio stunned.

"What's going on? We haven't even made a move yet, and it's already a hit?" They suddenly felt like they were dispensable people in the company.

On Monday afternoon and evening, the song "Love Love Love" was still firmly at the top of the charts.

But by Tuesday, because of the appearance of a video, the situation changed.

On a certain short-video platform, a video titled "Mysterious Power from the East" surpassed one million likes.

In the video, an old foreign man with white hair, green eyes, and wearing a black cloak, holding a... chopstick, chanted a spell in the pitch black with a mysterious and cool posture.

"【There was a kid named Xiao Du, who went to the street to buy vinegar and cloth."

Bought the cloth, bought the vinegar, turned back to see an eagle catching a rabbit."

Put down the cloth, set down the vinegar, went forward to chase the eagle and the rabbit."

The eagle flew away, #%*@#%】"

Although he started spouting nonsense toward the end, he won on—confidence!

Finally, he waved his magic wand (a disposable chopstick), and a ball of Burning flames rose in the darkness, then transformed into three large characters—"Chinese Language"!

In just a few hours, the likes surpassed one million; by the afternoon, the short video had nearly 3 million likes!

As for the view counts and share counts, they were equally shocking!

And short-video platforms have one characteristic: once a video goes viral, thousands upon thousands of people will imitate it, forming a style, a trend.

Soon, long-legged blonde hotties joined in.

Soon, hotties from the fighting nation who could stretch the cartoon characters on their t-shirts out of shape joined in.

Soon, Black people wearing sunglasses and big gold chains, looking like rappers, joined in.

This caused "Chinese Language" to instantly ignite the entire internet.

A lyric from this song also climbed to the top of the daily Weibo Hot Search list because of this.

Because the scope and significance of this song are what they are, Weibo didn't mind promoting it vigorously.

"【The whole world is learning Chinese Language】!"

In reality, in this world, that is indeed the case; with the rise of national strength and the improvement of international status, more and more foreigners are learning Chinese.

And in fact, the most domineering lyrics of the whole song are in the final short segment.

"【The whole world is speaking Chinese Language,"

"The language we speak makes the world listen carefully.】"

It's hard to imagine this song was released in 2007 and apparently appeared on the 2008 Spring Festival Gala.

If there was such national confidence back then, why shouldn't we be confident now?

Many domestic music experts also began to learn to cover this song.

But because the difficulty is too high, the videos ended up divided into two types.

One type is comedy videos, the other is skill-flexing videos.

Regardless of the type, the heat is not low.

This Hip Hop tongue twister mode is even hailed as another great innovation by Luo Mo.

The most terrifying thing is that there seems to be a faint trend of it going viral abroad.

It's just that Luo Mo isn't very clear about how far it will develop.

The foreign market is also temporarily not in his scope of consideration.

At seven o'clock sharp in the evening, the New Song Chart and the Rising Chart on major music platforms updated once again.

With the support of massive heat and traffic, "Chinese Language" directly overtook "Love Love Love" on both charts, reaching the top of both!

The girl group actually beat the diva!

In reality, this song is not just targeting Pineapple.

Ever since Luo Mo was jokingly dubbed the "King of Pacifying Hip-Hop" by netizens, the Hip Hop circle has been filled with curses.

Many people who used to be in the underground scene are the type to even make memes out of the deceased; who would they not dare to curse?

The massive explosion of "Nocturne" made them all green with envy.

It can be said that the combined popularity of the hottest songs in the variety show "Hip-Hop King" is still far from that of "Nocturne".

This caused this group of guys, who probably don't know many English words and haven't read many books, to keep muttering: "Nocturne doesn't count as Rap at all!"

"What we play is West Coast!"

Many netizens were already unhappy listening to them.

After the appearance of this Hip Hop tongue-twister "Chinese Language", it directly ignited the emotions of the netizens completely.

"What kind of stuff is it that you guys are playing?"

"Is it high-class just because you force a few English words in?"

"I don't think Rap can't be popular in Huaxia; music has no borders, but let's not be overly obsequious to foreign things, okay?"

"The King of Pacifying Hip-Hop is truly worthy of the name!"

This song, the Hip Hop circle better kneel and listen to it!

(End of this chapter)