Chapter 272: The Blue and White Porcelain Awaits the Misty Rain

The Spring Festival Gala program list is generally announced in advance.

Therefore, everyone had long known that Luo Mo was about to bring a new song titled "Blue and White Porcelain".

Judging by the song title, it was eighty percent likely to be of the Chinese Style genre.

At the same time, everyone truly could not imagine what exactly would be sung inside a song with a name like "Blue and White Porcelain", or what kind of lyrics would be written.

But with the "Lanting Preface" as a fine example, everyone still felt highly expectant for this song.

The Chinese Style genre of music could be said to have been sweeping the nation over the past half year.

From Heavenly Kings and Heavenly Queens down to third-rate Singers, many people had tried this style.

But more or less, they all carried the shadow of the founding master.

Just when everyone was unable to shake off the shadow of the founding master, the founding master proved one point to everyone time and time again: everything can be Chinese Style.

As long as it is something from our Huaxia, it can be used as subject matter.

And so, this time the founding master set his sights on porcelain.

The significance of porcelain to Huaxia is naturally self-evident; one can see from the English name of Huaxia that this thing called porcelain is also world-renowned.

After the Spring Festival Gala program list was announced, many Lyricists and Singers in the industry went to the internet one after another to search for pictures of blue and white porcelain.

Looking at this exquisite porcelain, they began to fall into deep thought.

This was just like examinees working on a set-topic essay, wondering if it were them, what kind of song they could come up with?

Porcelain, what kind of tricks could be played with it?

You can understand singing about calligraphy in "Lanting Preface", after all, calligraphy is elegant and free-spirited.

Porcelain is a static object; are you going to describe its exquisiteness?

As the founding father of Chinese Style, Luo Mo has always led the industry trend.

Therefore, everyone would analyze, study, and learn from his every move!

Although "Blue and White Porcelain" only had a song title released, many people would let their imaginations run wild, and some even secretly wrote lyrics and music based on it, then quietly waited for the arrival of the Spring Festival Gala.

Once the program started broadcasting, they would compare it in private to see if they could learn something new.

As it turned out, the very beginning of Luo Mo's program did not disappoint the expectations of this group of humble and studious creators.

Musicians from the National Team were gathered, and the lineup was impressive.

Just the sound of the guzheng he played at the beginning made them sigh at their own inferiority.

"What is in this person's brain? How does he manage to make a single Yueqi sound so stunning?"

The most fatal thing is, having talent is one thing, but his looks are also so heaven-defying.

He just sat there playing the guzheng, letting this group of average-looking composers know that even if their talent could rival his, it would be impossible for their popularity to reach his height in this lifetime.

When he plays the guzheng, it is called a feast for the eyes; when we go up to play the guzheng, it is called damaging the national image, letting down the efforts of the Spring Festival Gala team, and affecting the mood and appetite of the whole nation on New Year's Eve.

When the prelude ended, Luo Mo finally began to sing.

Just the first line of lyrics made the eyes of many Lyricists watching the Spring Festival Gala Live Broadcast light up.

"【The plain embryo outlines the blue and white, the brushwork turns from thick to thin.】"

The artistic conception is excellent; the three characters "thick to thin" are used wonderfully.

And the next line made them feel they had been taught a lesson.

"【The peony painted on the bottle body is just like your initial makeup.】"

It transitioned to the direction of Romance so naturally!

The stage design of the entire performance gave people a sense of amazement at this moment; when the first line was sung, ink and brushwork spread out on the stage, perfectly matching the content sung in the lyrics, the ink color turning from thick to thin, and peony flowers blooming all around.

Numerous sounds of folk instruments rang out; each Yueqi's sound was actually extremely pleasant when taken alone, but after being blended together, they were incomparably harmonious.

In the barrage, the character that appeared most frequently was "beautiful".

The melody is beautiful, the lyrics are beautiful, the stage is beautiful, and the person is also beautiful!

Only then did the audience understand why these ladies holding folk instruments had to wear cyan cheongsams.

It had such a vibe!

"He has brought Oriental beauty to the extreme!"

"What you are seeing now is the founding master of Chinese Style!"

"Just this rhythm and the opening have already crushed the Chinese Style works of other Singers!"

"It's exploding! This song is too beautiful!"

The singing continued, and the stage special effects still achieved perfect unity with the lyrics.

"【The curling sandalwood incense passes through the window, I understand the thoughts in my heart,

The brush on the rice paper stops halfway here.】"

The imagery is very strong, as if thinking of that person, one cannot help but put down the brush in one's hand.

Chinese-style Romance is often subtle, isn't it?

Although many people on the internet act like perverts, knowing only how to be lewd, in real life, I am afraid they are all extremely reserved!

When Qian Qingyun first heard the Demo of this song, he understood that this song was too suitable for the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Because even though he was already an old man, he liked this song extremely much and thought it sounded very good.

As for the tastes of young people, Luo Mo has always grasped them very accurately and would not miss.

In other words, this is very likely to be a song that men, women, young, and old all like, a good song facing the Masses and facing the nation!

The Spring Festival Gala is meant to be a gala for the whole nation to watch, and this immediately hit the right note.

Luo Mo continued to sing, and more and more folk instruments were integrated into the accompaniment.

A luxurious song, that is no joke.

"【The glaze renders the painting of the lady, the charm is kept private,】"

And your sweet smile is like a flower bud waiting to bloom.

A wisp of your beauty drifts away,

To a place I cannot reach."

Backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, stars of all kinds could also hear the singing from the stage.

Magnetic Diva Xu Lianying listened to this "Blue and White Porcelain," and a deep sense of powerlessness welled up within her.

The song she had prepared for the Spring Festival Gala was of extremely high quality, and among all her own songs, it ranked as a superior work.

But this masterpiece of Chinese Style was simply too perfect for this stage.

Whether it was the lyrics, the composition, or the arrangement, it was all top-tier, through and through.

She couldn't even bring herself to think about competing with it.

Originally, everyone had been aiming for the top spot in the 【Song Category】, but this "Blue and White Porcelain" by Luo Mo was just a bit too bullying.

Everyone had expected him to unleash a big move, but they hadn't expected him to wipe them out the moment he started.

This song was unreasonably strong.

Except for Xu Chujing, the other Heavenly Kings and Divas all felt their composure crumbling a bit.

But what shocked them even more was actually yet to come!

At this moment, the song officially entered the chorus section.

On stage, the porcelain that appeared through special effects was breathtakingly beautiful, making everyone unable to help but marvel at the aesthetics and wisdom of the ancients.

Once the climax of the chorus hit, the talent could be described as pouring forth.

"【The sky-blue waits for the drizzling rain, and I am waiting for you.

The cooking smoke rises in curls, thousands of miles across the river.

On the bottom of the vase, the clerical script imitates the elegance of a past dynasty,

Just as if I were foreshadowing our meeting.】"

【Sky-blue after rain】 is the finest of the fine among Blue and White Porcelain; this glaze color can only be fired during drizzly weather, and very few survive to this day.

This is a low-probability event.

When Fang Wenshan was writing the lyrics, the first thing he wrote was 【The sky-blue waits for the drizzling rain】.

The feeling of the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River leaped off the page.

A thousand years of ancient charm, using objects to describe a person.

The second part of the chorus section began.

"【The sky-blue waits for the drizzling rain, and I am waiting for you.

The moonlight is salvaged, blurring the ending.

Like the world-renowned Blue and White Porcelain, beautiful all on its own,

Your eyes carry a smile.】"

After the second chorus ended, many songwriters and Singers backstage who were watching the Spring Festival Gala suddenly realized one thing.

In the first chorus, everyone was still intoxicated by the beautiful lyrics, but the second chorus made people realize something was wrong.

"This melody is not right! The melody of this chorus section is not right!"

"I didn't notice it at all during the first chorus; it actually took until the second one for people to react!"

"How did he do it? How on earth did he do it!?"

Many people were incredibly shocked because the chorus chord progression of "Blue and White Porcelain" used the one everyone had heard frequently in recent years: 【4536251】.

Yes, it was this so-called 【universal chord progression】, which in recent years had even been criticized as a low-class, trashy chord progression for many reasons!

Admittedly, the music scene in recent years had indeed been going downhill; many people didn't write works properly, instead taking a template and starting to plug things in—it was effortless, and yet people happened to find it pleasant to the ear and catchy.

But in reality, is this chord progression necessarily linked to being low-class? Can this overused chord progression truly not produce a sense of sophistication, truly not be innovated upon, and truly be nothing but monotonous?

Naturally, no!

Many people who originally didn't understand music suddenly learned a 【4536251】 and started firing wildly at everyone, which led to a saying that later became popular:

"Even if you are given 4536251, you just can't write 'Blue and White Porcelain'!"

At this very moment, this group of people who had already identified the chorus chord progression felt their scalps tingling.

These days, many people already deliberately avoid this chord progression when composing.

Once something is labeled as a cliché, people usually think about how to counter the cliché.

With so many people trashing this thing, everyone naturally avoids it as much as they can.

When writing songs in daily life, everyone avoids using it if they can, let alone tonight, which was the highest-spec Spring Festival Gala!

How did he, Luo Mo, dare to do it?

The program had been broadcast until now, and more than half of the song programs had already passed; this was the only song that used this chord progression.

Would you say it is low-class?

Would you say it is vulgar?

Would you say it is formulaic and clichéd?

But your ears are your own, and they won't lie to you.

It was precisely this chord progression that had been played to death by others, yet in his hands, after adding many detailed treatments and small changes, it unexpectedly had a full sense of sophistication!

It looked simple, yet the effect produced by the overall melody was beautiful to the extreme.

This made many people involuntarily think of that phrase again—【Great music must be simple】!

Countless songwriters and Singers were, at this moment, truly convinced.

This level of showing off one's skills was far beyond their expectations.

You must know, there is a rumor that this might be the only song that used this chord progression and still won Best Composer at the Golden Melody Awards!

With the same 4536 chord progression, as long as you transcribe and compare the scores, you can discover a gap as vast as a chasm!

"High skill makes for a bold heart, truly, high skill makes for a bold heart!" Composer Lv Yi, who had not appeared for a long time, could not help but speak up at home.

His daughter had long since secretly joined the Evil organization 【Mo Sheng Ren】, and hearing her father praise his Idol so lavishly, she could not help but ask: "Dad, is the composition of this song really that amazing?"

"The composition and the Arranger work are almost invincible in their category!" Lv Yi said.

He was a person who did not speak in absolute terms, which is why he added the word "almost."

From his personal perspective, this song was invincible in his heart within this chord progression; it was sophisticated to the extreme!

To what degree was it invincible?

Invincible to the point that if this song had been released before the Golden Melody Awards ceremony, it would be hard to convince the public if Best Composer and Best Arranger were not given to Luo Mo!

"Just watch, at this year's Spring Festival Gala, he might be the only one who dares to play with this chord progression!" Lv Yi said with a smile: "And no one will criticize him for being formulaic; instead, they will praise him to the heavens, feeling that this song has refreshed their understanding."

"It's really that amazing!" The daughter began to chime in, her intention actually being to hear Lv Yi praise him some more.

Composer Lv Yi nodded and said: "Do you know what level we generally use to describe the stage he displayed at this year's Spring Festival Gala?"

The girl shook her head, looking curious.

Lv Yi said in a deep voice: "Textbook level!"

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(End of this chapter)