Chapter 364: In the Name of the Father

In the minute and a half of time, it is all prelude.

In the Mandarin music scene of Blue Star, is there anyone who plays like this?

Naturally, there is.

When the forest is large, there are all kinds of birds; there are so many Singers and creators in the music scene that many strange and peculiar tactics have been played by someone.

But are there any that are popular?

The answer is—not a single one.

It is just like in the web novel circle, where many novels by Great God authors have very slow-burning openings, and underneath there will appear many comments similar to: "If this book wasn't written by you, I would have stopped reading long ago."

Music is the same principle.

If it were a song by an ordinary Singer, perhaps after thirty or forty seconds of prelude, if the Singing hadn't started yet, everyone would stop listening.

"I came to listen to a song, not to listen to pure music."

However, as everyone listens immersively until now, is it really just because this song was written by Luo Mo?

Actually, that is not the case.

Yuan Hewen and the others were shocked several times while listening to this minute-plus prelude.

The more they are people in this line of work, the more they can feel how superb the techniques inside are.

It would not be an exaggeration to say he is showing off his skills!

But, generally speaking, so-called showing off skills is showing off things that everyone can understand.

For example, after Rap has Single Rhyme, Double Rhyme, and Triple Rhyme, if you start rhyming crazily, that is showing off skills.

But the feeling Luo Mo gives people is not that he is showing off anything, because the technique he displays is beyond the scope of everyone's understanding.

He is more like he is creating something, Pioneering something!

This kind of dark gothic style was already manifested in part in "Chapter Seven of the Night".

And the feeling given by this "In the Name of the Father" seems to be even richer in the handling of the oppressive atmosphere of the accompaniment.

The introduction to the album "Ye Huimei" also stated that the main song, "In the Name of the Father", is a gloomy song rich in the flavor of "The Godfather" gangsters.

The singing spreads out, and the opening part is still Rap.

This kind of "Classical + Rap" mode still gives people a refreshing feeling.

The lyrics, like "Chapter Seven of the Night", are extremely visual and thought-provoking.

"【The cool morning dew dampens the black tuxedo,

There is fog on the stone path, Father is whispering low.】"

Just this opening line of lyrics made the Lyricist present, Qian Qinglang, say in his heart: "Very stunning! How were these kinds of lyrics written?"

The Lyricist of this song is named Huang Junlang. Yes, "Chapter Seven of the Night" was also written by him.

Many people think that Zhou Jielun's go-to Lyricist is Fang Wenshan; in reality, the lyrics Huang Junlang has written for Zhou Jielun are truly no fewer than Fang Wenshan's.

Such as "Trajectory", "Mojito", "Reverse Scale", "General", "Cowboy is Busy", "Past Life Lover", etc.

This person is a freak genius.

Many people say that Fang Wenshan is someone who very much wants to leave his name in history in the field of lyric writing, leave behind achievements, and is a person who climbs hard.

Huang Junlang is different; this is someone who disdains writing lyrics, is single-mindedly focused on writing novels, and only writes lyrics for a living.

Zhou Jielun treats him as a friend and lets him write whatever he wants, since he pays him anyway. He buys him clothes and houses, all of which are refused. He also seems to be the friend around Zhou Dong who is best at scolding him...

This person doesn't care about the market at all when writing lyrics and will not cater to it at all. Usually, he just does whatever makes him happy.

Whimsical, unrestrained, with a very strong personal style, he is adept at atmosphere creation and the use of lyrical techniques.

Therefore, when you look at the lyrics he writes, many question marks often pop up in your brain.

"What was this person thinking?"

"How could this person write like this?"

"How did this person write this?"

However, there is another reason why this person's popularity is lower compared to some others. That is, he has written many songs for Zhou Jielun, but in reality, his output is very low, and he rarely writes songs for other Singers.

Therefore, the industry calls him a Low-Yield Genius.

Interestingly, Qian Qinglang in the God of Wealth trio is also a bit like this.

The lyrics he writes, if not composed by Fu Hong and arranged by Jin Lingling, will give people a very thick sense of weirdness.

To be precise, because these three people are all very weird, when they get together, they achieve a magical neutralization, giving people a feeling that is very distinctive and very memorable.

But when taken apart to create independently, it is straight-up shit.

Yuan Hewen could never have imagined that his own friendly forces had only heard one line of lyrics before already enshrining the enemy as a soulmate, producing a feeling of mutual appreciation.

——【Ding! Defection progress loading, current progress 20%】

The more Qian Qinglang listened, the stronger that sense of resonance became.

Just listening to the lyrics coming from the singing:

"【The fog that cannot be blown away hides the intent,

Who paces lightly and stops,

Before there is time to cry, the passing bullet takes away the warmth.】"

When he heard this, he almost couldn't help but raise his hand to pat the tabletop.

He loved this line, "【Before there is time to cry, the passing bullet takes away the warmth】", too much.

"Violent aesthetics, I feel violent aesthetics!" he shouted in his heart.

And the content that followed made him feel even more satisfied the more he listened.

It is also in the form of Rap, but Luo Mo changed the way of Singing.

The lyrics seem to be praying to the Lord and repenting to the Lord, but that feeling of a gangster boss is truly too thick.

【"We are all guilty, committing different sins.

I can decide who is right, and who should fall into a deep sleep.

Arguments cannot resolve the endless night,

Shut your mouth, the only grace."】

A sentence instantly popped into Qian Qinglang's mind: "We aren't good at solving problems; we are better at solving the people who create the problems."

Qian Qinglang's strongest thought right now was: "Luo Mo is truly a screenwriter after all!"

"Does being a screenwriter help with writing songs?" His train of thought began to jump.

Up until now, what kind of person this song is singing about, and what category they fall into, is already leaping off the page.

They say art comes from life; on Blue Star, such people certainly exist in reality.

Just like if the movie "The Godfather" didn't exist, would people similar to that existence not exist on Earth?

Naturally not.

Qian Qinglang even felt: "If Luo Mo went to film a gangster movie, I would definitely be unable to resist walking into the cinema, right?"

Listening to the content of the lyrics, Yuan Hewen felt his heartbeat accelerate, and the veins on his forehead were popping out.

"This song really wasn't written on the spot?" he thought to himself.

You have to know, he had previously hired internet trolls to play the "praise one, step on another" game.

Relying on mindlessly praising Luo Mo and mindlessly stepping on Chen Luo to ruin Luo Mo's reputation with passersby.

This kind of tactic naturally triggered a large number of flame wars and controversies on the internet.

And what is written in the lyrics of this song?

【"Arguments cannot resolve, in the endless night.

Shut your mouth, the only grace."】

Six large characters were practically leaping off the page.

——Shut your stinking mouth!

When Chen Luo heard this part, looking at the lyrics appearing on the conference room's large screen, he couldn't help but take a deep look at Yuan Hewen.

But what he never expected was that the next line of lyrics would directly make him produce a magical sense of immersion as well.

He saw Luo Mo using a rap style that made people feel very fresh, singing:

【"Those standing in front are all guilty,

There is no way to retreat even if you regret it.

Judged in the Name of the Father,

That feeling has no suitable vocabulary."】

"Those standing in front are all guilty..." Chen Luo frowned.

Isn't he exactly the one who actively blocked the path, wanting to suppress the momentum of the rising Luo Mo?

Luo Mo threatened the top-tier crowd in the music industry, and also threatened the market share occupied by Cilong.

But what was the result?

In the current head-to-head battle of the two albums, Luo Mo has the advantage.

It perfectly matches that line in the lyrics—【There is no way to retreat even if you regret it】.

Chen Luo was forced to the point of having no other options, which is why he gritted his teeth and played his trump card, "Too Understand," ahead of schedule.

He seemed to have already seen the sharp edges on this young man, the thorns on his body, his unruliness, his madness, his pride...

The path he was to take had already been decided back during the "Creating Idols" period, when Pineapple made a move to suppress him.

On the eve of that "Creating Idols" grand finale, he had a very, very long dream. Some of it was memory from Earth, and some was not; it was imagination within the dream.

After waking up, he only felt stifled; opening the window, he only heard the endless, noisy cicadas of summer.

At that moment, he just leaned against the window frame and took a look at the scorching sun in the sky.

He thought of that saying circulating on the internet: "The Rothschild family warns us: When money stands up to speak, even truth must remain silent!"

Accompanied by the noisy sound of cicadas, this young man only said one sentence: "I'll silence your mother's c*nt!"

Chen Luo had just taken a deep look at Yuan Hewen, and now it turned into Yuan Hewen taking a deep look at him.

These two people looked up at the lyrics on the large screen, listening to the following content, and couldn't help but want to curse in their hearts.

Because the preceding content of the lyrics, falling into the ears of these two, sounded as if it were saying: "You want to block my path? Then bear the consequences yourselves; it's too late to regret it."

And the content being sung at this moment is:

【"Lower your head and kiss my left hand,

In exchange for the promise of being forgiven."】

The sense of imagery rushed toward them, full of posture.

There was even a line afterward:

【"The black curtain is blown by the wind,

The sunlight penetrates silently,

Sprinkling onto that group of beasts I have tamed."】

People like Chen Luo and Yuan Hewen, who inexplicably heard a sense of immersion, just felt their brains were about to explode.

"That group of beasts I have tamed?"

Chen Luo was still a bit better off; Yuan Hewen had been indirectly humiliated by Luo Mo too many times, and in fact, had long since been beaten into submission. He himself would definitely not dare to confront Luo Mo head-on alone.

If you were to ask him to independently write a song to compete with Luo Mo now, I dare say he wouldn't dare!

He is afraid of losing, especially afraid.

The entire accompaniment of "In the Name of the Father" is so peculiar and eerie, with holiness and Evil intertwined; the sense of contradiction is so intense.

Just as the two felt humiliated, the Rap part appeared in the final line before the chorus climax; others would surely feel something else, but when they heard it, they always felt it carried a thick flavor of mockery, and presumably, Pineapple boss Wang Shisong, who had long been suffering the consequences of his own Evil, would have an even stronger sense of immersion.

"【Fragile time has arrived, let us pray together.】"

——Repent, pray to the merciful Father.

(PS: Second update, seeking monthly votes.)

(End of this chapter)