Chapter 439: The Underrated Song

On Monday, the former music review blogger and current "beautiful legs and pretty face" blogger, Leshen Dama, was already waiting early on Penguin Music.

She was waiting for the first song from Xu Chujing's new album, "Romance".

"As far as I know, a large number of popular Singers have temporarily changed their song release plans," Leshen thought to herself while sitting in her chair.

There was no helping it; Xu Chujing herself was a top-tier diva, an opponent who made everyone tremble with fear.

What's more, she now had a man named Luo Mo behind her.

Over the past few days, Leshen had been silently lurking in various music critic group chats, watching everyone discuss this album.

She rarely popped up in the group chats, mostly just lurking.

It was obvious that everyone had very high expectations for this album.

Once expectations were high, the pressure instead fell onto Luo Mo's side.

It had been many years since Xu Chujing released a new album, and the two had just started a Romance, so the nature of it changed instantly.

Many people wanted to hear something different in this album.

After all, Luo Mo was a genius of lyrics and composition, always brave enough to innovate.

Leshen opened the homepage of Penguin Music now and could see the huge promotional Poster and homepage banner.

Penguin was still the same as always, being incredibly good to Luo Mo.

And the name of the first new song was finally announced to the public this morning.

"'The Pain of Breathing.' Looking at this name, Leshen felt a bit speechless.

This naming style was different from most of Luo Mo's songs.

"Why does it have a bit of a 'youth pain literature' vibe?" Leshen couldn't help but complain.

If this kind of song title had appeared back when she was in middle or high school, she might have... fallen in love with it at first sight!

Not only would she have fallen in love with it, she would have specifically shared it on her social media feed, accompanied by a caption copied from the internet.

Oh wait, back then it would have been sharing on Penguin Space, not a social media feed.

"But I've grown up now." Leshen held her head high and puffed out her chest, though it was a futile effort.

From a personal aesthetic perspective, this song title did not match her current preferences.

"But it doesn't matter; for a song, what you listen to is mainly the content," Leshen said in her heart.

By twelve o'clock noon, the charts on major music platforms would begin to update their data.

"The Pain of Breathing" was also officially uploaded at this time.

With the dual heat of Luo Mo and Xu Chujing, this song naturally made an Air Drop to the top of both the New Song Chart and the Rising Chart.

It was estimated that by the afternoon, it would charge to the top of the Hot Song Chart in one go, completing the routine operation of dominating all three charts.

Leshen clicked on the song and put on her headphones to start listening.

In the prelude, there was a very soothing piano melody.

It sounded very comfortable and also very lyrical.

Luo Mo's composition style was the same as always, strong in creating an atmosphere and conveying emotions.

As soon as Xu Chujing's Singing began, two simple words popped into Leshen's mind: "Sounds good!"

From the perspective of the lyrics, there was a sense of narrative.

"【At Tokyo Tower, looking out for the first time.

Watching the lights imitate, the falling starlight.

I finally arrived, but I am even sadder,

Completing our dream, all alone.】"

Hearing this, combined with the song title and imagining the Drama... the scent of youth pain literature was even stronger!

Leshen felt she could even imagine the story background.

For example, the male lead and female lead agreed to go to Tokyo Tower, but in the end, due to various reasons, only the female lead went alone.

For this kind of Romance trope, many years ago, Leshen felt she would have really bought into it, but now, with the growth of her experience and having seen too many things, she was a bit tired of this trope.

But the most fatal thing was, although the trope was very cliché, the song... really sounded good!

Xu Chujing's Singing, which flowed like a story being told, made Leshen incredibly obsessed.

In this way, it gave people a thought that wouldn't have occurred before: "This collaboration, it seems like... Luo Mo is holding her back?"

Had he written too many lyrics for the Fengge Group, and was he having a bit too much fun?

Or was this some kind of... retro way of playing?

Low emotional intelligence: Old-fashioned, Evil and tacky!

High emotional intelligence: This is oldschool.

Leshen continued to focus her gaze on the lyrics.

"【You always said, there is still plenty of time,

You can wait for me.

Before, I didn't understand,

That tomorrow, might not have a future.】"

——Tsk! The vibe was really getting stronger and stronger.

Even a fan like Leshen, who had a natural filter for Luo Mo, felt that Luo Mo's performance this time wasn't particularly good.

If it were someone else, it would make people feel it was decent.

But he was Luo Mo!

Soon, the chorus part of the song arrived.

How should I put it, the chorus part of this song was also very good, and Xu Chujing sang it truly well.

Her songs are still the same old style, the kind where you listen and feel like you could put up a fight in a KTV, but when you actually go to a KTV to try Singing, you realize: "I'm just trash!"

The melody sounds comfortable too, but these lyrics........

Good grief, take a look at what is written here?

"【Longing is a pain that breathes,

It lives in every Corner of my body,

Humming the songs you Love, it hurts; reading your letters, it hurts,

Even silence hurts.】"

These days, many people no longer buy into this kind of Romance song.

In the past, they wrote as exaggeratedly as possible, as sorrowfully as possible.

Even many Love Films are all about various kinds of torment, various kinds of pain.

To the point that many people now are numb to watching them, numb to listening to them.

Two words can accurately describe the opinion of many listeners—pretentious!

Now, everyone prefers to see things that touch the heart through details, rather than this kind of overly outward emotion.

"It wouldn't really fulfill that saying: the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment."

"Has Luo Mo really slipped up this time?" the Music Goddess muttered to herself.

At this moment, the song entered the B section.

When the Music Goddess saw the first line of lyrics in the B section, the corner of her mouth twitched.

"【Never saw you Zhang Yang any sorrow,

That is such a lonely kind of stubbornness.】"

What is this!

Zhang Yang any sorrow?

Lonely stubbornness?

I beg you, Luo Mo, this song is really great to listen to, but why write it like this!

But seeing the subsequent lyrics, the Music Goddess found that she started to not understand them anymore.

"What does it mean by 【You tore down the city walls, leaving me to wander. Waiting for me in the same spot, binding yourself】?"

She then associated this with the beginning of the song and fell into a deeper level of confusion.

"What is this trying to express?"

"Is it that they could go to the Eiffel Tower together, but he refuses to go?"

"Refusing to go on the surface, but waiting for you behind your back?"

This is not the 【Luo-style Romance song】 I wanted.

After listening to the whole song, the Music Goddess still downloaded it.

"It is still very good to listen to."

"So good that I am willing to ignore the lyrics and put it on Loop."

At the same time, she always felt that something was wrong in her heart.

"I always feel it's a bit strange, but I can't put my finger on it right away."

"No! I must read the lyrics carefully again!"

This time, the Music Goddess didn't listen to the song; she just looked at the lyrics.

As she read, she couldn't help but frown tightly.

The line in the whole song she detested the most was: 【I swear I will stop Lying, the more I Love You, the tighter I will hold you.】

At this moment, she received a WeChat message on her phone; it was sent by her mother.

Her mother told her that she had made a pair of cotton slippers and would mail them to her in the afternoon.

Her mother also told her: "They aren't as good-looking as the ones bought outside, but they are warmer than the ones bought outside; just wear them at home."

The Music Goddess felt a bit helpless.

How tacky, I am a beautiful-leg blogger now!

After sending a perfunctory reply, the Music Goddess suddenly froze.

The doubts in her mind were all straightened out in an instant.

In a flash, she couldn't help but place her palms on her legs and start rubbing them vigorously.

Because a layer of goosebumps had risen on her fair, slender legs!

I don't know why, but the Music Goddess even felt like crying; she suddenly really wanted to cry.

She opened her WeChat group and, sure enough, saw many music critics complaining about Luo Mo's Lyricist work this time.

Having thoroughly understood the lyrics, the Music Goddess finally stopped lurking and watching the screen.

Instead, she indignantly posted in every group: "What do you mean he slipped up? It's that you didn't understand it!"

"The lyrics of this song are written brilliantly!"

(ps: Second update, asking for guaranteed monthly votes at the beginning of the month to rush the rankings!)

(End of this chapter)