Chapter 460: Songs for the Spring Festival Gala

After being uploaded to many platforms abroad, "D Da Diao Ka Nong" attracted quite a few listeners.

In this, the Huihuang Orchestra played a certain role.

Because of them, this piece became popular abroad even faster.

This kind of hall-of-fame level orchestra is of world-class standard and possesses extremely high international renown.

The people they have collaborated with in the past were also top masters from abroad.

This also makes the group of people they have collaborated with in the past pay special attention to the recent works of the Huihuang Orchestra.

Previously, the symphonic version of "Free Flying" did not actually become popular abroad.

However, the symphonic version of "Above the Moon," known by people as the "Lunar War March," has high popularity abroad.

The highest play count on a single platform has broken through 8 million.

You have to know, this was still under the condition of zero promotion.

Looking at the comments, it is also full of high praise. There is no way around it, that piece is just too fiery; listening to it makes one's blood boil.

There are even foreign netizens who left comments saying: "All of humanity must unite!"

As for "D Da Diao Ka Nong," it has been called "the best Canon work of the new century" by many well-known musicians abroad.

This point is actually nothing to be surprised about.

After all, on Earth, "D Da Diao Ka Nong" can be directly called "Canon" by everyone; confusing a category for a single piece of music shows its charm and influence.

It itself is one of the best Canon works in Earth's civilization!

Looking at the Blue Star, it is also a work of the highest level.

It is just that it lacks a bit of historical weight.

But for so-called handed-down classics, time will give the answer, won't it?

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The new Monday arrived very quickly.

The two songs "Rewind" and "Hostage" from Xu Chujing's new album were also uploaded to Penguin Music.

The appearance of "Rewind" threw Xu Chujing's female fans into a frenzy of joy.

"Ah! Finally, there is one more song that can be sung at KTV!"

"Jing's songs are all fun to listen to, but tiring to sing."

"Okay, I'm going to snatch the naming rights for 'Rewind' at KTV!"

"Hey! I heard Luo Mo's voice in it; he has backing vocals!"

"The lyrics are so painful, yet secretly they are spreading sweetness; it's really going to be the death of me!"

As for the song "Hostage," it is even more bitter.

In fact, there is another cover version of this song on Earth that is also quite popular, which is the cover by Yang Zongwei; it sounds even more bitter.......

After the two new songs were released, Xu Chujing looked at the fans' comments and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Especially those who said her songs were too hard to sing.

When she released songs in the past, she really hadn't considered this aspect.

On the contrary, Luo Mo has many whimsical ideas.

This album titled "Love Songs" actually has most of its songs being ones that ordinary people cannot sing.

But besides "Rewind," Luo Mo also prepared a classic song with a range that isn't too high.

This song also always ranks at the top of the KTV song request list on Earth.

It has been released for so many years and has never fallen off the list, which shows how many people love to sing it at KTV.

This is a song with extremely wide popularity and singability, kept for release next Monday.

It is called……..

——"Later"!

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Before the official filming of "Beginning," Luo Mo also spent two days living a carefree life.

Immediately after, he headed to the film crew and began the busyness before the New Year.

"Beginning" does not have many episodes, totaling only 15 episodes.

Although Luo Mo made a certain degree of magical changes to the grand finale, the duration did not increase much because of it; it was just changed into another form.

He deleted some scenes and then made another form of filling in.

Since it is almost New Year now, the film crew still has to find a warm place to film.

After all, the subject matter of this story is a bus explosion, and there are certain fight scenes; one has to face knives and also snatch pressure cookers and such.

If everyone were wrapped in thick cotton-padded jackets, looking like they were all inconvenienced in their movements, it would really look a bit strange.

In the end, the filming location was set in Xiamen.

Luo Mo has to take a plane to get there.

As for Xu Chujing, she is prepared to take advantage of this time to do some promotional work for her new album.

For the two who are still in the honeymoon period, this kind of short separation is actually quite tormenting.

Fortunately, Luo Mo's work schedule is very full; having to direct and act on set, he is exhausted every day, so he doesn't have the energy to think about messy things.

Besides the filming work for "Beginning," there is also one thing Luo Mo has already become a bit accustomed to doing.

That is——the Spring Festival Gala!

Intuition tells him that he will very likely appear on the Spring Festival Gala for several years in a row in one breath........

However, the General Director for this year's Spring Festival Gala is no longer the old acquaintance, but rather one of the Four Great Directors of the older generation, named Feng Ji.

Director Feng Ji is outrageously strong when it comes to color.

The texture of the details in many of his films is truly peerless.

Moreover, this person is skilled in many genres; he can shoot Love Films, and he can also shoot action films.

Luo Mo likes one of his films called "Founding of the Sect" very much.

For some reason, when watching this film, Luo Mo can always think of "The Grandmaster" from Earth.

It is not that the story content is similar, but that the lens language is similar.

For the vast majority of Singers, appearing on the Spring Festival Gala is a very nerve-wracking matter.

After all, the songs you have meticulously prepared are very likely to be inexplicably shot down while you are rehearsing.

If you fail to make it to the stage in the end, then the time and energy will have been wasted, and a lifelong regret will remain in your heart.

Luo Mo, however, does not have many worries in this regard; he only thought for ten minutes before confirming the songs that he and Xu Chujing would be Singing.

Because of their own uniqueness, these two songs will definitely be kept.

The facts were indeed as he expected; after listening to the two songs, General Director Feng Ji had a feeling of having found a treasure.

In his view, these two songs are absolutely the seed programs among this year's Singing programs!

And this song that Luo Mo prepared for Xu Chujing is actually not in her new album "Love Songs".

Because strictly speaking, this song does not count as a love song.

This is a very positive, very inspirational, and very uplifting song.

It can bring encouragement and strength to people!

On Earth, to what extent did the social influence of this song reach?

On the last day of 2007, the president of Beida sang this song at the New Year's gala, which then triggered heated social discussion.

In 2009, the Beijing college entrance examination essay topic was this song, making the Singer of this song the first Singer in the country to have a song title used as a college entrance examination essay topic.

In those few years, this song could be said to have spread through every street and alley; it was also used by many people as a mobile phone ringtone, and even more so, it could bring spiritual strength to oneself when feeling disheartened!

The reason why the songwriter of this song tailored this song for that female Singer back then was because she felt it was very suitable, because this Singer had participated in various Singing competitions before her debut, and although she clearly had excellent singing skills and a unique voice, she ended up failing every time.

Yet she still persisted, chasing her dreams.

And in reality, this female Singer's life encountered too many things that ordinary people would not expect, having too many ups and downs and hardships.

So much so that many people felt that this special song was singing about her personally.

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Busy times always pass very quickly.

Half a month passed in a flash; besides being busy with the filming work of "Beginning", Luo Mo also went to Beijing to participate in a round of Spring Festival Gala rehearsals.

During the rehearsal process, it was the first time Luo Mo saw Feng Ji in person.

The feeling this person gives is very much like someone with strong commercial attributes; the sense of a businessman is very strong.

But strangely, this person rarely shoots big commercial films.

According to the arrangement, the time for Xu Chujing and Luo Mo's stage is set in the interval between 8:30 and 9:30 on the Spring Festival Gala.

The specific time has not been fully determined yet.

During the rehearsal process, Feng Ji was watching from the sidelines the whole time.

Not for anything else, just because he personally and purely likes these two songs very much.

After watching the rehearsal, Feng Ji specifically called Luo Mo to his side, wanting to discuss with him how his personal stage should be designed.

This slightly surprised the assistant beside Feng Ji; it was the first time he had seen Director Feng like this.

As the General Director of the Spring Festival Gala and one of the Four Great Directors of the older generation, Feng Ji has supreme authority.

If he wants to arrange the stage a certain way, then that is how the stage is arranged.

If it were some people with higher seniority and older qualifications, the assistant would feel it was normal for Feng Ji to treat them this way.

He has been with Feng Ji for ten years, and this is the first time he has seen Director Feng value a young person's opinion so much.

The reason is very simple: Feng Ji is a loyal viewer of "Nirvana in Fire", and previously even spontaneously promoted "Nirvana in Fire" on platforms like Weibo.

In his view, "Nirvana in Fire" is the best costume work he has seen in these few years.

Upon learning that this drama was written, directed, and acted by Luo Mo himself, he became full of curiosity about this young man.

In his view, Luo Mo is a person with many ideas.

Today, rather than saying he wanted to hear Luo Mo's opinion, it is better to say he wanted to see if he had any real substance in his belly.

Xu Chujing stood to the side, watching with a smile, and did not make a sound.

Luo Mo did indeed have some ideas in his heart, but he did not say them directly; instead, he said to Feng Ji, "Director Feng, what do you think is the difference between these two songs, and which two types of people are they singing about?"

"Heh, you're questioning me back!" Feng Ji smiled, but he was not annoyed.

He opened his mouth and said, "I think Xu Chujing's song is singing about ordinary people, about the ordinary you, me, and him."

"As for your song... well, that's completely different!"

"Your song is praising special people, very special people," Feng Ji said.

As he spoke, this director, who was not tall and a bit plump, squinted his eyes and smiled: "But there are many special people in this world who are actually quite a good fit for the content of your song; which type do you want to choose?"

This exchange here is actually a senior director asking a junior director.

A song is a song.

But sometimes, stage design and filming a movie also have a certain similarity in their results.

The content on the stage is also another level of expression for the song.

Isn't this, in its own way, a kind of lens language?

Moreover, since it is the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the program must have a certain significance, or rather, it must convey some kind of concept.

Upon hearing this, Luo Mo did not answer immediately, but pondered for over ten seconds.

It was not that he had no ideas, but that he had too many ideas.

On Earth, the little broken station Bilibili is a very magical place. Also, on Douyin, people often take the song he prepared for the Spring Festival Gala and edit it together with some footage.

Among them, there are simply too many videos with explosive view counts.

There is also too much high-quality content.

And what left the deepest impression on Luo Mo was actually the edited video of this song with last year's critically acclaimed drama, Awakening Age.

That content makes people feel both fired up and blood-boiling while watching it, yet also makes them want to burst into tears, filled with supreme reverence.

However, it would not be appropriate on Blue Star.

But, there is still plenty of room for choice.

Luo Mo recalled carefully; he now has rich experience on the stages of large-scale galas, but the first time he stepped onto a stage of this level was during the National Day Gala.

Because it was such a special day as the National Day, the song he chose that day was also very special.

It was "Loyalty to the Country".

Since then, Luo Mo has become a hot commodity in the eyes of the General Directors of various major galas.

The stage effect is good, the artistic conception is good, and the traffic is high.

There is no one more perfect than him!

The stage effect and subsequent social influence of "Loyalty to the Country" have been jokingly called by many the strongest military recruitment advertisement in history.

To this day, many people have covered this song on various occasions.

The final result is that no one has sung it better than Luo Mo.

There is no help for it; the original singer on Earth, Tu Honggang, came from a background of Peking Opera Copper Hammer Flower Face, and with his Opera foundation, his breath control and singing skills were a dimensionality-reduction strike to the music industry.

Whether this song is effective depends not on age, but on foundation.

Even now, many military recruitment advertisements still quote the two sentences that appeared on the big screen during Luo Mo's performance.

"【Willing to use the youth of our generation to guard this Prosperous Age of China!】"

"【Fortunate to serve the country, living up to our youth!】"

"Then..." Luo Mo made a decision in his heart: "Since I have already sung about the 【Military】, this time, let's choose the 【Police】."

He raised his eyes to look at Feng Ji and said, "Director Feng, what do you think about... the content of the People's Police?"

Upon hearing this, Feng Ji could not help but narrow his eyes as he looked at Luo Mo, saying, "You thought of the same thing as me."

Feng Ji thought for a moment and said, "Actually, more elements could be integrated, such as firefighters, infrastructure workers... there could be many more."

"I know," Luo Mo said in a deep voice, "but I was thinking, it would also be quite good to give more people some room to perform."

Let the remaining themes and stories, and the remaining praises, be left for others to produce.

Luo Mo actually quite likes a passage that Xu Song once said: "A work with substance should be able to make people think, and also provide answers. The question and the answer are produced within it at the same time; the author does not need to provide a standard answer. In fact, your explanation will destroy the imaginative space created by the work you spent energy making."

Many of the film works of the director Feng Ji have actually achieved this point.

This director, who has a very business-like appearance and temperament, looked at this incredibly young and cutting-edge director before him, and a thought rose in his heart:

"A kindred spirit."

(PS: Just one chapter of 4000 words today.)

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