Chapter 467: Female Vocal Version of

By the time Luo Mo and Xu Chujing arrived home separately, it was already nearly ten o'clock at night.

By this time, the individual stage videos for "Invisible Wings" and "Lone Warrior" were already widely circulating on the internet.

On Blue Star, songs from the Spring Festival Gala are only uploaded to music platforms on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

In other words, if everyone wanted to listen to "Invisible Wings" and "Lone Warrior" a few more times tonight, watching the videos online was a good choice...

This also caused the view counts for the relevant videos to be very high, with the most popular versions being the ones posted by Luo Mo Studio and Xu Chujing Studio themselves.

——"Who Wants to Fleece Me".

Many listeners just kept looping it like this, over and over again.

Not to mention, both songs had great staying power.

Especially the stage video for "Lone Warrior"!

"Speechless, I really cry every single time I watch it!"

"It's just ridiculous, how is it so moving!"

"I thought I'd be immune if I watched it a few more times, immune my ass, my tears are completely out of control!"

"The more I listen, the more fired up I get; the more I listen, the better it sounds; the more I listen, the more I want to cry!"

At this moment, a young woman was wearing headphones, holding her phone, and watching the video of "Lone Warrior" on a continuous loop.

Her name is Zhou Yiran, her online handle is 【Xiuya】, and she is an internet celebrity who became famous on various online platforms by covering hit songs.

She has quite a few fans on Little Rotten Station, Weibo, and some short-video platforms.

On Blue Star, as long as a cover song posted on an online platform reaches a certain level of popularity, one is required to pay a certain amount in copyright fees.

Zhou Yiran is very popular; among those in the cover song industry, she is considered one of the top-tier figures.

This also means that for any song, as long as she sings it and posts it online, she definitely... has to pay!

This situation makes her and the company and team behind her quite cautious when selecting songs.

They have to choose songs that can guarantee popularity; otherwise, profits cannot be maximized.

After all, cover-song influencers aren't omnipotent; some people are indeed great at singing, but they can't sing every song well.

The reason 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran was able to become popular is, firstly, because her singing skills are exceptional; her high notes are very strong and steady, carrying a bit of hoarseness, somewhat similar to a smoky voice, which is very distinctive.

Another reason is that there is a certain degree of contrast between her voice and her appearance.

She actually looks quite cute.

Today, while watching the Spring Festival Gala at home, she was completely captivated after listening to "Invisible Wings".

"I want to sing this song!"

"It doesn't matter even if it's a bit expensive!"

After she sent this idea to her team's group chat, it received unanimous agreement.

"Xiuya, if you sing this song, the effect will definitely be good!"

"I think it won't be hard to get over a million likes and over ten million views!"

"If you really want to sing it, I feel like we should do it sooner rather than later; the earlier we post it, the better."

But when she continued watching the Spring Festival Gala, heard "Lone Warrior", and then cried after listening to it, the thoughts in her heart changed.

An extremely bold idea popped into her head—I want to sing "Lone Warrior"!

To sing this passionate and explosive song with a female voice!

Overall, singing "Invisible Wings" would be safer and more secure.

But 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran did not have the confidence to sing it better than Xu Chujing.

Looking at her vocal conditions, she actually wasn't particularly suited for that song.

That kind of feminine softness combined with the strength of will is the essence of that song.

Her singing voice carries a slight hoarseness, a bit of that smoky-voice feel, which actually wouldn't be as beautiful.

On the contrary, she really wanted to try the song "Lone Warrior".

"I might not be certain about the 'Lone' part, but for this 'Warrior' part, there shouldn't be much of a problem."

"Plus, since I'm a female voice, perhaps it can produce a different effect and give people a completely different listening experience?" she thought to herself.

In the eyes of 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran, singing "Lone Warrior" is quite risky, but it is worth a shot.

If she can really reach her expectations, then perhaps it will become one of her representative cover works!

After watching Luo Mo's stage video as if for the tenth time, she picked up her phone and expressed her thoughts in the group chat.

After some debate among the five of them, they finally reached a consensus and wanted to give it a try.

It's just that the official instrumental version of this song hasn't been released online yet.

So, even if they want to hurry, they will have to wait until tomorrow morning.

For Zhou Yiran, tonight counts as overtime.

She has to keep listening, keep listening.

Besides listening, she also has to try singing a few lines along with the video.

But after singing a few lines herself, she always felt something was missing.

"The effect is actually not bad; it's much better than many of the songs I've covered."

She is very confident that her version of this cover, at its current level, will definitely be a hit.

But with Luo Mo's masterpiece as a precedent, she is under a lot of pressure, knowing that at this level, it would be a minor hit at most.

"The emotions in this song are so hard to control." 【Xiuya】 Zhou Yiran felt very troubled.

She sat in her chair, kicked her legs, and the chair spun around in place.

"Let's listen to Luo Mo's other songs and try to find the feeling." She wanted to learn more of Luo Mo's techniques.

She opened Penguin Music; in her own playlist, there were a large number of Luo Mo's songs.

When she heard Luo Mo singing "Fake Monk," her eyes suddenly lit up.

In this song, Luo Mo used a singing technique similar to "Angry Voice" in the final part.

"Huh, could this be a good method?"

On a certain level, she had a clear gap compared to Luo Mo in terms of conveying emotions and the richness of feeling in the song.

Instead of failing to find a breakthrough here, why not... take other aspects to the extreme?

If I can't sing the "Loneliness," I'll just sing the "Bravery"!

And I must sing it even braver, the bravest!

——"You Are So Brave."

Once her train of thought cleared, she began to experiment.

"Put the Angry Voice in, inject the soul!" Zhou Yiran thought to herself.

Although it was all learned from Luo Mo, once fused like this, I have to say... the effect is truly top-tier!

She only tried one chorus before she stopped.

She wanted to maintain the best state for her voice.

Intuition told her: "With this song, singing it this way, I'm afraid I can't sing it many times in one breath."

………

………

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many people who stayed up late to see in the New Year were still sleeping, while others had already gone to visit graves.

"Xiuya" Zhou Yiran got up early and worked overtime on the first day of the New Year.

"The earliest slogan of Luo Mo's fans was: Luo Mo, work overtime!"

"Who would have thought that because of his appearance, many people would end up working overtime at the drop of a hat."

"It's really a sin," Zhou Yiran couldn't help but mutter.

She just wanted to record the song as soon as the accompaniment was released.

Then, let the company and the team contact Luo Mo Studio to pay the cover fee.

"As for the evening, let's go watch 'Monkey King: Hero is Back'! Bring that brat along." Zhou Yiran had a younger brother who was 12 years her junior.

When watching the Spring Festival Gala yesterday, she asked her brother, who had just started his first year of middle school, if he wanted to go see "Monkey King: Hero is Back" tomorrow.

The kid's first reaction was: "Animation? I'm a middle schooler now, and you're still asking me to watch animation?"

Zhou Yiran rolled her eyes at him, feeling annoyed to death, and just asked: "So are you going or not? Take it or leave it!"

"Fine, fine." The kid even put on a very reluctant look, with an expression that said, "I'm just keeping you company."

At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, "Invisible Wings" and "Lone Warrior" were uploaded to Penguin Music.

Zhou Yiran immediately began working on the cover.

The first take, the state wasn't quite right.

The second take, it was still lacking something.

Before the third take, she watched Luo Mo's stage video again to find a feeling of anger.

Watching the anti-drug police sacrifice themselves, that kind of anger toward drugs and drug dealers welled up instantly.

Once the emotion was right, she finished it in one go!

"Although it's only the first day of the New Year, I think this might be the best song I've recorded this year," she thought.

She didn't even want to record another version.

Zhou Yiran sent it directly to the group and immediately received feedback full of praise.

"There is just one problem, the word 'sob' in 'sobbing,' your pronunciation is wrong, did you slip up?" someone in the team said.

Zhou Yiran said: "I'm not changing it, I feel like I'll never find that emotion from when it was done in one go again."

"Alright then."

Just like that, the female cover of "Lone Warrior," with extremely high efficiency, was uploaded to major platforms on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

And an unexpected scene happened just like that.

While eating dinner, Zhou Yiran was still immersed in the bad mood of not being able to buy tickets for the 7 p. m. showing of "Monkey King: Hero is Back."

"The next showing isn't until 10:40, that's way too late to finish!" She was speechless: "There are too few screenings!"

At this moment, her phone rang.

Zhou Yiran glanced at the message, a look of disbelief appeared on her face, and then she immediately opened Little Rotten Station to check the "Lone Warrior" she had uploaded today.

As soon as she opened it, the barrage was overwhelming.

"Awesome! So fiery!"

"Incredible! A female voice can actually sing this so fiercely!"

"One more billion times!"

"Just listening to it a billion times!"

"I have only one word: exhilarating!"

And right before her Angry Voice segment, the barrage was full of four words: "Nuclear energy ahead!"

This made "Xiuya" Zhou Yiran ecstatic; clearly, the technique she stole from Luo Mo had achieved the expected effect.

This song made people feel: so exhilarating it blows the top of your head off!

She stared at the view count, and with Little Rotten Station's unique and stingy view algorithm, it had actually already reached 5.13 million!

In just one afternoon, it was much higher than the view count of any of her previous songs!

"Is this too crazy?"

"How is this possible!"

This level of popularity exceeded her expectations; it was simply beyond imagination.

After thinking for a moment, she immediately left a comment in the comment section of her own video using her account:

"【Sobbing】 The pronunciation was wrong, but because the emotion was captured in one go, I won't be re-recording it. Thank you all very much for liking this song, thank you, thank you, thank you so much."

"Finally, I wish everyone a Happy New Year. I'm going to continue trying to grab tickets for Monkey King: Hero is Back!"

(PS: Second update, requesting monthly votes.

For the female vocal versions, I personally recommend the versions by Zu Ya Naxi and Xiu Xiu Man. I have only one word to say: it's exhilarating!)

(End of this chapter)