Chapter 657: Songs About Father-Son Relationships

Chen Luo: Luo Mo, are you messing with me?

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In Yue Province, the Heavenly King Chen nearly lost his composure the moment he saw the song title at home.

He had only requested a song that morning, and the lyrics and composition were sent over by evening; no matter how one looked at it, it seemed like leftover stock.

But to say that this leftover stock could be so……. fitting?

Chen Luo did not believe it!

He strongly suspected that Luo Mo wrote this song precisely because he had repeatedly cried his way onto the Hot Search!

"Is this mocking me, or comforting me?" Chen Luo felt a mix of amusement and frustration.

He had written the keyword 【cry】 into the song.

Yet he also said A Man Crying Is Not A Sin.

Chen Luo shook his head, thought for a moment, and decided to look at the lyrics and composition first.

It had to be said, Luo Mo was still very thoughtful; he had even recorded a very crude Demo for Chen Luo to listen to.

Chen Luo listened to the Demo while looking at the lyrics.

The original singer of this song on Earth was Andy Lau, and it belonged to one of Liu Dehua's representative works.

It is worth mentioning that this song was also written by Andy Lau himself.

This song was also the ending theme for the TV series "Strange Tales of Strange People".

Chen Luo looked at the lyrics and listened to the song, gradually realizing: "The lethality of this song for middle-aged men should be quite strong, right?"

"The sense of resonance will likely be very intense as well."

For a long time, men might have been taught from a young age: a real Man should shed blood but not tears.

In the minds of many men, crying is a very shameful thing.

Everyone is ashamed to shed tears.

Even Chen Luo, when moved by a movie, would insist that he only nearly cried, "I didn't cry!"

Many people might have had such an experience: accompanying their girlfriend to watch a movie, or while watching a show, the girlfriend asks: "Are you crying?"

"No! How could I be!" you reply.

It is as if being moved is a very shameful thing.

Shedding tears is something that cannot happen to us men!

And for men who have burdens and pressures in life, their emotions must be even less likely to collapse.

For the vast majority of people, perhaps from childhood to adulthood, they haven't really seen their father cry, right?

And when a boy grows up to be an adult and has children of his own, perhaps he will also become a similar father.

But people always have moments of vulnerability, don't they?

"The angle of this song is actually quite novel," Chen Luo evaluated.

"The lyrics and composition don't feel very trendy, but the sense of it being a golden hit is very strong; it will become a classic song," Chen Luo thought to himself.

This was very awkward!

If you say he is messing with me, what he gave me is indeed a good song!

It's just that if this song is released, it will likely cry its way onto the Hot Search once again.

Chen Luo felt that the Heavenly Kings of the music scene seemed unable to have any connection with Luo Mo.

Once a connection is made, a new nickname is bound to be added.

Like Zhao Xueqin, who was gifted the nickname 【Music Critic Master】.

On Chen Luo's side, there was also a nickname that had recently become wildly popular online—【The Heavenly King Who Doesn't Cry】.

The level of "chuunibyou" was comparable to the title 【The God of Death Who Doesn't Cry】 for Bu Jingyun in "Wind and Cloud" on Earth.

Not to mention, with such a fuss, the popularity would definitely explode!

And if nothing goes wrong, once this song is released, the popularity can also feed back into "Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child".

For a moment, Chen Luo even felt like he was an unofficial member of the "Nezha" promotional team.

"If I were to say I didn't receive a single cent in promotional fees, probably no one would believe me, right?" Chen Luo felt a mix of amusement and frustration again.

After appreciating the first song, Chen Luo turned his attention to the second one.

"Bicycle?" Chen Luo first glanced at the name.

Judging from the song title, he had assumed it was a love song.

A bicycle is a Prop that often appears in film and television works.

The male lead rides the bike, and the female lead sits on the back.

Especially in some campus dramas, it appears frequently.

Like the opening theme of the drama "Love O2O" on Earth, which is called "A Smile is Alluring".

There is a hot comment on this song: The sense of immersion is extremely strong; I feel like I am already sitting on the back seat of Xiao Nai's bike.

Chen Luo, harboring the expectation that "it's probably a Luo-style love song," clicked on the file to check the lyrics of this song.

Just by taking one look, Chen Luo was shocked.

"The lyrics of this song are wrong! If sung in Mandarin, it's completely wrong!"

He started pacing in the living room again, muttering to himself as he walked.

"Cantonese?"

"It's actually a Cantonese song!?"

Honestly, Cantonese songs are very normal.

As a person from Yue Province, many of Chen Luo's songs from his early years had dual versions, both Mandarin and Cantonese.

In the Cantonese music scene, Chen Luo is also a top-tier Singer.

But one must know, the lyrics and composition of this song came from the hands of Luo Mo.

And until now, he has never written a Cantonese song for an outsider!

"He can even write Cantonese songs?"

"He actually wants to write a Cantonese song for me?"

Chen Luo knows very clearly that the selling point of 【Luo Mo's first Cantonese song written for an outsider】 alone is enough to attract people.

Moreover, speaking truthfully, on Blue Star, the market for Cantonese songs in recent years is not as big as it used to be.

What everyone can hum and listen to frequently now are mostly old Cantonese songs.

New Cantonese songs that can make listeners like and remember them are decreasing every year.

This makes the number of people creating Cantonese songs decrease as well.

"Luo Mo even knows Cantonese?" Chen Luo wondered.

It can only be said that he has watched too few of Luo Mo's variety shows.

When Luo Mo occasionally appears on some variety shows, he will also suddenly speak a few sentences of Cantonese, and when encountering guests from Yue Province, he can even communicate directly for a few sentences.

In the entertainment industry, there are actually quite a lot of people who know Cantonese.

Like on Earth, there is a famous scene involving Zhou Jielun, which is that at a certain ceremony, 【Zha Zha Hui】 Zhang Jiahui used broken Mandarin and could not speak it smoothly no matter what. In the end, Zhou Jielun said: "I can speak Cantonese."

Chen Luo recalled carefully, and he himself had not released a new Cantonese song for more than three years.

The last Cantonese single released, generally speaking, did not have very ideal results.

Luozai started listening to the Demo sent by Luo Mo while looking at the lyrics.

This song, "Bicycle", is a Cantonese song by Chen Yixun.

The Lyricist is Huang Weiwen.

"Flawed" also came from the hands of this person.

He is hailed as: one of the iconic lyricists of the post-Hong Kong music era.

Chen Luo listened to Luo Mo's singing voice and looked at the lyrics, becoming surprised once again.

"This is not a mainstream love song; it is not Singing about Romance!"

"This is a song about familial love; it is Singing about a father!"

——Silent fatherly love.

But it seems it is not the kind of route that purely praises.

Chen Luo walked into the studio, and after familiarizing himself with the lyrics and composition a few more times, he started trying to sing the first few lines.

"【Do not, do not assume I know,

That everything, everything is done for me,

Why is it so great, yet I cannot feel it,

How good is a love that says not a word,

Only once do I remember truly touching it,

The two of us riding a bicycle,

An Embrace with my arms tight against your back.】"

The entry point of the whole song is truly too good.

Using a bicycle as an entry point to interpret the silence of fatherly love.

In reality, there are too, too many fathers who are not good at expressing themselves.

This also makes children not good at expressing their love for their fathers, and physical contact with their fathers is also relatively rare.

You are reticent, and I am quiet.

The entry point of this song is the child and father riding a bicycle together, then sitting on the bike and hugging the father, feeling exceptionally at ease and having a special sense of security in an instant.

But looking at the lyrics, there are actually quite a few complaints and accusations against the father in the whole song.

The opening is not to always assume I know that everything you do is for me. If it is really that great, why can I not feel it?

The latter part also directly writes: Is love that lacks communication really good? The only time I felt true fatherly love was when riding the bicycle.

"The latter line: 【If you loved me more, I would be able to walk more sturdily in the future. You are reluctant to show care, so who else can I expect it from】."

"If I felt a little more fatherly love, I would be stronger in the future, feeling that there is a shield behind me. But you are now reluctant to express this care, so there is even less need to hope for it from others."

"When the lyrics reach the end, it also writes: 【Although playing your role is truly difficult, it has always been left vacant, why not give an Embrace】: Understanding that playing the role of a father is not easy. But if this position for expressing love is left empty, it is far less real than an Embrace."

Lyricist Huang Weiwen once said in an interview that most of the HK music scene has sung the lyrics he wrote, but his father never praised his lyrics, being stingy in expressing his own love.

Chen Luo read through the lyrics carefully a few times, and after singing them a few times himself, he understood that this song is actually about 【father-son relationship】.

In the whole song, the greatness of fatherly love is never denied, and it is also acknowledged that the father has love for him.

But what is written in the song is also that when the child sits on the bicycle, he cannot help but hug his father, because this is his greatest sense of security.

But the child also hopes that the father can hug him and praise him in daily life.

Actually, fatherly love can also have a voice.

(End of this chapter)