Chapter 662: Songs from over twenty years ago, you call that trendy?

As soon as Music God's Weibo was posted, a chorus of skepticism followed below.

"How could it be Luo Mo!"

"I don't believe it!"

"Music God baby is talking in her sleep again."

"Wife, let's go home; don't go around talking nonsense outside."

Among them, some truly don't believe it, while others are playing clever tricks, using reverse psychology.

As everyone knows, when it comes to Luo Mo, Music God cannot handle being provoked.

Her fans have long since studied this point thoroughly.

As long as you express doubt, it's easy for her to start making bets and then setting all kinds of flags.

What kind of bad intentions could we fans have?

We just want to watch you wear silk stockings and attack speed shoes.

Right, you famous beautiful-leg blogger who hides under the guise of a music critic?

In fact, it's not just Music God; looking at the entire internet, there are indeed quite a few people speculating whether it could be Luo Mo.

Although it feels incredible, well—the bolder the people, the greater the yield!

Consequently, a frenzy of setting flags has once again swept across the internet.

For example: If it is Luo Mo, I will do such and such.

If it is not Luo Mo, I will do such and such.

Music God, on the other hand, is doing things according to the old rules.

She is full of confidence this time, so she makes a bold declaration: "If this lyricist and composer is not Luo Mo, I will wear black silks, white silks, nude silks, suspenders, and even gradient-colored ones!"

In an instant, the pack of wolves was excited.

"If the two of them really collaborated, what a divine collaboration that would be; just thinking about it makes me happy."

"If they didn't collaborate, there are still silk stockings to watch."

——《Not Losing》.

……..

……..

On Chen Luo's side, this wave of new song pre-heating can be said to have been done very well.

But this method of keeping people in suspense makes everyone feel particularly familiar, yet they can't immediately think of whose shadow it is.

On Luo Mo's side, he has not made any response regarding Chen Luo's new song.

He continues to release new songs from his new album as planned, only changing the song released on Wednesday to one that can interact remotely with Chen Luo's side.

Chen Luo's attitude in releasing this song is also very good and very sincere.

Choosing to release one on Wednesday and one on Thursday is a voluntary abandonment of the New Song Chart.

The songs are all written by Luo Mo, so he avoids competing against himself.

By Tuesday, Luo Mo releases his new song as usual.

This time, he releases a work he personally likes very much—《Clock Backwards》.

This song comes from Zhou Jielun's first solo album, 《JAY》.

It is that album that bears the words: 【Jielun, your ambition for music is so great that you cannot see it】.

On this album, some people might like 《Starry Mood》 the most, some might like 《Black Humor》 the most, some might like 《Tornado》 the most, or perhaps 《Black Humor》, etc.

What Luo Mo personally likes the most is this song, 《Clock Backwards》.

This song has become popular several times in recent years.

Once was when Li Ronghao covered this song at a concert, singing it with a different feeling.

That video was quite popular, and the singing wasn't bad either.

Someone commented below: Jielun said, "Look, it's not my problem; he can't sing it clearly either."

Someone replied: "Li Ronghao can't even see clearly."

The singing was good, but he didn't open his eyes while singing; bad review for his attitude!

He doesn't even know how to respect the audience!

Another instance was a lyric from the song 《HeyKong》 that became popular on 《China New Rap》: "This is Kong, listening to 《Clock Backwards》."

Of course, one must know, this is Zhou Jielun.

Therefore, his songs often don't need the term 【re-popularize】; after all, even for many old songs, there are always many people listening, they are always popular, and they are always dominating the charts, so it can only be said to be increasing their heat.

It is worth mentioning that in that era, because many singers had very tight production budgets, the album songs would give people a sense of being crudely made, the post-production would be very poor, the mixing would be done terribly, and there would even be noise.

In fact, there are indeed people who are super popular today who recorded songs in the bathroom when they debuted……..

Not to mention spending money to do proper post-production.

Back then, no one was optimistic about Zhou Jielun; if it weren't for the fact that no one wanted to sing the songs he wrote and they were all returned, he probably wouldn't necessarily have become a Singer.

What's more, his debut album was an opportunity he earned by risking his life to write songs, so the budget can be imagined.

This song, 《Clock Backwards》, is the last song on the whole album; if you listen to the whole album from beginning to end, you will find that the mixing of this song is very muffled, more muffled than the other songs.

Some people think that the mixing of this song actually makes the theme clearer, giving it a hazy feeling of dust settling in time and memories gathering dust.

But others think that this is a masterpiece in terms of composition and Arranger that was held back by the post-production.

In fact, there are other ways to create a sense of haziness.

Luo Mo kept this sense of haziness and dustiness as a Retention.

As everyone knows, for many singers of that era, their debut album was a test of the waters, determining their future positioning and musical direction, a small trial of their Ox-like skills.

It's just that this person's blade was a bit too sharp, and accidentally, he knifed the entire music scene.

Luo Mo was actually quite looking forward to it.

He wanted to see what kind of waves the "test-the-waters work" released in 2000 on Earth could stir up on Blue Star.

………

………

Tuesday, Beijing.

The well-known entertainment industry 【Luo-fan】 Teacher Lv Yi was already silently waiting for Luo Mo's new song.

To be precise, he was once again staying with people from the 【Beijing Songwriter Association】, waiting to appreciate and analyze Luo Mo's new song together.

At this moment, the song had not yet been officially uploaded, so everyone was just chatting idly.

"I say, President Lv, you've said it so many times, you want to pull Luo Mo into our association, but what's the result?" someone teased.

"That's right, I won't even ask if you can succeed, I'll just ask you, is there even the slightest sign of it?" another person increased the intensity of the teasing.

"Exactly, didn't you say that once he comes, you'll abdicate and let him be the president? You wouldn't be reluctant to let go, would you?" someone else joined the ranks of the teasers.

Lv Yi hurriedly raised both hands and said, "Hey, hey, hey!"

"You're making my head ache with all this noise."

He looked around at everyone and said, "You don't think... that I'm just pretending to be close to Luo Mo, do you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone nodded in unison, their movements incredibly synchronized.

It was as if three big words were written on everyone's faces—"Isn't it?"

Lv Yi's mouth twitched, and he said, "I already told him about it, and he told me he'd consider it, but who knew he would consider it for so long."

As he spoke, he even took out his phone to show everyone the chat history.

During this process, he even deliberately scrolled up the chat history slowly to show off that he often chatted with Luo Mo on WeChat; such old chat records really couldn't be found all at once, hahahaha!

After showing off, the well-known composer Lv Yi cleared his throat and said, "Time's up, hurry up and listen to the song!"

Everyone perked up and immediately began to focus intently.

A group of well-known songwriters with an average age of 39 sat in rows, pricking up their ears, just like they were attending an online class.

"Clock in Reverse, the song title is a bit interesting, huh," Lv Yi said.

"So, is this 【path】 the path of time?" he guessed.

"Stop rambling, play the song!" someone urged.

Lv Yi, this president, was truly unworthy of the name; his status was low, merely a bill-paying tool at their gatherings.

Under the urging of the crowd of songwriters, Lv Yi gave a bitter smile and began to play the song.

The prelude at the very beginning of the song was—piano.

It was very strange; the piano sound here gave people a sense of desolation.

Everyone had agreed beforehand that during the first listen, no one was allowed to make a sound.

So everyone was communicating with their eyes, conversing through their gazes.

Lv Yi thought to himself, "The atmosphere is created right from the prelude again!"

"To achieve this effect using only the piano!"

After the simple yet marvelous piano sound looped a few times, there appeared—a whistle!

Yes, the sound of this Yueqi was very much like a whistle.

But it wasn't that kind of sharp sound; rather, it was a marvelous feeling that was melodious yet carried a hint of distortion.

It was as if time and space were twisting, shuttling through!

"Amazing! The piano sound at the beginning and the whistle here are both just too amazing!"

Immediately after, Luo Mo's singing cut in at this moment.

To be precise, it didn't even sound like singing, but rather like whispering, like low chanting.

Everyone present was a professional, and there were even top-tier songwriters, but even so, some people didn't react immediately to what exactly Luo Mo was chanting.

Lv Yi didn't hear it at first either, but after he glanced at the lyrics, he understood immediately.

"Native language phonetics! He is singing native language phonetics!" Lv Yi could be said to be astonished.

It wasn't just aimless humming; he was really singing something!

This couldn't help but make him think of another one of Luo Mo's songs—Sunny Day.

It's just that this song was even more outrageous than Sunny Day; Sunny Day sang the musical scale directly in the song, but this song actually sang phonetic symbols directly!

Yet, it somehow felt quite good to listen to.

Appearing immediately after was Luo Mo's singing.

"【Blurry and hazy, the dream you gave,

Cracks appear, a dull ache,

How to communicate, you have no time,

Saying I don't understand, saying it's useless.】"

Listening further, Lv Yi thought to himself, "Listening up to now, the overall chords of the song are very simple; it seems there are only three chords."

"Yet he can play tricks with just three chords!"

It is very, very difficult to make simple things sound different to people.

Towards the end, the song showed new changes again.

"【My sky, is it rain or wind,

Or a rainbow,

You are manipulating it.】"

The lyrics were in a distinctly sad style, possessing intense emotional frustration.

As for the four words "【You are manipulating】," the singing melody is directly removed, as if they were just spoken aloud.

"This kind of transformation makes certain parts of a song stand out," Lv Yi evaluated in his heart.

"However, only when played well can it be called standing out."

"If not played well, it is just abrupt."

"What Luo Mo has done here is very appropriate, serving as a setup for the following 【pre-chorus】."

Sure enough, after the pre-chorus appeared, it gave a very natural feeling.

The singing voice echoed:

"【Hating myself for being truly useless and emotionally agitated,

A heart that is still throbbing with pain even now,

Still moved by that apology before the breakup——】"

Standing from the perspective of a composer, Lv Yi felt that the piano sound in this song was a huge highlight.

At the same time, he felt that Luo Mo was truly formidable regarding scales and chords, and very daring to play with them.

Many altered notes appeared here, and there was even a small amount of chromatic descent in the bass.

This shaped that feeling of depression and dejection.

But overall, although the melodic range was wider than before, it was still... limited in its width.

"We composers have a conventional method, which is to widen the melodic range; in this way, the tension in the song's emotion will increase."

"But Luo Mo is very skilled at playing with melodies of small range."

"Within a small range, the emotional rendering is still excellent!"

The difference here is that conventional Lyricists like them are playing at carving on a large rock.

Luo Mo is different; he is carving a walnut.

——Supernatural craftsmanship!

Under the paving of the somewhat intense piano sound, it announced that the chorus climax of the song was about to arrive.

Many people might not know that the lyrics for this song also came from the hand of Fang Wenshan.

It's just that when the two were collaborating on their first album, they could be said to have looked at each other with mutual disdain.

He felt that Fang Wenshan looked like someone who delivered packages.

And because he had been hurt by a woman who was an Aquarius, and Fang Wenshan was also an Aquarius, he really wanted to stay away from him.

Later, during the recording, the situation was also:

——You write your lyrics, I sing my song.

For example, when Zhou Jielun sang "Niangzi," he made changes, and Fang Wenshan was so angry that he said he didn't want the money for this song, you re-sing it for me!

There was also the collaboration on "Bullfighting," which was also very unpleasant.

The most outrageous thing is that when this man was singing "Perfectionism," for dozens of seconds at the end, he was only singing three words: "Zhou Jielun, Zhou Jielun, Zhou Jielun..."

Hey, I just won't sing your lyrics, hehe!

One could almost picture the scene of Fang Wenshan rolling his eyes.

Later, when Fang Wenshan received an award, he thanked everyone, thanked all the staff members, but just didn't thank Zhou Jielun.

Relatively speaking, this "Clock in the Opposite Direction" might count as the... most smooth collaboration on the album?

Just listening to the chorus spreading through the room:

"【The clock that travels through the scenes of time,

Starting to move from the opposite direction...】"

Listening to the song, Lv Yi was startled again.

"Strange, strange! There are too many strange places; for example, the four words 【Clock of the scenes】, the length is almost one beat each, but they all start from the second half of the beat and continue to the first half of the next beat!"

After a chorus was finished, it was the guitar interlude.

Lv Yi was originally intoxicated by the beautiful interlude, marveling at Luo Mo's composition and Arranger work.

But who would have thought that he would once again display a certain trait of his——【Luxury】!

The song did not directly enter the B section; instead, not long after the interlude sounded, a Rap segment came!

Without any warning, completely without any warning!

And in a situation where the song's melody and beat were so simple, the lyrics of this rap were written very fragmentarily.

That is to say, it is very difficult to hit the beat accurately and very difficult to sing accurately.

But these fragmented sentences were all rhyming, and Luo Mo performed them with a very peculiar rhythm, making it a segment of——a moment of showing off skills!

"【City neon, restless beating, dyeing the night sky red,

All the past, like a dream,

Dare not touch it, it hurts just to think about it,

The content of heartbreak, every second is different, you don't understand,

Even a 'take care,' has its hidden reasons, and I don't want to send it...】"

A large segment of lyrics, in an extremely compact form, was Output at a fast frequency.

"The unique phrasing and the slightly hazy pronunciation pattern directly diluted the blocky pronunciation of Chinese and the sense of disharmony in this rap segment."

"And it also used this to display inner activity and a sense of intense emotion and entanglement!"

The more Lv Yi and the others listened, the wider their eyes opened.

They only thought: "Is this a song that can be sung in KTV?"

In reality, in the current Hip Hop circle, there are also many rappers who superficially put on an attitude of "I still don't like Luo Mo," but in private, they sing every rap segment of Luo Mo more smoothly than anyone else.

Some Rappers, after listening to this segment, put it on Loop for who knows how many times, and then started trying to learn to sing it.

Because the phrasing was too strange and the sentences were too fragmented, it really couldn't be learned in a short while!

"What 'Clock in the Opposite Direction'?"

"This is clearly 'Sending Off to the Grave in the Opposite Direction'!"

"Laozi is about to run out of breath!"

At the end of the song, the chorus is sung repeatedly, and then the sound becomes smaller and lighter, until it is completely silent, stopping abruptly!

It is as if one has arrived at the end of the road of time.

After listening to the entire song, Lv Yi looked around at everyone.

Everyone was looking at one another, staring at each other in dismay.

After an intense discussion, they reached a conclusion.

They would post this conclusion online in a while using the official account of the Beijing Songwriter Association as their group's appraisal of this song.

Regarding an old song from 22 years ago on Earth, the evaluation they gave was:

"What Luo Mo released is an incomparably trendy, and even somewhat ahead-of-its-time, new song!"

(PS: These past few days, I received an autographed album of Zhou Jielun sent by the big spender 【Ai Zong】, which seems to have been obtained directly from JVR Music.

This month, because my son fell ill right after he was born and my wife is in postpartum confinement, updates were delayed, but everyone still supported me and even offered comfort.

Therefore, I have decided to bear the pain of parting with it; next month, I will discuss with the operator to hold some kind of lucky draw or other activity to give away some autographed photos and one autographed album of Zhou Jielun to give back to the readers.

It's just that I haven't been home these past few days, so I don't know which album is hidden in the package.)

(End of this chapter)