Chapter 663: The King of
As soon as "Clock in Reverse" was released, Luo Mo began paying attention to the feedback on the internet.
For this old song from over twenty years ago on Earth, music critics on Blue Star mostly used terms like "trendy" and "ahead of its time" to evaluate it.
Its composition and arrangement, in particular, were highly praised by many music critics, who stated it was quite groundbreaking and worthy of the title "genius of lyrics and composition."
It must be said that composition and arrangement are still very important for a song.
Some songs, when listened to many years later, feel very dated; you can tell they are old songs the moment you hear them.
Some songs, because the composition and arrangement are outstanding, feel much less dated.
This is also why many classic old songs undergo the phenomenon of being rearranged and released again.
Besides this, Luo Mo discovered that many people online had started a "New Song Challenge."
Quite a few people began recording videos, attempting to sing the rap section from "Clock in Reverse."
Luo Mo picked a few high-trending videos to watch.
There were indeed a few who sang quite well.
Of course, there was no shortage of epic fails either.
Seeing the silly netizens jokingly refer to this song as "Sending Off in Reverse," Luo Mo smiled slightly, finding it somewhat amusing.
Truth be told, he had seen several of Naicha Lun's concerts on Earth and had never heard him sing this song.
At this thought, he couldn't help but recall that he hadn't held a solo concert yet himself.
"But then again, I have my own plans for this matter."
"I need to pick the most suitable timing," he thought to himself.
In recent days, as Luo Mo continued to release new songs, the box office for "Nezha" had indeed warmed up a bit.
To him, this meant his goal had been achieved.
"The main point is still to see Heavenly King Chen's performance tomorrow," he couldn't help but smile.
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Tuesday, night.
Chen Luo had insomnia.
Having traversed the music scene for years and experienced countless storms, he had insomnia for the first time in a long while.
And his insomnia this time wasn't due to negative emotions like anxiety or hesitation, but because... excitement!
He now understood a little why singers in the industry all wanted to collaborate with Luo Mo so much.
He had heard many big-name singers from Cilong secretly complaining about their own Music Director, Yuan Hewen, asking why he had nothing better to do than provoke Luo Mo.
Otherwise, there would definitely have been a possibility for collaboration between Cilong, Xinyu, and Luo Mo Studio!
——Director Yuan has ruined me!
It wasn't until two in the morning that Chen Luo drifted off to sleep in bed.
During the night, he even had a dream.
He dreamed that Luo Mo took the initiative to offer to personally helm his next album.
In the process of working together, the two of them sparked a unique chemistry.
It allowed Chen Luo to step out of his comfort zone and achieve a new breakthrough.
On the new album, Luo Mo even wrote him a new Chinese Style song!
After listening to it, fans all clapped and cheered.
Heavenly King Chen didn't even want to wake up for a moment!
Wednesday morning, the new songs from Luo Mo and Chen Luo were uploaded to major music platforms at the same time.
The new song Luo Mo released was—"Saying Goodbye Without Crying."
A song sung by Mayday's Ashin and Zhou Jielun.
What Luo Mo released, however, was a solo version.
The silly netizens were instantly amused the moment they saw the song title.
"Is this singing about Luozai?"
"Hahaha, I don't believe Luo Mo is this petty, but the song is called 'Saying Goodbye Without Crying'!"
"It's hard not to overthink it!"
"I'm dying of laughter!"
"Luozai: Feels like I took an arrow to the knee!"
"Luozai: I didn't provoke any of you!"
"What kind of bad intentions could Luo Mo possibly have?"
Everyone clicked on the song to listen, and honestly, the song was truly a high-quality piece of work.
It was another standard, high-quality love song.
Moreover, this song was on the enduring side, the type that sounds better the more you listen to it.
In reality, the silly netizens were mostly joking.
After all, Luo Mo's album had been prepared long ago, and the song titles and lyrics had been written long ago.
And Chen Luo crying and hitting the Hot Search was something that happened during the New Year period. He had cried while watching "Nezha" during the New Year and then refused to admit it.
It can only be said that this was a coincidence.
If you have to blame someone, blame the song for being too fitting for the occasion.
Silly netizens: Today's happiness is provided by Luo Mo!
The song is good, the situation is fun, just enjoy it!
However, it was obvious that the netizens still underestimated the level of happiness today.
Many people immediately clicked to download after listening to Luo Mo's new song.
Then, they swarmed over to Chen Luo's side.
But when they saw the title of Chen Luo's new song, many couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Pfft—! What the hell!"
"《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》?"
"Hahahaha, I think my head is going to fall off from laughing."
"Did Luozai specially make a song to defend himself?"
"Where did my suave and dashing Luozai go? What kind of Happy Comedian is this! Give me back my Luozai!"
Let us sort out the timeline.
First, Chen Luo went to watch 《Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child》, then posted on Weibo to express his feelings, saying he almost cried.
Then, audience members who were sitting next to him at the movie came out to testify that Chen Luo did indeed cry! He actually refused to admit it even after crying.
Immediately after, Chen Luo seemed to fall into a state of giving up on himself and released a song directly—《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》!
What a straightforward song title.
So straightforward that many silly male netizens couldn't help but comment: "If you want to cry, just cry, why are you starting to represent us men!"
"I didn't cry when watching 《Nezha》, I held it in!"
"《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》, cross."
"《I Just Cried, So What? 》, check."
"Good heavens, he's just given up entirely!"
"It's indeed not a sin, and no one said you were guilty, dear!"
"No need, no need, really no need!"
No wonder, no wonder when Chen Luo was promoting his new song a few days ago, he said he wouldn't release songs from his new album first, as there were other songs he really couldn't help but want to release early.
It turns out he wanted to "clear his name"!
It's simply too unscrupulous!
At the same time, looking at the song titles of Luo Mo and Chen Luo, netizens only felt that these two had a sense of interacting from afar.
What is a Surprise? You tell me what the hell is a Surprise!?
Just like that, many silly netizens started clicking on 《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》 and began listening to this new song.
Some people don't look at the lyrics the first time they listen to a song.
But others are different; when listening to a new song for the first time, they like to look at the lyrics while listening.
Soon, this group of people discovered that there was an even bigger Surprise waiting for them!
They saw that in the lyrics of 《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》, there were a few lines written.
"【Lyricist: Luo Mo.】"
"【Composer: Luo Mo.】"
"【Arranger: Luo Mo.】"
What familiar three lines of text.
But who could have imagined that these three lines would actually appear here!
In an instant, the popularity of the two songs 《Saying Goodbye Without Crying》 and 《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》 exploded!
"Chen Luo's new song was actually written by Luo Mo!"
"They actually really collaborated; the songwriter Chen Luo mentioned was really Luo Mo?"
"Hurry, give Luo Mo the greatest respect!"
"What kind of god-tier collaboration is this, what kind of dream crossover is this!"
"Am I the only one feeling miserable, unable to see the Music God's silk-stockinged beautiful legs?"
"Laughing to death, I thought the two songs were a coincidence, but it turns out they weren't!"
In an instant, the Hot Search list could be said to have been occupied by Luo Mo and Chen Luo.
The silly netizens were sillier than the next, and even came up with this entry: "【Luo Mo, Gentle】."
Look, the song he wrote for Chen Luo is called 《A Man Crying Is Not A Sin》!
Help, he is so Gentle!
In reality, this only made Chen Luo's title of 【Crying King】 even more resounding.
The legendary first person to cry his way to the top of the Hot Search has once again relied on the word "cry" to rush onto the Hot Search and successfully reach the top.
And the incident regarding 《Nezha》 was dug up once again.
The popularity of the movie, isn't it back again!
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Luo Mo and Chen Luo engaged in a god-tier collaboration; this matter not only ignited the entire internet but also shocked the entire Huaxia entertainment industry.
Wang Shisong of Pineapple only felt his head buzzing.
Previously, the Music Director of Cilong Entertainment, Yuan Hewen, publicly apologized to Luo Mo in front of reporters, which in his eyes was already a form of betrayal and was sucking up to Luo Mo.
Now, Chen Luo and Luo Mo have actually collaborated; doesn't this mean—defecting to the enemy!?
Good heavens, it's one thing for you to abandon me, but you immediately got as thick as thieves with them?
Originally, Wang Shisong felt relatively balanced, after all, in the music scene, Pineapple wasn't the only company that got hurt.
Luo Mo's side was equivalent to indiscriminate attacks, tearing off the fig leaf of the music scene.
"The music scene is regressing, isn't it just because your standards aren't up to par?"
But what about now?
President Wang suddenly felt unbalanced in his heart.
This life is impossible to live; there are truly too many troubles.
No, I must hire a few more female secretaries!
On the other side, Ordinary Heavenly King Zhao Xueqin's current feeling is: "I'm done for!"
Why is it always me who gets hurt?
A few days ago, the new song "Journey" he sang for the movie "Car King 3" was still being crushed by Luo Mo's "All the Way North".
Today, he saw the news of the divine collaboration between Luo Mo and Chen Luo.
And as the top male Singer at Pineapple, who also holds a large amount of company shares, he is destined to have no opportunity to collaborate with Luo Mo like Chen Luo.
Zhao Xueqin: "I want to cry and make it to the Hot Search too!"
It's just a pity that Pineapple is destined not to have that treatment.
And what Zhao Xueqin finds most infuriating is that he has no other paths to take because he is a Pineapple shareholder and holds a large amount of shares.
But with President Wang's one wrong step leading to every step being wrong, Pineapple's development has become worse and worse, even giving off a sense of being on the decline.
This means his shareholdings are also becoming less and less valuable.
"Once, he even thought about blacklisting Luo Mo."
"Now, he is being targeted and beaten by Luo Mo's side across multiple fields."
Zhao Xueqin sighed.
He can't really see Pineapple's future anymore.
Heavenly King Zhao took out his phone, scrolled through Weibo, and envy kept projecting from his eyes.
Honestly, he personally thinks that the song "A Man Crying Is Not A Sin" is quite suitable for him.
He is confident that he would definitely not sing this song worse than Chen Luo!
He only listened to this song once before he understood that its target audience is middle-aged male listeners.
"Besides that, this song is probably also a must-order track for many people in KTV after they've had a drink," Zhao Xueqin thought to himself.
Heavenly King Zhao was scrolling through Weibo with such envious emotions when, very quickly, his eyes couldn't help but widen a little.
Because Chen Luo had just posted another Weibo at this moment.
After this Weibo was posted, it immediately exploded, attracting countless onlookers to watch.
Chen Luo wrote: "Besides 'A Man Crying Is Not A Sin', there is another new Cantonese song tomorrow."
In an instant, countless netizens below turned into repeaters, repeating the same sentence in the comments.
"Is it also written by Luo Mo?"
Chen Luo picked one at random and replied with two words: "Yes."
For a time, the fans of the two were the happiest people.
Zhao Xueqin, however, felt his throat go dry: "They not only collaborated, but they collaborated on two new songs in one go..."
"But, is it a new Cantonese song?"
Zhao Xueqin recalled that he knew Luo Mo could speak Cantonese.
However, it seems Luo Mo has never written a Cantonese song for an outsider.
To be precise, he himself rarely writes Cantonese songs.
The golden age of Cantonese songs has long since passed.
"In the music scene, it's been a long time since a popular new Cantonese song appeared."
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