Chapter 668: 《Blue Lotus》 and the Fire Lotus

Lyricist Song did not know that Lv Yi had been badmouthing him in front of the members of the Beijing Songwriter Association.

Of course, if he knew that Lv Yi was comparing his lyrics to Luo Mo's lyrics...

Song: "Then it's fine."

He actually compared my Chinese Style to Luo Mo, this founder of Chinese Style?

Ah, so in Old Lv's heart, I have such status and such a high level!

It seems I should also make fewer jokes about the songs Old Lv writes from now on.

In reality, for this group of middle-aged men, the part of this song that strikes them the most is this:

"【The window of childhood, the aged wall,

Have they stealthily changed direction?

When you and I meet before the hall,

Will there be silence, or will we pour out our hearts?】"

In the Hometown, there are still old friends.

But there is a saying that goes like this: friends are seasonal.

The older they are, the more they have this realization.

The people around you, as time passes, will change batch after batch.

Can the playmates from childhood, when meeting now, still be the same as before?

Not necessarily.

This is like on Earth, where many people read the relevant articles about Lu Xun and Runtu and don't have much feeling during their student years.

Only remembering... stabbing the badger!

But as one grows older, one can understand the meaning within.

Once the song "Swallow Returning to the Nest" was released across the entire internet, it indeed stirred up feelings of homesickness and longing for home in many people.

Luo Mo's brother-in-law Xu Jinzhu, because the film reviews and such that he previously wrote on Weibo had been liked by Luo Mo, has now also become a popular Weibo blogger.

Of course, he firmly believes that Luo Mo liked his post back then because I wrote it too well.

He couldn't possibly know this account is mine; after all, even my sister doesn't know!

Xu Jinzhu enjoys this sense of mystery and enjoys this secret interaction.

After listening to the new song "Swallow Returning to the Nest," he also wanted to write a caption related to the song.

He pondered for a long time and decided to write it from the perspective of a university student.

Many university students also leave their hometowns to study abroad, only returning to their hometowns during the winter and summer breaks in the spring and summer.

Thinking of this, he wrote on Weibo:

"【Studying in another city, I felt quite emotional after listening to this song.

From now on, the Hometown only has winter and summer, no more spring and autumn.】"

"Days where there are new songs to listen to every day are so happy." — Mo Sheng Ren.

Luo Mo's new songs are all very worth listening to; you won't get tired of them after listening a few times.

Your song from yesterday is still on Loop, and today, you've released a new song again.

After "Swallow Returning to the Nest," Luo Mo released another song, "Starry Sunny," the next day.

This song is a classic in its own right, a typical Zhou-style love song, and at the same time, it can be considered as continuing to pave the way for "Charlotte Troubles."

And this song actually also fits the name of the album "On the Road."

After all, this song is about a couple walking hand in hand on the road, then looking up at the sky.

After releasing this "Starry Sunny" and then releasing the finale piece "Blue Lotus," this album can be considered officially finished.

During this period, Luo Mo, by relying on the popularity of his song releases, also to a certain extent drove traffic for "Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child."

Especially — with the help of the 【Crying King】 Chen Luo.

This caused "Nezha," whose box office was already infinitely close to saturation, to accumulate nearly another 100 million in box office in the recent period.

Nowadays, the screening volume for "Nezha" is already very low; after all, it is the second month of release, and it belongs to the time of the 【Key】 extension.

Under these circumstances, for the box office to still be able to grow steadily is truly not easy.

Some overseas regions have also introduced "Nezha," and it is currently showing in theaters in 11 countries.

Although in the current general environment, the box office of domestic films overseas is basically not high, being introduced is still a good thing.

Luo Mo is very clear that the overseas box office of "Nezha" will not be very ideal.

But don't forget, Chinese people are spread all over the world.

Some overseas Chinese, international students, and the like also want to go to the theater to watch it.

Overseas release can satisfy the needs of some Chinese people abroad.

In fact, for many domestic films, that pitifully small overseas box office is indeed supported in a large part by overseas Chinese.

These past few days, Luo Mo has been waiting.

As mentioned before, for the box office of "Nezha," he has greater ambition.

Now, it has already topped the Huaxia box office chart.

Then, what needs to be charged into next are other charts.

At night, before going to sleep, Luo Mo took a look at the data for "Nezha."

"Very good, tomorrow should be enough." He smiled and fell asleep, feeling satisfied.

………

………

The next day, morning.

The final song of Luo Mo's new album "On the Road", "Blue Lotus", was uploaded simultaneously on platforms including Penguin Music.

Countless fans began listening to the song the moment it dropped.

What was magical was that this song didn't even have a single second of intro.

One must know, Luo Mo had become famous several times over for his "Pre-chorus Kill".

Songs like "Sunny Day", "Qilixiang", and "Nocturne" had intros that were just so Ox.

This time, "Blue Lotus" took a different path.

Without an intro, the singing started from the very first second, which meant less buildup.

However, did this song... even need buildup?

——Absolutely not!

Because when the first line of bass was sung, it was already a killer!

Many listeners couldn't help but recall the feeling they had when they first heard the song "The You of the Past" and heard the line, "【Once dreamed of wielding a sword to roam the world】".

The feeling was very similar, yet different.

In "Blue Lotus", the moment Luo Mo opened his mouth, he captured the ears of countless people!

Many people even felt that even if the rest of the song was a pile of shit, for the spiritual impact brought by this first line, they would still download it!

"【Nothing can block,

your yearning for freedom.】"

Men who heard it only felt it was too evocative.

Women who heard it perfectly felt the charm of what is called a bass cannon.

The lyrics were very straightforward.

But when paired with the bass and guitar, everything felt like it struck straight to the heart!

Especially when singing that line, "【Blue Lotus——】".

Many listeners were filled with deep emotion after finishing it.

"I want to go on a road trip on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway!"

"Listening to this song while riding a bike at night, I can ride at least ten kilometers further!"

"Can't listen to this while night running, I'm afraid I'll run right out of the city!"

"Don't know why, but I feel like my soul has been cleansed."

"This song is challenging the points on my driver's license!"

It must be said that Xu Wei's "Blue Lotus", used as the closing track of the album, was more than qualified.

At the same time, it could also create a sense of echoing from beginning to end.

Online, there were also silly netizens joking: "Lotus? Isn't this riding on the popularity of our Nezha?"

In reality, many netizens didn't know that domestically, everyone was still focused on the song "Blue Lotus". Meanwhile, the foreign film industry was shocked by something else.

The animated film "Toy Castle", produced by Hollywood and popular worldwide last year, had its box office surpassed!

This animated film was released globally last year and achieved remarkable results.

The combined box office from multiple countries reached as high as 794 million USD, ranking tenth on the "Global Animated Film Box Office Ranking".

According to the exchange rate on Blue Star, its global box office was just under 5.2 billion RMB.

The performance of "Toy Castle" could be described in four words—a huge success!

The company's expectation for "Toy Castle" at the beginning was actually just for it to break 500 million USD.

Its box office performance in North America was indeed not top-tier.

But who would have thought, the overseas box office was not bad at all!

Being able to rank tenth in the global history of animated films, what else was there to be dissatisfied about?

And looking just at the Split Box Office, this film was indeed the most profitable animated film globally in the last two years.

Therefore, the company immediately decided to hurry up and start "Toy Castle 2"!

Global tenth place was a very good promotional point.

If it were surpassed by others and became global eleventh, twelfth... it just felt like it lacked something when used for promotion.

For the team behind "Toy Castle", last year could be called a year of walking on thin ice.

Because in the North American region, several highly anticipated animated films were released this year.

All from big companies, big productions, big IPs!

Fortunately, the final result was good; the one with the most Ox box office only reached 730 million USD globally.

This allowed "Toy Castle" to temporarily sit firmly on the throne of tenth place.

As for foreign animated films... they weren't worth mentioning!

They were too lazy to even pay attention to them.

The situation on Blue Star was similar to Earth; even for the island nation famous for its Animation Output, the global box office of their animated films was just so-so.

Let alone surpassing our "Toy Castle", you wouldn't even be able to reach half of ours.

Our competitors only existed domestically!

As for Huaxia... a pure little nobody.

The animated film industry over there was developing too poorly.

Just ignore it!

It wasn't even qualified to appear on the list of competitors.

However, no one expected that at the beginning of this year, such a phenomenal blockbuster would be born in Huaxia.

The fact that *Nezha* broke records in daily box office domestically could only be described as the domestic animation industry going wild.

When it topped the charts in Asia, it did indeed shock the entire Asian market.

But what truly made it known to many people and reported by many media outlets across the globe was when it surpassed *Dying to Survive* to top the box office in Huaxia.

A Huaxia animation film actually reached a box office of over four billion!?

This was an inconceivable thing.

The major companies in Meiguo were completely unable to understand it.

They knew very well how popular and sought-after their own produced films were in Huaxia.

The dolls the children played with were their animation characters.

The stories the children listened to were also their stories.

Our films are released globally, and for every high-grossing animation film, the Huaxia market has made a huge contribution.

In the concepts of these companies, in the impressions of these companies, Huaxia people had always looked down on their own animation films.

The animation industry in Huaxia had always been backward.

Even with the sudden emergence of *Monkey King: Hero is Back*, a box office of over one billion was nothing in the eyes of these companies.

But this was over four billion!

If our films could have a box office of over four billion in Huaxia... wouldn't that be a massive profit!?

Consequently, when *Nezha* topped the Huaxia charts, a large number of overseas animation film companies began to study it.

The reason was simple: since everyone wanted to earn money from the Huaxia market, they certainly had to put in the effort and understand the preferences of Huaxia audiences.

As a result, upon this study, they were directly dumbfounded.

What the hell, what kind of thing is this male lead, a little brat with heavy dark circles who likes to bare his teeth and grin?

Dark style?

Is this style popular in Huaxia now?

The children in Huaxia have somewhat heavy tastes!

They continued to collect information, and in the process, they naturally saw the scenes of Nezha transforming, as well as some iconic scenes of his great battle with Ao Bing.

The line "My fate is determined by me, not by heaven," after being translated into English, had quite a significant impact on foreigners.

What is your God? My life is for me to decide!

As everyone knows, what the island nation exports most effectively is anime, the Kimchi Country is Korean dramas, and for Huaxia, it should be... web novels.

After many web novels are translated into English, how addicted do foreign readers get?

Some people have even kicked their addictions by relying on web novels...

And the web novels that are relatively popular abroad are mostly those "satisfying" types.

How could foreigners handle the kind of "satisfaction" found in Huaxia web novels!

That kind of counterattack, that kind of face-slapping, that kind of showing off, that kind of slaying gods and slaughtering demons... who could withstand this!?

Over there, they don't really have many books of a similar style.

The "burning" points and "satisfying" points in this *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* are actually not inferior to web novels.

The most outrageous thing is that as we were studying it, its box office actually rose all the way to 5 billion.

This made the company behind *Toy Castle* feel a tightening in their gut.

Then they waited and waited, and finally, they arrived at this day, and arrived at a completely unexpected ending!

The total box office of *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* surpassed the global total box office of *Toy Castle*, ranking tenth on the 【Global Animated Film Ranking】!

The most outrageous thing is that in this box office of over 5.2 billion, the share of overseas box office was pitifully small.

The domestic media had long been quietly waiting for this day to arrive.

And many foreign media outlets also began to report on this matter.

All of a sudden, *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child*, a film that had almost no screenings overseas, relied on its heaven-defying box office to force a massive increase in international fame!

With the box office reaching this level, it was hard not to pay attention to such a major event.

Meiguo media were reporting, island nation media were reporting, Kimchi Country media were reporting...

You have to know that a box office of over five billion means that the 【number of viewers】 for this film has broken one hundred million.

And how many people are there in the world?

How many films in the world can reach such an astonishing number of viewers?

The animation industry in Huaxia could be said to be completely boiling, as if the pot had exploded.

Today is destined to be an extraordinary day.

Luo Mo has left his name on a global film chart for the first time.

Domestically, the streets and alleys are playing *Blue Lotus*.

Abroad, all over the world, one after another—dazzling fire lotuses are blooming!

(PS: It's the end of the month, asking for monthly tickets.)

(End of this chapter)