After failing the college entrance examination, he became a big star

Chapter 122 Will be broken but not broken
"Then folk songs, hard songs, sweet songs, R&B, rap music, are there any chances of selling these as the main album?"

Hearing Li Kai's series of questions, the two looked at each other again, and Xu Qianqiu said: "You have released a single, and it's time to release an album next. Do you want to break out of love songs and challenge other styles?"

Seeing through his mind, Li Kai did not shy away, nodded and said: "I have this idea."

In the previous world, various new-generation singers emerged from the late 90s, and at the same time, various genres gradually formed a trend of contention.

The Chinese music scene in this world, since the 90s has not had a certain singer or a few singers who have an absolute dominant position, gives Li Kai the feeling that the development process is faster than that of the previous earth.

Therefore, I would rather take the first step than rest on my laurels and stay in the moment!

Xu Qianqiu's eyes were slightly playful: "You are serious, you have to know that lyrical slow songs are the absolute mainstream in the music world today, and trying other styles will take a lot of risk."

Seeing that Li Kai's expression was calm, without any sign of wavering, he raised three fingers: "Let me give you three vivid examples. As for male singers, since the debut of King Guo Yifu, a total of eight albums have been released. Only the first Six albums sold less than platinum, and that album was based on a fast song and a light rock song, that is to say, after this album, he lost his position as the leader of the four heavenly kings."

"In terms of female singers, after Murphy was released in 1990, the two queens in the music industry have been respected for more than four years. Until Wang Jingfang announced her retirement the year before last, there is a consensus in the circle that no female singer can challenge Murphy's status within three years, but who would have thought, Her sixth album, with a soft rock and a folk song as the main theme, ended up selling just barely more than gold in half a year, which also gave other female singers a chance to rise."

"Then there is Ning Lan."

"Why are you talking bad about me behind my back?" A soft voice came, with a questioning tone, but no anger could be heard.

Xu Qianqiu raised his eyelids, and walked towards Ning Lan, who had round almond eyes, and said indifferently: "I was talking about your first album when you debuted, with two folk songs as the main title, and it turned out"

Ning Lan continued: "As a result, less than 40 copies were sold in half a year. If you hadn't followed your advice and changed the style of the second album, there would be no future queens, right?"

Ning Lan randomly found an empty seat and sat down, took off her mask, revealing her delicate face, and called Feng Mo first: "Old Mo."

Then he turned his head to look at Li Kai, and said helplessly, "My brother likes to vilify me."

Xu Qianqiu said slowly: "When did I vilify you? Li Kai had an idea to try other genres in his first album. I will give him a few examples for reference."

Ning Lan's expression changed when she heard the words: "Is it true?"

Li Kai smiled: "It's just an idea, and I haven't made a final decision yet."

Ning Lanxiu frowned, and said cautiously: "It's better not to, it's too risky."

Just as he was talking, there was a burst of intense music, drums and bass mixed together.

A band came on stage and sang.

Four people, one vocalist, one drummer, and two bassists.

Sang an old song "My Pursuit", rock style, or heavy rock.

The occupancy rate in the bar was about [-]%, and the atmosphere suddenly became hot.

Xu Qianqiu glanced around, and said leisurely: "Actually, rock and roll has always been the mainstream of pop music. There are thousands of bars across the country. Anyone who excludes rock and roll will go bankrupt."

Feng Mo sighed: "Yes, rock and roll will never die. There are many rock bands in the underground music circle, but there are very few people who are willing to spend money to buy records to listen to."

After a rock song, the band played another strong song, accompanied by hot dance, and the atmosphere in the bar was raised to a higher level.

The third song was a lyrical and slow song, and everyone's reaction was mediocre.

In the end, the performance ended with a heavy rock song. Amid applause and cheers, the four walked off the stage.

Xu Qianqiu pointed and asked Li Kai: "What do you think of their singing?"

Li Kai hesitated for a moment, and said: "The singing skills of the round are already professional enough."

Xu Qianqiu nodded slowly: "There are many customers who like them, and there are also many producers who are optimistic about them, but so far there is no record company willing to sign them, because they are good at rock and roll, and they have been in the underground music circle for five years. .”

As he said that, he took out a pack of cigarettes and signaled to Li Kai. Li Kai waved his hand to indicate that he would not smoke, so he lit one himself, exhaled a puff of smoke, and returned to the previous topic: "I gave those few examples to make people You understand that it's a big risk to try something other than lyrical slow, and you have to be very careful."

Immediately, he changed the topic again: "At the same time, there is another meaning, Guo Yifu and Murphy, with their status and achievements in the music world, they only need to continue their style to maintain their popularity, but they chose to change their style of music. Do you know why? ?"

Li Kai shook his head. If he was an ordinary fan, he might say that they have already won the top spot in the music industry. If they want to pursue anything else, they can only try and explore more in the field of art. But as an insider, Li Kai understands that this It’s just a big nonsense. If you really have no pursuit, you should retire. If you really just want to try and explore, then you should keep the album’s main theme as lyrical slow songs, and only add one or two other styles to the album.

No one will make fun of what they have achieved, the more people stand on the higher ground, the less they will!

Xu Qianqiu narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let me talk about my personal opinion. Since [-], lyrical slow songs have dominated, and their influence has continued to spread. It has reached its peak now and may go down at any time." Poe, other genres are bound to follow, and the two of them realized that and took the risk at their peak."

Speaking of this, his face darkened a bit, and he sighed: "But it turns out that they all failed, maybe the opportunity has not yet arrived."

Li opened his eyes slightly, and thoughtfully said: "I say this, I don't know if you agree or not, now that the public's ears are flooded with lyrical slow songs, and when songs of other genres appear, it will be easy to catch the public's ears. But after a comparison, it was found that they were not as good as the classics in the lyrical slow songs, so they were ruthlessly abandoned. To break this pattern, what is needed are excellent songs, which can stand shoulder to shoulder with or even surpass the classics in the lyrical slow songs.”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Qianqiu and Feng Mo's eyes lit up at the same time, Li Kai's words touched their hearts.

Xu Qianqiu stared straight at Li Kai, a little surprised that he had such insights at such an age, and breathed in: "You are right, Guo Yifu, Murphy's failure in trying is not their own problem, but The problem with the song, the song is not good enough, even the king of heaven and the queen of heaven can't sing well."

Feng Mo snorted: "It's not only right, it's too right, I have the same point of view as Lao Xu, not only us, many senior musicians in the circle have the same point of view, as early as two years ago, Someone pointed out that lyrical slow songs have reached a bottleneck, and the public is eager for other genres to appear in their hearts, but without good songs, the public can only be forced to accept it.”

"In fact, many songwriters in the circle are trying to create works of other genres, but there are very few singers who dare to try. Guo Yifu, Murphy, and a few front-line ones have tried successively, but the results are not very good. , those second- and third-tier singers, even if they want to try, the record company will not allow it, because it is too risky."

Feng Mo sneered: "It can only be said that the top management of most record companies are too short-sighted, they only want to seek stability, and they don't look at the development history of the domestic music scene. When the rock and roll trend just started, two bands were built with a lot of money, pushing them to the top line, and Rolling Snow also took advantage of the trend to advance to the ranks of giants."

"Hua Ge was only a first-tier record company in the early 90s. It was in the era when mainland singers were rising and various genres were contending. giant."

"If you want to be safe, that is to wait for death. When Gun Xue was promoted to a giant, domestic record companies fell down, and there were three first-tier ones. When Hua Ge was promoted to a giant, they also fell down, and three of them were first-tier."

"Don't look at the more than 20 first-tier record companies in China. Some singers are no less than the five giants. But if the times really change, I'm afraid it will be inevitable."

Xu Qianqiu thought deeply: "Now, the output of lyrical slow songs every year, including underground songwriters, is more than [-] capitals. Lyrical slow songs account for more than [-]% of the records on the market. It is already on the verge of breaking."

"Okay, okay, one of you has retired, and the other is half-retired. It's really exciting to pass your feelings here, and it ruined my good mood."

Seeing that they chattered endlessly as soon as they opened it, Ning Lan was a little speechless, pretending to be displeased.

Li Kai was inspired by what he heard. One of the eternal truths in the pop music world is to seek change!

It is a kind of luck for a record company to be in the middle and early stages of a certain era. It only needs to follow the trend in a normal way, but if it is at the turning point of the era, it must make a choice.

The same goes for singers.

At the turning point of the times, if the record company made the wrong choice, it would face liquidation and bankruptcy, and if the singer made the wrong choice, it would ruin the future.

In the music circle, even if it is super-first-line, there will not be more than two opportunities for error correction.

As for rookies, third-tier, or even second-tier players, if they make a mistake once, they will have no chance to turn around, and even if they do, it will waste several years.

At present, the domestic music scene has reached the point where it will not be broken. This is Xu Qianqiu's point of view, which coincides with Li Kai's judgment, which makes him firmer in his desire for change.

"Li Kai, this is for you." Ning Lan came with a guitar bag on her back, and at this moment, she handed it over to Li Kai.

Li stared blankly for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning. This was an extra thank you gift for the hit song "I Hope I Live Long".

Li Kai didn't refuse, said thank you, then opened it, his eyes lit up, he plucked the arc string casually, and when he heard the string sound like a clear stream, his eyes lit up a little bit.

This is a professional-grade guitar, and its quality is better than all the guitars Li Shi has played in his previous life.

However, Li Kai soon discovered that this guitar was not brand new, with a few scratches on the surface.

Seeing that he noticed it, Ning Lan smiled lightly and said, "This is the reward given to me by the boss of the company at the celebration party for my first platinum album."

Li Kai was slightly startled: "Sister Ning, give me such a commemorative thing."

Ning Lan tossed her beautiful hair, looked indifferent, and pointed to the stage: "Would you like to go up and try and sing a song by the way?"

Li shook his head: "Forget it, the company has regulations."

Ning Lan rolled her eyes: "It's not like you're privately accepting commercial performances, the company can manage so much."

Xu Qianqiu said with a smile: "Li Kai, don't you want to try other genres? I'm here to rely on the old to sell the old. Although my creative talent is not as good as yours, and my voice is not very good, but my judgment is not bad. I will check it for you. .”

Feng Mo hummed: "If you can pass the level of the two of us, it's not a bad idea if you want to try to challenge it."

Ning Lan didn't encourage any more, but she looked at Li Kai with a meaning in her eyes.

"You are forcing me to make a fool of myself." Li Kai shook his head and laughed, and then responded straightforwardly: "Okay, then please check it out for me."

He held his chin and thought for a while, his eyes flashed brightly: "Didn't Lao Mo say that rock and roll is no longer popular? Then I will try to challenge rock and roll."

Feng Mo got excited, clapped his hands and said: "Okay, as long as you can get my score of 82 or more, I will take out the bottle of [-] La Feng red wine that I treasure tonight, and have a good drink with you."

After the band ended, another male singer went up to sing, and when he finished singing, Xu Qianqiu beckoned to the bar manager and asked the resident singer behind to wait.

Li Kai got up holding the guitar and walked all the way to the stage.

He adjusted the height of the microphone without haste, and said to the microphone: "Bring a song "Broad Sea and Sky", I hope everyone likes it."

After a little brewing, he moved the arc, and after a prelude, he sang: "Today, I watched the snow drift by in the cold night, drifting away with a cooled heart, chasing in the wind and rain, unable to distinguish traces in the fog, the sky and the sea Between you and me, it will change."

"Broad Sea and Sky", one of Beyond's masterpieces, has all the characteristics of pop rock, and is full of fighting spirit, full of youthful and passionate blood.

Although it is a song from the early 90s on earth, and it is still in Cantonese, it still has a very wide popularity until 30 or [-] years later.

It is regarded as an eternal classic by fans, and it is regarded as Huang Jiaju's last gift to the music scene before his death.

Choosing this song is not only the interpretation of his state of mind, but also the beginning of the declaration of the challenge. If even Xu Qianqiu and Xu Qianqiu cannot pass this level, Li Kai will announce in his heart that rock and roll in this world is dead!

The prelude melody gave people a feeling that the heartstrings were being twitched. As soon as the lyrics came out, coupled with Li Kai's affectionate voice, in just a moment, the originally noisy bar quickly fell silent, and pairs of eyes suddenly shot to the stage.

Xu Qianqiu and Feng Mo looked at each other, and they saw a look of surprise in each other's eyes.

(End of this chapter)