Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 651: Just a Love Song
Listening to this piece of broken drum music, Bian Lang's memory in the audience once again uncontrollably returned to the original Earth.

Before he met Lao Qin, Bian Lang always listened to this song while riding a bike, and then thought about the various scenes of this song from the perspective of a purely literary young man.

"We once sang love songs all the way to see you regardless of day or night..." What a romantic thing it is. Even if it can only be exchanged for the girl's words: "It's just a love song!", it is worth it.

After all, when young artists do things, touching themselves is the most important thing. This extremely emo and romantic song has written about the mental journey of many boys in long-distance relationships. No matter whether the final result is happy or sad, it is the most beautiful form of love.

Only in this way can it be unforgettable enough!

Bian Lang had done this before, and this was one of the few girlfriends he could still remember.

According to what Bian Lang boasted about himself after getting drunk after the breakup, this relationship, even the final breakup, was the most perfect love he had imagined.

This happened after he met Lao Qin. Lao Qin even appeared in an MV for him and sang this song.

It was also because of this MV that Bian Lang had this love that still makes him smile whenever he thinks about it.

But, one night after the breakup, at the bar of Xi Bar, facing the half-drunk and half-awake Bian Lang, Lao Qin said the following:

"Brother, actually, the song "Just a Love Song" that Lao Ma wrote was not about love! When Lao Ma wrote this song, the original title was "Love Song". Later, when he was writing the lyrics, he found that it was no different from other songs. You are happy when you fall in love, and you are sad when you break up, that's all...so later it was changed to "Just a Love Song".

Once, a female singer approached Lao Ma to write a song. She asked Lao Ma to look up the top-ranked songs online and write a song based on that. When Lao Ma heard the song, he couldn't believe his ears. Later, Lao Ma told the singer that he couldn't write it because the expression was too low-level. For Lao Ma, writing 10,000 songs of that kind a day was no problem at all.

The lyrics are all about "I used to love you, but now I don't, it's raining again, it's so cold in winter..." Just write the melody and that's it. But what's the point? The current pop music scene is really stupid to an unbelievable degree. So, there was the song "Just a Love Song", which seems to be a love song, but is actually criticizing the current situation of pop music being speechless. "

After hearing this, Bian Lang sobered up immediately and looked at Lao Qin for a long time without saying anything. Finally, he said, "Poet Ma, he is indeed a poet Ma!"

However, people's evaluation of poet Ma is not just that of a poet. His voice, the free switching between true and false voices, and his unique pharyngeal and breathy sounds are used to finely cut the complete melody. The music that is finally presented really sounds like fragments.

The broken drum loop is still going on, but when Pan Jianhu's keyboard is added, the "gurgling spring" sound, like an electrified aluminum piano, adds a unique temperament to the song.

Bian Lang didn’t know how to describe it, but many girls present felt like an electric shock in their minds and immediately had a picture in their mind!

For example, the little witch, the picture in her mind now is returning to her girlhood, sitting on the carousel, thinking about the Supreme Treasure on the colorful cloud in her heart, and rainbow bubbles began to float all over the sky.

Guo Sichu recalled a summer night in college when a boy with long hair like Bian Lang played guitar and sang a folk song to her downstairs of the dormitory. She could no longer remember the lyrics, but the melody was forever imprinted in her mind.

And An Feng, she had too many images in her mind, the heart-moving scenes experienced by the characters she had played in the past movies and TV series, just like the character editing videos played when she won the award at the film festival, flashing through her mind frame by frame, and the life stories of those characters...

Looking at the fans in the audience who were enjoying the show with their eyes closed, the commander, who was strumming the acoustic guitar, glanced at Yuan Zi. He saw that Yuan Zi was staring at the strings very seriously, which was very rare. The commander felt that this was the most serious performance Yuan Zi had performed in the past few years!
Similarly, in addition to the youthful vigor and vitality of an old man, there was also a hint of nervousness on Old Pan's face, as if he had not been on stage for a long time.

In fact, during the rehearsal, except for Kong Liang, everyone else was a little nervous inside, although they didn't say it.

Although these guys have received many invitations to small live performances and special shows over the years, it was nearly 10 years ago that they performed at a music festival of the level of the Rolling Stones as a serious band.

They still have expectations for themselves for this reappearance.

The commander was thinking: "If I can still be recognized by the fans, then I will definitely be on next year's Summer of Love!"

What Yuanzi was thinking was: "If I really feel good, I can go on stage and perform seriously for a few years, do some benefits with Bian Lang, and it would not be bad to teach guitar at the Rolling Stone Music School!"

Pan Jianhu never thought that this group of old brothers would have such a day again, so he cherishes every scene very much.

After getting the score, Bian Lang asked him whether he wanted to make some changes. After all, although the original version was played with a keyboard, the same tone could also be produced with an electric guitar, which was not a problem with Qianzi's skills.

But Lao Pan still insisted: "That's it. Look, it's been a long time since I last performed on stage properly since you came. Now I have the chance to let you give me a good time..."

The last beat of the prelude ended with the whistle-like electric guitar of the rafters, and then the commander pushed forward the breath he had been brewing for a long time, and like a leaky sealing box, the main song was squeezed out bit by bit: "After passing a village, we suddenly lost our language... After passing a city, we deliberately discarded our voices..."

Listening to this passage again at this time, remembering what Lao Qin said about the original intention of poet Ma in writing this song, Bian Lang's understanding suddenly became more profound.

Isn't this process of losing language and voice referring to the pop music scene on the original Earth? Of course, the same situation is also happening on the Blue Water Planet!
In Bian Lang's memory, the only young pop musician whose songs he could remember in the following years was Mao Buyi.

So at that time, a large part of the new songs in the Chinese music scene were just like the lyrics at the end: "All expressions are redundant and cannot warm up a certain night... Only love songs seem innocent, but those who can sing them have already fallen silent..."

Hearing this, Bian Lang felt that he had been completely blinded by love in the days before he was awakened. Otherwise, how could a rock musician like him not hear the lyrics that were almost explicit?
In fact, this hindsight perspective became a God's perspective after arriving at the Blue Water Planet, and Bian Lang began to care a lot about the feedback from professionals.

And there was indeed someone at the scene who got a similar idea immediately.

Ruan Ping, who was with the crew's roadshow team, was thinking as he listened, "Hey! It's really like that. Can those kids singing love songs now really be called love songs? We who sang love songs in the past...are all of us now forgotten!"

However, the commander's next song made nearly one-third of the audience burst into tears: "We used to come to see you day and night, singing love songs, and you answered, it's just a love song..." But that's not all. The commander, whose emotions had reached the peak, sang like a drowning man calling for help: "If we come to see you day and night, singing love songs..."

The three words "come to see you" in the second half of the sentence sound like the frustration of not being able to sing up the key and having to lower the pitch.

And it just corresponds to the helpless ending later: "You must answer, it's just a love song..."

Hearing this, Huang Kai wiped away his tears, looked at Dayong who was looking at him and "explained": "Well, I never thought the sandstorm in Yunnan Province was so severe..."

Dayong didn't argue with him, but just said silently: "Is it because the song is bad or because love is hard to talk about, that people would come up with such a sentence!"

After a short interlude, the commander took a breath and continued to sing: "If you have no direction, go and look for it. Everything else is no longer important... It's best to give you a vast space so that you lose the courage to make noise..."

After this paragraph, which sounded like the main song, came to an end without any conclusion, it entered an interlude, leaving only space for the fans to begin their vague imagination and appreciation.

Geng Rong and his group had just come in before Sound Fragments came on stage. He and the commander were of the same generation and all came from the Beijing circle, so they had had some interactions before.

Although they had never worked together and Geng Rong didn't have a deep understanding of the music industry, he could still sense the general meaning of the lyrics.

He thought about how great those songs he had heard in the past were. Any one of those familiar songs would beat the level of today's blockbusters, just like his favorite martial arts movies.

In the past, there weren’t so many special effects technologies, nor such good costumes and props, but the films back then were really good to watch. The fighting scenes were exciting, and the stories were also well-written.

But looking at what he has now, even if he has the intention, he can't beat those tech-savvy people who bring money into the team but know nothing.

They didn't have to recite the lines 12345, but when it came to fighting scenes, none of the moves were performed by them personally. He felt that if things continued like this, the martial arts actors that China was once so proud of might soon become extinct in the country, just like the love songs they listened to.

Fortunately, the music scene has a new wave now, but who will be the future leader of their martial arts films?

Seeing Director Geng Rong's words, Ruan Ping stared at the stage and asked, "Director Geng, how was it? Did the music festival give you a big shock?"

Geng Rong nodded, and then said breathlessly: "If this movie fails, I wonder if we can try to make a music-themed movie?"

Hearing this, Ruan Ping looked at Geng Rong in surprise and asked, "Are you serious?"

"Why not? I still have the energy and courage to try new themes. If I wait a few more years, I'm afraid..."

On the other side of the quarantine area, Xia Yuxi also felt mixed emotions at this moment.

Although he had already decided to fight for the position of lead singer of Hedgehog, it was still difficult to change the mindset he had developed in the past within a single day.

After hearing this song, he habitually thought about how he should modify the song if he used his previous style.
But after simulating it several times in his mind, he found that his high-pitched singing skills, which had always been effective in the past, had completely lost their effect on this song.

It's not just that the effect is not good. He feels that if he continues to change it in his previous way, it will completely ruin the mood of the song.

This kind of faint and even somewhat inappropriate sadness, through the notes and lyrics, depicts the sense of pictures into people's minds bit by bit.

Although the pictures that each person sees may be different, there is no doubt that they are all related to love!
It's not like his song "Rain and You", which is just awkward...

Thinking of this, he wanted to find a hole to crawl into. Was he crazy or stuck in a door at that time, so he insisted that the program team put his song into a band variety show adaptation competition!

As for Liang Kuan, this was the first time she felt that rock music could be so special and different after joining the Rolling Stones!
Just like what those music critics on Original Earth who like Sound Fragments said, just by listening to the lyrics of Sound Fragments, you will find that their music is very visual and poetic.

Different from some of the current angry and critical rock bands, Sound Fragments seem to have their own beautiful world, in which they think and create independently.

So you can feel that their music has a very strong style.

And this different style and temperament, when placed on the commander and the others, is so appropriate! This is what she admires most about Bian Lang's ability!
As for this sad love song, she felt it wouldn't be excessive to release a separate EP for it.

Liu Ziyang and Olaf at the main control desk were enjoying the interlude while talking about the style of the song.

"Zi Yang, this style is so unique. Do you think this is a new track launched by Wave? Will he release other songs of this style?"

Liu Ziyang was also thinking about this issue. If this style could be continued and Bian Lang could have continuous output, then even if this temporarily formed band could not last long, it would at least leave behind one or two records that music fans would talk about.

At this moment, the commander felt that the singing voice was a little forced: "We used to come to see you day and night, singing love songs, and you answered, it's just a love song..."

Listening to the breath-conversion technique and the idealistic tone in the lyrics, he immediately thought of a song: "Olaf, Sending Flowing Water! This song has the same style as Sending Flowing Water!"

(End of this chapter)