Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 327 - 220: Director Lin Is Stunned!
On stage.
As the lights came on, the upbeat intro began to play.
Chen Qingzhu, dressed in a white long dress, was the first to start:
[The vast horizon is my love
The flowers are blooming at the foot of the rolling green hills...]
As a singer from the cultural troupe, Chen Qingzhu wasn’t very famous, but her singing skill was excellent, even better than some well-known singers.
The music industry is just like this, singing well doesn’t necessarily make you famous, after all, there are too many people who sing well!
Chen Qingzhu’s voice and temperament were highly compatible with the song "The Most Popular National Style." Although the audience didn’t know her, many were amazed the moment she began to sing.
"Amazing!"
"This sister is incredible!"
"Top-notch singing skill!"
"Suddenly feels like I’m at some gala show."
Some people in the audience marveled, while others whispered in discussion.
Except for Yang Nian, who had already heard Chen Qingzhu sing during rehearsals, the remaining three mentors were all surprised.
Zhou Dawei even subconsciously nodded. For mentors like them, the type of song wasn’t important.
What’s important is whether the song has the potential to spread and whether it can attract traffic.
The times have changed.
Works that are too highbrow, Zhou Dawei, Li Kun, and other mentors are too lazy to endorse.
Because it brings no practical benefits!
Whether it’s film and television or music, ultimately it’s for entertainment to please the audience.
Not to educate the audience.
If, in the process of entertaining, some positive ideas and connotations can be conveyed, that’s certainly better.
But that’s never the first priority, and no one is going to have an epiphany and change their inherent ideas just because they watched a certain movie or heard a certain song.
Unconsciously.
The chorus arrived.
Chen Qingzhu:
You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky
Let me sincerely leave you here
Red Rose Band together:
Stay!!!
...
"No, why does this song become more catchy the more I listen?"
"Why do I want to shout along?"
"My arms, why can’t they help but want to sway!"
"There’s something there, it’s folksy yet exciting!"
During the song’s bridge.
The audience whispered and discussed.
The B section began.
It was Lin Xiamo’s turn to sing:
[The vast horizon is my love
The flowers are blooming at the foot of the rolling green hills...]
The lyrics didn’t change.
But when Lin Xiamo sang the song, it was a completely different feeling from before when Chen Qingzhu sang.
When Chen Qingzhu sang, the audience felt like they were at a gala.
But Lin Xiamo took the audience from the gala to a concert scene.
The ethnically styled song was sung with a pop flavor.
What remained unchanged was the excitement!
It’s still very exciting!
Especially when the chorus, which had been repeated several times before, came again.
The audience below the stage no longer restrained their emotions, and everyone swayed their bodies to the rhythm of the music.
The chorus arrived again.
Lin Xiamo:
You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky
Let me sincerely leave you here
The whole audience:
Stay!!!
This should have been sung together by Chen Qingzhu and the three others.
This was rehearsed before.
When Chen Qingzhu sang lead, Lin Xiamo and three team members harmonized.
When Lin Xiamo sang lead, Chen Qingzhu and four people harmonized.
But the audience’s voice directly drowned out the voices of Chen Qingzhu and the four.
The next time around.
Even the four mentors joined in the "Stay" team.
The atmosphere of the entire recording site was energized.
When the performance ended.
Chen Qingzhu and Lin Xiamo, the mother and daughter, bowed hand in hand to thank the audience.
Immediately, the scene erupted in warm applause and cheers.
Some even whistled.
"Thank you, Teacher Chen Qingzhu and the Red Rose Band, for the wonderful performance."
"Now the voting channel is open, if you liked the performance just now, please cast your vote."
"Next, let’s invite the four mentors to comment on the performance just now and cast your votes!"
"Teacher Dawei, you go first..."
The host, Zhang Zhihua, came on stage and began to follow the procedure.
The mentioned Zhou Dawei pulled the microphone on the table closer to his mouth: "A stunning performance that exceeded my expectations, especially this song, because it’s original, I didn’t have high hopes initially."
"I want to ask, was this song created by your band?"
"Sort of!"
Lin Xiamo nodded.
"Sort of?"
"What does that mean?"
Zhou Dawei spread his hands and asked further.
"The lyricist and composer of this song is Shen Qiushan, and he is a substitute member of our Red Rose Band."
Lin Xiamo explained earnestly.
This substitute member thing was proposed by Shen Qiushan himself before, and he even asked Hu Tingting to have his name written in the introduction of the Red Rose Band’s Kuaishou account.
"Shen Qiushan?"
"Author of ’Three-Body Civilization’?"
"Nebula Award winner, famous writer?"
Li Kun picked up the conversation and directly asked three questions in a row, clearly very shocked.
In fact, not just him, upon learning that this song was actually Shen Qiushan’s work, the audience was already stirred.
Shen Qiushan’s fame is still very high, after all, he previously repeatedly appeared on trending searches.
Moreover, he is the first, and the only Nebula Award winner in China.
Since he’s not an entertainer, many people may not recognize him at first sight.
But the name "Shen Qiushan" still has very high national recognition, even no less than the four mentors on site.
"Yes, it’s writer Shen Qiushan."
Lin Xiamo nodded, and with some pride, said: "He also wrote ’Red Rose.’"
