Entertainment: Is this how you play music?!

Chapter 80 Solid as a rock!

I arrived at the entrance of the waiting area and called Zheng Jie.

Soon, Sister Shen came to greet them.

After bringing the group to the backstage lounge, Li Can spoke first before Zheng Jie could start complaining.

"Tomorrow, give them some strength."

"I need to adjust the dynamic balance a little bit in the music to further increase the impact. One night is enough for that."

"it is good!"

Zheng Jie suddenly became excited.

It can be seen that Li Can is also unhappy.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t want to reset the dynamic balance specifically based on the impression of the live stage.

"Let's go. There's a computer in the car. You can use it first. I'll contact the studio right away and the adjustments will be completed tonight."

Without further ado, Sister Shen immediately assigned the work to her assistant.

The group returned to the business car.

Turning on the computer, Li Can frowned, entered the source file, and re-edited the equalization effect.

After finding a studio, the mixing was completed quickly.

Wearing headphones, Zheng Jie listened carefully to the difference between the two versions.

"Did the drum sound change? The bass drum? The bass sounded not much louder. But the piano was brighter and the synth sharpened?"

"Ah."

Li Can nodded slightly.

"It will bring you some pressure, but it's not too much. You just need to change your singing ideas."

Under Zheng Jie's gaze, Li Can smiled gently.

“Don’t match the accompaniment, don’t try to match or guide the audience’s emotions.”

"Confrontation! What I want is confrontation!!"

Speaking of confrontation, Li Can's eyes flickered with an inexplicable brilliance.

“Imagine your voice is a sharp hammer, use your best high notes to smash and tear apart the accompaniment!”

"understood!"

Zheng Jie nodded heavily and took Li Can's words to heart.

Silent all night.

The next day, the group came to the recording site again.

This time, Li Can and his group did not sit in the audience, but went to the backstage waiting area as Zheng Jie's team.

Time passes slowly.

The second day's program recording officially began.

After explaining the content of the performance, Li Can leaned against the wall outside the lounge, followed the backstage passage, and looked towards the position of the jury.

Soon, all the artists came out of the lounge to get some fresh air.

The only artists recording today are Luo Honglin, Chen Yingna, Meng Chuan, and Zheng Jie.

The winner and loser have already been determined.

Even the team formation has been finalized.

Chen Yingna and Zheng Jie will form a team to fight against the trio of Zhao Bingqing, Lin Miaoyun and Tan Jun.

The other three groups don’t even need to record today, but the editing will be in the form of a competition.

Surrounded by a large crowd, Chen Yingna walked onto the stage and sang a song. After leaving the stage, she returned to the backstage in a graceful manner surrounded by a large crowd. It was such a glorious moment.

"Sister Na, do you think Luo Honglin has the guts to kick your gym tonight?"

"Just him? Does he have the guts to do that?"

When Chen Yingna heard the assistant's question, she didn't shy away from other people at all. She showed a sarcastic smile and sneered.

"Even if he kicks my gym, so what? How can he win? It's really shameless to come here to beg for food."

"Hahahaha!"

The laughter rose and fell, and it seemed that they did not avoid Luo Honglin who was standing not far away.

It was as if she was saying it on purpose for him to hear.

Luo Honglin's expression was a little stiff. He smiled awkwardly and pressed down the brim of his baseball cap.

As for Meng Chuan, the runner selected as a runner-up, it seemed that he had already been forgotten by everyone.

"Dude, is it my turn soon?"

Meng Chuan asked the staff not far away.

The staff member who was happily enjoying the show glanced at Meng Chuan, nodded impatiently, turned around and shouted towards a place not far away.

"Meng Chuan is about to go on stage, get ready!"

Immediately, he waved his hand, signaling them to quickly go into the waiting area as if driving a pig.

Meng Chuan's expression changed slightly, but he still sighed and didn't dare to get angry.

Soon, Meng Chuan's performance ended.

The quality seems very high, but Li Can, who is also proficient in rock music, knows that Meng Chuan's music has lost its vitality and is stagnant.

Like being addicted to rules and gradually becoming silent.

When music no longer has a rebellious spirit, that is the day the dream ends.

But no way.

The young man's high spirits were constrained by his weaknesses. He had to crawl out of the underground and come out to the surface. Meng Chuan, who once fed his whole family, now had to consider the money for milk powder. Music went from a dream to a tool for begging.

Meng Chuan fought his way out from underground, just like his ancestor who had fought hundreds of battles, broken through the boundaries and ascended to immortality. However, after entering the entertainment industry, he discovered that he was the fish.

All the sharpness in my body has long been exhausted.

After the performance, Meng Chuan sat quietly not far away.

As if he couldn't sit still and felt depressed, Meng Chuan approached Luo Honglin, who was also isolated, and wanted to find someone to chat with.

"Brother Luo, I have heard of your name for a long time."

"Alas, what a great name, it's just a joke."

Luo Honglin's eyes were full of vicissitudes, and this vicissitudes made Meng Chuan smile bitterly at himself.

“I have been playing music all my life, but later I realized that music is the least important thing.”

".But at least I can still make music and have a meal, which is good enough."

Hearing Meng Chuan's self-deprecation, Luo Honglin also sighed, with a hint of fatigue in his eyes.

"I don't know how long I can keep going on this musical journey."

Li Can, who was not far away, saw everything.

His brows had been furrowed since Chen Yingna's open ridicule at the very beginning, but Li Can was not the kind of person who meddles in other people's business.

soon.

It is Zheng Jie's turn to take the stage soon.

Seeing Zheng Jie walk into the backstage, Li Can shook his head and walked up to the two of them.

There was no word of comfort or sympathy.

"Brothers, my name is Li Can, and I'm Zheng Jie's music producer. Would you like to meet me?"

Li Can nodded towards the stage.

"Listen to the song and give me some valuable advice?"

"Haha, you're being modest."

"Okay, come on."

Meng Chuan and Luo Honglin looked at each other, and the depressed look on their faces dissipated a lot.

For both of them, silent isolation and exclusion are the most terrifying, and sympathy and pity are the most damaging to their self-esteem.

Li Can's expression and attitude made the two of them feel comfortable, and they both smiled gently.

With Zheng Jie's appearance, the two of them were no longer depressed and looked at the stage with interest. After seeing the song title appearing on the stage projection screen, their hearts trembled slightly.

"Solid as a rock"!
On the stage.

Zheng Jie took a deep breath and also got into the state.

Thinking about the inevitable fate that would follow and how it would be impossible to resist, I felt that it was already arranged by someone else.

I prepared the work carefully, but it seemed to have become a joke.

A strong sense of unwillingness emerged from my heart.

His eyes gradually became firm.

Zheng Jie nodded to the sound control and held the microphone tightly.

The piano rang like a bell, and amidst the roar of the bass like a dark vortex, Zheng Jie lowered his head and spoke.

“Don’t feel sad for me, I was born without needing to be appreciated.

One person opens the show.
One person left.”

Take F3, which is not very high, as the benchmark.

As if he was telling a story slowly, his voice was low and he told the story. Meng Chuan and Luo Honglin trembled all over.

Whether recalling Meng Chuan's climb up all the way, or recalling Luo Honglin's fall from glory to darkness.

I feel like this song is singing about myself, as if it is comforting myself.

Aren’t these lyrics talking about my “aesthetic weirdness”?

My mind was unconsciously attracted and I breathed lightly, as if I wanted to listen carefully.

"Listening to the window, flooding, letting my clothes rot,
If you hold your hands tightly, the empty space you pass through is called heaven."

Zheng Jie raised his head.

He looked with burning eyes at the music critic who had judged him in a frivolous manner yesterday.

He turned around suddenly, as if accusing the entire program team.

"It's very ordinary. I'm afraid of dirtiness, so I watch it with tears.

I can see that everyone has a wall in their heart. "

Boom boom boom!
When the heavy drum beats temporarily subsided, Zheng Jie's voice burst out, and the instantaneous D5 pressure rose like a rocket straight into the sky, as if trying to pierce through the layers of haze.

In just a moment, Meng Chuan and Luo Honglin felt that the ashes in their hearts were ignited again.

"Life! Every time hard hits hard, there are sparks.

Stone! Built into dreams, beaten by heavy rain, carved with scars! "

In an instant, the wild surge from #A3 to D5 stunned everyone in the audience.

One octave plus four semitones!

The sudden impact makes people lose their minds in an instant.

Zheng Jie clenched his fists tightly, and his face became much more ferocious.

That burning gaze seemed to want to burn through the wall of human hearts built on the quagmire.

The strong sound of high pressure fights against the wandering bass roar!
"Pushing the boat with the current, but no room for intrigue and deception,

The colors are too bright, please don’t let him become darker.”

Singing loudly with red eyes.

Veins were faintly visible on Zheng Jie's neck.

In an instant, both Meng Chuan and Luo Honglin had an urge to burst into tears, and their long-lost passion was rekindled.

The tension in the music instantly invaded everyone's emotions.

Zheng Jie seemed to be shouting loudly to the program crew. He could manipulate the result, but he couldn't cover up the voice!
"I hope every time I stumble, I will dare to go against the wind and sand!
Fate dares to bare its fangs against him year after year!"

No words needed!
Everything I want to say seems to be in the music!
Zheng Jie leaned back slightly and clenched his fists even tighter.

The sound waves vibrate and penetrate layer by layer, and combined with the chaotic music, they are expressed in an even more chaotic way!

"The night is too dark, I want to brighten it up.
Like a rock, stubborn as a rock"

It's a lyrical cry, but ends with a slight cry.

The song ended, but the music ended quite abruptly and abnormally.

Not only did the chord not end completely, but even the ending was deliberately created with a very uncomfortable friction effect.

As Zheng Jie resolutely turned around and walked off the stage, the music suddenly stopped.

It completely caught the audience off guard, like a bucket of cold water amidst the passion.

Luo Honglin heard the voices of resolute resistance to injustice.

Meng Chuan heard the voice of attitude and passion towards dreams.

The two had complicated expressions but were excited.

The ending was too obvious.

Breaking through one layer of darkness often leads to deeper darkness; if you want to resist, there will be oppression!

but.

The song has not ended, the work has not been completed, but the east is already white.

Everyone has different interpretations and feelings.

But without exception, the powerful sound waves sweep the wild hearts and gallop in the world of music.

Seeing how excited the two were, Li Can smiled and left quietly without saying anything else.

I won’t comfort others, and I won’t meddle in other people’s affairs.

But if it's just for fun, Li Can doesn't mind using music to encourage strangers.

I just want to plant more seeds and wait for them to germinate.

The music industry has been hijacked by aesthetics for too long.

The pursuit of music has long since changed from the most primitive emotions and touches to the so-called "good-sounding", "B-level" and "gorgeous".

Even just for fun is a huge sin.

If you are slightly different, it seems that heaven and earth will not tolerate you.

[Lowering the aesthetic standards of the music scene]

But the music industry needs different people and different works.

Aesthetics needs more people to interpret.

Give music back to more people.

Return to the lounge.

Then I saw Zheng Jie walk into the room excitedly.

"That's great, Chan-ge!"

"It's good as long as it feels good."

Li Can nodded with a sneer in his eyes.

During the blank time when Zheng Jie finished singing and left the stage, those music critics were unable to say a word.

I just watched Zheng Jie leave without accepting any comments.

Chen Yingna, who was chatting with the producer of the program as if watching a play, also became serious. Looking up, she found that the producer and director also looked unnatural.

As if they read something from the music, their faces became gloomy.

How can it look like you don’t understand music?

After this song.

Luo Honglin smiled with relief.

When it was his turn to challenge the opponent, he picked up the microphone and walked resolutely into the waiting area. He felt relieved of the heavy burden and his steps became more determined.

No matter success or failure, let alone winning or losing?
"Teacher Luo, as a challenge singer, what kind of opponent do you want to choose?"

"Haha, every opponent is worthy of respect and strong."

Luo Honglin smiled innocently and spoke in the most casual manner.

“Although I am definitely not her opponent, I still really want to be on a bigger stage and learn from Teacher Chen Yingna!”

Chen Yingna's face darkened slightly.

I don’t know if it was influenced by Zheng Jie’s song. Although she knew she would not lose, seeing Luo Honglin’s free and easy attitude, Chen Yingna felt uncomfortable and offended no matter how she thought about it.

After Luo Honglin finished singing, Chen Yingna came on stage.

But it was not until after he got off the stage that Chen Yingna heard from her assistant that Luo Honglin left directly after singing and did not care about the subsequent judging and "selection" at all.

"damn it!"

Chen Yingna's face turned pale.

After being the big sister for so many years, today I was actually disgusted by a few minions!
"Where's Zheng Jie?!"

"Left long ago."

".never mind!"

Chen Yingna's expression changed repeatedly, but she could only shake her head helplessly.

That B Zheng Jie must be secretly slandering me, but I have no evidence and I can't make a big deal out of it.

Moreover, in terms of stage performance alone, Chen Yingna does not necessarily have more confidence and assurance than Zheng Jie.

"How come Zheng Jie suddenly got the hang of it? His strength has improved a lot, it's a qualitative change!"

Frowning, Chen Yingna looked at her assistant.

"Is there anyone special among them? Could it be that Xingmei has sent him some top resources? Zheng Jie's songs played an important role in these two performances. It is not something that ordinary music producers can do to produce two such excellent songs in a row!"

"Sister Na, there really is one. It's Li Can from Xingmei. He came here with Zheng Jie. He's a producer who has become famous in the industry recently."

"Li Can! I know him! Xu Qing's disciple!"

Chen Yingna's face became even gloomier.

"Why did it have to be him?!"

　The pitch difference in this song is really outrageous. I have never seen such a play in song composition.

　　Two octaves plus four semitones.

　　Strong mixed articulation D5.

　　To put it bluntly, this song is not something that a human can sing.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)