HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 7 [007] Qi Yuan is about to take the stage.

This song is likely to become a hit; this conclusion is based on the experience of the musicians involved.

The piano intro is so catchy and memorable.

If you've heard this intro just once or twice on the street, it's sure to leave a lasting impression.

How many people admired your youthful beauty?

Who can withstand the relentless changes of time?

These lyrics are very evocative.

If I had to nitpick, I'd say this is a single song, only playable on radio.

Qi Yuan's handsome face couldn't be used to his advantage.

Imagine if Qi Yuan could sing this song live on the piano. Imagine a talented, handsome young man confidently playing the piano and telling a sad story about youth. It would be a killer for young men and women.

Especially those infatuated girls, they will definitely scream and lick the screen in front of the camera.

However, this is not very realistic. In this day and age, the Internet is not well developed, and going online is a luxury.

Let's forget about the music video; it's just a trial run, so it's definitely going to be low-cost.

Just promote it on the radio. If the response is good, immediately start Qi Yuan's first album. Then, just include "You'll Be With Me All My Life" in the album and add a music video.

Xiao Ke, Li Yanliang, Wang Xiaodong, and Gao Xiaosong are all people who understand music.

Qi Yuan had a very pleasant conversation with them!
Qi Yuan expressed his ideas and requirements for the arrangement, and they were able to meet his requirements well.

Even if it doesn't meet your expectations the first time, you can achieve about 80-90% of the desired effect after a few more tries.

It took three days to record the song "You'll Be With Me All My Life".

Most of the time, I'm dealing with arrangement details, harmony, and some complex melodies.

Qi Yuan only had five or six hours to actually record the song, which was the result of high standards and meticulous polishing of each line.

This is Qi Yuan's first solo single, and he attaches great importance to it.

After Qi Yuan finished singing the last line, he saw Song Ke, who was short and thin, give him an OK sign outside the glass. He then took off his headphones and came out of the room.

"You're in good shape, you sang great. The rest is up to editing, mixing, and final mastering. Once post-production is complete, we'll contact radio stations in Beijing to promote the song. I'll let you know then." Song Ke handed Qi Yuan a bottle of water.

Qi Yuan unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip: "You can arrange all of this. On the day 'You're My Life' premieres, I'll advertise it at school and get the students to support it."

The costs of recording the song and promoting it on the radio were naturally borne by Mai Tian.

The cost of testing the waters wasn't high either, as Qi Yuan wrote both the lyrics and music, which greatly reduced costs.

You only need to invest 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to hear real audience feedback.

Now it's truly time for the ugly daughter-in-law to meet her in-laws.

Whether it succeeds or not depends on this battle at the radio station.

……

Five days later.

Song Ke called Qi Yuan, her voice trembling with excitement: "Tonight at 9 PM, remember to tune in to Beijing Music Radio, FM 97.4MHz. We've already spoken to them, and your song will be featured tonight."

Beijing Music Radio is one of the more popular music radio stations in Beijing. Founded in 1993, it focuses on pop music with classical music as a secondary genre, and its external slogan is to guide fashion trends.

This radio station has a larger young audience, making it more suitable for youthful campus folk songs like "You'll Be With Me All My Life".

Song Ke put a lot of thought into choosing the radio station for Qi Yuan's debut performance.

Qi Yuan thanked him and then told Zu Feng the news.

Huang Xiaoming went to shoot an advertisement and won't be back for another day or two.

Zu Feng informed the students of Class 96 about this during class. Chen Kun: "Old Qi's first song will be on at 9 pm tonight? I'll support him when it's time."

Yan Danchen: "I've only ever heard Qi Yuan write songs for other people before. I'm really curious to know what it would be like to sing his own songs. He Lin, go ask if we can borrow a radio. We'll listen to it in the dorm tonight."

In school, once something spreads in one class, it will spread rapidly.

Within half a day, Zuo Xiaoqing and Sun Li, both from the class of '95, received word of the news.

Zuo Xiaoqing, in particular, managed to borrow a radio very early on.

The news that Qi Yuan was going to release a new song spread throughout the Beijing Film Academy.

What's even more outrageous is that last time Qi Yuan and the Beijing Film Academy basketball team defeated the Central Academy of Drama basketball team.

These bastards from Beijing Film Academy took a taxi to the Central Academy of Drama this afternoon to continue their blatant insults, and even brought the news that Qi Yuan would be releasing a new song tonight to the Central Academy of Drama.

Qi Yuan is quite famous at the Central Academy of Drama, mainly because he is handsome and talented.

During the last basketball game, many female students from the Central Academy of Drama defected to cheer for Qi Yuan, which dealt a blow to the morale of the Central Academy of Drama team.

After students from the Beijing Film Academy brought the news of Qi Yuan's new song to the Central Academy of Drama, it attracted a lot of attention on the campus.

The girls in Class 96 were discussing this matter privately.

"Tonight we'll see just how capable this talented student from Beijing Film Academy really is."

Qin Hailu carried an old-fashioned radio back to the dormitory, adjusting the frequency while asking several roommates questions.

"What was the radio frequency again? I was so busy borrowing the radio that I didn't catch the frequency."

“FM.97.4,” Zhang Tong replied.

"You're still the one with the best grades in your major, so your brain works really well. Yes, that's the rhythm." Qin Hailu slapped his thigh.

"Boring! What genius? The students are just making a fuss. A true genius is one who can still be recognized after leaving school." Zhang Ziyi glanced at Qin Hailu and Zhang Tong, thinking that her classmates' perspectives were limited.

If you've never left the school gates, you don't know what a big shot is.

He's just a student who attracts a lot of attention; does he really deserve everyone's concern? He's not some international celebrity.

“Purple Robe, don’t say that. Qi Yuan is quite talented. Didn’t the government take a liking to his song ‘1997’? They invited so many big-name singers to perform it,” Hu Jing said.

Mettin nodded in agreement.

Qi Yuan was a student just like them, and they were all from the class of '96. The difference was that Qi Yuan was at the Beijing Film Academy, while they were at the Central Academy of Drama.

They can't even compare to Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan's current achievements are already quite good among students.

Zhang Ziyi, with her high-handed attitude, didn't take Hu Jing's words seriously at all: "Listen if you want, I'm not interested. I'd rather use that time to read classic novels by famous authors to cultivate my mind."

It's not surprising that Zhang Ziyi feels somewhat superior to her classmates.

The novel she was holding was Bao Shi's "Commemoration," which will be adapted into a movie called "My Father and Mother" by Zhang Yingmou next year.

This film is aiming for major international awards, and the female lead is Zhang Ziyi, an international star.

Zhang Ziyi felt that she had already widened the gap between herself and her classmates, and the gap was not just large.

……

Time passes minute by minute.

Finally, at 9 p.m., the "Campus Folk Songs" program on Beijing Music Radio officially began.

It was Qi Yuan's turn to take the stage.

(End of this chapter)