Chapter 1298 Modern People Like What Is Popular

After sitting down and ordering dishes, several people started chatting. Yang Dongxu sat on Li Zongsheng's left and Zhou Yulun sat on his right.

"I heard that you are all very satisfied with the song this time. The quality should be very good, right?" Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

"It is indeed good. It is mainly the collision of traditional elements and pop music. I feel that this collision has sparked sparks." Li Zongsheng said with a smile.

Everyone present can be said to be a lyricist and composer, and they all have their own unique understanding of music. So the quality of this song can be seen to be really good to satisfy Li Zongsheng.

After all, the status of the lyricist Fangshan is in the arena, and Zhou Yulun's debut also added a lot of points with his identity as a creative singer. So he chose this song and invited Fei Yuqing to perform together. Obviously, he is also very satisfied with this song.

"If there is a chance, Mr. Yang will come to the recording studio to give some advice." Zhou Yulun took over the conversation and said.

Putting aside Yang Dongxu's identity as the boss of the company, his identity as a lyricist and composer alone is enough for Zhou Yulun to admire.

After all, the person in front of him has left various legends in the arena. Although he has written fewer lyrics and composed fewer songs in recent years, it is obviously not because he has run out of ideas.

In recent years, there have been a number of female singers and girl groups in South Korea that have become popular throughout Asia. Some of the popular songs are written by Yang Dongxu.

So others may stop writing songs because they have run out of ideas and want to quit and keep their hard-earned reputation. Yang Dongxu rarely writes songs because he does not have extra energy to focus on it.

After all, what is the price for a CEO of a multi-billion company to write songs by himself? So Yang Dongxu stopped writing songs for anyone a long time ago, and even if he wrote songs, he gave them away for free.

In short, it is just a matter of personal relationships. He no longer uses the first highest-priced song to show off his worth. He does not need such a show now.

"Notify me when the time comes. If I happen to be in Yanjing, I will go over to take a look." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.

If someone else said this, it would definitely be perfunctory, but Yang Dongxu obviously did not mean it when he said it. After all, he has so many businesses under his hands, and he is not sure where he will be when the time comes.

Maybe he will be in the United States at that time. Will he fly back from the United States and come to the recording studio to give some advice? This is obviously illogical.

"How about you be free that day, and we can record it together." Zhou Yulun said with a smile.

"Don't do that. I don't want to be scolded by Brother Li. The one who makes the album is the one who will make it later. You know how his temper is. If I disrupt your established formation, I guess I won't be able to enter the recording studio in the future." Yang Dongxu waved his hands in an exaggerated manner, looking like he was afraid.

Li Zongsheng next to him smiled and slapped him, and the others at the table also laughed. Obviously everyone knew he was joking.

"This time, the album will be produced. In addition to the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it will also focus on the Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian markets. When the time comes, you, the big boss, have to help say a word." Li Zongsheng said.

"You say it as if you don't need to speak?" Yang Dongxu pouted and looked at Li Zongsheng: "It's not that you don't want to make excuses for not working hard, right?"

"You are trying to sow discord in front of me." Li Zongsheng slapped him again in a bad mood.

In fact, this is also a joke. With Li Zongsheng's status in the company and his status as a shareholder, and Yang Dongxu is just a figurehead in Haina's record department, he has absolute power over everything. It's just a matter of his words to allocate resources to promote Zhou Yilun's new album.

"Do you think there is still a market for traditional music now?" The dishes came up quickly, and several people chatted while eating. The topic shifted to Fei Yuqing.

"Then you have to see how you define tradition. In fact, whether it is traditional or pop music, it is not the era but the market that really defines their boundaries.

For example, in the era of Xiaoge, his singing style and songs were pop music, not traditional music. Now Yilun's style of music is popular in the market, so now he is popular, and other previously popular song patterns have become traditional.

In a few years, new pop music elements will flourish. Or the music elements are still the same, but new singers are singing and are sought after by the market. Then he is pop music, and Yilun's is classified as traditional music again."

Yang Dongxu said after a pause.

"That's right. What people like most is to label their favorites as the best and most popular, without even noticing that the music is still a traditional song, and even the singing style is traditional." Li Zongsheng nodded.

"So you can't say that the singing style of Xiaoge is outdated because it is only liked by the elderly. If you want to develop better, you must start to change to the current trend.

The market is constantly changing. Maybe you haven't completed the transformation yet, but the market has already become popular with another kind of music. And one day you feel that you are not good enough and want to quit the circle, and suddenly the songs from many years ago are dug out and become popular again.

It's like the current YY music, which has many old songs. I guess many elderly people who have heard it before have forgotten it. Now because a netizen has made it his own background music.

It has been welcomed by many young people in an instant, and it has evoked the memories of some older people. As a result, the songs that the singers themselves don't care much about now have become popular again in an instant."

What Yang Dongxu said was definitely on target. After all, as someone who has been there, he knows very well that some songs may have been forgotten by people, but suddenly because of a certain movie or a certain video, they became popular on the Internet in an instant.

For example, my brother's "Yijianmei" has almost become the standard song of a certain young star. After DouM came out, many old songs that had been buried in the pit became instant hits.

Then the younger brother announced his retirement from the music scene and retired to enjoy life in peace. As a result, because of the video of Brother Dan, "Yijianmei" broke out of China and went to the world.

So you can't say that traditional things are no longer popular, it just lacks a chance to become popular again. Once an inconspicuous little thing resonates with everyone again at a certain stage, a song that has become obsolete in time will instantly become more popular than a pop song.

"That's the truth. I had forgotten some songs myself. But one day someone from the company told me that my song was now in the top ten downloads on YY Music, which made me also I was stunned for a while, and I couldn’t remember when I had written such a song." Li Zongsheng said with a smile.

"That's because you've written too many classic songs, so it's normal to forget them. It's hard for me to forget if I only rely on a few songs to make a living. These are all my living expenses." Fei Yuqing, the younger brother, added. .

"Then for someone like me who has no representative songwriting, will I have to beg on the streets?" Lin Zhiling asked.

Everyone at the table laughed.

"So just stick to yourself. You also said that you have several masterpieces. This proves that your music and your singing are good things that are recognized by the market and you need to stick to it.

Of course, we cannot blindly insist on it. Good things should be retained and new things should be added. Just like what Brother Li said, isn't your collaboration with Yilun a spark from the collision of traditional music and pop music? While sticking to your fundamentals, you can try more things in this area. "

"I think so too." The younger brother kept nodding.

"Then you were still hesitant when I invited you." Zhou Yilun made a stab at the side.

"That's not because, like Dong Yang said, I don't want to give up traditional singing."

"I won't take the blame for this." Yang Dongxu waved his hand quickly.

Everyone laughed.

Time passed quickly while talking and laughing.

The meal lasted for nearly two hours. Yang Dongxu and Li Zongsheng had work to discuss, so they made a car and left.

Zhou Yilun, his brother, and Lin Chiling went back to the hotel together. The three of them booked a hotel because they were filming the MV.

"Director Yang seems very kind and not as scary as the legend says." Lin Zhiling, who was sitting in the car, raised a topic.

"Dr. Yang is a very good person. It's just that the circle you were in contact with before was from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many people there now hold the attitude that because of the existence of Haina, it has impacted the film and television and record markets of Hong Kong and Taiwan, so This will lead to the decline of the entertainment industry in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This is actually a way of shirking responsibility. Although many film and television stars and singers have indeed emerged in the mainland in recent years. But many of you still go back to Hong Kong to get gold plating.

And in recent years, whether it’s me, SHE, or other popular singers or groups in Hong Kong and Taiwan, or other artists and stars.

If you look at it in detail, most of them were sponsored by Heiner. Other companies have spent far more resources than Haina, but only a few people have been able to support it?

To put it bluntly, the current market in Hong Kong and Taiwan is supported by those old stars. Many companies are still following the same old path of making money by making parallel films and releasing records. This is basically the decline of this era. "

"Indeed, there are many things even without the presence of Haina. In fact, the audience no longer buys them. For example, what was the status of our TV series in Southeast Asia in the past? What is it now?

Leaving aside Heiner, the market for the same old TV series we have produced over the past few years has been dwindling year by year. I found a few experimental small productions that became very popular and attracted many newcomers. It's just that these newcomers feel a little weak. "The little brother nodded and said.

“It’s not that there’s a lack of success, it’s that their brokerage companies are still following the previous profit model. When they see newcomers become popular, they think about making money in various ways, including TV series, commercial performances and endorsements.

But I never thought about selecting some high-quality works to solidify my reputation. When this wave of fame is used up, will there be any new popular TV series released? Regardless of those endorsements, He Shangyan felt that his star power had declined and would not hire him.

This resulted in the exposure of these people starting to get lower and lower. In the end, their own company's resources felt like they were being wasted on them, and they began to train new people, preparing to train a big hit and continue to harvest. "

Before he became famous, Zhou Yilun helped others write songs, and the feeling he wrote was so bad that he couldn't sell it. So from the bottom to now, I can see these things in the circle more clearly than other newcomers and even old people.

"In the past few years, my company has been urging me to hold concerts, and the number of concerts arranged is more intensive than those of the kings." Fei Yuqing said with a wry smile.

Obviously, the company feels that his fame is almost over, and is preparing to harvest the last wave while he still has some popularity.