Six Hundred and Eighty Fifth Creative Ideas

Turning on the tablet, Ronan didn't think about it alone, but connected to the computer in the recording studio, put Maxim's creation on the computer, and played it directly.

For music, compared with watching with eyes and discussing with mouth, auditory reception should always be placed at the forefront, the most intuitive and efficient.

Not only Ronan, but Ollie and Cliff also calmed down and listened together, while Maxim watched with anticipation and nervousness intertwined.

What Maxim didn't expect was that the arrangement or lyrics that he listened to repeatedly and without any problems, appeared in front of his teammates at this time, but there were flaws again, which made Maxim very annoyed Anxiety made him want to gnaw his nails.

Ronan can fully understand Maxim's mentality, because he is the same.

After the hard work is done, when it is presented in front of teammates or even other strangers, I always expect my work to be more perfect, and then I can't help but start to criticize.

In fact, it doesn't mean that the song is really full of loopholes all of a sudden, or that my mentality has fluctuated, and I can hear the problem even though there is no problem, and I always feel that I can do better.

Seeing Maxim's hesitant to speak, Ronan signaled him to be calm with his eyes, and there was no need to rush to break the deadlock.

After all, Maxim still didn’t speak, but his anxiety was not relieved too much, especially the expressions of Cliff and Ollie were not what he expected. If even Cliff and Ollie “don’t like it”, then Maxim also didn't have the confidence to impress Ronan.

Maxim looked carefully at Ronan's expression, but couldn't find any clues, which made Maxim a little depressed.

Unknowingly, in just one year, One King has undergone earth-shaking changes. Not only has the band's career skyrocketed, but the relationship within the band has also quietly changed.

Maxim didn't realize at all that he was also starting to look at Ronan now. On the creative level, they were all really impressed. Even though there was no formal talk or power transfer from the beginning to the end, the atmosphere in the team could be felt By now, Ronan has become the band's producer.

When the band was about to start producing the new album, Maxim's first reaction was not "I can be the producer", but he took it for granted that "Ronan will continue to be the producer"; naturally, Maxim himself believed , his creation needs to be approved by Ronan before it can be included in the album.

This kind of mentality change happened quietly, and it has gradually penetrated into the blood of the band, and it has become a matter of course without knowing it.

So,

What does Ronan think of Maxim's creation?

Ronan listened very attentively and seriously.

In fact, whether before or now, Maxim's creative style is very distinct: pop rock.

The arrangement of the melody is always simple, efficient and catchy, and it has many similarities with the later albums of the Maroon 5 band, but Maxim's talent is slightly inferior to that of Adam-Levine, and the arrangement is simpler and more Lightness, lack of impressive features and personality, on the one hand means that the audience is more catchy; but on the other hand, it also means that the audience is easy to forget after hearing it.

It is precisely because of this that it was difficult for the former One Day King to fight his way out in the fiercely competitive underground music market because he lacked enough features; but at the same time, he was not as popular as Maroon 5, so he was naturally favored The vast sea of ​​people drowned.

From this perspective, Scooter's analogy to the Jonas Brothers is not entirely unfounded.

How should we understand it?

As a simple example, the song "She-Looks-So-Perfect" that King One Day opened at the Full Moon Party in New Orleans is Maxim's composition, so this is a Is it a good song?

Yes and no.

If it's sung by the current Kings for a Day, the catchy "she looks so perfect" can be a plus, maybe even Straight to the top of the Billboard Championship.

Well, it's a good song.

But if it is sung by the former One Day King, they are one of the countless underground bands. After listening to the full moon party, the audience may like it very much and can't help humming along with it, but after the party is over, there is nothing Memorize it, turn around and forget it completely.

They don't look for this song specifically, let alone the band that sings it, and they don't wonder what else the band that sings it has, it's all about party impressions, that's all .

Well, it's not a good song.

Of course, it is unfair to judge music purely by "commercial value", as if Scooter thought that the king of the day had no value or talent; but the key is here, Maxim's creation is difficult Carry out more in-depth discussions on the artistic and musical levels, and cater to the market from the starting point of creation. Naturally, "commercial value" is also an indispensable part of the judging criteria.

From another perspective, is pop rock good music? certainly. Including Joy, Magic Red, One-Republic, The-Script, etc., all of them are very good bands. Later, Linkin Park also tried pop and rock, and also created Produced excellent work.

It's just that Maxim's works haven't reached such a height yet, so, in the vast sea of ​​people, they are submerged in a blink of an eye.

In fact, when Ronan created "Born", it was also pop rock. In terms of style, he did not drastically break the band's comfort zone. "Chasing the Light", "My Demon", "Falling Apart" and other works They are all gradually developed and formed in the process of slowly exploring later.

But the difference of "Innate" is that Ronan does not start from the chords, but from the lyrics, returns to the origin of music, completes the lyrics through emotional resonance, and then finds the melody context in the burst of inspiration, and finally Although the presented works are also pop and rock, the emotions and emotions of the songs themselves are very strong, which also adds more color to the band's live performance.

To put it simply, Ronan's creation does not pursue the type of music style, but starts from emotion and then takes shape.

From a certain point of view, like the "unplugged version", temporarily abandon the shackles of genres and focus on the essence of music; wait for the creation of lyrics and music to reach a certain height, and then go back to think about the genre of music and the in-depth exploration of arrangement.

Ronan and Maxim are similar but also different. However, in the field of art, a little "difference" may lead to completely different results.