$363, What a Coincidence.
Just after eleven o'clock, Liu Ronghua's studio and Douyin released a message on the entire network, informing everyone that Liu Ronghua's new song will be released on the Lantern Festival.
This time, a different song release mode will be adopted. Liu Ronghua will sing live on Douyin and put it on the shelves at the same time. At that time, a limited number of 999 signed digital song collections will be sold worldwide.
For a while, Liu Ronghua's fans went crazy.
"Ahhh! King Liu is finally going to release a new song!"
"I knew he would save the Chinese music scene!"
"The ageless male god is releasing a song online!"
"Tears, I can still wait for King Liu's new song!"
"The best New Year's gift!"
"Look forward to it, look forward to it!"
...
1 video, 1 hour, over 10 million likes, unparalleled appeal, it is truly amazing.
One netizen’s comment hit the nail on the head: “This is the result of Liu Ronghua’s 40 years of accumulation, not the result of one day, and no one can compare.”
Indeed, those who can be popular for a year are lucky, those who can be popular for 10 to 20 years are skilled, and those who can be popular for 30 to 40 years are of good character.
Now, Liu Ronghua also puts the release of new songs on Douyin for no other reason than interaction and traffic.
Whether you watch Douyin or not, whether you like it or not, you have to admit that its traffic is strong, and its daily active users have exceeded 600 million.
As for other singers in the Chinese music scene, they are all thankful: “Fortunately, I didn’t choose to release new songs in the New Year!”
Just kidding.
Knowing that the other party is a top streamer, but still going hard, isn’t that just looking for death?
Then, the headquarters building of Huafeng Media.
Zhang Liming took off his monitoring headphones and walked out of the recording studio.
Jiang Ge clapped his hands repeatedly and said with a smile: “Perfect.”
It was done on the third time, the God of Songs is the God of Songs.
Zhang Liming, however, looked thoughtful. He walked up to Jiang Ge and paused for a while, then suddenly said, "Mr. Jiang, I have a question I want to discuss with you."
Jiang Ge said very straightforwardly, "Sure."
Zhang Liming said what he had been thinking about during the recording: "The lyrics and music of this song are retro, and the arrangement is Chinese style. It is very tasteful, but my immature idea is to add some rock elements to the arrangement to create a feeling of retro and rock, East and West colliding."
Jiang Ge fell into deep thought when he heard it.
The original version of "I Just Like You" is Chinese style. There are many other versions, such as the rock style of Miriam Yeung/Hu Xia, the string style of Jacky Cheung/Fei Yuqing, and the electronic style of Priscilla Chan. So it is not impossible to add rock elements to the arrangement, but how to add them and how much to add.
In fact, there are Western instruments in the original arrangement, such as guitar, piano, violin, etc., so you only need to add electric guitar, bass and drums in the prelude and interlude.
Luo Hai and Feng Liang on the side secretly smacked their lips. Only Zhang Liming dared to let Jiang Ge arrange the music.
At this time, after a long period of contemplation, Jiang Ge finally spoke: "Okay, I will make another arrangement, and then put two versions on the shelves for the audience to choose."
Zhang Liming thought he would refuse, because he was worried that a genius like him would not like or allow people to change his work.
However, he thought too much. Jiang Ge was not a closed-minded person. As long as the suggestions were good for songs, movies, and TV series, he would generally adopt them.
With the blessing of [Master-level Music Theory Knowledge], and without breaking the original arrangement and re-arranging it, it was done quickly.
In the afternoon, continue to record the second version.
"It doesn't feel right."
"Is it because my singing is too similar to the previous version?"
"A little bit."
"Then I'll adjust it?"
"So, the previous version was 'affectionate', and this version is 'bitter', singing out the emotional difference."
"Okay, I'll try."
...
If it's just a change of arrangement, and there's no difference in singing, then this change doesn't make much sense.
Zhang Liming hummed a few words in the recording studio, adjusted his mentality and found the feeling, and nodded to indicate that it was okay.
Outside the recording studio, Feng Liang received the signal and played the accompaniment.
Compared with the previous version, after adding electric guitar, bass and drums, the rhythm seems stronger.
"The melancholy can't be dispelled, the depression can't be dispelled, why is my heart empty..."
...
This time, Zhang Liming's voice changed from a literary and artistic voice to a clear, full, metallic and penetrating voice, as if every breath is the beginning of a story and the end of another story, without great joy or sorrow, but the most passionate emotions.
Jiang Ge couldn't help but nod his head in affirmation. It's not without reason that he can be called the "God of Songs".
If there is a chance in the future, we can cooperate more.
After Zhang Liming finished singing this time, several people discussed some details and optimized them to the best.
After recording for the third time, there were no problems.
"Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Ge said politely.
"I'm too troublesome." Zhang Liming said embarrassedly.
The two versions have different focuses on emotional expression, and the final results are two similar but different flavors, both of which are very nice.
"God of Songs, do you have any requirements for the release time?" Jiang Ge asked.
"No." Zhang Liming replied.
"Then we will release it on the Lantern Festival." Jiang Ge said.
"Okay, I have no objection." Zhang Liming responded.
"Happy cooperation." Jiang Ge said with a smile.
"Thank you." Zhang Liming said sincerely.
Jiang Ge had selfish motives in releasing this song on the Lantern Festival.
Because the Lantern Festival is five days later, on March 1, when Mei Manlu's third song is released, she can first test the waters with "Like You"; if the audience accepts Cantonese songs, she can release "Sunset Song", otherwise, she can release "The Road Follows People".
Yes, he tricked Zhang Liming.
Then, the official Weibo of Huafeng Media, the official Weibo of Zhang Liming's personal studio, and the official Weibo of NetEase Cloud Music announced at the same time that Zhang Liming would release a new song at noon on the Lantern Festival.
As soon as the news came out, Jiang Ge instantly received more than a dozen WeChat messages. Although they were sent by different people, they almost all had the same meaning, "Is Zhang Liming going to compete with Liu Ronghua?"
At this moment, he knew that Liu Ronghua also chose to release a new song on the Lantern Festival.
"What a coincidence..."
Jiang Ge didn't care. The song "I Just Like You" was not for making money, but to test the acceptance of Cantonese songs. Besides, this situation can also create heat and topic, so why not?
However, he had to ask Zhang Liming if he minded.
So he called and explained the situation, and the answer he got was "It doesn't matter, since it has been announced, it will not be changed."
At this time, the Internet was already in an uproar, because Zhang Liming and Liu Ronghua released a new song together, which was like returning to that era.
In 1990, Zhang Liming and Liu Ronghua swept all major music awards and became famous.
Then in 1991, Li Min quickly became popular. He, Zhang Liming and Liu Ronghua were in the limelight at major music award ceremonies and were called the "Three Musketeers".
Then in 1992, Guo You emerged again and took off like a rocket.
So the Chinese music scene at that time called them the "Four Heavenly Kings", which opened up decades of comparison and competition.
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