NovelsAlex Chapter 286 "The 1997" is officially released
Chapter 286 "The 1997" is officially released
Chapter 286 "The 1997" is officially released
The first song in the album playlist is "New Boy".
The brisk drumbeat and guitar sound were introduced as a prelude, and Zhang Xiang was in a trance for a while, dreaming back to the moment when he listened to the tape a few times in his youth, and then the main song immediately sang.
"Yes, I see the sun everywhere, and happiness is flying over the city"
"The new century is coming like a dream, it makes me feel warm."
Zhang Xiang flipped through the lyrics book, Lu Qing's singing sounded in his ears, the familiar voice sang a new melody.
The singing was in harmony with the scene, and the hot sun shone on this old street where Zhang Xiang had visited countless times.
Vitality, hope, nostalgia, and warmth are the words and feelings that flash through Zhang Xiang's mind at this moment.
"Is your old pocket watch still running, and are your old leather shoes still in use?"
"Here's a Future cigarette, don't you want to try it?"
Zhang Xiang stopped, listened to the singing, and looked at the old street.
It's hard to imagine that listening to Lu Qing's new song, he actually has the ability to bring his memory back to the past, and the street scenes in the past began to appear in Zhang Xiang's mind one by one, corresponding to reality.
"Tomorrow morning, I guess the sun will be fine"
"I'm going to clean myself up and sell all the old ones"
"Oh, that's great, come on Pentium Computer"
"Just let them think for me."
The singing voice is played in the earphones through the analysis of the player.
Zhang Xiang stood in place holding the player and the lyrics book, listening to the lyrics, with a dazed expression.
At a certain moment, he even really felt that this was an old record released by Lu Qing in the past, and he missed listening to it.
"Wear new clothes, cut a new hairstyle, take it easy Windows98"
"Dressing up is heaven, our life is sweet as sugar"
The chorus is singing, which is a cheerful melody, and the sentence of windows98 makes Zhang Xiang feel that the concept of the album is thoroughly implemented, making people feel that it is a very distant system.
I vaguely remember mentioning it to a young employee in the company in a chat before, jokingly saying that Windows is still eighty generations away from 98.
But that is actually the youth I experienced.
"Wear new clothes, cut a new hairstyle, take it easy Windows98"
"There will be no more pain in the future, how cool our future will be."
Zhang Xiang no longer stayed in place, but accelerated his pace.
After only listening to half of the song, he was convinced that the former Lu Qing had returned, and he wanted to find a quiet place to enjoy this album.
With the cheerful melody of the song, Zhang Xiang's footsteps became brisk involuntarily.
To passers-by, he looked like a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes in his early forties, bouncing around on the street with a player in his arms and headphones.
They would never have imagined that this middle-aged man would allow the memories to reverberate in his heart at this moment.
"The 1997" was launched, and there were also many professional music critics and rock enthusiasts paying attention.
Even some middle-aged people who haven't tried listening to new songs for many years, learned of the release of this album because of seeing advertisements or various media, and listened to it immediately.
At Yang Miaomiao's home, Yang Chao also listened to this album for the first time, who was not a rock boy when he was young.
In recent years, it was because of Yang Miaomiao that he regained his hobby of listening to music.
"It's not bad!" After listening to "New Boy", Yang Chao patted his player and heaved a sigh of relief.
He was afraid that his player might break, so he took a look at the second-hand website and saw that the price had risen ridiculously.
"How is it?" Yang Miaomiao asked from the side.
Although Lu Qing is Yang Chao's youth, Jiang Yuan is the producer of this album, so this album can be regarded as a common topic between father and daughter.
"It's a very emotional and youthful song. After listening to it, I feel a lot younger."
"You were not born in 97, I just met your mother not long ago." Yang Chao fell into memories while talking.
"Listen first, I won't bother you for now." Yang Miaomiao decisively evacuated the study.
The main reason is that she has heard the story of Yang Chao so many times that she can recite it by heart.
Yang Chao looked at Yang Miaomiao's back and smiled, flipped through the lyrics book in his hand, and continued to play the next song.
The second song is "Life Like Summer Flowers", which he had heard before when he and Yang Miaomiao watched the show together.
But it is indeed a song that becomes more flavorful the more you listen to it. As the second song of the album, it has a different feeling of listening to the song.
Then, the third and fourth songs are all lyrical and cheerful songs, and the fifth song "Do you want to dance" is even more exciting.
At this point, as a chapter, the playback of side A of the tape ends.
This time the concept of the album strives to be retro, so the arrangement of the track order also refers to the opinions of Lu Qing, Zheng Qingyang and others.
The songs on side A, because of the popularity of the album.
So all the title songs of the album are played, which are melodic and brainwashing.
On the B side of the album, the first song is "Huahuo".
The second half of the album is more rock-and-roll overall, which is also the style that Lu Qing was good at in the past.
"Last Dance" was placed as the last song on the B side just like the title of the song.
After listening to the whole album, Yang Chao suddenly fell in love with the little tape in his hand.
The whole album has a rich style of music and is very audible. Most importantly, the overall concept and physical design of the album make this album not like a product of this era.
It seems to be an old object that I dug out from the bookshelf.
But it is indeed the new album just released today, and it was given to him by Yang Miaomiao.
Yang Chao flipped through the lyrics book again, and saw Jiang Yuan's name on several pages.
Only then did he remember that Lu Qing had signed a contract with Jiang Yuan's studio, so he took out his mobile phone and sent Jiang Yuan a message, asking for a signed tape of Lu Qing.
Jiang Yuan received Yang Chao's message and responded accordingly.
It is no longer known how many messages he replied today asking for Lu Qing's signature.
He felt Lu Qing's appeal among the older generation.
In addition to Lu Qing's autographed album prepared for Song Ya's father, even Ye Xuanqi and Lu Qingge also sent messages together.
What's even more outrageous is that even his predecessor's parents, who had been traveling all year round and hadn't had much contact with them, made a special call back.
After boasting a lot, Jiang Yuan was promising balabala, but in the end he also wanted a signed album, and finally let Jiang Yuan remember that if there is news about Lu Qing's performance, he should notify them in time.
This is just what happened within two hours of the release of Lu Qing's album.
Jiang Yuan had just finished a vocal class in the company's classroom. At this time, Zhang Qing pushed the door in and gave a report on the results of Lu Qing's album.
Lu Qing's new album is a recent major project of Jiang Yuan's studio.
Although none of the songs on the album cost money, the overall production cost is not small.
After calculation, it is said that Lu Qing's album sales must exceed at least [-] copies in order to recover the cost.
Obviously, during the pre-sale period of Lu Qing's album, he has successfully recovered the cost and achieved profitability.
"As of now, the sales volume of "The 1997" has exceeded 16 copies, of which nearly 11 sales are the time express version priced at 138 yuan, [-] copies of the tape version, and [-] copies of the CD version."
"The cost of the Time Express version, including the cost of publicity and production, is controlled at 69.75 yuan per sheet." Zhang Qing read the report in his hand.
Interrupted by Jiang Yuan, "Just talk about the final income."
As for the cost of the album, Jiang Yuan participated in the whole process and knew it clearly.
"Currently, the income from the physical album is around 600 million." Zhang Qing said.
Jiang Yuan nodded, this is the profit of the entity.
In the production of physical objects, Jiang Yuan Studio does not control much in terms of cost, such as the paper binding and printing of the album, and other aspects are unambiguous.
Otherwise, the cost will be further reduced, and there will be room for profit increase.
Leaving aside the income of the entity, Datou's music copyright fee will have to wait for the subsequent monthly settlement.
"Currently, Lu Xinxin's album, "New Boy" airborne the top three real-time charts, and the curve is stable."
""Life Like Summer Flowers" also holds the second place."
""Huahuo" and "Do You Want to Dance" also returned to the top ten."
"Of the other six recorded songs, five of them entered the top ten in the first hour. After one hour, the curve fell back, and now they are all hovering in the top ten." Zhang Qing then reported the results of the music source.
After listening to the performance report, the market response of Lu Qingxin's album is still very good.
"Let the photographer come to the practice room later, I'll cover "New Boy" and help Lu Qing play songs." Jiang Yuan thought for a while and said.
Although the curve of the song "New Boy" is still stable, everyone likes it very much.
But the same song, performed by different people, will produce different effects.
Lu Qing came to sing, and there is a force that drags people back to the old days.
In the previous life, before Jiang Yuan traveled, the version of "New Boy" that more people listened to was not the original version sung by Pu Shu, but the version sung by the landlord's cat.
The two versions actually have their own styles.
Pu Shu sang this song full of hope before the advent of the new century, while the landlord's cat has a kind of reinterpretation of the classics while adding some vitality.
Not surprisingly, there will be many cover versions in the future.
Jiang Yuan thought that it would be better to sing this version by herself, and by the way, she could help Lu Qing promote it.
At this time, Lu Qing was also in the Xingyuan entertainment building, and was airborne to reply to fans' messages on major music software.
The release of the new album also made Lu Qing very excited, feeling much younger.
【sounds amazing! 】
【Ye Qing is back! 】
【What year is this eve?Old Lu Sha is crazy! 】
[It sounds so good, I really like Shengru Xiahua, and it's been on the loop for several days, can you start a live tour? 】
[Blood Book New Album Tour +100086! 】
Lu Qing looked at the comment area. Although he couldn't understand some of the fans' comments, he was still very happy.
This form of replying to fans' messages through the song comment area also made Lu Qing feel very novel, and focused on replying to fans' messages.
Most of the replies were sincere, and I thank you all for your love.
At the same time, I will take the initiative to ask for answers to the slang words that I don’t understand. For example, for one of the questions, I made the following answer [It is 2023 now, and the concept of the album is back to 1997.Besides, what does shark madness have to do with me? 】
Regarding the question about the tour, I also sincerely replied that it has not yet been decided.
Here, Lu Qing focused on replying to fans' messages.
On the Internet, two hours after the album was released, many music critics also uploaded music reviews about the album "The 1997".
Among them, the hot topic of the album was not a comment by a professional music critic, but a long article written by the lead singer of the Comet band.
[Lv Qingxin's album "The 1997", I listened to it, as if I went back to an era.
At that time, domestic bands sprung up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Lu Qing and his band were very dazzling existences. I listened to side A and side B of every tape, repeatedly, and even failed several tapes.
Standing on the program "Voice of the Times", the moment we heard him sing "Huahuo", our whole band collapsed emotionally, and we were so moved.
We all thought that the last album was extinct, but Lu Qing used the stage and new songs to tell us that he is back, with such vitality, he declared that he can still sing.
The concept of "The 1997" album was very well designed. The moment I got the tape, I felt young. I found the tape machine that I hadn't used for many years, and luckily it still works.
Song after song was played in order, from "New Boy" to the last "Last Dance", I liked it very much after listening to it.
I’ve been listening to Jiang Yuan’s songs, and I’ve heard them in this album as well. It matches Lu Qing’s voice so well. At the same time, there are many creations by seniors or old friends who I have known for a long time. Such a rich, special album, after listening to it, I feel that my sense of happiness has improved a lot (ps: no advertising fees)]
In addition to the professional comments of music critics, bands and singers such as the lead singer of the Comet band.
Even for actors, posting pictures on Weibo to share and recommend more.
This is also due to the fact that Jiang Yuan studio obtained some contact information through Lu Qing in advance, and sent the package of the album before the album was released.
After everyone received the album, they all spontaneously recommended it on social platforms.
This wave of lively recommendations for Amway, and the word-of-mouth spread of the album's official launch.
On the afternoon of the release day, the sales volume increased rapidly, approaching 20 copies at once.
In the evening of that day, Jiang Yuan also uploaded a video of himself singing "New Boy" in the Yuan Universe app.
In the video, Jiang Yuan is wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, playing the guitar as an accompaniment, and singing half of "New Boy".
Unlike Lu Qing's version, Jiang Yuan's singing voice is clearer, not a very formal cover, but more casual and youthful.
Not long after the video was posted to Yuan Universe, it was uploaded to Weibo and other social platforms.
And quickly boarded the hot search, #江宁cover《New Boy》#
Such an entry quickly climbed to the top, making Jiang Yuan's short cover video popular.
It successfully added another fire to the popularity of this song, and the search volume on music software increased again.
But Jiang Yuan only covered half of the song, and there was no sound source, so everyone finally listened to the version sung by Lu Qing.
The number of listeners, favorites and comments of the song has increased a lot again, and the real-time listening curve of other songs in the album has also risen a lot.
(End of this chapter)