Chapter 98 Business Startup



Chen Feng stayed in Zhonghai for a few more days, mainly to help Zhong Lei produce songs.

He did not participate much in the recording of "Boring", which was about to be completed, but put most of his energy into the production of the accompaniment of "Bath of Fire".

Plagiarism is plagiarism, but out of responsibility, he has to ensure that this song is exactly the same as the future version, without any mistakes.

In the original timeline, it did not take long for Zhong Lei to compose the lyrics of "Bath of Fire" and complete the arrangement, but there was no heroic rescue in the process.

The thing that had the greatest impact on Zhong Lei during this period of time should be the death of Meng Wanyue in a car accident.

She believes that she should take the main responsibility for Meng Wanyue's sudden shock while driving.

At that time, she must have been overwhelmed by self-blame, and at the same time, she realized Meng Wanyue's emotions of sacrifice in pursuit of her dream. Finally, under the touch of this emotion, inspiration burst out, and finally completed the arrangement of "Bath of Fire".

Chen Feng was not sure whether Zhong Lei's inspiration and creative level could meet the realm of "Bath of Fire" after losing this life experience.

What if she thought a certain melody was not appropriate and changed it, and the change was not so good, Chen Feng would be a loser.

He didn't want to ruin this extremely important military song, so he decided to take care of it himself, and then explain the creation motivation of these melodies with Zhong Lei one scale at a time, just like a butcher dissecting an ox.

Of course, he himself is not that good, but countless music critics in history have spent nearly a thousand years to ponder this song.

Just analyzing the rhythm, scale and lyrics of "Bath of Fire" has given birth to a branch of music appreciation, called "Bath Studies".

When Chen Feng has free time, he has also read the monographs of bath scholars.

Chen Feng: "There is a repeated chord here. But it only looks like a repetition. Compared with the previous paragraph, the rhythm of the repeated chord is 17% faster. The baseline of each scale is the same, but the time is shorter. The purpose is to create a stronger sense of urgency and further elevate the audience's inner resonance."

Zhong Lei asked: "Why is it 17% instead of 15% or 20%?"

Chen Feng: "You taste it, you taste it carefully. Let's listen to the three versions of 15, 17 and 20 respectively. Which version do you think has a stronger taste?"

"17%!"

"That's right."

...

Chen Feng: "This 4411 is a classic blues chord progression. We embed it in and use it as a background sound to increase the depth of field."

Zhong Lei: "Can blues also be used as background sound?"

"Yes, you can. There is an area in the human brain called hMT+, which is responsible for tracking moving visual objects. Its neural response shows the movement and frequency of auditory signals. The hMT+ area of ​​blind people is more developed than that of normal people, and the acoustic response to moving objects is stronger." "

What does that have to do with this chord?"

"Research data shows that a biological enzyme in the hMT+ area that determines the reaction of neurons will vibrate violently and its activity will be greatly enhanced due to the impact of sound waves of a specific frequency. The 4411 background sound we embedded here will blend with the brighter accompaniment and your singing to form a resonance that just reaches that frequency."

Zhong Lei was shocked: "Is there such an acoustic research? How come I don't know? And how do you know that after I sing it, it will just meet the condition you mentioned?"

Chen Feng: Emmmmmm...

"Anyway, if I say it is like this, it must be like this, don't argue with me."

This is the research result of the genius scientist of Xuanwu Academy more than 900 years later, and it is written in that person's music review.

Chen Feng can't say a damn thing!

Next time, I should talk about something more mysterious, not too theoretical.

Chen Feng secretly warned himself.

Four days later, with his personal participation, he finally explained the music score he wrote to Zhong Lei in detail.

Zhong Lei's eyes changed again when she looked at him.

She used to think that Chen Feng, a music producer who was not born in a professional family, was a bit lucky in his creation, relying purely on his talent.

After listening to his analysis this time, Zhong Lei realized that in Chen Feng's head was hidden an artistic understanding that she could not even dream of.

He even combined science and art together!

What a feat!

When she tried singing the song herself with the electronic arrangement and confirmed that every point Chen Feng said was just right, she simply couldn't believe it, but this is the fact.

There are people in the world who have studied the relationship between music and the human body's nerve response so deeply!

"Why don't you do research and write a paper?"

Chen Feng shook his head, "In fact, many of the things I said are my guesses and cannot be proven. Just like Planck proposed the theory of quantum physics, it still cannot be fully verified until now."

Zhong Lei said she was confused and didn't understand.

That evening, the two returned to Hanzhou together.

One day later at nine o'clock in the morning, two singles were released on Q Music.

"It's Late at Night" and "Boring" were written and composed by Chen Feng, and sung by the well-known rock singer He Jiaqi and supernova Zhong Lei respectively.

When Chen Feng got up and saw this, he was speechless.

What's going on? Isn't this hitting himself?

He immediately contacted Q Music's music director Ma Tianhua to inquire, only to find out that this was a temporary plan decided by Q Music.

The two songs seem to compete with each other, but their creators are all Chen Feng, and they can form a linkage.

Q Music simply tied Zhong Lei, He Jiaqi and Chen Feng together to create an IP.

The result of this internal self-competition is that it attracted the audience that Zhong Lei attracted with the song "Boring", the original fans of He Jiaqi, a veteran rock singer, and semi-industry insiders who were curious about the final product of Chen Feng's new work.

Ultimately, this promotional plan turned the off-season into something as hot as a bunch of top superstars releasing songs.

That night, the statistics were released.

"Boring" stood out with 300,000 paid downloads on the day of release, almost twice as popular as "Boring".

Chen Feng's share of the revenue from this song was still 70% to 30%, which meant that he earned more than 40,000 yuan on the first day of release.

The paid downloads of "Late Night" were also as high as 260,000.

The historical record was refreshed.

Before this, the highest record in the Chinese music scene was a single that a superstar spent five years polishing before releasing, with 170,000 paid downloads in a single day.

The market's popularity was pushed up by the internal competition of Chen Feng's works.

This is a healthy competition, working together to make the pie bigger and ultimately a win-win situation.

Of course, the real winner is Chen Feng.

In just one day, the name of music producer Chen Feng jumped out of the small circle of the professional field and entered the vision of the general public.

His miracle of creating six songs in one night a few days ago also appeared in the promotional materials, which was amazing and whetted everyone's appetite. It also created momentum for Chen Li and Ou Junlang who were making new albums in advance, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.

Fortunately, Q Music did not obtain the portrait authorization of Chen Feng. Only his name and a casual black silhouette were used in the special promotion.

Q Music officials called it maintaining mystery, but in fact it just saved Chen Feng's life as a "celebrity".

If people found out that this genius music master Chen Feng was the culprit of the chain car accident on the Zhonghai Airport Expressway, things would be serious.

No matter what his motives were, whether he saved or harmed people in the end, whether he reached a fair compensation plan and understanding with everyone, and whether the final solution was actually legal and compliant, none of this mattered.

The news would definitely write that the music industry big shot had connections and caused a major accident but used power to settle the matter. Then Chen Feng's celebrity career, which had not yet begun, would be half dead on the spot.

In short, the situation was still under the control of Chen Feng. More and more people were eager to contact him and buy songs from him.

Chen Feng didn't dare to turn on his phone because he couldn't answer it.

The private messages on Weibo were even more terrible, and the business cooperation mailbox received thousands of emails every day.

He couldn't read it at all, and he had no ability to distinguish which emails were really seeking cooperation and which were purely funny.

It's time to start the company plan.

On this day, under Ou Junlang's expectation, Chen Feng appeared at the headquarters of the company that Ou Junlang had just integrated.

After swallowing up Zhou A's industry, Ou Junlang, a winner in life, easily became one of the flag bearers of the entertainment industry in Jiangnan Province and even in the eastern part of China.

Although he himself was not mentally prepared for this and was still thinking about singing, the elite soldiers he borrowed from Ouhe Group allowed him to have no worries.

"Master, what do you think of my company? Is the atmosphere okay? I believe in your strength, so let me take a chance. I'll give you 30% of the shares, worth 200 million. When there are dividends, or when we go public and appreciate in value, you can cash out and return it to me. As long as we have the songs you wrote, we will definitely make money."

Ou Junlang muttered softly while leading Chen Feng to visit the company.

Chen Feng smiled, "You are right to believe in my strength, and your judgment is also very accurate. But I can't agree."

"Why?"

"No reason. You should let this company develop on its own, and then come to me yourself."

"Well, okay."

The two chatted briefly, and Chen Feng finally understood why Ou Junlang had become a spendthrift in many timelines.

He is not stupid, and he is also very courageous.

But his problem lies in his courage. Because he is optimistic about Chen Feng's potential, he gave away 30% of the shares in one go, which is incredibly risky.

When his father was over his head, his courage might be an advantage, after all, someone would always back him up.

But when his father fell ill, no one could restrain him anymore, and he was easily driven into a whirlpool when he was the helmsman of the giant ship.

Chen Feng firmly rejected Ou Junlang's proposal, but it cannot be said that he was so stupid that he would not accept money from others.

His energy is limited, and he cannot easily tie himself, who has amazing resources, to another company as a shareholder for short-term benefits.

"Let's not talk about this for now. I'll help you record songs. Chen Li's new album will be out next week. You should try to release these three singles simultaneously. Let's do another joint effort! By then, "Late Night" and "Boring" should still be at the top of the charts. Counting your and Chen Li's new songs, I want the top eight songs on the entire music chart to be my songs! I want to dominate the charts!"

Chen Feng said arrogantly.

Ou Junlang asked in confusion, "Zhong Lei is also producing "Bath of Fire" at my branch. When we release them together, shouldn't it be in the top nine?"

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes!"

"Why don't you write one more song to make it ten?"

A woman's voice rang behind the two of them.

Chen Feng turned around and it was Lu Wei.

"Okay, I'll write one more."

"Boring" once belonged to Lu Wei, but Chen Feng took it away from her.

Since I owe her such a big favor this time, it's time to repay her.

I'll just copy it for her... Oh no, I'll write another classic slow song by Zhong Lei, "Benefited by Nature".


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