The moment "Wings" took the stage, the Night Music Awards' real-time viewership reached its peak for the night. After "The Raven" was performed, almost all entertainment and music bloggers recommended the song to their fans—not only the song itself, but also the stage performance presented by "Wings" was exceptionally dazzling.
In the words of the fans, every time "Wings" presents a new stage, they can find new highlights that belong to "Wings".
On the Night Music Awards stage, the second song performed by "Wings" was "Fighting Maniac".
— Lyrics and music by Ji Yan.
This song is much more exciting than "Crow", but it is just as dashing and cool. The "Wings" did not change their appearance. After the accompaniment started, Xie Mingxuan and Lu Wei sang the first verse together. If the tone of "Crow" is mysterious, then "Battle Maniac" is the purest passion.
After listening to the album "Crow", fans found it hard to believe that the song was actually written by Ji Yan.
Because this song is so different in style from "Dawn", and in the fans' impression, Ji Yan is not the passionate type, and of course, "Wings" does not follow this route either.
But "Fighting Maniac" is also a good song.
When "Wings" performs this song on stage, fans can feel their own power.
—Everyone sang with all their might, and the blending of their voices created Wing's unique style.
Fans who support "Wings" have listened to almost every album since "Mist" and are very familiar with the members' voices. From the beginning, the voices of the four members of "Wings" have been highly recognizable. In the album "Crow", their singing skills have been further enhanced. Even when the four of them sing together, there is no situation where one of them overshadows the other.
"Four people together make up the Wings Band!!"
"Wings Group is awesome! I'll always love Wings Group!"
The Night Gala stage has become another classic in the hearts of fans. Although every stage performance of "Wings" before this has had memorable moments for fans, many fans have specially made folders for "Wings". Among the songs collected are "Traveler" sung by Ji Yan when he first appeared on "The Voice of China", as well as "Crow" and "Fighting Maniac" from this gala.
In the eyes of fans, these live recordings documented the process of "Wings" growing step by step.
...
On his way back to his apartment, Ji Yan received a message on his phone from a rabbit emoji: "For the next gift, I want a signed copy of 'The Raven'."
Ji Yan replied with a rabbit emoji he'd stolen from Ning Wei: "OK!"
Sometimes he found it interesting to be with Ning Wei. Neither of them were talkative when they were face to face, and they often talked about their creative experiences. Only then did they feel close to each other. But on WeChat, they would send each other all sorts of emojis like crazy, speaking as if they were talking to the most familiar person.
Of course, what Ji Yan didn't know was that "Blue" had been listening to "The Crow" so frequently that Duan Yiran and Du Jian could sing it, especially Ji Yan's "Dawn" and "Fighting Maniac," which were now Duan Yiran's alarm clocks.
Ning Wei offered suggestions for the creation of both songs, "Dawn" and "Fighting Maniac," but Ning Wei only saw Ji Yan sending various panda bald head emojis on WeChat and had no idea what the final products of these two songs would look like.
Now, he heard these two songs, and they were even better than he had imagined.
Duan Yiran felt that Ning Wei was practically Ji Yan's number one fan. Ning Wei practically carried boxes of physical copies of "The Crow" home, and they were stacked so thickly on the shelf.
The key issue is that Ji Yan is unaware of what he's doing.
Duan Yiran decided to do Ning Wei a favor.
On this day, Ji Yan received another photo from Duan Yiran—Ning Wei's bookshelf was piled high with "Wings" albums. The number of albums in "Mist," "At 23," and "Crow" was even more exaggerated than the number collected by the "Wings" members. He even had the DVD of "I, Nameless," because the theme song of the movie was "Fly."
Duan Yiran thought to herself that with his help, Ji Yan would probably understand how much Ning Wei liked him.
Minutes later, Duan Yiran received a message from Ji Yan.
It's the same photo, but the content has been changed to all of Blue's albums since their debut. It's a huge, densely packed image, representing almost all of Blue's albums since their debut. Except for their first album, "Grey Keys," all the other albums have at least five CDs, including compilation albums.
Duan Yiran immediately understood Ji Yan's meaning: Ji Yan was saying that he was not to be outdone.
Duan Yiran: "..."
He doesn't want these two to compete in fan power, help!
He vaguely understood why Ji Yan and Ning Wei could get along so well—these two people's thought processes were completely different from normal people!
never mind.
He should just stick to listening to "Dawn" and "Fighting Maniac"; he's simply not suited to be a relationship coach.
...
Sales of "The Raven" have increased again after the Night Festival. Despite the approaching end of the year, the new album has performed exceptionally well in both physical and digital sales, further recognizing Wings' talent.
Before the end of the year, "Yi" indeed received Mi Lin's request to write a song.
"Even I have it?" Ji Yan blinked, his expression somewhat blank. "Am I hallucinating?"
“Me too…” Fang Yu squatted on the sofa, hugging his knees, reading the message Mi Lin sent word by word, “It’s actually true.”
This feeling is like a struggling student being invited by a top student to do homework together; it's like a complete personal transformation.
Mi Lin had previously invited Xie Mingxuan, and Ji Yan and the others knew about this and were not surprised at all, because no one knew Xie Mingxuan's talent better than them. Xie Mingxuan was fully capable of writing songs for the best singers.
But they...
"My head is throbbing," Ji Yan said, rubbing his temples. "What made Mi Lin have the illusion that I can write songs?"
“It’s ‘Dawn’ and ‘Battle Maniac,’ Teacher Ji, don’t be modest.” Fang Yu jumped off the sofa, nudged Ji Yan, and took over half of the windowsill.
He recently discovered that the windowsill is a great spot, offering a good view and providing sunshine and warmth in winter, so he often comes over to compete with Ji Yan for space.
Ji Yan sighed: "Can I refuse?"
"Can."
However, Ji Yan discovered that both Fang Yu and Lu Wei intended to accept the invitation, and if he was the only one to refuse, he would be the only weakling in "Wing".
"Let's get started." Ji Yan rubbed his hair. "Write!"
His only worry was that he had the gene for baldness.
On the Ji family side, Ji Wei, Ji Yushi, and Ji Xuekong are not yet at the age where they start to go bald. The Ji family couple passed away early, and there are no photos of other elders in the family, so Ji Yan is not sure if he will go bald in the future.
The only thing he could console himself with was that, in terms of workload, Ji Wei should be much more than him, and since the other party wasn't bald, the chances of him going bald shouldn't be too high either.
Fortunately, Miling gave them enough time.
The group later learned from other sources that Mi Lin's new album not only invited "Yi" to help with the creation, but also invited several well-known singers in the industry. Mi Lin is nearly 50 years old this year. Female singers of her age either retire from the industry or play minor roles as guests on various music variety shows. Only she has always insisted on holding concerts and participating in live performances, and releases one or two new songs every now and then.
Her last album didn't sell well. Although her voice is still at a high level, her fan base has changed, and younger fans don't appreciate an "older" singer like her.
In a way, this is the future of many singers, and it may also be the future of "Wings".
We live in the era of digital albums. If Wing and Mi Lin had debuted at the same time and competed in the most competitive period of the Chinese music scene, their sales might not have been able to surpass Mi Lin's.
They've only just released one album, but Miling has already released more than 100 albums.
Of course, Mi Lin's experience only made Ji Yan and the others feel emotional, but not worried. They didn't know what the future would bring, and in the unknown future, cherishing the present was the best choice.
The "Wings" group began their bald lives.
After the release of their new album, their workload gradually decreased, especially during the period before the Spring Festival. All the major companies were busy with year-end summaries, and DW Entertainment was no exception. At this time, "Wing" was actually the most relaxed member of DW Entertainment. Other matters were handled by the company and their agents, allowing the members to focus on their creative work.
This is also a job.
Starting with the album "Mist," not only did "Wings" bring in sales figures, but the copyright data was also quite considerable. After the release of the album "Crow," more than a dozen singers purchased the cover song rights from "Wings." This was originally a source of income that DW Entertainment did not pay much attention to, but gradually, the company found that during "Wings'" downtime or when they did not release albums, cover song copyrights also became an important source of income for "Wings."
Although the copyright is held by "Yi", DW Entertainment can only get a very limited share. But even a small amount is still something, and DW Entertainment now relies entirely on "Yi" to train new trainees.
DW Entertainment no longer expects to produce an idol of "Tsubasa's" caliber.
Last year, the company signed several contestants who debuted from "Super Idol". Those contestants had high rankings and popularity in "Super Idol". However, after signing them, DW Entertainment wanted to develop them in the direction of "Wings" and first explore their singing skills in music variety shows. However, after a music variety show ended, the influence of those contestants was still limited to the fan circle, and their influence at the general public level was zero.
To this day, DW Entertainment can only get them a few endorsements and release a few songs on the side—the song sales aren't bad, but in terms of influence, they are far, far behind "Wings".
DW Entertainment did consider having "Wings" mentor the new group, but on the one hand, "Wings" weren't very obedient, and DW Entertainment could hardly control them. Moreover, when DW Entertainment tried to have the new group sing "Wings'" songs, the company's executives became unhappy.
Because the contrast is too strong.
Even if you use the popularity of "Wings" to promote a new group, the contrast between who is better and who is worse is very obvious when "Wings" stands there, and the fans are not stupid.
This would actually affect Yi's popularity. Yi is currently DW Entertainment's only cash cow, and even if they want to promote new talent, DW Entertainment will definitely not turn down money.
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