An album doesn't need to have every song be a classic. It just needs to have one hit song, a few songs that are generally popular, and a few songs that are accepted by the public.
Even if there are a few bad songs in it, it doesn't affect the overall quality of the album; it's still a successful album.
Blue Shark's album has at least one hit song, but it's still unclear which one it is.
Both "Hometown" and "Blue Lotus" are possibilities.
Liang Liang's own work, "Returning to My Hometown," also has this possibility.
Liang Liang opens the main verse of this song with a lyrical rock style.
In the chorus, starting with the line "hometown, hometown," the melody suddenly shifts to a heavy metal style, with the pitch rising to create a poignant and melancholic atmosphere.
The final line, "Tonight I fall into Mother Earth's embrace, until the sunlight bathes me," returns to the slow rhythm of lyrical rock, with the gradually fading tone creating a distant and expansive atmosphere.
It expresses the feeling of a wanderer returning to their hometown and finding peace.
Liang Liang is quite satisfied with this original song of his, and the demo turned out to be very well done.
Since there are no precedents to follow and no references to use, Liang Liang doesn't know whether this song will become a hit, so he'll leave the outcome to fate.
Although Liang Liang brought Han Chui to be the band's manager, he still had many concerns about the guy, worried that he might not be reliable.
This guy has now given Liang Liang a difficult problem.
"Going to Guangzhou to participate in a performance?" Liang Liang looked at Han Chui with a puzzled expression.
“I have a friend who works as a manager in a nightclub in Guangzhou. He knows that I am now the manager of a band, so he invited us to perform a couple of shows.”
Liang Liang frowned: "When did you get to know people in the entertainment industry so far away?"
Is this guy bragging again?
"This friend's name is Yan Liang, and he works at the Pudong Dance Hall."
"A sudden thud? What a terrible name!"
"Let me think about it again? I remember now, it's not 'thump,' it's 'thump a hundred times'... But that doesn't seem right either. 'Thump' can be explained, but what does 'thump a hundred times' mean?"
Liang Liang nearly spat out a mouthful of blood: "Your friend is a hundred miles away from Putong?"
"Yes! Is there something wrong?"
Thump 100! In the 1990s, this name was famous not only in Guangzhou and Guangdong Province, but also in the national music scene.
Many singers in the 1990s had close ties with Putong100, and many of them rose to fame in China after emerging from there.
For example, the songs "The Sound of Waves Remains the Same," "The Big Sedan Chair," "Lovebirds," "Red-crowned Cranes," and several female mentors from various seasons of "The Voice of China" all started their careers here.
Furthermore, the band Putong100 is expected to perform on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala next year.
Han Bangbang actually knows people here, and one of them is even a manager!
If you don't know this guy, fine, but you do know a big one.
"Are you going to pay us to perform?"
"No way!"
"Not paying? What are we supposed to do if we're not paying?"
"Let's go sing first, and he'll pay us if we sing well!"
"Isn't that ridiculous? Who would play with them if they didn't pay them?"
"Then I'll contact them again."
"Forget it! Anyway, we'll be visiting Shenzhen and Guangzhou after we get to Xianggang, so let's go to Guangzhou first and treat it as a trip."
Because of its proximity to Hong Kong, Guangdong Province has been at the forefront of culture in China.
In his previous life, Liang Liang had never been to the South during this period, which is why he planned to visit the cultural market in the South during the 1990s.
It wasn't that I wanted to do anything special; I just wanted to see what the Southern music scene was like during that period.
Even if you don't get paid, Putong 100 is worth a visit. If you can get to know someone from Pacific Audio-Visual Company, the trip will be even more worthwhile.
Upon hearing that Liang Liang had agreed to go, Han Chui immediately began arranging train tickets.
Why take the train? Not only is it a waste of time, but who knows what unfortunate things might happen when you get to Guangzhou Station. Back then, Guangzhou Station was a notoriously chaotic place in the country.
The Blue Shark band has their own housing provident fund, so they can afford to spend several thousand yuan on airfare.
After finalizing the departure date of November 10th, Han Chui eagerly went to book his plane ticket.
After Liang Liang finished working on the Blue Shark band's album, he had time to mentor the Sea Waves band.
There are still two or three days left until the 10th.
He plans to create another hit song for the Sea Waves band.
"Come here!"
Liang Liang walked into the lobby of the Maritime Ballroom.
This place is open at night and serves as a performance hall; when there are no performances in the afternoon, it becomes a band rehearsal room.
Since the new karaoke bar in the development zone still had more than 200 square meters of space upstairs, Liang Liang asked Zheng Tuo to set up a separate rehearsal room so that they wouldn't have to work out the whole thing at once.
The Sea Waves Band was rehearsing when Liang Liang called them, and they came over laughing and joking.
"What are you doing? Getting horny and laughing all the time? Be serious, all of you! Xiao Yao! What's wrong with you? Do you have a herniated disc? Stop fidgeting! Sit up properly."
After all five women had finished, Liang Liang took out a notebook from his pocket.
"How's your practice of 'The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau' going? I hope it won't mess up during the public performance. Xiaoqian, say a few words."
Xiaoqian is the lead singer, she's the main one. If she messes up, no amount of covering up will help.
"Is everything alright? Everything went well during practice." Although the practice has been going well these past few days, it's not a formal stage performance after all, and there's a difference between practice and performance.
"Just perform at the same level as you did in practice on stage. Once this song is performed on stage, don't sing it more than twice a night. Don't strain your voice."
Nowadays, audience members sometimes request a song several times when listening to it on stage.
Ordinary songs are just so-so, but making a singer sing a song like "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" several times in a row is just nonsense.
"Brother Liang! We don't have any new songs, or any replacements, do we?"
Apart from this one new song, the rest are all old songs. If the audience wants to hear the new song, and you don't have a replacement, you can only sing that one.
"That's why I called you all here today. I've prepared two new songs for you. Take a look at the sheet music first."
Liang Liang distributed the two sheet music sheets.
Five long-haired heads were crammed together.
"Don't be lonely, love you 10 parts and 7 parts tears?"
"The first song is so fast-paced! There have been too many rights and wrongs in love, and now we're in a lively and joyful situation, mixing his impulsiveness with her loneliness, disregarding the consequences..."
The song was originally called "Eyebrows Dancing," but Liang Liang changed its name to "Don't Be Lonely" and altered one of the lyrics.
It's that phrase: "Freedom, freedom, I want to be free now."
He changed the sentence to "Lonely, lonely, don't be lonely now."
The lyrics of this song are originally supposed to rhyme with the "suo" rhyme scheme, but why does the final line rhyme with the "you" rhyme scheme?
Is the point to emphasize the word "freedom"?
Liang Liang didn't hold back at all and cut that line, replacing it with "Don't be lonely," which fits the rhyme scheme of the whole song.
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