In Su Ennan's mind, the melody of this song was very suitable for him to sing. He really didn't have any good songs on hand when he went to Xianggang Yidong to record the album.
He really liked this song.
After Liang Liang finished singing the new song, the members of the song and dance troupe clapped enthusiastically.
"It sounds so good!"
"Xiao Liang is amazing. He can come up with such a good song so easily."
"Xiao Liang! Let me see what's going on in your head."
"Stop fooling around! This isn't appropriate in broad daylight. If you're really into this, we can have a friendly spar tonight."
After some laughter and banter, rehearsals continued.
With an electric guitar, the accompaniment for "Lover and Comrade" really came together, and the feeling was completely different.
Mu Shuihua walked over just after the rehearsal of "Lover and Comrade".
"Xiao Liang! Someone named Su Ennan is looking for you?"
Suennan? Which Suennan?
"He said he was a singer and a native of Lianwan."
It's him!
Su Ennan is the most famous singer in the Lianwan area and was once a leading figure in the Chinese music scene from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
Northeast China is one of the regions with the most Chinese singers, but Taiwan has nothing to do with it.
Economically, Lianwan can be considered a leader in Northeast China, but the economy did not boost the singing industry. Even more than 20 years later, when it comes to famous singers in Lianwan, Su Ennan is still the only one who is truly outstanding in the singing field. It is hard to find even a third-rate singer below him.
By 1993, Su Ennan had already gained some fame, but he was far from being a household name. At best, he was a second-rate singer. It wasn't until the release of "Red Flag Fluttering" that he truly caused a sensation in the music scene.
But that was back in 1996.
How did he end up in Yahe?
Liang Liang put down his guitar and followed Mu Shuihua to the outside of the greenhouse.
"Brother Su! Hello!" Liang Liang shook hands with Su Ennan with a smile.
"It's sunny outside, let's talk inside the greenhouse."
Liang Liang ushered Su Ennan into the tent and sat him down on one of the chairs facing the stage.
"Brother Su! You're quite a celebrity now, why would you come to a small town like Yahe?"
"You know me?" Su Ennan asked in surprise.
“I don’t know you, but I’ve heard of you. Our class leader said you introduced yourself as a singer, and that’s when I realized it was you.”
Liang Liang wanted to say that she had heard Su Ennan's XX song, but after thinking for a long time, she realized that Su Ennan did not have any influential works of his own at that time.
In this way, the two of them wouldn't seem so unfamiliar with each other.
"Brother Liang! How old are you this year? Eighteen or nineteen?"
"Eighteen! There are still more than two hundred days to go."
Su Ennan looked at Liang Liang in disbelief, then shook his head: "I didn't expect you to be so talented at only seventeen years old. It makes me feel a little ashamed."
"Brother Su! You're too kind. I don't have any talent. I wonder what you need me for?"
"Here's the thing, I watched your performance last night, and I also heard you singing your new song outside the tent just now. I'd like to know if you composed 'Sky,' 'Blue Lotus,' and the song you just sang?"
“Of course, these are all my own songs, and I own the full intellectual property rights to them.” Liang Liang’s face remained unchanged and his heart did not skip a beat.
"Then I'll be frank. I've signed with Xianggang Yidong Records."
"Is that the Yidong Company with Liu Hua, Liang Chaowei, and Guan Zhilin?"
Su Ennan was surprised: "You know this?"
"I found out from the publication."
"It's this company. They're planning to produce an album for me in October, but I won't say the name of the album."
Whether you mention it or not, Liang Liang knows it's just that song, "We Are All Heartbroken People," which didn't make much of a splash.
As someone from the same Lianwan area, Liang Liang knew quite a lot about Su Ennan, a representative figure in the Lianwan music scene.
This was Su Ennan's second album, but it didn't have much impact.
"But so far, there aren't any standout songs on this album. I think the song you just sang suits me very well. I'd like to ask, do you have any intention of selling this song?"
It turns out that Su Ennan had his eye on the song "Find a Word to Replace" that Su Ennan had just sung, and he was planning to buy the song.
In the 1980s and 90s, there was little awareness of copyright, and buying songs was still a relatively unfamiliar thing for singers.
It's already heartening that Su Ennan has this idea.
"You want to buy my poem 'Find a Word to Replace'?"
Su Ennan nodded.
Liang Liang scratched his head.
Buying songs in mainland China during this period wasn't very meaningful. A song could sell for a thousand or eight yuan, at most two thousand, so selling a song really wasn't very interesting.
Su Ennan looked at Liang Liang with anticipation.
He felt that if his album had "Find a Word to Replace" as the lead single, its sales would definitely take a leap forward.
"Brother Su! Strictly speaking, I don't want to sell this song."
Su Ennan felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head.
"But we're from the same place, we'll run into each other all the time, and if I say I won't sell, it'll hurt our relationship. How about this? You've signed with Hong Kong Company, and Hong Kong is much richer than the mainland now, their entertainment industry is very developed. Do you think you can get us a drum set in Hong Kong? It doesn't have to be new, just an old, second-hand one that someone has used. If you can get it, I'll give you two more songs in exchange. With these three songs, I can't guarantee your album will be platinum, but platinum is definitely not a problem."
Three songs might fetch a maximum of five thousand yuan, which isn't even enough to buy a drum set, let alone a secondhand one.
Trading them for even a second-hand drum set would seem like a great deal.
The drum set in the dance troupe is terrible. Not only is the tone bad, but the pitch is also inaccurate. No matter how Liang Liang tunes it, it can't reach a passing level.
Su Ennan hesitated.
A basic drum set now costs tens of thousands of yuan, and a better one costs tens of thousands of yuan. Even a second-hand drum set is worth tens of thousands of yuan, enough to buy three songs.
If it were a famous local artist, let alone three songs, even one song would cost more than this price, but Liang Liang is just a amateur actor after all.
No matter how you calculate it, it doesn't feel like a good deal.
Seeing Su Ennan's hesitant expression, Liang Liang said again, "Brother Su! How about this, you take this song 'Find a Word to Replace' to Xianggang first, show it to the people in your company, and then tell them my conditions. Maybe your company has a drum set that you don't need and is just lying around in a corner."
"You mean I should just take this song to Xianggang like this?"
Liang Liang nodded.
"Aren't you afraid I'll use the song and not give you anything?"
"It's just a song. To put it bluntly, I have plenty of songs like this. If I wanted to, I could make ten or eight a day without any problem. Even if you don't give me anything, I won't care."
That's such an arrogant statement. Other people work so hard to make a song that they lose countless hairs, while this guy makes ten or eight songs a day, and they're all at the level of "Find a Word to Replace".
Where can I go to seek justice?
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