Chapter 210: Conquering all the major colleges and universities
The next morning.
Inside a high-end villa in Peking.
Director Wen, a relatively well-known director in China, paced back and forth in the living room, smoking a cigarette, with dark circles under his eyes.
After watching "Summer of the Band" last night, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.
He loved the song "My Heart Will Go On" so much that he felt it was tailor-made for his upcoming love movie.
If he could get this song, he would replace the movie theme song that had already been booked without hesitation.
Last night I specifically asked for the phone number of Yida Records, and planned to call them in person after work at 9 o'clock to communicate to show my importance to the song.
【8:58】
【8:59】
After a boring wait, it was finally nine o'clock in the morning.
He picked up the phone, dialed the number, and called immediately.
No one answered...
"Are you late for work?"
He hung up the phone and called again five minutes later.
Still no one answered...
"What kind of company is this? They lack management over their employees!"
He hung up the phone with a curse, and his eyes returned to the clock in the living room.
…
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Yida Records, in the living room.
"Hello, Director Sun! Hello, Director Li!"
Zhang Sihui had just arrived at the company when she learned that two well-known directors in the circle were visiting the company to discuss cooperation. She went to meet them without even eating the breakfast she had bought.
"Hello Sihui."
After a few simple greetings and polite words, Director Sun, who had a filming assignment today, didn't even have time to drink tea. He got straight to the point and said, "We're here to talk about the show "The Band's Summer" and the collaboration on the two songs last night."
"right."
Director Li smiled and nodded, "I want to buy the copyright of "A Solitary Man" for my martial arts movie. Director Sun wants to buy the copyright of "My Heart Will Go On" for his love movie."
"Oh, okay..."
Zhang Sihui nodded and began to discuss with the two directors.
Before they could finish their words, there was a knock on the door. Zhang Sihui's assistant pushed open the door and reported, "Sister Hui, Director Zhang is here to discuss cooperation on film and television music."
"Which Director Zhang?"
The words "film and television music collaboration" were too harsh. Director Li, who was crossing his legs, tightened his branded clothes and asked with raised eyebrows.
The assistant said, "Zhang Laomou."
"Director Zhang from 'The Love of Hawthorn Cake'?"
After listening to this, Director Li exchanged a glance with Director Sun, put down his crossed legs, stood up and said, "Director Zhang and I are old acquaintances. Where is he now?"
Zhang Sihui smiled secretly when she saw this, and thought to herself, "It's going to cost more!"
…
Half past nine.
“I’m starving!”
After chatting with the directors, Zhang Sihui held her rumbling stomach and complained to her assistant with a smile on her face on the way back to the office: "I should ask Xiaolin to treat us to a meal. After he came to the company, my workload has increased significantly."
"Yes."
The assistant smiled and nodded, "If this trend continues, maybe foreign directors will come to the company to recruit us."
Unlike Zhang Sihui, the young assistant is particularly grateful to Lin Zhixing. Without him, she would not have this job.
"Then I have to ask Brother Cong to raise his salary!"
Zhang Sihui smiled and said that as soon as she opened the office door, she found that the landline phone was ringing again.
She looked at the breakfast on the table, swallowed her saliva, and answered the phone, "Hello, this is Director Qian!"
The other side.
"The number you dialed is busy..."
Good news, someone finally answered the phone.
Bad news, the line is busy.
“Bang!”
Director Wen was so angry that he threw his phone heavily on the sofa and sang a three-minute long rap of the traditional Chinese culture.
Ten o'clock sharp.
"Hello!"
Director Wen was so excited that he almost cried when he heard the voice on the other end of the phone, "Finally you got through! I'm Liu Wen, who starred in No Lust, and I want to discuss collaborating on the soundtrack for My Heart Will Go On."
"Hello, Director Wen. The copyright of the soundtrack of My Heart Will Go On is a little difficult to obtain. You are the eighth director who wants to discuss the copyright of this song today."
"Eighth place today?"
Director Wen asked loudly in disbelief.
When he learned the name of the director he was competing against, he actually cried.
…
…
The graduation theme song competition jointly organized by Beijing and Tianjin Art Colleges is approaching.
In the forums of various colleges, students have already started to communicate online.
[Our Beijing Art College will definitely win this time. The famous songwriter Zhou Changan wrote a song for our college! ]
[The most awesome student from Langcheng Art College, the light of folk songs Meng Xiang, who graduated from Langcheng Art College, is back to support! Who else? ]
The atmosphere in the forum was quite tense. Every art academy had more or less some outstanding students who had successfully entered the music circle, and it could be said that no one was willing to give in to the other.
An appropriate metaphor would be -
Garuda: Do you want to test whether my nephew is sharp?
Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun: My uncle is not at a disadvantage either.
The students of Tianjin Art Academy were too honest to say a word because a warrior of the academy, Xiao Zhao, was criticized to pieces.
[Our school's Oh Ye brother has agreed to compose for the song competition. Are you scared? What Zhou Changan, what Meng Xiang, they are all my younger brothers! ]
"It's so funny. I watched the video of Oh Ye Ge's speech at your school. Verbal promises may not be counted!"
"The competition will start in a few days. If you can't come up with it, you will be a clown!"
Replies like these made Xiao Zhao so angry that he didn't even go to class and started following these people one by one.
I secretly swore in my heart that when the song came out, I would pay back the ridicule a hundredfold.
…
Tianjin Art College.
The old professor who teaches audio-visual and ear training turned on his computer after work and found that he had received an email from his beloved student "Deaf Five".
It was a demo of a song called "The Crossroads Where the Phoenix Flowers Bloom", and there was also a message expressing the hope that the song could be sung by students.
“You created it in three days?”
The old professor put on his headphones and turned on the song titled "The Crossroad Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom" with great anticipation.
The prelude, soft guitar accompaniment and melodious piano melody give people a warm feeling.
“It’s time for the Phoenix flowers to bloom again”
"Thinking of an old friend I haven't seen for a long time"
“Memories gradually become vivid with feelings”
"The red hillside said goodbye to the intersection"
Listening to his beloved disciple's singing, the old professor's eyes lit up and he patted his thigh with a smile.
As expected of my beloved disciple! The phoenix flower introduces old classmates through its specific blooming season. The opening slowly cuts into the emotions, first with feelings, then awakens memories. In the old yellowed black and white photos, the hillside and the intersection are gradually dyed red.
Very well written, very graphic.
"The river of time flows into the sea and finally we go our separate ways"
“No port is a permanent stop”
“There is a crossroads with phoenix flowers blooming in my mind”
“My most cherished friends”
The old professor loved the chorus very much.
The first sentence is undoubtedly the essence of the whole song. The river flows into the sea, and people go their separate ways. It is the irreversibility of fate, and there is an inherent similarity. The "River of Time" has a kind of helplessness of passing, which leads to the following text, that there is no port where you can stay forever.
Songs serve emotions. Good songs will have one or two words that touch the heart.
This song has such power!
“Do you feel the same way from afar?”
"When I sing the song you wrote again"
“It’s like going back to that time”
After listening to the whole song, the old professor was very emotional. "Phoenix flowers bloom for two seasons, one season to welcome new students, and one season to send off old students. The road separates at the intersection where the phoenix flowers bloom. I hope the phoenix will sing all over the world in the future!"
After graduation, my beloved student misses the campus and his roommates.
In just three days, he was able to produce such an excellent work!
He is worthy of being my student.
The old professor was so excited that he immediately called his students to organize a choir to practice the song.
…
The topic became a hot topic on the Internet that night after the chorus practice of this song, because someone anonymously uploaded a secretly filmed video of the chorus practice of "The Crossroads Where the Phoenix Flowers Bloom".
After learning that the song was composed by Lin Zhixing, countless self-media creators began to appreciate and share the song, and the topic directly became a hot search on Weibo.
[Oh Ye Ge's new work "The Crossroads Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom" is a high-quality work that made the graduates cry! 】
The song touched countless students and received rave reviews in the comment section. Graduates left their own comments under the topic.
"Looking back on the dull times, there are waves again. Every question you get wrong is for meeting the right person, and every question you get right is for meeting a better self."
"It's all because the school wall was too low and failed to lock away my youthful arrogance. But have you ever imagined that I was ambitious at that time? You piled up your books so high that you could play with them secretly. You thought you were blocking the teacher, but in fact you were blocking your future."
"After some people graduate, maybe we will never see them again in our lifetime. Maybe this is how life is. We fall in love with a place only when we leave. Tonight will be my last night in the dormitory. Thinking back to my first night in college, time always passes so quickly."
…
As time went by, not only the students but also other listeners were deeply touched.
One of them was a big brother who entered society very early. His post expressing his feelings while listening to a song also became popular on the hot search list.
[I have never been to a university campus, or even a high school campus. My youth has passed in the city. When you were still sleeping in English class, I was already shuttling between high-rise buildings. When you were still walking shoulder to shoulder with him (her) on the tree-lined path on campus, passing by fallen leaves, I was already thinking about tomorrow's food and clothing. This is my youth, full of reality, cruelty, suffocation, but also unyielding and brave.]
Under this Weibo post, many comrades who also entered society early left messages and advised students to study hard.
"Same, when I was a new recruit in the army, I was also enjoying my youth. My youth was not colorful and there were no girls. It was just a piece of green perseverance, the eternal wake-up call and the unyielding soul."
"When I was in middle school, I thought the school uniform was ugly. After I started to earn a living, I realized that it was the only high-quality fabric that could cover up the gap between the rich and the poor."
Even CTS News reposted the song on Weibo, directly pushing the popularity of "The Crossroad Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom" to the peak.
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Compared with the harmony on Weibo, the forums of major art colleges in Beijing and Tianjin are full of war.
The students of Tianjin Art College, who had previously lacked confidence, directly rushed into the forums of other colleges and started to argue with them using their big accounts.
[Sorry, Oh Ye Ge finished the song in just three days. ]
【Take a look at Weibo. I think Zhou Changan and Meng Xiang’s songs may not even make it to the trending searches! 】
[Oh yeah, I defeated you guys with just one move, I'm so sorry! ]
After listening to the song "The Crossroad Where the Phoenix Flowers Bloom", students from other colleges and universities were deeply moved and immediately gave in.
Is there any point in competing after this? This song will definitely win the championship, no doubt about it.
[As expected of Oh Ye Ge, the song is so good, I am impressed! 】
[Sorry, we spoke a little loudly before.]
[You won. I envy your school for having Brother Oh Ye. If he were our senior, the championship would belong to us! ]
Students from other art colleges, believing they were no match for the enemy, raised their flags and surrendered. The war lasted only three days before it was stopped by Lin Zhixing's song.
However, there was one student who refused to give in.
That was Xiao Zhao who was criticized badly before. It was he who sent out the chorus video anonymously. The waiting was too painful and he couldn't even wait for the next competition to start.
Xiao Zhao opened Tieba, looked at the more than 1,000 Tieba accounts he followed, wiped the keyboard, and counted his fingers.
After preparing to fight back, he clicked on the first account and typed a line of words heavily.
[Have you listened to "The Crossroads Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom"? Heizi, speak up! ]
After typing the words, he felt that something was missing and this sentence was not enough to vent his anger.
After thinking for a moment, Xiao Zhao changed a word.
【Grandson, speak! 】
I feel much more comfortable this time.
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That night.
In the bathroom of a hotel room in Peking.
Lin Zhixing had no idea that his song "The Crossroad Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom" had become a hit on the Internet.
Tomorrow I will follow the "Singing Around the World" program crew to the island country for recording. Today I spent the whole day packing luggage and buying clothes.
He wiped the mist-covered mirror and looked at himself in the mirror.
There is not a single blemish on his body, not even a single pimple. His conversation reveals an English style, and even his peeing reveals a profound literary and artistic temperament.
So damn handsome! "Brother Lin!"
Dong Chen, who was sitting on the bed making a guide for the island country, excitedly discussed with Lin Zhixing who came out of the bathroom, "When we get to the island country, let's take some time to have a big meal!"
"Okay!"
Lin Zhixing wiped his wet hair and asked curiously: "What special dishes do you want to eat? Sushi? Ramen? Or..."
Dong Chen shook his head. "We have all these in China. I want to try something I've never tried before."
"What?"
"cough!"
Dong Chen lowered his voice, raised his eyebrows with a wicked smile, "A woman was lying on the table, with a lot of food on her body."
“Eh…”
Lin Zhixing curled his lips and said, I didn’t expect that you and I are the same kind of people.
"Brother Lin, you don't like it?"
“The method is OK, but I don’t like the dishes very much.”
Lin Zhixing stroked his chin and thought, "I should add fried dough sticks, bean juice, and fried cakes, and then splash her face with noodles with soybean paste."
"Wow! Are you playing so dirty?"
"Finally, it would be soulless if you didn't put in a copper pot."
Dong Chen: “…”
Living devil!
(End of this chapter)
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