Tuesday afternoon.
Hua Music Headquarters, Professional Listening Room.
It was more than 8 o'clock in the morning, and Wang Jingxue, Xie Bing, Sima Dudu and her sisters had already arrived. Before 9 o'clock, agent Wu Jie and producer Li Jindong also arrived, then everyone waited anxiously at the door.
This afternoon, it was the preview of two songs from Wu Su's new album. Because the matter involves Li Qian, who is currently the most popular songwriter in the music scene, it is said that the company's general manager Huang Dazhong and music director Du Xiaoming will also attend. This has further increased the tension and anticipation among the Wu Su sisters.
They are very confident about the two songs that have just been recorded, especially "Sisters Stand Up" - almost without any extra adjectives, it's simply a tailor-made work for this combination, both youthful and passionate, with a fast-paced rhythm and beautiful melody. Even the girls in the group, although not professionals, still made the prediction "this song will definitely be a hit" at the first time, which shows how excellent it is!
To be honest, if the decision was up to them, there would have been no need for this audition at all. Back in Jinan Prefecture, they would have definitely agreed to Li Qian's terms and asked him to help produce their album.
But it's clear that they don't have the final say in this matter.
Although they have absolute confidence in this song and future album, ... who knows if the people with decision-making power will like it?
Many times, especially in a big company like Huaguo, the songs that the author likes are killed by the producer, and the songs that both the author and the producer like are eventually killed by the high-level executives of the company. Such things are not uncommon.
So at this time, Wu Xiu's sisters were not nervous, which was strange!
But for them, it's a matter of utmost importance, while for others, it might just be a mere formality...
At 9:30, people finally started to arrive in a trickle. By 9:45, more and more people had arrived. At around 9:50, the scheduled 10 o'clock audition was about to begin. It wasn't until then that company general manager Huang Dazhong and music director Du Xiaoming finally appeared together.
After they all went in, Li Jinlong led Wu Su and several sisters into the audition room.
In the listening room, many people gathered in twos and threes, whispering to each other, even General Manager Huang Dazhong and Music Director Du Xiaoming were sitting there discussing something in a low voice. As if they were discussing something important.
Seeing this scene, anxiety is one thing, and the mentality of being ignored and eager to prove oneself is another. These two mentalities are entangled together, resulting in the five sisters looking even more tense than when they first arrived. Those with slightly more delicate thoughts, like Xie Bing and Sun Ruoxuan, have already started sweating palms.
At last, it's ten o'clock.
Regardless of whether there were still people who should have come but didn't, Li Jinlong signaled for Wu Jie, the agent of Wuxingwusuo, to close the door. Then he walked to the front of the empty seat in front of the listening area and stood still. After a brief introduction to the content and origin of this listening session, he announced the start of the listening session and then personally went over to press the play button.
It wasn't until then that the twenty or so people scattered around the listening room finally stopped their conversations, sat up straight and waited for the music to start.
And the five of us sisters stood in a row at the back of the listening room, no one took the initiative, but completely spontaneously held hands with each other.
What's more, Sun Ruoxuan even closed her eyes, with a look of waiting for her fate to be decided.
Xie Bing saw her like this and couldn't help but clench her hand tightly.
Are you looking forward to it? Are you afraid of it?
Of course!
Outsiders only see the ten minutes of brilliance when they go on stage, but they themselves are deeply aware of their own hardships and difficulties. Moreover, this is not the most important thing, more importantly, before that, although they debuted as a singing group, even their own evaluation of this group was extremely low.
Now, when they met Li Qian in Jinan Prefecture, got his works and started cooperating with him and accepting his guidance. Finally, for the first time since their debut album was released, they felt that they were not selling their bodies or legs, but they could clearly feel that this time, they were going to sell songs and works!
And then, suddenly, they felt their lives had become much brighter!
Even if it's like Xie Bing, she even thought that even if this album was made and sold not as successfully as they had initially imagined, but having gone through this album, the five-line singer's career is worth it.
At least with these works, they can proudly introduce themselves as singers from now on!
He is a singer, not a dancer!
And today, now, after the playback of these two songs in less than ten minutes, it will largely determine the future direction and future of several sisters.
Suddenly, an extremely low bass note exploded in the listening room.
Then drumming for a moment, the rhythm quickly turns to light and brisk.
"Then just wait for the downfall, if love is truly great, what's there for me to struggle with, am I worse than others..."
It has to be said that although it's a live recording and the singer is accompanied by a band, Huagepai's past two recordings have been quite good in terms of sound quality. This recording, although not yet post-produced, still sounds very clean.
And the five girls, after Li Qian's training and guidance over those few days, had basically grasped the essence of this song. So on the day of recording, they almost brought out their best performance - being unrestrained when they should be, and pretending to be wronged when they should be.
Of course, the most important thing is still the rhythm and tone of this song!
Before this song, the entire domestic music scene was still dominated by folk songs, ballads, rural ballads and sweet songs. Rock music was considered alternative, but even Zhou Fen's urban love songs were hard to become mainstream, you can imagine what the overall atmosphere was like. Therefore, works like "Sisters Stand Up" with a pure youthful style had hardly appeared before, and there hadn't been any representative work that formed a mature style yet.
It was also because of this that as soon as the rhythm started, Sima Doudou's first note had just come out, and the people in the listening room who were not too concerned at first, straightened their backs in an instant!
But Du Xiaoming suddenly widened his eyes!
When the sisters sang to the chorus, singing "ten men seven foolish, eight stupid, nine bad, and one that everyone loves, sisters, jump out, even if sweet words deceive him, love well, no longer let him leave...", there were not a few people in the audition room who opened their mouths in surprise.
This song, from melody to lyrics, is simply refreshing!
And when this song is sung by the five young girls of Wuxin Xisu, with such a voice full of youth and vitality... that feeling, absolutely makes one's eyes light up!
So, after listening to the first chorus, Du Xiaoming's eyes, which had originally widened in surprise, narrowed again.
As he listened to the interlude, he slowly leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping gently on the armrest, echoing the rhythm of the song, a hint of admiration seeping into his expression.
Then, when the overall playback of only three minutes and a few seconds ended, with that extremely low bass thoroughly settled, before the next song started, the audition room suddenly made a "hum" sound, various small movements, various whispers, suddenly sounded.
The sisters exchanged a glance, their faces full of worry.
They had attended preview sessions more than once, but it was the first time they encountered a situation where everyone started discussing as soon as the first song ended.
It wasn't until I noticed that the expressions on many people's faces seemed to be between surprise and admiration, that everyone's hearts finally settled down a bit - at least they weren't scornful or completely impatient!
At this time, General Manager Huang Dazhong coughed and said, "Quiet!"
The audition room fell silent again in an instant.
Just then, the second song began.
It starts with a two-bar piano solo, then something astonishing happens again.
This is actually an a cappella from start to finish!
And it's actually... a nursery rhyme!
When they finished listening to the first movement, some people couldn't help but look stunned.
What the heck is this, obviously the first song is absolutely youthful in style and so fast-paced, but the next one suddenly jumps to children's songs!
However, after the initial shock passed, everyone listened carefully and suddenly felt that the melody of this song was actually quite good. Although the rhythm is comfortable, it is also very easy to sing along. Moreover, from the content of its three-part lyrics, it is clear that this will be a song that extremely pleases all children and all parents!
So, everyone's reaction was almost the same. After the initial shock wore off, after listening to all three sections, everyone nodded slightly one by one and sat back in their chairs with a solid thud.
Children's songs... it's not that they can't be sung, and once they're done well, once they're accepted by children and parents all over the country, that market will absolutely explode and directly kill off all other genres of popular music!
To know, the most profitable businesses in this world are often selling things to women and children!
Judging from the current small sample, miraculously, everyone suddenly feels that this song... seems to have some potential?
As the second round continued to proceed smoothly, many people nodded solemnly.
Yes, this nursery rhyme is indeed quite good!
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Three more episodes have been completed, nearly 11,000 words!
I hope the monthly ticket price will increase a bit!
Oh, right! The book club group is set up, the group number is 74640518. Note: only accepting fully subscribed readers! (.)
PS: The third watch is over, 11,000 words!
I hope the monthly ticket price will increase a bit!
Oh, right! The book club group is set up, the group number is 74640518. Note: only accepting fully subscribed readers!