Chapter 837 Classics Will Be Passed Down Forever
Luoquan's new songs usually don't have MVs.
The main reason is that her output is too high. She releases three albums and thirty songs a year, not counting other singles. If she released a MV for each song, the workload would be huge.
So she usually doesn't take pictures of this.
But she usually chooses song covers carefully.
The early covers mainly asked people to create some more beautiful and exquisite pictures.
In the past two years, she has been using her own portraits.
Because fans said that no pictures are as beautiful as her photos.
Of course, except for swimsuit photos.
In this photo, the whole swimsuit looks a bit unseemly, like a newbie from a well-known industry in Japan.
The cover of the new song this time is still her portrait.
However, the materials used were all taken by her at the Europa Warriors Competition. In the photo, she is wearing gleaming armor, holding an incomparably sharp sword, standing on the yellow sand, looking so heroic.
As for the cover of the album, it uses her stunning look from the Oscars.
There is no better photo than this one. Once it came out, fans would be able to stare at it for thousands of years.
But perhaps her looks in the Europa Warriors competition were so bold that many people on the Internet interpreted her as taking this opportunity to give a voice to female boxing.
Including the album title "Women's Decathlon", it was just to show everyone that women are not inferior to men. Luo Quan really cares about the women's equal rights movement.
Regarding these remarks, if these people are not overthinking, they are deliberately arrogant.
No matter what it is, Luo Quan will not sit idly by.
After similar remarks gained popularity, she immediately posted:
"These photos are chosen for album and new song covers simply because they look good. There is no other meaning in them. Please don't over-interpret them."
To deal with such remarks, we must act quickly and nip them in the bud.
Luo Quan has quite a lot of experience in this area, and he is very familiar with the implementation.
At noon, Luo Quan and Wen Xia sent Junzi to the airport.
Junko was going back to Japan to stay for a while, and she heard that her grandfather had passed away.
Grandpa Junko is also a senior Japanese martial artist. Although his reputation is not as famous as her grandfather, he is definitely not bad.
Unfortunately, after the arrival of the new era, Junko's grandfather was already seriously ill. Even with the ancient spiritual energy, it did not prevent him from passing away.
Junko didn't spend much time with her grandfather since she was a child, and her relationship wasn't as good as her grandfather's.
But she was still deeply impressed by the chubby old man.
Now that I suddenly heard the bad news, my heart was filled with sadness.
There were originally a lot of announcements after the new year, but now they have all been postponed. I just want to go back to Japan to attend my grandpa's funeral, and live with my mother and grandma for a while.
As Junzi's friends, Luo Quan and Wen Xia also prepared a gift for them to take.
Although the person can't arrive, the affection must have arrived.
After sending Junko with red eyes to the plane, Luo Quan felt a little emotional in his heart.
Birth, aging, illness and death are irreversible laws in the human world.
She is young now, only in her early twenties, and does not need to consider these issues at all.
But my grandparents and grandpa are already in their seventies.
In ancient times, when someone died in his old age, it would be a joyous occasion for mourning.
Nowadays, those who live to be over eighty are considered to have longevity.
In other words, their time may be running out.
"System, are there any medicines in your mall that can make people live longer?"
Luo Quan suddenly raised such a question to the system.
“If it’s just about increasing lifespan, that’s not the case.
But if it is to slow down aging, it is still possible.
Human death, regardless of external forces, is either due to disease or normal failure of body organs.
There are many potions in the mall that can rejuvenate organ cells. Unfortunately, with the current system permissions, these cannot be redeemed and can only be obtained through random drawing. "
Luo Quan frowned: "So we should go to another world to absorb energy and improve the level of the mall?"
System answer:
"That's the truth. And if you go to a high-level world, you might be able to directly get some miraculous medicines that extend your life without having to exchange for these medicines in the mall that treat the symptoms but not the root cause."
"Hey, when will the energy of this arbitrary gate be full?" Luo Quan lowered his head and sighed.
The system didn't speak because it didn't know it.
This kind of thing cannot be rushed, and there is no need to rush.
Some things, the more you want them, they never appear.
But if you put it behind you, after a while it will suddenly jump into your eyes.
Therefore, it is most important to maintain a normal mind. If you are too obsessed, it is easy to produce negative emotions.
At 8 p.m., the second song "Redbone" of "Women's Decathlon" was released.
This is an R&B song from a movie. It is called rhythm and blues or rhythm and blues in Chinese. It is one of the earliest popular music types to enter China.
However, in China today, this is a relatively unpopular music type.
Perhaps the slow music rhythm cannot keep up with this impetuous and fast-paced era.
Or maybe it's the special tone changes that don't have the excitement of a straightforward melody like POP.
In short, rhythm and blues is not popular in China, and there are not many famous singers who engage in this type of music.
However, in foreign countries, R&B is still quite popular, and from time to time, several masterpieces will appear on the billboards.
In fact, black people’s contribution to modern pop music is very huge.
The main types of modern music, such as soul music, jazz, rock music, rap music, blues, etc., are actually created by black people.
Although black people do not have so many scientists, they are really talented in music and some sports.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, half of the world’s popular culture was led by black people.
Although the crime rate among black people is high, the output of talents is definitely not low.
It can only be said that a large part of this is due to differences in education level and living environment.
Everything needs to be viewed dialectically.
But this does not prevent Luo Quan from being wary of black people.
In the United States, she always avoids places where there are many black people.
The main reason is that sometimes these people are really crazy. When the police check their car, they just have to do what the police say, but they have to resist the police.
The relationship between the police and the public is already tense. In this situation, they would not just draw their guns and shoot at the slightest sign of trouble.
This is also the reason why Asians are rarely shot by the police even though they have a lower status than black people in the United States.
Because Asians or their elders knew from their previous living environment that people do not fight with officials, especially officials with guns, so they are more cooperative with the police.
The police also know that Asians will not take the initiative to stir up trouble, so they are not so sensitive.
This is the trust built between each other.
As for black people, it is estimated that they will not be able to build this kind of trust in a few decades.
Without further ado, let’s talk about music.
R&B is a music that Luo Quan rarely tried. He drank so much before and only had one or two songs, which didn’t leave a particularly deep impression on him.
But after "Redbone" came out this time, it was just the prelude and it immediately fascinated the audience.
The characteristic of R&B music style is that it is lazy and leisurely, and this song shows this characteristic to the extreme.
That feeling is really satisfying.
It's like a student who finally comes home from school after five days of hard study.
Then his parents all went out for business, leaving enough money for him to prepare dinner by himself.
Then the game I wanted to play was updated to a new version, and I opened the friends bar and found that they were all online.
At this time, it happened to be lightly raining outside the window, and the whole world became quiet amidst this small noise.
It's this cozy feeling that makes people feel happy just thinking about it.
Such a beautiful melody, coupled with Luo Quan's extremely seductive singing voice, directly makes people feel like their ears are pregnant.
Sure enough, as she said yesterday, this song is really nice and can be played on an infinite loop.
R&B songs are like this. Maybe they are not very impressive when you first listen to them. The melody and singing are a bit weird.
But as long as you listen to it a few more times, that special taste will come to your mind like the stamina of liquor, making you intoxicated.
It's just that Luo Quan's R&B was very amazing when it first came out, making the audience intoxicated from beginning to end, and started the cycle over and over again.
Compared with the previous song "Eternal Life", fans obviously like this one more, which can also be seen from the sales of a single song.
"Redbone" was released one day later than "Endless Life", but in less than four hours, sales were already on par, reaching more than three million.
Looking at this momentum, it is not difficult to break through within seven days.
Of course, compared with Luo Quan's previous data, this extremely exaggerated result is nothing.
After all, she set an impressive record of selling more than six million copies of her album on the day it was released. It is extremely difficult for others to even see her taillights, not to mention breaking it.
Fans feel that it takes magic to defeat magic.
Therefore, if this record is to be broken, Luo Bao will have to work hard on his own.
When it's the fifth or tenth anniversary of their debut, there may be a chance for a big one.
"Do you like this song? Do you feel comfortable and comfortable after hearing it? Needless to say, I know that you do.
The third song tomorrow will be a fun electronic music. Everyone will gather in the village and bring their own cement. "
This update was posted on Twitter and Bilibili. Domestic fans all started making fun of them after seeing it:
"It turns out that Luo Bao, you are also a member of the Burial Love family."
"What does the Burial Love Family mean? I am the royal family of Xicheng."
"By the way, was Luo Bao also non-mainstream back then?"
"Those who were born in 1998 must have experienced that era."
"In 1998, I couldn't play with her. She is really good as a person."
"Can this be strung together?"
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Compared with domestic fans who are happily making jokes, foreign fans seem more confused.
Because they don’t understand what the sentences behind the dynamic mean at all.
Why do we have to go to the village to gather and bring cement?
Suddenly doubts arose.
Fortunately, some enthusiastic domestic fans explained it on Twitter, telling foreign fans that this is actually a Chinese meme.
It is said that many years ago, when popular culture was developing rapidly in mainland China, a group called non-mainstream was born.
The young people here wear colorful bangs, listen to the love songs of Internet singers, and use all kinds of disgusting penguin signatures. Any little thing can make them sad, and playing a game can also make them sad. All the passers-by who didn’t know each other became as united as clan members.
This is a special product of that era. It has disappeared for many years, but now that China is popular in retro style, many previous popular elements have been revived.
The non-mainstream is one of them, and the village gathering is a form of expression.
However, this form is more taxing on the respiratory system and is a complete job. Anyone who really does this is either mentally ill or mentally ill.
Luo Quan said all this here just for fun, and mainly to interact with domestic fans.
As for foreign fans who don’t understand this, they can still learn from it.
Isn’t this how cultural export comes about?
Chinese people don’t understand foreign memes and they have to learn from them.
Foreign people don’t understand Chinese culture, so they can naturally learn it.
Of course, it’s unclear whether anyone will recognize this form of cultural export.
Anyway, Luo Quan and the fans found it quite interesting.
As for whether she is not mainstream, Luo Quan posted a photo of her when she was in the second grade of junior high school.
In the photo, she and Wen Xia each dyed their hair green and put lipstick on their lips that looked like food poisoning.
She does look a bit like a bad girl.
Their families felt the same way, so after they finished dyeing their hair that day, they first pressed them on the sofa and spanked them on their buttocks. After the spanking, they went to the barber shop to have them dyed.
In the eyes of domestic fans, this look is indeed a bit eye-catching.
But who hasn’t done a few stupid things when they were young?
You may have thought he was handsome and cool at the time, but when you grow up, you will get goosebumps all over your body when you think about it, and you will be so embarrassed that you get a sea view room with your toes.
However, foreign fans don't have too many problems with these.
In their view, this is a way for young people to express their individuality.
It's just dyeing your hair. Other foreign middle school students have much more fun than these.
Not to mention in the United States, it is nothing in Japan.
In visual kei rock, many have similar shapes.
In addition, there are quite a few bosozokus and gangsters in the middle school. Those who wear fancy clothes are much more outrageous than those who are not mainstream.
So when Luo Quan's photo was posted, foreign netizens didn't say anything, and Wen Xia couldn't stand it any longer.
Ask her directly in the comment area why she posted embarrassing things from so many years ago.
"Are you dead? If you are dead, you can bite the lighter. Even the anti-fans are not as lethal as you."
Although they were only a few meters apart, Wen Xia still questioned Luo Quan in the comment area.
Of course, everyone knows that the two are just joking, so the comment section is mainly ridiculing the two.
Everyone has black history, and many people have personally experienced it in non-mainstream eras.
In the early years, I might have been ashamed to say it, but now it has become a beautiful memory.