Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 581 Dong Youbian's Song Selection
After the matter of "National Chronicles" was basically settled, Bian Lang continued to devote his energy to the preparation of "Summer of the Band".

A week had passed and when I went back to the old factory building which had been given the name Rolling Stone Music and Cultural Industrial Park, I saw that it had indeed changed a lot.

All the old glass windows in the original factory building have been removed. In this largest factory building in the main shed, welders and carpenters are already working on the construction of a collaborative stage.

After Bian Lang gave an idea, both Hua Yan and Zi Li thought it was suitable. After Qi Yue arrived and they discussed it again, the main theme of the wasteland industrial style was decided.

However, the initial plan was based on the idea of ​​a temporary structure, but after the site issue was resolved, it became a semi-permanent plan.

Bian Lang didn't ask how the operation was done today, he only knew that the use of this piece of land for 40 years has been obtained. In this way, after investing the money for this semi-permanent stage, it can be turned into a live performance venue for a thousand people in the future.

If the entire park is to be operated, this venue will be the first point of attraction in the future.

Listening to Zi Li introducing various aspects of the scene, including the double stage and various lifting equipment to reduce preparation time, Bian Lang began to think about the stage effects that would be presented at that time.

"If it weren't for Sister Qi Yue, we would have been cheated by this company this time..."

This is not surprising. The resources for performances in Yunnan Province cannot be compared with those in BJ and Shanghai.

Now the work is needed urgently. Even if the local companies have previous cooperative relationships, the market price is higher than outside. Qi Yue uses the market prices in those cities with developed performances as a reference for supervision, so there is naturally room for improvement.

"You've worked so hard running back and forth between the lab and this end..."

"Brother Lang, what you said is really polite. Not to mention your relationship with our Hua Yan, even if it's just a work relationship, you are helping me. My colleagues in the agency all said that I might have to work with the Rolling Stones for a living for the next few years."

This is true. It will probably take until the second half of the year for Rolling Stone LAB to be finished. The Music Park will definitely have to make some big moves after the show is finished. If all conditions are right, Rolling Stone is certainly willing to take care of its own people.

"What do you mean by just trying to make a living? You are also helping the Rolling Stones by working with us. You are one of us. With you watching over us, we don't have to worry too much... By the way, where is Hua Yan? Why don't I see him..."

In order to cooperate with the high-intensity recording of the program at that time, the Rolling Stones now rehearse in the morning, and in the afternoon they rehearse with their respective bands participating in the program.

Hua Yan is with the Rolling Stones' Faces band. Rowling and the bassist haven't arrived yet, so he will come here to help when he has nothing to do in the afternoon.

"On the roof of the factory, checking the beams and waterproofing."

Bian Lang became interested when he heard that: "Where do we go up? It should be beautiful to watch the sunset over the west mountain, right?"

"I've never been there, but this is the building closest to the water, with no obstruction at all..." As he said this, he pointed to the steel ladder at the very end of the factory building.

Seeing that it was a ladder made of steel bars bent into a U-shape and embedded directly into the wall, Bian Lang asked in disbelief, "Is that how he got up there? Is Hua Yan that brave?"

"No, there are only two inspection openings. The steel bars on the outside are all rusted and dangerous, but the one inside is fine... Brother Lang, why don't you let me take a look..."

“I don’t want to cross over again…” Thinking so in his mind, Bian Lang waved his hand and said, “If it’s only one or two meters, I might consider pushing myself, but this climb must be 10 meters high, I’m timid and don’t dare…”

Zi Li did not laugh at Bian Lang. She pointed at the crane that had not been dismantled in the factory and said to Bian Lang, "We have asked someone to take a look at the crane. If we replace a few aging parts and clean the track, it can still be used. This will save a lot of effort in the construction. When it is repaired, install a hanging basket. Brother Lang will let you build the hanging basket and go up!"

Bian Lang thought this was a good idea and he could give it a try when the time comes!
After the sun set, Hua Yan, not sure whether he was really doing an inspection or just hanging out, came down the ladder at the inspection entrance.

Judging from his skillful movements, Bian Lang guessed that this guy must have been to construction sites many times before.

"Sure enough, those who play rock music are all complex talents!" Bian Lang praised Hua Yan when he saw her.

Unexpectedly, Hua Yan smiled helplessly and said, "It's all tears when I talk about the past. By the way, Brother Lang has something to show you."

After saying that, Hua Yan handed the phone over. Bian Lang saw it was a video and clicked on it to start watching.

Accompanied by the whistling sound of the wind, the factory roof captured by Huayan's lens presented a unique beauty in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The desolate roofs of the old factory buildings and the dilapidated surfaces of the factory area were all dyed golden red under the setting sun. These lifeless buildings seemed to be bidding farewell to the setting sun and a certain era.

Bian Lang even felt that these buildings that had "life" under the sunset would seem to die after the sunset completely set.

Watching the mountains, rivers and lakes change from gold to red, and finally turning the entire sky blue, these buildings slowly began to disappear into the night as if committing suicide.

Just like the lyrics: "This must be the only time in your life that you stand at a higher place than others... The sunset is so beautiful. Goodbye sunset, the gentle lightning accompanies you to sleep... The people and the world watching you fall, all shattered into pieces with this sound..."

This is probably the most elegant rock song on the theme of "suicide" that Bian Lang had ever heard in his previous life.

There is a tragic romantic determination, just like an old waist that is no longer strong and has to be transformed into an inch of iron, as if only in this way can it resist many external corrosions.

I thought of this song by chance. Afraid of forgetting it, Bian Lang returned Hua Yan's phone, then took out his own phone without saying a word and started writing down the lyrics.

It has been a while since we saw Bian Lang suddenly write a song due to such a burst of inspiration. Hua Yan moved closer to Bian Lang, waiting to be the first person to appreciate this song.

But when Bian Lang finished writing the lyrics and showed them to him, he gasped when he saw the title of the song: "Brother Lang, you are not cursing me, are you?"

Bian Lang didn't think about it that way, but thinking about the future business attributes of this place and some bad things he had heard in his previous life, Bian Lang earnestly instructed: "Think of a way to open these two inspection ports when the time comes, and don't let anyone get up there casually!"

"Uh, Brother Lang, you are so thoughtful..."

……

Two days later, the second episode of "The Musician" finally aired.

Unsurprisingly, the long-distance collaboration across several provinces in "29" became the biggest highlight of the show so far.

It is certain that the program production team bought trending searches, but due to various outrageous actions by the fans of Bian Lang, Guo Sichu and Dong Youbian, they spent the money but failed to make it into the top 10 of the entertainment charts.

Even the few seconds of footage in which Liu Yao took the singers to watch a video in the preparation room were much more popular than the ones they came up with on their own.

When the truth that had been hidden for more than half a month finally came out, the two live performances with the same band accompaniment once again became the biggest focus because of the comparison. Therefore, the number of hits on the small broken website, which had already fallen to an average of four figures per day, increased again because of this popularity.

And this time, music fans completely ignored Bian Lang's version and directly compared the versions of these two female singers.

In order to gain traffic, many music bloggers opened voting posts, and in Bian Lang’s super topic, someone took the trouble to summarize most of the voting results. The final conclusion was that they were evenly matched, with the difference in support rates being only one or two percentage points.

However, loyal fans of both sides are not satisfied with this result and they insist on finding someone they think is qualified to come to a conclusion on the matter.

As for who has this authority, the first person to be chosen is naturally Bian Lang. However, Bian Lang's fans who just want to sit back and watch the two tigresses fight each other directly avoided fighting, and the control of comments in the super topic was very uniform.

As soon as relevant content appears, it will be drowned in a sea of ​​comments within five seconds.

In fact, Bian Lang had already anticipated this, but this time he couldn't come out and make any comments.

In his opinion, both versions have their own advantages and disadvantages, just like the results of the online reviews, neither version has an absolutely overwhelming advantage. This is a normal debate, and there is no need for Bian Lang to defend his own shortcomings.

Seeing that Bian Lang didn't say anything for a long time, everyone turned their attention to Olaf, Liu Ziyang and Bai Dao.

As the instigator of this incident, Liu Ziyang knew that he would not have peace unless he said something.

So after putting aside all external interferences, he cast his vote for Dong Youbian.

The reason was very sufficient: "As far as these two performances are concerned, except for the fact that the accompaniment was remotely controlled, Dong Youbian's other performances, both in terms of technique and emotional investment, were better than Guo Sichu's..."

To people in the circle, this was a very fair evaluation, but to Guo Sichu's fans, it became evidence that Liu Ziyang was currying favor with Bian Lang.

"Liu Ziyang, considering that you and Queen Chu have an old cooperative relationship, I advise you to follow your heart and think carefully before posting again!"

"Teacher Liu, I admit that what you said makes some sense, but not much!"

"No, Dong Youbian has been preparing for a long time, and Chuchu is just taking over temporarily, so..."

As for Olaf, his professional judgment was consistent with that of Liu Ziyang, but he did not like the atmosphere at the variety show and preferred Guo Sichu's performance at the music festival, so he voted for Guo Sichu.

After pulling one back and tying the game, the final pressure was placed on the first wave of blowing white knives.

At this moment, he is strolling around the Rolling Stone Music and Cultural Industry Park to help out. Although he is still a free man, he is actually half a Rolling Stone.

He was extremely excited to be able to participate in the preparation of "Summer of the Band", China's first music variety show that he had been looking forward to.

As a famous commentator in the circle, he has a good relationship with some bands. At this moment, he was chatting with some band members who had arrived earlier. When he heard Liu Ziyang calling, he greeted him and went to answer the call.

After listening to what Liu Ziyang said, he was very upset: "What kind of thing is this? What are your and Olaf's identities? What is my identity? You two should make things even. Is it appropriate for me to finish it?"

Although he said that, as a music critic by profession, how could he not say something about this matter?

After much thought, he decided to just do a series of reviews on "The Music Man".

In the end, he voted for Guo Sichu based on his conscience. Although Guo Sichu was just there for fun, in his opinion, Dong Youbian's performance was good, but he just couldn't empathize with him.

He commented on Dong Youbian: "Perhaps he wanted to win too much, so his record-like performance lacked some appeal."

Now that's a big deal, the first place voted on this issue of "Musician" is not as good as Guo Sichu, who is just playing around, in the eyes of professionals, and all kinds of voices began to emerge.

"Look, even Lao Bai can't stand watching this show anymore. How many tricks are there in this show?"

"To be honest, I still support Liu Ziyang's opinion. After all, Guo Sichu is just playing around and is too casual. With the same accompaniment, her performance is really not as good as Dong Da's!"

"It's boring. Regardless of the two versions, I think Dong Youbian, who uses remote off-field support, shouldn't take first place."

"That's right, it's fine if she just wants to take advantage of her boyfriend's popularity, but she even took advantage of Queen Chu as well. She really doesn't deserve the first place."

"Haha, I think we should ask Chen Jianju about this. What kind of things were those arrangements he changed before? They either ruined the song or the singer. Why don't you ask those Rolling Stones?"

After these remarks were instigated by the program team and some people with ulterior motives, Dong Youbian was unsurprisingly scolded and became a hot topic.

For something like this, no one from Rolling Stone, Dong Youbian or the "Musician" program team would come out to refute the rumor.

Bian Lang had anticipated this and called Dong Youbian, who was preparing to record the next show at Fruit Channel, and asked, "Can you handle it?"

"It's okay. It's all made up. I won't take it to heart. By the way, do you know who the new music director is?"

Bian Lang knew that it was only a matter of time before the director was replaced. Even if Rolling Stone did not intervene, Fruit TV would still be very receptive to advice in some aspects.

"How would I know? Anyway, he is not one of ours."

"Pan Xiulong..."

This name was definitely beyond Bian Lang's expectations. No matter how much he thought about it, he could not have imagined that it would be Pan Xiulong.

But considering this person's qualifications and connections, this seems to be a reasonable choice.

"How is it? He didn't make it difficult for you with the arrangement this time, did he?" Bian Lang blurted out subconsciously.

"No, this time I chose 'Zebra, Zebra', and he didn't give any comments, just told me to follow the original arrangement..."

"Zebra zebra, go to sleep, I'm going to sell my house and wander around the world..." After this lyric went through his mind, Bian Lang had a strong feeling that this matter seemed...

(End of this chapter)