Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 632 Our Half-hearted Life

Everyone on the stage could actually understand Goat's depression.

After all, the sad song of rock is the courage to return to the normal track after being hysterical about life. Who among these people in the Rolling Stones, including Bian Lang, has not been hysterical in life?
Without that experience, how could I have written those works?

So you must love life. Even if you don’t love this world, you must love yourself.

Everyone can say this, but no one can understand it as clearly as what Bian Lang taught them through music.

Without exception, all the people on the stage today have come together because of Bian Lang, and have walked step by step towards the oasis from the swamp of rock music, where there is little light but they cannot bear to leave.

This was true for Kapok, Su Kan, and Kong Liang, and I believe that goats will be like this in the future as well.

Facing the light in his teammates' eyes, the sadness and anxiety in Yang Yang's heart were no longer so strong. He nodded seriously to a few people, then put down his guitar and went to communicate with other staff members.

Liu Ziyang and Olaf, who received the news at the control center, were not too surprised. After all, they were all rock musicians, and being out of control and unconventional was their normal behavior.

Of course, it’s mainly because there aren’t many things that need to be changed, and they’re mainly in the lighting.

When MATZKA started to sing the last song, more than half of the fans had already started to move towards the Dian stage. After all, New Pants is much more attractive than MATZKA.

Looking at the huge crowd that was beginning to move, An Feng asked with some concern: "Should we follow them? Otherwise, won't we be able to continue enjoying ourselves in the first row?"

Upon hearing this, all the musicians from the Rolling Stones laughed!

To put it bluntly, the reason why I squeezed through the sea of ​​music fans just now was just to let these two newbies at the music festival experience what it's like to be an ordinary music fan.

If you still want to squeeze into the front row at this time, even if you use face cards all the way, it probably won't be of much use. However, they are all people who can use the back door by swiping cards. The 10-minute interval is enough for them to pass through the off-site route without any obstruction.

"I'll take you to the VIP room later. If we continue to squeeze with these fans, I'm afraid our old bones will fall apart."

After saying that, Bian Lang took out a handful of money from his pocket, and under the envious and jealous looks of the fans around him, he asked the security personnel to put them into the isolation area.

Then, before the New Pants started their concert, the Rolling Stones' group of related parties easily reached the isolation area closest to the stage.

After arriving here, Bian Lang discovered that there were quite a few people with connections.

Needless to say, there were a few people in the circle who came up to greet him, and the key point was that there were also a few people he didn't know.

After being introduced by acquaintances one by one, Bian Lang finally realized that this was all for the album "Songs of the Past". Although the plan was to release it in half a year, it was not to the point where he would release two songs a month.

If all the conditions are right, finish it all in advance, and you can adjust the order of releasing the songs later according to the actual situation.

If other people want to make such an album, they would probably come up with the songs first and then send them to the singers. If they are interested, they would send demos of the songs.

But when it came to Bian Lang, the procedure was exactly the opposite, because although Bian Lang had finalized the plan, he did not just take out 12 songs and then ask Liang Kuan to find someone to sing them.

In order to ensure that these golden songs are as close to the classic feeling of the original Earth as possible, Bian Lang can only rely on the people to give him the songs.

Moreover, when it comes to people, Bian Lang doesn’t think that they all need to be the kings and queens of singing or the top singers. As long as their voices and personalities are acceptable, he really doesn’t mind putting some unknown and talented singers in the mix.

But he was a little confused, so he asked Tao Xiaoyu: "Why are all of you here at New Pants? Shouldn't you have been sitting on the containers of various merchants before?"

"I just wanted to meet you and get to know you first. I thought you would come to the front in this match."

In fact, it’s not entirely true. These people also want to experience what it’s like to stand on the stage at a pure rock music festival.

For example, Liu Chuang, a first-line celebrity, has performed in concerts with tens of thousands of people, but he has never experienced the scene of 50,000 people "dancing" in the audience.

When the fans started to shout the name of New Pants in the audience, he took out his cell phone, turned around and took a photo of the sea of ​​people.

Looking at the fluttering flags that read "Rock Never Dies", "I Don't Want to Die in Failure and Loneliness", "Want to Dance?", "Forever Young, Forever Full of Tears!" and so on, he felt that the concerts with tens of thousands of people that he used to be proud of were nothing to brag about in front of this music festival.

The number of people is secondary, the main thing is the state of these fans. He came in before the concert today, and at that time, Kuizi heard that there were about 5 people at the scene. He didn't know how many there were now, but he felt that it was close to the official maximum capacity of people.

That means more than half of the people here have been dancing here for almost nine hours straight, but he can't see any signs of fatigue on the faces of the fans in the front row. They are just excited, excited, and really excited.

The black curtain on the stage had not been opened yet, and the logos of the Rolling Stones Music Festival and New Pants Band printed on it were swaying gently in the evening breeze.

Under the cover of the curtain, Goat took a deep puff of his cigarette and glanced sideways at the agitated crowd below the stage, especially the faces in the isolation area, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

After throwing the cigarette butt into the mineral water bottle, the goat rubbed his face with both hands, then turned around and nodded to the staff!

Within seconds, waves of dry ice began to rise from all around the stage, and the overhead light became dim. Only the floodlight under the big screen rendered the tone of the entire stage dim...

As the electronically sampled BGM came out of the speakers, the sound of wind blowing through the door, accompanied by the "tick-tick" sound of the 140BMP metronome, began to weave pictures in the minds of music fans.

Liu Chuang, who had closed his eyes when the dry ice rose, now felt as if he had just woken up from a ruined room, waiting for the countdown on the wall to give him a judgment of zero.

When he opened his eyes, he found that the black curtain on the stage had been slowly pulled open. On the big screen behind the stage, a series of landscape paintings with negative effects flashed across the screen, like a throwback to the old times, and the time of 05:52:23 in the middle of the screen perfectly coincided with the time of his alarm clock just now.

"Ah! This..."

Before the exclamation from the bottom of my heart stopped, I heard Ouyang, the lead guitarist, start playing the single-note loop of 5898.

That’s right, this time New Pants still didn’t look for a lead guitarist from the Rolling Stones. Mu Mian, who had become the captain, called over his old friend Ouyang.

As the first foreign player of New Pants, Ouyang enjoys this form of cooperation. Not being tied down but being able to perform at the Rolling Stone Music Festival regularly is already a good thing in the eyes of many freelance musicians.

After four bars, at a point that no one expected, Shanyang glanced at the electric guitar in his hand. Under the illumination of the light, he sang with a dejected look on his face: "A journey without any surprises, achieving some unearned dreams, seems lucky... A journey without any surprises, a love as plain as water, seems stable..."

Although many fans could tell from the prelude that this was a new song, it was only when the verse, which was different from the previous one sung by Bian Lang, came on that everyone really reacted: "Oh my god! This is a new song!"

Moreover, this decadent mood is even worse than what Bian Lang said before, "No culture, no sadness".

After all, with the current aura of Bian Lang, those fans who think more may not believe the authenticity of the sad and burning temperament. However, the unknown Shan Yang took over very well and perfectly continued the "sad" part of the sad and burning temperament of New Pants.

It depends on whether it can be as ignited as Bian Lang later!
“A journey without any surprises, where you get some opportunities to be willful, seems like freedom… A journey without any surprises, where you get to do what others also want to do, seems like excitement…”

The four sentences that start with the same tone and are followed by the main theme at the end instantly highlight the main label described in this song, which is a lot of idealists who have high expectations but low skills.

Although both words have unfriendly parts of speech, they resonate with all music fans, because at some point in life, these two characteristics will appear in everyone simultaneously or separately.

Or maybe it’s happening right now…

Two measures after singing this sentence, the sounds of the two electric guitars suddenly stopped, leaving only the 140BMP "metronome" still swinging left and right, feeling like the final countdown for a time bomb that is about to explode!

Sure enough, all the intuitions were correct. After one measure, all the musicians on the stage began to burst out in time.

The fine and empty drum beats made the bass of Kapok shake its head slightly. Under the stressed beat, the goat with bulging eyes suddenly became fierce, and pronounced accurately and quickly with an angry middle tone: "But, in fact, I never thought about what would happen... Everything I really wanted was taken away by others... I didn't decide too many things and it's like today..."

The double notes based on 6th major note jump repeatedly on 5th and 8th, bringing out the resolute momentum of Kong Liang's elusive open-beat snare drum rhythm.

The drummer at the foot of Lion Rock listened to the drum beats and suddenly exclaimed, "So that's it! I was wondering why the sound of the metronome never stopped. It was actually the drummer who set the beat..."

After hearing this, Xie Xinyan laughed and said unhappily: "That may be a student, but he doesn't need this kind of thing. He is playing drums, and you are still in kindergarten."

They had been rehearsing until the New Pants came on stage. They didn't want to go to the isolation area, but they wanted to hear the details of the arrangement clearly, so they finally came to the front with their performance certificates.

Then the drummer was so moved by the arrangement of this drum piece that he wanted to kneel down to Bian Lang, who arranged the drum piece.

How should I put it? After hearing it, he thought I could do it, but before hearing it, he couldn't understand how this drum section could be arranged like this. As for the metronome's words just now, that's just what he thought.

Because just based on this short segment, he felt that even if he had a metronome and practiced for half a year or a year, he might not be as steady as the one on the stage!

The key point is, Bian Lang is not a professional drummer at all!

Compared to the musicians who focused on the arrangement, the fans at the scene paid more attention to the lyrics.

With the help of Yangyang's Wanwan accent in Chinese, the interpretation of the lyrics has a long-lost sense of familiarity.

The source of this familiarity has little to do with rock music, because like the original Earth, the Chinese music scene on Water Blue Planet has also experienced a period of being baptized by Taiwanese singers.

But compared to those love songs or songs of unbearable pain, this rock and roll that ignites after sadness is obviously more direct in its lethality.

The point is, just like the previous song "People without culture are not sad", the reality that the goat sings at this moment is what many people in reality are experiencing but are unwilling to mention, or just like the next line of lyrics:
"Then, it became a mess that I had to hold on to... another dose of hope to numb the pain... I could only move forward, not back down. I couldn't bear it, couldn't let it go, and had to keep going..."

It's not just Goat who is working together at this moment. All the band members except Kong Liang are using their voices, which are not high-pitched but strong enough, to accompany Goat in his outburst!
Under the flickering lights, the flickering shadows on the stage are like warriors struggling out of the quagmire. They describe the misfortunes of life in the simplest language, but at the same time use their actions to interpret a deeper fact to you: "But we still need to live!"

Seeing this, Bian Lang, who had already climbed up the isolation fence and led the fans below the stage to pay tribute to the people on stage, looked unexpectedly solemn.

Because he remembered Constantine's changing ball. When he was on the original Earth, he and Constantine's changing ball had no real intersection. Even hearing this song and knowing about this band was thanks to the wizard.

However, after Mai Na was confirmed to participate in "Summer of the Band 3", Bian Lang saw this band on the list of participating bands. At that time, he was quite looking forward to meeting and communicating with them.

"I don't know how they will perform in the end. When they perform this song on the show, who will be more exciting than the Goat at the moment and move the fans more?"

Thinking of this, Bian Lang stared blankly at the stage, his calm appearance concealed a turbulent heart!
I don’t know which cameraman recognized this person and stretched out the jib in front of the stage to the side and back of Bian Lang, pulling up the angle to bring Bian Lang’s figure and the stage into the same picture.

In the backlight, only half of Bian Lang's face could be seen clearly, and he looked so lonely at this moment.

It was like a person who had lived for a long time, standing at a certain node in the long river of time and intercepting a period of history to look back. Originally, I thought it would be a very interesting thing, but it seemed to make me fall into a not very pleasant thinking.

The final conclusion is just like the following lyrics of the song: "We are living a half-hearted life, without a future like yours. How can we live our half-hearted life... How can we live it?"

(End of this chapter)