Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 665 Make it clear

This was the first time Bian Lang heard about this today. If it were the original Earth, this award might have been established around the year 2000.

However, although this may sound like a good thing at first glance, Liang Kuan knows that although it seems to be a benefit to the rock community, it is actually the result of a game between the organizers and those big entertainment companies.

If this award had not been given out, then Bian Lang would have been awarded the Best Male Singer award last year.

Maybe he won't win the award this first time he's nominated, but if Bian Lang doesn't win the award in the next few years with this kind of momentum, then this award will have no credibility.

And you come up with a best band and give it to the Rolling Stones from now on, and there's nothing wrong with that.

She sees it clearly, but won’t say it out loud, so let these lovely music-loving people enjoy it for a while!
Just as she thought, almost everyone who heard the news felt like they had finally been able to hold their heads high.

Bian Lang was no exception. He raised his glass and said to the many rock musicians present: "One of you goes. I want the Rolling Stones to win ten consecutive championships. What do you think?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole audience burst into laughter and scolding:
"Bian Lang, are you really drunk?"

"Why do I hate to hear this?"

"Haha! Bian Lang, I, Li Hao, will fight you. Let's control the lever within three years..."

"Hehehe! You're already out of breath. Who do you think you are? You're trying to monopolize the market!"

If there weren't so many people, someone would probably step up to "teach a lesson" to Bian Lang, the guy who made such wild remarks.

But deep down, they really hope that the Rolling Stones can dominate for a few more years, giving them, the old guys who still want to make another push, some buffer time.

As for the new things, I have already started thinking about which direction I need to work towards if I want to win this award.

Of course, Liu Chuang and the others also noticed something strange. He turned to Xia Yuxi beside him and said, "I guess next year, the song of the year may be divided!"

Xia Yuxi sneered and said nonchalantly, "It's useless. Do you think "Rice Shop" is rock music?"

Hearing this, Liu Chuang was also stunned: "Then come up with another best folk song?"

Liu Chuang's words made his agent laugh: "According to what you said, Bian Lang can magnify the Golden Melody Awards infinitely by himself!"

"That's not the case. At least the songs related to him are still very important!"

"It doesn't really matter. Bian Lang has been nominated for the Grammy Awards anyway. If he doesn't win an award in China, that would be a big joke!"

It's not just the three of them who are talking about this. Those from the Golden Melody Awards organizing committee have been discussing this matter for half a month.

The contradiction lies in how much of the pop music pie Bian Lang will take away this time...

As for the Golden Melody Awards themselves, there is no economic interest in these entertainment record companies.

However, the organizing committee of the Golden Melody Awards ceremony of course wants to make money. Regardless of who sponsors or obtains the broadcasting rights, the financial backers behind them may have direct or indirect interests with the entertainment company itself.

There haven’t been many excellent works in the entire music industry in recent years, so those idols rely on fans to get awards, and they don’t say anything, and no one will question it.

But this year's situation is completely different. With the strong rise of Bian Lang, what awards Bian Lang can win and how many awards he can win are directly related to the future value of the Golden Melody Awards.

That's why they wanted to add the Best Rock Band award, so that at least they could give an explanation to their sponsors regarding the choice of Best Male Singer.

But there are also voices of opposition. That is, once this opening is made, will there be subdivisions such as Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album, etc.?

More awards are naturally a good thing, as more people can win the awards, but this is also a way of diluting the value of the awards to achieve the purpose of keeping things balanced.

The one who was originally going to get first place, you opened a branch for them to make money on their own, then isn't this still useless?
Zheng Xiaofeng, the organizer, has been very worried about this matter these days, and the key is that these people are needed to perform live at the award ceremony. Although no one has refused, there are some voices in private who are putting pressure on not wanting the Rolling Stones to perform live.

Zheng Xiaofeng was of course aware of what these people were planning, but as the founder of the Golden Melody Awards, the most recognized music award in the Chinese-speaking world, if there was no performance by the Rolling Stones this year, then...

He was so annoyed that he couldn't sleep in bed, so he got up and poured himself a drink, hoping to numb his nerves with alcohol.

But it was a bit unreasonable to drink alone at home, so he took out his mobile phone and planned to watch something else to change his mind.

But today's big data did not let this poor man go. Various news about the perfect ending of the Rolling Stones Music Festival directly occupied the push notifications on his various online platforms.

"Oh! My head hurts!"

After taking a sip of Havana rum, Zheng Xiaofeng clicked directly into the small broken website. On the scrolling page of the homepage, there was an exciting compilation of the Rolling Stones Music Festival.

He clicked on it without thinking. As one of the founders of the Golden Melody Awards, Zheng Xiaofeng's music appreciation ability is not a problem. He listened to New Pants, Nozhen, Hatter, and finally returned to the Rolling Stones. It is better to say that it is a collection of Bian Lang's works, but he became more and more excited the more he listened to it at the beginning, but became more and more frustrated the more he listened to it later!
The year is not even halfway through yet, but he thinks all the songs released at this music festival are pretty good, especially "Enter Sandman". Luckily it's in English, otherwise...

As for "100,000 Hippies", he didn't know how to comment on it. Whether it won an award or not was secondary. Just based on the quality of the arrangement and the use of pentatonic scale, he felt that this was something that ordinary musicians would not consider.

"The key is what to do next year? He's still working on a pop album... If we invite the Rolling Stones to perform at the awards ceremony, then..."

……

The next morning, the topic of the perfect ending of the Rolling Stone Music Festival was at the top of the hot entertainment search list.

The second was the official establishment of the Rolling Stones fan club "100,000 Hippies". Liu Xiaokui thought about the reason for changing from Bian Lang's male fan club to the Rolling Stones fan club for a long time.

If he were to do this, it would not be something that an ordinary fan leader would do under the secret operation of his team.

As one of the four top stars, he wanted to be the number one hippie among the “100,000 hippies”, so when it came to rock and roll, of course he had to go for the Rolling Stones!

To this end, he even asked people to start making a small program to formalize this matter. According to him, every fan of "100,000 Hippies" will have his own hippie number after successfully registering. As the head of "100,000 Hippies", his number is naturally number one.

The current benefit Liu Xiaokui promised is: "The new song source will be released as soon as possible!"

His own traffic is not small to begin with, and with the traffic from the Rolling Stones Music Festival and the Rolling Stones, and it’s such a rock and roll thing, it’s not surprising that it became a hot topic.

But the fact that it reached such a high point is also due to the contributions of many other singers and celebrities who came to take advantage of the popularity.

Xia Yuxi, who was already preparing for an interview at Rolling Stone, was the first singer to respond. When these two people spoke out together, those who relied on fans and traffic for a living were dumbfounded.

"Liu Xiaokui is fine, we already know he's Bian Lang's accessory, but what's going on with Xia Yuxi? Is he really going to be the lead singer of Hedgehog?"

If some entertainment companies did not pay much attention to rock music and the Rolling Stones in the past, this time they really began to consider this issue seriously.

No matter how popular Bian Lang's songs were, they wouldn't feel much pressure even if the Rolling Stone Music Festival had 10 people a day. After all, if rock music doesn't break out of the circle on a large scale, it won't have any big impact on the entire Chinese pop music scene.

But now that the people who were originally on our side have begun to turn against us, the nature of this matter is completely different.

Singing popular songs to worship rock bands is not necessarily a new thing, but in the past, domestic singers worshipped those foreign rock bands. How can a domestic first-line singer go to the fans of domestic rock bands to work?
And a rock band's fan club? This sounds weird. Is it reliable?

Whether this is credible or not, of course, depends on the reaction of rock fans.

When I first saw this, most rock fans thought it was boring and just a joke. If they want to take advantage of their fans, is that still rock?
But when they found out that it was Liu Xiaokui who did it, and that there was a system of numbering and seating, and that they could be the first to hear the new songs for free, these straight rock guys found it interesting.

Moreover, there are 10 registered "hippies", which makes them completely not on the same level as those "XX Fan Club" in terms of momentum.

So not only was the support rate high among rock music fans, but there were also all kinds of people who came up with ideas and helped to set the threshold for becoming a hippie.

By the time Bian Lang called Liu Xiaokui to express his gratitude, Liu Xiaokui's assistant had almost finished counting the regulations.

"Brother Lang, you got up so early. I just happened to have something I wanted to talk to you about."

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Bian Lang didn't think that Liu Xiaokui did this "Hundred Thousand Hippies" intentionally just for the purpose of finding out about the matter later.

"Our crew wants to buy "One Hundred Thousand Hippies" as the theme song, and we want to use Bian Erlang as the name of the male lead..."

Hearing this, Bian Lang spat the soy milk that had just reached his mouth onto the coffee table.

Bian Hai, who had just come out of the kitchen, was shocked and asked: "Can't you take it easy? Did you burn your mouth? This freshly made soy milk...if it hurts your throat, then I..."

Bian Lang quickly hung up the phone and explained, "Dad, it's okay. There's nothing wrong with the soy milk. It's just a work matter."

"What frightened you so much?"

Bian Lang did not hide anything and directly told Bian Hai the whole story.

"That's a bit too casual! Second brother, do your lyrics sound like you're complaining about your family? Your mom seemed a bit worried after she came back last night..."

This matter was a little beyond Bian Lang's expectations. He never thought that his cheap mother would think in that direction.

"That's absolutely not the case. I was just too stubborn in the past. I definitely don't mean to blame my family. You and my mom please don't think too much about it. When she wakes up later, I'll go talk to her."

Bian Hai believed in his son. If it was the Bian Lang more than a year ago, he might really do such a thing. But now that Bian Lang has completely changed, Bian Hai felt that his wife must be overthinking it.

"Okay, then go talk to your mom yourself later. By the way, I haven't seen Xiaodong for a while. Is he so busy at work?"

After being reminded by Bian Hai, Bian Lang remembered that ever since Dong Youbian went to Fruit Channel to record a program, he has been busy with various things. It has been a long time since they last met, and the frequency of their phone calls and WeChat contacts has also decreased.

Thinking of this, he stood up, cleaned up the mess of soy milk he vomited, and went out to make a phone call.

Bian Hai didn’t think much about it. He just thought that since Bian Lang didn’t answer, the young couple must be having some conflict.

Bian Lang first called Chen Manman, and only when a prompt indicating that no one was answering the call appeared and no one answered did Bian Lang call Chen Shuting's cell phone.

After the call was connected, Bian Lang asked without hesitation: "Sister Chen, how is the recording of You Bian's program going?"

Chen Shuting was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and said, "She has withdrawn from the competition. She is now preparing to go to school in Europe!"

"Withdrawn? Why?"

"The program team put a lot of pressure on her. They wanted her to invite you to be a guest singer. Chen Manman asked me about your schedule, and it happened to conflict with the schedule of "Summer of the Band", so she chose to withdraw from the competition..." Regarding Dong Youbian's decision, Chen Shuting, who stood on Bian Lang's side, had to say "there's nothing wrong with it"!
"Why don't I even have the right to know?"

Bian Lang said this in a somewhat cold tone, but he was not the kind of person who didn't know what was good for him. He knew that this was for his own good, so he didn't have any big emotions about it. He just hated the way Dong Youbian did things!

Speaking of the matter, going to the scene to record a song would at most delay him for half a day, which was not a big problem. But even if Dong Youbian wanted to withdraw from the competition, shouldn't she tell him first, instead of asking him to know the news from the company in the end!
He knew very well what signals Dong Youbian was sending to her, but Bian Lang was just a mean guy!

I feel that if this matter is taken seriously, it cannot be so unclear, which makes me feel aggrieved.

Whether she went abroad to study or to hide from me, let time and distance dilute those things.

But Bian Lang doesn’t want to!
He has always been a man of his word. We are all adults, there is no need to play those games where quietly leaving will cause the least harm!

After a long silence, he asked Chen Shuting, "Where is she now?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, he should be at the airport now, ready to fly to the Magic City!"

(End of this chapter)