Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 709 Red Carpet Preparation

After waiting for another hour, the Rolling Stones, including the orchestra, arrived to rehearse individual songs.

What was different from previous rehearsals was that both the music director and the chief sound engineer were present this time, and the chief sound engineer was Qian Shaowu, an acquaintance of the Rolling Stones.

With Qian Shaowu's introduction, Bian Lang met the music director Hu Wenyuan.

This person has a great background and is very capable. In terms of seniority, he is older than Liu Ziyang. However, he basically serves on large-scale evening parties for various satellite TV stations, so he is rarely seen in the concert market.

Seeing Bian Lang, Hu Wenyuan lifted the brim of his baseball cap, shook hands with Bian Lang and said, "I finally meet him in person. I've always wanted to work with you Rolling Stones. Let's see how demanding the legendary Bian Lang is!"

Bian Lang looked at Qian Shaowu gratefully, and then replied: "Teacher Hu, you are praising me too much, but I think it is not excessive to ask for these basic things. Isn't this all for the development of Chinese music..."

Hearing Bian Lang's extremely official answer, Hu Wenyuan smiled even more happily: "If someone else said this, I would definitely think he was fooling me, Old Hu, but when you say this, I believe it! Tell me, do you have any special requests later?"

If they were at a music festival, Bian Lang would definitely tell him: "Sound louder!"

But this was an award ceremony, there was no need to do that. He had only one thought: "A 5-minute song with only 50 words of lyrics. I hope that no matter who puts pressure on you, don't pull our strings..."

As a music director, others may not pay much attention to it, but Hu Wenyuan wanted to ask when he got the performance list in the morning, what exactly did the two lines of lyrics submitted by the Rolling Stones mean. Before Bian Lang explained, according to his own understanding, it might be the documents submitted by the Rolling Stones to deal with the review, but now according to what Bian Lang said, the instrumental performance part of this song will be very rich!

"Don't worry, I will fight back whoever comes, unless there's a power outage!" Both of them were joking, but Hu Wenyuan became more and more looking forward to the Rolling Stones' rehearsal.

After all, for these veteran musicians, the melody and arrangement of a song are far more appealing than the lyrics, and this is especially true for a band like the Rolling Stones that is recognized as a technical band.

Looking at the orchestra musicians preparing on the stage, Hu Wenyuan sighed: "Really, I think Jason is really a bit out of his mind. The configuration of your band has to serve him specially. He has such a big face..." Seeing that Bian Lang had nothing to refute, he smiled and looked at him. Hu Wenyuan continued:

"Bian Lang, if this isn't your first time winning an award, I'd advise you not to embarrass yourselves. Originally, if this song won an award, that's Liu Yao's business, you guys..."

After hearing these heartfelt words, Bian Lang had a good impression of this person and immediately said with a smile: "Teacher Hu, I admit that what you said is correct, but if it weren't for Sister Yao's help at that time, neither this song nor our Rolling Stones would have gone so smoothly, so we can't refuse this job no matter what.

But if we play it wrong, please don’t pull the string…”

“Haha, you Rolling Stones can play ‘Shame’ wrong, then…” Before he could finish his words, Hu Wenyuan immediately realized what Bian Lang was going to do, and smiled and said, “Tomorrow is a live broadcast, and no one will care if you play it wrong. Even if you are scolded by netizens and fans, you can only figure out a solution on your own.”

"Thank you, Mr. Hu. We now know what's going on!"

After getting this promise, Bian Lang no longer thought about "Shame". At this time, all the members of the Rolling Stones were almost ready, so Bian Lang went on stage to rejoin the team and started rehearsing with everyone.

I stumbled a lot the first time, and had to listen to the tone of each track while playing. After that, I discussed and adjusted it with Hu Wenyuan and Qian Shaowu, and I got it right the second time.

After Bian Lang and the others left, Hu Wenyuan's assistant was still thinking about the process of Bian Lang and his boss discussing the tuning. Rather than a discussion, it was more like Bian Lang giving advice unilaterally. In the past, no matter what level of stage he was on or how big a star he was facing, Hu Wenyuan would always give his thoughts.

But when it came to Bian Lang, Hu Wenyuan really didn't say a word. He tuned every track exactly as Bian Lang said, and the final result could only be described in two words by the assistant: "Art!"

Just as he was stunned, a singer who was about to sing came up. He greeted politely and then continued, "Teacher, I think the accompaniment is a little too loud, and my vocals are a little..."

Compared with Bian Lang's previous adjustments one track at a time, the one in front of him was simply straight out of kindergarten!

……

The group of Rolling Stones returned to the B&B. Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Hua Yan started asking about "Shameless": "Brother Lang, how are we going to deal with Liu Yao? Do you want to discuss it again?"

"No need. She must have gotten sick of singing this song over the past six months. We can basically perform it with our eyes closed, so..."

At this point, everyone knew what to do. As for Jason, that was not something they needed to consider.

At this time, in a high-end apartment in BJ, Liu Fang and Jason had just entered the house after finishing rehearsal.

After changing into slippers, Jason went straight to the bathroom. When he came out, he saw that Liu Fang had already poured the red wine: "Brother Jie, come on, let's celebrate!"

Jason was a little confused. Although today's event finally went as they expected, the process really made him unhappy. As for the Best Male Singer of the Year, he knew that he had little hope. Among the five nominees, the three had strong traffic last year, and the financial support behind them was stronger than his. He felt that he was probably just a runner-up.

As for Bian Lang, he had never considered it. It was not that Bian Lang was not good, but based on his understanding of the things behind the whole process. If the Best Rock Band award had not been added, the possibility of Bian Lang winning the Best Male Singer would be infinite.

But for the Rolling Stones, who have already secured the Best Rock Band award, it would not be in the best interest of the group for the lead singer to win the Best Male Vocalist award.

So seeing that his wife was in such high spirits today, he suddenly thought of a possibility: "Fangfang, do you know the result? The final result of the Best Male Singer..."

Before Jason could finish his words, Liu Fang raised a finger to her lips and made a "hush" sound, then said softly, "How could I know such a secret in advance? I'm just a host. But why bother so much? The value of the Golden Melody Awards is not as high as when we first debuted. Our family does not lack this trophy."

Hearing this, Jason, who had already picked up the wine glass, put it back on the island and sighed uninterestedly: "You're right, but who wouldn't mind having an extra trophy, right?"

Seeing her husband's anxious look, Liu Fang smiled, picked up the wine glass and put it back in his hand, saying: "If it doesn't work this time, try next time. There will always be a chance for you..." The reason why she was in such a good mood today was because she received news that was favorable to Jason.

The news came from the organizing committee, not the other three nominated popular singers. Since it was clear that Bian Lang would be the runner-up, it would be a hot potato to decide who to award the prize to. Instead of the three of them fighting to the death, and their fans fighting behind their backs, and finally being questioned by netizens and passers-by, it would be better to transfer all the conflicts to other people.

Therefore, Jason's chances of winning the award increased infinitely.

She didn't want to point it out directly, because she was afraid that things would fail in the end, which would make Jason even more sad, so she used this method to give him a slight hint.

But since Jason himself didn't understand this meaning, she would not point it out. If everything comes true at that time, the surprise will be even greater!

Jason was still absent-minded, and he took the glass without any intention of clinking it. Seeing this, Liu Fang directly clinked her glass with Jason's and said, "Apart from anything else, it's good to be able to take advantage of the popularity of "Shame". The version that our brother Jie modified is so good, much better than the original noise.

When the time comes, when Jay's fans compare them, we'll spend some money to get on the trending search. With Jay's many years of experience in the pop music scene, I'll call on my fans, and ask the Rolling Stones to compare with Bian Lang. I'll talk to Liang Kuan and ask her to give us the copyright to cover "Shame" at a discount..."

After hearing this plan, Jason showed joy on his face: "Thank you Fangfang, for all these years..."

……

Returning his attention to the B&B, Bian Lang had planned to have a good sleep tonight, because walking the red carpet tomorrow would not be an easy job. After Amiri received the news that the Rolling Stones were going to walk the red carpet, she specially sent all the designer styles that had been kept in the bottom of the box this year to BJ. The makeup and styling of the Rolling Stones would be very demanding tomorrow.

But just as he returned to his room, preparing to play guitar for a while and then go to sleep, he received a call from Dong Shuxian: "Bian Lang, which room are you staying in?"

At this time, Bian Lang remembered that Dong Shuxian came here on behalf of Dong Youbian, and was essentially still a member of the Rolling Stones. Liang Kuan naturally arranged it together. However, Dong Shuxian did not have to perform on stage, so he did not come to participate in the rehearsal in advance.

Bian Lang guessed that Comrade Lao Dong arrived this afternoon. At that time, they had gone to the on-site rehearsal. Comrade Lao Dong either just came back from a walk or just got up from a nap.

"104, which room is Teacher Dong in? How about we go outside and talk?"

Bian Lang knew that there were some things he couldn't avoid. Everyone from the Rolling Stones who came this time knew about it. He couldn't hide it and there was no need to hide it. Comrade Lao Dong was not the kind of person who couldn't withstand a blow, and besides, this matter shouldn't be a big deal to him.

"Okay, I haven't been to this Baihua Shenshen Hutong for several years, it would be nice to go out for a walk!"

"Okay, so you haven't had dinner yet? I'll take you to the Drum Tower to eat noodles..."

The two of them left the B&B together. When they came back, Comrade Lao Dong was obviously drunk and talking nonsense just like the time when he was poisoned by wild mushrooms:
"Bian Lang, Youbian is a good kid in every way, except that he has too many ideas of his own... From now on..."

Bian Lang followed with an expressionless face, and when he saw Comrade Lao Dong was about to fall, he went over to help him.

He knew that in the eyes of every father, no matter how indifferent or reckless he appeared to be, it was impossible for him not to care about his daughter in his heart.

But he didn't expect that Dong Shuxian's love for Dong Youbian was even stronger than Bian Lang expected. It was just that his previous performance deceived everyone... Just now at Noodles in, Comrade Dong, who had no idea of ​​the situation, heard the word "break up" and instinctively thought that Bian Lang was bullying his daughter.

They rolled up their sleeves and were about to start fighting. If they hadn't been pulled back by someone in the circle who knew Bian Lang, both of them would probably be in the hospital now.

After Comrade Lao Dong heard everything Bian Lang had to say, he started drinking...

Chen Shuting was a little worried and kept waiting in the courtyard of the B&B. She was finally relieved when she saw the two men come in.

After sending Dong Shuxian back to his room, when Bian Lang returned to the yard, Chen Shuting approached him with concern and asked, "Did you get it?"

"Well, there's no need to hide this kind of thing." Bian Lang lit a cigarette, looked at the rising smoke rings, and said with some boredom.

"That's true. I originally thought that I would find a time to talk to Teacher Dong after I heard about the various awards tomorrow..."

"Thank you, Sister Chen, for giving me so much thought. But this is our private matter. I can handle it myself... Go to bed early. We won't have much to do in there tomorrow, but you guys will have a lot to do down there!"

"Yeah, let's go to sleep. Amiri's people will be here around 6 o'clock, so don't be late!"

That being said, Chen Shuting, who came to the room, could not rest yet. As the various awards were still unknown, she and Liang Kuan had to confirm the various hot searches and tweets arranged one by one, so that no matter what the results were, the Rolling Stones would respond immediately.

Even if Bian Lang didn't win any major awards this year, the number of nominations would be enough to attract all those pure vocal singers, and there would definitely be a lot of on-site socializing. Guo Sichu used to be a frequent guest at the Golden Melody Awards, so Liang Kuan could easily do all these.

But for Chen Shuting, this was the first time, not only for her own growth, but also a leap for Rolling Stone Music!
After everything was checked and she felt that everything was safe, she was too excited to fall asleep and stayed in bed with her eyes open until Amiri's team arrived.

When Liang Kuan saw her, he teased her, "It's not a big deal. Look how exhausted you are. When the makeup for Rolling Stone is done, I'll ask the makeup artist to do a good job on you. After all, you are the head steward of our Rolling Stone. Although you won't be walking on the red carpet this time, you can't..."

At this point, Chen Shuting realized something: "Oh no, do I have to dress more formally?"

(End of this chapter)