Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 814 812In a rainy night Can you help me
Because we were all drinking beer, we didn't drink too much, so when we left two hours later, we didn't feel much of the waves. It might be because the temperature was high and the amount of body fluid evaporation was high.

While standing at the door waiting for the bus, Guo Sichu, who had been playing a supporting role tonight, came over and said, "Tell me, what song? Otherwise, I will have insomnia tonight..."

Bian Lang believed what he said. No matter if it was out of curiosity or for some other reason, if he didn't give him a definite answer, Guo Sichu might really toss and turn in bed thinking about it all night.

"It's the time for the flowers to bloom to their fullest. This song can't be explained in a few words. Just know the name of the song is "Blooming to the Fullest". When I come back from this trip, I'll make the arrangement for you!"

Guo Sichu silently repeated the song title twice, then smiled and nodded in response: "Well, I'll wait. I'll be on the plane back early tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to see you off in the afternoon. Be careful on the road!"

“You said the same thing as before…” Of course, it was not easy to say this to her face, so Bian Lang’s answer became: “It’s so sad to send someone off. You should come and pick them up when you come back…”

"Then I'll wait for your European tour...not for you..." Guo Sichu said halfway when he realized that he had been tricked by Bian Lang, so he turned around and ignored him.

Back at the hotel, Bian Lang, who was still not sleepy, stood in front of the French window of the suite and looked at the night view of Victoria Harbor. As he was looking, small raindrops were blown by the wind and hit the French window diagonally. The night view of the harbor, which was dimly lit before, suddenly changed from a realistic photo to a hazy oil painting.

Bian Lang just quietly watched the rain outside the window, which was sometimes heavy and sometimes light. He felt that a corner in his heart that had been covered by mud for a long time seemed to begin to reveal something hidden inside under the continuous washing of the rain.

Bian Lang turned around and went to the mini bar to open a can of San Miguel beer. He sat in front of the French window with his guitar in his arms, watching the raindrops that sometimes got bigger and sometimes got smaller. He drank, played the guitar and sang at the same time: "Fill the empty cup with liquor, and use the wine to wash away the sadness... My old friends, when will we meet again? I hope we can get together and talk about the past..."

Half of his filter for Hong Kong is because of Beyond. Most of it does not come from pop rock songs like Hai Guang Zhen Da Xi, but from Beyond's first album Goodbye Ideal.

People who haven't listened to the first album in its entirety may think that the word "rock" that gives Beyond a halo is a bit untrue. But after listening to this album, you will only be amazed, is this something that Chinese people born in 86 can produce?

How many Pink Floyds did he have to eat to write this album? But in fact, Ka Kui had only taught himself guitar for 5 years at that time.

I really don't know what words to use to describe them except genius. Don't think that Beyond only has pop songs like "Hai Kuang Zhen Da Xi". They have dabbled in avant-garde, psychedelic, hard rock, metal, funk, reggae, jazz and blues.

Even if it is a Chinese style, we can see the shadow of Ka Kui in "The Good Earth" in 88, but it was played with guitar. If it is replaced with a loquat, guqin and sanxian arrangement, many so-called national trend music nowadays will all kneel down and call it the ancestor!

It is said that Jay Chou's "The Seventh Chapter of the Night" is a masterpiece, which outlines a movie with music. Some songs of Beyond are also like this! And it was 30 years earlier than Jay Chou. Unfortunately, it was because of the severe suppression by certain people and companies that he left the island country at that time.

If Beyond had debuted after 2000 when the Internet started to become popular, their popularity and influence would be truly unimaginable!
Even if we follow the development nodes of European and American music, Beyond is still a very sensitive musician. From the 80s to 2000, European and American representatives such as Guns N' Roses and Nirvana, to the 90s industrial metal and post-punk, and then to the hybrid concept of Linkin Park...

In fact, Beyond has played with all these elements, and even played with electronic music between 03 and 09, which is completely qualified as a textbook-level music treasure box. It's a pity that Ka Kui was born at the wrong time and left the world unexpectedly early.

Judging from Beyond’s previous videos, there seemed to be obviously more female fans than male fans. Bian Lang felt that the female fans at that time were probably following Beyond as if they were the boy band they are today.

So if we analyze it carefully, Beyond should be divided into several categories.

The first category is the female fans born in the 90s, who felt that Beyond was handsome, cool and talented, and therefore were obsessed with them.

The second category is male fans from the 90s and later, who deeply resonate with the spiritual core of Beyond and are therefore obsessed with it. This group should be the largest group among the original Beyond fan groups.

The third category is music lovers and practitioners, who have a sufficient understanding of Beyond's early, middle and late stages, and are the most rational and calm in their love for Beyond. Without a doubt, Bian Lang belongs to this third category.

While thinking about things, Bian Lang sang the songs in this album word by word while looking at the rain outside the window. The recording function of the mobile phone next to him had reached 97:36, and then a reminder popped up to shut down in 30 seconds.

The lyrics that Bian Lang was singing at this moment were: "In a rainy night, Can you help me..."

……

The next day at noon, before the main group of the Rolling Stones arrived at Chek Lap Kok Airport, Bian Lang and Chen Shuting were already waiting in the VIP lounge. Compared to the luggage he brought with him, Bian Lang had an extra guitar case, which contained the Jackson RR1 that Xie Xinyan used last night.

After the end of last night, Xie Xinyan had someone pack up and send it to Bian Lang's nanny car. No more words were said, and now there was a tacit understanding between the two of them on some things.

Bian Lang looked at the time and calculated again, thinking that the main group would arrive soon and he would have to check in his luggage, so he thought about opening the guitar case to check it again, for fear that the guitar case would be treated violently and the guitar inside would be damaged!

He had just stood up from the sofa and was about to squat down to open the violin case when Chen Shuting's voice came over: "Bian Lang, do you want to know what happened last night?"

"From that boy band?" Bian Lang was not interested in the boy band itself. He just wanted to know whether what happened last night would affect the cooperation between Yinghu and Rolling Stone.

After waiting for a few seconds and not hearing Chen Shuting's voice, Bian Lang turned around and saw Chen Shuting wearing headphones and looking at her phone with a smile on her face.

"Seeing how happy you are, it definitely won't have any impact..."

Bian Lang sat back on the sofa, opened his phone and started looking for relevant news.

As soon as I entered Weibo, I found myself on the trending search again: "Everything was calm this morning, what does it mean that there is a commotion now?"

Following the trending topic #边浪香江虐男团#, I clicked on it and saw that the facts from last night were not much different. Crab fans and M fans were still fighting in another trending topic. However, what made Bian Lang a trending topic was a video posted by Hu Yanchen an hour ago.

He looked tired in the video, with dark circles under his eyes and sunken cheeks, as if he had just been ravaged by a little princess of a Middle Eastern chaebol all night.

I don't know if the voice was intentional or technically processed, but Bian Lang felt that the child was quite pitiful when listening to it through the headphones. As for the content, Bian Lang did the same as Chen Shuting and covered his mouth and laughed.

"I sincerely apologize to all the fans who like and support me. The mistake I made at the Crab King concert last night was indeed inappropriate. But I really didn't know that Crab King and Teacher Bian didn't use backing vocals when they sang..."

Then the comment section was filled with M group’s crazy fans comforting him: “Come on Yanchen, you are the best. The success of a team requires different divisions of labor. Singing is not your strong point, so don’t push yourself too hard.”

"Yes, Yan Chen, you are the best in my heart. There are not many professional singers in Hong Kong who can compare with Bian Lang, a pervert. You must not give up on yourself. There is still a long way to go in the future. We will always support you!"

"Yan Chen, you should be clear about your position in the team. To put it another way, if Bian Lang were to join the M group, he would probably be passed over before the group is formed."

Bian Lang agreed with this. He definitely couldn't afford to be in a boy band.

But there were also people who directly cursed at Bian Lang and Xie Xinyan, but Bian Lang didn’t have time to watch them.

Bian Lang had just finished watching the video and was about to click to see how popular the trending searches were regarding Xie Xinyan's comeback debut when the phone rang.

"Mr. Bian, it's a pleasure working with you..." Bian Lang could feel the joy in Chu Xiwen's voice even through the screen.

"It's a pleasure to work with you. Sister Xiwen called me at this time. Are you planning to tell me that you had a good trip?"

"That's not the case. I just want to tell you that Yinghu's current suggestion is that the Rolling Stones should perform three consecutive shows at Hung Hom..."

Bian Lang wanted to say it was no problem, but when he thought of the album that came out of his memory last night, he decisively refused: "Just one show, I didn't consider Hong Kong before, and I didn't prepare many Cantonese songs. I hope that no matter which Rolling Stones show it is, when others mention it in the future, they will have a very clear memory point!"

Having said that, Chu Xiwen did not continue the topic, but changed the subject and asked, "So what new song are you going to give to Zhang Yaohong?"

"Give it to him. Just ask his agent to negotiate the price with Sister Kuan. The song is for Zhang Yaohong, not for Huang Liansheng. Besides, isn't he helping us this time? I can have such an appearance at the Crab King's concert, which is also a good promotion for the Rolling Stones' special performance later!"

Chu Xiwen had thought that Bian Lang hated evil and hated evil, and it was hard to say whether he would stop cooperating with Huang Liansheng after seeing his true face. Now it seems that she thought too much. Although Bian Lang hated evil and hated evil, he was not the kind of tyrant who liked to punish others collectively.

"That's good! By the way, you should have watched the video of Group M, what did you think of it?"

If Chu Xiwen hadn't called to ask this question, Bian Lang would probably have just thought that these idols were really mentally ill. Now that he heard this, he realized that they were deliberately creating a personality that Bian Lang and his people couldn't understand.

"I really can't understand it, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with me!"

"The boss has told them to apologize to A-Yan and you, but in the end they just couldn't bring themselves to do it, so they can only act pitiful and try to save face!"

"Oh! So that's how it is. This method is really weird... Please thank your boss for me. I will definitely visit you next time if I have the chance..."

Bian Lang didn't care that the M group didn't apologize. What he cared about was the attitude of the top management of Yinghu. Since they had shown their attitude, there would be less trouble in future cooperation.

While Bian Lang and his friends were happily chatting about cooperation, at the entrance of a tea restaurant in Hong Kong, several men of different ages were standing at the door chatting and waiting for people. One of them was Huang Liansheng.

When a silver Mercedes stopped on the street and a silver-haired old man with crutches got out of the back seat, everyone rushed over and shouted, "Uncle Lian!"

"What are you all doing standing at the door? I can still walk. I don't need you to help me upstairs."

Hearing Uncle Lian say this, Huang Liansheng quickly said, "Uncle Lian is still strong and healthy, and he is much better than us drunkards. It's been a long time since I last saw you..."

"Ah Sheng, please don't use your smooth talk in front of me. What is the reason why you invited us here today?"

Uncle Lian walked into the tea restaurant under the protection of a group of people. After they sat down in the private room on the second floor and checked that the tea and snacks were served, Huang Liansheng said, "You all should know about Yanzi's comeback debut, right?"

All of you here are the best producers in Hong Kong music scene, and you have all written hits that have been popular all over the country. However, with the decline of Hong Kong music in the past two years, as well as some of its own problems, the output and quality of the works have seriously declined.

Take Uncle Lian for example, he was a great lyricist who wrote many diamond singles in the 90s, but he hasn’t written for many years.

Everyone looked at each other without saying a word, and finally their eyes fell on Uncle Lian, the most respected and revered man.

"Look at me, what are you doing? I don't have the ability to write lyrics like 'Hidden Dragon'. I'm too old, and people of my age can't understand that kind of emotion. But the arrangement is really interesting. In the past, our Hong Kong music scene relied on covers and adaptations of the island's national anthem for a long time. You guys, the song masters, please give us some comments..."

Since Uncle Lian had already started talking, some people started to talk too: "The music is okay, but the arrangement is really good, especially the use of string instruments. It's rare for someone to use that here in recent years. The electric guitar solo is also like that. Such a long interlude is normal for a rock song, but if you judge it by the standards of a pop song, it's a bit too much..."

"Young people are formidable. I like "Hidden Dragon"... Ah Sheng, you haven't told me why you invited us here?"

Hearing everyone's different attitudes towards Bian Lang's works, Huang Liansheng thought for a while before speaking: "I want to ask you to come out and give some works to help Hongzai record a new album. Bian Lang gave one or two songs, but I think since it's a Cantonese album, no matter how he writes, it will definitely not be as good as you guys, so..."

As soon as these words came out, one of them sneered and continued, "Ah Sheng, I think you are looking for trouble by doing this. Bian Lang can come up with good Cantonese songs, which is a good thing for the development of our Hong Kong music scene. What's the point of you inviting us out to compete with him?"

"Brother Mio, it's boring if you say this. Of course, I want us to cooperate and win together..."

"Ah Sheng, do you want to compete with Xiwen? But you only have Hongzai who can fight, how can you compete with him?"

After listening to a few people talking for a while, Uncle Lian, who had drunk half a cup of salty lemongrass, interrupted and said, "It's not a bad thing to compete. Wasn't the glory of our Hong Kong music scene the result of competition? Later, no one wanted to compete anymore, and it became what it is now!
Now that this catfish Bianlang has come in to stir things up, I think it’s a good thing!”

(End of this chapter)