Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 22 Show Your Talent

Artist Management...

In Shen Yan's concept, they are equivalent to intermediaries. They help employers to get roles and advertisements, and then charge a certain commission.

When I was an idol in my previous life, I signed a contract with a term of 13 years and a commission ratio of 2:8.

The company did invest a lot of money...

Spending money to buy trending searches and hiring someone to produce a debut single both cost money!

Sadly, Dream Boys' debut was a disaster...

However, from Shen Yan's current perspective, even if they debut, Dream Boys don't have much chance of becoming a big star. After all, TF-boys do have some good songs!

Not to mention "Youth Training Manual", just "The Rest of Summer", "It's You", and "Spoiled", they are really good...

Times Junfeng has indeed invested heavily and invited Liu Jia, Li Ronghao, Huang Junlang, JJ Lin, Wang Leehom and Jay Chou to write songs!

Back to meeting...

Regarding artist management, Shen Yan talked about his understanding.

It's nothing more than helping artists get roles, connecting with business, etc...

Wang Jinghua was stunned: "...That's it?"

Shen Yan smiled: "...I don't know much."

Wang Jinghua was very interested in him: "I feel like you're very calm... In the past, when I signed contracts with newcomers, they would always get very excited!"

"I'm so excited..."

"So what do you want from me?"

"I don't have any requests for now," Shen Yan thought for a moment, then said, "But next month, I'm going back to my hometown..."

"Don't you have any requirements for the role?"

"What kind of roles can I take at my age? I can either play the protagonist's younger brother or the son..."

Wang Jinghua nodded and was about to say something when Wen Zhang interrupted, "This kid has quite the personality. I heard he beat someone up on the set!"

"The fight didn't work...someone stopped us!"

"With your personality, it's easy to offend people."

Shen Yan said casually: "It doesn't matter. My second uncle said that some people just deserve to be fucked!"

“…Where are your parents?”

Shen Yan said casually: "Divorced, no one wants me... I grew up with my grandparents!"

"divorce?"

"I got divorced when I was 7 or 8 years old. My mom probably forgot I even existed. As for my dad, he went to Guangdong. I haven't seen him in over a decade!"

"Sorry…"

"It's okay. It's been over ten years... and my grandparents raised me well. They support whatever I want to learn... I've learned violin, piano, guitar, and even taekwondo!"

"What does your grandfather do?"

"I run a small business, and I have a small supermarket at home..."

"So you have the money to learn so many things?"

Shen Yan answered casually, "No money... My second aunt is an artist herself... There's an art training class in our area, and she's the principal. I went there and she didn't charge any money... After I graduated from high school, I even worked as a teacher at the school for half a year!"

Fan Fan interrupted: "Then go up and sing another one!"

"Okay... I'll sing an original song... It's also a folk song!"

Wang Jinghua was surprised: "Original? You can also write songs?"

Shen Yan waved his hand: "It's original, just a matter of putting in a melody and writing a few lyrics..."

...Shen Yan returned to the stage.

He plucked the guitar strings and sang: "The light falls on your face, as lovely as ever. Every inch of you is filled with desire. The city is a little dirty, and passers-by are in a hurry~"

Chen Li's "Light"...

This song is very... pseudo-literary, that is, you can clearly understand the meaning of each line of the lyrics, but when they are put together, it's a bit hard to understand...

But it sounds good!

The arrangement is definitely not crude!

In fact, many people say that folk songs are low-end, but what people despise is not folk songs, but some bad songs that are meaningless and have no nutrition - crude arrangements, piled up words, pretentiousness, and showing off emotions, including but not limited to the above.

Moreover, those who play folk music usually seek the label of independent musicians to package themselves.

In the minds of quite a few people, independent musicians and folk singers are equated.

In fact, the focus of folk songs is not a musical form, but the way of expressing melancholy in a frivolous and lazy attitude.

Like Chinese rock music in the past, folk music also hopes to use music to express humanistic thoughts and emotions that are different from the mainstream.

Later, folk songs...

The lyrics are really bad, with words like girl, distance, sadness, wandering, wings, bride, hesitation, confusion... basically, it can't escape these words. If it involves genitals and a few curses of "Fuck your mother", it might make many pseudo-literary youths wet on the spot. I don't know which word hit the G-spot!
A look at their academic qualifications...

Good guy!
They are basically top students from the School of Media.

Then, he was instantly outshined by the song "Black Myth: Wukong".

All the lyrics of the interludes of "Black Myth: Wukong" were written by Feng Ji!
As for the level of the insert songs in "Black Myth: Wukong"?
It's probably just the people having a blast, while the literary and art circles are still at a level where they don't even dare to fart...

Therefore, most people in the literary and art circles are good-for-nothings who just sit in their positions and do nothing!

It stands to reason that studying art requires more intelligence and culture, but why is it that in our country, those with the lowest scores go to art schools?
Maybe it really is the saying that goes, "A gentleman does not disgrace the work of witch doctors, musicians, or craftsmen."

Ahem, back to "Light"...

Shen Yan continued to sing: "~You bowed your head without saying a word, you walked towards the gray, you lived in the deep sea of chaos, you began to wait hopelessly~"

Someone cheered below!

This bar is a quiet bar, which is obviously inspired by Hu Yufan's Walnut Tree Music Bar. Most of the people who come here to drink are music lovers.

I can still tell whether a song is good or bad...

Shen Yan was a little excited...

He himself has a yearning for the stage - otherwise, he wouldn't be a training-based idol!

After singing "Light", he plucked the strings directly, and then opened his voice again, "I walked through the depressed mountains and forests, the frozen streams and the bottom of the sea full of fish, but I couldn't take you with me; we agreed to stand on the top of the mountain and watch the sun slowly rise, holding hands with you, how sweet it would be; but I don't have the chance to hug you again, I can only make a wish that you will come to me~"

It’s better to go home and drink tap water…

This song gives people a feeling of being almost crazy and half depressed but also full of fighting spirit...

The rotting rose was thrown on the black ground full of mud. Thousands of wild horses galloped past, but not a single horse's hoof trampled it. Although the rose was rotting, it was still gorgeously red!
Translated into adult language: There is a feeling of hysteria and madness...

"~The sun is shining brightly, and I'm in the mud. How could you really come to find me?
I think this love has already broken into pieces.
The surging tide pushed me and then washed me into the mud~"

While singing, he walked over to the drum kit and played a few beats...

Then he continued to sing, his voice slowing down: "~I walked through the gloomy mountains and forests, the frozen streams and the bottom of the sea full of fish, but I couldn't take you with me~
We agreed to stand on the top of the mountain, watching the sun slowly rise, holding hands with you, how sweet it would be!

This time even Wang Jinghua was surprised...

Originally, Wang Jinghua only planned to sign a newcomer, but she didn't expect Shen Yan to bring so many surprises!

It’s not over yet…

Shen Yan played a prelude and continued singing...

"I watched my innocent self appear in a story without me."

(End of this chapter)