From elementary school music teacher to superstar

Chapter 1 Earned
"Eleven forty!"

Seeing the time on the phone, Lu Xin sat up abruptly. He drank too much at the wrap-up banquet last night. He didn't expect to fall asleep all of a sudden, and he didn't know where to throw his watch.

My head is still a little dizzy, but I have to catch a plane today, so I have to get up.

It's just that he was about to put down the phone when he suddenly froze.

His mobile phone is a silver-gray Huawei, but this one is black, smaller than his mobile phone, and it is a brand he does not recognize.

"Fuck!"

Lu Xin was so shocked that his soul almost went out of his body. He woke up just now, with some messy memories in his mind, and he also entered a strange world.

He thought it was a dream, his head was dizzy again, and he fell asleep again.

Could it be that it was not a dream?
He hurriedly looked up, it was a small room, besides the bed, there were tables, chairs and a wardrobe, and there was a guitar in the corner.

The house is not big, but it is tidy.

But it was by no means the hotel room he was staying in.

"No way!"

Lu Xin got out of bed in horror, went to the window and pulled the curtains, and opened the window.

The sky was blue and clear. It was almost noon, and the sun was very dazzling. Looking down, a playground not far away came into view.

The memory in his mind told him that it was the playground of Xingfu Road Primary School.

And he is now in a rented house near the elementary school, in the East House on the fourth floor of Unit 23, Building [-], Guangming Community, Beimeng City, Ningnan Province.

Although there are two lives and two memories intertwined and entangled in his mind, the information is very clear and can never be wrong.

"It actually crossed over!"

After sorting out his memory, Lu Xin finally confirmed that he had traveled to a parallel time and space.

The timeline is a bit different, it's only 2012 now.

Here he is also named Lu Xin, 22 years old, just graduated from the Shangjing Conservatory of Music.

Before graduation, he failed to stay in Shangjing, but his girlfriend Meng Fanying from the same school signed a contract with Tianle Records.

The two then broke up.

Dispirited, he returned to his hometown of Beimeng and became a music teacher at Xingfu Road Primary School.

and rent nearby.

However, Lu Xin is no longer the original Lu Xin, so naturally there is nothing to be sad about.

"22 years old... I earned it."

He looked at his own shadow on the window and smiled wryly.

It was not easy for him to make his first movie, and he directed and acted in it himself. Although it was only a small-budget online movie, it was considered a great achievement, but he did not expect to travel through time.

Being ten years younger can be regarded as a benefit brought to him by time travel.

Fortunately, Lu Xin was an orphan in the original time and space, and he didn't even have a fixed girlfriend. After accepting this reality, he didn't feel too reluctant.

At this time, a gust of wind blew outside the window, and something fell off the table.

It's a few sheets of paper.

Lu Xin bent down and picked it up. It turned out to be a newly written song, but it wasn't finished yet.

Obviously, it was written by the predecessor.

After Lu Xin looked at it carefully, he shook his head slightly.

"The lyrics are not bad, and the foundation is solid, but the melody of the song is too ordinary."

Speaking of which, in his last life, he attended a conservatory of music. He had been in the music circle for many years, formed a band and released records.

However, he didn't have any great achievements in music, and his album sales were pitifully low. After a few years of hard work, he was too poor to afford a living, and then he turned to the film and television industry to make a living.

The reason, on the one hand, may be that although the talent is good, it is not top-notch.

Another one, the general environment is not good.

It was better before the Internet age. Although piracy was rampant, people still bought genuine records after all.

After entering the computer age, all songs on the Internet can be listened to and downloaded for free, which almost completely cut off the possibility of survival of genuine copies, and the music industry suffered a devastating blow.

Even if it is a top singer, the album can't sell many copies. If you want to make money, you can only participate in variety shows and commercial performances.

Record companies have also tried to restore the market, cooperating with major music platforms and launching digital albums one after another.

However, the sales volume is far behind that of the record era, and fewer and fewer singers released albums until they almost disappeared.

It was not until 2015 in the mobile Internet era that music copyrights began to gradually become formalized. Unfortunately, the soil for the vigorous development of music has disappeared.

Are there any musicians who can catch fire?
Of course there are, but they are only a minority of the minority. Compared with the popularity of the 90s and the beginning of the century, it is really far behind.

And the quality of most of the later music is also terrible.

The so-called top ten golden songs are all dominated by traffic stars, and almost no one will listen to those songs except their fans.

In this time and space, there were also many pirated copies at the beginning, but the copyright was formalized much earlier.

It can be said that the musician's situation is much stronger than that of the original time and space.

Lu Xin thought about it and went straight to the study.

He couldn't wait to hear the songs of this world, with his current hearing and eyesight.

There is a computer in the study room. He usually plays the guitar and records something, or makes an accompaniment, all on this computer.

After booting up, Lu Xin opened a website - KK Huaxia Music Network.

Like the original time and space, after entering the Internet age, the traditional recording industry suffered heavy losses.

Record sales kept shrinking.

However, the record company in this time and space is happy, and soon moved to the Internet and began to release digital albums.

Due to the gradual formalization of copyright, there are not many online piracy, and the sales volume has not decreased much compared to before.

Coupled with the reduction of production costs and channel fees, whether it is the record company or the singer itself, the income will not fall but rise.

The KK Huaxia Music Network, founded in 2005, is the only sales platform.

Lu Xin didn't take a closer look at the various albums and song charts, so he directly clicked on the hot song list.

After the digital album is put on the shelves and goes on sale, one or two songs will be taken out for trial listening and publicity.

During the promotional period, the songs will be available for free listening, but not downloading.

""I Can't Forget Your Name"? Let's start with this."

The first song on the audition list was a song by a male singer. Lu Xin listened carefully, from beginning to end.

But, slowly, he frowned.

Then change to another song, and then another...

As he listened to one song after another, he listened faster and faster, changing almost every two minutes, and his brows became more and more wrinkled.

"This is because there are not many big-name singers releasing songs recently."

Lu Xin touched his chin and murmured.

It is the same as when a traditional record hits the charts on the radio, the songs that can be used for publicity must be the main songs.

These title songs are still of a certain level, but there are very few that can make Lu Xin feel amazing.

At least, none of them made him strongly want to listen to them a second time.

On the contrary, there was a female singer named Ling Xue, whose magnificent voice and excellent singing skills left a deep impression on him.

It's a pity that the trial song "The One I Love" was a little ordinary.

After closing Huaxia Music Network, Lu Xin began to check other information.

He is looking at history, culture, music, film and television, whatever he can think of.

Time passed by, this time he didn't frown again, but his eyes brightened more and more.

(End of this chapter)