Rock and Roll: Glorious Years

Redness is good for health, but it also brings a lot of trouble.

The infighting among Bian Lang's fans is actually just an internal conflict that could be minor or major. Although the arguments are quite heated, the radicals are ultimately in the minority. However, his popularity hasn't waned, and the lingering effects of the official media's involvement are still present. As a result, many people are waiting to see Bian Lang fail and are secretly starting to influence the general public.

The escalating tensions made Chen Shuting, who initially thought it was nothing, start to feel alarmed. Fan wars are common, but when someone uses them, the situation changes completely.

If not handled properly, it could be extremely damaging to one's public image. Bian Lang is currently in a period of rapid growth, with his fan base increasing from three digits to millions in just one month. While it may not be considered an overnight sensation, it is certainly rare in the rock music scene.

If infighting among fans escalates at this point, this already fragile foundation could easily collapse. While rock musicians generally don't care much about fans, who can resist the temptation to strive for something better...?

She waited at the record store until Bian Lang returned at 10 o'clock before telling him about the matter in great seriousness.

After listening, Bian Lang also figured out something. It turned out that the "gold" he thought was helping to "besiege" Sima Nan was a fan of another group, but it turned out to be his own!

In his past life, when he was in a band, Bian Lang never had the chance to encounter something like this. He never imagined that he would encounter it so soon in this life, which reminded him of Painkiller back in 08 on Earth.

That year marked the rise of Painkiller to godhood, but it was also the harbinger of their fall from grace.

That year, with the reputation of "Among the millions of Chinese folk rock fans, Painkiller fans make up half", Painkiller released the album "Don't Stop My Music".

That year, Painkiller "betrayed" heavy metal music.

That year, Nezha, who had been glaring angrily and about to commit suicide by drawing his sword, began to close his eyes, calm his mind, and put his hands together in prayer.

That year, Painkiller finally emerged from the barren Shucun and soared to become one of the most popular bands in China.

Although this change was accompanied by the incomprehension of countless longtime music fans who felt that they had lost their spiritual core.

When Bian Lang met Tiger from the original Earth at the music festival, they talked about this. Tiger calmly said something like:

"I used to be a troubled teenager and a troubled youth, and I don't want to continue to be a troubled middle-aged man. I don't mind people saying that our music style has suddenly changed. I think there is something powerful and vibrant in it. That's what I want to do, not the kind of painful rock music that the public imagines it to be."

Back then, Bian Lang was a troubled youth. He didn't agree with what Tiger said, but that didn't stop him from believing that Painkiller's peak was about to arrive.

Unexpectedly, this was just a last gasp before Painkiller's downfall. Painkiller's melodies began to become more and more popular, and the lyrics even gave people a perfunctory feeling.

The song "Pokhara" from the 2010 album "Blooming" has only two lines of lyrics in its entire 4 minutes and 12 seconds:

"I will walk my own path, I will walk my own path, Pokhara, Pokhara, come, come, come, tick-tock, tick-tock..."

From then on, Painkiller was nicknamed "the repeater" and was despised by more and more old music fans.

But when Painkiller returned to Huai'an for a performance in 2011, fans sang along with Tiger Brother to the melody of "Goodbye Jack" over and over again. Under the pale lights, people closed their eyes, and the fans immediately doubled their jumping rhythm as if they had received a command.

"Goodbye Jack" later became one of the must-sing songs in KTV!

This proves at least one thing: most fans won't leave because of a change in style. What will make them leave is if you start writing bad songs all the time!

Thinking of this, Bian Lang laughed and said, "They are all lovely fans. They love you so much that they are so critical of you."

Although he thought that way, Bian Lang didn't intend to do nothing. Some people in the industry considered pandering to fans and the market too low-class and un-rock and roll. But Bian Lang, a two-time rocker, understood one thing very well: without fan support, you're nothing! Just like the leading actors in Peking Opera, they're all made by the audience!

Before The Big Band, how many hidden gem bands on Earth couldn't even support themselves with their music? And how many great songs were relegated to the corner of niche music radar, impossible to find without entering their full coordinates?

Bian Lang has accumulated too little influence. A million followers on Weibo may seem impressive, but it's hard to say how many fans he actually has.

And fans are such a lovely bunch, just like readers on Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform). There's nothing that extra chapters can't solve; if there is, then just add 10,000 chapters a day. The same goes for fans. If you want them to stop arguing, just release a new song; if that's not enough, then release two!

Since the song "Painkiller" came to mind, the lyrics immediately came to mind: "All the glamorous exteriors will be stripped away, but please don't stop my music, please don't stop my music..."

"Sister Chen, I'll record a demo video of my new song. See if you can get in touch with the fan leader..." Hearing this, Chen Shuting was a little surprised by Bian Lang's reaction: "I thought you were just planning to say a few words on Weibo."

After saying that, Chen Shuting asked Zhou Ketong and the head of "Jinzi" to contact them. The fan leader, "Guoli," was a professional; she had been a fan site manager for a certain young male idol for a while a few years ago. However, she was thoroughly heartbroken by the various shameless exploitation tactics, so she stopped being a fan and returned to her normal life as a photographer. Although she was still shooting in this circle, she no longer had any particularly favorite celebrities.

She had previously taken on a job with a variety show, where she used a "Overlord Spear" to record Xia Yuxi ignoring her fans and Bian Lang and Lun Zi helping people at Lucheng Airport. It was from that time that she began to pay special attention to Bian Lang, and through the show and a series of subsequent events, she decided to return to her old profession and become a fan leader.

The name "Jinzi" was chosen by her after carefully learning about Bian Lang's past, and it comes from the proverb "A prodigal son who returns is more precious than gold!"

She was completely taken aback when she received the message from Zhou Ketong. According to the usual practices she was familiar with, the teams of these young male celebrities would be guiding their fans to dominate the comments section and suppress any dissenting voices.

But when it came to Bian Lang, he actually told people not to get excited, as a new song video would be uploaded soon?

"Is this considered spoiling the fans?" Thinking this, Guoli sent out a bunch of red envelopes in the few fan groups she had already created, and then tagged everyone and said: "Fans, please restrain yourselves and trust Bian Lang. He should step up and do something soon."

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Chen Shuting arrived at the rehearsal room with Bian Lang and their equipment. After listening to Bian Lang play it on his acoustic guitar, she asked with some confusion, "Reggae?"

"There is a little bit of that, it's not purely..." Bian Lang remembered that before Painkiller recorded this album, they had spent some time in Erhai City, which is known as the Jamaica of China, so it's not surprising that reggae elements appeared in their music.

After Chen Shuting finished setting up the equipment, Bian Lang sat down in front of the microphone stand with his acoustic guitar, cleared his throat, and said, "Thank you to all my music fans for your love and support. Stop arguing and come listen to this bachelor sing for you..."

After speaking, Bian Lang pressed down on the Am chord with his left hand and began strumming a light intro. His voice started to emerge on the last two beats of the 8th measure:

"Some were happy, some danced, some cried loudly, some were unhappy, some were unwilling to leave in silence..."

The song is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long. Bian Lang made a mistake on his first listen and couldn't remember a few lines of the lyrics. After going through it twice, he wrote down the lyrics just to be on the safe side.

As the head of Rolling Stone Records, Chen Shuting naturally knew how much was in the copyright library, but she had never seen this song, "Don't Stop My Music," in Bian Lang's account, which already had more than 60 songs.

After carefully reading the lyrics, Chen Shuting shook her head and sighed, "You really can write on the spot whenever you get inspiration. No, it's such a waste of these songs if you keep doing this. At least you need to have a plan for releasing these songs. I'm still looking forward to going with you to receive the award at the end of the year..."

Speaking of this, she thought of the current situation on the new song charts and realized that her worries were completely unnecessary. What she needed to consider was how many awards Bian Lang would win.

At 11:10, Zhang Feier, who felt guilty towards Bian Lang, kept refreshing Bian Lang's super topic. Watching the argument between the two camps of Bian Lang's fans continue to escalate, she could only keep trying to persuade them, but her voice seemed to have no effect.

But when she refreshed the page again, she found that the host, Little Witch, had updated a post. She clicked on the link and followed it to Bian Lang's Weibo, where she discovered that Bian Lang had actually updated a video at that time.

Before I even opened it, I saw a comment from a user named "Guoli": "Bian Lang, the way you release a new song out of nowhere is so incredibly cool!!!"