Chapter 163 Fish Leaps into the Sea_1
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In the evening, Lin Yuan returned to his residence.
In his hand, he was holding a document, which was the request for a new single.
The requirements were borated on in a few thousand words, but after Lin Yuan had read through them, he found that the key points were all captured in one sentence:
“Create a song tailored to the musical style of the singer Shui Yun.”
Sounds simple enough.
But it’s a bit challenging when ites to actually doing it.
However, this is not a problem that Lin Yuan needs to fret about.
He just habitually called upon the system, like the previous two times when he needed to tailor the musical style.
Surprisingly, the system did not immediately respond to Lin Yuan’s request this time:
“Ding Dong!”
“Due to the host’s recent frequent song customization, there is suspicion of over-reliance on the system for song creation. Therefore, the system will temporarily open its song library to the host, allowing the host to select a song from the library. The host will be responsible for the consequences.”
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment.
I have to pick the song myself?
He wasn’t angry with the system’s decision, as more involvement in anything is generally better. Moreover, he had recently learned more aboutposing through Yang Zhongming’s character card. Guided indirectly through the teachings of the Maestro-level character, Lin Yuan felt his understanding of music was improving.
“So you’re saying that it’s not the system making the decisions, but me?” Lin Yuan asked.
The system replied, “Yes.”
Lin Yuan started to think.
The system’s song selection always seemed to meet the target’s requirements precisely, and this was a skill as well.
Could he, without the system’s suggestions, choose a song that would suit the target’s customization requirements?
“The song library is open.”
The system suddenly gave a prompt.
Lin Yuan felt as if his brain was suddenly connected to the system’s song library, allowing him to listen to all the songs on earth. The information of these songs could appear vividly in Lin Yuan’s mind just by thinking about them.
Lin Yuan suddenly asked, “Aren’t you afraid that I’d remember some songs from the library?”
“It will be blocked afterward.” The system’s reply was impable.
Lin Yuan wasn’t surprised.
He didn’t immediately pick a song, nor did he reminisce about the ssic earth songs. Instead, he turned on hisputer on his bedroom desk, started listening to Shui Yun’s songs, and also looked up some information about her.
Shui Yun was primarily a singer.
She was also an actress.
She had publicly exined in an interview why she, as a singer, also asionally acted:
Because she felt that the skills actors used to control their emotions were worth learning, and these skills were also very helpful for singing.
This was Shui Yun’s unique point.
She was very good at expressing sentiment in music.
Just like writing an article requires finding the right angle and a good writing style, Shui Yun was a master of this technique.
She was adept at finding the entry point of a song and, through her way of singing parable to a writer’s style), expressing and interpreting it urately.
This is a skill of control.
Both in terms of voice and emotion.
Why can some powerful singers with high-pitched voices not move their audience?
When a singer loses control and the ability to grasp their voice, the expression bes a mere venting.
Even though Shui Yun’s singing might not be top-notch among female singers, her emotional expression and unique acting skills were one of a kind.
This wasn’t just a conclusion drawn from Lin Yuan’s research but was also verified by the feedback he received while listening to Shui Yun’s songs.
The experience was fairly unusual.
Previously, the system would pick a song for Lin Yuan within a minute.
This time, the system was cking off, and Lin Yuan had to pick the song himself, hence spending a lot of time doing preliminary research. Luckily,tely, Xue Liang had not been studyingposition with Lin Yuan every day— Xue Liang had now started practical training.
So, Lin Yuan only needed to guide Xue Liang on his days off.
From Monday to Friday, the usage of the character card, Lin Yuan had applied it to himself.
After all, using the character card to teach himself only took two minutes a day, not hindering his schedule for the Kung Fu Hustle.
“Is there a time limit for song selection?”
“The host has ample time to make the selection.”
Lin Yuan understood. Since there was no time limit, he knew he didn’t have to rush the decision. It would be more prudent to listen to a few more songs before deciding.
Moreover, the order had some specific remarks, like how Shui Yun’s song this time should have some differences from her previous ones but should notpletely abandon her unique singing characteristics, etc.
And another feature.
A very Qi Continent feature was that the performance of the song must bepleted in Qinguage!
So, Lin Yuan basically ruled out Mandarin songs.
Otherwise, Lin Yuan would have to fret about the lyrics. He was unwilling to make such a significant alteration unless the original lyrics were really bad.
“Let’s listen to some songs then.”
The song library of Earth was fully open now, and Lin Yuan wanted to seize this opportunity to immerse himself.
After taking a bath.
Lin Yuany in bed and ordered in his heart, “Xiao Ai, y Jay Chou.”
“My name is not Xiao Ai.”
The system corrected Lin Yuan before ying the music.
Jay Chou’s songs, of course, had nothing to do with Lin Yuan’s song selection this time.
Shui Yun was not that kind of singer.
Lin Yuan just simply wanted to listen to Jay Chou’s songs.
The system was now his personal music yer, and its sound quality was far superior to that of headphones worth thousands of dors.
Thepany had learned that Mr. Lin had taken apetitive task, but the employees didn’t discuss it much.
Everyone was thinking along the lines of Gu Qiangyun.
They treated this task as ying a lottery, after all, there wouldn’t be any repercussions if they failed toplete this task.
In contrast.
The fact that Xue Liang had epted an order worth 700,000 stirred up a lot of internal discussion in thepany.
This was because Xue Liang had never epted such an expensive order before, he usually focused on smaller orders that were worth around 100,000 to 200,000.
However, after studying under Mr. Lin for some time, Xue Liang seemed somewhat intedpared to before.
He actually dared to take on an order of 700,000?
Clearly.
No one thought that Xue Liang would be able to fulfil this order.
Even though Xue Liang has been learningposition from Mr. Lin and even started to be recognized as his apprentice, what does that prove?
Would Mr. Lin, like in those martial arts novels, be able to transfer his skills to Xue Liang?
That’s not how it works.
Composition is not like painting or calligraphy.
Painting and calligraphy can be improved through study, with clear improvement!
Butposition highly depends on talent, simply studying won’t significantly improve skills.
So in everyone’s minds, Xue Liang was still Xue Liang, he wouldn’t be any different just because he studied with Mr. Lin.
Fortunately.
Although Mr. Lin didn’t make Xue Liang any different, he did indeed make Starlight Music somewhat different—
Because, that night, “Hero’s Mate” officiallyunched.
The ancient martial arts-inspired song “Jianghu Smile”, written under the pseudonym Xian Yu, was formally released, riding on the coattails of the release of the martial-arts themed game, Dream Dragon!
A lot of yers highly praised the song featured in the game!
“Full of boldness!”
“Fits the plot!”
“Very catchy!”
These were directments many yers made after reaching the relevant levels in the game and hearing this song.
However, it’s unfortunate that the song did not explode in poprity, like “Like You” did, due to the broadcast of the television series, thereby winning some fans who were not television drama viewers.
After all, the game can’t match the poprity of a television drama.
But this didn’t prevent “Jianghu Smile” from being an extremely well-executed order, nor did it prevent clients in Qi Continent from acknowledging it to some extent after hearing this song!
Dream Dragon rated this order five stars!
Yes, clients can rate an order; this is a feature typical of Qi Continent’s culture.
Qin Continent definitely doesn’t have this feature.
In the formidable Land of Music, they don’t rely on clients to maintain the markets.
A five-star rating often represents the maximum affirmation a client has for an order.
And in the music industry of Qi Continent, what they value most is indeed the profitability of the orders!
Taking into ount order prices,pleteness, order eptance rate, and public reaction, Qi Continent’s music association even specifically set up a ranking list for music productionpanies, which includes the top 100 music productionpanies in Qi Continent—
The Qi Continent industry jokingly calls this ranking “B-side ranking”.
Starlight Music, supported by the two orders with extremely highpletion rates from Xian Yu, has made a historical entry into the top 100 list of B-side rankings!
Alright.
The top 100.
This sounds a little awkward.
What’s even more awkward is that Starlight Music is just now at the bottom, the 100th ce on the B-side rankings.
In name and in reality, they are the tail end.
But Gu Qiangyun was so excited that he couldn’t contain himself.
Because, in the past, Starlight Music didn’t even dare to nce at this list.
This ranking, it’s practically an advertisement for the B-side!
Just being on the list could bring in countless potential orders for Starlight Music.
Some clients even specifically look for coborationpanies from this list!
It was only after Mr. Lin recently joined Starlight Music andpleted two super-high-quality orders, one of which included therge 3-million-order “Like You”, that Starlight Music was forced into these heights that it originally did not belong to.
Thepany originally ranked at the 100th ce was called me Music.
With the rise of Starlight Music, me Music was squeezed off the list.
As a result, all theposers in me Music were upset. Thepany’s big group chat was filled with sourints.
“What the hell is Starlight Music, they even squeezed ourpany off the list!”
“I looked at theirpany’s works, it’s just a garbagepany that doesn’t know what it’s doing, they were only able to squeeze us out thanks to aposer named Xian Yu!”
“Xian Yu?”
“It’s rumored that he’s a trump card from Qin Continent, Starlight Music is a branch of Starlight Entertainment in the Qin Continent, probably seeing the branch struggling, they forcefully brought in a trump card to save the situation.”
“I know of Xian Yu, he wrote ‘Big Fish’, a very powerful trump card, he does have the qualifications to save the day.”
“It’s really more than just powerful, it’s incredible, this Xian Yu has only been in the Qi Continent for a short time and has alreadypleted two high- quality orders. The game order is nothing to talk about, after all, the money wasn’t high, just that thepletion was high, so the client gave five stars. The amazing one was the second order, a bigpany named Thunderbolt’s order, with a whoppingmission of 3 million, Xian Yu alsopleted it, it’s the song ‘Like You’ that was yed in the coffee shop under thepany building this morning, also rated five stars!”
“So, their entering the list was all thanks to Xian Yu, isn’t this just a fluke?”
“If it weren’t for Xian Yu, the level of ourposers here far exceeds that of theirpany, but Xian Yu alone can beat all theposers in ourpany, where’s the fairness in this?”
However, grievances aside, who can ignore the fact that Starlight Music is backed by a parentpany from Qin Continent.
After the wailing of the group.
The head of thepany’sposition department suddenly spoke up in the chat, with a touch of schadenfreude, “Now the pressure should shift to those fewpanies that are close in ranking to Starlight Music.”