Rebirth: I Want to Surf

In 1999, Warner Records officially entered the mainland.

The first person to sign the contract was Piao Shu, who signed contracts for three albums, and then recruited Laolang, Ye Bei, Wang Feng, Zhang Yadong, Laying, Sun Nan, etc. under his command.

Looking at the Chinese music scene, Warner currently also has powerful singers such as Zhang Huimei, Stefanie Sun, and Feier Band. And in the next few years, it made great strides, occupying one-third of the market share at its peak.

I'm here, I'm right here, as fleeting as a startling bird, as gorgeous as a summer flower...

In the recording studio of Warner Records, Pu Shu hummed a few words to the new arrangement, stopped suddenly, and shook his head: This song is used, used...to express sadness with happiness. This style is not good.

I want to add some drums and flute, what do you think? Zhang Yadong said.

Well, this is good, it would be even better if you add some harmony, and you want that kind of national characteristics. Lu Zhongqiang also gave suggestions.

Warner is preparing to release an album for Pu Shu, and this is one of the songs called Life Like Summer Flowers. It was originally a commercial song created by Pu Shu, and now it is re-produced.

Zhang Yadong and Lu Zhongqiang had a heated discussion, and Pu Shu listened quietly after expressing his opinion, jumping out every word.

Friends are used to his social barrier-like problems.

Pu Shu's original name is Pu Shu, and his father's name is Pu Zuyin. He is a professor at Peking University, a master of physics, and an academician of the International Academy of Astronautics. Of course, in Pu Shu's introduction, he became an ordinary physics teacher.

He has been bored and rebellious since he was a child, and other people's rebellion will cause trouble. No, the more rebellious he is, the more bored he is. His parents took him to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed and treated a pubescent depression.

At that time, I was in high school, confused and almost dropped out of school. The only outlet I had was music. In order for him to study, the father made a promise: Go to college! If you go to college, I will let you grow your hair and play rock and roll!

It was only then that Pu Shu worked hard, was admitted to the English Department of Capital Normal University, grew his hair long, played the guitar, and dropped out of school in his sophomore year...

This kind of person, to put it bluntly, is like poetry, you can only watch it from a distance, don't live with him.

After studying the song for a long time, I came up with new ideas. Zhang Yadong was the main producer, and Lu Zhongqiang just gave some references. After chatting for a while, he got up and left, and returned to his studio.

Nothing happened for the time being, and he was fiddling with a business card on the table, which was left for him by Yao Yuan.

After getting acquainted in the bar, Lu Zhongqiang showed a certain interest in Internet music, and made an appointment in private, gaining a deep understanding of the spread of the Internet.

Yao Yuan made two points of view:

One is that the Internet is the mainstream platform for music in the future.

One is that saliva songs are more suitable for network communication.

What is a saliva song? The lyrics are simple, the melody is simple, and the style is down-to-earth. It may not be well written, but it must be catchy and the threshold is extremely low.

In the past, this kind of song could not be included in a physical album, but any musician who pursued it would sneer at it.

But Lu Zhongqiang agrees with this point of view. He is a cutting-edge musician, otherwise he would not represent Guo Degang's digital copyright.

Moreover, he looked at Yao Yuan's website, although it was a little different from the one of Huyou's, but it was really popular, and asked a few knowledgeable people, saying that this website is super popular, at least earning a million a month!

Good guy! Startled him.

Nima, you make a million dollars a month, why don't you ride a little Mulan?

Lu Zhongqiang accepted Yao Yuan's request to help collect songs, counting as making friends, so that we can meet each other in the future, and even cooperate, such as Born Like Summer Flowers.

Boom boom boom!

Just as he was thinking, someone knocked on the door, and a young man in his 20s came in.

Teacher Lu!

Little Tiger, come in and sit in.

The person who came was Wang Hu, an unknown producer in the music circle in Beijing. He used to learn photography and knew a lot of things. Making music is a half-way monk.

Behind the vast pop music scene, there is a broader underground music world.

A famous musician has at least ten dry bones of unknown people under his feet. How do you think those pop songs come from? All fair trade?

how can that be possible!

Lu Zhongqiang is the big brother. He likes to support newcomers when he is young. He smiled and said, Why do you want to come here today?

I went back to Wuhan a while ago, and a friend introduced me to a dude, and said he had a few songs for me to listen to. They are all fellow villagers, and I was too embarrassed to refuse, so the kid just played a few songs.

Wang Hu had a good time, took out a tape, and said, I don't ask you to give me some pointers, how is the standard?

You boy, you really treat me as a free laborer.

You are Big Brother, we are convinced.

Lu Zhongqiang laughed and cursed, took the tape and stuffed it into the machine, there was a buzzing noise, and the sound of a guitar playing and singing came out.

...

These songs are rough, primitive, and completely unprocessed. He has no expression, and after listening to one song, he will change it to another.

Wang Hu didn't hold much hope. After the tape was played, he asked, Do you think there is anything useful?

The penultimate song.

The penultimate song, Love You This Way...

Wang Hu immediately rewinded the playback, only to hear the singing: I love you, I love you, just like a mouse loves rice. No matter how many winds and rains, I will still be with you...

Did you buy all these songs?

No, I don't dare to buy it if you don't give me an opinion. A thousand dollars is still money.

Don't put a high hat on me, what's the name of the kid who sells songs?

Yang Chengang, I used to write a few rock songs and cast them everywhere, but no one wanted them. Now I'm hanging out in bars in Wuhan.

Oh, I can still make this one, everything else is rubbish.

Okay, just one song.

Wang Hu was quite surprised, he immediately thanked Lu Zhongqiang, turned around and left.

...

Lu Zhongqiang sat in the studio by himself, thinking about the song just now. The lyrics were shallow, the melody was simple, down-to-earth, and a standard slobbery song, which met Yao Yuan's requirements.

He pointed Wang Hu to help the younger generation, but it didn't mean he couldn't do other things.

He searched the database of Warner Records, and sure enough, he found that Yang Chengang had submitted several rock songs, but they were not accepted.

Lu Zhongqiang thought about it and called Yao Yuan.

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Wang Hu was eating hot pot and singing, but was suddenly robbed by the gangsters!

Yang Chengang came to the capital.

He was quite puzzled, how did I come to the capital when I was a bar singer in Wuhan?

He doesn't care how the song spreads to other people, he can just give the money anyway, and he is quite happy. The market price of an unknown creator is 1-2 thousand yuan for a song. Mr. Yao is very generous, he gave 4 thousand and reimbursed travel expenses.

Buy out all permanent copyrights.

It's just that the procedure is a bit troublesome. Not only is the contract extremely complete, there are various signatures, but he was also specially asked to take a photo showing the contract.

Mr. Yao, don't worry, we will never break our promises in this business. If we sell it to you, we will sell it to you.

I'm relieved, but the necessary guarantees must be in place. Anyway, just take a photo.

Yang Chengang didn't care, he obeyed the arrangement and took a picture.

This person is not good.

He gave Wang Hu a few songs in 2002. Under Lu Zhongqiang's suggestion, Wang Hu chose this song Love You So Much and signed the contract initially.

After Wang Hu got the song, he asked someone to arrange and produce it, turned a rough into a finished product, and invited another singer to sing.

After Yang Chen heard about it, he took away the finished product and posted it on the Internet privately, misleading netizens into thinking that he was the singer.

Later, the song was renamed Mouse Loves Rice and it became so popular that he successfully signed a record company.

During this period, he sold the song at least four times, and several companies went to court. In the end, Wang Hu won because he was the first to sign the contract.

This kind of shit happens all the time in the music world.

We all know that the CRBT of Mouse Loves Rice makes money, but we need to figure out the sequence: it is the song that becomes popular first, and then people download the CRBT, not the song that becomes popular after someone downloads the CRBT.

Yao Yuan can make this song better and more influential.

After finishing the contract, he sent Yang Chen to leave. What the hell, he looks like Wang Dazhi!