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Chapter 40 Taipei V

On the fifth floor, Rolling Stone Records only rented an office of about 200 square meters, while the entire sixth floor was full of sunken territory. He invested in building eight world-class recording studios here, entrusted to professional asset management companies to manage it, and opened it to all musicians at very affordable prices. As long as daily operations are kept break-even, as for the money to buy equipment, it is considered to be a charity for cultural undertakings...

People who are engaged in artistic creation are more casual, their working hours are not fixed, and they are sober and good people are doing it to the end, so that the recording studio is open for business hours. This alone has bribed the hearts of almost all musicians in Taipei.

The front desk on the sixth floor is much more professional than Miss Huang Yunling. As soon as Chen Chong came up, she stood up and asked politely: "Good evening sir."

"Hello." After the completion of this place, it was the first time that Chen Chong came up. He looked around and asked, "I'm looking for Miss Zhang Aijia, which recording studio she is in?"

"Is it Mr. Chen?" After receiving the affirmative reply, the front desk lady pointed to the corridor on her left and said, "Sister Zhang is in the Sixth Recording Studio, walk from here, turn right at the end."

"Thank you." Chen Chong didn't move. He pointed to the right and asked, "Is there a lounge?"

"Yes, it's open all night there. If you have any needs, you can go there and take a look."

Chen Chong nodded, then walked to the right. He drank some white wine and was a little thirsty. He planned to make some hot drinks and take a look at the tour and see the environment.

The decoration of the lounge is very similar to a petty-bourgeois coffee shop. There are many floral decorations between tables and chairs. There is a piano in the middle, and there is an exquisite shelf next to it, with some blowing instruments, and string instruments such as guitars hanging on the surrounding walls. When Shen Chong walked in, four or five young people sat around the seats next to the window, smoking cigarettes and chatting.

After looking at the people facing him, I found that they didn't know each other and didn't look familiar. Chen Chong didn't take it seriously. He asked for a cup of instant coffee from the waiter, and then he was about to find Zhang Aijia.

The moment he turned around, he heard someone say, "Cai Qin, don't do it in Haishan anymore. Come out and build a record company with us."

"I don't have much money." That's right, it was Cai Qin, who said in her signature mellow voice: "It takes a lot of money to do a record company, but it can't be done."

"It doesn't cost much. Look, we can write songs, Li Shou will produce them, you and Li Jianfu can sing, it's not expensive to rent a recording studio here. After recording, go find Xinge to make the record, and then entrust the Rolling Stone or UFO for helping to release it. It's almost done. I want to save some money, and you can make an album for 200,000 or 300,000 yuan."

When Chen Chong heard this, he held the coffee and sat down at a nearby table, and listened carefully.

"My contract in Haishan has not expired yet," Cai Qin said: "It will be very troublesome if you break the contract. Let me think about it again."

“When will your contract expire?”

"After the folk song competition, I signed a two-year contract with Haishan, which expires at the end of this year." Cai Qin said: "Mr. Zheng has always taken good care of me, so I can't take the initiative to break the contract."

"I only gave you more than NT$100,000 in a record, which is considered care?" Another young man said disdainfully: "These bosses are all vampires. They only gave you tens of thousands of yuan to write a song, and even bought out the copyright. They made a lot of money and let us drink. Like the United States and Japan, it is the right way to take the songwriter's commission from the copyright of the work."

"Now the entire Taiwanese music industry is like this, and even the copyright law still uses the old almanac of the Qing Dynasty. What can we do?"

"It's not all. I heard that Rolling Stones and UFOs can sign copyright sharing contracts. Qi Yu's record last year had more than NT$1 million before New Year's Day, and it's still selling well. According to the contract, she can keep collecting money, and a record is more profitable than we do ten records."

"You only see good ones, but not bad ones. Luo Dayou, his album was not worse than Qi Yu's, but he was banned and failed to make a penny, but instead paid 400,000 or 500,000 to death."

"If you lose, it's Rolling Stone will lose. Why does he have to pay for it?"

"Luo Dayou used his own lyrics and music copyright to invest in Rolling Stones. If the company loses, of course he will lose too."

"It doesn't matter if he knows the big boss behind the Rolling Stone, and Zhang Aijia appreciates it. He makes a few more movie soundtracks and makes it back. I heard that he gave the soundtrack for "Crazy Job" and he charged 100,000 Hong Kong dollars."

"That's right. In this era, it's so damn shit. No matter how talented you are, it's better to have money. You'd rather be a rich man than a talented man."

"Haha, Tiezhang, you look at your gentle and gentleness, why are you so vulgar? Don't talk anymore, you're almost done. Let's go and record."

After several people stood up, Shen Chong looked at it. Sure enough, there was Cai Qin. She had big curly hair, brown handmade sweater, and thick and large pair of black-framed glasses. She was very rustic, like a country girl, and she had no elegant style in the future.

In Shen Chong's view, Cai Qin is one of the most suitable musicians in the Chinese music scene to promote the world. Her voice is very recognizable, simple and gorgeous, with universal communication ability, and can penetrate cultural obstacles. Even foreigners who do not understand the language can appreciate the beauty in it.

Moreover, Cai Qin's singing skills and professional qualities are the top. She can maintain her state for more than 30 years without becoming popular. The older she gets, the more charming she becomes. It is a treasure worth cultivating.

After putting down the coffee cup, following them, and seeing the number of the recording studio they entered, Shen Chong walked towards the No. 6 recording studio.

The door frames of the recording studio were wrapped in professional soundproof rubber. When they were pushed open, there was no sound at all. The few people inside were wearing monitor headphones and listened attentively to Zhang Aijia's singing in the glass soundproof room, but did not notice his arrival.

Shen Chong didn't bother him. He carefully picked up a monitor headphone on the table and put it in his ear to listen.

"...You have to blow gently on the wind, don't blow off my red roses. The flowers in spring are small buds, and the bright red in summer is even more charming..."

It was actually this song, and Shen Chong smiled bitterly. Luo Dayou wanted to turn around this time, but the effect might not be so ideal.

This song "The Wind Blows gently" was written by Luo Dayou when he was an intern in the hospital and observed that his mental patients had a feeling when he was sick. In his previous life, he gave it to Zhang Aijia, who was still on the record of Gelin. As a result, after the album was released, he was scolded by the media and said that Zhang Aijia not only had an Eryin singing style, but also an almost low-energy and dementia singing style, empty and emotional.

So the first collaboration between Luo Dayou and Zhang Aijia ended in a crushing defeat. The album "Maybe" which included this song was almost gone and has a very low reputation. It is difficult to find even in Taiwan. Therefore, in the hearts of many music fans, the album "Childhood" is the first collaboration between Zhang Aijia and Luo Dayou.

"The Wind Blows Lightly" was later covered by Liu Wenzheng and became a household name. It was not until a few years later that Luo Dayou revealed his original intention of writing this song that Zhang Aijia's version turned up its reputation, thinking that she had figured out the empty and unsightly voice expression of a mental patient...

Half a step ahead of the times is a genius. One step ahead of the times is hard to say.

After Zhang Aijia finished singing, she found Chen Chong, smiled at him, waved her hand, and the recording studio discovered his existence.

"Mr. Chen, welcome."

"Hello, Mr. Duan, Dayou, hello, who are these two?"

"This is Chen Zhiyuan, a genius in arrangement, and this is Huang Ruifeng, a drum master, and a good at recording."

"Hello, hello." Chen Chong quickly exchanged greetings from them.

Chen Zhiyuan, Taiwan’s number one arrangement master, has countless works, Huang Ruifeng, Taiwan’s drum king, and recording master, are all names that are familiar to music lovers.

Zhang Aijia walked out of the soundproofing room, held his arm intimately, frowned and asked, "What a strong smell of alcohol, how much did you drink?"

"Little bit." Chen Chong said with a smile: "I deliberately sprinkled a little wine on my clothes and pretended to be drunk."

"So cunning." Zhang Aijia patted him lightly, and then asked Luo Dayou: "How is this time?"

"It's OK." Luo Dayou probably couldn't accept the reality that the goddess fell into the hands of others. He lowered his head slightly and said a little unnaturally: "There are only two sentences that need to be repeated. The voice is a little more floating and hollow, and it should be better."

"What two sentences?" Zhang Aijia dragged Chen Chong, looked over and looked at the lyrics, tried to sing it twice, and said, "Okay, I understand, let's do it again."

"Silvia." Duan Zhongyi was very tactful and dissuaded, saying, "It's already very late now, why don't you record it tomorrow?"

"I have been thinking about it for a day, and now I have just found my state. I may be gone tomorrow and I have to start again." Zhang Aijia pushed Chen Chong and said, "You wait for me for a while, I will record it again."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter how many times you record it." Chen Chong said with a smile: "Just don't let them get tired."

Zhang Aijia gave her a smile, then walked into the soundproofing room, put on her headphones, brewed for a while, and started to try singing.

While listening to the song, Chen Chong picked up the lyrics and looked at it. There were twelve songs in total, including seven of them marked by Luo Dayou's works, "We Are Once Young", "Four Seasons", "Before and Behind the Scenes", "Song", "The Wind Blows Lightly", "Everyone Comes", and "Looking at Spring".

Very talented...

However, in this world, there is something that cannot flap the wings of a butterfly, which is probably because of the growth of people. Luo Dayou is indeed talented, but he is chaotic. The songs he created are varied in style and complex in content, and no accurate outlet for venting is found.

According to information from his previous life, Luo Dayou created "Childhood" since 1979. It was not until after completing it in 1981 that he determined the creative concept of "lyrics and musical chokes" that he found his own direction and became a music godfather of a generation.
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