Chapter 127 False Gods

On December 29, Lyon began his own U.S. tour. Luo Quan and his parents boarded the plane together, but the three of them were not on the same flight.

Luo Quan is going back to Tokyo to prepare for the start of school, while Luo Ni and Eric are going to travel around the world, and their first stop is Switzerland.

After a brief reunion, the family of four parted again. Luo Ni was probably the saddest one. She burst into tears when she said goodbye to her daughter at the airport.

Before getting on the plane, Luo Quan had released all the remaining five songs of the new album.

She named this Chinese album "18", which is her age. The ten songs include:

"Pipa Play"

"Not Called a Hero"

"I love him"

"Foam"

"In the Name of the Father"

"Qilixiang"

"Blue and White Porcelain"

"sunny"

"Rudy"

"Compendium of Materia Medica"

In the news, she also posted a preface to her album:

Eighteen is a beautiful age. We are in our prime, full of vigor, and hope to win an unlimited future for ourselves with unlimited vitality.

But at the same time, we love fantasy, or we long for vigorous love, or we want to become a hero and marry the lover who only dares to appear in our dreams.

But back to reality, we are the flowers of our motherland and the hope of this country’s future. Use a poet's verse to describe me now: My years are wasted and I am exhausted. I dare not pretend to be a poet who uses dreams as horses. I only hope to use my singing to do some small things within my ability.

This album has love, chivalry, depth, and thoughts. I won’t go into the deeper stuff, you can see it for yourself.

As a singer who has achieved nothing, Luo Quan always thinks about the opportunity to spread positive energy.

Probably many Chinese people have the desire to benefit the world by being great. Although Luo Quan is still far from being able to benefit the world, at least her words and deeds can spread correct values.

This preface can be regarded as Luo Quan's expectations for her fans. The situation of favoring foreigners and foreigners has appeared a long time ago. At least in the field she is good at, she will try her best to reverse all this.

After this preface came out, Luo Quan received a lot of praise on the Internet, and GQT even praised her by name. However, when the group was preparing to x-on:Luo Quan, they found that her account could not be found.

There are a large group of fake accounts bearing Luo Quan's name on Weibo, with only a few dozen fans, and they have not been certified, which makes Tuan Tuan really confused.

But no matter what, artists who can get GQT performances must be benchmark figures in China. Regardless of their professional abilities, at least their character must be good.

As for business capabilities, after the remaining songs of this album were released, both the number of hits and the topic exploded.

The genre represented by almost every song is one of the best among domestic songs of the same type.

"Qilixiang", a slow love song with explosive melody and arrangement, topped Douyin's BGM list as soon as it came out. It can already be predicted that it will become a hit in the near future.

"Blue and White Porcelain", many people commented that it has the best lyrics among Chinese songs. It is hard to believe how Luo Quan, who has studied abroad for many years, can use Chinese characters so exquisitely and skillfully. Many senior lyricists think The lyrics of this song are so good that I have never written them so well in my life.

"Sunny Day" can be regarded as a masterpiece of campus love songs. In recent years, few people have written campus love songs, and even if there are works, the quality is not very good. The emergence of this song perfectly fills this gap.

"Chasing Dreams" is an inspirational song with positive and passionate lyrics, which is suitable for use in the BGM of most youth movies and TV dramas.

The last song of the album, "Compendium of Materia Medica", is completely a theme song that promotes Chinese culture. The melody may not be as good as the previous songs, but the lyrics are definitely inspiring enough.

The first line of the lyrics directly names the theme of the song: If Hua Tuo were still alive, worshiping foreign medicine, and foreigners coming to learn Chinese characters, it would inspire my democratic consciousness!

In the past, many people regarded Luo Quan's only writing Japanese and English songs as a black mark, accusing her of being unpatriotic and advocating for foreigners. The song "Compendium of Materia Medica" expresses her stance very straightforwardly.

GQT also spoke highly of Luo Quan after seeing this song.

Finally, Luo Quan's first Chinese-language album "18" was released online the day before the end of 2016. In addition to uploading the MV with banned scenes on Bilibili, the entire album was also released on Penguin Music.

The package sales price of ten songs is only 2 yuan in total. Compared with the price of "Coming of Age Rites" in Japan, which is more than 200 yuan, the pricing of "18" is not much different from giving it away for free.

In addition, Luo Quan also announced that all proceeds from the album "18" will be used to support poor students in mountainous areas, and she does not want any profits.

When fans asked why he was so generous, Luo Quan replied on Instagram: "I write songs for no money!"

A group of fans were both respectful and ashamed. Geniuses are different. Such arrogant words came out of her mouth and she seemed so confident.

No matter how sincere the words of a person without ability seem to be bragging, but for a person of ability, even if he is bragging, others will regard him as the truth.

This series of actions by Luo Quan can be regarded as a complete turnaround of her originally not very good image in China. There are basically no people who are hating her on Weibo, and there are even many people who have directly turned to fans.

However, one thing is that the Chinese people have a really bad habit of spending money to listen to music. Even though the price has been set so cheap, the sales volume of "18" barely reached 100,000 copies within one day of its release.

Interestingly, on the day "18" was released, a domestic male idol also released a single "Light", which was priced at 5 yuan and sold millions of copies in half an hour.

Many Luo Quan fans felt as if they were eating shit when they saw this scene.

In the discussion about Luo Quan on Zhihu, some fans started to criticize:

"I say that Chinese people are not worthy of such good singers. Do you have any objection? The ten songs on Station B have nearly two million views. The sales of Penguin Music's "18" have just reached 110,000. What is interesting is that the pirated album downloads on NetEase Cloud The volume has reached the top, reaching more than one million!

I want Luo Quan and I will never write another Chinese song in my life. I can’t afford 2 yuan, but I still want to listen to good songs? Look at the male idol who released a new song together. In less than an hour, the sales volume went to two million! "

"The fake divine specialty - "18", the real divine specialty - "Light", we Li Feng are really awesome!"

"This is also a big shame for Luo Quan. "Spring Water", "Rite of Passage" and "Full Fire" produced for the band Love Music, the three albums have exploded in sales, and "Faded" has been sold several times on YouTube. With 100 million hits, she didn’t expect it to suffer a waterloo in her home country. Only 100,000 Chinese people of 1.4 billion have bought her album.”

"I don't think there are that many people. There are many female fans in Luoquan who buy tens of thousands of tickets. They are the ones who contribute the most to the sales. A bunch of male fans yelled fiercely, but they all turned out to be free prostitutes."

“After all, it’s pretty free on Bilibili and NetEase Cloud, so why spend money?”

"You can spend some money on this kind of thing. It doesn't cost much. Is it that comfortable to have sex for free?"

"Although I bought the album, there is one thing to say, free prostitution is indeed fun. (dog head)"

"Many years later, when Luo Quan releases another Chinese-language album and encounters a disaster, she will definitely think of today and the first album in her life that was neither well-received nor well-received."

"A hundred years of loneliness..."

"To be honest, this really dampens the enthusiasm of the creators. They put all their efforts into compiling ten songs for everyone, satisfying so many difficult tasks, and the quality is so high. In the end, only tens of thousands of people paid for it. I am Luo Quan is probably mentally exhausted now."

"If you want to make money with songs in China, unless you can become popular on Douyin or Kuaishou, I suggest Luo Quan write the kind of Internet-famous songs in the future. At her level, aren't these songs easy to come by?"

"I just saw hope for the emergence of a Chinese music scene, but I didn't expect it to be short-lived?"

Although many fans on the Internet complained about Luo Quan, it only slightly stimulated the sales of "18", which increased from 110,000 to 140,000.

To be honest, Luo Quan never expected such a result.

She actually understands the Chinese people's love for free prostitution and greed for small gains. Everyone in life will be greedy to some extent, so she deliberately set the album at a very low price.

Her original intention was not to make money. After all, all the income had to be donated to poor students in mountainous areas. As a result, even so, she still ended up on the street.

If she had known this, she would have given all the songs for free to avoid embarrassment and anger.

However, although the results are not ideal, it will not dampen her enthusiasm for creation. The situation that fans worry about no longer writing Chinese songs will definitely not happen.

After all, as she said before, she writes songs for free.

In order to comfort the fans, Luo Quan even posted a post on the news: "Everyone can do what they can with regard to paid albums. There is no need for moral kidnapping, and you don't have to worry that I will stop because of this kind of thing." Write Chinese songs.

The album's unsatisfactory sales also means that my songs may not be that good. I will work harder in the future and strive to get the majority of people to pay for the next album. "

Although he said he didn't care, Luo Quan still started to get angry. The 2 yuan gift asked everyone to do what they could. No one paid for it, which meant that the song was not that good.

I wonder if those fans who listen to pirated copies will have a conscience when they see this paragraph and pay for an album.

Anyway, Luo Quan's album sales have not improved much, and the daily increase has even decreased. Among so many paid albums this year, her performance can be ranked at the bottom.

Others have to pay to listen to songs, but she first posts the free ones online and then charges for them. If she doesn’t hit the streets, who will?