Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

With the ending song "The Train Goes Beyond the Clouds, Dreams Rest in the Ninth Heaven", the name Hedgehog was finally established in the hearts of music fans. Now no music fans would regard it as an affiliate of the Rolling Stones, a band that Bian Lang created for fun when he had nothing better to do.

Listening to the repeated calls for encores from the audience, Bian Lang turned around to discuss with a few people, and then once again brought out Master Park: "This is really the last song, 'The Fear In My Heart'..."

This song was first seen by fans of Shui Lan Xing at the New Year's Eve party, and later after the broadcast of "Taohuayuan", its popularity has continued to rise.

In addition, Guo Sichu was also familiar with this song, so he used it as the encore song and everyone was very happy.

After the encore photo, Bian Lang and his friends were not in a hurry to leave. After packing up their instruments, they sat on the stage, drinking beer and watching the fans leave.

Guo Sichu did not sit next to Bian Lang, but sat next to Ding Ding, blatantly "poaching" Bian Lang's girlfriend: "When I have a concert, can you guys go and be my backing band?"

If it weren't for the camaraderie of playing together, the female musicians might have declined. This has nothing to do with Guo Sichu's identity.

Now that they had this temporary teammate relationship, the women except Strauss were a little hesitant.

Bian Lang did not stop him and said directly: "As long as it does not affect the band's affairs, you can consider this matter on your own..."

But his words brought up another topic: "Brother Lang, after today's battle, Hedgehog has finally established himself. What will be the rules in the future?"

The word "Charter" has many meanings, but Bian Lang understood the true meaning of Mumian's words in an instant.

There is just a little Strauss between Hedgehog and New Pants, but the style is really not something that can be distinguished by the two terms punk and teen punk.

It didn’t matter before, but now that Hedgehog has established itself, New Pants’ performances have always been affected by Bian Lang’s schedule. Although they have received many invitations, they have never performed any performances outside of music festivals.

Plus, several of the girls are members of the Compass Band, so if Bian Lang doesn't come out and split the band now, it's very likely that these two established bands will be completely destroyed.

Bian Lang knew that this matter was imminent, but...

"Let's openly recruit a lead singer. I'll let Sister Chen handle it. As for the rest of you, if you feel that three bands are too busy, just bring up your ideas. We have a lot of musicians now..."

"Brother Lang, do you mean that New Pants and Hedgehog are both looking for a new lead singer?" Ding Ding was the first to raise the question.

The existence of a band is really different from other forms of existence. Every band needs a soul figure, and once the soul figure leaves, it is common for the band to disband directly.

Baojia Street on the original Earth almost disappeared after Piku left. Although the post-Douxian era Black Panther has survived to this day, it might be more appropriate to replace the word "band" with "company".

Looking at the world rock music scene on the original Earth, probably only Pink Floyd can do it. Lonely Ye is still awesome with the name of the band, and Shui Ye, who is working alone, is also doing very well.

But the situation is different when he is still hanging around. He is not going to give up the lead singer position and just leave it alone. He will continue to give songs to the bands. The key is that he does not want the names of these two bands to be buried like this.

"Yes, I will keep the structures of both bands and will continue to provide them with works. You can also carefully consider your choice."

As soon as Bian Lang finished speaking, he heard Guo Sichu jokingly say, "Bian Lang, you are more capitalist than the capitalists. You make people do two or three jobs for one salary. If I were them, I would..."

Although they knew it was a joke, the oldest Yang Meng still explained: "Sister Chuchu, if Brother Lang had this kind of face, we would have quit long ago. Except for the fact that there is no extra money for rehearsals, other performances and song recordings are all in accordance with the rules of the circle."

"But I also think that this is not a long-term solution..."

This matter cannot be explained in a few words. The final result was that two days later, Rolling Stone began to publicly call for lead singers for New Pants and Hedgehog.

Apart from being limited to men, no other conditions were mentioned.

Because Chen Shuting believed that the weight of the two words "Bian Lang" was enough to isolate those who could not meet the conditions.

The result was not too unexpected for her. Although it caused quite a stir in the circle, the number of people who actually contacted her was only in the single digits. And they were all interested in the lead singer of New Pants. Hedgehog was really not one of them.

Chen Shuting also asked the other three great people in the company besides Bian Lang about this, and the answers they got were all pretty much the same: "For New Pants' songs, we can probably recommend a few by looking through the connections in the circle. But there's really nothing we can do about Hedgehog. I guess Bian Lang himself knows about this, so he asked you to publicly call for it in the circle."

But what the truth is, probably only those in the group know it.

But these are things that happened later. The few people who were drinking beer on the stage did not drink for the whole night, because Lao Pan had already arranged drinks and a small barbecue for all the bands at another venue.

Not surprisingly, He Lei and Ai Hao's staff were also among them. After introducing them to Chen Shuting, He Lei could completely let go of his role as matchmaker.

After finding a place to eat with his wife and son, he also pulled his old classmate Ma Rui over to sit at the same table.

Although it was not the first time that Ma Rui watched Bian Lang's performance, this time she came with the purpose of finding creative inspiration, so she observed particularly carefully and attentively.

After eating for a while, she asked He Lei: "Do you think Bian Lang is schizophrenic?"

He Lei, who was eating grilled fish, did not answer immediately, but frowned and thought seriously. If it was a classmate gathering, He Lei would definitely think that Ma Rui was joking with him.

But now he was the only two of his classmates, and after being shocked by Bian Lang just now, he had to carefully consider what question this old classmate was asking.

He Lei recalled everything that had happened between him and Bian Lang since the first day they met. After being silent for nearly a minute, he finally spoke: "What you said is quite interesting. When I think about it, Bian Lang was like a rock when he was in college. Compared to him now, he is completely two different people."

"That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is that from yesterday to today, he played two different styles of folk music. In today's live performance, '29' and the following songs are completely different styles. And his other styles of music, do you think it's possible unless he has schizophrenia?"

Ma Rui would not look at Bian Lang like those people on the Internet who have been advocating that Bian Lang has an entire creative team. She just thinks that as an artistic creator, she finds this matter too unbelievable.

If the change in Bianlang's musical style was caused by age and accumulation, then she could understand it.

But if we only consider the time dimension of the previous 10 years of band career, Ma Rui finds it hard to believe.

He Lei is no longer in the art circle. In his own words, "Hey! I thought it was something else. This is the kind of question that only you artists would delve into. To me, a layman, it's just a case of having too much to do! In my opinion, unless I want to visit him in the Pineapple Village Mental Hospital one day, what you said is all nonsense!"

Hearing this, Ma Rui knew that it was impossible to discuss this kind of issue with He Lei, Bian Lang's best friend, but she still added: "Anyway, I feel that there is definitely more than one person living in Bian Lang's body now!"

"Hahaha! Then you have to ask him..."

"Hubby, what do you think is the relationship between Guo Sichu and Bian Lang?"

He Lei and Ma Rui were both stunned by this question. If no one else had asked them, they would not have thought about it in that direction, but they became nervous when they were asked this question.

"It's a work relationship for sure, but as for their personal relationship, only the two of them know..."

At this time, Bian Lang and Guo Sichu, who were sitting at the same table, were chatting casually with the staff from Banna under the introduction of Ai Hao.

Several staff members never thought that not only would they meet Bian Lang, but they would also meet Guo Sichu.

But no matter how crazy their hints were, Ai Hao just refused to inquire about Guo Sichu's schedule, and Guo Sichu of course just responded casually with a few words.

Ai Hao knew clearly that Guo Sichu would most likely be in Yunnan Province recording a variety show at that time. There was a more than 50% chance that she would go with him to the Xibiqi Music Festival, which had already been confirmed, but whether she could go on stage would all depend on Bian Lang's face.

Although cooperation with the government is a win-win situation, it is impossible for them to just sit back and win. The main body of the Xibiqi Music Festival still relies on the Rolling Stones. If Guo Sichu becomes the biggest publicity point, the company and management team behind her will not be as easy to talk to as her own family.

As for Bian Lang, he used his amazing foodie skills from his previous life to ask the staff to pay for his meals at a variety of restaurants, from Auntie Bai's cold salad to barbecued grasshoppers.

They didn't chat for long, Liang Kuan came over after they left.

She had already communicated with Chen Shuting in advance and said at the table: "Bian Lang, I wonder if the live version of the song can be used as the first release in Midian?"

Without even thinking, Bian Lang answered directly: "No..." He did not make any high-sounding excuses such as post-production taking time, and then expressed his thoughts: "The studio version is what I want to present to the fans of "Rice Shop", and its original temperament should be like that.

After Olaf finishes processing the live sound source, we will release it together with the live version of the music festival. By the way, what about Chu Hou's recording rights? "

At this point, the two agents who were trying their best to make this happen knew that there was no hope, so they didn't even mention the fact that Olaf had already processed the audio source for the Live version of "Rice Shop".

Guo Sichu and Liang Kuan had already discussed Bian Lang's current problem yesterday: "You can give it as you see fit, but the portion given to me will be donated to the old man's organization along with yours..."

"Okay... I'll talk to the old man later. By the way, now that everyone is here, let's talk about future cooperation. You should know that the copyright of the songs I wrote can only be owned by Rolling Stone. As for one or two songs in the past, I believe that considering your importance to the company, it is not a difficult problem to solve. But in the future..."

Even if Bian Lang didn't mention this issue, Liang Kuan would find time to make it clear during this trip: "To be honest, based on my understanding of the company's top management, there is no possibility of agreeing to this. If I were in that position, if you are willing to write an album for Chu Chu, even if you pay a sky-high price, we are only willing to buy out the copyright!"

Bian Lang agreed with this and he had his reasons for being so strong on copyright.

But for a singer of Guo Sichu's level, the company behind him would not be as casual as it is with other singers. One or two songs are fine, but if it is a whole album, the profit will not be in the order of tens of thousands.

They didn't dare to expect that just relying on personal connections, Bian Lang would agree to their endless exploitation of copyright revenue from these songs in the future.

"Then how do we talk about it later?" Bian Lang didn't want to test the waters and asked directly.

"Give us some time. Chuchu is not Dong Youbian. I don't think a peaceful breakup is likely to happen."

After these words were spoken, even though Bian Lang had some ideas, he did not expect Liang Kuan and Guo Sichu to be so decisive.

Every time a superstar changes his owner, there is an astronomical transaction behind it. Bian Lang has never experienced this in his previous life, but he can guess the general idea from the millions of dollars in liquidated damages contracts of various 28th-tier Internet celebrities.

Although it won’t be as exaggerated as Chen Chusheng’s farce of more than 200 billion, it will definitely not end with the final 650 million.

However, since this idea was proposed by the local authorities, it proves that at least for now they have no intention of asking the Rolling Stones for a "transfer fee".

But the other party's sincerity has been made clear, and Bian Lang must also appropriately express his sincerity: "Then I will start thinking about it, and try to give Queen Chu a signing gift when the time comes."

Hearing this, Guo Sichu laughed: "Then I'll wait and see. If the quality is not as good as "Miss Dong", then I won't agree!"

Having been a singing queen for many years, Liang Kuan hasn't seen Guo Sichu act like such a feminine person for many years, let alone Bian Lang.

But compared to the occasional girlish feelings that appeared on her, Bian Lang still admired Guo Sichu's radiance of a mature and confident young woman.

While a few people were chatting, Guo Sichu's fans online started to make all kinds of trouble.

Maybe it's because they haven't seen their idols perform live in a long time, and they did it secretly. The overexcitement turned into anger, and they really needed an outlet to vent their emotions.

Scolding the music festival organizing committee is their activity that has been going on since yesterday, but there was no response from Blueberry. Then they scolded one of the organizers, Yuxi Culture Tourism, and made it a hot topic.

Faced with this inexplicable surge in traffic, the head of Yuxi Culture and Tourism was completely silent.

Although we all know that netizens don’t actually have much malicious intent, but since it has become a hot topic, it is impossible for them to ignore it like the music festival organizing committee.

After studying the cases of cultural and tourism bureaus across the country in handling such matters, the director of Yuxi Cultural and Tourism Bureau, encouraged by his subordinates, finally made up his mind and practiced guitar all night. The next day, before the public opinion had completely faded, he released a video of playing and singing "Fuxian Lake" to express his apologies to Guo Sichu's fans.

The key point is that the director is not that kind of greasy middle-aged man. Although he plays the guitar poorly, his sound and rhythm are still above the average level of KTV. So while Guo Sichu's fans expressed their reluctant acceptance of the apology, he was also forced to become one of the Internet celebrity directors!

For a long time afterwards, he became a free tourism promotion tool at events around Fuxian Lake.