walk with jimmy

When the single "She is 16 years old" successfully entered the top three charts, Lance's pressure suddenly increased.

Abel began to urge him to write songs every day, telling him to seize all the time, while the single was still on the charts, he could gather enough tracks and make an album to sell.

Because according to his past experience, usually when a single is in the top ten of the chart, the album is very likely to sell well. If he is lucky enough to win the championship in one fell swoop, then the album will definitely sell again. skyrocketed.

But the question is, how can there be so many good songs to make up an album?

Although Lance is conceited, he is not so conceited that he thinks that he can come up with some hit hits just by talking nonsense.

But everyone has full confidence in him.

It seems that he is a production machine of some popular hits, just press start lightly, and it can immediately print out the lyrics and score on a pile of white paper as quickly as a printer.

Thank you so much for your trust!

During this period, the Planetary Band had moved out of the hotel and lived in a two-story apartment rented by a company.

So, Lance got a separate room.

He locked himself in the room that day, sat at the table, staring blankly at the blank paper and pens on the table.Moreover, he thought in a very strange mood: "How did I get to this point? I'm not a guitarist who writes lyrics and composes music part-time? Why is it that writing songs has become my own thing now? , as if it is my obligation?"

This question is probably unresolved.

But the more you think about it, the more you can't write it.

Inspiration is such a nasty thing.

When it wants to come, even if it is scratching on the napkin with an eyebrow pencil, it can make a tune at will; but if it doesn't want to come, no matter how good the paper and pen you have prepared, it will not appear if it does not appear.

He picked up the guitar and fiddled with it, trying to find inspiration.

But on this day, I don't know if the good luck ran out, and the string was accidentally broken.

What the heck!

Lance threw the guitar aside angrily, in the worst mood possible.

He went downstairs again to look for inspiration, and also wanted to see what his teammates were doing, but found that the room was empty and there was no one there.

No one knew what was going through his mind at that moment.

But how?

Sometimes people lose control in an instant.

In short, when James and the others came back from playing outside, they saw the bastard standing expressionlessly in the ruins, lowering his head carelessly, and lighting himself with a lighter.

Yes!

ruins!

He smashed everything in the house that could be smashed!

TV, refrigerator, coffee table, windows, cabinets, cups, bowls...

What the hell!

Baldwin was speechless in shock.

Theo wailed even more: "God, Lance, what the hell are you doing at home!"

James looked at the mess in shock, but he asked out of the ordinary: "Relax?"

Lance glanced at him, but said nothing.

James simply walked over, put his hand on his shoulder, and asked with a smile, "Are you happy?"

It's unbelievable at Theo' you're still in the mood to ask him if he's happy?Our house was smashed, so you just pamper him' in the angry accusation...

Lance hooked the corner of his lower lip as if nothing had happened, and said reluctantly: "It's okay."

But probably no one understands the operation of "demolish the house if you are not happy".

Besides, smashing so many things is tiring, right?

Ke Lance didn't take the initiative to give any reasonable explanation.

Anyway, since then, no one dared to leave him alone at home.

As for the serious damage to the house, everyone couldn't think of any reason to explain it to the landlord, and they didn't want to lose money.

Because, during this period, they still don't have much money in their pockets.

Even though they are gradually becoming famous, they are developing very well.

But the UK has a very abnormal system at this time. The general content is that the money can only be paid after [-] months of the release of the record. If it is released overseas, the time may be longer.So, if they go to the financial people, they're going to be told that the revenue numbers are growing or something, but nobody in the band has ever seen the real money.

In this case, they decided to pretend to be dead and wait for Abel to show up and blame him.

But Abel was busy with another project at this time.

He used contacts to get the Planets into a big national tour.

Because the scale of this tour team is very large, there are a large number of participants. The main ones are relatively famous, including senior musician Lawrence Manley, British sweetheart Joanne, the Seaside Boys, and the Rosa sisters, etc.It is conceivable that if planets can also join this tour, no matter from the perspective of social interaction, reputation and development, it will be a big improvement.

But so far, the tour director has not given him an answer.

Therefore, he has no time to come over and manage them for the time being.

Fortunately, Lance's inspiration has returned, and he should not be obsessed with demolishing the house in a short time.

He ran back to the house to write quickly, and called James in to help.

Actually nothing too busy.

James just sat and waited bored, and sang obediently every time he was asked to sing, which gave him a vague illusion that 'I and Lance's guitars may be of the same status'.

But I have to say that creation is a very personal and emotional process.

When a person can show another person completely and unreservedly all the time, it is usually a sign of trust.

Therefore, although James was not very interested in creating any songs during this period, he still accepted the invitation.

And then, for about a week or so, they were both in the house playing with the melody and the lyrics.

same as before!

In other words, as Lance expected, the efficiency of two people together is indeed higher.

After staying up for three or four days, counting the songs that Lance had created before, as well as the new songs that he produced these days, plus a few covers of classics, it was almost enough for an album, and the two stopped completely.

James lay on his back on the bed.

He was so tired that he directly lamented: "It's too troublesome, you should write it yourself in the future, don't look for me."

But Lance pretended not to hear him.

He has discovered at this time that his blonde lead singer and himself are probably the best creative partners in music. Every time they are together, they will have a very good understanding and complement each other.

The first time I confirmed this was because of the live performance of the song "She is 16 years old this year".

Although Lance kept saying he couldn't remember when he was drunk, that was a lie.

He never forgot the feeling of James leaning against him.

The breath, the heartbeat, the heat, and the sound of that enviable God-kissed throat.

In the music, or in other words, in the fuzzy consciousness caused by drunkenness, the extremely aggressive and aggressive guitar melody he displayed out of control at that time was very damaging to the integrity of the song.Because no matter whether you want to attack or invade, you must have an opponent of the same strength to face up to make the scene exciting.Otherwise, it would be a unilateral crush, and in the end, nothing but boring would remain.

But the best part of the whole thing is that when you meet your opponent, you will meet a good talent.

When James noticed the aggressive emotion in the guitar melody, he followed the melody completely without thinking, gave up the too relaxed but weak whistle, and instead used it, which may be criticized by the public, but it is indeed the most natural way for humans to express intense emotions. The sound is used to counter the fierce guitar melody, and in conjunction with the guitar sound, it presents the audience with climaxes, ups and downs, and emotional changes.

It was his on-the-spot response that contributed to the excitement of the whole song, which made the performance of the whole song a one-to-one tie.

It feels so good to be evenly matched!

So that Lance later clearly wrote in his notebook: "I'venevermetanyonelikehim."

In short, after the number of songs is enough, it needs to be selected to ensure that the whole album has a unified theme.

These issues need to be discussed with the producer in the recording studio.

And at this time, another piece of good news came.

<She's 16> In addition to hitting the charts, they sent Planet to Top of the Pop!

"Top of the Pop" (Top of the Pop) was the most representative and famous music program in the UK at that time.

Both Baldwin and Theo said excitedly: "I used to dream of coming to this show."

But when everyone was happily preparing to perform well on the show, they discovered a sad truth.

When performing on this show, there is no need to actually sing, and no one will actually sing. Everyone fakes the whole process.

So cruel!

For the loyal viewers who grew up watching the show, it would be as cruel as telling young children that Santa Claus doesn't exist.

Let alone Baldwin and the others.

Even Lance showed a sad expression that can be called a "broken childhood dream": "...is it all lip-syncing?"