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Chapter 308 - 269 Program Response and Watching the Show

Chapter 308: Chapter 269 Program Response and Watching the Show

Beijing, in an old hutong courtyard.

Ding Zhihong, a big-name domestic songwriter, was contemplating which songs to recommend for nomination for this year’s Golden Song Award.

As the end of the year approached, the beginning of the new year was always the time for various awards evaluations and recommendations.

The Golden Song Award, the most important music award in Hua Country, was also held at the beginning of the year.

All songs and albums released within the year could apply for the Golden Song Award by the end of the year.

But ordinary applications needed to go through a complex preliminary review.

As a special invitee judge like Ding Zhihong, he had the privilege to recommend some songs every year, bypassing the preliminary review and entering the final selection stage directly.

This could indeed save a lot of trouble, and the songs recommended by special invitee judges would also receive more attention.

So during this period, he had received quite a few introductions from friends and cooperating companies, sending him their company’s songs to listen to.

In fact, if the songs recommended by these friends and companies were really good, he wouldn’t mind giving them a helping hand.

But... the quality just wasn’t up to par.

Even the best song among them was far from winning the Golden Song Award, and to recommend such a song would really affect his reputation.

After listening to another song from a friend, Ding Zhihong shook his head, took out his phone, and planned to turn down that friend.

But while switching chat apps, he inadvertently saw a notification from another app.

Weibo: "Music critic Xiaosong: This may be the most artistic, most innovative song of the entire music industry this year, another masterpiece from Wu Mu."

The most artistic, the most innovative?

Ding Zhihong frowned, yet another sensationalist account trying to catch people’s attention with hyperbole.

Daring to add the title of ’the most’ so casually?

He subconsciously wanted to swipe away the notification.

But after his gaze lingered on Wu Mu’s name for two seconds, he ultimately clicked on the notification.

He had heard a bit about this star who had been quite popular in the circle in the last six months.

Driven by curiosity, he had opened this star’s show before.

But... as soon as he tuned in, he saw the person showing a lack of propriety in both sitting and standing positions, coming out to please the audience with antics.

Then he immediately lost a good impression of the person and was too lazy to continue watching his show. Afterward, he only passively received some news about him.

He had occasionally heard some of this person’s songs through various channels, and some were indeed not bad, but not to the extent of being astoundingly brilliant.

Let alone being the most artistic or innovative now.

The content of the pushed notification appeared on the screen.

It was a Weibo music critic’s account page with more than two hundred thousand followers.

Music critic Xiaosong: "As everyone knows, I’ve always been a fan of Wu Mu’s music, strictly a music fan, his haters don’t attack me, I normally call him what you all call him too."

"I’ve always felt that Wu Mu has been a major surprise in the music scene over the past few years, both as a singer and a creator, top-tier within the industry. This idea might have had a bit of subjective preference before, but his latest song..."

"All I can say is it’s strong, undeniably strong! You may not necessarily like to listen to it, but as long as you understand music, you absolutely can’t deny the quality of this song. This song might be the most artistic, most innovative one on the music scene this year, Wu Mu has produced another signature piece."

"For those who don’t believe it, just click the video and listen for yourself. (Video)"

Ding Zhihong clicked the video, frowning slightly.

"Is all of this real? Or merely an illusion..."

Ding Zhihong nodded slightly, this wasn’t bad, a Capella unaccompanied chorus style, sporadic piano accompaniment, giving a sense of being amidst a nightmarish fragmentation.

"Mom, I just killed someone..."

Ding Zhihong’s palms trembled slightly, and after pausing for two seconds, he still nodded slightly, this part was also fine, it was just that the emotions... were a bit too strong. It shifted from the prelude’s a Capella style to a folk style without clashing, able to resonate with each other at most.

"I saw a tiny figure, a jester, a coward..."

???

Opera?

In a song’s style!?

Ding Zhihong was silent for two seconds, then gave a slight nod. It was not bad; it did have a bit of an innovative approach, quite daring, avant-garde, and pioneering.

"So you think you can stone me, spit on me..."

...And then the style changed again, to hard rock.

Ding Zhihong tried to keep nodding; it was fine, too. It meant the song was not only emotive and innovative but also artistic.

...

In Magic City, at Time Records Media Company.

The production manager, Dong Jianhui, called for an impromptu appreciation meeting.

"Everyone, please put aside your current tasks and come listen to the new song Ding Zhihong wants to recommend for this year’s Golden Melody Award."

He took out a USB drive and plugged it into the computer.

As soon as the song’s intro played, someone immediately recognized it, "Is it the song that Wu Mu performed live on the show yesterday? Does Ding Zhihong have a connection with Wu Mu?"

Dong Jianhui shook his head, "I haven’t heard of any, but he praised Wu Mu’s song on Weibo a lot; it’s extremely innovative and artistic, while also catering to the public’s taste—a perfect nomination for the Golden Melody Award."

"I listened to this song yesterday too. It’s really impressive. To blend various different styles into one song and then have them echo each other... just thinking about the difficulty gives me a headache."

"Right, the technical skill is so evident. Really, just by listening to this song, you can immediately feel the gap between yourself and his level. It’s something I couldn’t write in a lifetime."

Dong Jianhui was somewhat helpless, "I asked you to come and analyze the song, not to start praising it. Let’s think about it, can we use this kind of format to create songs?"

"Even if we don’t change styles in every section, wouldn’t it be novel to insert opera? Could it catch on?"

He made the suggestions from above.

Someone joked, "Boss, why don’t you just poach Wu Mu and have him teach us himself?"

"Yeah, if we had a genius like that in our company, we’d probably have other companies beaten hollow. Just his output alone could probably match our whole department’s."

"And even if he doesn’t write songs, signing him as a singer would be a surefire profit."

Everyone was bold with their ideas.

Dong Jianhui gave them a glance, "Do you think our company doesn’t want to sign him? The key point is we can’t, understand?"

"After he terminated his contract, countless record companies have approached him trying to sign him, but not a single one has succeeded to date. Our company offered a high price, but we didn’t even get the chance to continue the negotiations."

Hmm, if he were in Wu Mu’s shoes, he wouldn’t be keen on signing with a company either.

Why sign with a company, just to share the profit?

Especially since he could handle all his music by himself.

But the key issue was that he didn’t need any record company to help with promotion, yet his albums would still sell explosively.

So what value did record companies hold?

Deep down, Dong Jianhui was quite envious. He really couldn’t understand how Wu Mu managed to get so much attention without any album promotion at all.

Just like what had happened with Ding Zhihong’s case; when he looked below Ding Zhihong’s Weibo post, many people were talking about paying attention to Wu Mu’s new album and recommending it for the awards if its quality was impressive.

...

In Beijing, in Zhang Li’s apartment.

The program had been delayed by several days, and it wasn’t during a holiday, so neither Zhang Li nor Han Yan had watched it yet.

Watching it alone didn’t have the right atmosphere, so they decided to wait for the weekend and gathered together to watch the program once again.

"I heard on the internet that Wu’s performance this episode was pretty impressive. A lot of people are discussing it," Han Yan said with curiosity.