Chapter 60: Good Songs Aren’t Afraid Of Being Late
Speaking of who Wei Yu has offended the most since he started scoring, it has to be Golden Producer Ding Ang. The other times he scored either programs or the internet, and his wording was relatively restrained.
Only he was publicly scored at an Awards Ceremony, losing face in front of countless colleague big shots. With his personality, he definitely won’t let it go just like that.
Hearing that Wei Yu plans to release an album, Ding Ang couldn’t sit still. Singles and such are just small matters; song data can be boosted by fans buying charts and watering, but album sales aren’t that easy to brush.
Album data can measure a musician’s status. Once Wei Yu has a god-tier album to show off, the nature of things will change…
Snipe, must snipe. Even if he can’t win, he has to greatly impact Wei Yu’s album sales wave, drag him down, but it will still cost a certain price.
“How come writing this kind of villain after too many refreshment novels always gives a strange sense of pleasure…”
Yu Wei felt he was born to be small fry villain material. Isn’t cackling with an evil grin way more fun than being forbearing?
Unfortunately, album arena fights are hard to happen, especially after the short video era arrived. Now few singers release albums, let alone colliding.
If using novel terms, this is the End of Dharma Age for albums. Albums require massive resource investment, cycles of months or even years, and may not break even. It’s thankless, so naturally few people want to do it.
Even if there are, they’re mostly around fan economy, hard to have those circle-breaking god albums from before.
But for Yu Wei, this cost is very small. He only needs follow-up reads. As long as readers are strong, he can produce a music collection.
“An album needs at least ten songs, right.”
Who knows how the system will judge follow-up read data if he spits out ten or so songs at once. Don’t want it inflating tenfold…
Before releasing the new chapter, Yu Wei specially added at the end: “Red Bean goes live at midnight tonight, everyone can go listen.”
Compared to company and music platform promotion, Yu Wei still believes in his in-book promotion. After all, book readers are all active fans.
Finally got this song out. The other songs were either sung on programs, live broadcasts, or at worst short videos. Red Bean is the only one following normal process to release a song.
Except for song title and theme, netizens know almost nothing about this song, which is exactly the effect Yu Wei wanted. Compared to variety show and live environments, Red Bean suits putting on headphones and slowly savoring.
Whether lyrics composition creation, artistic value, awards reputation, this song is undisputed top tier. Good songs aren’t afraid of being late.
“Album yay, but what’s Red Bean?”
“Dog Author look at what you’ve done, spaced too long and everyone almost forgot this song!”
“No money for music platform membership? Big Spray Mushroom v me 9.9 yuan.”
“You’re right but I still don’t know what Red Bean has to do with colors, though that Scarlet doesn’t relate to colors either.”
“I’m Love Chen, if this song isn’t as good as her Scarlet I’m coming for you!”
Though the wording is a bit extreme, it’s clear everyone is still very expectant of the new song. Yu Wei flipped through chapter reviews and started preparing his first album.
On the new song chart at the beginning of the month, there’s not a single competitive song yet. They look back: last month’s top gifter was Yu Wei, the month before that still Yu Wei.
This month, unless something unexpected, it should still be him. After all, he owes more than one song. Formal versions of Nameless Person and The Secret of the Time Thief aren’t out, and just a couple days ago there was a completely incomprehensible Treading Waves.
Other netizens don’t get it, but veteran bookworms seasoned in the book scene already understand. Yu Wei’s string of excellent works clearly means… he has drafts!
They have reason to suspect these songs were all written by Yu Wei during those years of settling down, just waiting to explode update them all at once, just like web novel authors’ playbook.
That night, they opened the fresh Red Bean, but didn’t hear Yu Wei’s familiar clear voice, instead a slightly hoarse tone, with the ending note even carrying a faint tremble.
“Haven’t properly felt yet
The climate where snowflakes bloom
Trembling together will make us understand more
What is gentleness.”
Is this still Yu Wei singing?
Everyone incredulously turned to check the main creator list: singer, lyricist, composer all Yu Wei, no doubt. The singing method is clearly deliberate by Yu Wei.
Yu Wei recorded this song over twenty times straight, until his throat smoked, before singing out that authentic solo humming feel of Teacher Da Tong.
This opening alone isn’t something Scarlet can touch. Yu Wei’s voice line is gentle like a whisper, matched with jazz guitar arpeggios, sorrowful yet with gentle reminiscence of the past.
Compared to baseless moaning heartbreak, this layered sense easily immerses people, especially in the dead of night.
They say red bean is lovesickness, but in Yu Wei’s Red Bean, red bean metaphors love’s impermanence.
“Sometimes sometimes
I will believe everything has an end
Gathering and parting both have times
Nothing lasts forever.”
Netizens familiar with Yu Wei can hear this is his most restrained singing, technique restrained but straight to the heart.
This line reveals the essence of all things changing, perfectly embodying the torment after love fantasy shatters. If Scarlet is hysterical crying after heartbreak, this song is an exploration of love’s essence.
Master is master, this gap isn’t just a little bit.
Using red bean imagery to metaphor alienation in intimate relationships, pointing out the eternal contradiction of freedom and constraint in love—this is very rare content in other love songs.
Completely no comparability. By this point, they completely forgot the plot of the two songs competing in the novel, left only with appreciation for this song.
Actually, Yu Wei’s previous Nameless Person still had quite a few doubters, because it has few techniques, focuses on emotional resonance; can’t immerse and naturally can’t listen.
Many singer-songwriters have average singing skill, industry consensus. After all, balancing brain and throat isn’t easy.
But this Red Bean is different. Whether technique or emotion, it’s top tier. Even without resonance, it’s hard not to recognize this song.
Yu Wei seems to have calculated everyone’s evaluation of him, showing off singing skill just right. Isn’t this deliberate?
Originally everyone just suspected Yu Wei had stored songs, but after listening to this, the suspicion almost became certainty.
This guy definitely hoarded a bunch of songs, like playing cards, playing according to internet environment. First write a preventive needle in the novel, then strike.
As expected of a book writer, at playing pig to eat tiger.
“Stop hoarding, popping one by one is killing me with anxiety. Can’t you release all the drafts at once?”
“Chen Chen was right, good thing slid on knees fast, or would be smashed to slag by this song.”
“Big Spray Mushroom you really never been in romance? Love songs one more heartfelt than the last?”
“This book doesn’t even have a female lead, you think he seems like he’s in romance?”
Yu Wei ignored urge to update and urge song comments, but had to address the no female lead complaint. Scoring and bombarding entertainment industry plots are too aggressive; having a female lead would be disjointed.
Take what needs shedding when needed, Wei Yu suffering a bit is no big deal…
Readers’ discussion continued, but slowly veered off. A reader from a major civil servant exam province led:
“This is the contradiction between readers’ growing demand for entertainment works and the lagging novel updates. As long as novel songs come slow, Yu Wei’s songs can’t come fast.”
Bluntly, serious readers of Yu Wei’s books definitely fewer than those wanting to hear songs. Failure book, zero individuals care, everyone just wants songs.
But as long as Yu Wei keeps writing, he’ll release songs at novel rhythm, and writing occupies songwriting time.
What to do? Method simple: if Yu Wei stops writing books, won’t he have more time and energy for songs?
“Brothers tap report, let Yu Wei focus on songwriting.”
