Chương 11: Contact from Light Cloud
The booming success of "Fox" caught Tang Miaoyi completely by surprise. But, she failed to realize, songs that didn't take off in her old dimension, might have an opposite effect here. Things that on earth would be another drop in a pond, would make a huge splash here. Many factors caused its success, such as its short runtime making full playthroughs more common, and its simple components making up the complex harmonies make it seem trivial to produce.
However, she believes these massive numbers are only temporary. The song in and of itself is too simple, and repetitive. Sure, it adds new instruments and has a drop at the beginning, but it's the same chords and melody throughout the whole song.
But it's always nice to reap the fruits of your work. Even if the numbers of "Fox" won't increase as quickly as it did today, it would still be a success!
Tang Miaoyi clicked on the comment section of "Fox", feeling quite satisfied.
A total of 2307 comments in the span of a few hours.
"Congratulations, you have discovered a real masterpiece. Likes: 2670."
"Is this an actually good electronic song?" [Like: 2147]
"I bow down to you, TMY. I can sense a revolution on the horizon..." [Number of likes: 2004]
Only a few hours and there are already 3 comments with over 2000 likes. She wondered how many the future top comments would have.
"I am a priest. I presided over a couple's wedding long ago. I asked the groom the eternal question: Do you want to marry her? At that time, I saw the best man next to me open his mouth to speak but close it silently. At that moment, the heavens opened up, raindrops falling on the green grass... I heard that the best man went to Cancun to heal his broken heart." [Like: 1904]
"I'm the groom. I got married some time ago. The priest asked me if I would like to marry the bride. Before I opened my mouth, I heard the sound of swallowing. I turned my head and found that the best man stopped talking and the priest was shaking his head. At that moment, it started pouring rain! It completely ruined my wedding!" [Like: 1407]
"I was the best man's saliva. During that speech, I wanted to come out and listen to their speeches, but the best man swallowed me down." [Number of likes: 1397]
"I am the flower in the bride's hand. On the day of the wedding, I was held by the bride. When the master of ceremonies solemnly asked the bride if she would like to marry the groom, I looked at the bride expectantly. She turned her head and looked at the best man for a long time. The groomsman swallowed, then swallowed loudly, and the bride also hesitated, and then I took a closer look, and the bride had an Adam's apple..." [Number of likes: 1324]
"I am a bride. That day I wore a white veil, pure and flawless, just for you. I finally chose you to be my best man after struggling to choose. You ended our love, and you should be the witness of my marriage. When the master of ceremonies asked me: "Are you willing to marry a bridegroom?", I saw your trembling Adam's apple, and finally there was no sound. We will not have a future. It was a long time later that I knew that a young girl died that day..." [Number of likes: 1287]
"I'm a guest. I was invited to a wedding a while back. I heard the master of ceremonies asked the groom: Do you want to marry the bride? The best man swallowed tremblingly. Shaking her head regretfully, the bride showed a lonely expression. I just swallowed my saliva with a dazed expression in the audience." [Number of likes: 1242]
"Yeah, I remember this wedding. My buddy Eric took me to it back in '08." [Number of likes: 1107]
"Hi I'm Eric." [Number of likes: 1073]
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Tang Miaoyi was stunned: "..."
Are all comments really this random?
The previous comments were quite normal, they were all discussions around "Fox", but the rest were complete nonsense, and not related to the song at all.
Although for some reason, that Eric guy seems familiar...
Wait, wasn't there a concert in '06-
"Anyway, this feels pretty good." Tang Miaoyi chuckled, and as she read over the comments, Her comments, she felt a strong feeling of satisfaction.
Without looking down, Tang Miaoyi thought for a while, clicked on the keys for a bit, then posted a new comment.
TMY (author): "Hi! I'm TMY, thank you for your overwhelming support for my new song "Fox". A bit of trivia for you, this song was made with the recording of a real fox, which is the reason for its name."
After the comment was sent, Tang Miaoyi exited the musician's workspace and closed Light Cloud.
In a good mood, she opened this world's social media, planning to check her friends' updates first.
Thanks to her predecessor, Tang Miaoyi
is friends with a large number of people, mainly people from her class. Every day when she opens her account, her feed is filled up with pictures, and posts from people she knows.
Just looking at it is enough to make her feel happy... She'd never had so many friends before, so it was a welcome surprise.
However, before she could even check it, she noticed a bombardment of emails from various accounts under the Light Cloud company.
"Light Cloud Music - Library Review - Yun Jie."
"Light Cloud Music - Regional Director of Electronic Music - Yang He."
"Light Cloud Music - Musician Assistant - Aqiao."
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A bunch of emails seem to be from the official side of Light Cloud Music?
Tang Miaoyi was stunned, what's the situation now?
It's expected that Light Cloud's people would contact her. If an excellent single passes the review, then there will be interest generated... But isn't the scale of this too large? One of them seems to be at the level of regional director?
Of course, Tang Miaoyi couldn't know, but since she uploaded her song, Light Cloud's electronic music department almost exploded.
After the regional director Yang He received the phone call from Yun Jie last night, he rushed to the music library department first thing after he arrived to work in the morning. After listening to "Fox", he was shocked and asked Yun Jie to contact the artist immediately...
To become a director of electronic music, Yang He must have an extraordinary understanding of this genre of music, so he understands the ramifications of this song very clearly.
Although this song "Fox" has many flaws, for example, the structure is repetitive, it's too short, and while there is a defining melody, it's too simple. For a professional, these are glaringly obvious.
However, the flaws do not conceal the merits, "Fox" has taken the tools already available, and created a brand new path, even with a simple structure its merits lie in its unique and pioneering nature.
Its genre, House, Yang He took some time to read up on it. From his findings, it seems that there is no precedent before "Fox". If he's right, this song created a brand new genre, and he was there to witness it.
If you look at it like that, the so-called flaws are not really flaws, but instead "experiments" and the most crucial point is that it directly breaks the rule that "electronic music" must have human voices! And it seems to be very successful despite that!
This is a song whose real protagonist is "electronic music" itself.
Tang Miaoyi gave a short reply to all the Light Cloud messages, and patiently waited for Light Cloud to get back to her...
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